mine. would be soo much brighter than a few new songs from phones to french and. he's fluent stunts on t.v. don't comb. claims of british abuse in iraq exposed to lawyers force for a full public inquiry into the alleged torture and murder of civilians by u.k. soldiers. here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red

label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smirnoff was good. for some iraqis smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran is the only way to make a living archie follows the poor man's trade route. the only sees expected to lift the curtain on twenty alleged russian spies arrested last week in what manning experts saw as a decoy in georgian political infighting. declassified documents show the us media have been on the white house payroll for decades garnering public support for the government's controversial decisions. it is nine am of the russian capital you're watching our arena joshua welcome to the program now one hundred forty two iraqi civilians who claim they suffered abuse

by british soldiers are waiting to hear whether the u.k.'s high court will allow a full. public inquiry the allegations include torture sensory deprivation force nakedness and stress positions they abuse allegedly took place in british controlled detention centers in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight the u.k. ministry of defense says it's investigating claims and there is no need for a public inquiry such probes have already been launched for two similar cases involving the alleged torture and killing of civilians by british soldiers david scheiner one of the lawyers taking the current case to the high court says abuse is systemic and any inquiry has to be public there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bottom of some coronary so we know for example that there was a policy of getting the make you'd get the make you could if they don't cooperate

in the way in which there was still be searched the harshing we how far video. the training video it's on the bottom of the website these are clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to suggest this is a few bad apples that's the interrogation policy and needs to be exposed and we need to ensure all that we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly unlawful. and you can watch the full interview with david scheiner on sunday right here on our team. now the lack of opportunities in iraq forces many civilians to make a living illegally often putting their lives at risk just to earn a few dollars are just a best in mire met some locals in northern iraq who try to survive by smuggling alcohol across the dangerous border with iran. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a van although alcohol is forbidden in the islamic republic much of tehran's

bourgeoisie can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around the absolute front here teachers just to hear mr chavez risky black and white whiskey back here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear know. this box of what will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred although the profits appear immense to men who actually take the dangerous journey are paid a mere fifty dollars a night this is not work for those looking to make a fortune it is work for the poor uneducated and desperate that i do this because i'm a literate i don't know how to do anything else so this is the only job i can do out of iran is brutal in its approach to keep alcohol out

a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars and then charge the price of the bullets that were shot at them with a mind they stepped on a new if we cross the border and there are explosions shootings arrests or fights it's terrible there's nothing we can do because we have who are. not only is the job dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side of the small river that makes the border. for the smugglers as well as for the horses. of course. there's no food or drink. on the other side hundreds of a rainy and border police summon concrete towers. but all in their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country

a few days before we arrived they mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers. came from the other side. and show everyone. the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the. phone call comes in. quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain. tomorrow dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border. and. plenty have including. a million dollar contract to supply. base in kurdistan gets the green light regardless going investigation and objections from the. business say one of the main advantages of.

the abundance of great minds. is pursuing some form of education. as it's one of russia's fasces developing. now one states after its to promote its democratic interests have led to some shocking results across the world so-called independent media sources have been sponsored by the us government for nearly thirty years to. convince the public of the need for america's wars are just killing forward reports on the recently declassified evidence. when most americans open a newspaper they expect all the news that's fit to print not to plant but declassified documents show that in the one nine hundred eighty s. the state department was doing exactly that known as white propaganda editorials and stories were planted and pushed in major u.s. media outlets the washington post c.b.s.

usa today the new york times and more. and sharing favorable coverage of the controversial contra war in central america the office of public diplomacy had a very innocuous sounding name but in fact it was a sinister covert office running eagle propaganda operations hello my name is art all right meet the man at the forefront of this effort cuban american cold warrior and former head of the office of public diplomacy for latin america has the reputation of a tough operator that's a lot more telling a lie employing special psychological operations experts to craft messages for the american public putting people secretly on the u.s. payroll reporters writers and having them then pretend to be independent and writing op ed pieces and nobody would know that this was a u.s. government financed and directed opinion apart from these declassified documents we

know that auto reich was behind these similar tactics were used by the bush administration and the lead up to the iraq war the iraq war is a textbook case of how a government or a couple within a government uses propaganda planting stories in the u.s. media to convert public opinion favorably toward a war within a matter of days on september eighth the new york times' michael gordon judith miller public. the front page long story you know which they talked about how u.s. intelligence officials. found out that saddam hussein had purchased aluminum tubes which they believed could only be used for nuclear weapons what they did not say of course was that that was a minority view within the intelligence community the drums of war beat faster the u.s. invaded in march two thousand and three in two thousand and nine immediately after the president of honduras was overthrown in

a military coup are reich resurface in the mainstream media quoted by columnists interviewed by pundits. well what i want to know about stuff like this there's nobody else better to call than the guy you're about to meet right here he could better explain what is happening and duress and just about everybody else otto reich is what i'm talking about as a response he was in charge of what he was doing back in the eighty's and he's been around like a like a ghost and you see him. personally writing op eds for important newspapers in the u.s. and you see him working behind the scenes for komondors in honduras and what you what you have to wonder is who's paying him to do so why propaganda has proven effective in garnering support for america's more contentious foreign policy the office of public diplomacy it became a sacrificial lamb of the iran contra scandal follow your congressional investigation otto reich moved on unscathed first to become ambassador to venezuela

then assistant secretary of state he remains an influential consultant here in washington frequently quoted in the media and regularly called to testify here on capitol hill as an expert witness for r. t. washington d.c. and norman solomon american a media critic and founder of the institute for public accuracy sassed political lobbying by a powerful government in democratic society is much more dangerous than totalitarian states. in a dictatorship often it doesn't matter what people think and so propaganda is often less rigorous in a society with important elements of democracy it's all the more important to try to affect public opinion this is a characteristic of governments around the world there's a lot of spinning out of the governments and those who are aligned with it through the news media the propaganda game it's all the more important when it's a powerful country perhaps most important for the world when it happens in the united states and we have that going on where there are economic political social

and military agendas being pushed and the end result is we have this worldview of being reinforced all the time which often has very little to do with human rights when you have this contradiction of how human rights as a standard is applied in practice when you have a multiple set of definitions of human rights and orwellian terms then you've got what you got from our right in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the reagan administration and all too often what you still get today. and you can always find more news videos on blogs on our web site r t dot com let's now take a look at some other some of the stories right now. american teenagers seem to be falling into a trap best t.v. adverts promote a cure all wonder pale but it's not free of side effects. and hid them all it shows them all games like this are getting ever more popular but make sure you have plenty of room when you play you could damage the furniture we've got more about russians and directed games they are on our.

georgie is expected to reveal details of a scandal involving twenty georgians caught last week allegedly spying for russia but we see has so far refused to comment saying it will make the story clear on the bammer the fifth parties are in english is in the georgian capital. this is a story that has more questions than answers at than answers at this particular moment the only thing that we know so far is that there are very few facts and lots and lots of speculation we know that twenty people have been arrested some time next over a by georgia's ministry of interior fares and they were accused of this do you know i should before russia now this is where pretty much the facts ended because the ministry of internal affairs has refused to call them and the news about the arrests were broken last friday the interior ministry said they will not give out

any comments until today which is it exactly one week after the news of their arrests were broken and there is some leaks that have been made to george impressed by the lawyer of at least two of the people who were accused of espionage and she said that for clients who were arrested in the middle of october october eighteenth to be precise and that they were accused of financial russia and they were given a preliminary to put two month prison sentence now and there are many peculiar points about the story of course one of those being the fact that the ministry of internal affairs of georgia has kept him on about this case for what it seems like at least two weeks another aspect is that the news was broken by a foreign media source which a lot of critics say is out of her to offer when a somewhat aspiring of such dimensions as this is purported to be has been broken usually have been the butt of the minister over turtle affairs to whoever does their rest is writing themselves on the on this on the circumstances and actually makes the announcement not so in this case also we have to remember this is not the

first time a spy story between russia and georgia comes to the foreground back in two thousand and six four russian offices were arrested in georgia on suspicion for spin of course they were later released but that's took relations between most could believe see to a never before seen low after the store just out the sit in war in two thousand and eight diplomatic relations between russia and georgia were officially broken and have not been restored ever since so what this curve. spy scandal that will do to all releases between moscow into these things yet remains to be seen. renegotiate reporting there now the u.s. defense department has given a three hundred million dollar contract to supply its air base in kyrgyzstan with fuel to companies under investigation by the congress it's not known who owns the mena and red star companies but there is speculation that relatives of the ousted president kurmanbek bakiev my be involved the deal goes against

a request made by the country's leader of russia to maya but he says russia's gas prompt should supply them in our space with fuel and a joint venture with a curious company steve levine a contributing editor at foreign policy magazine says the move approved by the pentagon lacks transparency two companies involved mean and red star both of them have a very strange mysterious appearance neither of them has an identifiable office they work through offshore shell thanks in gibraltar and it's not clear why the pentagon would again award the contract to the same company as before if kyrgyzstan is going to send a message to the pentagon that we don't accept. mean a corporation we don't accept red star then i think that the pentagon would act and perhaps change the contract these companies came out of nowhere and grab contracts

that over the last several years have earned them three billion dollars it's not clear who really owns them it's not clear who works there who benefits from the contracts who they're linked to all of these questions the appearance of this is not positive it doesn't look good for the united states it doesn't look good for the pentagon. and a brief look at some other stories from around the world now the death toll from indonesia will cain has climbed to ninety eight after the latest blast shot out of clouds of hog gas and debris more than sixty five people were injured many of them critically the eruptions of mount merapi have intensified in the last few days triggering mass evacuations experts fear that a new lava dome forming at the mouth of the crater could collapse triggering another massive deadly surge. winds are picking up in haiti as tropical storm thomas approaches the island police have urged the island's one point three million

homeless to seek shelter but officials report most people in the earthquake refugee camps have remained in their tans saying they have no word to go and it's feared that heavy rains could worsen the cholera outbreak in the country which has claimed over four hundred lives so far. up next artie's close of series as we continue to explore the many diverse parts of russia. and this week we traveled to the tomsk region which lies in the western siberia the city of tomsk earned itself the title of russia's major i t hub and one of the country's fast as developing innovation based centers tests are celia has been finding out what makes tom's tick. well we are here in tongs in southwestern siberia now this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies some of the major industries here are machine building metalworking and timber but over the

years this region has also diversified their industries and they have become known as a town of science and an important economic center here in siberia and it's also a center for nuclear research and production however today investment is flowing into new for lots of the new and growing industries and that includes technological innovation scientific research and development as well as start up companies well holmes is continuing to carve a name for itself in technological and scientific innovation now in this report we'll look at some of the people behind this effort as well as the business ventures that have come out of this region. it's one of the oldest towns in siberia but it was only officially open to foreigners in one thousand nine hundred ninety today wooden houses hundreds of years old still lined the streets and there contrasts it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to toms the home of siberia's first university. corian is

a graduate of the thomas cloyd technic university he's only twenty four but he's already working on a ph d. and is running his own welding company with twenty six branches all over the country. because. i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in undergrad when we assembled our first models in a small garage then we want to few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch a company. but in the world of business a great idea needs money to get off the ground. and that's where venture capitalists like nikolai but dual income in. my business model is if not me then who is looking for different ways i could invest and i found something i thought was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses but doing and invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential. first the main

goal is to filter out buyer says but now we're more concerned with heavy metals arsenic in particular well after the process of filtering the water this is apparently drinkable so let's try. nope no arsenic there but julian has another project up his sleeve a new technology that may be able to advance the battle against cancer. in two thousand days we started testing the drug silver all on twenty eight cows eighteen later tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia this was a one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great minds universities live the main street here in the city center and one and i was six people is pursuing some form

of education. we were told that in this town it's cool to be an intellectual well one intellectual locals aren't cool with this russian playwright don chekov who once wrote to his sister saying tomsk is a very dull town to judge from the drunkards whose acquaintances i have made and from the intellectual people come to the hotel to pay their respects to me the inhabitants are very to. chuckle of sun favorable comments earned him in this marking statue and amusing reminder that the people of thompson don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual guesser cilia r.t.e. reporting from the tomsk region. and next it's time for the latest business news was shyla don't go away. or welcome to business program here on our team with michelle i was following the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots no longer need to seek

permission to fly in the city while searching regulations for lightweight aircraft have been canceled some obstacles remain as in a bit of a explains. the skies over russia open to small of an as of this week light aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to seek permission from their route twenty four hours it had been given permission authorities now require pilots to notify them of their flight plans small of nation existence is far from floor xing and while the new rules are welcome once will doesn't make a summer as the saying goes on an international regulations regional regulations are still an obstacle to open skies it's a rather small but important development for russia's air industry well it's a little small aviation can become a good base for pilot training because now we face a serious deficit of pilots small aviation can also keep alive the whole range of

regional airports all over russia in the future it may even form the basis of commercial transportation. unlike europe in united states flights over big cities up and regional flights have to navigate a mountain of people who are it requires commercial and political will to develop the segment legislation might ease the way through but it wouldn't change dramatically if saw a market driven. and in our case or in case of the aviation market development in russia it's about the mentality change flying around russia even in small planes is still a lot to read than an everyday reality with the russians vast territory six. develop your transportation levels we're going to starting small but the potential benefits are huge. you need to do a business are cheap. now the federal reserve's decision to pump extra dollars into

the u.s. economy is the worst thing they could do as according to patrick young columnist and author of the book gathering storm were eighteen investment experts published their views about the global economy. decision to increase quantities of the thing by six hundred billion dollars is a complete disaster i mean we're not in a situation where the total going to be something like eight hundred fifty to mine hundred billion dollars by the end of next year and that's going to be approximately one hundred ten billion per month which effectively means that really what we're seeing is the sort of a repurchase agreement of the american deficit if you look at the economics actually manufacturing was rebounding in october according to american statistics crude there have been beat up particularly in fighting number of private sector hiring but the truth is that actually the job picture was improving ever so slightly within the private sector which is the engine of the american economy the american government is certainly not the retail field has been remarkably strong over the course of time therefore it's quite bizarre because what we're risking at

the economic and market distortions of the dollar is being pushed through the floor and that's really the sort of a holding baggers our neighbor kind of approach which is i'm going to help the american economy because it simply making imported food stuffs more and more expensive and creating inflation for the average working mom while at the same time it's basically leaving places like the eurozone with a further problem because it's increasing the value of the currency and making moves economy less competitive. time now to the cotton markets the befalling another green day phase in stocks that high on friday following gains on wall street want to see related shaz are on the rise so me tell you my message mining was five point five percent up named texas gained two point four percent in taking . now with a ninety nine point six approved by russia's high tech corporation last not a serious c.v. ten billion dollars it's a corporation provide four billion dollars with the rest to be challenged in international investment david confound of j. k. p.

capital told our take what's been a challenging foreigners in the russian startups it's they have a tremendous pool of floor tile inside to fix tolerance. very good education people are very very knowledgeable they're quite understanding of the technology and they pick ation of that technology over they need a little help is in how they could take basic technology and commercialize it into a product into a product that the market wants what they engine even capability that they think will support capabilities all here tell us about your investment in russia silicon valley where looking toys are found that we will bring some outside money two hundred fifty million i'll probably match it here with another two hundred fifty million and we'll have about five hundred million to invest. in technologies that can either originate find their way into commercialization here in russia how close is your phone to investing in russia we will be looking at something that is

related to nano technology is although in the united states we invest heavily with software and telecommunications with all the pros and cons of russian high tech the russians are very good at basic research they are not so aware of development and to try and direct the basic research towards a development commercialize project i think is going to be the challenge for russian scientists in washington d.c. bigger profits from investing in most of them in the u.s. the higher potential return i believe is because the overall risk outside of their environment responding the development the talent the commercialization is likely to be lower here because the opportunities are going to be greater and you can pick and choose the kind that represent low risk overall so i think in reality if you can walk through the different environmental obstacles the opportunity to find attractive investment from a technologist and point would be a little easier to.