online whistleblower wiki leaks post secret cia documents on perceptions of the u.s. as an export of terror i'll bring you more on that from london in just a moment. russian you turning to a new extreme activity trains for a cheap thrill. out cost lovers a growing number of young couples in india are facing their families and communities and choosing to marry outside the traditional cost system. oh you're watching r t we're broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program keri johnston the record high temperatures that gripped russia the summer triggered the spread of a tropical disease uncommon in this part of the world well skeeters have carried

the deadly west nile virus to the south of the country where five people died and dozens have been infected. reports. a steady stream of patients has been arriving at this hospital near volgograd all with the same diagnosis west nile fever five are dead more than one hundred are seriously ill and five the real number of those affected might be several times higher a lot of people are being treated at home without knowing what's wrong with them and don't ask for help until it is too late west nile fever affects different people in different ways for those who are young it might pass without symptoms others might suffer a mild form of flu or something like that but for those most seriously affected for those who are vulnerable for all the people it can be critical it starts off with headaches vomiting diarrhea and then progress is to damage the central nervous system eventually leading to death i was allowed to see some of the patients myself many are still too ill to speak others can but are still suffering the severe

aftereffects of what they have been through many don't remember how they fell ill they don't even remember where they live or how old they are they're simply full of terror that their mental faculties will never recover from this ordeal outside their relatives or in twenty four hour watch they're begging to be let inside outside of visiting hours west nile fever is as exotic as it sounds it's much more typical for countries around the mediterranean it was never discovered until eleven years ago then just as the summer it was a period of particularly hot weather and this allows the mosquitoes to spread the disease if the mosquitoes it was in spite of that they buy documents and then the humans get infected now here doctors are issuing warnings to everybody to keep their clothes with long sleeves to spray themselves mosquitoes spray and so on but they're saying that people are refusing to follow these instructions and that they the threat quite seriously enough but they're saying that the threat will remain until october when the weather is expected to become cooler. now the whistle blower

wiki leaks is back in the headlines after publishing an internal cia report on the internet the documents classified the secret focuses on the perception of the united states as an exporter of terrorism meanwhile the website founder will be questioned by the swedish authorities of other geishas of most station where our european correspondent joins us live now with more of this some experts have suggested that this latest we can expand these will have less impact than the publication of the afghan war diaries why would that be. well kerry i think i think that's probably right and certainly there's been much less of a media florrie surrounding this than there was at the beginning of the month when the war diaries were released and i think there are two possible reasons for that one because. as we've released it was seventy five thousand separate documents that came from inside the u.s. military and such a huge volume of information always creates an impression whereas to compare it

with this this is just three pages although having said that it is a secret document from inside the cia or diaries. commits that came exclusively from the u.s. military also the other thing is that the afghan war diaries they were concrete evidence each of those documents was concrete evidence of events to take place the deaths of civilian casualties. those casualties whereas this is all very it's an internal cia document describes a hypothetical situation which looks at what would happen if the international community perceived the u.s. as an export of terrorism it's written by departments in the cia called the red cell which is specifically charged with coming up with hypothetical scenarios and looking at what might happen so obviously the impacts of how we believe the world works is much less than the impact of the afghan war diaries this report takes a couple of examples of u.s.

citizens taking terror a broad it talks about young muslim americans who travel from north to pakistan allegedly were hoping to join the pakistani taliban while they were and also a case that you may remember from november two thousand and eight when a man called david headley who was a pakistani american. and he took part in this valence leading up to the mumbai bombings which killed more than one hundred sixty people and he in fact changed his name in order to facilitate travel between pakistan and the u.s. and so the question that this report. is. looking to recruit americans for its operations obviously americans they have u.s. passports they don't fit the typical terror profile and they are more able to communicate with radical leaders over the internet and all sorts of other communication methods and then in turn if the u.s. is seen as an exporter of terror the report says that other countries would be then

less likely to cooperate with it on matters of detention and intelligence sharing. but what's the significance in terms of the timing of this latest leak do you think . well it's been a big week for us all she does have some legal problems this week so we do have to ask ourselves why has this report being released now particularly as it's so short and describes this hypothetical situation. has been in sweden and over last weekend it became clear that two swedish women had come forward one of the accusing him of rape and the other was accusing him of molestation rape charges being dropped but we recently heard that the sweetest prosecutor will want to question. about the molestation charge which is a lesser charge it's been suggested that this is a smear campaign following the afghan war diaries the lawyers for these two swedish women say that's absolute nonsense as do the two swedish women themselves but we do have to ask ourselves whether this report is being released now in order to deflect

attention from. the problems he is really the sort of self-appointed spokesman for wiki leaks i've asked him whether he sees himself or whether he thinks he can be considered as a publicist he said we're not he said he felt that when they were making these releases wiki leaks in terms of the media bringing it to the general public at large had to have some sort of spokesperson some sort of and he appointed himself as that but still we do have to ask ourselves is this a case of the tail wagging the dog rather than the other way around ok we're much reporting from london thank you for that. well this time we can leaks won't get the same overwhelming reaction as they did a month ago when the website published afghan war reports that's according to investigative journalist wayne madsen who believes the food truth about the cia's activities has yet to emerge. if we were going to see something really earthshaking

leaked from the cia how about some something that has to do with the cia involvement with what's known as state sponsored terrorism for example the united states during the vietnam war targeted people in vietnam for assassination it was operation phoenix and we also had the shock and awe in iraq where civilians were indiscriminately killed we've seen the same thing in afghanistan and where do we see these revelations there's nothing here that should. anyone in the cia and i think this really is just another case where we're wiki leaks selected this document looking for a big publicity run but i don't think they have this got the same reaction any have received in the past. live from the russian capital your time to come for you this oh this is the america. that the time for the rest of the world takes a look at the health of

a nation. a great way to get your kicks or an irresponsible act that puts their lives in danger trains things that they to six train activity that's gaining popularity among adrenaline hungry teenagers. jacob green spoke to some of those willing to risk everything for thrill. even crazy but for those who take part of what's become known as tres surfing it's about the adrenalin rush the great involved riding on top or at the summit of moving trains playing field with the hands or the aid of a belt the danger of both for many a major attraction authorities worried that those taking part fully aware of the risks running along these cables above me of three thousand volts of electricity if you touch one you most likely be killed just one of the dangerous. reuters also risks pulling from the train and being crushed but that hasn't deterred these guys

they took up the hobby at an early age claiming it gave them an unbridled escape from reality. to getting any but we mostly just ride the trains are not pulling any crazy. this is just a hobby of the guitar gentle enough. and as if that wasn't there enough maybe even taking to riding the metro just to get their daily kicks to these young men is also become a form of expression and i don't see why this extreme sport is being seen differently to other widely practiced pastimes stuff people skydive or climb mountains when we ride trains on the outside mean certainly there's a risk but we plan all our steps we know trains very well where different things you can hold on to are we have certain safety guidelines. they and other adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of needs to avoid injury and even a life of andray myth the activity has had tragic consequences for some but. have

not been any tragic accidents in our group things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car for a roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos this practice has even attracted the attention of more widely known extreme sports stars live voyeur void in has been base jumping for six years no stranger to danger even this there they will feel tres surfing is a step too far but not because of the risk to themselves. will it hooliganism because they risk hurting not only themselves but other people too in my sport base jumping if i jump from a building or a cliff and fall down then i won't harm anyone. does however sympathize that extreme sports are costly and that some may be forced to try. it's search of a cheap thrill and it's also russia it's unlikely to cause so much in terms of jail

time or fines with only a noble fee in place for those caught meaning people like andre is likely to keep taking to the tracks for the next bus regardless of the price they might pay jake agrees to. and with the growth of globalization features of the american way of life of spread to other countries it's not just movies and pop culture it's also food along with humber because coca-cola america is exporting one of its major health problems obesity they find some of the images in this report disturbing. among all developed countries americans are the fattest in the world that's according to the world health organization where over sixty percent of the general population in the u.s. is obese was even more disturbing the u.s. is the only country in the developed world to label obesity as a prime national security health risks. it's all part of

a growing epidemic in america supersizing questions like why are americans so fat and what brought the fast food nation to rely heavily on foods most developed countries banned decades ago there's a lot of innovation that's going on in the united states at all levels whether be organic or genetically engineered activity we begin with monsanto the former manufacturer of killer herbicide agent orange that's the chemical spray to the jungles of vietnam during the war with the united states agent orange eventually produced symptoms like these decades later monsanto is now responsible for more than half of the country's food and produce supply i believe that food is medicine and the genetically modifying these the food that we eat is going to have a great health impact on it the united states also holds. record for the largest production of genetically modified products in the world according to g.m.o.

compass ninety five percent of american corn and eighty five percent of the soybean industry is genetically modified the ingredients in all processed foods contain g.m. ingredients the grocers manufacturers of america estimate seventy to seventy five percent of the food we eat every day is genetically engineered this is one of the most dangerous massive experiments we've ever conducted all of our planet and the men one nine hundred ninety s. the f.d.a. in the u.s.d.a. allowed genetically modified food products and ingredients to flourish through the american food supply in farming industry. when g.m. was rendered use to ninety ninety six seven percent of americans had three or more chronic illnesses within our years that went to thirteen percent to allergies doubled in less time food related illnesses doubled to nine hundred ninety four in two thousand and one autism is a. diabetes is

a no one is checking to see if the most radical change in the human food supply the introduction of genetically modified foods is contributing to these dangerous just ics however statistics that lower income areas vary according to a report conducted by trust for america's help minority communities in the country are more vulnerable and factor to sticks recorded and african-american as banneker native american communities are nearly double the rates of white americans dr carolyn alexander suggests the alarming numbers plaguing minority communities is directly linked to g.m.o. foods i believe that these are certainly at the root cause of a lot of our children's health issues in particular in low income communities because they don't have the access to real food or feeding the products of an infant science to the entire population so if the. it is slowly killing us make me

unhealthy in fact why is it on our stupor market shelves and even more important why aren't you know products labeled johanne hoffer's r t washington d c. iran could react violently to the emergency of an american style democracy in iraq that's a view of the golden retired u.s. navy pilot an independent congressional candidate who shared his take on america's foreign policy with ots to the. over forty five hundred of our young men and women have died in iraq but. we needed to do once we decided to go in there. then you need to win that and we have won that the violence is nowhere near the level that it used to be there are still going to be violence still always remember they live right next door to the most insidious country in the world you're reigning in their push and stuff and they're all and they will always do that because they don't like the iraq they never have never

will the other thing that they don't like you know worse is a stable there's a lot make democracy right next door on their doorstep. you can watch the full interview with kenny gold in the next hour. despite the cost discrimination being illegal in india many face housman to hostetter daily basis because of this social status those choosing to tie the knot of a member of a different cost can find themselves projected by both a community and family but there's all these counseling reports more and more young people are trying to break with tradition. have upset their families well into different costs they would expect it to mattie one of their own but they have broken what is considered. an intercom marriage is considered a sin here our society wants to continue its traditions that people have been following for centuries her family has a much higher cost than mine this hurt their ego that the bridegroom is lower in

status. the couple have enlisted the help of outsiders the ngo the unite humanity movement often deals with india cost marriages there have been more than one thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the be hard state. we want to discussed based society based mindset and caste based discrimination a society can only be brought about by inter-caste marriages and into religious marriage yes the birth and she cautioned of. ten years ago to tie the knot chickens father filed a case of kidnapping against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple. my family allowed me to visit them only after seven years but not with my husband and even now if i do visit my father doesn't speak to me he is still angry with me . the police in bihar are increasingly dealing with aidid five police and young

couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old rohit kmov formatting teenager a new comedy impulse and we are seeing many cases such as these with both the boy and girl wanting to get married if the girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the person of her choice but if she's younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes to get the divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities caste divisions are now less important while in rural india many refused to let go of their traditions. anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by us no one in the village gives the couple any water or food or even talks that if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. caste is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation

the ration who considers caste and even if we do the next in the race. definitely not even think that discrimination on the basis of cost is illegal in india but in large parts of the country drew means the overriding factor when choosing a life just one of this changes the sooner we'll divisions will cost lose their relevance here got unseeing r g india but a quick look now at some other news making headlines around the world called a little service for the victims of monday's bus heart jacket for the peace prize with a wood to hamas to the city observed three minute silence eight hong kong citizens dying and there's really no. gunman in the capital manila there's been strong criticism of the way security forces under the. for the peace release defended their actions saying well this is not proper equipment. a small plane has crashed in colombia killing all six people on board

a twin engine jet was trying to man on the field. in the southeast of the country emergency workers are studying the wreckage to determine the cause of the tragedy. and now with the business news and this is the most number of people using airlines in the u.s. passenger numbers are up by third this year we'll have the details in the program but first this hour russia's biggest bank has reported a ten fold rise in first just of the two point one billion dollars the figures are slightly lower school costs provisions for bad loans for nearly fifty percent compared to the first half of two thousand and nine when the company was feeling the force of the financial crisis but net profits in the second quarter was nearly fifty percent the first three months of the year. the. earnings for the quarter which is. the bottom line for. what

they are and it seems like a sharp decline. but actually. the reasons for the decline were mainly expected by us and by the market and so i think about all the motherf moments a large chile are priced in at the moment so we should not expect any significant pressure on this burbank show pricing pressure in the short term. russia plans to sell federal bonds with a ten month expiry date it would be the shortest that the government has issued in seven years the finance ministry is auctioning roughly one billion dollars is turning to shool to maturities as investors have demanded high yields to counter the risk of rising inflation was dropped for fifty years is expected to significantly add to food prices for the rest of the year. ross has been tipped to drive the also industry out of the economic downturn on the first day of the international move to show here in moscow i spoke yesterday with the heads of some of the world's largest comics. have been several will permit is here at the most

going to national mode to show after business pushing a new competitor to the globally dominant g.p.s. sat nav system is called blown us has been in developments in russia for decades and. will now put it in his calls from next year but the key focus is luxury moscow really has more a luxury cars than anywhere else and jaguar hopes the new almost jag will tickle vocal fun see i remember two years ago the head of b.m.w. here showing me a brand new bullet proof this follows in the tradition there's also world feels like the new landrover the most powerful ever porsche nine one one. the show was counseled last year as the months long but i sense that i have the same balls but there was two years ago and i feel sales in russia call sales have jumped almost fifty percent last month on july two thousand and nine the company with one of the most ambitious strategies these guys is trying to revamp its entire range russia's

number two called make a says the sales back on the rise between now and the end of the year told to go sales sales would be around seventy five thousand think we can finish roughly twenty five percent higher in sales for this year versus last year and you better keep still more important thing for all those trucks and we're going to be up fifty percent. european call john poser citron has just started production in russia with the citron c four but the head of porridge oh total to that that's just the beginning but we don't test site such an amount of money just for one guy and then we start to see the h. and then we will go to. the pool. seven and then we have other ideas considering the market and we believe that the market is going to change because for the next the next yes and i told you about jackson we believe

that you know dr paul you it's a target that we should be reaching before two thousand and sixteen. that brings the first day of twelve to an end here at the most going to national mode to show the world call joints really hoping this show will relaunch the fortunes of the car industry which of course have been down in the doldrums for the last two years. for a look at the stock markets now both is here in moscow already up over a percent in the first hour of trade energy majors gazprom and lukoil have shots off as the price of light sweet when she's back near a seventy three dollars a barrel russia's top food retailer x five says second quarter net eighty one percent to twenty five million dollars it claims that we could group. over. full for china life insurance on the high end saying the firm should have a full full set of the worse than expected results tokyo however is clawing back

from sixteen month lows in the last hour of the nikkei screen oversold. and euro both gets mixed of the opening second quarter profits french bank credit agricole jumped eighty nine percent pushing shares over a five percent higher traded which mines gold in russia says it swung into a fifty six million dollars hold your loss from a seventy four billion dollars profit in the same. last year. ukraine has again complained about the price it pays for russian gas prime minister nicholai told his cabinet despite receiving thirty percent discount back in april the price formula is too high and is hurting the economy added he will press moscow to revise that contract. now russia's second largest airline trans or increased passenger traffic by more than a third for the seven months to july compared to the same period last year called go turnover also jumped helping lift revenue to eight hundred million dollars trans

hour is net profit increased five times to over twenty six million by russian accounting standards. russian airlines carried almost a third more passengers in the seven months to july than in the same period last year numbers rose to thirty one million the federal a transport agency said trans already led the way with a thirty nine percent increase in american investor jim justice wants to sell one hundred ninety million dollars of shares he owns together with his family in russian steel major mitchell justice got eighty three million preferred shares when he sold blue stone cold to the company in may last year mitchell preferred depository receipts have risen by a quarter since then. that's the latest you can always find more stories on our web site that's all the dot com slash business.

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