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in some petersburg he's available in hotels a story. in a sense bill to kowtow to triple the soto the true school toto. and see how this. visit. the top russian investigative journalist severely beaten in moscow police say the attack is likely to be connected with his professional activity.

campaigners in the u.k. demand convictions for police officers responsible for deaths in custody. and are close up series makes a journey to a land that offers locals at london while balcony for food and business in the siberian region tops. it's ten pm in the russian capital i match reza good to be with you here on r t our top story police are investigating a brutal attack on a correspondent of russia's commerce newspaper all they caution was fiercely beaten near his home in moscow and now in an induced coma investigators are saying his professional activities may be behind the assault peter all over is in the capital with the details. the attack occurred right in the center of moscow where mr

caution lives and two attackers were waiting for him to return to his apartment building into the courtyard part of the of the apartment complex where he lives they were standing holding flowers apparently trying to disguise what their intentions were mr cashin arrived they produced a blunt object and set about him in a brutal attack with a caution currently in a very critical condition in a induced coma in a hospital suffering from many many bruises as well as seriously broken fingers from this attack by these these two people we can hear now from neighbors of mr caution who found him shortly after the attack but even people maybe maybe over it was about half past twelve i was in my room and i heard some sounds like panting or mourning as if someone has been beaten up he was lying right here all covered in blood especially his face and his legs his fingers were smashed his shoulder until doctors were as if the pilots need you and you sure you and they didn't take

anything from him he was conscious and he said that there were two people who'd been lying in wait for him. we heard from the editor in chief of the commissar newspaper mr cautions boss who said that the fact that no money was taken or belongings were taken from him and the manner in which his fingers had been broken suggested that it certainly wasn't a robbery and that the his work is investigative journalist it being the reason for they say for this brutal attack though investigators today looking into it even suggesting that the intent of the attack may have been to kill mr caution this new threat us more through the summer i was in the midst of the investigation is considering various models behind this nation attempt to include his work of course first currently the investigators are studying this c.c.t.v. food which it's clear that there were two attackers will russian president dmitri medvedev has commented on this brutal attack via his twitter feed here's what the president had to say. i've ordered the prosecutor general's office and the ministry

of internal affairs to keep the investigation of the attack on caution and to special control those guilty must be found and punished but the question is a very well renowned journalist here in russia in his work with the sun newspaper as an investigative reporter he's looked into many youth groups here in russia sometimes quite critical pieces and he's also looked at the. deed destruction of him p. forest to build the to build a new motorway between moscow and st petersburg and the work it is now being stopped into the the chopping down of trees in the forest the last year back about a nother journalist with a newspaper he was brutally beaten over his work regarding the forest destruction and he now is ended up as a disabled person due to the brutal assault that he heard now we go back to the incident mr cashin the attack is both quite a reaction here in moscow with members of the public campaigning to try and track down the two people who so brutally assaulted this journalist in the center of the

city we're in a campaign to try and track down those responsible is currently underway are two spoke to former chief editor of newspaper andre vest so you have in london he says oleg kashin was also an outspoken blogger and his views could provoke such a response and yes. of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open and outspoken in mind than in the paper consent has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist blankets all of which took place a couple of years ago the smashing of his fingers for example so that the person who could not write any more there is a horror show element here. stay with r.t. for the latest developments surrounding the attack on journalist caution. campaigners in the u.k. are demanding answers into why no officer has ever been convicted for deaths in

police custody one person a week reportedly dies as a result of contact with police artie's laura amid reports from london. if you want to be heard they say sometimes it's better to whisper than to shout these people are relying on that as they take to the streets to tell the silent story of loved ones who have died in british police custody. is here because of his brother a recovering drug addict pap's died in two thousand and eight following a routine stop and search by the police he was he was being restrained when outside restraint it's one of. them back. to officers been. hit in the back and that's where you have. samantha brick david's brother also died two years ago mentally ill sean was restrained by four police officers bundled into a van and in the five minutes it took to get to the police station had stopped

breathing he died a short time later there's no ideal outcome as my brother's dead. nothing is going to bring him back we know that but you know these things that have been carrying for so many years with. mental health people being restrained and losing their lives two years on there's been no inquest into sean's death and the results of investigations are often on the satisfactory this footage shows ian tomlinson being knocked down by a police officer during last year's g twenty riots he later died no conviction was brought against the officer responsible for this protest aims to give a voice to the voice the first majority of those who died in police custody i belong to the class of have nots the marginalized often from top in a city areas more than half of them had already been involved with mental health services but despite more than four hundred deaths either in or directly following

police custody in the last ten years no. please don't think that has to be convicted it's. still set. on average one person a week dies as a result of contact with the police according to the independent police complaints commission and that's no safe in counting deaths in prison immigration incentives and mental institutions police officers just commit all the minor crimes where they commit the crime of murder and manslaughter and that's the main reason people are you to go to life with you know this is going on and on people to do something about it if there are human rights abuses in iran we complain in the intro and we complain about human rights abuses happen in britain and the sense of be the silence yes. yes yes that's what shouting about these people say but this place test is the police to downing street with ease to take that petition

and they had to be tight to the railings. maybe you were and it's. you're watching r t still ahead this hour when the judges become the judged look at how the u.s. has accused the u.n. gathering of human rights violations plus. it didn't take us very long to experience the extreme conditions in the wilderness throws your way but if you know how to work with nature and work hard at your survival you'll find that it has wanted to offer join our close up team in their search for wild nature as treasures of siberia in just a few minutes. but first an amendment to the law governing protest rallies has been vetoed by the russian president dmitri medvedev the proposal supported by the parliament would have made the process of getting approval for a gathering even tougher medvedev defended his decision saying that the legal adjustment would have breached human rights editor in chief of the slovo newspaper

says by vetoing the changers the president was just doing his job. they mad men sexually were prohibitive nature because for instance they prohibited a person who's honor proceedings for breaking a law in the past from organizing new rallies number two is that it stipulated time notification of the rally should be extended whereas obviously this is again something that prohibits the freedom of assembly in russia i think the president has a curator of the constitution hi jack deborah bradley to defend the constitutional rights of the russian population and that's what he did. the u.s. has for the first time ever faced unprecedented scrutiny over its human rights record at the un human rights council the u.s. delegation about strong criticism over its human rights violations including racial profiling

a use of the death penalty and use allegations overseas council members in geneva called for the closure of guantanamo bay prison and further investigation into alleged torture by u.s. troops abroad american representatives defended their nations human rights record about stress they were not satisfied with the status quo brian becker of the answer coalition says washington is trying to change an image created by the bush administration where 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 well 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. for more on this and other stories you can always check out our website. here's what's online right now get lost in moscow could find herself in london the distance between the two has been shortened by british media artists find a big bend beside the kremlin at r.t. dot com. and a historic day for millions of people who suddenly realize their party no longer existed nineteen years ago the seemingly untouchable communist party was banned throughout russia find out how what happened in our russia now section.

well he may be almost ninety but a world war two veteran from southern russia has shown he still has what it takes to become a dad. became one of the world's oldest fathers this summer as our team denis plots a key to success and he has plenty of tells to tell his baby boy. out of my east eighty nine but he loves to spend time with luke a lot of tool believe it or not he's not this baby's grandpa. you with daddy's boy my son he's the father instead of the fairy tales of my niece is telling the child how he fought the nazis who died before the war you know to live very and the birth of their second child was a miracle for all my east and he's thirty four year old wife you've given you know

we want to share the joy with the world would you tell me am i in the guinness book of records yet because i think i should be there for conceiving a child at my age. the desire of live in a small town of a remote viewer and sold in russia the birth of little or to turn them into local celebrities. and neighbors congratulate us. sixty crew's visit to their home in just a month even the local mayor says he is not getting as much publicity the visits often turned into news conferences and even though the nazar of his grew a little tired of all the attention they still share their daily lives with the press their only concern just how much loan this life will lest most men in that of my spam really have lived long lives so he soaping to see his one hundred first birthday but perhaps the sad part for this very unusual russian family is how

they're going to live their lives some twenty years from now when the mice will pass away leaving them on their own. across the region. moscow and cowboy have agreed to step up efforts to battle opium production in afghanistan that comes after president hamid karzai criticized an anti-drug raid by nato and russian forces which he said was carried out without his government's consent or his military analyst says the afghan leader realized he needs to join an international anti-narcotics effort to boost his own popularity in his country. just as expected afghan president hamid karzai backtracked on his accusations regarding the russian participation in a joint counter-narcotics operation in southern afghanistan however backtracking is not enough for hamid karzai to exonerate he's image and close association as on the official top lobbyist for afghan drag lords now he has the unique opportunity to

lead the way. counter-narcotics police in helmand and khandahar and thus to prove he's relevance as the genuine leader evgenia stand and to lead the aerial airborne assault on the poppy fields in southern afghanistan can prove for the regular afghans that after all i mean i could make a total reverse from being an official top political cover for the drug lords genuine military leader of afghanistan who could also take full responsibility in a new counter-narcotics and maybe later counter corruption campaign in his own country. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe eighteen people have been killed in the weather in china after a fire broke out in the shopping center another twenty four people have been injured and more than ninety rescued as according to chinese media there are few victims among the visitors as the blaze started shortly after the center opened

more than sixty shops were located in the center many of them selling electronics. at a train carrying one hundred twenty three tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste crossed from france into germany despite protests from both countries authorities diverted the train after environmentalist gathered at the border in a bid to block the transport the train which is carrying the toxic waste to a german storage facility has become the focus of the anti-nuclear movement in europe mass protests are expected to greet the waste at its final destination in northern germany. up next its artie's close up series as we continue exploring what russia has to offer. all this week we've been touring the tom screen and western siberia it's not only rich with oil and gas but also for the variety of natural treasures growing in the

wild forests are an abundant natural resource for the region and a priceless recreational area for residents are to test our syria found herself in the heart of the siberian water mess. the times square in southwestern siberia has long been known to be rich in oil and gas and the local economy has been linked with oil and gas and other related industries for quite some time but the local economy has a new growing and developing sector and that involves the collection the gathering of the processing of while growing natural products such as berries mushrooms and pine nuts there are some companies that do invest in the processing of these products and what's very interesting here is that this is really growing in the wild so people here could just go to the forests and go gather that themselves and the results they get of course depends on how much they gather i am in the heart of what really is the perfect example of that lush greenery of that rich forestry that make up such an abundant natural resource for the time squeeze and it has over a million hectares of agricultural land and more than half the territory is covered

with forest there are four people injured collecting pine cones in a forest families come with children young people do it a lot too you can collect for your own consumption or you can sell them at a good price there are people who leave off this business. it's estimated that picking and processing different kinds of wild produce provides an income for as many as one hundred fifty thousand local inhabitants those who gather can sell them to companies that process them like this one. this is the first stage of a crisis you can push to get all the nuts kenzie gathered a special stations where people bring them there is a huge. potential here which needs to be realized pine cones wild mushrooms and a wide variety of berries are there for the picking almost ninety percent of what's baked is processed here to the depth of our company processes wild berries we store frozen berries industrial fruits facilities and process them into different kinds

of jams from a taste of the sweet fruits of the wild to taste of the rough side of the siberian wilderness. before we patrol the surrounding forests the following here is quite diverse you can spot alex perry slinks and sables in winter he can hunt moves but chasing them on skis as for bears they can only be hunted in their dance in winter the rangers spend a month at a time in the thick of the forest and in order to survive while they're there hunting for food has become part of their daily routine. no bears this time but there was certainly no shortage of birds. come in urban people are just not suited to all this it takes no one animals habits and being a good shark to be successful hunter well i'm no good at either of those so i tried my hand at fishing instead it didn't take us very long to experience the extreme conditions the siberian wilderness throws your way but if you know how to work with nature and to work hard at your survival you'll find that it has plenty to offer.

r.t. reporting from the tomsk region yuliya bokova joins us next with a business update stay with us here on r.t. . hello and welcome time to get the latest from the world of business ukraine is rapidly regaining the trust of international finance agencies says the i.m.f. how whether and i am that commission which is there is it in the country is still to make a decision on giving its second tranche of a fifteen billion dollar loan. has more. resources and i economy this was a victory on the court which is my main priority when he became ukraine's president less than a year on experts say this goal has been somewhat successful in twenty two and the country has seen a six percent growth in g.d.p. compared with a disastrous decline last year and this came partially due to less spending on

imported natural resources the economy has successfully passed through the crisis the cheap gas price from russia. to the gas price i minister mr. price which will be a little bit. in europe but despite the positive trend ski of still seems to be relying on the fifteen billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund borrowed two years ago by the previous administration under. the funds delegation has a right to key have to assess whether the new government is fulfilling the loans obligations some of which are deeply unpopular among the people. see some progress . in two thousand and eight in two thousand crean finally has significant raised prices for.

plus fifty percent which was very negative for the political. region president. another sticking point is spent in reform namely raising the pension age which is required by the i.m.f. but not favored by the general population but is it all worth the effort economists believe that ukraine does not require more funding badly enough and the whole fuss is more about the country's image probably needs. to be. russian. than. the government does much from the i.m.f. but not on the i.m.f. mani's important to signal the government is doing the right since the loan is split in several tranches and should this one go ahead it will become the second

part of the loan and will amount to a little over one billion u.s. dollars the delegation says it will reveal its verdict no earlier than november the fifteenth experts have little doubt that this time the i.m.f. delegation will say yes to another tragedy of money for ukraine the question is whether they will be as optimistic the next time inspectors come to kiev in february twenty levon. for business today from key of ukraine. computer chip maker intel says russia is the hub of engineering talent but it lacks people with business skills that's according to the head of intel's operations department. as far as the software development the killers are russia is well over fifty percent of our total well over fifty percent of our total outside of the us population show russia is very sick if we're going to continue to develop our talent here we have got to let it out of the forty spirit a lot of different disciplines that the plan is to. really to help support the next

generation by the prosecutor what is going to be seeing with our budget here which is really great scientist are really good engineers business savvy people that they can just start to school for a very important start up. russia might see the largest alliance ever created within its domestic market ran on the sun wants to expand its ownership of aft of us to a controlling stake with the recent blessing from prime minister putin it seems most likely to happen but in of course the reports green only son has got the green light to expand its stake in the country's top come again after the us investment firm troika dialog and state holding russian to canola g.'s h. zero twenty five percent one a bulls could sell part of their stake and knowing in reno nissan to take control of the mill how does the new year but we have a desire to buy choice the dialog share and after advise and we are in negotiations

however we have not come to any decision yet we are not in a hurry and have plenty of time however both renault. are interested in buying choice a dialogue share analysts say the government is keen to give a forty invested control in the comic and aiming to cut its responsibility for funding the company after the us has been a have a burden through the crisis as a huge regional employer which in turn supports local government budgets while the government grapples with how to reform the structure of russia's single industry towns reno has been updating become a go with a new technology and motels at a cost of more than three hundred. million dollars last year three miles alone coast logan will appear in two louder versions from twenty twelve it's a gamble for reno which hopes to profit from the doubling of russia's calm market over the next five years we have to see the company will have a significant presence in russia. jointly actually beast will be the largest

alliance in russia ever. rush a b end of the day is one of the few still unsaturated core markets of course excluding china and india after mass sales have jumped as a result of the government subsidized sales aim and the company moved into profit in the first half of this here netting one hundred million dollars compared to the loss of six hundred million dollars the same time a year ago the timing isn't right for enormously his deal and i don't question the business. that's your business update for now but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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