six years ago the romney 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 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 advisor on our birthdays to the jerusalem police captain draw. very high ranking policeman in jerusalem is giving some sort of message to the palestinians 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 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 the other interrogator led me into it was very small probably one and a half meters square through the blindfold i could see small shapes moving around me but then he put a plastic bag over my head that reached into my knee 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 hundred 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 john. two months into his new position so heavy has already been

accused of badly injuring a palestinian into. the police and using to comment on the story in an e-mail the plight of a place for me interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes. in fact that the facility with not the people who were not to just. the. individual complaints were closed and not. enough will also. show that. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one with torture admittedly took place human rights lawyers are convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. tel aviv police in southern russia are clamping down on drug dealers selling homemade amphetamines but with soaring street values and drug labs hidden in basements or

residential buildings it's no easy task archies dennis blots 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 him 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 eagle substance at home was 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 good 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 wooden one spark could have set the whole block on fire in recent years the street cost of unfit a man in 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 him in cormier work place nor did the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions in a diary. and fortunately we were only able to extract part of the compound from the mean solution it's better if we use a different technique here you guys are darn good. in knots 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 in them for them and related cases and harsh jail sentence says law enforcement agents are trying to put in them two of them put 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 them in will come any time soon. then as all of our t.v. across the region stay with us here on our t.v. still to come decision time approaching in till the outgoing president's policies popular among the people most brazilians have no doubts about which way to pass their vote. plus athletes who are really bringing home the bacon. just who is no where else that they will find out that if they go international and

not. before all that 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 counted for saturday's parliamentary election the ruling coalition has secured about sixty percent of the vote the prime minister his main challenger was the harmony center party which represents the country's large russian minority is thought to have sealed up roughly twenty three percent of the ballot which is a significant gain from the last election but as artie's tom tom barton reports many pin their hopes to win to get their voices heard. politics is very popular and not 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 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 but instead and there's a lot of sin to talk about not be 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 feel was 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 for a moment as events. which we've. all seen in. social benefits as. citizens for example with one small exception they can't vote reports by the un amnesty international and e.u. bodies say that non-citizens 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. 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 topple the government and led to the worst growth and unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns out of a day. in a kind of a. social course. playing again and again. topics connected with. russia's 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 mean a simple government although dubbed. by some a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians time 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 standoff 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 was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire was contained in didn't spread is a week saw several other counter-terror operations in the region with fifteen

militants killed on wednesday officials have stressed the need for vigilance. 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 the city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shootout there. all this and more available for you just a click away at r.t. dot com here is a look at some of the videos are getting the most hits right now. t. for to find out what's brewing among russia's top political duo. and on track to adrenaline a dangerous new trend has russian teenagers train surfing for thrill.

so if america's biggest country and one of the world's largest emerging economies brazil is now 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 artie's lauren lyster reports from sao paolo. welcome to brazil south to the south. it's the largest city in a young democracy gearing up to elect a new president this sunday but it's so much more than that. the current president is known simply as a waiter most brazilians he's their guy already born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy or 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 dilma rousseff. 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 and it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice that 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 another credited with lifting more than twenty million people out of poverty while been all the fool the people couldn't have imagined housing out of children abandoned back to school 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 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 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 and now make up they say no no i never thought to. start from putting here. these are the people behind the red flags for dillman. it's a far cry from the opposition support those suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests that i will disagree with the time we have her home where the targets are the regarding the end

of the international economy the national politics the eyewitness reports on thursday on many of the out where are the borders that are was the average person on the earth would tell us they were by the way to be here after lula's progress and getting broad support not from only the poor and activists who identify with his fierce trade union leader roots during a time of military dictatorship but from those who don't use the mcgrath experience . schools who do the best prism of 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 for now a woman like matisyahu never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next still money back. and pass it along to their children yet

a male only dreamed of being football players but now have prior aspirations to the american dream was to be president of the one of the lot 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 look phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell. mr r. t. sao paulo brazil. turn 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 the raid comes during a heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitaries were killed during a recent u.s. strike is on the body reacted by blocking a vital supply route to afghanistan for allied forces suspected militants on friday attack more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for nato troops. in

cities across france have seen hundreds of thousands of workers take part in street demonstrations against an increase in the retirement age and cuts to spending unions hope to encourage millions to join the first weekend protests after previous strikes failed to get the government to change its mind france is among several european nations having to severely tighten its belt because of the recession but more strikes are threatened. 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 religions in the country and will be exempt from tax on donations druids have practiced for thousands of years in britain where about ten thousand people now worship nature through ancient rituals and solved. finally in this news block the seventh pig a lympics are underway in the russian capital and although they may not be able to fly they can certainly prove that they can run porkers from six countries have

trained long and hard to find out who's the lightest on their trotters r.t. stacy bivins is a keeping track of the semifinals. the seventh annual pay grace is in moscow but never before has the competition been so intense for the state for pigs pride that's because for the first time ever it's now international contests as being from six countries including egypt and bello right and like i said this is an intense competition it's just not a one day event the pigs have been training all year for this eating healthy eating doing runs on their tracks in their perspective homelands and they've also been doing practice races here and the heat or helping them to come via the semifinals on saturday and the finals on sunday and the legs of the most points and that's the goal every ad wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry it deserves. are you stacy burns reporting from the pig olympics in the russian capital or next on our t.v.

interview where it's been two years since the credit crunch struck and many americans are still picking up the pieces just ahead we take a closer look at the crisis condition of the u.s. with a top rated analyst stay with us. r.t. is sitting down with the author of needed capitalism one of the top five most

visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us and i was here thank you so much for having me here i'd like to start off by throwing 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 where 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 the people in america as a whole think it's on the wrong track so it's almost as if washington's living in a little economic bubble the unemployment to seek you mentioned nine point five percent that's actually a man. a 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 that we're 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 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 think the anger against them is undeserved they're genuinely upset that obama's been calling the bad things 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 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 you know when warren buffett came in invested in solomon brothers the management had already been clean. doubt 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 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 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 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 and react to that what'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 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 a financial meltdown all those sort of two ways or hostage one unfortunately is in the environment we have in the u.s. 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 in 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 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. 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 the a lot of that's going on is phony baloney and 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 he smith thank you very much for sitting down with us today thank you. showbiz the entertainment value of infiltrate into presentation high production success it's graphics. all of this is a way to sort of focus people's attention by using techniques that are associated with that same amount during this war we had nearly military entertainment.

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for the food we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. four thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t he's here headlines human rights groups and palestine alarmed as israel appoints a man accused of torturing arab prisoners to a top police advisory popes known as captain george a hobby is said to him personally participated in the abuse of inmates at a secret prison. for russian drug enforcement agents clamp down on dealers producing amphetamines and lethal makeshift labs they believe high demand and soaring prices are leading to a boom in homemade drugs. and with almost all the ballots

counted a lot in voters give the ruling party a second chance in a recession hit countries general election while support for the ethnic russian party surged following a campaign to improve human rights for the country's largest minority. backs host martin andrews saveur some of moscow's serene sights stay with us moscow out coming your way next. hello and welcome to most crowds one of my favorite places in the russian capital is pottery washing fruity names off to the palms it's the perfect.