in indonesia she's available in hotels coming down the resort and spa. resort and spa boni. remote have been turning. the resort and spa on sunday a beach hotel the wisdom resort use of doing something so if you tell some of. the resort and spa the ritz hotel grounds many as you call it a hotel four seasons hotel the sultan hotel. russia says thirteen people arrested in georgia never being spied from moscow and told to police these allegations as a political farce and the provocation. this box of blood goes will cost the

smuggler hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell in tehran for over four hundred bleak living conditions in northern iraq and force locals to risk their lives by smuggling alcohol to neighboring iran. follows the dangerous trade route. also close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in all of russia. well life from the heart of moscow this is a very warm welcome to. 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 accused of spying for moscow. reports from tbilisi. thirteen people have been arrested and charged with espionage for russia four of those are russian citizens the rest are georgians and most of them seem to be officers in georgia's air force the arrest happened in october but none of none of this was known until of last week precisely last friday when the news was broken by the western media company afterwards the minister of interior affairs of georgia or any other georgian officials health kept silent on the matter refusing to comment on this latest spy scandal of course reaction is already coming from russia. georgian president mikheil saakashvili at least two passions one relations with russia as much as possible and present russia as an enemy of georgia the second is to destroy as many people are away i mean the tragedy in some of the city jail as many people as

possible. people have been arrested who have nothing to do special services nothing against georgia but who once again will be declared enemies of the georgian people the best such from russia's ministry of foreign affairs has been that of indignation they have said that president saakashvili and georgia in general is suffering from chronic spine mania for the last several years and that of course could be seen through several spy scandals that have been breaking out in the country one of those of course was in two thousand and six when the four russian officers were arrested on similar charges of spying for russia they were released later but of course diplomatic ties between russia and georgia were slightly damaged to say the least they have hit the bottom of a point in two thousand and eight after the georgia south the city of war broke out and russia supported the city after that diplomatic ties were severe and a lot of opposition members in georgia itself are saying that this occurrence

scandal has been timed to match exactly nasa administrations in the middle of november. artie is a really good reporting well political analyst dimitri thinks the georgian president may be trying to provoke an angry response from russia good good turn the political balance in his favor but if you put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot at taxol to sit and applies there for the second time because that would be political suicide and he cannot put two or three little pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so bad he just created the. international soul the only way for him is to organize all kinds of p.r. stunts to try to attract attention to the problem to shoulder or just the keys at these do something so we see them over have seen all these p.r. stunts in the last few months born out of the morning meant for the second of all the war a rest in a turkish captain for fourteen years like

a bomb done to us now thirteen people arrested in all beaks spy case obviously he expects russia at some moment to will spacious and to do something dramatic increase military presence in our posture will solve the satyr you know to do something that would make russia look like an aggressor. you are with r.t. it's good to have your company today and coming your way later this hour look at how in the u.s. stories planted in the media help to win public support for the american military operations abroad plus. businessman say one of the main advantages of having a base or when tom says the abundance of great minds universities lined the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education discover what else venture capitalists and scientists into the siberian town of chomsky with artie's close up that's coming your way in just a few minutes. lawyers in the u.k.

are seeking a public inquiry into allegations by a group of iraqi civilians that they suffered abuse by british soldiers over one hundred forty iraqis claimed they were subjected to torture and inhumane and degrading treatment 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 need for a public inquiry such probes already been launched for two such 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 in london says abuse is widespread and any inquiry has got to be public 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 the make you keep them like you do if they don't cooperate the way in which there was still be searched the harshing we have video. the training video of us on the bomb mission quite a website this is clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to me. is a few bad apples that's the interrogation also 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 unlawful poverty and a lack of opportunities in iraq forced many to make a living illegally often putting their lives at risk many survive 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 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 selections we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around absolute funky here teachers just to hear mr chavez whiskey black and white whiskey back here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear not. this box of luck it will cost a smuggler a hundred and five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred although 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 it is work for the poor uneducated and desperate that i do this because i'm a literate i don't know how to do anything else 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 of a stepped on oh yeah we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings arrests or fights it's terrible nothing we can do because we have who are oh it only is 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 than when it is this isn't a life there's no food or drink it's given the cold in the went now and we leave and it's. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents put all 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. came from the other side and took three of my mules back across the border and shot everyone. the iranians left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in saying that the route 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 what is certain though is tomorrow the same dangerous job away to those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian my own party on the iran iraq border. just ten minutes past the hour here in moscow and mind you can always find more news videos on blogs on our website that's dot com let's take a look now at some of the stories waiting for you on line first a cosmodrome in the world is set to become a film set and it's not just for science fiction find out the details on our

website dot com. grown ups are flocking to a game paradise experiencing the latest three d. games here in moscow you can get a taste with a tour of our website again. recently declassified evidence from the 1980's reveals how the us government was planting stories in the media to gain public support for past conflicts in central america. for reports on those standing behind the scenes crafting propaganda for the american public. 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 contrave 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 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 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 on than the guy you're about to meet right here you can better explain what is happening and just about everybody else otto reich is who 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 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. . meantime norman solomon american media critic and founder of the institute for public accuracy says propaganda and policy driven media coverage have become particularly rigorous in modern democratic societies like america. 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 lot of the coverage in media and the attention on capitol hill is policy driven out of the white house in the state department so journalists often columnists often members of congress take their cue explicitly or not even for what's even worth talking about from the state department certainly it's not only government it's in coalition tacit or otherwise with think tanks with pundits with others who have big money interests certainly with lobbyist planting stories mass media outlets themselves who have a proclivity to target certain regimes around the world say they're bad we're good we might have to confront them even militarily well it's good to have you with us today you are watching now let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour a suicide almost struck a mosque in northwest pakistan killing fifty people and leave ring around eighty

injured officials say the target may have been a member of pakistan's senate who had encouraged people to oppose the town about its all good prayer session took place in an area where the taliban has recently gained ground in a separate an attack several people were injured after three hundred eight were thrown into another mosque near the city of peshawar. more than sixty people have been killed in the latest eruption or in the news here is a volatile mountain where roughly it takes the death toll to over one hundred twenty since the volcano became active again last week after lying dormant for four years residents are being treated for burns and respiratory problems seventy five thousand people have been evacuated from central java while people with ash covered faces have been seeking any means of escape. quantas jet liner has been forced to ground shortly after takeoff due to engine trouble the australian a passenger plane with four hundred twelve on board did land safely in singapore this comes

a day after one of the company's a large airbus a three eighty s. lost an engine forcing it to make an emergency landing both planes were on route to australia. well up next it's 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 the city of tomsk one of the oldest towns in western siberia which was officially opened to for foreigners only in one nine hundred ninety has become one of russia's major i.t. hubs and fastest developing innovation based centers test australia has been finding out what makes tomsk tick. well we are here in tongs in southwestern siberia no this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies 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 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 opened 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 toms the home of siberia's first university. corian 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 undergrad when we sent 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 are the few different ways i could invest and i found some thought was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses but doing and invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential but dylan has another project

up his sleeve a new technology that may be able to advance the battle against cancer. in two thousand days we started testing the drug silver all on twenty eight carriers eighteen laser tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia business must say one of the main advantages of having a baby so when tom says the abundance of great minds universities line 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 don't check out who once wrote sr 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. chunk of sun favorable comments earned him this mocking

statue and amusing reminder that the people of toms don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual. yes our cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region and in just a few moments your ears here with the business news. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. would be soon which brightened moon of the sun from silence to the christian.

stance on t.v. don't come. in moscow she's available in hotels coursed i'm going to know a little is a military term keep a promise it is going to search out east west never tell this goes into. the water . rises and they say yes libyan sky insulter historical hotels have been capturing the city so it's in the sky called small. mid-air as a good up until somebody struck arrested tropicana heard joe. blow tom's hole look at what's going on in the world of business china's central bank says the latest forest of money printing from the u.s. could endanger of the global economy it's the facts to melissa highlights the need to reform the international monetary architecture china says special drawing rights

developed by the international monetary fund could be used as a quote the reserve currency that is something or emerging economies have been proposing via the g twenty ever since the global crisis erupted more than twenty years ago john the central bank head says that as the r.'s offset a speculative bubble created by the u.s. liquidity injections. and stocks rallied up to the fed's new round of stimulus but the u.s. dollar fell to its lowest level in years some analysts say the u.s.'s cautiously aiming at inflation devaluation and hoping to exporters problems to the world. 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 as an economic market distortions the dollar is being pushed through the floor and that's really the sort of a polling beggar zeinab or 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. get them both you know stocks are down despite

data showing the u.s. economy added jobs an extra bus for the first time in five months of private sector hiring picked up there on the pitch too small to signal a turnaround in a second space market. european stock markets a high a day off to markets read it in reaction to another round of quantitative easing by the u.s. federal. beatings again assaut roll by of course don't miss enough he with shares up around four percent. ok some news in greece now the russian invest in facebook an internet holding mail dot ru says forty one percent in london also raising one hundred. twelve million dollars in the city's biggest i.p.o. since july the stock piles from eleven point three to thirty nine dollars in london trading today at that price male dogs are your eyes the best thursday foremost among the stocks or at least to hear it's. on 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 craft have been counseled some obstacles remain as in a demented explains. the skies over russia open to smell 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 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 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 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 may even form the basis of commercial transportation. unlike europe and 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 around russia even in small planes is still a locked. rather than an everyday reality with the rush is vast here too is it's crucial to develop air transportation at all levels we're going to starting small but the potential benefits are huge. in any media business our cheek touch electronics giant.