same as those in the israeli secret prisons. six years ago divinely told an israeli court that captain george whose real name is the one of the 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 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 that have yet 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 a verbal waiting throughout the palestinian territories these two flatters where they stood last year that the comment was only kept in prison for three games 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 plane from what i could see small as she was moving your enemy but then you put a plastic bag over my head that reached going to my knees then he started to reach me of. being to the wall charges 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 will just months into

a few position so how he has already been accused of bad injury a palestinian into the son of the police of the future 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 if a thirty with not. people were not. just there that. individual complained the workload and not. enough will also. show that. governmental policy and as for secret prisons through knowing what we torture eventually took place human whitesville is convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. are to tell of a. place in russia to cracking down on drug dealers selling homemade and fetim and

make human r. caltex is a dangerous process but one that it appears is disturbingly easy and is on tuesdays blood found out soaring street values mean the damage to a chemist being put off by the threat of prison sentences. the sting operation turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just try to sell five hundred grams of them fed them into undercover agents sniffer dogs 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 dealer sneed to coop do we go substance at home with some merchandise from the hardware store and some cough. 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 what with the looks in the middle of the neighbors at the houses around some wooden ones would have sent the whole time. in recent years the street cost of unfit a man in southern russia has reason to seventy us 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 crossing our student has been trying to find the perfect impediment formula they snorted to powder themselves and wrote their impressions in a diary. unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the film united from loons dilution it's better if we use

a different technique hey you guys are darn good. and you know one of them has a college degree let alone a degree in chemistry to these people and so for qualified geniuses that is the. with dozens of arrests and i'm fed them and related cases and harsh jail sentence says war important agents are trying to put an end to them get them in 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 for the men will come any time soon. r t cross in the region still to come on the program decision time is approaching in brazil but when the going president's policy so popular. among the people most brazilians have no by which will cast their votes for that report. and to know the athletes who really bring home the bacon. who is the world that they will

find out that if they go in the n.f.l. international. first though latvia one of the global recessions biggest economic victims looks to have given his trouble government a second chance 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 which represents the country's large russian minority that's thought of still roughly thirty three percent of the vote which is a significant gain from the last election results his tomball reports now many have pinned their hopes on a way to get their voices heard. politics is very popular 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 not 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 it's me russians many of whom moved here would not be was part of the soviet union after the break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is unconcerned by. or. which means. all the same. social benefits. 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 torrie a tour another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are

ruining the country but it is the firm mission of political groups and has for a long time been determined by its message that's no secret it's all of this 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 now here's a colony 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 you because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns. things. in the comic terms of social course. playing again and again couple of topics. russians because.

now there's a new political force party standing on a ticket of equality for latvians and russians alike the harmony center is already in power in the reagan mean misapply government although dubbed by some a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians tired of economic mismanagement which indicates that most want national unity not division. there's national monument behind me is supposed to represent liberty one of the right wing parties in this election has even taken 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. . five militants have been killed after two standoffs and security forces in russia's seven republic of dagestan two women reportedly mongerer dead from a shootout in the capital. and a power was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire was tainted and spread this week so so whole other accounted for

a shooting reduced fifteen minutes and killed wednesday officials stress the need for vigilance. when you put the current leader for militants including two women are being identified in the apartment is now being searched with the help of bomb disposal experts after their approval and investigators will start working at the site another counter terror operation in the city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out. of the stories online if you deny the. rest of it also some of the videos going the most hits for you right now this early sunday morning t.v. to follow what really won russia's political top duo. also try to adrenalin a dangerous new past times. russian teenagers training surfing for.

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 is now eligible to take part of an already served two terms in office but it's his favorite successor who's poised to become the nation's first ever female president. 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 if you look at the current president is known simply as lula for most brazilians he's their guy already you know but born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy he was one of the poor louise ignacio lula to 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 the only player who did it well no not for her track record in public service but for being clueless 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. 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 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 an. other 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 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 both of familiar programs 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 bay 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 . basically 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 suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the lesson of western interests and i'm convinced that we have. a target regarding the international economy and of national politics was the porter on stage on many

of the it was there are supporters at all the average us and although there are some 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 in the mcgrath periods the . schools who do the best prose and those who have never had 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. we're now a woman like many young who 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. if 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. 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. brazil will be briefed this morning eighteen alleged militants being killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes the raid comes during a heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitary troops were killed during a recent strike is all about 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. twenty two 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 travelling with him it's not known exactly why they were seized although it was known as a key battleground for drug gangs. cities across france have seen hundreds of thousands of workers take part of their mothers against an increase in the retirement age and cuts in spending the unions hope to encourage millions to join the first weekend protests after previous projects failed to get the government changes mind france is among several european nations having to surveil. the recession more strikes. well like you know the seventies piggy lympics are underway in the russian capital although they might not be able to fly the pigs really can prove they can run as you're about to see poor kids from six countries have tried long and hard to find out who's got the lights or structures stacey reports for ati. i mean annual pay greater than mark but never before had the competition. for the biggest prize not because for the first time ever it's now.

that's the big. countries. and like i said competition is just not a one day event the pigs have been all year they're eating healthy doing runs on their track and their prospective homelands and they've also been doing practice raises here and the heat are helping them to. 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. delicious steaks moves reporting from opinion impacts in moscow next tonight the altie interview it's been two years since the credit crunch struck but many americans are still picking up the pieces just ahead tonight we take a closer look at the crisis condition of the u.s. top right anomalies.

our team is sitting down with the author of naked capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us thank you so much for having me here i'd like to start off by a strong some numbers out there recently we've marked two years since the peak of the financial meltdown and in these last couple. 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 the 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 that's more like seventeen percent i mean that some are seeing even closer to twenty exactly no they're not so so so you know there are a lot of people who do 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 say 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 you're 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 tumbled down 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 economy they are 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 don't want obama has said is. minor compared to what roosevelt said about the bankers in the one nine hundred thirty s. and what obama has continued to have very bank friendly policies of 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 madoff 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 the well there are two problems one is that normally when you take over banks or significantly finance firm you know normal private sector investor you know when 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

worst 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 throw 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 open all of 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 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 your 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 office. or 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 meltdown all those sort of two ways or 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 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 this you know 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 ditch 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 should. 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 when 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 at a.i.g. than most people realize the government is hoping to distance itself from. before before some of the problems that it should have dealt with there 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 as 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 with us today thank you.

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hello again this is r t the global news broadcaster from moscow good company you're watching us around the world tonight these are all top stories palestinians a venting their fury a. police chief who's a former interrogator the torture of human rights groups for his role overseeing palestinian communities could. take. the russian living rooms as police tackle uses. street. drugs. and exit polls suggest latvia's given its troubled

government a second chance there also seems to be a surge of support for an ethnic russian campaign to prove rights for the country when it. was all on news online and. next to explore russian methods of digging deep to get hold of best. gemstones of the euro mountains have always had a strange. tales of underground treasure troves have been passed down from generation to generation but today few people in the know they're surrounded by these forgotten gemstone minds and still fewer practice the age old methods of mining so who knows harvest these precious pearls of the year olds and how do they go about it are there modern day treasure maps where x. really marks the spot i've been in mine shaft just secrets of gemstone still buried deep in the fear.