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will cost the smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell into iran over four hundred living conditions in northern iraq force locals to risk their freedom and spy smuggling to neighboring iran is bad policy follows the trade. also use a close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which has now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in russia. and business the toll of trucks and oil jumps off of the federal reserve announces its fresh stimulus to both of us economy more in twenty minutes. news live from moscow. russia says the suspects arrested in georgia have nothing

to do with the national secret service it comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month the accused of spying for moscow. reports from tbilisi. they basically gathered a holes for a journalist to announce that they have arrested thirteen people four of them are russian nationals the rest 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 the ministry of interior has decided to keep mum about the details probably trying to maybe make it sound little bit more important than it actually is in fact most georgian officials have not said anything on the matter claiming of the fact that this case is top secret so these are the details there are the names are known and what will transpire afterwards is yet to be seen the accused will be 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 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 on that 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 tense of course we have to remind our viewers that this is not the first time that aspires scandal broke out between georgia and russia back in two thousand and six four russian officers were detained and also accused of spying for russia as preposterous. actually sounds they were a late release later on but that actually led to the downfall in relationship between police and moscow and that relationship has been going downhill there was also the south the city of georgian war of two thousand and eight in which russia of course the port itself the city and afterwards diplomatic ties between moscow and police were broken 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 are 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. reporting well political analyst babbage thinks the georgian president may be trying to provoke an angry response from russia that could 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 attack. here for the second time because that will be a political suicide and he cannot afford to political pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so bad it just created 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 teaser please do something so we've seen it we've seen all of these p.r. stunts in the last few months born out of the mourning meant for the second world war arrested in a turkish capital for fourteen years like this now thirteen people arrested in all

beaks by case or grizzly he expects a rush at some more moment to patients and to do something dramatic increase military presence in other parts yourself to say here you know a little something that would make russia will quote an aggressor. it's good of you to join us today you are with are coming your way later this hour find out who people are receiving a multi-million dollar contract to supply the american. and profit motive from the deal. this was a one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom is the abundance of great miles universities lined the main street here in the city center and one that was six people is pursuing some place to discover. venture capitalists and scientists into the siberian town. if you do that with. just a few minutes. lawyers in the u.k. are seeking a public inquiry into allegations by

a group of iraqi civilians that they say suffered abuse by british soldiers over one hundred forty iraqis claimed they were subjected to torture and inhumane degrading treatment the abuse allegedly took place in british controlled detention centers in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and four the u.k. ministry of defense says it's investigating claims and there's no need for a public inquiry such probe already being launched for two similar cases involving the alleged torture and murder of civilians by british soldiers phil shiner 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 bar. so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get them a kid. if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the

harshing we have video. the training video on the website these are clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to suggest. it is a few bad apples that's the interrogation policy 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. poverty and lack of opportunities in iraq forces many to make a living illegally often putting their lives at risk many survived by smuggling alcohol into iran where drinking is officially banned r.t. follows the booze trail in our special report. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a brain 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 fuck you here teachers you ski 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 a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred although the profits appear amends 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 and desperate. i do this because i'm a literate i don't know how to do anything 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 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 arrests or fights 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 shacks they serve a small shelters for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of horse dung then man it is this isn't a lion there's no food or drink it's given the cold in the wet now and it will leave you down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police. in their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived they mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers.

on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers. and then take off towards the border. on the iranian side is uncertain. the same dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it. on the iran iraq border.

you can go. to. for the first time ever the u.s. is coming under review by the un human rights council washington may be less than comfortable as its rights record at home and abroad undergoes examination and discussion this comes just two weeks after the online whistleblower wiki leaks published documents implicating the bush administration in torture cianjur a button i thought from the american civil liberties union suggests that scrutiny of the us is patchy record will eventually make washington move on to the human rights charter. 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 and the u.s. 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 and those who ordered torture. the pentagon has awarded fuel contracts worth over three hundred million dollars to supply its money basing could get stunned to a corporation that sunda investigation by the u.s. congress the company called me not wanting to disclose its ownership but the speculation the family of the ousted a kid of his president might be involved the money. used by the u.s. to sustain its military operations in afghanistan the contract was awarded to the controversial company despite the requests of the country's president but also. to stop using contractors and resort to russian could against joint supplies instead

ivan eland from the director of central liberty the independent institute told pti it's possible the u.s. turned a blind eye to corrupt deals to keep its air base in the country. u.s. has in the past cut deals for bases and lucrative contracts go to the country involved the cia could be involved it could be there could be a lot of things going on here the congressional investigation is not a panel of the report is not going to say there's any wrongdoing but this is a very suspicious contract. because it was single source there was no competition and the companies beat out more established fuel providers so there's a lot of mystery around this so i think anything is possible in this case and it could be a payoff for the u.s. to use the base and of course that was when the old regime was in power certainly

this doesn't these types of. contracts whether they're actually illegal is one thing and whether they're corrupt is another thing and i think what we're saying is corruption but i think in the united states the executive branch might have. you know the legal authority to do something like this that they think it's in the u.s. security interest to do what they have to do to keep this vital base and i think. you know when you have a war going on the rules bend or new rules are made or whatever to do these things and i think this is a very this is clearly a vital base and this i think is part of the compensation package for kurdistan one way or the other the russians in the u.s. have been competing for influence in this country they have bases not too far from each other and so i think certainly the u.s. is playing planting other flags in the central asian and caucasus region in around the russian perimeter and so i don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that this base serves two purposes this is certainly

a second purpose of the bases to just one more area where the u.s. is trying to seek influence in the near abroad of russia. well the future. is in the hands of congress which itself is about to face change following the recent u.s. midterm elections and as our cross talk show suggests the results of left everyone on capitol hill and the last to know where to begin the full discussion is coming up later but here's a preview. so even tea party is going to have to compromise but they haven't got a clue about their positions because they will not be able to stop spending on social security and medicare those are desperately necessary to stop poverty in the state about defense but what about defense and i exactly right and they will not be able to and they refuse they refuse to say that the fence spending can be cut even though secretary gates says it can be so they have no clue as to how to really stop government spending ok boeing let me ask you this does anybody have

a clue or is anybody going does anybody have a clue let's be honest neither. a great job or oh no i've come already has a good outline but nobody has a viable plan. well you always see we're coming to you live from the russian capital and next to our close up series as we continue to explore the many diverse parts of russia. this week we travel to the tomsk region the city of tomsk one of the oldest towns in western siberia which was officially open to foreigners only in one nine hundred ninety has become one of russia's major i-t. hub san fastest developing innovation based centers. has been finding out what makes toms 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 taylor but over the years this region has also diversified their industries and they have become known as a town of science and an important economic center here in siberia and it's also a center for nuclear research and production however today investment is flowing into new for lots of the new and growing industries and that includes technological innovation scientific research and development as well as start up companies well 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

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 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 is if not me then who are the few different ways i could invest and i found something was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many

businesses. but julian invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential but too 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 carries eighteen later tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia this was a one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great minds universities live the main street here in the city center and one and i was six people is pursuing some form of education. we were told that in this town it's cool to be an intellectual well one intellectual locals aren't cool with this russian playwright and chekov who once wrote a sister saying tomsk is a very dull town to judge from the drunkards whose acquaintances i have made and

from the intellectual people who have come to the hotel to pay their respects to me the inhabitants are very. check of sun favorable comments earned him this marking statue and amusing reminder that the people of toms don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual. guesser cilia r.t. reporting from the tomsk region. and in just a few moments here is here with the latest business update. great for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello

time to get the latest from the world of business china's central bank says the latest forests of money printing from the e.u. are in danger the global economy it says the thought stimulus hot highlights the need to reform the international monetary architecture china says special drawing rights developed by the international monetary fund's could be used as a global reserve currency but it's something a merchant economists have been proposing via the g. twenty ever since the global crisis erupted more than two years ago china's central bank says that as do yours what is set to speculative bubble created by the u.s. the quiddity injections. now the u.s. dollar has dropped after the federal reserve announced its fresh move to boost the economy the fat stimulus has led to criticism that it will boost 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 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 retail sales have been remarkably strong over the course of time therefore it's quite bizarre because what we're risking is 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. and look at the markets now another green day for asian stocks down high on friday pulling the gains on wall street commodity related shares were on the rise sumitomo meshal mining was up five point three percent and in five games two point four percent in tokyo. and european stock markets a high at day off the markets ravage in a reaction to another round of quantitative easing find the u.s. treasuries to seizing the janus fargo bank of scotland and the nation matthew shares up wrong to send. the news in briefs nala russian for

toenail dot our usage forty one percent in london after raising nine hundred two. well of million dollars in the city's biggest i.p.o. since july a stock which is a russian investor in facebook climbed from eleven point three to thirty nine dollars in london trading today at that price bailed out are here as the best first a performance among london stocks for at least two years. and the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots knol longer need to seek permission to fly in the city but while certain regulations for a lightweight aircraft have been canceled some obstacles remain as native a veteran explains. the skies over russia open to small a b. in as of this week light aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to sit permission for their route twenty four hours ahead rather than giving permission authority is now required pilots to notify them of their flight plans small of asian existence is far from floor showing and while the new rules are

welcome once you allow doesn't make a summer as the saying goes on an international regulations regional regulations are still an obstacle to open skies it's a rather small but important development for russia's air industry well it's a little small aviation can become a good base for pilot training because now we face a serious deficit of pilots small aviation can also keep alive the whole range of regional airports all over russia in the future it may even form the basis of commercial transportation. unlike europe in united states flights over big cities are banned and regional flights have to navigate a mountain of people who are requires commercial and political will to develop the segment legislation might ease their 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 or. in russia even in small planes is still a law rather than an everyday reality with the rush is vast too too easy to crucial to develop air transportation at all levels we're going to starting small but the potential benefits are huge. zinaida to business r.t. . while 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 forming their economists false to russia slips places to stand between and it's trying to one hundred twenty said in a poll of more than one hundred eight countries singapore and hope greater ties. that's all we have time for i don't know but through a long and tall website to get more news that started dot com slash business.