he's available in hotels. going to. keep a promise it is called this photo twist never told. a story. in the city. schools malls. as a good up until he strove for mr to become the hutto. russia says thirteen people arrested in georgia had never spied for moscow and calls to police these allegations are political parties and a provocation. responsively will cost the smuggler one

hundred dollars in iraqi people so it's a wrong four hundred. living conditions in northern iraq force locals to risk their lives by smuggling alcohol to neighboring iran where blues is a bad party follows the dangerous trade route. also artie's close up series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation in russia. ten 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 has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accused of being undercover agents for moscow are. reports from from tbilisi. this story has all the makings of a spy

a movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first thirteen people four of them russian nationals arrested by the georgian ministry of interior fares 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 a mall which also allegedly has been implanted into russia's directorate of military intelligence by georgians this statement was made a week after f. foreign media source broke the story 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 beat the already existing tensions between moscow and tbilisi reaction has also been coming from russian state duma particularly from the

head of the foreign affairs committee conception to such a. georgian president mikheil saakashvili as 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 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

overthrow 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 former russian officers were arrested for spying for russia they were released afterwards but relations between moscow and police when downwards from there of course there was also this georgian south sitting war of two thousand and eight in which most go supported the city and afterwards diplomatic relations between russia and georgia world all together dissolved and the communication has come basically to nothing a bunch there were a 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 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 at tax office it 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 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 georgians that he's at these doing something so we see them oh we've seen all of these p.r. stunts in the last few months born out of the morning meant for the second world war arrest in a turkish captain for fourteen years like a bomb done to us now thirteen people arrested you know beat spy case or grizzly he expects russia at some moment to spacious and to do something dramatic increase military presence in a pious yourself to say here you know to do something that would make russia will

quote an aggressive. stay with us here on our team coming your way later this hour we'll look at how when the u.s. story is funded media helped to win public support for the american military operations abroad plus. businessmen say one of the main advantages of having a base over in talks is the abundance of great minds universities lined the main streets here in the city center and one of the six people is pursuing some form of education discover what else lore is a venture capitalist and scientists into the siberian town of toms with artie's closeup team and a few minutes. first though 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 banned r.t. follows the blues trail in our special report. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they are taking into

a room although alcohol is forbidden in islam a group public much of tehran's bourgeoisie can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smugglers storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around we have absolute funky here teachers here mr chavez risky black and white. 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 market this box of luck you know it will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred although the profits appear immense to many who actually take the dangerous journey are paid a mere fifty dollars a night he says not work for those looking to make a fortune he does work for the poor uneducated and desperate elizabeth i do this because i'm illiterate i don't know how to do anything you know 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're. not 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 shares they serve a small shelters for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down. this isn't a lie and there's no food or drink it's during the cold in the way. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy and border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents but all in

their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived 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 shut 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 is tomorrow the same dangerous job awaits those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer party on the iran iraq border. you can always find more news videos and blogs on our website r.t. dot com here's a look at what's online right now. the first cosmic drone in the world set to become a film set and not just for science fiction you find all the details at r.t. dot com. kids and grownups flocking to

a gamers paradise are experiencing the latest three d. video games in moscow you can get a taste on a tour with our team dot com. the u.s. stood before the u.n. human rights council for the first time this friday at the forum the country faced criticism for human rights violations ranging from racial discrimination at home to cases of torture jails abroad alessandro solaire met some of the civil american civil liberties union told r.t. that the forum will lead to justice we feel that high level officials should be held accountable to engage in torture at 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're we have people living in conditions and horrific conditions of confinement both in the united states and abroad and i think they those those issues need to be addressed 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 death penalty they had asking very specific questions these countries raised legitimate concerns about the use of aggressive immigration enforcement tactics both at the federal level and at the state level and that implications that it has for our community and the fact that it has invited racial profiling and has impacted people many u.s. citizens of latino descent in a disproportionate manner. staying with the u.s. recently declassified evidence from the one nine hundred eighty s. reveals how the u.s. government was planting stories in the media to gain public support for past conflicts in central america artie's kale and ford reports on those standing behind

the scenes crafting propaganda for the us 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 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 cold warriors and former head of the office of public diplomacy for latin

america has the reputation of a tough operator that's a lot you are telling a lie employing special psychological operations experts to craft the 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. found out that saddam hussein had purchased lumen tubes which they believed could only be used for nuclear weapons what they did not see of course was that that was a minority view within the intelligence community the drums of war beat faster the u.s. invaded in march two thousand and three in two thousand and nine immediately after the president of honduras was overthrown in a military coup ironic resurfaced in the mainstream media quoted by columnists interviewed by pundits. well what i want to know about stuff like this there's nobody else better to call than the guy you're about to meet right here you could better explain what is happening and verbs 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 like a ghost and you see him. personally writing. 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 propaganda and policy driven media coverage have become particularly regular rigorous in modern democracy modern democratic societies like the us. 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 a 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 and 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. taking 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 eight injured officials say the target may have been a member of pakistan's senate to encourage people to oppose the taliban the targeted procession happened in the area where the taliban has recently gained ground in a separate attack three were killed after a hand after hand grenades were thrown into another mosque here the city of peshawar that's. more than sixty people have been killed in the latest eruption of indonesia's volatile mount merapi this brings the death toll to more than one hundred twenty since the volcano became active again last week after lying dormant for about 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. the. earthquake stricken haiti is reeling again as hurricane

tomas batters the caribbean country at least three people have died and a large refugee camp was destroyed as winds reached up to one hundred thirty five kilometers per hour there were fears the storms will worsen a cholera epidemic while officials have urged people intented homes to flee but they have nowhere to go to tent cities arose after january's quake destroyed the capital of port au prince up next artie's close-up series as we continue to explore the many diverse parts of russia. union. and its time around we're travelling to 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 pets are cilia has been finding out what makes thompson tick. 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 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 subject 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 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 line the streets and there contrast it by the youthful enthusiasm of students who flock to toms the home of siberia's first

university. 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 company with twenty six branches all over the country because. i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in underground when we first models in a small garage then we want to few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch a 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 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 to invest it 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 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 acquaintances i have made and from the intellectual people come to the hotel to pay their respects to me the

inhabitants of very. chekhov's unfavorable comments earned him this marking statue and amusing reminder that the people of tom's don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual guesser cilia r.t. reporting from the tomsk region. you know you're bokova joins us next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . loaned a very welcome to the business program here on r t with me here live back about china's central bank says the latest burst of money printing from the u.s. could endanger the global economy as the fat stimulus highlights the need to reform the international monetary architecture china says a 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 and this is the global crisis erupted more than two hears ago

china's central bank's head says that as do you horace would offset a speculated bubble created by the u.s. liquidity injections. stocks rally it after the fed's new round of stimulus the us doth fell to its lowest level in years some analysts say the u.s. is consciously aiming at inflation devaluation hunt hoping to export its problems to the world the station through increased quantities of the thing by six hundred billion dollars it's a complete disaster i mean we're not in a situation where the total is going to be something like eight hundred fifty to mine hundred billion dollars by the end of next year and that's going to be approximately one hundred billion or mob which effectively means that really what we're seeing is the 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 crude there have been beat up particularly a big number of private sector hiring but the truth is that actually the job

picture with improving ever so slightly within the private sector which is the engine of the american economy the american government to certainly not repeal field has been remarkably strong over the course of time therefore it's quite bizarre because what we're risking at the economic good market distortion of the dollar is being pushed through the floor bathroom. really the sort of a very good i very kind of approach with you from going to the american economy because it really make important more and more of a creeping inflation for the average worker while at the same time it's basically like the euro with a further problem because if you're currently making. out of. russian investor in facebook and internet holding mail dot argues forty one percent in london after raising nine hundred twelve million dollars and the sitter's biggest i.p.o. . the stock's climbed from eleven point three to thirty nine dollars in london

trading today at that price male daughter who earns the but first day performance among london stops for at least to hear this. the skies are open once again across moscow russian pilots no longer need to sit permission to fly in the city but while certain regulations for light weight aircraft have been canceled some obstacles remain as the need to get out of explains. the skies or the russians who been too small in the sion as of this week late aircraft flying below three thousand meters no longer have to seek permission for their route twenty two hours ahead rather than giving permission authorities now require pilots to notify them of their flight plans small of the existence is far from floor shing 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 is 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 in maidenform the bases 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 it requires commercial and political will to develop the segment legislation might ease the way through but it wouldn't change dramatically it's all 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 and every day reality with the rush is vast here too is it crucial to develop air transportation at all levels we're going to starting small but the potential

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