the torture and abuses in abu ghraib are exactly the same as those in the israeli secret prisons of. six years ago donny told an israeli court that captain george whose real name is the ones on harvey lifting 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 the 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 captain george. very. policeman 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 metres 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 on and fifty complaints that were sent to the government about torture and there was no even one criminal investigation meaning that torture or have total

impunity they can do everything that they want and nothing will happen to them here inside israel. just months into his new position so harvey has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian into. the police refused to comment on the story and he not apply to other place for me interview they said they're not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes that update us the fact that the facility with not clued in but with people who were not. just. the. individual complaints were closed and not. enough will also. show the. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one we torture admittedly took place human rights who is convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. tel of of. now 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 eradicating opium poppy fields because archie's don't use but lots has been finding out how much more chemist within russia also pose a threat. a sting operation turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just tried 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 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 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 in the middle of a neighborhood the houses are old some wooden ones could have set the whole block on fire. in recent years the street cost of unfit a man in southern russia has reason to seventy 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 him in court below the snorted to powder in themselves and wrote their impressions in

a diary which is unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the compound from the main solution is better if we use a different technique hey you guys are darn good. you not one of them has a college degree let alone a degree in chemistry most of these people the self qualified geniuses is the. with dozens of arrests in them for them and related cases and harsh jail sentence says law enforcement agents are trying to put in them to them put them in craze but despite the risks the users and the dealers the demand for this controlled substance on the black market remains hard so it's unlikely that the victory in the war on them fit them in will come any time soon. then as our team crossed the region. you're watching r t live from moscow coming up later in the program for you reaching boiling point out of all the door we look at possible do you want links to uprisings in latin america. and the former pakistani president plans i grant

returned to office amid militant attacks on nato forces country. but first several militants holed up in two apartment blocks are shooting at police and standoffs a russian southern republic of dagestan and one of the apartments is now on fire there is in the city of my heart's call all have been sealed off and nearby buildings have been evacuated russia's antiterrorist committee says there have been civilian casualties. where you can pull up the going the militants started shooting at the civilians two people wounded both and no. one wanted to just been killed in the standoff at least two still holed up in the apartment one of them is a woman police and now looking for the accomplices. the latvians are voting in a parliamentary election as the baltic state battles the recession and its ten billion dollar international bow-wow alone six out of the 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 that protects their rights including those who don't have citizenship parties tom barton reports. 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 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. 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 are 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. also in. social benefits. 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 affectively been denied a state to call home pictorials for another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining a country but it's the first nation of political groups and latina has for a long time been determined by their city 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 and unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns. things . in the comic terms of social course. playing again and again a 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 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. 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. weaker. still ahead on our teva race is on. just who is the world's fastest we'll find out. yet those international in moscow. 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 dmitri misery to a number of issues with the u.s.

have to be worked through including the tax advantaged amendment which places restrictions on trade with russia finance minister alexei cool during says russia could become a full member of the w t o within a year. now ecuador remains in political turmoil after a police uprising that song president rafael correa helped by force in hospital on thursday he was rescued twelve hours later by soldiers well at least four people remember killed and two hundred injured and what the president has described as an who the police blocked roads and took control of the airport in protest against austerity measures that would cut their benefits says there will be no harder for those involved the army is now in charge of public order across the country the result comes more than a year after a coal rocked another south american country honduras r.c.a.'s job hafitz takes a closer look at an apparent trend on the continent. it was a moment that ignited latin america once again. the attempted coup against

a democratically elected president of ecuador rafael correa seem to remain nessun to previous coups that destabilized once functioning democracies. the last one happened here last year in hunder us they are as they call them the natural allies of the united states and why are they natural allies because this coup is there because it corresponds to the interests of the united states almost immediately the us was implicated in the one during coup the right wing military generals who carried out the ousting of the democratically elected president of honduras the lions were trained in the united states the 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. which is why the crisis in

ecuador brought back memories of one during this for a dull full pastore he worked for this lie of government you know you got to wonder how these forces and high. these dark sectors within ecuadorian society are strengthen and bold and by the coup in honduras and by the president that was said 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 look we can't forget that after the cretonne hundred first 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 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 hugo 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 they won't have on its own and. it's an ideological shift in latin america the u.s. is up against socialist leaders from bolivia been 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. 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 sweeping the continent and hopes of staking out decades of u.s. dominance in the region to have office r.t. it wasn't in d.c. . well our web site r t v dot com has many more stories for you including features and blogs here's a taste of what's online at the moment afghan police officers get the sack rather for drug smuggling we visit a couple prison where former more enforcers are doing time. and russian enthusiastic are offering stress relief six feet under find out how twenty minutes in a russian grave could help relieve depression all that and much more archie dot com . let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour first to indonesia where at least thirty six people have been killed in a train crash in the central java province more than

a dozen others were also seriously injured in the incident when a train from jakarta ploughed into a stationary want to say a traffic management management mistake may be to blame for the accident. the watermelon president says the u.s. committed a crime against humanity when hundreds in his country were deliberately infected with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than sixty years ago america has apologized for the recently on earth experiment conducted in a psychiatric hospital the u.s. says it will investigate the case further before making any decisions on compensation. thirty three workers trapped underground in the chilean coal mine for the last two months could be out earlier than previously thought rescue workers say the drilling of the shaft is going well and will be completed by mid october meanwhile relatives of the workers have filed a ten million dollar lawsuit against the mine's owners accusing them of neglecting safety regulations. that begs may not be able to fly but they sort can

run at least that's what the organizers of the international pig races in moscow think porkers from six countries have trains long and hard to find out who's the lightest on their trotters safety business is keeping track of the semifinals. think that an annual pay grace is in montgomery but never before had the competition been so intense where the biggest prize that's because for the first time ever they entered this race it's now international movement that's as being from six countries including egypt and bello right and like i said the dance competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been training all year for this meeting held doing runs on their tracks in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice raising here and the heat are helping them to combine with the my finals on saturday and the finals on sunday and i think the legs the most points and the.

wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry just served. well just steps away from the busiest streets of moscow a small area called patriarchs pongs is no way since of serenity and nineteenth century charm for more here is martin andrews. it's a lovely place a hunger out out stools whatever the season for my skating on here during the cold winter months are coming here with your family and friends during the summer and having a picnic in the fresh noise like tourists on the something in grand potential that surrounds you really could be in any york city. you can discover more of patriarchs pongs in just over an hour here on our t.v.

now what state will the world's cultural sites be in in generations to come we asked the head of you know asco about that in about ten minutes for a still let's check in with the weekend business update. for the we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and welcome to the business bulletin president medvedev visit to china this week

put the sale on a number of new energy deals the negotiations have been drawn out and at least why gas contracts the consent of us still more to do because 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 any reciprocal deals from china you know it's quite clear that 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 hedge against a drop in demand from you up in the event of an economic slowdown more kids have a way of going inside. and the reason that growth is so strong in asia right now is because they have been. 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 altogether minds in the question of 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 mess spiced up the performance of domestic expertise we had the first of all very interesting we. guess culminating with the sacking of. some flavor to some if you want russia specific factors that would influence in the market but in general it was a good week for the russian market but again it is very much moving along the lines of what's happening globally russia remains a hostage to what we see on the the 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 the south 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 up in life 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 oceans connected by a railway going across. it's now almost a reality with a unified wide track from eastern russia reaching. the agreements have already made to extend the route to vienna that's creates over ten thousand kilometers. to the austrian capital in the heart of europe russia has the second. twenty. europe and asia and such as.

china and japan it will be unified rates as well as no time lost at the border controls. transport from asia to finland takes fifty days. could cover the distance in seven days. at the moment the rail cannot charge enough money to meet the profitable. are still too small. just cannot compete if you speak. however this is not. a competition between rail and. in order to balance the cost of travelling in each

direction. you need to be lowered. which is very. expensive. the best about. the crisis yes so cargo transport in russia dropping fifteen percent to eleven point five million containers walliams on the try and save you in route fill an even sharper thirty percent the recovery of this year has been strong but much student has to be done to make russian real we a true breach between east and west isn't a given due to a business r.t. . and that's all the business use for now but you can always read well stories if

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this is our it's me live from moscow our top stories this saturday human rights groups are furious that no let's torture has been put in charge of arab affairs in jerusalem the infamous israeli interrogator has been accused of numerous abuse cases of palestinians. and as amphetamine surgeon christ washing has been gripped by the party drug on the tour chemist surf the web for instructions on how to cook it up and risk wife and limb to avoid prison. also last few are voting in a parliamentary election amid the baltic states worst economic crisis to date

opinion polls say the party protecting the rights of the state's russian minority could be a surprise from our. now we ask how dramatically the world has changed over the past fifty years you know it goes director general arena bokova gets to grips with that question and elgar no spot.