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from phones to. t.v. don't. russia says thirteen people arrested in georgia had never spied from moscow and calls tbilisi's allegations a political farce and provocation. from responsible and good will cost

a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it into iran over four hundred illegal living conditions in northern iraq force locals to risk their lives and freedom by smuggling alcohol to neighboring iran where blues is banned r t follows the dangerous trade route. that artie's close of series takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia which is now become one of the most promising innovation hubs in russia. it's eleven pm in moscow i met treasure great 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 special services this comes as georgia's interior ministry has confirmed that thirteen people were detained last month accuse of being undercover agents for

moscow artie's arena reports 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 there is for allegedly spying for russia now 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 and foreign media sources 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 in from russian state duma particularly from

the head of the foreign affairs committee conception to such a. georgian president mikheil saakashvili has 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 south the city or jail as many people as possible. people have been arrested who have nothing to do with the special services. but who once again will be declared enemies of the georgian people this is happening first of all only even the 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 move them for 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 minute to stations 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 went down words from there of course there was also this georgian south states in war of two thousand and eight in which supported the city and afterwards diplomatic relations between russia and georgia world altogether dissolved and the communication has come basically to nothing abut throwing verbal punches at each other and at this point it seems like president really does not want to stop at continuing this a war of words and sometimes questionable actions. what it all analysts dmitri

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'll put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot attack south or sit and applies here for the second time because that would be a political suicide and he cannot afford to political pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was so badly just created. internationally so the only way for him is to organize all kinds of p.r. stance to try to attract attention to the problem to shoulder georgians that he's at least doing something so we see that oh we have seen all these p.r. stunts in the last few months born of the morning meant for the second of all the war arrestin a turkish captain for fourteen years like this now thirteen people arrested in all beaks spy case all busily he expects a russia at some moment to waltz patience and do something dramatic increase military presence in a pious yourself

a satyr you know to do something that would make russia will quake and aggressive. stay with us here on our team coming your way later this hour. for business must say one of the main advantages of having a baby is that when tom says the abundance of great minds universities lined the main street here in the city center and one and that was six people is pursuing some form of education discover what else we were as a venture capitalist and scientists into the siberian town of toms with artie's closeup team coming your way humans. but first 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 booze trail and 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 islam a public much of tehran's who is was you can't refuse to 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 funky teachers 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 now flocka this box of laws will cost the smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred miles of the profits appear amends to men who actually take the dangerous journey are paid a mere fifty dollars a night this is not work for those looking to make a fortune he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate elizabeth i do this because i'm illiterate i don't know how to do anything 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 of a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life by others who have been wounded

in police ambushes. can find up to half a million dollars and then charge the price of the bullets that were shot with a mind of a step down. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings fights terrible most nothing we can do because we are. only as good 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 checks small shelters for the smugglers as well as for the horses the police is filthy and stinks of course then man it is this isn't a lion and there's no food or drink during the cold and when we leave. on the other side said hundreds of a reunion border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents put. in their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers. came from

the other side and took three of my mules back across the border and showed everyone. the remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in it 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. on the iran iraq border you can always find more news videos on blogs at our website r.t.e. dot com here's a look at what's online right now. in the world set to become author film set and not just for science fiction. kids and grownups flocking to a gamers paradise and experiencing the latest three d. video games in moscow you can get a taste of it all at 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 at its jails abroad or a solar methods from the american civil liberties union tolls tells r.t. 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 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 recently declassified evidence from the eighty's reveals how the u.s. government was planting stories in the media to gain public support for past conflicts in central america are to scale and forward reports on how those standing behind the scenes crafting propaganda for the u.s. 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 illegal 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're telling a lie employing special psychological operations experts to craft messages for the

american public putting people secretly on the us 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 llewyn 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 than the guy you're about to meet right here he 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 op eds for important newspapers in the u.s. and you see him working behind the scenes for mongers in honduras and what you what

you have to wonder is who's paying him to do so why propaganda has proven effective in garnering support for america's more contentious foreign policy the office of public diplomacy it became the sacrificial lamb of the iran contra scandal follow your congressional investigation but otto reich moved on unscathed first to become ambassador to venezuela then assistant secretary of state he remains an influential consultant here in washington frequently quoted in the media and regularly called to testify here on capitol hill as an expert witness for our t. washington d.c. . 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 eighty injured officials say the target may have been a member of pakistan's senate who had encouraged people to oppose the taliban targeted prayer session happened in an area where the taliban has released only 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 have been killed in the

latest eruption of indonesia's 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 covered with ash covered faces have been seeking a means of escape. the earthquake stricken haiti is really going again as hurricane tomas batters the caribbean country at least three people have died in the 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 in tent homes to flee but they have nowhere to go to tent cities arose after january's quake destroyed the capital port au prince. the liftoff of the space shuttle discovery has been postponed for the fourth time in a week because of a leak discovered during fueling this is the third delay because of technical

problems with one due to stormy weather the launch is now scheduled for november thirtieth as it will take some time to repair the problem this will be discovery's final flight to the international space station as nasa plans to retire the shuttle program next year. next artie's closeup series as we continue exploring the many diverse parts of russia. this weekend. when you are traveling tomsk the city of toms one of the oldest towns in western siberia which was officially open to foreigners only in one thousand nine hundred has become one of russia's major i and fastest developing innovation based centers are to test our so it has been finding out what makes thompson tick. while we are here in tongs in south western 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 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 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 toms the home of siberia 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 or we send bowled out as 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 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 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 check of 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 town to pay their respects to me the inhabitants are very dogged. check of sun 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. yes our cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region yulia bokova joins us next with all the latest business news stay with us here on r.t. . hello and 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 chain twenty and this is the global crisis erupted more than two hears ago

china's central banks head says that as do our as would offset a speculated bubble created by the u.s. liquidity injections. stocks rally it after the fed's new round of stimulus the u.s. dollar 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 decision to increase quantity thing by six hundred billion dollars it's a complete disaster i mean we're not in a situation where the total going to be something like eight hundred fifty the nine hundred billion dollars by the end of next year and that's going to be approximately one hundred billion per month 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 economic actually manufacturing was rebounding in october according to american statistics crude there haven't been a particularly i think 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 a retail 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 and that's really the sort of appalling baggers our neighbor kind of approach which is i'm going to help the. an economy because it's simply making imported foodstuffs more and more expensive and creating inflation for the average working man 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 at that price well daughter here as the but 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 lightweight aircraft have been canceled some obstacles remain as they do it of explains. the skies over russia into smaller be 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 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 and united states flights over big cities are banned 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 their way through but it wouldn't change dramatically it's all market driven. and in our case or. 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 rush is vast to tourists 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 r.t. . that's who update for now but you can always find most or is on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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