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i was cell phones would be useless without this mineral. and tiny pieces needed to make them work. but every piece of culture and is extracted at a cost to human life. top russian investigative journalist severely beaten in moscow police say the attack is a likely connected with his professional activity. campaigners

in the u.k. demand convictions for police officers are responsible for the deaths in custody. and artie's close up series makes a journey to a land that offers locals abundant wild bounty for food and for business in the siberian region up top. it's eleven pm in moscow i'm mad très oh great to be with you here on r t our top story police are investigating our brutal attack on a correspondent of russia's commerce newspaper whole leg caution was fiercely beaten near his home in moscow and now in an induced coma investigators are saying his professional activity may be behind the assault peter all over has more. 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 the 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 a belated 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 you could quite sure you were 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 newspapers the 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 that are looking into it even suggesting that the intent of the attack may have been to kill mr caution this list got us more through the summer i was in the midst of the investigation is considering very small leaves behind this is nation attempt including his work of course currently the investigators are studying the 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 under special control those guilty must be found and punished is 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. the destruction of him pee 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 teach up and down of trees in the forest the last year. about a 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 is there with mr cash and the attackers 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 hearing a campaign to try and track down those responsible is currently underway are to spoke to the former chief editor of the commerce newspaper andre vassili here in london he says all i caution was also an outspoken blogger in his view was could provoke such a response. but 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 papal consent has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist. which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example so the person who could not write in there is a horror show element here. stay with our team for the latest developments around the attack on journalist although caution. campaigners in the u.k. are demanding answers into why no officer has ever been convicted of her deaths in

police custody one person. dies as a result of contact with police 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 perhaps 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 it's one. and often either side of the same back and two officers. hit him 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 and bundled into a van and in the five minutes it took to get the police station had stopped

breathing he died a short time later there's no ideal outcome as my brother is dead. nothing is going to bring him back we know that but you know these things that have been carrying fuel so many years of. mental health people have been 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 cheering last year's g twenty riots he later died new conviction was brought against the officer responsible this protest aims to give voice to the boys are the first majority of those who die in police custody i belong to the class of have nots the margin. it's often from tough in a state sea air is more than half of them had already been involved with mental health services but despite more than four hundred deaths in old directly following

police custody in the last ten years no police officer has ever been convicted of murder all months or so. 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 not even counting deaths in prison immigration centers and mental institutions police officers don't just commit other minor crimes where they commit the crime of murder. and that's the main reason people are you to tell if we do know that this is going. to do something about if there are human rights abuses in iran we complain we complain about human rights abuses happen in britain and this seems to be the silence. that's worth shouting about these people say but this protest fell on deaf ears the police at downing street with

used to take their petition and they had to leave it tied to the railings very. well for the five member door and it london. you're watching r t still ahead later this hour when the judges become judge look at how the u.s. was accused at the u.n. gathering of human rights violations plus. it didn't take us very long to experience the extreme conditions this will be in building his 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 join our close up team in their search for wild nature is treasures of siberia in just a few minutes. first though 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 the editor in chief of the slovo

newspaper says by vetoing the changes the president was just doing his job they met many sexually rural privity of nature because for instance they prohibited my person who was under 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 prevents the freedom of assembly in russia i think the president has a director of the constitution 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 united nations human rights council the u.s. delegation got strong criticism over its human rights violations including racial profiling the use of the death penalty and abuse 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 but stressed that they were not satisfied with the status quo brian becker of the answer coalition says washington is trying to change an image crafted by the bush administration. 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 could not 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 upheld 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 be 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 you can always check out our web site r t dot com here's what's happening right now get lost in moscow and could find yourself in london the distance between the two has been shortened by graffiti artists find big ben beside the kremlin at our teeth. and a historic day for millions of people who suddenly realize their political party no longer existed one thousand years ago the seemingly untouchable communist party was banned throughout russia find out how it happened in russia now online section.

well he may be pushing ninety but a world war two veteran from southern russia has shown he's still got what it takes to become a father. became one of the world's oldest dads this summer as artie's dennis polaski discovered he still has plenty of tales to tell his baby boy. there you are out of my east eighty nine but he loves to spend time with the lot of two believe it or not he's not this baby's grandpa. your 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 were died before the war you know to live very and the birth of their second child was

a miracle for our my east and his thirty four year old wife you've given you know we want to share the joy with the world would you not 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 or for my future and seldom russia the birth of little or to turn them into local celebrities. all our neighbors congratulate us. sixty crews visited 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 result 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 last 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. cross in the region. moscow and kabul have agreed to step up efforts to fight opium production in afghanistan this comes after president hamid karzai criticized the anti-drug raid by nato and russian forces that he said was carried out without his government's consent or his military analyst says the afghan leader realized join the international anti-drug effort to. boost his own popularity in the 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 the backtracking is not enough for hamid karzai to exonerate he's emerged and close association as to when the fish top lobbyist for afghan drag lords now has

a unique opportunity to lead the way. counter-narcotics police in hell manned and khandahar and thus to prove he's relevance as the genuine leader afghanistan and to lead the aerial and airborne assault on the poppy fields in afghanistan can prove for they 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. take 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 at a shopping center and other twenty four were injured and ninety had to be rescued this according to chinese media there were very few victims among the visitors as

the blaze started shortly after the center opened more than sixty shopping shops are located in the center many of them selling electronics. and a train carrying one hundred twenty three tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste has crossed from france into germany despite protests from people in both countries authorities diverted the train after environmentalists gathered at the border in a bid to block transportation the train which is carrying the toxic waste to a german storage facility has become the focus of the nuclear movement in europe mass protests are expected to greet the waste at its final destination in northern germany. up next start he's close up series continues to explore what russia has to offer. all this week we've been traveling in the tomsk range in western siberia and it's not just the rich in oil and gas but also for the variety of natural treasures

growing in the wild there lush forests are an abundant natural resource for the region and a priceless recreation area for residents are these tests are so found herself in the heart of the siberian wilderness. that tom squeezed 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 wild growing natural products such as berries mushrooms and pine nuts there are some companies that do invest in the processing of these products and was 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 were 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 play just to get all the nuts kenzie gathered at special stations where people bring them they were. 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 the death 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. we patrol the surrounding forests the folly here is quite diverse you can spot spares slinks and sables in winter you 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. we come in urban people are just not suited to all this it takes no one in the most habits in being a good child 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 in 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 so now let's talk a bit more about this industry with andre who is joining us right now thank you very much for joining us now you just tell us a bit more about this industry in talks. first of all in terms of sport because half of the people in the city by and sees on these they go collecting berries or mushrooms i personally hate collecting berries but collecting mushrooms is a lot of fun the forest is right and it's not very far to go so you just go there and collect whatever you find it's yours the forest is for everybody this stuff doesn't grow where you want it to it grows where it wants to so you must find it and bring it and then of course there is an industry which does it for money only four percent of all grows is actually collected so there's a. whole for the industry to grow you know to what extent do you think it's going

to grow we can speak millions of dollars we can all speak about hundreds of millions of dollars it will never be the primary industry or even close to that but it may be very. substantial over industry. this time i think it grows but don't forget it also depends on the harvest so we are very much interested in that. i guess i can say we welcome investment all right well thank you very much for that there will arrive so be a collection and the process to go while growing natural products is a developing sector industry as a drain. had rightly said and when you just go into the forests and go to the villages where you can really see is the involvement of the people they go out there and collected themselves i guess right now is what's most interesting about this sector and to where it's going to be going in the future will again depend on . business news stay with us.

hello and a very warm welcome to the business news finance ministers from the asia pacific region have agreed to avoid using their currencies as trade weapons the decision was made in order to promote more balanced and sustainable regional growth but today a gathering of finance cheats from the twenty one member asia pacific economic cooperation forum was a preview to a meeting of leaders of the same states in europe or how many of tokyo at next week's gathering they will work to map out across strategy to discuss regional economic integration hundred view progress toward the group's goal of open trade in that spent. you create is rapidly regaining the trust of international finance agencies says the i.m.f. hot weather and i.m.f. commission which is visiting the country is still to make a decision on giving its second tranche of the fifteen billion dollar loan. he has

more. resources and i economy this was a victory on the court which is main priority when he became ukraine's president less than a year on experts say this goal has been somewhat successful in twenty jan the country has seen a six percent growth in g.d.p. compared with the disastrous decline last year and this came partially due to less spending on imported natural resources the corner me. successfully passed to the crisis the cheap gas price from russia. to the gas price i mean this to mr for the next year you will have the price which will be a little bit higher. gross which was one of the last in europe but despite the positive trend skee of still seems to be relying on the fifteen billion dollar loan

from the international monetary fund borel two years ago. by the previous administration on the victory. the funds delegation has a right to kiev to assess whether the new government is fulfilling the loans obligations some of which are deeply unpopular among the people doing the nation see some progress. in two thousand and eight into. significant raise prices for. fifty percent which was very negative for. president. another seeking 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 force

is more about the country's image it probably needs money. russian. than. the government much from the. important. government is doing right since the loan is split in several crunches and should this one go ahead it will become the second part of the loan and will amount to a little over one billion us 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. russia may see the largest airlines as a created within its domestic market rayno nice and wants to expand its. after

balls to a controlling stake with a recent blessing from prime minister putin it seems most likely to help much in the question reports green only sun has got the green light to expand its stake in the country's top car maker after the us investment firm troika dialog and state holding russian technologies h o twenty five percent won a bulls could sell part of their stake allowing in reno nissan to take control. but we have a desire to buy choice of dialogue share and after 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 troika dialog share analysts say the government is keen to give a foreign investor control in the comic 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 the economy go with a new technology and motels at a cost of more than three hundred million dollars last year three miles the local slogan will appear in cool other versions from twenty twelve it's a gamble for reno which hopes to profit from the doubling of russia's car market over the next five years we have to pass the company will have a significant presence in russia. jointly back should this will be the largest alliance in russia ever. to rush a b. end of the day is one of the few still unsaturated core markets of course excluding china and india after our sales have jumped as a result of the government subsidized same game and the company moved into profit in.