the ones on harvey left him naked for his first month in detention he says he was frequently tortured including being sodomized with a baton zahavi denied the torture charges but admitted to interrogating prisoners while they were naked the civil suit for one and a half million dollars in damages was never settled because the rani was released in a prisoner swap before the court issued a ruling and now in a move that has stunned human rights groups that have been appointed to the post of adviser on our birthdays to the jerusalem police captain george. very. 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 thirteen of them and the message of the 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 metres 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 in the back and pushed me into the wall charges of torture against israelis are nothing new since two thousand and one we know about more than six on and fifty complaints that were sent to the government about torture and there was no even one criminal investigation meaning that torture or have total impunity they can do everything that they want and nothing will happen to them here inside israel just months into his new position so how he has already been accused of badly injuring a palace to. into. the police of the future to comment on the story and evolve

apply to our requests for an interview they said they're not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes to the updates first the fact that the facility would not but people were not. just there the. individual complaints were closed and not. very close enough will also. show the. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one where torture admittedly took place human rights lawyers are convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. r.t. tel aviv. police in southern russia are clamping down on drug dealers selling homemade and better means but with soaring street values and drug labs hidden in basements and residential buildings it's no easy task r.t.

dennis blocks your reports on law enforcement efforts. the sting operation turns into family drama this pregnant woman and her boyfriend just tried to sell five hundred grams of them fit them 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 dealer snead to google substance at home with some merchandise from the hardware store and some cough medicine from the local pharmacy drug dealers build their labs everywhere it could be an apartment or a house in a quiet residential area like this one besides the obvious criminal threats these places are extremely hazardous because of the chemicals that makes pollute at any moment drug enforcement agent alexander was shocked when colleagues discovered another amphetamine lab in the basement under this old wooden house the room was

hidden three stories underground it was equipped with video surveillance but as the drug dealer tried to get rid of the chemicals he almost blew up the building it's in the middle of a neighborhood the houses are old some wooded one spark could have set the whole book on fire. in recent years the street cost of one third the men 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 from their student has been trying to find the perfect them put them in court below this nor did the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions. and fortunately we were able to extract part of the compound from the mean solution is better. we use a different technique hey you guys are darn good. not one of them has a college degree let alone a degree in chemistry most of these people a self qualified geniuses. with dozens of arrests and then fed them and related

cases and harsh jail sentences all important agents are trying to put in there two of them are the men craze but despite the risks for both the users and the dealers the demand for this controlled substance on the black market remains high so it's unlikely that the victory in the war on them fetterman will come any time soon then as all of our t. cross in our region. stay with us here on our t.v. still to come decision time approaching in brazil where the outgoing president's policy is popular among the people most brazilians have no doubt about which way to cast their ballots. plus the athletes who are really bringing home the bacon. who is the world's best that they will find out that if they go international in moscow. first though latvia one of the global recessions biggest economic victims

seems to have given its troubled government a second chance with a majority of the votes count for saturday's parliamentary election the center right bloc has secured more than sixty percent of the vote the prime minister's main challenger was the harmony center party which represents the country's large russian minority it's thought to have roughly sealed twenty three percent of the votes which is a significant gain from the last election but artie's tom barton reports many pinned their hopes on a win to get their voices heard. politics is very popular and that good these days everyone's talking about it even the catholic church is saying it would be a sin not to vote in the elections this. if we don't can about what's going on in our society in our community and 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 latvian politics has long been hung up on ethnic

differences in the country the largest minority it around thirty percent are ethnic russians many of who moved here would not feel as part of the soviet union after the break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is unconcerned by but we wanted census. noncitizens or their movement to residence. which means enjoying all the same. social benefits as. citizens but it is. all with one small exception they can't vote reports by the un amnesty international and e.u. bodies say that non-citizens who affectively been denied a state to call home victoria to for another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining our country but it's the first nation of political groups and large has for a long time been determined by their city that's no secret it's obvious there is no unity in the country it's split into two major groups here and while nationalist

politicians have been busy segregating their people latvia's economy has nosedived dangerously leveraged by reckless speculation it was hammered by the two thousand and eight crisis the financial bungling caused riots in two thousand and nine toppled the government and led to the worst growth and unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns a day so also. sings in economic terms social course. playing again and again couple of topics. 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 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 a 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 stand with security forces in russia's southern republic of dagestan two women are reported to be among the dead from the shoot out in the capital. an apartment building was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire was contained and didn't spread this week saw several other counter-terror operations in the region of the two militants killed wednesday officials have stressed the need for vigilance. so and i think currently the four 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 the city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out there on the. all these stories and more available for you twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com here's a look at what's on live right now. the first to find out what's growing them on russia's top political do up. on track to adrenaline a dangerous new trend has washington train surfing for kids. 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 lauren lyster 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 you know the current president is known simply as a little later most brazilians he's their guy want to come out of the country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy or he was one of the poor louise ignacio led to silva is the one who changed everything and he's seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor looking dilma rousseff. did well no not for her track record in

public service but for being new is 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 all my life. it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice new people have more dialogue with the leaders of 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 another credited with lifting more than twenty million people out of poverty. the fool the people kind of imagined housing out 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 and stead of having to work

opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself as a testament bad at ten years old i was already an army 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's part of some peculiar. oh yeah 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 us and western interests and i will disagree with that we have some of the targets the regarding the international economy the national politics the over the course on stage many of the it was there are supporters of the average person although there are the

tell us they were by the year 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. to the best crews in there who have overheads he's brokered ties with developing and non-western countries in trade and diplomacy to pay down the country's debt grown 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 women 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 you have a male need dream to be in football players but now have to hire aspirations and if you want to be president of the one you can live 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 can take the nation and a little of phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell laura mr r t so paulo brazil. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe eighteen alleged militants have been killed in northwest pakistan by suspected u.s. missile strikes already comes during heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitary troops were killed during a recent strike islam about reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attacked more than two dozen tankers bringing 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 men after being alerted by a man who was travelling with them it's not known exactly why they were seized

though acapulco is known as a key battleground for drug gangs. in the u.k. the ancient pagan tradition of druidry has been officially accepted as a religion the druid network will now be recognised like other mainstream. gins in the country and will be exempt from tax on donations jurors have practiced for thousands of years in britain where about ten thousand people now worship nature through ancient rituals and so. the seven p. the olympics are underway in the russian capital and although they might not be able to fly there are certainly proving they can run porkers from six countries have trained long and hard to find out who's the lightest on their trotters stacy bivins is keeping track of us keeping track of the semifinals for us. i think that mean annual pay grace is among them but never before had the competition been so intense where they were paid as private that's because for the first time ever it's

now international diplomats as being from six countries including egypt and bello and like i said this is an advanced competition it's just not a one day event the pigs have been traveling all year they're eating healthy people doing runs on their tracks and their prospective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat there helping them to combine with the my finals on saturday and the finals on sunday and then i think the legs are the most points and that's the goal m.p.'s who wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry dessert. oh look at them go reporting there from arche stacey bivins at the pig olympics well up next the our t.v. interview it's been two years since the credit crunch struck and many americans are still left picking up the pieces just ahead we take a closer look at the crisis condition in the u.s. with a top rated at. parties

sitting down with the author of the could capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us about it thank 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. 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 a 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's them are seeing even closer to twenty exactly know that. 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 economy they are and they don't understand 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 a 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 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 madoff the only person who pretty much got one hundred fifty years in prison and 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 their 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 in 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 and 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 anybody who 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 u.s. is the greatest left 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 i don't react to that 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 your accounting firm to sign off on what you did no matter or 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 that in your book you describe the bush administration the obama administration as having been hostage all 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 all of 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 that 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 wanted 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 ditch you know why we were warning failure so much of what went on leading up to the crisis and during the crisis and post this crisis that really shook the entire. country how much was covered up how much does the real common american know about oh i feel your 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 a.i.g.

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 a.i.g. 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 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 that's not healthy what's what's going on beneath the surface thank you very much for sitting down this today thank you.

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three thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t these are your headlines human rights groups in palestine all along as israel appoints a man accused of torturing arab prisoners with a top police advisory position known as captain george doran's a hobby is said to have personally participated in the abuse of inmates at a secret prison. russian drug enforcement agents clamp down on dealers producing amphetamines and lethal makeshift laboratories they believe high demand and soaring prices are leading to a boom in homemade narcotics. and according to preliminary results last in voters

give the ruling party a second chance in the recession hit countries general election while support for an ethnic russian party surged following a campaign to improve rights for the country's largest minority. next we explore how much the world has changed in the last fifty years with the woman who leads the un department designed to bring the world's communities together is coming your way and spotlight stay with us after a short break here on our city. hello again though welcome to spotlight.