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label over here and we even have over forty two kinds of smear. some iraqi smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran is the only way to make a living r.t. fall is a poor man's traver. a bullet hole farce and provocation that's what russia's foreign ministry is calling georgia's arrest of thirteen people accused of spying for moscow. a classified document showing u.s. media have been on the white house payroll for decades garnering public support for america's wars. it is one pm of the russian capital you're watching r t with me were joshua 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.

case high court will allow a full public inquiry the allegations include torture sensory deprivation force nakedness and stress positions they've use allegedly took place in british controlled the tension centers in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight the u.k. ministry of the fans 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 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 most inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting the make you'd get the make. if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the harshing we haue thought 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 i'm all for. now 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 r.t. sébastien meyer went mad 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 we have absolute fuck you here teachers here 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. this box of it will cost a smuggler a hundred and five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred although 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 it is work for the poor uneducated and desperate that 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 others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars to invent charge 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 arrests or fights it's terrible 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 it's a series of shanty towns full of tattered shares they serve a small. for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the police is filthy and stinks of course then. there's no food or drink during the cold and then went. on the other side hundreds of a rainy and border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents but all 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. nine a 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 what is certain is tomorrow dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border watching r.t. live from moscow plenty have for you this hour including. business so one of the main advantages of having a baby is the abundance of great minds universities line the main street here in the city center and six people is pursuing some form of. party business one of russia's france's developing regions for innovative industries are mushrooming. georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people including four russians were detained last month accused of spying for moscow the announcement

follows a week of silence after it to police this initial statement that it had uncovered aspiring to police he says most of the arrested were recruited by russian military intelligence four years ago that russia's deputy foreign minister has called the announcement an unconvincing political farce he says a move aimed at damaging russia's image on the eve of upcoming a west. nato summit we expect our correspondent in tbilisi to bring us more later in the program. now one state's halfords to promote its democratic interests have led to some shocking results across the world so cold in the pan a 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 are to scale in ford reports on their 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. 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 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. a couple within a government uses propaganda planting stories in the us media to convert public opinion favorably toward a war within a matter of days on september 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 had found out that saddam hussein had purchased lumen into 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 auto reich 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 he could better explain what is happening and just about everybody else otto reich is what i'm talking about you know there 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 the 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 whitney. it's healing for our t. 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 a democratic society is 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 are aligned with the 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 what 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. for the first time ever the u.s. is coming under review by the u.n. 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 we get leaks published documents implicating the bush administration in torture chandra pagara from the american civil liberties

union suggests scrutiny of the u.s. apache 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 doctrines 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 in 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. and a brief look at some other stories from around the world now 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 aero caribbean airliner was on route from santiago de cuba to the capital have and the flight was the last to leave the region had a tropical storm tolerance. new flooding in central viet nam this 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 latest area to be pounded by 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. watching r.t. live from moscow up next its artie's close up series as we continue to explore the many diverse parts of russia. and this week we travel to the tomsk region which lies in western siberia the city of toms because art of salvage title of russia's major i.t. hub and one of the country's fast is developing innovation based centers tests are silly has been finding out what makes tomsk tick. while we are here in tongs in south western 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 done diversify 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 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 lined the streets and there contrast 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 technique 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 underground we sampled our 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 model is if not me then who i was looking for different ways i could invest and i found something that i thought was best investing innovations 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 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 super all on twenty eight counts eighteen laser tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia this was so one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great 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. 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 of very. chekov son favorable comments earned 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. where return to our top story of georgia's interior ministry has confirmed thirteen people including four russians were detained last month accused of spying for moscow the announcement follows a week of silence after to believe his initial statement that it had uncovered

aspiring i'll get our cross live to our correspondent isn't working for us so reader what exactly does the georgian ministries officials have to say. because georgia has allegedly a plan to russia. and then allegedly supplied the information to the ministry of interior about all georgians citizens who used to work or who do work for russia's intelligence who spy on georgia now like you said there are thirteen people total for the russian nationals the scope of their profession is really wide but most of them seem to be georgian military officers there are some business. members but most of them like i said most of them seem to be air force officers so why did interesting situation they're

all so ga ga's the ministry of interior have said that they continue to work on the case that there's a lot more people who were allegedly there but some of them are working with the investigation. did not specify what kind of information they base their wrists on all of these people were already charged and they will have to undergo two months of preliminary prison confinement before they will stand before a court which will give the final sentence until then however we still have to wait and see if george's minister of interior will present any specific evidence on the case because none of that has been done in fact this is a peculiar very peculiar incidence because allegedly these people were arrested in the middle books but none of that was known until about a week ago and even then the news broke into why why certain media sources and when the news broke of the ministry of interior or any of. your foreign affairs.

they did not say anything they kept a lot of them claimed they had no information and of course the only thing. i apologize for the poor sound quality is there but if you can hear me what is the reaction from russia. well russian russia is. at the. georgian authorities now and they are it looks like. going out of their way to. the wrong way because consistently each day it happens to be. a professional holiday for those working in that ministry in the foreign

intelligence. and that is the reason why minister of internal affairs and waited for the entire week before is not really specifying any details but of course this is not the first time. russia. for years ago in two thousand and six or. of course they. were not so good afterwards. they georgian war which russia of course supported south the states and afterwards the diplomatic relations between moscow and the sea were broken and looks like georgian authorities continue to try and get on the russians nerves for lack of a better word and yet another scandal with really absolutely no proof they have not presented any evidence until until very right now so we have to go over so we so

we have to wait and see where moscow is believed to go from here all right arena thanks very much indeed for the some data from a very windy georgian capital tbilisi or english go there. and every sunday here in our team business news is next with charlotte. and welcome to the business program here on our tail with michelle i was folly the skies are open once again across wall sky russian pilots no longer need to seek permission to fly in the city but wall says the regulations for lightweight aircraft been canceled some obstacles were main unseen i haven't heard of a plane. the skies over russia open 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 it had been given permission authority is now required pilots to notify them of their flight plans small of nation existence is

far from florida 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 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 in meeting 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 requires commercial and political will to develop the segment legislation might ease the way through but it wouldn't change dramatically if so 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 rather than an everyday reality with the russians vast territory so it's crucial to develop air transportation levels. the gomen is starting small but the potential benefits are huge. you need to do a business are cheap. the u.s. dollar has dropped for the second month against the euro and the yen as a federal reserve announces fresh stimulus to boost the economy is in line with critics expectations they also claim the fed's initiative to pump six hundred billion dollars into the u.s. will spark a fresh flood of capsule inflows into emerging markets and lead to inflation. 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 rebinding in october according to american statistics true 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 beggar thy 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. so i'm not see how the market with the four million it's another green day for asian films to hire on friday following the games a little straight want to relate from the raw meat on the metal mining was up five point three percent in fact again to consistent and take it over a new stock adjusted tipping into the red as investors look to cash in on recent strong gains there was a cautious the head of u.s. jobs basically out today meeting with again is off world bank of scotland and smith and next the shares are up around four sent. the news in briefly in our russian pool so miles don't. feel too long to send in london of to raising nine hundred twelve million dollars in the city's biggest since july stop which is in russian invest in facebook consular level point three million dollars in london trading today.