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 deny 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 birthdays to the jerusalem police putting captain george s. very high ranking policeman in jerusalem is giving some sort of message to the palestinian we are bringing now 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 comment 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 preach me he hit me in the back and pushed me into the wall chargers 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. 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 the ideas

will just months into his new position so how he has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian into recently the police in the future to comment on a story in all the plight of a quest for an interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes to the update us the fact that the facility with not the people were not to just their. individual complaints the workload. not being very close 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. tell of of every year more than thirty thousand people die from drug abuse in

russia with tons of narcotics being smuggled into the country from afghanistan and central asia moscow believes in tackling the problem at its root by regulating opium poppy fields such as ati's and he's been lost he has been finding out how much a chemist within russia also pose a threat. a sting operation turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just try to sell five hundred grams of them fit him into undercover agents as sniffer dog 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 cuckoo eagle substance at home was 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 threats 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 that have set the whole block on fine. in recent years the street cost of unfit a man in southern russia has risen to seventeen u s dollars program 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 the form you're looking at least not at the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions in a diary which is unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the compound from

the means dilution is 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 a self qualified geniuses is the. dozens of arrests in the cases of harsh jail sentences all important agents are trying to put in their. craze but despite the risks for 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. coming up later in the program reaching boiling point after a revolt in ecuador we possible deal with links to uprisings in latin america. and the former pakistani president hands of grand return to office and the militant

attacks on nato forces in the country. suspected militants holed up in two apartment blocks are shooting at police in standoffs in russia's southern republican douglas' town one of the apartments is on fire the areas in a city of have been sealed off and nearby buildings have been evacuated russia's antiterrorist committee says one militant has been killed the volatile region is still a series of militant attacks in the past several weeks told by extensive security raids. that finns are voting in a parliamentary election as the baltic state battles the recession and its ten billion dollars international bailout that six out of thirteen parties are expected to win seats in the parliament with confidence in the country's leaders plummeting the opinion polls suggest the opposition candidate could be a surprise front runner the harmony center party is rooted in the state's russian ethnic minority and protects their rights including those who don't have

citizenship parties tom barton polls. politics is very popular in latvia these days everyone's talking about it even the catholic church is saying it would be a sin not to vote in the elections. if we don't care about what's going on in. our society and in our community 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 breakup hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is one concern by. non-citizens or residence status which means. all the same. 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 toreador another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining a country but it is the firm nation of political groups and latina has for a long time been determined by the knesset 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 at the end of

a day. have to stop doing things. in the comic terms social poor siraj. playing again and again couple of topics connected with. 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 mean a simple government and polls indicate it could become the biggest single party in latvia's national parliament too 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 their 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. we got. moscow and washington have resolve the outstanding trade disagreements that have been holding out russia's to join the world trade organization barack obama confirmed that positive progress has been made in a phone conversation to me committee had a number of issues with the u.s. had to be worked through including the jacksonville mic amendment which places restrictions on trade russia on knots when the start of secretary says russia could become a food member of the team within a year. or a mind of the time website r.t. dot com has more stories speeches and blogs for you to help and. it's a taste of what's online right now afghan police officers get the sack for drug smuggling this is a problem prison reform of the one forces are doing it. now

and russian p.c.'s are offering stress relief sixty time to find out how twenty minutes of fresh grave could help relieve depression all that more time to dot com . now ecuador remains in political turmoil after police uprising that sore president rafael correa held by force in hospital on thursday he was rescued twelve hours later by soldiers at least four people were killed and two hundred injured in what the president has described as an attempted coup a place blocked roads and took control of the airport in crow test against austerity measures that benefits the salesgirls with no problems for those involved the army is now in charge of public order across the country their vote comes more than a year after walked another south american country home to u.s. teasing huffers takes a closer look at the current trends on the continent. was that it was

a moment that ignited latin america once again. throughout the attempted coup against a democratically elected president of ecuador rafael correa seem to remain nessun do. previous who's that destabilized once functioning democracy. the last one happened here last year in hundred us have they the 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 us was implicated in the one doring coup the right wing military generals who carried out the ousting of the democratically elected president of honduras none was the lie and were trained in the united states u.s. state department was the first to support the right wing government in the 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 was which is why the crisis in

ecuador brought back memories of one door us for a doll for 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 the united states has an interest in paralyzing the integration of the countries and development of the social process is 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 well and when president chavez was temporarily ousted by right wing forces the people brought him back to power. 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 pillow but they won't save all there's only one other thing it's an ideological shift in latin america the us is up against socialist leaders from bolivia than a swell in 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. the 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 oas 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 r.t. washington d.c. . another raid on a nato convoy in pakistan is that two people dead it happened hours after suspected militants torched twenty seven tankers kind fuel for nato troops stationed in afghanistan attacks come off the pakistan dinar the advance access to a vital border crossing was seen as a response to requests for a nato air strike against insurgents which killed three pakistani soldiers isn't about says it will consider harsher measures if nato forces continuing coercions into its territory the west that strikes against alleged militants in pakistan having taken place for years meanwhile former president pervez musharraf has launched a new political party in london plans to return to pakistan and run for office he

says the war on terror cannot be won without them and that support. funkiest on the park will. the fight to give them an extremism the fight going on. there paul it is incumbent on all on the united states on allied forces across to be conscious of this entity would you go pakistan and then take action you know there were. across the border giving pakistani. and she really. reaches the center of the video pakistan. lucian of the sovereignty of pakistan can be accepted by anyone in particular. not a second look at some other world news in brief b. at guatemala's president says the us this is a crime against humanity when hundreds in this country were deliberately infected with the rare and syphilis more than sixty years ago america has apologized for

them recently on an experiment conducted in a psychiatric hospital the u.s. says it will investigate the case further before making any decisions on compensation. at least thirty six people have been killed in a train crash in central england usia dozen others are seriously injured the train from jakarta heading. out into a station on some police say a traffic management mistake is to blame for the accident officials warn the death toll may rise. some thirty three workers trapped underground in a chilean coal mine for the last two months could be out earlier than previously thought rescue workers say the drilling of a shaft is going well and will be completed by that time but. relatives of the workers have filed a ten million dollars lawsuit against the mine's owners accusing them of neglecting safety regulations. now are just steps away from the busiest streets of moscow

a small area called patriarchs pons is an oasis of serenity and nineteenth century charm his most natural. it's a lovely place to hang out stools whatever the season from ice skating on here during the cold winter months to 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. you can discover. next the weekend is up.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin president medvedev visit to china this week put the seal on a number of new energy deals their negotiations have been drawn out so that least where gas contracts are concerned of a still more to do but as medina question 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 in quest 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 buy 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 annually

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 hedge 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. the reason that growth is so strong in asia right there is because they are buying. the pause centralized economy. paul says they are 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 fuel analysts suggest this has provided the final up to the russian side in their negotiations for fear of losing out all together. business r.t. welshing markets have continued their upward trend for a second week in a row peter weston of atong thinks the dismissal of moscow's spy stopped the performance of domestic equities we had first of all very interesting we. guess culminating with the sacking of. some flavor to some if you want russia specific factors that were in france in the market but in general it was a good week for the russian market but it is very much moving along the lines of what's happening globally russia remains a 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 up 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 in terms of sectors but in general the market was moving more or less with 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 you know and amid reports. the atlantic and pacific ocean is connected by a real way going across. the unified wide track from russia reaching . the agreements have already made to extend the route to vienna that's creates over ten thousand kilometers. to the capital in the heart of europe russia.

europe and asia and such as. china and japan. as well as time lost at the border controls. transport from asia to finland. could cover the distance in seven days. at the moment they cannot charge enough money to meet profitable. are still too small.

in order to balance the cost of travelling in each direction. to be lowered. in the rates of our enemies the cargo transport in russia dropping fifteen percent to eleven point five million containers volumes on the try and save beer in route fill an even sharper thirty percent through coverage this year has been strong but much still needs to be done to make a true breach between east and west isn't a to do a business r.t. . i'm not so for now but you can always. website.

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polls say the party protecting the rights of the state's russian minority could be a surprise from. next we explore how old methods of diamond mining are being used today in russia. gemstones of the euro mountains have always had a strange. tales of underground treasure troves have been passed down from generation to generation but today few people in the year olds know they're surrounded by these forgotten gemstone minds and still fewer practice the age old methods of mining so who now harvest these precious pearls of the year olds and how do they go about it are there modern day treasure maps where x. really marks the spot i've been in mine shaft scarred the secrets of gemstones still buried deep beneath the earth.