and his interrogator a name that still since chills down the spines of prisoners. i have to remember captain george he personally participated in abusive prisoners to actually abuses in abu ghraib are exactly the same as those in the israeli secret prisons. six years ago the ronnie 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 birthdays to the jerusalem police captain george.

very hiring a 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 thirteen them and the message it's 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 led me into that 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 it 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 heavy has already been accused of badly injuring a palestinian into. the police in the future to comment on the story in an email reply to our 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 updates first the fact that the facility with not literate people were not. just their. individual complaints were closed. not for very large 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. are to tell of of. in front of the story too on our home page are also there tonight some of the videos going the most hits from you right now for to find out what's brewing among russia's political geo we've got an update at our t.v. dot com tonight. also not the crowd but the tea crowd the russian government planning to dish out billions of dollars to create a more computer literate society to the back story to that one tonight on our home page. it's the weekend we commemorate some of the week's top stories in a very special cocktail it is all of the mix. on.

police in russia south of cracking down on drug dealers selling homemade amphetamines making our caltex is a dangerous process but one that is disturbingly easy it seems as r.t. reports now soaring street values mean that amateur chemists are being 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 fed them 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 cuckoo wiggle 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 up front that i'm in and southern russia has a 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 cornmeal 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 main solution is better if we use a different technique here 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. with dozens of arrests in them for them and believe the case this harsh jail sentence there's all important the agents are trying to put in their. 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 fit them in will come any time soon. then as all of our t.v. across the region. five militants have been killed after two standoff with security forces in russia's southern republican dargah star two women are reported to be among the dead from a shootout in the capital. an apartment was set ablaze during the fighting but the

fire was contained it didn't spread this week saw several other counter-terror operations in the region two with fifty militants killed on wednesday officials have stressed the need for vigilance. so when you put in the current leader 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 punished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out there on. the polls just closed in the parliamentary elections were preliminary results expected in the early hours of sunday economic recovery in a ten billion dollars bailout loan from the i.m.f. are the issues dominating the campaign and one of the countries that was 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 won

seats in the country's parliament in its modern history but now the harmony center party has been tipped to change that and is r.t. as tom watson reports next 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. no. 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 break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is one concern by. non-citizens or

residence. which means. all saying 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 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 latino 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 and unemployment rates in the u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns out of a day or so. things. in the comic terms social policy rises. playing again and again couple of topics connected with. russians because. now there's a new political force a 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 as 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 artie rica. but just that you know of actually getting very very early preliminary results. just. broadcasting an exit poll so these are not official but saying that the center right government seems to be at the moment winning the parliamentary election that's according as i say though to t.v. and they're not official results but as we get the results as they come through in the early hours of the morning we will of course springing up today here at r.t. . decision tried to also approaching in brazil as we hear shortly tonight in the program but with the outgoing president policy so popular among the people there most brazilians have no doubts about which way the cast their vote.

ok checking around the world and some of today's other main news stories are trains plowed into stationary carriages in indonesia as jarvis province is killed at least thirty six injured dozens most of the passengers were asleep when it slammed into another train your station at three am saturday morning many have severe investigators looking into whether human error in their tracks is nor is it easier suffers from for safety standards which is seen a series of accidents on public transport in recent years. ecuador's observing three days of mourning after a police uprising killed at least four people injured over two hundred president rafael correa was attacked on thursday of the valley by police protesting against austerity measures he was later held in the hospital by force before big rescued by troops president korea says it's all part of an attempt to overthrow his government relative calm has been restored but i could also foreign ministers here and the situation is yet to be fully dealt with. eighteen alleged 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 is now about reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tank is carrying fuel for nato troops. about a mile and 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 washington's apologized for the recently revealed experiment which was conducted on mentally ill patients and prisoners without their consent more investigations by the u.s. of plan before making any decisions on compensation. cities across france have seen hundreds of thousands of workers take part in street against an increase in the retirement age and cuts in spending unions hope to encourage millions to join the first weekend protests of the previous strikes failed to get the government to change its mind france is among several european nations now having

to severely tighten its belt because of the recession and more strikes threaten to . so ahead for you this hour the athletes who are really bringing home the bacon. it is the world's. international in moscow. the biggest country in south america and indeed 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 of an already served two terms in office but it says the favored successor who is poised to become the nation's first ever female president is lauren lister reports. welcome to brazil south 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 we do that 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 of his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff. who live well no not for her track record in public service but for being moola 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 that. 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 a 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 all but in all 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 bulls a familiar program gives families a cash 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 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 they say no no i never thought. that of some poor kid here. these are the people behind the red flags for dillman. it's

a far cry from the opposition support for the suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i'm going to disagree with that we have called one of the targets where there is a god deal with the international economy the national politics the i was in the quarter on thursday on many of the it was here are the orders 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 an activist 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 prose and move who have overheads 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 maria who never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next jill money back. and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being a football players but now have prior aspirations to music and you want to be president of the one of the although 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. complete change of pace now because the seven piggle in pigs are under way here in the russian capital and although they might not be able to fly they certainly prove they can run as you're about to see from six countries are trained

long and hard to find out who's on like system attractors. keeping track of the semifinals for instance. the seventh annual graces in moscow never before had the competition been so intense. that's because for the first time ever it's now international the contest is being six countries egypt and. its competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been. here for this meeting held 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 the semifinals on that eight and the finals on sunday and i think the most points and yet wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry serve. so now you know steaks been supportive of a pickle in pigs in moscow that we got the we can business just ahead. hungry for

the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us our technology update on our g. 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 and 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 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 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 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. costumers is

a significant ambition for russia and provides a hatch against a drop in demand from the euro in the event of an economic slowdown so more kids have a way of going inside. and the reason growth is so strong in asia right now is because they have been. centralized economy. pauses they have been 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 got there first with agreements to build a pipeline and fill it with fuel analysts suggest this has provided the final harry up to the russian side in their negotiations for fear of losing out all together in

the question business r.t. . russian markets have continued the 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 have first of all very interesting. culminating with the. flavor. if you want russia specific factors that were 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 coming out of us and our europe method names continue to do well last week and on friday we also saw the financials moving out but that came on the back of some easing of concerns out of europe. so it was a mixed picture i would say sectors but in general the market was moving in. the

global markets plans to unite the somewhat fractured nature of russia's railway under way 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 the 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 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 and 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 of shanghai or japanese. however this is not. china. for instance. china. so when the. competition between rail and. in order to balance the cost of travelling in each direction. need to be lowered.

it's. very sensitive it's. more expensive. therefore there can be a big difference in. transport fifteen percent to eleven point. full and even sharper thirty percent through covered 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. website .

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a place. on our t.v. . time thanks for being with us this. update from our take palestinians. to israel appoints a former interrogator linked to the torture of arabs in charge of policing the communities human rights groups fear it could lead to more persecution. taking. place believe surging street. drugs. and voting. party has made significant gains.

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