prison is it 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 ones on 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 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 that have been appointed to the post of adviser on our birthdays to the jerusalem police captain george. very hiring a policeman in jerusalem is giving some sort of message to the palestinians 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 thirteen of them and the message of their waiting throughout the palestinian territories these two brothers were arrested last year how it was only kept in prison for three days because he says he was so badly tortured the other interrogator led me into it was very small probably one and a half meter 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 beats 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 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 how he has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian into. the police refused to comment on the story anymore reply to requests for an interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes the updates for us the fact that the facility with not. people were not. just their. individual complaints were closed. not. enough will also. show that. 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 a. so there with our team live from moscow we've got plenty more coverage for you at our team dot com just log on for exclusive stories an explosive opinions there's a quick work of what the mind right now for true find out what's brewing among the rush of political pop duo. and the id crowd the russian government plans to dish out billions of dollars to create a more computer literate society. plus we commemorate some of the week's top stories with a very special cocktail it's all women that are dot com. but two militants have been killed and several have been cornered into apartment blocks

and standoff with police in the capital of russia's southern republic of the get stung one of the apartments was set on fire which has now been contained two districts of the city of my heart have been cordoned off nearby buildings have been evacuated russian security forces say civilians are among the casualties. in the build up to the going on the militants started shooting at the civilians two people wounded both political speeches one would have been killed in the standoff at least two students in the apartment one of them is a woman police are looking for the accomplices. well police in russia's south are cracking down on drug dealers selling homemade and sadder means making the narcotics is a dangerous process but one that's disturbingly easy. to give reports soaring street values means amateur chemist are not put off by the threat of harsh prison sentences.

turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just tried to sell five hundred grams of them fit him into undercover agents a 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 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 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 it's 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 and southern russia has reason 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 links nor did the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions in a diary. unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the compound from the mean solution 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 that. with dozens of arrests in them for them and related cases and harsh jail sentences

. all important agents are trying to put an end to them put them in 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 fetterman will come anytime soon then as well of ski r t across the region. well as they are heading to the polls in its first election since being one of the country's worst hit by the global recession parliamentary campaigns have been focusing on how to revive the economy and handle a ten billion dollar bailout loan with the i.m.f. thirteen parties are in the running and polls already indicating a surprise front runner the harmony center is a center left party and represents the russian speaking minority if it stays on top it would be the first time in twenty dearest for a party of that kind to win most of the seats in parliament as are these tumhari of course they were bring hope to many who feel their rights are being neglected.

politics is very popular and 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 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 or ethnic russians many of whom moved here would not feel was part of the soviet union after the break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is one concerned by the example census. non-citizens or the movement to residents. which means enjoying 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 pictorials for an overage has grown up in latvia and says that ethnic policy's a ruining a country but it's. 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. and while 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 lead to the worst growth and unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns. things

. in economic terms social costs. playing again and again couple of topics. russians because. now there's a new political force the party standing on the ticket of equality for latvians and russians alike the harmony center is already in power in the reagan minister paul government and polls indicate it could become the biggest single party in latvia as national parliament too although dogged by some a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians time 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 of 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. . will still have for your decision time is also approaching in brazil many want the iconic outgoing president's policies to keep rolling some others are saying the country me directions. let's take a look around the world are some other stories making news a train has plowed into stationary carriages and indonesia's java province killing at least thirty six and injuring dozens most of the passengers were asleep when it slammed into another train station at three am saturday morning many have severe her and investigators are looking into whether human errors love to track signals being ignored in asia from poor safety standards which has seen a series of accidents on public transport in recent years. aqua door is observing

career days of mourning after a police uprising killed four people in. dirt over two hundred president rafael correa was attacked on thursday at a rally by police protesting against austerity measures it was later held at a hospital by force before being rescued by troops president could a us says it's all part of an attempt to overthrow the government. has been restored but the doors foreign minister has warned the situation is yet to be fully . sixteen alleged militants have been killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes the right comes during heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani troops were killed during a recent strike islam bad reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel from nato troops.

the waterfall and president says the u.s. committed quote crimes against humanity when hundreds in his contrie were deliberately infected with gone over and syphilis more than sixty years ago washington has apologized for the recently revealed experiment which was conducted on mentally ill patients and prisoners without their consent or investigations by the u.s. are planned before making any decisions on compensation. and a little parties in iraq have taken so long to form a new government that they've broken a world record marches parliamentary election produced no overall winner and negotiations have broken down between a lot always blocked an incumbent prime minister nuri al maliki the record was previously held by the netherlands after it took two hundred eighty days to form a coalition following elections in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven. is still ahead for you this hour why it's top top one russian racetrack. just who

is the world's fastest. we'll find out that they go and yet those international in moscow. but first south america's biggest contrarian the world's eighth largest economy brazil is prepared to vote for a new president the outgoing leader who is properly known as lula has finished his second term and was not eligible to take part in sunday's poll but as are his lauren lister reports it's lolo's favorite successor who could be poised to become the contra's first ever female president. welcome to brazil south home to be exact. it's the largest city in a young democracy gearing up to elect a new president this sunday but it's so much more than that. the current president is known simply as for most brazilians he's their guy already born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy he was one of the poor louise ignacio lula da silva is

the one who changed everything and has seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff. well no not for her track record in public service but for being lula's choice to understand why that matters so much in this country you have to travel outside the city center to the slums where the poor the working class. this is where i came to live with my dad has lived here her full life but it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice that the people have more dialogue with the leaders so the community is strengthened because there is a democratic government so people feel confident to demand their rights. and that government has created jobs a record number this year and one social program after another credited with lifting more than twenty million people out of poverty bob in the woods the fool

the people couldn't of imagined housing a lot of children abandoned back to school beneath the bridges being hungry today has been a big change and women can go off to benefits for the children those benefits from the boss a familiar program give families a cash stipend so children can go to school instead of having to work opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself is a testament that at ten years old i was already a nanny i didn't have the means to study now she can go to college because of programs to help the poor pay for university something she could not have imagined . basi no i never thought this would kill her. her these are the people behind the red flags for dilma now was it's a far cry from the opposition support suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i think this

is that we have common. targets it is regarding the importance of international economy the national politics was there i think the porters on stage many of the people if you out here are supporters that i was just average person all the terrorists i would tell us they were by the need to be here after lula's progress and getting broad support not from only the poor and activists who identify with his fierce trade union leader roots during a time of military dictatorship but from those who don't in this the macwrite the area of the. school siege are the best present we have ever had he's brokered ties with developing and non-western countries in trade and diplomacy pay down the country's debt grown the economy at a quick clip eight years of lula brought to brazil the possibility. transforming us into an independent country as a large international force creating a social revolution where now a woman like the never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being

the next. who knows and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being football players but now have pyar aspirations to do you want to be president. he didn't achieve it with a bloody fight but with a political agenda that has catapulted a nation forward how far it will take with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she can take the nation and the lula phenomenon will go on the world only time will tell lauren mr r.t. so paulo brazil. well pigs may not be able to fly but i sure can run at least that's what the organizers of moscow's international pay graces think porkers from six countries have tried long and hard to find out who's the widest on their trotters. keeping track of the semifinals for us. the

seventh annual graces in monaco never before had the competition been so intense whether they were paid as private that's because for the first time ever it's now international the contest is being from six countries including egypt and bello right and like i said the cannes competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been training all year for this meeting held doing runs on their track and their prospective homelands and they've also been doing practice raising here and the heat or helping them with the my finals on saturday and the vitals on sunday and the legs the most poise and the. wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry it deserves. well later the moscow out team sets out to tickle your senses to give you a real flavor of the russian capital and while you're in the area if you want to treat yourselves they should come here to privilege and it opened in two thousand

and five ensued establish itself as one of the city's top restaurants the food is delightful and not as expensive as you would think the interior is sublime just take a look at the view of the palms here. well moscow out of here in less than ten minutes but first this weekend business with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business but the president medvedev visit to china this week put the seal on a number of new energy deals the negotiations have been drawn out at least where gas contracts are concerned with 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 our 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 so more kids have a way of going inside. the reason that growth is so strong in asia right there is because they have been. centralized because of party policies 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 fuel analysts suggest this has provided the final up to the russian side in their negotiations for fear of losing out altogether. business r.t. welshing markets have continued their upward trend for a second week in

a row peter weston of the tongue things the dismissal of last spiced up the performance of domestic equities we had first of all very interesting we. guess culminating with the sacking of. some flavor. 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 on coming out of us out of 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 the south of europe. so it was a mixed picture i would say in terms of sectors but in general the market was moving in. the global markets plans to unite the somewhat fractured nature of russia's

railway grid underway the operator hopes this will make a rail a more competitive option for companies transporting goods from asia to europe and vice versa zenith amid reports. the atlantic and pacific oceans connected by a railway 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. 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 the profitable as. we speak. in order to balance the cost of travelling in each direction.

the rate of our enemies of the cross is yes a cargo transport in russia dropping fifteen percent to eleven point five million containers on the try and save beer in route fill an even sharper thirty percent through coverage this year has been strong but much student has to be done to make russian really a true breach between east and west isn't a given due to a business r.t. which is slow. and that's all the business he has for now but you can always read well stories if you log on to our website at www dot com slash with.

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moscow out is coming up here on our t.v. first let's check in on the headlines there's palestinian fury as israel appoints a police chief to watch over them is accused of the brutal interrogation all arabs human rights groups fear it could lead to a growing use of torture methods that will go unpunished. and security services are stepping up the war on narcotics but there is concern about more russians are turning to homemade amphetamines police believe surging street values are leading to an increase in dangerous the r.-y. drugs. also as financially stricken latvians take to the ballot boxes many

hope their votes will bring equal rights for russians say they're treated as second class citizens recent opinion polls show strong support for the harmony central party that represents the russian minority. now as promised martin andrus a verse out of moscow serene site stay with us. hello i welcome to. the one of my favorite places in the russian capital is reaction through to hear they often.