the israeli secret prison. six years ago divinely told an israeli court that captain george whose real name is the one of the hubby 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 their money was released in a prisoner swap before the court issued a ruling and now in a move that has stunned human rights groups have you been appointed to the post of advisor on our buffets to the jerusalem police putting 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 reverberating 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 meters square through the blindfold i could see small shapes moving writing me but then he put a plastic bag over my head that reached going to my knees then he started to reach me and he hit me in the back and teach me into the wall chargers of torture against israelis are nothing new since two thousand and one we know about more than six on the 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

just months into his new position so heavy has already been accused of bad injuring a palestinian into the system the police with using to comment on the story in all the plight of 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 the people were not. just. that. individual come play through our clothes. and not. enough with all. governmental policy and as for secret prison three knowing one way torture admittedly took place human whitesville is convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. tel aviv a story and keep up to date with a smile on my home page or two dot com also read live some of the latest videos

that you're hitting on right now without t.v. dot com t.v. for two final will spring among russia's political top jumo. also the. russian government plans to dish out millions of dollars to create a more computer literate society got the details online about the story tonight. and it being we can we commemorate some of the week's top stories at the very special called tale it's all of the make it all take home. police in russia's south are cracking down on drug dealers selling homemade and fetta means making even a caltex is a dangerous process but one that it seems is disturbingly easy i desire to do this polaski found out soaring street values mean the damage to chemists are not being

put off by the threat of harsh prison sentences. the sting operation turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just try to sell five hundred grams of them fit them into undercover agents 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 the small village nearby all that the dealers needed to coop do we go 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 the drug enforcement agent alexander was shocked colleagues discovered another amphetamine lab in the basement under this old wooden house the room was

hidden three stories underground it was a group 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 neighbor just when the houses around. in recent years the street cost of him for the meter in southern russia has risen to seventeen 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 christmas our student has been trying to find the perfect them to him and warm your least in order that the powers are in themselves and wrote their impressions in a diary which is unfortunately we were unable to. part of the complaint from the leading solution is better if we use a different technique. you guys are darn good. you're not one of them has a college degree let alone a degree in chemistry these people are so qualified geniuses is that. with

dozens of arrests in them for them and related cases and harsh jail sentences or important agents are trying to put in their craze but despite the risks to 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 will come anytime soon. r.t. across the region. what is tonight five militants have been killed after two standoff with security forces in russia's southern republican dagestan two women are reported to be among the dead from the shootout in the capital. an apartment was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire wasn't was contained and didn't spread now this week saw several other counter-terror operations in the region with fifteen militants killed and wednesday officials are stressed the need for vigilance. that currently the four militants including two

women are being identified the apartment is now being searched with the help of bomb disposal experts after their approval investigators will start working at the site another counter terror operation in a city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out. developing news story tonight latvia one of the global recessions biggest economic victims looks to have given its troubled government a second chance to night exit polls for saturday's parliamentary election suggest that the center right bloc secured fifty five percent of the votes the prime minister's main challenger was the harmony center party would represent the country's largest russian minority it's thought to have sealed roughly thirty three percent of the votes which is a significant gain for the last election was artie's tomball reports many had pinned their hopes on a win. to get their voices heard. 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 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 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. or residence. which means. all the same. 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 effectively been denied

a state to call home tory a torrent of each has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining a country but it is the first mission 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 here and one nationalist politicians have been busy segregating that people not be as 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 u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns. things. in the comic. social course. playing again and again. russians because.

now there's a new political force a party standing on a ticket of equality for luck dims and russians alike the harmony center is already in power in the reagan municipal government although dogged by some a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians times 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 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. . this is also approaching a brazil as we hear a little bit later in the program but with the outgoing president's policy so popular among the people most brazilians have no doubts about which way the cast

their votes. some of today's the main world view stories in brief first off the trains plowed into stationary carriages and uneasy as jarvis 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 investigators looking into whether human error led to track signals being ignored indonesia's suffers from poor safety standards which has seen a series of accidents on public transport in recent years. ecuador is observing three days of mourning after a police uprising killed at least four people and injured over two hundred president. was attacked on thursday at a rally by police protesting against austerity measures he was later held at a hospital by force before being rescued by troops. president korea says it's all part of an attempt to overthrow his government relative calm has been restored but ecuador's foreign minister as 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 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. to mexican tourists have been kidnapped at gunpoint by a gang in the resort town of acapulco police are now trying to trace the missing man after being alerted by a man who was traveling with them it's not known exactly why they were seized although acapulco is known as a key battleground for drug gangs. in cities across france to see hundreds of thousands of workers take part in street damages against an increase in the retirement age and cuts in spending unions had hoped to encourage millions to join the first weekend protests of the previous strike failed government changed its mind france is among several european nations having to severely tighten its belt

because of the recession will strike some threat. had this for years the athletes who are really bringing home the bacon as you're about to see. it is the world's fastest he will find out that. the international market. first though 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 the nation's first ever female president laura lister reports. welcome to brazil south palm beach. 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 and dilma rousseff will marry. 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 lives. 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. the fool the people couldn't have imagined housing a lot of children abandoned after 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 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 as a testament ten years old i was already and then me 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 i. i never thought to start a front for king here. these are the people behind the red flags for dilma now.

it's a far cry from the opposition support suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the west and western interests under the influence of that we have called. targets regarding the importance of international economy and of national politics oh i was in the quarter on thursday on many of the out here are supporters and all the average was not there us or tell us they were by the end of the day or to be here after little is 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 most graphic periods who do the best prose 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 many yahoo never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next film. and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being football players but now have prior aspirations to use it and you want to be president of the the middle 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 jill meagher with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she can take the nation and a little of phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. or a complete change of subject tack now we're talking about the seventh piggy lympics because they're underway in the russian capital although they might not be able to fly pigs they certainly can prove they can run polkas from six countries of trained

law and apparently to find out who's the lightest on the trotters stacy brevan reports. that mean annual graces and never before had the competition. for the biggest prize not because for the first time ever it's now. being the country's. not a one day event the pigs have been all year for their eating healthy doing runs on their tracks and their prospective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat are helping them to fall by the my finals on saturday 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 dessert. is the stroller deserve a dozen every time get some running reporting from the pig and pigs are moscow ok

with headlines coming about ten minutes time tonight but now it's time for our interview it's been two years since the credit crunch struck but many americans are still picking up the pieces next we take a closer look at the crisis condition of the u.s. with a top rated. r

t is sitting down with the author of capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web if smith thank you very much for joining us. you so much for having me here i'd like to start off by selling some numbers out there recently we've marked two years since the peak of the financial meltdown and in these last couple of weeks we've been seeing some pretty shocking numbers we're hearing that one in seven americans are living below the poverty line one in five children are living in a state of poverty in the united states where are these numbers coming from and do you think people especially over in washington d.c. are realizing that there are real people behind these numbers there's seems to be of big disconnect between sentiment in washington and new york and the rest of the country something like over sixty percent of the policymakers in washington think the country is on the right track over seventy percent of people in america as a whole think it's on the wrong track it's almost as if washington is living in a little economic bubble be unemployment statistics you mentioned nine point five percent that's actually a narrow measure of unemployment

a lot of people increasingly are looking to a measurement that includes. long term discouraged workers have to more like seventeen percent i mean that some are seeing even closer to twenty exactly know the not so good there are a lot of people who don't have work and the reaction in washington is very peculiar you know reagan hardly liberal reacted much more strongly to much lower unemployment well if washington is living in this economic bubble as you put it would you see these numbers are bound to continue to get worse well i think it's very likely means we'll certainly i don't think they're going to get better anytime soon most people expect that the economy is going to take a very long time to recover let me ask you this your wall street insider you've been in the financial industry for over twenty five years do you think anyone on wall street realizes and feels responsible for this house of cards having to meltdown i've met selected individuals who feel very bad and feel some responsibility but having said that you read the media i mean and you speak to

people on wall street and the attitude as a whole is this parity of a masters of the universe attitude they honestly think they're the drivers of the the economy. and they don't understand they think the anger against them is undeserved they're genuinely upset that obama's been calling the bad names i know what obama has said is minor compared to what roosevelt said about the bankers in the one nine hundred thirty s. and. obama has continued to have very bank friendly policies so the fact that all they're getting is called a few bad names occasionally is astonishing compared to what ought to be happening when many people are asking themselves why is bernie made off the only person who pretty much got one hundred fifty years in prison why are the rest of wall street c.e.o.'s walking around in expensive suits and really continuing to live the high life what is the answer to well there are two problems one is that normally when you take over banks or significantly finance firm you know normal private sector investor warren buffett came in invest in solomon brothers the management had

already been cleaned out but if it had gotten that much trouble he would have thrown the management out normally a private investor and most governments when they rescue a bank will get rid of the management get rid of the board install new people that didn't happen and to your point about criminal one of the problems of deregulation in the united states is the regulations have been regulations laws have been so weakened over the last twenty years that a lot of what by any common sense standards should be criminal is not permitted or worse it's what they call civil you can sue them but you can't throw any but you can sue the companies but you can't or anybody in jail why is that because many saying what happened is fraud in your book call and you say that what happened in the us is the greatest theft from the public purse in history and many analysts all over the united states are acknowledging this who is supposed to acknowledge this over in washington d.c. who is supposed to say that and react to that as well it's finally started to happen it's funny because this morning. some congressmen started using the word

fraud so it's been so they're beginning to talk about criminal activity to begin to talk about fraud but the irony is the way things have been designed basically if you can get you. accounting firm to sign off on what you did no matter all you've told them no matter how crooked it is you as a c.e.o. or a senior officer get a free pass literally that's how this goes you know they were very clever in the in their dishonesty in terms of finding ways to do things that that were incredibly misleading and yet they might be able to get away with now in your book you describe the bush administration the obama administration as having been hostage of the financial industry is that true and how how is this reflected on life post the financial melt all those sort of two ways a hostage one unfortunately is in the environment we have in the us with so much of campaign contributions coming from wall street depending on the year there is the biggest source of fund raising or the second biggest source of corporate campaign

dollars and now the rules have been changed in the u.s. to allow camp corporations to give even more to political candidates not so much directly through campaign contributions but through advertising support of different sort of basically wall street in washington they continue sleeping in the same bed exactly exactly the second bit is that now there's a belief in washington which i think is a very bad belief is that america's only competitive in financial services that we can't possibly hope to compete in any other industry and there's a there was also a fear in the run up to in particular in the in the crisis itself oh my god if you know the markets were to seize up you know the whole thing the whole house of cards would collapse and therefore we had to a seed to these banks and give them everything they want we had to go in and bail them out no questions asked there was just there was an unwillingness to actually take the corrective measures and i could still see defending bailing out the financial system on an emergency basis but not doing anything with the management is just crazy and yet again they were hostage to the beauty of these these

businesses are very complicated we need the season people to run them these are the season people who ran them these businesses into the big. you know why we were warning failure how much of what went on leading up to the crisis and during the crisis and post this crisis that really shocked the entire country how much was covered up how much does the real common american know about oh i got tremendous amount has been covered up i mean one of the things you're going to see more news coming out over the next six months is on the front the government is really trying to get. out of its hair there actually is a lot more trouble and a i.g. than most people realize the government is hoping to distance itself from a.i.g. before before some of the problems that it should have dealt with or are revealed but i mean that that's just an example that it's widely known in the profession and in the professional circles that a lot of that's going on is phony baloney and yet wall street is both wall street

and washington d.c. are acting like this is normal and it should be celebrated that you everything's better when it's all been papered over with duct tape and baling wire it's this it's not healthy what's what's going on beneath the surface thank you very much for sitting down this today thank you. if the. brighton. song from feinstein. means

phone starts on t.v. dot com. more scope palestinians are venting their fury over israel's appointment of a police chief who's a former interrogator and link to the torture about human rights groups for his role of seeing palestinian communities could lead to more persecution. if taking the fight into russian living rooms as police tackle users who are cooking up their own d.i.y. fix he's surging street values and leading to a boom with homemade drugs. and exit polls just cush drive latvia's given its trouble government a second chance tonight also seems to be of support for an ethnic russian party to

which campaign to improve rights for the country's largest minority. is going to midnight thirty one one of the. sites. hello and welcome to moscow routes one of my favorite places in the russian capital is pottery washing fruity here named after the palm that's the perfect place to sit and watch the world costs by if i just saw through one of the most expensive real estate locations this beautiful design the shops and does the restaurants it's a true hidden gem inside the big.