also calls the latest spying scandal in georgia a politico far as saying thirteen people accused of secretly working for russia innocent victims of a stunt by president saakashvili attention seeking before a nato summit. and. this box of blood go will cost

a smuggler hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell into ran over four hundred. fourteen iraq forces locals to turn to smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran risking dance across the border in a country where there is a strictly forbidden. alan darcy's close umpteen takes you to one of the oldest towns in siberia now taking all the boxes towards becoming one of the most of all missing arms all in the patient. news from russia and around the world this is the with me thanks for joining us as the rest of thirteen people of georgia accused of being russian spies is

a political follow was engineered by tbilisi ahead of a nato summit russia denies anything to do with those held and says this is a deliberate provocation by the saakashvili government aussie's re not going to reports from tbilisi for us this story has all the makings of a spider movie and not a quality wanted that let's get the facts out first if. team people four of them russian nationals arrested by georgian ministry of interior affairs for allegedly spying for russia no 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 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 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 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 a city or jail as many people as possible. people have been arrested who have nothing to do with the special services nothing against georgia 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 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 minute to stations 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 we're off two thousand and eight in which moscow 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 of throwing verbal punches at each other at this point it seems like

president really does not want to stop continuing a war of words and sometimes questionable actions. and political analyst mitri bobbish in moscow things georgia's action is all of the latest in a string of b.l. stands by the country's president seeking to provoke russia. if you put yourself in the shoes of saakashvili he is really in a very difficult situation he cannot attack so to sit and uprising or for the second because that will be a political suicide and he cannot afford to political pressure diplomatic pressure on russia because he was sold by the just created. international soul the only way for him is to organize all kinds of p.r. stunts to try to attract attention to the problem sure georgia is the accuser please do something so we've seen all 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 capital for fourteen years where god wanted us now thirteen people

arrested in all big spike case all grizzlie he expects a russia at some moment to all spacious and do something dramatic increase military presence in our prize yourself to see to it you know a little something that would made gratia will quote and aggressive this is r.t. and still to come later this. business first so one of the main advantages of having a business or when times is the abundance of great minds universities live the main street here in the city center and one in every six people is pursuing some form of education. find down tools and also tracks venture capitalists and scientists to the siberian town of homes with our close ups here just a bit. over seven years after the u.s. led invasion to iraq apart crippling poverty in our ravages the country with seven million living below the breadline according to the you are desperate to survive some have resorted to smuggling alcohol into iran risking the death penalty across

the border where alcohol is strictly forbidden sébastien my 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 public much of tehran's boars wasn't can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around we have absolute. teachers to ski here 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 what it will cost a smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred of all 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 dollars that i do this because i'm a literate. 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 with a mind of a step down. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings rests are fights terrible much nothing we can do because we're poor. but only if 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 to serve a small showcase for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of horse down then when it is this isn't a lion and there's no food or drink it's given the cold and wet now and it will

lead you down. 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 in 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 to see. the remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in soon 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 away to those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border . and you can always find more news videos and blogs on our website www dot com

let's check out on live right now. a launch pad for a movie as a german art house directed his new film at the baikonur cosmodrome find out the details on i'll see the. thousands of kids and grownups from all over russia are flocking to moscow to explore new virtual realities of their lives the interactive games. the u.s. has been accused of abuses before the u.n. 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 at his jails abroad and brian backhaul there are also coalition told us here about the obama administration's reaction to the accusations

. the bigger picture is that the obama administration is trying to rectify the problem that the bush administration created in terms of u.s. image around the world the united states cannot continue to lecture all the other countries in the world about democracy and human rights and freedom and at the same time have as its principal image that of torturing torture incorporated because bush and cheney and rumsfeld not only invaded afghanistan invaded iraq they detained tens of thousands of people they said they weren't liable to be held under the geneva conventions they were they were tortured they were taken to other countries the secret rendition places in other words the image of the united states was one of torture the opposite of freedom or democracy and so now the obama administration has subjected the united states to a review a universal policy review and the rest of the world is taking aim at the united states and highlighting its flaws it's the facts in terms of human rights the

formal position of the conservatives is that the united states can only be the judge it can never be judged that somehow it's superior to the people of cuba or venezuela or those countries that seek to be independent of the united states. let's now take a look at some of the top stories from around the world at least fifteen have been killed and eighty wounded after a suicide attack on a mosque in northwest pakistan the building may have been targeted because it was used by local and of the taliban militia the roof collapsed on hundreds a wash it was trapping many under debris and saw in a separate three people were killed after a hundred renee's were thrown into another mosque in the same part of the country. late eruption of indonesia's volatile mount merapi has left over sixty two lying dormant for four days the ongoing volcanic activity which began at the end of october has now killed more than one hundred twenty people at the danger zone declared by the indonesian government around the mountain didn't however include

some of the wall street villages some different styles of people have been evacuated from the central java region while others are still desperately trying to flee. health officials fear they call the epidemic which has already killed over four hundred in haiti today what's known as hurricane tomas paid for the island rivers are expected to swell helping spread the water borne disease while three have already died in one hundred forty kilometers an hour winds many made homeless by january's earthquake which killed around three thousand three hundred thousand ignored calls to leave that counts in the capital port au prince saying they have nowhere else to go. and did evacuate were mostly women children and the elderly and the war but the start of the city to other shelter is. environmental activists are demonstrating as a train carrying over one hundred twenty tons of nuclear waste makes its way the long songs then

a bug in germany greenpeace claims it's the most radioactive cargo in history but the french company transporting the materials as it's part of a routine agreement between the two countries and is their level. treatment of its kind a thousand german protesters are awaiting the train's arrival into the country but police expect thirty thousand more on. up next it's close up series as we continue exploring the diverse parts of russia. on this week we travel to the tomsk region also tests on all syria has been exploring the city have told us k'naan is one of russia's major i t hobbs and fosters developing sentence of science and innovation while 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 machine building metalworking and timber but over the years this region has also done diversify 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 a new well that's a really 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. gordon is

a graduate of the thomas polytechnic 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 assembled 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 look for 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 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 as say 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 in every 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 are very. chekhov's unfavorable comments earned him this marking

statue and amusing reminder that the people of toms don't take kindly to such remarks even from an intellectual guesser cilia r t reporting from the tomsk region next martin enters explores everything about russian bread including bread dollars and takes a look at it and a swig of the famous ease drink cold quads. there's

a famous person probably i don't see a full if you haven't tested right of the centuries it's the more the key finch is also russian diets and from the russian dog ride bred to the popular drink class that's we'll be exploring on this week's moscow out the history of press and russian. ladies are that you just paid fifty thousand diseases but an agriculture claims to be the foundation of making. music here showcase the district of bread making it in russia and from serbia proces a fashion to use an example of

a different person glitterati these you can see the implicit well bred plays and still plays in every day life so mr campbell the history of bread has its roots deep in the history of mankind and nowadays tea not a single russian table can be imagined without to buy a fresh sweet scented bread on aging or just snow in dozens of recipes now but no matter what the flavor from the bread is still an important part of any dinner. bridge represented life itself during a season many grand. for the nine hundred days of the blockade locals russians was known as one hundred twenty five grams of bread. over one million people died of starvation stress and exposure but for the fortunate people who survived the small amounts of bread was literally the life time. a thousand years ago the grains were crucial to the diet of the rye was the dominant grain in the northern parts the poor. short growing season. which is more.

in the southern parts of ukraine. it was surviving the long harsh winter bread was the king as a staple food source to millions and it still is today. and polluting to this week's entertainment news famous italian brand have come up with a special treasure symbol of the favorite twenty fifth anniversary in fashion collection of t. shirts with prints by the best international photographers all featuring the only combat to be sold in the. she can and at the launch of the collection of must go play me in the pyrenees.

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these delicious loaves to complete aims to recreate traditions and recipes or bakeries from the three soviet times you can find a varieties of ready made of different mix with different ingredients creating a number of tastes and flavors. if you want freshly baked bread at any time by a bread maker of these machines. and easy to use at home. you can buy them in

several locations and he just simply makes the pound and hey presto you have to shoot ready in no time. see you again oh welcome back to tell me how did you end up working. a couple of times on consultation jobs in fact the bakery. when i had the call from one of us to say i was safe and i came back on the sauce and. i'm so lucky because the menu i have here is really international as you can see with saddam's basket you've been here for a few years now. i mean i've been here for five you really do see the difference. when i first arrived here it was. rather nasty plastic sliced bread as all dog heavy rye bread which is very much the traditional staple of the russian cuisine and now with bankers opening up all night it was amazing you. kept share and by gad

with cheese all these different flavors fantastic around the block with. twenty pounds forty dollars on a few loaves of bread because it's a tasty it's a huge development not to go back to the rye bread it's here. absolutely because i know that most of my family wouldn't even know what this is true. that it has at least seventeen difference. and traditionally. caraway see family. around to see that but you can at the very least amount it doesn't. it's about seventeen thirty in the olden days and some people they lived through and hopefully is. nothing out but as molasses.

brings it has also been about power and status and. also for example. russians get married the first bytes from the new bride will symbolizing the future wealth. so this means that you're very wealthy that. normal everything you have the spirit is calling to me it's a great life. and we've arrived i'll find a location the trunk of a drink spiked drink and founded in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight the plant is well known for the class that they produce here known as the bread drink in my home country that you making it here in russia for centuries. past has been a staple of refreshment for centuries enjoyed by generations of russians across the country. describes how russians believe they need to be living

in russia and the great. drink in every close of society. is officially here they have a small museum and an area where you can taste different varieties sounds good to me made from black. bread use contributes to the color of the resulting drink alcohol. from the famine titian is typically around one percent. for centuries being extremely popular and russia has so many times mass manufacturing you have to drink to supply the whole country to gamble then don't have ss become popular and nowadays when talking about the mass we think of the don't go on first but only a century ago only a light colored drink was made it was called white canvas and it was unfiltered. coca-cola the even started selling class in new york.