german opinion split over a t.v. program that aims to expose online pedophiles searching for victims critics say the programme makers put themselves beyond the rule of law. the georgian government

sows the seeds of discord as it plans to offer land south african farmers and stiff opposition from locals afraid of losing their only source of survival plus. this world here is one of the prison cells and. there's the crowd about eighteen to twenty people in this room. for a decision on their feet parties close up team travels to the site region of tomsk a place of exile for many key figures in the russian history and even the man who founded the infamous gulag camps joseph stalin. midnight in moscow i met tresor good to be with you here on r t our top story debate rages in germany over a t.v. show that aims to expose possible internet pedophiles by secretly filming their meetings with decoys posing as victims critics including the country's justice

minister claim the program flouts the law in pursuit of higher ratings but creators claim a hof to resort to such methods as the law falls short in tackling internet predators r t sarah for of has more from munich. it's every parent's nightmare their child being looted by someone they met on the internet this guy is pretending to speak. demand of the table is in his sixty's they think investing online for weeks from my little girl friend it is you isn't it yes if i'm a little kid and you. when it is the kisko you tell me i'm shy. the back of your neck may be ok but perhaps that might turn you on that later is actually an undercover journalist and it turns out the man works for a children's charity he's completely unaware that the meeting is being secretly

filmed as part of the german t.v. show a cool tattoo the internet and if exposing the danger is sexual predators online in the very beginning we expected it expected to you know to have a very specific. person to be imagined you know what you would usually magine as a sexual predator you know the guy with the glasses. but we've met people from all kinds of society those who praise the show say that the authorities should have been informed straight away especially as in this case the man worked with children and that the chaise designed big ratings is the primary motivation the people who took the video clip took the clip in may and broadcast it in october now and in between there was no information for any. investigative. officials or police not for the employer or employer as well

but the producers argued that the reason for having to keep the identity of the men they film secrets is due to a major leap hole in the law. chatting on the internet with a child even about cirqus is almost never considered a crime or is left very unclear what exactly constitutes a criminal action. so kingly under current law unless there is an actual physical assault there's not much that can be done and it's an international problem with many experts openly acknowledging that guidelines are in desperate need of clarification instead grooming is not anything naaman and and as a number of children go. online grays say does that danger and the scariest part is that right now there's not much that the police can do to protect them it seems shaders how often within minutes of going into an online chat ring praising as a young guy i think should have found. if we can succeed with the goal of really

changing the law making the approach of mines online beside the grooming. stiction we can avoid those people being out in chasing little children. on see. stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way. but you're celebrating national unity day a holiday with a star of cool roots but also allows people of different social and political opinion is the share their ideas. but first the pentagon has awarded a fuel contract worth more than three hundred million dollars to supply its monarch's air base in kyrgyzstan to a corporation that's under investigation by the u.s. congress the company won't disclose its ownership but there is speculation the family of ousted president but he might be involved i haven't even director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute tells r.t. it's possible the us turned

a blind eye to the corrupt deals to keep the air base in the country. u.s. has in the past cut deals for bases and lucrative contracts go to the country involved the cia could be involved it could be there could be a lot of things going on here the congressional investigation is not a panel of the report is not going to say there's any wrongdoing but that this is a very suspicious contract. because it was single source there was no competition and the companies beat out more established fuel providers so there's a lot of mystery around this so i think anything is possible in this case and it could be a payoff for the u.s. to use the base and of course that was when the old regime was in power certainly this doesn't these types of. contracts whether they're actually illegal is one thing and whether they're corrupt is another thing and i think what we're saying is corruption but i think in the united states the executive branch might

have. you know the legal authority to do something like this that they think it's in the u.s. security interest to do what they have to do to keep this vital base and i think you know when you have a war going on the rules bend or new rules are made or whatever to do these things and i think this is a very this is clearly a vital base and this i think is part of the compensation package for kurdistan one way or the other the russians in the u.s. have been competing for influence in this country they have bases not too far from each other and so i think certainly the u.s. is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region in around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that this day serves two purposes this is certainly a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia. staying with the u.s.

political scene president obama says he hopes the u.s. senate will approve the new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia by year's end speaking at a cabinet meeting he said it would confirm the u.s. is serious about reducing nuclear arsenals this comes after russia's state duma foreign affairs committee recalled its decision to ratify the deal moscow says the senate made twenty six amendments to the original version signed in april by presidents made better than obama among them or cause a stipulating the treaty doesn't cover deployment of a u.s. missile defense system or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads but how about a gala from the russian federation council says the current reset between the two countries will not be affected the full interview he gave to our spotlight program coming up later but is this need. a reset is not in danger we managed to create some substance for the reset but we are working hard on the providing military transit and civilian transit to afghanistan through the russian territory we are fighting together against drug trafficking in afghanistan so we are doing

a lot and i think it will help democrats and those responsible republicans who are still present in the senate and in the house of representatives to to to move forward in the recent. georgia plans to revamp its alan agricultural industry by inviting new farmers from south africa but wars are a minority there in the georgian government believes they would find better opportunities far from home and bring investment and new ideas but local farmers feel the drastic measures will see them plowed off their own land. has more. three years of land but his family barely scrapes by the toggle odds and lives on potato soup all year round one of many farmers struggling to survive in georgia though he has plenty of land he cannot afford to grow anything on it. most the fuel

for the tractor is too expensive the pension i get is forty five years dollars most of this goes towards my medication after i buy that i hardly have anything left over. trish or tar has a heart condition but still works the land to zing straining his health over hunger his neighbor a maas is hardly any better off with only meters but he said that it would they gave his american seeds a couple of years ago but they failed to thrive we hardly got any harvest and i know most of the people in my village are struggling with it about the georgian government has introduced a policy it says will turn all this around it's encouraging huge numbers of south african farmers to come here bringing fresh ideas and expertise but the plans have been met with stiff opposition in the fields of agriculture and politics alike to go to resources with our government is conducting a policy of betrayal of their own country our farmers will be forced to abandon

their land because the kind of afford to farm it they don't produce enough to sustain themselves let alone sell anything to make a profit. the government appears to be ploughing alone far on this issue but it's shrugged off all criticism and believes the scheme will revive an ailing industry or sarwari well. going to culture. best farmers one of the best farmers in the wall. we showed them the opportunities what they could have if they are here there may be an influx of as many as forty thousand boers who'll be able to buy as much land as they want but that idea does not go over well with everyone georgian farmers say they feel they're being pushed out of their land by their own government and south african boers don't know what to expect from the land or people and efforts to resolve that will be easy given the distances between the two countries currently

south african farmers knowledge about agriculture in their potential new home is sketchy at best they weed industry. that's supposed to be this type of food before i remember correctly they produce anything percent of the. meat but this seat is eight years old but i never heard of a hybrid seeds selected the seeds the first south african farmers are expected to arrive next year and once that happens george and farmers who may lose the land that feeds them say their future looks bleak it even goes ga. remember you can always find more on this in everything we cover at our website our team dot com here's what getting here's what's getting the most wanted right now could be a good time to invest in soviet bangers once upgraded you can give many of today's super cars a run for their money slip into top gear and check them out. and

a very happy birthday to the international space station mankind's home away from home and celebrating a decade of constant reliable service outside earth's orbit more on the vicious engineering project at r.t. dot com. lacrosse russia have been celebrating the day of national unity while the event has strong historical origins it's the modern day significance of the holiday that triggers a nationwide reaction or he's peter all over has been following celebrations. but they have national unity gives people from different political social groups and the ability to post rallies that demonstrations around russia to pull with their ideas in a public forum well he remarks go we've seen people from all different at least me old and i say shouldn't raging from people wanting to throw tells the eating to far

right nationals of the nationalist groups posting rallies some fifty thousand people we're told have been out in the streets of moscow and what's been a poor ring drain take has been pouring with rain terrible weather but people have been taking to the streets the largest of those gatherings a rally by the pro kremlin you fold and i say sure now she wants to win around twenty thousand people at a parade along the riverbank here in central mosco so plenty of people get out about putting forward their ideas and this is the holiday actually has its roots in sixteen twelve when the people of russia from all around the country came together to expel the polish invaders that it occupied the country well during the soviet period the beginning of the november holiday was used to commemorate the bolshevik revolution and in recent times we've seen this be called the holiday be named the day of national unity today because to celebrate the day we will see it is not just

people putting forward their own political and social ideas but also people bringing together the past of russia with the present we've seen the head of the russian orthodox church the patriarch he unveiled today and i call him the. build st nicholas that had previously been the last two decades after it was hidden away during the soviet union period so he's unveiled not snow but in the place where it was before on the kremlin one of the kremlin towers have also seen a very touching reunion between family members of those who fought on both sides of the russian civil war being united and meeting here and talking about what went on that beginning of the twentieth century. peter all of our reporting. red square on unity day celebrations in russia stake a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a suspicious suspicious package has been destroyed by greek police following a spate of mail bombs sent to foreign embassies in the country the package that contained a small amount of explosives was returned by the french embassy to

a delivery service in athens is comes despite a federal reexamining of all parcels and a forty eight hour ban on deliveries police have so far arrested two suspects in the case. president boris tadic has become the first serbian leader to apologize to croats for the atrocities committed to doing a massacre there in the yugoslav war hundred croatian prisoners and civilians were executed in the city. ninety one the slaughter happened during the ethnic conflict that ensued when croatia declared independence serbs who believe croatia was the real aggressor during the war have criticized their president's actions. australian airline quantas has grounded all of its airbus a three eighty super jumbos after one of them was forced to make an emergency landing the plane touched down safely in singapore after an engine failure shortly after takeoff passengers reported hearing a blast but the company denies there was any explosion parts of the engine were found on an indonesian island the plane was carrying four hundred fifty people no

one was injured. up next artie's close team is off on his travels this time to the tomsk region in western siberia it's a place where now it is a destination for exiles dating back to the days of those are are these tests are similar reports on how the past is still affecting the region's present. there's a saying every times local knows god created paradise while the devil created know him near him is located in the southern part of the tomsk region difficult to get to and right smack in the middle of a swamp cut off from the rest of the world it's a place renowned as a destination for exiles dating back to the sorry state. in the early nineteenth century the population grew rapidly because of exiles to the point that every fifth

resident of tomsk and its surrounding areas was in exile. the last batch will form a wealthy peasant they were cooled oppositionists but in fact these people were just hard working families among those peasants was nicholai gook during stalin's time forced collective farming was introduced many landowning families lost their properties and were deported to siberia his family was sent here a nine hundred thirty one he was just four years old. or in the work of years we were transported by horse drawn carriage then by railway then locked on a boat down the river at the destination there was nothing except burnt out forest we had to build barks of good and earth to live in when it got cold we made windowpanes of ice labs we had no food only dry bread you can work it was very difficult. while nicholai supplied was because of stalin the former soviet leader himself was banished you know written in one thousand twelve stalin was exiled for

the sixth time and sentenced to four years in siberia he lived in this house but after only thirty nine days he escaped. and we were already present in this region and it is in this room that the state. it was here in this bed that stalin had actually slept. staal is it a riot he lives on in tomsk preserved in this investigative prison museum until the one nine hundred forty s. this is story building house the tomsk pretrial detention center and was also the headquarters of the people's commissariat for internal affairs or n.k.v.d. . here people charged with council revolutionary activities were kept in detention interrogated sentenced to death and there is evidence that executions were also performed here. you know or alexina's that ankle was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in one of stalin's gulags and five years in exile. minotaur again when i was

tried for treason against the motherland i told him it wasn't against the motherland it was against the government in the cases and charges they made up from were horrific. well this right here is one of the prison cells and some of the. crowd about fifteen to twenty people in this room who sit around for a decision on their feet but despite the tragedies in tomsk sr e good things did come out of them you love many political exiles who are well educated people who contributed a lot to developing education culture and economy in siberia december set up schools for local children exiled polish rebels develop sausage production businesses here coffee and barber shops. for tomsk citizens the past and the future are inseparable men like alexei look ahead i thought i still feel the pain but i just have to carry on with life i'm eighty six and i'd like to live till i'm ninety

and see what happens next said morey who. while young people look back eager to learn lessons from the past tense are cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region. to announce in december who will host the twenty eight hundred football world cup the c.e.o. of russia's bid for the tournament alexei sock and spoke to our team's andrew farmer ahead of the final about he tells us about the campaign to land the big event for the first time in russia's history.

well joining us today is. the man in charge of russia. thank you for your time thank you if we could start by talking about russia's chances to win this because a lot of people see it as a two horse race between russia and england how do you write russia's chances in. unique selling points if you will first of all we have regarded this as a four. for two thousand and eighteen but out of these four horses i think. we have very good chances where very confident. without being overconfident of course we believe we have all it takes to win this bid or unorganized a very good world cup one aspect is which is very important for its legacy and there we have a lot to offer i mean legacy after the world cup in russia will be immense. and

will influence not only the football development in this country but certainly in the entire region where russia is situated and exported to all our neighbors so there's another aspect where we feel quite well. concerned about is the creation of . certainly in england visit huge english premier league stadiums and use pretty much they have to build full from scratch if. they had to be able to fifteen stating you called for them that they would be able to you would be able to fill them on a regular basis and events in the i think russia is absolutely guaranteed with and with no white elephants because we've been carefully choosing all the hosts it is by them having either a premier league club or the first division club so there isn't a major club or two playing in each host city. and we think with the state of the art infrastructure of the attendance levels will only grow plus what we have what

we have in mind in terms of design of the stadium is temporary tribunes which with which the stadiums will reach a fee for acquired levels after the world cup some of the attributes will be removed and we'll have the stadiums with the capacity that is needed in a particular region if a city needs twenty five thousand stadium well it will have exactly nothing and nothing more i can say and it jestingly how will it work for a well kept in russia because you have to leningrad you have to catherine a great distance apart similarly have some pain and so. logistically how we found we did not envision a plan where a group match or group matches can be held to one including growth and one in the episode. of course this this needs actually planning but through funding we can

achieve more convenience for fans and the distances will be within regular limits for fee for right now we the father city that we have is only two hours by plane from moscow and that's that's not something extraordinary for a fee for. i mean look at the history of the world cup that we have we've had japan and korea we will have brazil we had south africa these are not small countries now you. obviously competing with other leading nations there has been a few spots in the press with england has not met i don't think it's a factor in our beds. i mean that we have been the focus of the british media but. i think it now will subside and people will have other things to speak and the closer we get to the final presentation the more the first nation itself will be the focus we have not been part of any. any of

speculative allegations or were scanned those or any. traps. and so we don't see any reason why we shouldn't shouldn't be at least in the final in the british press they did talk about incidents of hooliganism and also racism is that initiated being brought up by fate for a time with you know. these issues are perfectly global but they are not indigenous here they're not typical or characteristic of russia. these are things that are that pose a universal challenge and in football. and of course as a country of one hundred forty five million people we occasionally have outbreaks of new various negative processes of course. racism hogans are among them we do have very minor sporadic outbreaks but they do not

represent a trend and plus russian football does a lot to really confront these challenges recently a memorandum and to racist behavior was adopted by russian football union which we think is a good program to really. tackle this issue. but it's all a matter of whether you bring that up constantly and sort of robot or just. position as normal negative breaks in the overall positive landscape and positive development and even if russia doesn't win the spade it's still been a success story if you don't even want to think about it. but at least we. have tried our best. we. showed the world the football where we have achieved what we have to offer what we

intend to construct. and that alone is a great achievement. but we are very hopeful that there will. best thank you. admiral. a passenger liner sailing in the black sea. this thirty first nineteen a.t.c. . twenty three twenty. kilometers. crashes into another vessel. four hundred twenty three people.