pushed through the doors destroying the property riot police pushing them back almost immediately clearing out the square our crew actually got injured in the process while filming and the crowd right by the windows riot police started pushing everyone back until like hell and then actually got hit on the head with a police baton so they were able to continue their work there feeling all right but it was still quite a sight it seemed for a moment that police couldn't really distinguish between civilians and journalists anybody that was in the crowd at risk getting hit or kicked for a punch and only later did they seem to distinguish the foreign journalists protesters and actually tried to avoid the press we saw some protesters being cornered by rival spent quite severely was quite a frightening sight but right now it does seem that everything is calm down riot police and gain control of the square have cleared out all of the protesters there

are still some groups. about a block there very small rescue people in each one in there very quickly cornered by riot police detained and moved off waiting a police car and saw a lot of people being detained a lot of people were injured as well in the protests that turned violent in a matter of moments what have just this quickly been extinguished by officials. these workers that were here to defend their freedom which is being threatened by one man who's in power and who's making all the decisions but i'm still the entire system is riddled with fear we've just seen where the presidential candidates look human a client beaten brutally flitters went off everyone was put down on the ground and told to stay down we heard the attacker swearing he broke the glass in our booth and began stealing our equipment like fiefs only people were kicked out some with regrouped and came here to protest. so of course many people showing the will to protest what they believe are fraudulent elect. presidential election that

seems to be once again won by incumbent president alex on that will consume i he has apparently enjoyed a fourth consecutive win in a presidential election the only presidential elections that valerie's has had a force for all of the one company president and it sounded like a good morning to the opposition leaders these results are falsified and the over eighty percent that lukashenko a seemingly gathered according to exit polls is also a falsified number that's precisely why they were out in the street so far international observers haven't reported any major violations we've only heard of one registered record where an international observer was denied access to a polling station but so far that is the only report on the record and we are of course waiting to see whether international observers will wait for a more detailed report of their observations the money incentive in there having a positive conclusion is a very big one the european union has promised in the galleries

a lot of financial aid billions of euros if there is evidence of free and democratic elections perhaps that is why i think saw that will allow the opposition some semblance of freedom giving them on air time and sanction anti-government rallies but critics of course say that that is all for show international observers are still to publish their reports and we'll of course update you when we get them . but most courageous his own security with more than four hundred people detained as part of attempts to prevent violence to ethnic tensions there rests for a recent wave of clashes between russian right wing groups minorities and please three thousand people have been detained in the last week and surrounded at a new legal protest a days ago following the death of a football fan in a brawl with native north cool cajuns the gathering turned into a riot with ethnic minorities and police at times there was a repeat of the clashes on wednesday when extremist russian youths and migrants from the north gathered for a room and come from. showed

a man suspected of leading and arrested killing a migrant from kurdistan is now in jail president dmitry medvedev or sources not to hesitate to use force at first sign of trouble. but. clashes find. not just administrative violations but crimes and those who commit these crimes should be locked up rather than just told off the police should be using the legal authority to prevent extremism and incitement of ethnic hatred what happened in moscow and some of the russian cities has shown us requires very efficient management i'd like to draw attention to the fact that inciting violence in our country is a crime is the. u.s. senate democrats have begun by august second republican attempts to scupper ratification of the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia a motion by senator jim risch has windage feted hot on the heels of

a similar one by john mccain who called for their green mint to be sent back to the drawing board meanwhile president obama's urging refer cation as soon as possible saying it's critical that actual security monday is the last day for democrats to push it through before a new senate has formed in january in which republicans will have more seats arms reduction treaty was signed by treaty dmitry medvedev and barack obama in april and would slash the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third but it won't come into force until ratified by both sides something moscow says it's been ready to do for months democratic strategist robert wiener told us he that failure to pass a treaty puts global security at stake. we're talking about terrorists that could get at the nuclear weapons because we're not doing sufficient inspections on the security in the safety of the facilities when you have twenty thousand nuclear weapons aimed all over the world anybody can get at them but that's just too darn many to be honest and how can we persuade iran to

go to zero when we have twenty thousand and won't reduce them that would be a ridiculous statement of immoral proportions so we have got to take the proper steps to rid the world of nuclear weapons and this treaty is a small step toward that wonderful goal and we have in the program millings to secret detention centers and organ trafficking. some of the occupations against kosovo's from minutes to find out who's behind them what he has to say about it and why some subset of the regulations are not supplying say. this week so continuing unrest in the streets of europe as government seeks to impose austerity measures across the continent in economic crisis at a summit in brussels the he created a permanent fund. countries a trace of bankruptcy and strike an increased close schools banks and pools and

disrupted public transportation trade union station in france luxembourg belgium the czech republic and spades and danish member of your pain parliament motion measures necessary steps asking about how the crisis is proving the euro to be and we have missed. the euro as a construction has created this problem because it has destroyed the southern europeans countries so competitiveness and the bailout now is just prolonging their bike route creating an even bigger problem because the dept will just to grow and grow industry now the eurozone is reacting very desperately introducing the suggestion on the euro bonds 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 non harmonious regions within the euro which makes it impossible to maintain a common currency so i think that the even the strongest peril this 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 for spain is going to most likely going to be the next big topic either spain or portugal in spain the unemployment rates are right now around twenty percent which is a huge which puts a huge pressure to the financial. industry and the prices just getting bigger and bigger if portugal falls which is on the lip of everybody here in strasburg that will be a disaster strikes the spanish economy because those two countries are interlinked so severely in economical terms so when i don't know whether portugal or spain falls first but when the one falls the other one will do as well. and listen i have a look at some other stories from around the world eighteen people were killed and twenty more wounded into attacks in afghanistan for taliban militants stormed a not a recruiting center in the northern city of kabul with two of them detonated so

that's that's the insuring in syria five fight lasted five hours local official said in the second attack militants ambushed a bus carrying on their fish oils to the center of kabul the taliban has claimed responsibility for by the time next. at least twenty two people have been killed after an oil pipeline exploded in the central mexican state of play of blood thirty two people were injured while scores of houses were destroyed in the blast a government spokesman said the first explosion occurred as attorneys who were made to steal gas or oil from the dust and this triggered six successive smaller blasts forcing people to flee the small town to five kilometers outside mexico city firefighters say the flames are going to control. the. un secretary-general ban ki moon has said peacekeeping forces will remain in ivory coast despite being ordered out by the incumbent president long barbeau who's ignoring international calls to

step down but who claims the un has been only his rival and the same with tyrant through international observers say one last month's presidential election the u.s. has to pull out of most of its personnel citing increasing until western sentiment and fears a growing or renewed violence in the country is still recovering from a bloody civil war that ended in two thousand and three. thousands of travelers have been left stranded as severe weather disrupts airports across europe hundreds of flights from london's gatwick and heathrow airport is have been counseled and there is also major air disruption in france italy and the netherlands in germany at least two people were killed in traffic accidents caused the conditions for cars to say the arctic temperatures are predicted to last one of the new year. russian prime minister vladimir person held his annual q. and a session this week with the russian public pressure spend four and

a half hours on the live t.v. are seeing some of the middle class question is what flooded in tallinn or the california behave and. not quite truth or dare in his annual q. and a session the russian prime minister wasn't given a choice and some of the questions were rather daring like the one about former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky who is currently serving an eight year term in prison for fraud and tax evasion it was a question that got put in going to be sure just like a character in a famous russian movie i'm sure that the thinks place is in prison because he's accused of stealing tax evasion and fraud but with a new charges he faces is about stealing hundreds of billions trillions his company security chief is in prison for murder they didn't like the mayor of nifty new guns so they killed him then there was another woman in moscow who refused to sell her little store to them and they killed her when they didn't like the hit man they hired he said as well. another sore spot was the issue of recent ethnic clashes

between russian vaticanus and people from the north caucasus that the government failed to prevent the prime minister said nationalism is a common disease. radicalism is like a virus if society weakens the immune system goes down he says start to spread the word if society is mature and the bugs of radicalism and extremism simply lie dormant you can't cause any damage but you living in the. russians domestic worries you can everything from social security and police reform to real estate prices and if you foreign policy issues were touched upon as well such as the recent spying many that has spread across the atlantic over set a bit and then yes i was i don't know we don't need to use special squads to punish traitors but i can assure you all of them will fall off the perch themselves so they can take. thirty pieces of silver but it will stick in their throats the video conference was held in the rather chatty and upbeat marriage of the film it was

introduced by bush and when he was still president back in two thousand and one and then become a prime minister use continued the tradition of the annual informing discussion with the public and as ever he likes a good joke politics mixed with a little ironic humor but i will tell you country when you're president would be sleeping. we sleep in turns don't worry everything is under control now that explains why waltz is a city that never sleeps after an exhausting q. and a session of four and a half hours russian prime minister vladimir putin can now go and rest as russians now know they will still have their backs covered by look r.t. moscow. while as we have the fate of me hail holder of course who was touched upon in that king on a session and they sweep the moscow court delayed his verdicts in the second trial of the former oil tycoon until the twenty seventh of december he faces charges over the sept of billions of barrels of oil from his company and don't drink the prissy

if they receive before you can see it was arrested in two thousand and three and it's currently serving an eighty eight jail term for fraud of tax evasion and he's found guilty of stay if he's found guilty he'll stay in jail for another six years if the court clears what of course killed the latest charges will be released next chair the forty seven year old made his fortune during the temperament and ninety's through their privatized state assets which made him the russia's richest man. still ahead blasting off for the holidays. god knows. what the rocket is off the cosmodrome regard it's not. the action in a couple of minutes here and i'll see and also. bring a century old christmas tree to light up the heart of moscow get to the french it must festive mood here on our team just a few minutes. the u.n.

security council is holding an emergency meeting at russia's request to address escalating tension on the korean peninsula moscow's concerns come as south korea announced new military exercises along a disputed maritime border north korea attacks the south last month in response to similar naval maneuvers russia and china both called in south korea to counsel the exercises while the u.s. has condemned repeated north korean aggression four people were killed in last month's northern artillery assault in a south korean island but this time pyongyang walls it will strike even harder the security council has drafted a resolution calling on all parties involved to avoid any steps that will worsen tensions in the region and are working on a final version but it. frank's old russia is best placed to is best placed to act as a mediator in the korean conflict. russia is the only country that does have

a stake box no specific interest. which actually is a difference between russia and the european union still russia can actually be a trustworthy and reliable mediator and neutral broker the interest that russia does have concerning korea is stability but never there is a situation emerging that march through to a major war that will inevitably not only involve both careers but also china us that will have a negative effect on stability in the region and on russia and hands russia's major preoccupation is actually maintaining peace. found over the whistle blowing web site we can make securely in a song which was released on bail from a british jail on thursday he's now under house arrest wearing an electronic time and awaiting a cool decision whether he will be extradited to sweden or he's going to that one sex charges which were previously dropped a song which denies any wrongdoing and calls their kids a shows

a conspiracy to talk his reputation the case against him was dropped in august but later reopened in which many believe a politically motivated move and pull lash mom and best a gauge of john is based at london's burnell university believes the u.s. is desperate to find a way to prosecute us which. regarding the swedish problem that he's got he's just going to have to wait until such time as the extradition process proceeds so that that could take any time between a few months in the year i would think however he's also got a problem with one of the americans going to catch up with him and whether they're going to catch up with him in the u.k. or sweden the fact is the americans are very very angry about this and they are out for revenge and they all going through every statute book they can to find something they can charge you with because really you know why he's position is more like that of a journalist he's being given documents which he is then were released he didn't

actually still the documents he didn't go behind you know he didn't go into the computer itself but they're so angry they're so embarrassed by the whole thing that somebody has to pay for it and at the moment it does look rather that they going to go off the judean assange without because of this prime minister has facing questions over a report from the council of europe which claims he was involved with a group that killed prisoners in the late ninety's to sell that and there are also reports that western governments new allegations that have been turning a blind eye to them for it is alice habit has been. the selling has never spoken to the media before he's been to angry his brother went missing in the summer of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and no one has helped to find him while he went to work as usual with his friends to the barrage of it's mine and that was it i never saw him again we went to the police and everyone else we can think of after the war i thought there'd be an exchange of prisoners and hundreds of opinions were

freed the so many serbs are still missing now after twelve years i've lost all the international officials who didn't do anything when they easily could have his brother is one of the near two thousand four hundred people who went missing both during and after the late ninety's kosovo war and is still unaccounted for and allegations leveled against senior members of the kosovo liberation army including the prime minister has to be touchy and the council of europe are not help to ease the minds of men like this when the report claims missed attaches links to organized crime dates back to when has been it's a group became the dominant factor within the k.l.a. and the alleged decision of western powers to largely ignore its activities in the hope of the stablish ing some form of short term stability in the region allow tetchy and his followers to assume positions of political pillow within kosovo in the years following the. everybody including western countries knew all about these

allegations for years but he wanted to keep them hidden the only. other was in charge here and. the e.u. is rule of law mission inconstant though says it will now launch its probe into the allegations and general eunuchs takes a legal actions on war crimes and obviously with crimes very seriously should be sufficient evidence. should be responsible for dealing with them we will certainly look into the issue. she has dismissed the reports is baseless and defamatory others threaten to sue it's another shocking twist in the history of this already troubled region. and peacekeeping in police cars stung god twenty four hours a day you saw i did this bridge that divides the serbian and albanian parts of the town of meet the roots are ten years after the end of the cause of the war and

ethnic divisions here still run very deep bass with the release of this report people are now saying that they feel about indians and let down by the international community here supposedly charged with protecting them all these years. kosovo. don't forget to log on to a website cold weather always more stories for you and here is how i came by. here's the thing at dulles and entertain our iranian born iran she has told us here about his international roots and skyrocketing career. and reviewed home stores can sometimes feel like galleries but this time the luxury fashion house has got a real exhibition in moscow it's white up until christmas and to get the details that are. the new crew members of the international space station are making themselves at home for they stay lasting almost six months they

say use craft carrying three astronauts successfully docked with the ice on friday the crew brought seasonal gifts to those currently on board the station peter all of it was at baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan the blastoff. over my shoulder you'll be able to see the soyuz t.m.a. twenty rockets that will be blasting off sending cosmonaut the meat to be called the last year and astronauts apollo nespoli from the european space agency and catherine colgan from nasa into space now this is the product of two years of very intense training in the trio be spending six months on board the international space station while they're up there they'll be carrying out a number of experiments and continuing the work in space that the international space station carries out now i think we can just see the fireworks of the stuff behind me i'll let you get on with.

domino seems like you know as the story still remains once the rocket blasts off from the cosmodrome in kazakhstan sending the make to become the monster paolo nespoli and catherine coleman of the international space station. now it takes pride of place at the heart of russia's capital over the festive season a century old christmas tree was the name of this week to the kremlin's cathedral square where it will stand tall for the next three weeks face here at a creek was blessed by a russian orthodox priest for the first time and it will be take rated with thousands of russian tricolor alliance and ornaments christmas chains have been back and he's had the kremlin for nearly fifteen years now and president boris yeltsin revived the pre-revolutionary tradition is he has event was accompanied finds natural shankly since you visit the frost and the rabbit the symbol of the cabbage and yes cutting to the chinese. and with christmas trees lighting out

across the world many a grips with the festive spirit but there are those who view the holiday as a purely commercial event web journalist laurie hoffman is also known as the resident asks people in new york what this season means to them. just christmas have anything to do with jesus any more this week let's talk about that christmas pagan celebration. do you think that's a good thing or. look very carefully much but it's kind of sad isn't it is that the company's fault for marketing all these products to us or is it our fault for forgetting what it's about going to the companies they want to make one of the parents responsibility to bring it to the home it really is and if you believe that's fine if you don't that's fine too you know but it does lose a lot and you have to keep it at home and if you pass it on to your kids the kids

will pass it on you know do you think this whole war and christmas thing people are trying to make sure that we're celebrating all faiths and not just christmas takes away from the christmas spirit or does it everybody should do what they should do upon their release so if you want to put up a christmas tree should be able to put up a christmas tree that i believe in i think to get angry about it i'm not sure that's helpful and i'm not sure that's in the spirit of the season either maybe to educate and evangelize in a more friendly way maybe that's what we should be doing so that people who are screaming about us forgetting christmas are kind of adding to the noise and and forgetting about jesus too well you know if what you want to try then ok we can get that we're all from different backgrounds so we have to honor the muslim faith and all the other faiths that are out there and just be one big happy family one because the country is not really what it should be about whether or not you think society has forgotten about jesus that christmas time the bottom line is if you're

a christian the best place to find jesus at any time is in your heart. and that was alec of the big stories of the. weekend up with back in just a few moments with that life state.

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fifth. now the latest headlines on the week's top stories here in our c opposition demonstrations turned violent and valerie's with clashes at parliament buildings as thousands take to the streets in protest against an apparent landslide victory for incumbent president is on the lookout shango and also a camera crew hoppin also injured as riot police tackled crowds well to opposition presidential candidates have also been. ethnic tension between russian nationalists and groups from the focus is on the scene as mexico forces to take preventive security measures to avoid a new wave of clashes hundreds have been detained over the last twenty four hours

taking the total to more than three thousand in a week as a result of isolated clashes and barriers possible city. also no topic was off limits as prime minister vladimir putin to be hoped seen by his annual q. and a session with the public nationalists and just as were among the issues that came up in the four hour long discussion all the subjects covered included social security police are full of surprises. and the europeans speak out against their government and the methods used to deal with their volatile economies the single currency is increasingly being seen as the root of the problem and this came as leaders agreed to set up a permanent fund to rescue failing eurozone economies. so the u. has been asked to declare the west bank and gaza strip as independent palestinian state even without a peace deal with israel and this comes on the back of stuart negotiations after the.