all. in india oh geez available in the movie joint be the jones movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly towards west coast you can a let's go toe to toe shoes which are there to see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was her job as a retreat. claims of british abuse in iraq exposed to lawyers push for a full public inquiry into the alleged torture and murder of civilians by u.k. soldiers. here we have johnny walker black label here johnny walker

red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of cinema market. for some iraqis smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran is the only way to make a living r.t. follows the poor man's trade route. to really see is to lift the curtain on twenty alleged russian spies arrested in the cold war and what many experts saw as a decoy georgian political infighting. declassified documents show u.s. media have been on the white house payroll for decades garnering public support for the government's controversial decisions. and coming up in the business update it's going to open once again hair in moscow is russian pilots no longer need to see the mission to fly across the city without the details later tonight.

you're watching live from moscow ten pm here in marina joshie welcome to the program one hundred and forty to rocky 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 of sensory deprivation of force nakedness and stress positions the 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 an inquiry has to be public. there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bar.

so we know who sits on that there was a policy of getting the making the make you people they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the home fishing we how far to do. the training that is just on the bottom of the website is a claim of systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to suggest this is a few bad apples that's the interrogation and needs to be exposed and we need to ensure all but we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly a move for and 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 argue sebastien may or mat some locals in northern iraq who try to survive by smuggling alcohol across dangerous border with iran. in northern iraq

kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a way. of no alcohol is forbidden in the islamic republic much of tehran's boards wasn't 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 we have absolute. teachers ski here mr chavez whiskey 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 not. this box of luck it will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred while though the profits appear immense to many 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 he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate. i do this because i'm a literate. so this is the only job i can do out of the rain is brutal in its

approach to keep alcohol out a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life by others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars to invent charged the price of the bullets that were shot at them with a mind of a step down. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings rests or fights terrible nothing we can do because we have who are away but only as the job dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side of the small river that makes the border so it's a series of shanty towns full of tattered shacks they serve a small showcase for the smugglers as well as for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down there than among the season and there's no food or drink it's during the cold and wet and we leave you down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police summoned concrete towers. in their pursuit to keep

the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived 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 smugglers nine phone call comes in clear. quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain. dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border. plenty have for you this hour including a multimillion dollar contract to supply fuel to an american air base in kyrgyzstan gets the green light regardless of an ongoing investigation and objections from the

. band. business say one of the main advantages of having to be so with the abundance of great universities a lot of the main street here in the city one in every six people is pursuing some form of. our team visits one of russia's fastens developing. innovative industries . one states afterwards to promote its democratic interests have led to some shocking results across the world so called in the panel media sources have been sponsored by the us government for nearly thirty years to convince the public of the need for america's wars and ford reports on the recently declassified evidence. when most americans open a newspaper they expect all the news that's fit to print not to plan 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. ensuring 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 warriors and former head of the office of public diplomacy for latin america has the reputation of a tough operator that's a lot you are 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 but from these declassified documents we know that auto reich was behind these similar tactics were used by the bush administration in 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 published a front page long story you know which they talked about how u.s. intelligence officials. found out that saddam hussein had purchased lumen 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 a right resurfaced 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 you could better explain what is happening and verbs and just about everybody else otto reich is who i'm talking about as we since he was in charge of what he was doing back in the eighty's and he's been around like 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 mongers 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 the sacrificial lamb of the iran contra scandal follow

your congressional investigation but 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 artsy washington d.c. . norman solomon american media critic and founder of the institute for a public accuracy says political lobbying by a powerful government in time a critic societies much more dangerous than in 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 were 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 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 know always find more news videos on blogs on our website or t dot com let's take a look at some of our online stories right now. american teenagers seem to be falling into a trap as t.v. adverts promote a cure all wonder pill but it's not free of side effects. it's a mom shoot them all games like this are getting ever popular but make sure you have plenty of room when you could damage the furniture got more about brushes and

record beams fare on our team dot com. tbilisi is expected to reveal details of a scandal involving twenty georgians caught last month allegedly spying for russia georgia has so far refused comment saying it will make the story clear on the vampire the fifth parties are in english to wraps up what's known so far. this is a story that has more questions than adds and 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 blight george's ministry of interior fares and they were accused of this to you know i should before russia now this is were pretty much the facts and 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 on till today which is it exactly one week after the news of their arrest are broken and there is some leaks that have been made to georgian pressed 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 espionage for 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 that georgia has kept them 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 off when someone aspiring of such dimensions as this is purported to be has been broken usually within the for the minister over turtle affairs to whoever does their arrest is

a priding themselves on the on this on the circumstances and actually makes they announced that not so in this case also we have to remember this is not the first time by story between russia and georgia comes to the foreground back in two thousand and six for russian offices were arrested in georgia on suspicion for spin of course they were later released but that's took relations between most goods believe see to it never before seen low after the store just out the city of 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 will do two releases between moscow into these things yet remains to be seen. everything goes according 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 might be involved the deal goes against a request made by the country's leader roza otunbayeva she says russia's gas brought should supply them in our space with fuel in 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. to 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. kyrgyzstan is going to to send a message to the pentagon that we don't. mean a corporation we don't accept red store and 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. 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. every look at some of the stories from around the world and the death toll from indonesia's deadly you know has quite a few one hundred two. after the way you last shot out clouds of hot gas and debris more than seventy people were injured many of them critically the eruptions of now i'm dropping have intensified in the last few days triggering mass evacuations experts fear that a new lava dome forming in the bow of the crater who collapsed triggering and never a massive deadly surge. when taking off 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 earthquake refugee camps have remained in the earth hand saying they have nowhere to go it's feared that heavy rains could worsen the cholera outbreak in the country which has claimed over four hundred lives so far. a plane with sixty eight people on board has crashed in cuba state media is reporting that her being an airliner was on route from santiago de cuba to the capital have vana that there are no reports of casualties or survivors but twenty eight foreigners were among the passengers the flight was the last to leave the region ahead of tropical storm thomas up next its artie's close of series as we continue to explore as in many diverse parts of russia.

and this week we travel to the tomsk region which lies in western siberia the city of thomas because earned itself the title of russia's major i.t. hub and one of the country's fast is developing innovation based centers tests are celia has been finding out what makes tomsk tick. well we are here in tongs in southwestern siberia now this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies and some of the major industries here are machine building metalworking and tell 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 subject for nuclear research and production however today investment is flowing into new relatively new and growing industries and that includes technological innovation scientific research and development as well as start up companies well tom 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 wind the streets and there contrast it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to toms the home of siberia's first university. is a graduate of the thomas cloyd technique university he's only twenty four but he's already working on a ph d. and is running his own company with twenty six branches all over the country. i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in underground or in. 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 is. different ways i could invest and i found something was best. creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses. but to invest it 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 viruses 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 dylan 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 super all on twenty eight hours eighteen laser 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 in every 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 and don't check out who once wrote a sister saying tomsk is a very dull town to judge from the drunkards whose acquaintances i've made and from the intellectual people come to tell their respects to me the inhabitants of. chekhov's unfavorable comments earned him in this marking statue and amusing

reminder that the people of tom's don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual. guesser cilia r.t. reporting from the tomsk region. that brings us up today here in our team and next we have got all the latest business news with charlotte. my. fellow and welcome to business program here on r t with michelle amos following the skies i've been once again across moscow russian pilots no longer need to seek permission to fly in the city but also some regulations for lightweight aircraft being canceled some hope as a calls were made and seen a advaita explains. the skies are the russia and the movement too small of the session as of this week light aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to seek permission from their route twenty four hours ahead with britain 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 one 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 the pilot training because now we are facing a serious deficit of pilots small aviation can also keep alive the whole array of regional airports all over russia in the future it may even form the basis of commercial transportation. unlike europe and 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 it's all market driven. and in our case or in case

of the aviation market development in russia it's about the mentality change mind your own russia even in small planes is still a lot of room then and every day reality with the rush downstairs to eat through to develop here transportation. to goldman is such a potential benefit. in any major business marketing. the federal reserve's decision to pump extra dollars into the u.s. economy is the worst thing they could date as they wanted to patching yeah the economist and author of the book gathering storm why eighteen investment experts published their views about the global economy. decision to increase quantitative easing by six hundred billion dollars is a complete disaster i mean we're not in a situation where the total is going to be something like eight hundred fifty to nine 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 a sort of a repurchase agreement of the american deficit if you look at the economics actually manufacturing was responding in october according to american statistics prove there hasn't been a particularly exciting 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 sales have been remarkably strong over the course of time therefore it's quite bizarre because what we're risking is an economic and market distortions the dollar is being pushed through the floor and that's really the sort of a polling beggars our neighbor kind of approach which isn't going to help the american economy because it's simply making imported foodstuffs 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

those economies less competitive. time now hoping that one market the performing in another green day for asian stocks that higher friday following the gains on wall street day the night most even to his shadow on the rise to me so i misspoke warning was up five point three percent in tech changes when four percent listening to. all the ninety nine projects approved by russia's high tech corporation last night auster received ten billion dollars this day corporation provide four billion dollars of the rest to be charge from local international investors david kranz out of j.k. the capital told r.t. will mean attracting foreigners in russia's dogs out. they have a tremendous pool of raw talent side to fit tolerant very good education people are very very knowledgeable they're quite understanding of the technology and the implication of that technology a word 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 engineering capability that they think of support capabilities all here tell us about your investment in russia silicon valley where looking toy is a fund that we will bring some outside money two hundred fifty million i'll probably measured here with another two hundred fifty million and we'll have about five hundred million to invest. in technologies that can either originate a 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 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 commercialise project i think is going to be the challenge for russian scientists in washington journalists.