he told an israeli court that captain george whose real name is do one zahavi fifteen 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 buffets to the jerusalem police captain george. very hiring a policeman in jerusalem is giving some sort of message to the palestinians we are bringing in 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 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 knees then he started to beats 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 boucher 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 palestinian interests the police in the future to comment on the story in an email reply to our request for an interview they said they are not dealing with the subject at this moment but that if there are any changes the updates first the fact that the facility with not. people were not. just their. individual complaints the workload. not. enough will also. show. governmental policy and as for secret prison three nine one where torture admittedly took place human rights lawyers are convinced it's still operating somewhere in northern israel. are to tell of of. police in southern russia are clamping down on drug dealers selling homemade amphetamines or soaring street value when drug labs hidden deep in basements in residential buildings it's

no easy task artie dennis reports on the efforts of law enforcement. a 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 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 dealers need 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 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 christmas our student has been trying to find the perfect them put him in court below at least nor did the powder in themselves and wrote their impressions. unfortunately we were unable to extract part of the compound from the main solution . it's better if 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 the so qualified geniuses is that. with dozens of arrests in them for them and related cases and harsh jail sentences war important agents are trying to put a name to them put them in craze but despite the risks for 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 then as all of our tea across the region stay with us here on our team still to come decision time approaching in brazil we are going president's policies popular with the people most brazilians have no doubt about which way to cast their votes. plus want to show you the athletes who are really bringing home the bacon. just who is the world's best and they will find out that if they go in at those

international in moscow. first though a lot via one of the global recessions biggest economic victims seem to have given its troubled government a second chance with a majority of votes in for saturday's parliamentary election the ruling coalition is secure in about sixty percent of the vote the prime minister's main challenger was the harmony center party which represents the country's largest russian minority it's thought to have sealed up roughly twenty three percent of the votes but as artie's tabart reports many pinned their hopes on a win to get their voices heard. politics is very popular and that 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 could. unity and we don't cast our votes that means we are indifferent and that is against the principles of the bible. and there's

a lot of sin to talk about latvian politics has long been hung up on ethnic differences in the country the largest minority at around thirty percent are ethnic russians many of whom moved here were not fit was part of the soviet union after the break up hundreds of thousands were denied citizenship a policy the government is unconcerned by. non-citizens or residence. which we've. all seen. 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 who affectively been denied a state to call home pictorials for another church has grown up in latvia and say that ethnic policies are ruining our country but it is the first nation of political groups and latino 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 lead to the worst growth and unemployment rates in the e.u. because critics say ethnic fiddling while rome burns a day. in economic terms social. playing again and again. topics connected with. russians because. now there's a new political force a party standing on a ticket of equality for latvians and russians alike the harmony center is already

in power in the reagan municipal government although dubbed by some a pro russian party a third of its support base comes from latvians tired of economic mismanagement which indicates that most want national unity not division that there's national monument behind me is supposed to represent liberty one of the right wing parties in this election has even taken their slogan from it for the motherland and freedom but ethnic russians and latvians here now want the same thing freedom for all to contribute to their motherland prosperity tom barton r.t. . five militants have been killed after two stand out with security forces in russia's southern republic of dagestan two women are reported to be among the dead from a shoot out in the capital. an apartment was set ablaze during the fighting but the fire was contained and didn't spread this week saw several other counter-terror operation center ruggiero two militants killed on wednesday officials have stressed

the need for vigilance so. 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 in the city was finished earlier one militant was killed in a shoot out there. this story and much much more are just a click away at r.t. dot com here's a look at some of the most highest rated videos getting hits right now. for to find out what the brewing among russia's political top. and on track to adrenaline a dangerous new russian for real has our dangerous new thrill has russian teens train service 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 laura lister has more from south. 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 little later 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 led to silva is the one who changed everything and is seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed

successor dilma rousseff did. 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 the 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 can have 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 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 bad at ten years old i was already an irony 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 in the marketplace no i never thought. so it's out of sympathy here. oh yeah these are the people behind the red flags for dilma now. it's a far cry from the opposition support for the suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i will disagree with the time we have seen her home with her. targets regarding the international economy the national politics the i was in the quarter on

thursday on many of the out where are the borders of the average person on the earth or tell us they were by the way to hear after little is progress in getting broad support not from only the poor an activist who identify with his fierce trade union leader roots during a time of military dictatorship but from those who don't use the mcgraths periods the. schools who do the best presumably 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 at a male only dreamed of being a football players but now have prior aspirations to the american dream to be

president of the one of the although he didn't achieve it with a bloody fight but with a political agenda that has catapulted a nation forward how far it will take jill now with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she could take the nation and a little of phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell. mr r. t. sao 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 the raid comes during a heightened tension between the countries after three pakistani paramilitary troops 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. twenty mexican tourists have been kidnapped 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 traveling with them it's not known exactly why they were seized though acapulco ways known as a key battleground for drug. a new u.k. the ancient pagan tradition of druidry has been officially accepted as a religion the druid network not allowed be recognized like other mainstream religions in the country and will be exempt from tax on donations through its have practiced for thousands of years in britain where about ten thousand people now worship nature h. and rituals and so on. the seventh pig a lympics are underway in the russian capital and although they might 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 stacy bivins is keeping track for us. the seventh annual pay grace is in moscow but never before

had the competition been so intense where the stakes for pigs pride that's because for the first time ever it's now international taxes 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 and their prospective 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 poised and that's. who wins the title of absolute champion a medal and a strawberry to serve. artie's d.c. burns reporting from the pig olympics in moscow well up next year on our t.v. interview segment it's been two years since the credit crunch struck but many americans are still picking up the pieces and we take a closer look at the crisis condition of the u.s. with a top rated analyst stay with us. our

team is sitting down with the author of the good capitalism one of the top five most visited financial log on the web eve smith thank you very much for joining us as 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 were 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 so it's almost as if washington is living in a little economic bubble the unemployment to seek you mentioned nine point five percent that's actually a mare. 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 never seeing even closer to twenty exactly nothern so you know 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 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 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 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 invest in solomon brothers the management had already been cleaned. 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 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 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 as well it's finally started to happen it's funny because this morning. some congressmen started using the word fraud so it's big 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 be 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 it 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 melt or 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 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 have 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 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. it's not what 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

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six thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team these are your headlines human rights groups in palestine alarmed as israel appoints a man accused of torturing our prisoners to a top police advisory position known as captain george. 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 drugs. and with almost all of the ballots in live in voters

give the ruling bloc a second chance in the recession eight countries general election while support for an ethnic russian party surged following a campaign to improve rights for the country's largest minority. next host martin andrews savors some of moscow's serene sights stay with us moscow out coming your way next on r.t. . hello i welcome sue moss krauts know one of my favorite places in the russian capital is pottery washing fruity have names on.