suspected war crimes and the region for years the full document will be presented the thursday artie's alice hebert reports prime minister how she was identified in the council of europe report as the head of the major albanian math like crime debt. it's claimed by the report that it's the major dominee seeing a presence in old aspects of organized crime in the region including oh i'm.

suspected war crimes in the region for years the full document will be presented on thursday artie's alice hebert reports. prime minister how she was identified in the council of europe report as the head of the major albanian like crime. it's claimed by the report that it's the major so many seeing a presence in all aspects of organized crime in the region including all human and drug trafficking and most shocking and full of the killing of serbs both during and after the one nine hundred ninety nine the cost of and war using.

parliamentary poll nearly three years after the self-proclaimed state split from serbia alive now to alice hebert who is following the vote in the capital for spain alice kosovo remains deeply divided along ethnic lines however that spread out in voting patterns especially among minority serbs. all as you say this region does still remain very deeply divided along ethnic lines most notably between the majority albanian community here that makes up some ninety percent of the population of the much smaller minority serbian community here it is expected that some fifty percent of the electorate who turn out to vote today that the vols majority of them will be albanians servian see if you divided they do want to vote to make a change they. say they suffer discrimination high unemployment they're denied freedom of movement and they suffer very low living conditions but they don't necessarily want to engage in the cost of an electoral system here but they do want to make a real change so what we expect is that living in the north of kosovo and you still very much look to belgrade on a still connected t

alice hebert reporting now although the cause of all authorities have denied the claims in the draft report the document is still drew widespread concern the foreign ministers of russia and serbia commented on it after talks here in moscow says the report prepared by the council of europe has a very much were to draw this document must not stay confidential it's necessary to make it as widely available as possible the screams are very serious and if there are confirmed the equal crimes against humanity i also hope to journalist who first published accounted of the report won't be persecuted. because this information is horrifying both russia and serbia had been trying to attract attention to it for some time the report shows what course of our really is now and who governs it. marco gussets from the british serbian alliance for peace says any punishment touchy might face is nothing compared to what he's done to cause. he's face is to put it mildly a difficult time but i think the time he faces is nothing compared the time that those living human beings who were kept in concentration

democratic party of kosovo is leading in the region's first parliamentary elections but his argues alice hebert reports many from the serbian minority boycotted the vote. well polls have now closed in these historic elections and cost of ns will be breathing a sigh of relief that for the most part the vote seeing a pulse spike incident three that were force of a few very minor disturbances in the north and serbian enclaves of course this is still a region deeply divided along ethnic lines no to be between the majority albanian community here they make up some ninety percent of the population and the much smaller minority serbian community here the expectation is that some fifty percent of the electorate would have voted in today's elections but the votes majority of them will have been albanians serbs have been divided on the issue many want to vote to make a change but they don't necessarily want to engage in the cause of an electoral system they say they see daily persecution here high unemployment they're not free to travel around the territory they suffer very poor standard of living and of

western most borders our correspondents gave us a snapshot of what's going on all around russia with alice hebert in the capital sara first in the southern of the big city of sochi and in the eastern city of. we've brought the party outside i don't know why because this is the coldest region on earth in fact it's about thirty four degrees below zero out here centigrade but that's ok it's not stopping any of the fun in fact i'm joined by actually khan who is the you could see a version of good models which of course is the russian version of father frost celebrations couldn't be better out here in fact one of the main features about this area because it is so cold a lot of the decorations for new year involve ice in fact we're standing in the midst of a beautiful frozen ice sculpture a village which is all that a beautiful with lights it's just an amazing amazing time earlier today we had to you had the opportunity to spend preparing for the new year with families getting ready for their celebrations we went to the market with them which was an interesting experience in itself no need for refriger