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claims british abuse in iraq explodes lawyers for pushing for a full public inquiry for the alleged torture and murder 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 smear some iraqis smuggling alcohol into a neighboring iran is the only way to make a living follows the poor man's trade route. and declassified documents show the u.s. media has beat on the white house payroll for decades gone during public support for america's war. party is coming to live a from moscow welcome to the program georgian opposition leaders say the latest spy

scandal involving four russians is being used by tbilisi to score political points it comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained at last month the accused of spying for moscow. nicholas co is in the georgian capital. they basically gathered a holes or a journalist to announce that they have arrested thirteen people four of them are russian nationals like you said the rest of them are georgians most of them are georgian air force officers there are also some members of n.g.o.s and businessmen but basically georgian minister of interior have said that they have uncovered this enormous aspiring they said that there are a lot more people than just these thirteen that were charged with espionage for russia but the others are coordinating with the ministry of the interior allegedly according again to the ministry they have implanted a mole into russia's directorate of military intelligence who has in turn supplied information on the all of these people accused of espionage now of course the news

broke about this a week ago by the ministry of interior has decided to keep mum about the details the accused will be kept in two months of preliminary confinement and then they will stand before a court to hear their sentence russia is outraged you could say because there are some who are saying that this is happening right only of of the russian nato summit so of course georgia has been trying to get into nato for the longest time and of course they're trying to play and most likely others are saying that this is a provocation and a farce designed to exacerbate tensions between russia and georgia in the relationship that is already a way to ten pts. let's wait and see how convincing this political force will be we'll wait for the facts before attempting to analyze with the media. this is not the first time that a spy is scandal broke out between georgia and russia back in two thousand and six

for russian officers were detained and also accused of spying for russia as preposterous as it actually sounds they were later released later on but that actually led to the dallas fall in relationship between police and mosco and that relationship has been going downhill there was also the south the city in georgian war off two thousand and eight in which russia of course the ported south the city here and afterwards diplomatic ties between moscow and by the sea were broken so a lot of people a lot of political analysts and experts see the situation as georgia basically trying. to game some attention to to attract attention to itself also georgia's opposition leaders are saying that this also could be a way to try and put pressure on them because at the in the middle of the there were some opposition rallies scheduled to be held and of course that may be a way that georgian government is trying to tell the georgian opposition be quiet

or else you will also be accused of espionage because this actually happens to be a rather frequent case in georgia as of late. that while the political analysts the retreat bob which georgian president may be trying to provoke an angry response from russia i would turn the political balance in his favor. if you put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot at tax office it end up closer for the second time because that will be a political suicide and he cannot hold political pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so bad to discredit internationally so the only way for him is to organize all kinds of p.r. stunts to try to attract attention to the problem to shoulder georgians that he's a please doing something so we've seen over have seen all these p.r. stunts in the last few months born of the mourning meant for the second of all the

war arrestin a turkish captain for fourteen years like along done this now thirteen people arrested in obese spy case obviously he expects russia at some moment to spacious and to do something dramatic increase military presence in up high as yourself a satyr you know to do something that would make russia will quote an aggressor. well you always good to have your company today and there are plenty more ahead for you this hour including. business owners say one of the main advantages of having a base so when tom says the abundance of great minds universities lined the main street here in the city center and one. is pursuing some form of education parties it's one of russia's fastest developing region innovative industries are ballooning . 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 if the allegations include torture and sensory deprivation forced nakedness and possible stress because of 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's no public money 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 the abuse is widespread and any inquiry has to be. there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bar inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get them a kid keep them like it if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be

searched the harshing we have video. the training video it's on the website is a 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 that we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly unlawful. 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 artie's a sebastian mayor made 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 way. 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 you 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 now. this box of what it will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred all of 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 and desperate. i do this because i'm a literate. so this is the only job i can do. 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 with a mind of a step down. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings i 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 checks serve a small showcase for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down there and man it is the season and there's no food or drink it's good in the cold in the wet now and it will lead you down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police some towers. put all 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. of the border and shot everyone. the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers. is clear. quickly finished packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain what is certain is tomorrow the same dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border. you can always find more news videos blogs on our website. let's take a look now at what's waiting for you online right now. seem to be forming into a trap. but it's not. too carried away when the fun games are getting across russia. countries

interactive games. states efforts to promote its democratic interests 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 the need for america's wars. for 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 called 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 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 long story you know which they talked about how u.s. intelligence officials had. i 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 i don't write 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 on 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 every since 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 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 our t. washington d.c. norman solomon american media critic and founder of the institute for public accuracy so those political lobbying by a powerful government in a democratic society is much more dangerous than into thomas herrion 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 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 you always have a brief look at some of the international news making headlines this hour and a. northwest pakistan has killed at least fifty people and wounded eighty officials say if you may have targeted in taliban activist the blast occurred in a tribal region where islam was to militants have been active hundreds of

worshippers had gathered at the sunni mosque for friday print the most attended session of the week several mosques sunshines have been attacks throughout the country in recent weeks. you flooding in central vietnam has killed sixteen 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 the new wave will 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. right well up next it's all t's close up series as we continue to explore the many diverse parts of russia. this week we travel to the tomsk region where which lies in the western siberia the

city of toms because the talk live russia has major i-t. hub one of the country's fosters developing innovation based centers testosterone has been finding out what makes take 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 tell 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 wind the streets and there contrast it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to talks the home of siberia's first university. korean is a graduate of the thomas college 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. at the top of her real life and i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in undergrad or and we sampled our first models in a small garage for data but then we want to few contests and received grants about this which allowed me to launch a company. but in the world of business a great idea and nice money to get off the ground. and that's where venture capitalists like nikolai but do come in. to your small business model is if not me

then who also has different ways i could invest with and i found something thought was best to invest in innovation it's creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses but to then invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential. first the main goal was to filter out by our system 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 hours a team laser tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia business per se 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 whatever 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 to his sister saying tomsk is a very dull town to judge from the drunkards whose acquaintance is i've made him from the intellectual peak. respects to me the inhabitants of very. chekhov's unfavorable comments earned him this marking statue and amusing reminder that the people of tom don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual

guesser cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region time off of the business news with. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program here on our team the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots no longer need to seek permission to fly in the city but while certain regulations for lightweight a crop have been counseled some obstacles remain as an aid to madrid reports. 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 seek 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 the nation existence is far from floor showing and while the new rules are welcome once more law 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 the 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 and 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 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 them and every day reality with the russians vast territory to develop here transportation levels to go in is starting small and the potential benefits are huge. in a community where business are cheap. the u.s. dollar has dropped for the second month against the here and the yen the federal reserve and now says fresh stimulus to boost the economy this 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 capital 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 rebounding 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. but take a quick look at the markets another green day for asian stocks they were high on friday following the gains and will trade commodity relationship on the rise soon to a measure mining was up five point three percent and in past gains two point four percent to ten pm. european stocks had just tipping into the red a group that has moved to cash in on greece's strong gains they also questions ahead of us jobs data leading to gain a dog row buying books columns and nice enough to use with shows off the scent. some news in brief now the russian fortune and mail joint are used for g one just said. in london after raising nine hundred twelve million dollars in the stages biggest i.p.o. since july the stock which is a russian investor in facebook one from eleven point three just such a nine dollars if in london trading today at that price male doctor you are is the

best first day performance among london stocks for at least two to three years. and it's getting harder to do business in russia compared with other countries so says the international financial corp it sees positive changes in russia but says other countries are reforming their economies faster russia slipped seven places to stand between were of y. and uganda it's ranked one hundred twenty third in a poll of more than eighty one hundred eighty countries in the poor and one quarter are related greater tides. that's your business update for now join me next hour for more business news. in the euro.