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red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear not. for some iraq you smuggling out on to neighboring iran is the only way to make a living archie follows the poor man straight road. until it seems to lift the curtain on the alleged russian spies arrested in the cold war and what many experts saw as a deep white georgian political infighting. declassified documents show the us media have been on the white house payroll for decades garnering public support for america's wars. and coming up in the business update the skies in moscow all i knew once again russian pilots no longer made a mission to fly over the city would have the details in about twenty minutes time .

this is r.t. live from moscow i'm renay joshua welcome to. program one hundred forty to iraq is civilians who claim they suffered abuse by british soldiers are waiting to hear whether due case high court will allow a full public inquiry now geishas include torture sensory deprivation force nakedness and stress positions the abuse allegedly took place in british controlled detention centers in iraq between two thousand and three in 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 widespread in the inquiry has to be public. there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the inquiry so we know for example that there was

a policy of getting the make you'd get the make you cute if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to 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 but we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly a move for the lack of opportunities in iraq forces many people to make a living illegally often putting their lives at risk just to earn a few dollars are you suggesting merit met some locals in northern iraq who tried 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 vein although alcohol is forbidden in the islamic republic much of tehran's boars

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 here teachers 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 you know it will cost a smuggler a hundred and five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred while the profits appear amends 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 he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate. i do this because i'm a literate are you doing your thing you know i was 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 and then charged the price of the bullets that were shot at them with a mind they stepped on. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings i restore fights it's terrible nothing we can do because we're poor. 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 shelters for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down there and man it is this isn't a lion and there's no food or drink during the cold and wet now and it will leave you down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy and. 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. a phone call comes in soon that is clear the smugglers quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain. tomorrow the same dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border. and you are watching plenty for you this hour including. businessmen say one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great universities lined the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education r t visits one of russia's fastest developing regions for innovative

industries are mushrooming. georgia's interior ministry has announced thirteen people including four russians were arrested last month accused of spying for moscow last week ago last week rather tbilisi had said twenty suspected agents have been detained. wraps up what's known so far. 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 people have been arrested some time next over a by georgia'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 to because the ministry of internal affairs has refused to call them and the news about the arrest or 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 arrest her broken that there is some leaks that have been made to george impressed by the

lawyer of at least two of the people who are accused of espionage and she said that for clients who were arrested in the middle of october on 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 and off when someone aspiring of such dimensions as this is purported to be has been broken usually within the with the minister over turtle affairs to whoever does their rest is driving themselves on the on this on the circumstances and actually makes they now spent 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 goods 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 current spy scandal will do to relations between moscow into these things yet remains to be seen. reporting there you can always find more news videos and watch the web site r.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 wonderful but it's not free of side effects. it's the mom to them all but don't get too carried away in the fun games like this are getting ever more popular russia we've got more about the country interactive games fare on our t.v. .

one states our efforts to promote his democratic interest have led to some shocking results across the world so-called independent media sources have been sponsored by the u.s. government for nearly thirty years to convince the public of the need for america's wars came when 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 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 illegal 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 why 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 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 published a front page story you know which they talked about how u.s. intelligence officials had. found out that saddam hussein had purchased loon tubes which they believed could only be used for nuclear weapons what they did not see 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 you could better explain what is happening and duress and just about everybody else otto reich is what i'm talking about your response 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 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. norman solomon american media critic and founder of the institute for public accuracy says political lobbying by a powerful government in a democratic society is much more dangerous than a 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 kind of 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. for the first time ever the u.s. is coming under review by the un human rights council its record at home and abroad will be scrutinized in a move welcomed by international rights watch groups this comes just two weeks after the online whistleblower wiki leaks published documents implicating the bush administration in torture chandra patna ghar from the american civil liberties union suggest scrutiny of the us patchy human rights record could raise problems for washington. and there have been some advance questions submitted by by countries in advance of the review including by the russian federation and the issue of torture for example is a question that was raised by the russian federation we think very appropriately as

it stands now in the united states sadly in the in the so-called war on terror victims of torture and rendition have been denied their day in court the federal government has been able to use judicially created dr and including what's called state secrets privilege to prevent civil lawsuits alleging torture. and degrading treatment and this is something that has prevented victims of torture from even having a day in court even having the opportunity to have their grievance heard so our hope is that these issues will be. will be discussed in the us will have to explain these issues and we will be able to pass legislation domestically which would limit the ability of the united states to use the state secrets privilege and qualified immunity to allow victims of torture to have their day in court and also to for the government to affirmatively prosecute perpetrators of torture yet it is you your viewers may be aware in the last few days we've heard that former president bush had given an approval of waterboarding and as as his wrecking internationally

recognized waterboarding as a form of torture and so we're hoping that the obama administration and those in government will prosecute or those who engage in torture of those who ordered torture. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and a plane with sixty eight people including twenty eight foreigners onboard has crashed in cuba the country's civil aviation authority says there were no survivors the air caribbean airliner was on route from santiago de cuba to the capital of ana the flight was the last to leave the region ahead of tropical storm thomas. new flooding in central vietnam is killed sixteen people bringing the death toll over the past month to one hundred fifty nine rescue workers are struggling to reach those affected in the central part of the country the way this area to be pounded the new wave of torrential rain that has hit the region over the past week has forced the evacuation of more than forty thousand people forecasters say more rains are expected in the coming days. what you can see live from moscow up next is our

tease close up series as we continue to explore the manty diverse parts of russia. and this week we traveled to the tomsk region which lies in the western siberia the city of toms because earn 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 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 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 volatility 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 line the streets and there contrasts it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to tomsk the home of siberia's first university. korean 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 an undergrad. first models in

a small garage then we want to few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch the 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 if not me then. the different ways i could invest and i found something was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses between 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 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 two and 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 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 check of 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 who come to the hotel to pay their respects to me the inhabitants are very dogged to. check of sun favorable comments earned him in this marking statue and amusing reminder that the people of thomas they don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual guesser cilia r.t.e. reporting from the tomsk region and visit his next was charles farley in a way. but i welcome to the business program here are saying with me i was folly 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 derivative explains. the skies over russia open to small of the session as of

this week light aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to sit permission for their route twenty four hours it had been given permission authority is now required 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 we're allowed 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 again 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 present and every day reality with the rush is vast here too it's crucial to develop air transportation at all levels. many starting small but the potential benefits are huge. you need to do a business are cheap. and the federal reserve's decision to pump extra dollars into the u.s. economy is the worst thing they could do that's according to patrick young economist and co-author of the book gathering storm well eighteen investment experts published their views about the global economy. decision to increase quantity of the thing 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 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 how to beat a particularly exciting number of private sector hiring but the truth is that actually the job picture with improving ever so slightly within the private sector which is the engine of the american economy the american government is certainly not a retail field has been remarkably strong over the course of time therefore it's quite bizarre because what we're risking at the economic good market distortions the dollar is being pushed through the floor and that's really the sort of upholding beggar thy 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 i'm 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 have a look on markets that before main european stocks are mixed this hour a day off today rallies in reaction to another round of palm city easing by the u.s. treasury is that meeting the games is moral bank and scotland and smith and nephew that she has up around four percent and it's another green day for ages songs that are high on friday following the games in the street and night was even a chance of on the rise so meantime the mess in mining was up five point three percent the impacts came two point four percent a taking. now more than ninety nine a project for it by russia's high tech corp last night i received nineteen billion dollars ten billion dollars the state corporation provides four billion dollars the rest to be achieved through local and international investors david calls out of

j.k. b. capital told r.t. what's been attracting foreigners in russian startups. they have a tremendous pool of for talent side to pick talent very good education people are very very knowledgeable they're quite understanding of the technology and the implication of that that knowledge is 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 engine even capability that they think will support capabilities all here tell us about your investment in russia silicon valley where looking to raise a fund that we will bring some outside money two hundred fifty million hopefully measured 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 easier for them to investing in russia we will be looking at something that is related to nanotechnology 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 commercialized 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 us the higher potential return i believe is because the overall risk outside of the 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 lower risk of reward 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 find here. and i shall.