the church really abuses in abu ghraib are exactly the same as those in the israeli secret prisons. six years ago divinely told an israeli court that captain george whose real name is the one of the harvey left him naked for his first month in detention he says he was frequently tortured including being sodomized with a baton zahavi denied the torture charges but admitted to interrogating prisoners while they were naked a civil suit for one and a half million dollars in damages was never settled because the rani was released in a prisoner swap before the court issued a ruling and now in a move that has stunned human rights groups he's been appointed to the post of advisor on our buffets to the jerusalem police kept and draw. very high rank policemen in jerusalem is giving some sort of message to the palestinian we are bringing someone that knows how to treat you meaning

they don't care much about what the palestinian will feel they want to threaten them and the message is a verbal waiting throughout the palestinian territories these two brothers were arrested last year come it was only kept in prison for three days because he says he was so badly tortured by the other interrogator let me enter it was very small probably one and a half meters square through the blindfold i could see small shapes moving around me but then he put a plastic bag over my head that reached into my knees then he started to beach me he hit me in the back and pushed me into the wall charges of torture against israelis are nothing new since two thousand and one we know about more than six hundred fifty complaints that were sent to the government by doctor. and there was no even one criminal investigation meaning that torturer have total impunity they can do everything that they want and nothing will happen to them he

wins like these will just months into his new position so harvey has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian interests the police refused to comment on the story in all the plight of requests for an interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes the update us the fact that the facility with not people were not to just. that. individual complaint workload and not. enough will also. show. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one where torture admittedly took place human rights lawyers are convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. r t tel of of every year

more than thirty thousand people die from drug abuse in russia tons of narcotics being smuggled into the country from afghanistan and central asia moscow believes in tackling the problem at its root by ready caging opium poppy fields there's artie's that he's been asking has been finding out how much a chemist's within russia could pose as much of a threat. a sting operation turns into a family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just tried to sell five hundred grams of them fit them into undercover agents sniffer dogs found a stash of drugs under the front wheel of the suspects luxury car as it turned out the popular party drug was produced in a small village nearby all that the dealers needed to coucou eagle substance at home with some merchandise from the hardware store and some cough medicine from the local pharmacy drug dealers build their labs everywhere it could be an apartment or

a house in a quiet residential area like this one besides the obvious criminal threat these places are extremely hazardous because of the chemicals that makes pollute at any moment drug enforcement agent alexander was shocked when colleagues discovered another amphetamine lab in the basement under this old wooden house the room was hidden three stories underground it was equipped with video surveillance but as the drug dealer tried to get rid of the chemicals he almost blew up the building what with the looks in the middle of a neighborhood the houses are old some wooden ones would have sent the whole fine. in recent years the street cost of unfit a man in southern russia has risen to seventy u.s. dollars per gram so more and more amateur chemists have been surfing the internet for cooking instructions right at home together with his college buddy this cross and our student has been trying to find the perfect them put them in formula they snorted the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions in

a diary. unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the compound from the means dilution or it's better if we use a different technique hey you guys are darn good. you know it's one of them has a college degree let alone a degree in chemistry most of these people the self qualified geniuses is the. dozens of arrests in the case this harsh jail sentence says war important agents are trying to put a new. craze but despite the risks the users and the dealers the demand for this controlled substance on the black market remains high so it's unlikely that the victory in the war on them will come anytime soon. r.t. across the region. but coming up later in our program reaching boiling point after every vote in ecuador we look at possible u.s. links to other problems in latin america. and the

former pakistani president plans of ground return to office and then to the attacks on nato forces in the country. imagine your life to the big city. the friendly. crystal clear water. organic food. living in harmony with nature. sounds impossible. some people have already killed. a place. on our team. that koreans are voting in a parliamentary election as the baltic state battles the recession and its ten

billion dollar international bailout like six out of thirteen parties are expected to win seats in the parliament with confidence in the country's leaders plummeting the opinion poll say the opposition candidate could be a surprise front runner the harmony center party is rooted in the state's russian minority taking their rights including those who don't. citizenship. politics is very popular in that here these days everyone's talking about it even the catholic church is saying it would be a sin not to vote in the upcoming elections. if we don't care about what's going on in our society in our community and we don't cast our votes that means we are indifferent and that is against the principles of the bible but instead and there's a lot of sin to talk about that the in politics has long been hung up on ethnic differences in the country the largest minority at around thirty percent or ethnic

russians many of whom moved here were not there was part of the soviet union after the break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is one concern by. non-citizens or residence. which means. all the same all social benefits as. citizens for example with one small exception they can't vote reports by the un amnesty international and e.u. bodies say that non-citizens have effectively been denied a state to call home. for another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining a country but it's good in the firm nation of political groups and latina has for a long time been determined by message that's no secret it's obvious there is no unity in the country it's split into two major groups here and one nationalist

politicians have been busy segregating their people latvia's economy has nosedived dangerously leveraged by reckless speculation it was hammered by the two thousand and eight crisis the financial bungling caused riots in two thousand and nine topple the government and led to the worst growth in unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns out of a day. to stop things. in economic terms social course. playing again and again couple of topics connected with. the russians because. now there's a new political force the party standing on a ticket of equality for latvians and russians alike the harmony center is already in power in the reagan municipal government and polls indicate it could become the biggest single party in latvia's national parliament two although dubbed by some

a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians tired of economic mismanagement which indicates that most want national unity not division that there's national monument behind me is supposed to represent liberty one of the right wing parties in this election has even taken a slogan from it for the motherland and freedom but ethnic russians and latvians here now want the same thing freedom for all to contribute to their motherland prosperity tom barton r.t. reka. moscow and washington have resolve the outstanding trade disagreements that have been holding up russia's bid to join the world trade organization barack obama confirmed that positive progress has been made in a phone conversation with a meeting with the other number of issues where the u.s. had to be worked through including the jacksonville nick amendment which places restrictions on trade with russia the finance minister next secretary says russia could become a full member of it doesn't know when they hear. oh website tarty dot com has

a lot more stories speeches and blogs for you to have a look at his just a taste of what's online at the moment stuff down resources get the sack for drug smuggling you visit kabul prison where former born forces are doing time right. and russian using a cell in stress relief six feet under no minutes in a fresh rain could cure depression i thought the dot com. now ecuador remains in political turmoil after police uprising that saw president rafael correa held by force in hospital on thursday when he was rescued twelve hours later by soldiers at least four people were killed and two hundred injured what the president described as an attempt to. police blocked roads and took control of the airport in protest against austerity measures that would cut their benefits says there will be no pardon for those involved the army is now in charge

of public order across the country both congress and morning year after a coup d'etat got another south american country and the us parties you have this takes a closer look trend on the conflict. was that it was a moment that ignited latin america once again was the attempted coup against a democratically elected president of ecuador rafael correa seem to remain yes and previous to that destabilized once functioning democracy was. the last one happened here last year in hundred us it was a coup mongers they call them the natural allies of the united states and why are they natural allies because this q is there because it corresponds to the interests of the united states almost immediately the u.s. was implicated in the one door in coup the right wing military generals who carried out the ousting of the democratically elected president of honduras no longer my.

we're trained in the united states u.s. state department was the first to support the right wing government in an election that countries in the world deemed as illegitimate as for the former president of honduras he was in the midst of implementing leftist reforms similar to those in venezuela brazil bolivia and ecuador by which is why the crisis in ecuador brought back memories of one door us for a dull full pastore he worked for the sly a government you know you got to wonder how these forces and how these dark sectors within ecuadorian society are strengthen and bold and by the coup in honduras and by the president that was set and of course by the decision made by the us to support that coup nearly every country in latin america has experienced u.s. intervention in one way or another the ambassador of nicaragua insists the coup in honduras is paramount to understanding why the u.s. needs to maintain control of the region. you can't forget that after the coup de

tat hung duras the united states has an interest in paralyzing the integration of the countries and development of the social processes generated and made dynamic in the all the countries the fact that the coup failed in ecuador is an indication the people of latin america are mobilized the direction of the left turn sweeping the continent. it happened in venice wella when president chavez was temporarily ousted by right wing forces the people brought him back to power and. then again the people in hundreds generated one of the largest resistance movements in central america against the right wing u.s. backed government of the biloba there are seven or ten others argue it's an ideological shift in latin america the u.s. is up against socialist leaders from bolivia than a swell and ecuador to emerging world power brazil are operating participatory democracy is where the poor people of their countries are intimately involved in the direction of their political future. to pull from right to left is

distinct obvious and very much alive in latin america. the organization of american states is supposed to represent the general consensus in latin america but leaders argue that the away yes based in this building behind me here in washington d.c. does not reflect the idea that most countries are struggling to get out of the shadows of their north american neighbor it is because of this there is a left turn that is twisting the continent and hopes of shaking off decades of u.s. dominance in the region you have hospice our t. washington d.c. another raid on a nato convoy in pakistan has left two people dead it happened to suspected militants torched twenty seven tankers carrying fuel from the take troops stationed in afghanistan the attacks come after pakistan did not be announce access to the border crossing was seen as a response to a nato air strike that killed three pakistani soldiers eventually by accident

because i'm a bad says it will consider hussian measures if nato forces continuing commissions into its territory u.s. led strikes against alleged militants and the stone have been taking place for years meanwhile former president pervez musharraf has known a new political party in the london times to return to pakistan and run for office he says the terror cannot be one without is not a bad support. unless pakistan is a part of the fight against terrorism and extremism the fight cannot succeed therefore it is incumbent on all on the united states on allied forces across to be conscious of the sensitivities of pakistan and then take action you know there were encouraging across the border killing pakistani soldier was. he really reaches the central d.v.d. or pakistan. lucian of the sovereignty of pakistan can be accepted by anyone in

pakistan. well now let's take a look at some other international news in brief the guatemalan president says the us committed a crime against humanity when hundreds in his country were deliberately infected with gone real syphilis sixty years ago america has apologized for the recently on the experiment doctored in the mental hospital u.s. says it will investigate the case further before making any decisions and compensation. at least forty three people have been killed and dozens injured in a train crash in indonesia two trains collided in central java province victims taken from their hospitals. thirty three workers trapped on the ground in the chilean coal mine for the last two months could be out earlier than previously thought rescue workers say the drilling of a shop is going well completed by later. relatives of the workers of the ten

million dollars lawsuit against the mine's owners accusing them of neglecting safety regulations. just steps away from the busiest streets of moscow patriarch's pons is an oasis of serenity squeezed between the garden ring into verse sky street it's twenty side streets and nineteenth century buildings charm you from the very first sight. it's a lovely place to hang out stools whatever the season from ice skating on here during the cold winter months or coming here with your family and friends during the summer and having a picnic the noise of tourists. and grand architecture that surrounds you really could be in any work.

as a trip. in just ten minutes time here. next the weekend business update you stephanie . hello and welcome to the business bulletin president medvedev visit to china this week put the seal on a number of new energy deals then again have been drawn out and at least where gas contracts are concerned of us still more to do but as medina cochon of the reports there's now a greater sense of urgency. china is the fastest growing energy consumer in the world and in russia its neighbors the biggest energy provider and it's a business smash this crying out to be mate the deals have been a long time in the making finally this week inquest put on the dotted line what was a surprise is that we didn't see reciprocal deals from china you know it's quite clear to russia went down there looking to barter energy and materials exports to

china in exchange for some commitment for investment into russia's new industries into infrastructure into technology etc and there was any mention of that whatsoever gazprom has agreed to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas and only to china over thirty years starting from twenty fifteen to make it all happen the gas giant also announced it would start building a new pipeline to china next year diversifying its customers is a significant ambition for russia it provides a hatch against a drop in demand from a year open in the event of an economic slowdown so more kids have a way of going inside it's. the reason that growth is so strong in asia right there is because they are buying them. pause centralized economy. says they're bad on that they decided to go market oriented but russia faces stiff

competition to the east most so then in western europe as china also. borders the nations of central asia which have considerable gas reserves moreover countries like to have got there first with agreements to build a pipeline and fill it with analysts suggest this has provided the final hurry up to the russian side in their negotiations for fear of losing out altogether mind in the question of business r.t. . russian markets have continued their upward trend for a second week in a row peter weston of the tongue things the dismissal of moscow's spy stopped the performance of domestic equities. we have first of all a very interesting. culminating with the. flavor. if you want russia specific factors in the market but in general it was

a good week for the russian market. is very much moving along the lines of what's happening globally russia remains hostage to what we see coming out of us and our europe method names continue to do well last week and on friday we also saw financials moving out but that came on the back of some easing of concerns out of europe as well as ireland so it was a mixed picture i would say sectors but in general the market was moving up in. the global markets plans to unite the somewhat fractured nature of russia's railway grid underway the operator hopes this will make rail a more competitive option for companies transporting goods from asia to europe and vice versa. reports. there are plenty and pacific oceans connected by a real way going across to russia it's now almost a reality with a unified wide trick from eastern russia reaching. the agreements have already made

to extend the route to vienna that's creates over ten thousand kilometers of a single. talk to the austrian capital in the heart of europe russia has the second largest will infrastructure in a world of curious twenty percent of cargo transport linking europe and asia and such you mean station might see more cargo coming from china and japan it will be unified rates as well as no time lost at the border controls can we see transport from asia to finland takes fifty days trying to be a real we could cover the distance in seven days service at the moment the real carrier cannot charge enough money to meet the profitable his call. are still too small. just cannot compete if we speak from shanghai or japanese. however this is not. china.

for instance. china. so when the flows of goods in both directions become equal competition between rail and. in order to balance the cost of travelling in each direction. need to be lowered. its. which is very sensitive it's. more expensive. therefore there can be a big difference in the rate. of the. transport fifteen percent to eleven point five. full and even sharper

thirty percent the recovery of this year has been strong but much still needs to be done to make a true breach between east and west is in a given due to a business r.t. . website. slash.

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robeson shipping it was promised but they promise. to take a look at the main stories we're covering this hour herod ati human rights groups often. torture has been put in charge of arab affairs in jerusalem infamous ready interrogator has been accused of the most of these cases for instance. the price russia has been gripped by the party. where the structures are hard to pick up risking life and limb to one person. koreans although to parliamentary elections the poll took states west economic crisis to

date opinion polls say the party protecting the rights of the states russian might could be a surprise from russia. next join in the very center of a busy moscow district to enjoy. the taste of the capital. hello and welcome to moscow routes one of my favorite places in the russian capital is pottery our ship crazy here named after the palm that's the perfect place to sit and watch the world pos by if i just saw so one of the most expensive.