waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say marina portnoy artsy new york. stay with us here on r t coming up later in the program some help for the homeless says the bitterly cold russian winter sets in. we were told around the city with these nighttime heroes helping moscow's homeless find out how just. but first this sunday kosovo prepares to hold its first parliamentary election since it declared a unilateral independence from serbia three years ago but as r.t. sarah for reports the serbian minority is boycotting the elections claiming they're excluded from the region society and i'm not welcome there. begun and her family live in a small serbian enclave in kosovo it's a fairly so that she existence here largely cut off from the way the albanian community and it's a change from the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which divided the country and brutalized a generation this was pearl at the height of the cause of in war to protect the serbian community behind it from gunfire that would come from the right as it was the albanian populat

list of measures washington should undertake to protect freedom and rights back home artie's marina portnoyhas more from new york . which speaks louder. actions or words we recognize the inherent dignity and rights of every individual a promise by the u.s. president and a requirement outlined in the universal declaration of human rights thirty articles outlining basic standards of life inalienable rights for all people of article three everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person with every drone attack with every invasion and occupation of a foreign country with every overthrow of a foreign government that the united states happens not to like or happens not to agree with every one of those is a violation of that one article political commentator nima shirazi. cuse is the us a falling short of a filling several of the principles it helped create article five no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment with every detainee kidnapped and rendition and. you know tortured and guantanamo are in bhaag room or elsewhere. that's ye

waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say marina portnoy r.t. new york. america's human rights focus is currently set to fall from its own shores calling for china to free the new nobel peace prize winner china reacted angrily to the award being given to jail dissidents describing it as a political force and insults to its judicial system you can see there was a standing ovation when. friday was represented to chair. so that when the sentence was. trying these on florence's also banned his wife from attending the riots was awarded for his work on human rights and political reforms the u.s. is among the nation's scorn for the news release raising questions about standards and rights run beca from the coalition says the nobel peace prize is purely political china is right to be wary of. the united states as used human rights of the mantle of human rights as a way to deal with it in my eyes the governments it wants to overthrow that that was certainly the case in the old former soviet union it's been the case in cuba it's the in the case of ch

slammed the sums that will be given to bankers off the back of a hefty government bailout to use a marina portnoy looks at this flow of money which many average americans say is going straight into the pockets of the fact cats. next the sculpture thirty thousand dollars not the first or thirty thousand take to thirty two thousand if an artist were to illustrate something of today's new york city office at fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen thousand votes nineteen thousand it may just be money bags twenty four thousand dollars to twenty six from you amid the lackluster american economic climate kristi's is seeing sunny days this painting sold for a little over six million dollars with over six hundred million dollars worth of impressionist and modern art sold this year thank you sir since two thousand and eight we've seen an increasing return of confidence to the art market new york has once again become one of christie's selling sites sixty five thousand dollars what you like said you would like so you think you're just as wall street's wealthy and powerful. if you think these are back to indulgi

documents are the latest in a growing list of leaks coming from american officials as archives marina portnoy reports the beans have spilled all over washington. a global partner in peace or paranoid super power hungry for secrets our diplomats are doing what diplomats do around the world every day which is build relationships negotiate advance our interests and work to find common solutions to complex problems that's what they do but according to documents released by wiki leaks in two thousand and nine u.s. diplomats around the world were in fact directed to gather saif i take details including facial images fingerprints iris scans and even d.n.a. from u.n. officials among the targeted ambassadors from russia china france and britain even secretary-general ban ki moon many people didn't understand what that meant or that mean the diplomats do spying on the side of the order of operation allegedly came from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton words and as the u.s. assumes the presidency of the security council today that afternoon these revelations will probably be seen as an undesirable

waldo emerson put it best when saying what you do speaks so loudly i cannot hear what you say marina portnoy artsy new york. this sunday kosovo is preparing to hold its first parliamentary election since declared unilateral independence from serbia three years ago the vote comes amid calls for partition by ethnic minorities and as our two sarah firth has been finding out many of kosovo serbs have decided to boycott the polls. the gun and her family live in a small serbian enclave in kosovo it's a fairly solid she existence here largely cut off from the way the albanian community and the two change from the war in the one nine hundred ninety s. which divided the country and brutalized a generation this was the height of the cost of in war to protect the serbian community behind it from gunfire that would come from the right as it was the albanian populated area and i remained to day was solid reminder of the continuing ethnic conflicts. national bed i remember the wall being built after a neighbor was shot by as he worked on the land near the road we still live in fear here it's harder for th