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 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 that have yet been appointed to the post of adviser on our buffets to the jerusalem police captain george. very high ranking 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 how 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 on the back and push 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 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 here

inside israel just months into his new position so harvey has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian into. the police of the season to comment on the story and he not reply to our requests for an interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes that update us the fact that the facility would not. people were not. just. individual complaints were closed and not. enough will also. show that. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one where torture admittedly took place human rights who is convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. are to tell other. stories online if you do not as well

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a dangerous process but one that is disturbingly easy it seems in this dentist blonsky reports next soaring street values mean that chemists are not put off by the threat of harsh prison sentences. 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 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 it's in the middle of a neighborhood the houses are old some wood and one spark 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 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 corn meal or fleece 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 means dilution it's 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 believe the case this harsh jail sentence there's all important agents are trying to put in their. craze but despite the risks the users and the dealers that they meant for this controlled substance on the black market remains high so it's unlikely that the victory in the war on them for them in will come any time soon. r.t. across the region. five militants have been killed after two stand off from the security forces in russia's southern republic of dagestan that two women are reported to be among the dead from a shootout in the capital magical or an apartment but was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire was contained and spread its weeks or several other counter-terror alterations of the region to fifteen militants killed on wednesday officials have stressed the need for vigilance. so when you're getting stuff

currently there for militants including two women are being identified the apartment is now being searched with the help of mom disposal experts after their approval investigators will start working at the site another counter-terror in a city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out there but it's crunch time in latvia as the last ballots are now being cast for its parliamentary elections economic recovery and a ten billion dollar bailout loan from the earth with the issues dominating the campaign one of the country's worst hit by the financial crisis thirteen parties are in the running and opinion polls have suggested there could be a surprise breakthrough no party representing the russian speaking communities one seem to the country's parliament in its modern history but now the harmony center party has been tipped to change that as artist tom barton reports tonight it could bring hope to many who feel their rights are being neglected. 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 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 latvian 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 breakup hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is unconcerned by but we wanted census. non-citizens or residence. which means. also in. 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 victoria to another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining a country but it is the first 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. 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 costs.

playing again and again. russians because. now there's a new political force the party standing on a ticket of equality for a lot of humans 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 as national parliament too although dogged 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 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. decisions time is approaching in brazil too as we hear shortly tonight on the program but with the outgoing president policy so popular among the people most brazilians have no doubts about which way to cast a vote as a say we've got a report coming up in a few minutes. checking around the world and some of those are the main news stories of trains plowed into stationary carriages in indonesia's jarv a province killing at least thirty six and injuring dozens most of the passengers were asleep when it slammed into another train at a station at three am saturday morning many of severe burns investigators are looking into whether human error led to track so you know as being if it is the suffers from poor safety standards or to seen a series of accidents on public transport. ecuador is observing three days of mourning now after a police uprising killed at least four people injured over two hundred president rafael clare was attacked on thursday at a rally by police protesting against austerity measures. as he was later held in

a hospital by force before being rescued by troops president korea says it's all part of an attempt to close government relative calm has now been restored but ecuador's foreign ministers warned the situation is yet to be fully dealt with. militants have been killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes the raid comes during heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitary troops were killed during a recent strike islamabad reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for nato troops. the guatemalan president says the u.s. committed a quote crime against humanity when hundreds in his country were deliberately infected with going to reel and syphilis more than sixty years ago washington's apologize for the recently revealed experiment which was conducted on mentally ill patients and prisoners without their consent more investigations by the us are

planned before making any decisions on compensation. or will do so most tonight cities across france has seen hundreds of thousands of workers take part in street demos against an increase in the retirement age and cuts in spending to encourage millions during the first weekend protests after previous strikes failed to get the government to change its mind france is among several european nations having to severely tighten its belt because of a recession however more strikes are threatened. so hopefully this hour why it's chop chop put one russian racetrack. is the where else it's. international in moscow. the biggest country in south america and one of the world's largest emerging economies brazil is preparing to elect a new president the outgoing leader popularly known as lula isn't eligible to take part having already served two terms in office but it's his favorite successor who

is poised to become a nation's first ever female president laura lister reports. welcome to brazil south to the south. 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 little 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 is seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor rousseff good for america. well no not for her track record in public service but for being moola choice i 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 and. so this is where i came to live with my dad has lived here her

whole life but it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice new 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 while been in the woods the fool the people couldn't have 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 bowls of the mill your program did families a car stipend so children can go to school and stead of having to work opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself as a testament day ten years old i was already in 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. you know i never thought to. start a film for king here. oh yeah these are the people behind the red flags for dillman . it's a far cry from the opposition support for the suits and ties in business interests position wants to be aligned with the us and western interests of the influence of that we have called one of the targets where there is a god doing the will of the international economy and of national politics oh i was in the quarter on thursday on many of the out here are supporters that all the average person on the earth would tell us they were by the way 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 use the mcgraths periods

who are schools who do the best bros and those who have never heads he's brokered ties with developing and non-western countries in trade and diplomacy pay down the country's debt growing the economy at a quick clip eight years of lula brought to brazil the possibility of transforming us into an independent country as a large international force creating a social revolution where now a woman like mehdi who never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next dilma. and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being football players but now have prior aspirations to his or her life and you want to be president of the one who will 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 dilma with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she could take the nation and the lula

phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. next pigs may not be able to fly but the show can run at least that's what the organizers of moscow's international pig races think because from six countries of train long and hard to find out who's the lightest on my trotters the stakes improve it's keeping track of the semifinals for us. that mean annual good races in monaco never before had the competition. for the biggest prize that's because for the first time ever it's now international with the big. trees. and bellowing. competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been. eating healthy doing runs on their track in their respective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them to combine my final time and the finals on sunday and i think

the legs the most points and yet wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry just. drove. through them so well later from the team set to tickle our senses and give us all a real flavor the russian capital let's take a quick preview and while you're in the area if you want to treat yourselves he should come here to prevent him it opened in two thousand and five and soon 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. because additional moscow out here than about ten minutes time before we can

business with stephanie next. 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 with 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 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 hatch 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 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 get some have called their 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 my business r.t. . what should 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 too. 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 on friday we also saw the financials moving out 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 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 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 capital in the heart of europe russia has. twenty. and asia and such as. china and japan it will be unified rates 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. are still too small. for.

the competition between rail and. in order to balance the cost of travelling in each direction. to be lowered. which is very. expensive. you're right about. the cargo transport in russia dropping fifteen percent to eleven point five million containers volumes on the try and save you in route fill an even sharper thirty percent through coverage this year has been strong but

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all over with all. those. and all. this is r t for moscow these are our top stories this saturday night palestinians vent their outrage after israel appoints a former interrogated link to the torture of arabs in charge of policing their communities human rights groups fear it could lead to more covert prosecution and persecution the palestinians. taking a coffee fight into russian living rooms as police tackle users who are cooking up their own d.i.y. fix as police believe surging street rallies and leading proponent home a drug. that is the last few minutes voting cash strapped that we have pro russian poised to make significant gains opinion polls just

a surge of support for the harmony center chose to reverse the country's strict ethnic policy. twenty thirty moscow time thanks big whether some programs continue now this weekend i was promised earlier about two hundred save us of moscow's sights next. hello and welcome to moscow routes one of my favorite places in the russian capital is pottery washing fruity here names off to the palms it's the perfect place to sit and watch the world possible if i did so so one of the most expensive.