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in the czech republic he's available in every hotel and some of the central hotel provisions most of the stuff i said to him a taste in bosnia and herzegovina available in. the children of each. hotel. and you look tons. in serbia is available in hyatt regency. russia says thirteen people arrested in georgia had never spied from moscow and pose to police these allegations of political farce and a provocation. responsive laws will cost the smuggler one hundred five

dollars in iraqi people sell it to iran for over four hundred police living conditions in northern iraq for smokers to risk their freedom and lives by smuggling al call to neighboring iran where losers bad party follows the dangerous trade route. also artie's close-up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia that's now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in russia. nine pm in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story russia says the alleged spies arrested in georgia have nothing to do with a national secret service this comes as georgia's interior ministry confirms that thirteen people were detained last month accused of being undercover agents for moscow artie's arena has more from tbilisi. this story has all the makings of

a spy movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first thirteen people four of them russian nationals arrested by georgian ministry of interior affairs for allegedly spying for russia now and no evidence has been presented at least publicly they do say that apparently they have concrete evidence and that evidence has been gathered by none other than the ball which also allegedly has been implanted into russia's directorate of military intelligence by georgians this statement was made a week after every foreign media source broke the story the reaction has been coming from russia's ministry of foreign affairs almost immediately they have called it a provocation in part and they have said that this is just another attempt on tbilisi's be have to exist or bait the already existing tensions between moscow and tbilisi reaction has also been coming from the russian state duma particularly from

the the head of the foreign affairs committee conception to such a. georgian president mikheil saakashvili as at least two passions one is to aggravate relations with russia as much as possible and present russia as an enemy of georgia the second is to destroy as many people on the way i mean the tragedy in some of the city or jail as many people as possible. people have been arrested who have nothing to do with the special services do nothing against georgia but who once again will be declared enemies of the georgian people this is happening first of all only eve of a very important summit of a lisbon summit where russia and nato are supposed to come together and discuss some very important issues and of course georgia has been trying to get into nato for the last several years also they have to remember that november is almost traditionally a month for the georgian opposition to start yet another round of attempts to over

. throw the georgian government in particular president saakashvili and they did already say that they did plan some massive manifestations later this month now there was this very similar spy scandal back in two thousand and six when the former russian officers were arrested for spying for russia they were released afterwards but relations between moscow and police went down words from there of course there was also this georgian south sitting war of two thousand and eight in which moscow supported south the city and afterwards diplomatic relations between russia and georgia world all together dissolved and the communication has come basically to nothing a bunch throwing verbal punches at each other and at this point it seems like president really does not want to stop continuing this a war of words and sometimes questionable actions. political analyst dimitri babich thinks the georgian president may be trying to provoke an anger response from

russia that could turn the political balance in his favor. you'll put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot at tax office sit and applies there for the second because that would be a political suicide and he cannot afford to political pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so bad he 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 he's at these do something so we see them oh we've seen all of these p.r. stunts in the last few months born out of the mourning meant for the second of all the war a rest in a turkish captain for fourteen years where god went on to us now thirteen people arrested in all beaks spy case or grizzly he expects a russia at some moment to all spacious and to do something dramatic increase military presence in uprising will solve to say you know to do something that would

make russia look like an aggressive. stay with us here on our team coming your way later this hour. this is one of the main advantages of having a base that when tom says the abundance of great miles universities lined the main street here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing something a better place to discover what else we were venture capitalists and scientists to the siberian tiger tops with our teams close the team if you may. first though more than two hundred iraqis claim that they were subjected to systemic torture abuses and inhumane treatment by british soldiers the abuse allegedly happened in british controlled detention centers in iraq between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight lawyers in the u.k. are seeking a public inquiry into these allegations that have submitted video evidence to support their claims such probes have already been launched for two similar cases involving the alleged torture and murder of civilians by british soldiers the u.k. ministry of defense says it's investigating the claims but as journalist chris ames

believes the british military service is afraid of a public inquiry. the claims are that soldiers used a range of techniques to humiliate and terrify iraqi detainees into giving information to them there's allegations of sexual abuse sexual humiliation stress positions prevail and starvation a number of techniques in theory banned by britain have been put under the geneva convention but the allegation isn't just that soldiers use these techniques but that they were systemic the rules around it and they were part of a deliberate policy that was that was widespread rather than just being the actions of a few bad apples at the ministry of defense he is certainly very much opposed and very much afraid of a public inquiry the secretary of state for defense liam fox has said that he has an open mind if things come out that might actually justify a wide range of you that they will allow that but i think the ministry of defense the civil servants the soldiers they always fight tooth and nail against any public

inquiry and they've been allegations that they withheld information from from court proceedings previously they really don't want another inquiry like this. the war has left many iraqis destitute with some estimates suggesting that a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line that forces many to make a living illegally smuggling alcohol into iran where drinking is officially bad 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 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 absolute fucking 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 one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred while though 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 he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate elizabeth i do this because i'm a literate i don't know how to do and you know it was so this is the only job i can do out of the rain is brutal in its approach to keep alcohol out a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life by others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars and then charged the price of the bullets that were shot at them with a mind they stepped on oh yeah we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings i restore fights terrible much nothing we can do because we have who are overweight but only as the job dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side

of the small river that makes the border so it's a series of shanty towns full of tattered shacks they serve a small showcase for the some. as well as stables for the horses the police is filthy and stinks of horse stone then when it is the season when there is no food or drink it's given the cold in the went to leave and it's. on the other side sit hundreds of a rainy and border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents put all ruthless 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 muse back across the border and show everyone. the remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers that nine a phone call comes in scene that the route is clear and the smugglers quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border of what awaits

them on the iranian side is uncertain what is certain 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. the us stood before the un human rights council for the first time this friday at the forum the country faced harsh criticism for human rights violations ranging from racial discrimination at home to cases of torture and jails abroad discuss the issue we go live now to our. solar mets the executive director of the a.c.l.u. of arizona who is joins us from geneva switzerland thank you for joining us so u.s. immigration policies and racial discrimination were brought up at the council meeting today including the recently introduced arizona immigration law criticized as being racial profiling how justified is the criticism that the u.s. is facing. well of course i mean we think it's very much justified i think these countries raise legitimate concerns about the use of aggressive immigration

enforcement tactics both at the federal level and at the state level and that implications that has for our community and the fact that it has invited racial profiling it has impacted people many u.s. citizens of latino descent in a disproportionate manner and you are still a nation presented a report to the u.n. forum admitting discrimination against hispanics and african-americans and also so those immigration system is broken will the submission do you think change anything . well i think you know i think we're confident in the process and we're hoping that we actually now that the international arena is really spotlighting on american human rights violations that we do see serious reforms and i think there was a town hall meeting that was held after the actual your p.r. session where they. asked questions and civil society members asked questions of the administration and we will definitely be following up and we hope they will being gaging with both the civil society and take these recommendations seriously i mean i think they they mentioned s.b.

ten seventy in their report the everyone from the pope acknowledged that there is a humanitarian crisis on the border and i think that really now it's up to the to the united states to take this seriously and take these recommendations seriously all documents recently revealed by wiki leaks exposing us torture abroad likely to impact the u.n. review. well i think that they mentioned you know harold koh talked about these documents during the townhall meeting and during the session i mean they obviously disagree they feel that the people have been investigated we feel that high level officials should be held accountable to engage in torture the administration to its credit has said that they passed an executive order prohibiting torture but i think that they should definitely be held accountable we know that in reality torture is still happening we are we have people living in conditions and horrific conditions of confinement both in the united states and

abroad and i think those issues need to be addressed and they need to be addressed . taking into incorporation these these recommendations what do you think we should expect from the investigation do you think the overall result will be an improvement in the human rights situation or will the really change. he no i am i'm confident i'm hopeful that there will be some constructive role from this process this is the first time that the united states is engaging in this process obviously the you know the politics has played a part for years in the past and this administration has expressed an interest in participating in the process we're hopeful i mean we think that what was really positive about this review today is that they were concrete recommendations i mean you had countries asking when is the united states going to issue a moratorium on the dock penalty they had asking very specific questions when is the united states going to end programs like secure communities like two eighty seven g.

and so i think that there were very specific recommendations and there are recommendations that are going to report into the record so we are hopeful that that but again there we have to maintain the pressure of civil society members and that's one of the intentions of the so you will do all of sondre solar mats executive director of the american civil liberties union of arizona thanks for talking with us. great. noise find more news video and blog on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what's online right now the first cosmic draw in the world said to become a film set and not just for science fiction all the details that are dot com. little kids and grown ups alike flocking to a gamers paradise a spear in seeing the latest three d. video games in moscow that you can get a taste with a tour with our website r t dot com.

next darkie continues its close up series as we continue exploring the many diverse parts of the world's largest country. in. iraq this week we're visiting the tomsk region the city of toms 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. hubs and fastest developing innovation based centers tests are celia has been finding out what makes thompson tick. well we are here in toms in southwestern siberia now this is a very important region for oil exploration and production companies some of the major industries here are 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 relatively 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 their contrast and by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to toms 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 undergrad or 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 are different ways i could invest and i found something i 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 was so 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 insulin. the locals aren't cool with this russian playwright until an chaco who once wrote to his sister saying tomsk is a very dope town to judge from the drunkards whose acquaintance is i've made him from the intellectual people come to the town to see their respects to me. chuckle son favorable comments earned him this mocking statue and amusing reminder that the people of tom's don't take kindly to such remarks even from an

intellectual kisser cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide bomber struck a mosque in northwest pakistan killing sixty seven people leaving around eighty injured officials say the target may have been a member of pakistan's senate who had encouraged people to oppose the taliban the targeted person happened in an area where the taliban has recently gained ground in a separate attack three people were killed after hand grenades were thrown into another mosque near the city of peshawar. more than sixty people have been killed in the latest eruption of indonesians a volatile mount merapi this takes the death toll to more than 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 covered faces have been seeking a means of escape. earthquake stricken haiti is really need ghana's hurricane tomas

batters the caribbean country at least three people have died in a large refugee camp was destroyed as winds reached up to one hundred thirty five kilometers an hour there were fears that the storms will worsen a cholera epidemic while officials have urged people in tented homes to flee but but but they have nowhere to go the tent cities arose after january's caped quake destroyed the poll at the capital port au prince. you'll bokova joins us next with the business update stay with us here on r.t. . hungry for the feast we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in moscow she's available in hotels course them but i don't know. all toto keep a promise it is congress motel east west never told center nobody. bought.

radisson s.a.'s lobby and sky insulter historical hotels have been capturing the city so it's in the sky called small. as a good i've been told he struck for us to tropicana hotel. alone the very welcome to the business program here on r t with me here live back about china's central banks us the latest burst of money printing from the u.s. could endanger the global economy it's us the fat stimulus highlights the need to reform the international monetary architecture trying to size special drawing rights developed by the international monetary funds could be used as a global reserve currency that is something emerging economies have been proposing via the g twenty ever since the global crisis erupted moved into here as a go china central. as do forest would offset

a speculated bubble created by the hewitt's liquidity injections. stocks rally it after the fed's new round of stimulus the us dollar fell to its lowest level in years some analysts say the u.s. has cautiously aiming at inflation devaluation hunt hoping to export its problems to the world. increased quantitative easing by six hundred billion dollars to complete. i mean we're not in a situation where the total going to be comparable i could hundred fifty of them on hundred billion dollars by the end of next. 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 jobs 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 market distortions the dollar is being pushed through the floor and that's really the sort of a polling beggars i 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. russian investor in facebook and internet holding mail dot argues surged forty one percent in london after raising nine hundred twelve million dollars in the sitter's biggest i.p.o. since july the stocks climbed from eleven point three to thirty nine dollars in london trading today but prize mail dot are here as the best first day performance

among london stocks for at least two years. the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots no longer need to sick permission to fly in the city but while certain regulations for light weight aircraft have been canceled some obstacles remain as a major event of explains. the skies over russia into smaller the soon as of this week light aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to sit permission for their route twenty four hours it had been given permission authority is now required pilots to notify them of their flight plans small of nation existence is far from 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 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 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 require its commercial and political will to develop the segment legislation might ease their way through but it wouldn't change dramatically it's all market driven. and in our case. case off the aviation market development in russia it's about the mentality change flying around russia even in small planes is still a law rather than an everyday reality with the russians vast here too is it crucial to develop air transportation at all levels we're going to starting small but the potential benefits are huge. in a diminutive business r.t.

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