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all. a top russian investigative journalist severely beaten in moscow police say the attack a likely think likely connected with his professional activities. campaigners

in the u.k. demand convictions for police officers responsible for the deaths of those in their custody. and artie's close up series makes a journey to a land that offers locals abundant while bounty for food and business in the siberian region the tops. it's midnight in moscow i mattress are great to be with you here on r t our top story police are investigating the brutal attack of a correspondent for russia's commerce newspaper or leg caution was fiercely beaten near his home in moscow and now when an induced coma investigators say his professional activity may be behind the assault or he's peter all over is in the capital with 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 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 you believe he may be aware it was about half past twelve i was in my room and i heard some sounds like panting a morning 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. points. 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 that are looking into it even suggesting that the intent of the attack may have been to kill mr caution this news for us mother was somewhere else in the midst of the investigation is considering very small leaves behind this is a 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 russian president dmitri medvedev has commented on this brutal attack via his twitter feed here's what the president had to say. 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 mr cash it 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 chopping down of trees in the forest the last year. 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 into the mist the 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. spoke to the former editor in chief of the commerce newspaper. in london he says all i cautioned was also an outspoken blogger and his views could provoke such a response. yes. 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 paper common sense has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist because all of which took place a couple of years ago this mission of his fingers for example so that the person could not write anymore there is a horror show element here. for the latest developments surrounding the attack on journalist caution. u.k. campaigners are demanding answers into why no officer has ever been convicted for deaths in police custody one person a week or portably 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 pap's died in two thousand and eight following a routine stop and search by the police he was he was being restrained when i tell you it's it's one of each for and often either side of these arms pulling him back and two officers. him in the back and that's really how you. samantha rick david's brother also died two years ago mentally ill shawn 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 for so many years with. mental health people being restrained and losing their lives two years on there's been no inquest into shawn'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 this protest aims to give a voice to the voice the first majority of these who die in police custody i belong to that class of have nots the marginalized often from top in estates the areas more than half of them had already been in mental health services but despite more

than four hundred deaths either in or directly following police custody in the last ten years no police officer has. if it 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 seven counting deaths in prison immigration senses and mental institutions police officers just commit other minor crimes where they commit the crime of murder on months without and that's the main reason people are you to tell it would you know that this is going on and also continue to do something about it if there are human rights abuses in iran we complain when we complain about human rights abuses happening brits and this seems to be the silence . that's worth shouting about these people say that this place test is the police to downing street with fees to take that petition and they

had to leave it tight to the railings. by the. t.v. . stay with us here on our team coming your way later this hour we meet one of the world's oldest dads a russian world war two veteran who became the proud father at the age of almost nineteen. it didn't take us very long to experience the extreme conditions the world in his throws your way but if you know how to work and make sure to work hard at your survival you'll find that it has one to two long. plus join the close up team in their search for a wild nature as treasures of siberia is coming your way in just a few minutes. first though an amendment to the law governing protest rallies has been vetoed by russian president dmitry 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 changes the president was just doing his job. they mad men is actually rural prohibitive nature because for instance they prohibited by person who is 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 the director of the constitution not to act up around privily to defend the constitutional rights of the russian population and that's what he did for more on this and other stories we're covering you can always check out our website r t v dot com here's what's on the line right now get lost in moscow you could almost find yourself in london the distance between the two capitals has been shortened by graffiti 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 one thousand years ago the seemingly untouchable communist party was banned throughout russia find out how it happened at all russia now section. well he could be pushing ninety but a world war two veteran from southern russia has shown he still has what it takes to become a dad are my became one of the world's oldest fathers this summer as our he's done us bosky discovered he has plenty of tales to tell his baby boy. out of my eighty nine but he loves to spend time with little 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. daddy for 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 gania know they 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 or for my future and so them russia the birth of little out of tune turned them into local celebrities. all our neighbors congratulate us sixty cruise 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 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 and that of mice not thought of 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. and the next hour we delve into the events of one of the toughest and most important periods of world war two the spring of one thousand nine hundred five when a big part of europe was so occupied by nazi forces in our special report those who were liberated by soviet troops unveil new details of the war and its aftermath. dying. to a word to be held don't see. the pain and suffering

will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of liberation. spring of nineteen forty five on our. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe eighteen people have been killed in northern china after a fire broke out in a shopping center another twenty four people have been injured over ninety had to be rescued this according to chinese media. there were few victims among the visitors as the blaze started shortly after the center opened up more than sixty shops were located in the center many of them selling tronics. train carrying one hundred twenty three tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste is crossed from france and germany despite protests from people in 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 and its final destination in northern germany. up next artie's close up series we continue to explore what russia has to offer. all this week we've been exploring the tomsk region in western siberia it's not only rich in oil and gas but also in it for the variety of natural treasures growing in the wild lush forests are abundant natural resource for the region and a priceless recreational area for residence parties tests are found herself in the heart of the siberian wilderness. 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 all 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 tomsk reason 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 the processing plant has to get the nuts kenzie gathered a special stations where people bring them they were. 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 picked is processed you have to get them to 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 with. before we patrol the surrounding forests the folly here is quite diverse you can spot spears 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. come in urban people are just not suited to all this it takes no one animals habits and 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 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 stay with us here on our next we'll talk with marina is your doll of god who is the general director of the walt disney company in the c.i.s. we ask what's the future of the movie market in russia and what exactly needs to be done to catch up with western film production standards that's coming up shortly.

you. thank you very much for this interview thank you very much for the invitation now more and more russian films take part in an international film festival so sexually

mean that movies are becoming a full fledged business in russia was this the company came few years ago to the russian market and since then the whole movie industry in russia picked up and now russian box office is one of the leading in the world for a lot of disagreement so i think with a lot of comfort i can say that more is the really important and very fast growing market in russian but yet do you have maybe have a feeling that the display company came a little late to the russian market. in our view it was exactly the right time. disney in order to develop new sort of infrastructure just maybe a few words about our business in russia movies is definitely one of the very important businesses for us movies distribution production were very happy about our first very successful experience with book of masters we do a lot of consumer products we do live entertainment shows we publish books games we

do. program even a lot of channels disney channel in russia so for all of that to happen i mean the economy needs to be prepared so what kind of products to this nationally sell in russia and in the c.i.s. countries with multiple consumer products starting with food a lot of stationary obviously games toys etc one of the most important trends which i would really like to specify during the last few years the amount of products that will be produced in russia for the russian audience tripled if you look into the products that was in russia for the russian audience most of them in russia on the russian industrial enterprises for european mean what do russian companies need to catch up with a standard itself that western production companies i would say catching up maybe not exactly the right word. in russia there is amazing history of story

telling and for this new russia for the country would like to get inspiration from the russian stories and make movies based on the russian heritage and culture but use some of the heritage that we have in the world this new company and tell them so how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending you know the distilleries that's really interesting to see actually fall for a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be felt like a very specific context that it's used to be strongly believe that russian audience has very distant taste definitely a lot of big blockbusters work in russia and russian audience love. a lot of alice in wonderland but at the same time there are a lot of stories that can be told specifically for the russian audience and we believe without fairytales that we started with. masters we tapped into something

that was not done in russia for a long time it's the quality family entertainment and family stories which we see can travel around the world because with nine prizes in various field festivals around the world what we see in traditional russian stories can also travel just beyond the russian audience even though the book of mosses was created for the russian origin specifically that. this source's of your income's piracy is a huge problem in russia one of the annual losses for and dismayed for your unit have to stay here in russia and how do you fight it how do you protect your intellectual property piracy is definitely a big issue for little in russia but in a lot of countries what we see recently that people tried to buy quality content and they used to buying d.v.d.'s in retail we also developed a lot of programs for various price points and we work with a lot of retail partners to make sure that we get the call it legal product to the

audiences for very different price points and what we see our d.v.d. sales on blu ray a growing really really fast even though we know that now the market is changing and blu ray and digital distribution is really around the corner but still a lot of families buy d.v.d.'s they want to watch movies together they buy it for their kids so would you say their losses in piracy are aren't considerable in numbers we don't really calculate that so we do calculate how much more revenues are growing and what we see especially recently that the pirated market might be decreasing because we sell more and more d.v.d.'s again not only very expensive ones but for mass audience and do we believe that the piracy market is decreasing how many foreign competition actually say that's very difficult to make business in russia and they're citing corruption and bureaucracy as main stumbling points would you say that the unit or your unit of the local corporations facing the same. here

well disney company established. in two thousand and six and imagine at that time there was nobody in and we were able to build a very strong business and we're leaders in a lot of segments that are important for us we haven't seen now then more than two hundred people working in this office so i believe if you really have a strategy of well thought all if you have a strong team of people you can be very successful in this market you know the japanese animation has become really popular with the children especially on the cartoon market to using it maybe there's a chance to japanese and he may well actually squeeze out the traditional cartoon which has actually been bergen in chips for just made for years and. when t.v. . everybody said all the theater will die all of the scene will so i think that is very different types of entertainment that people would like and definitely japanese animation is a very very important part of kids love disney movies kid loves old soviet movies

and they made movies so i don't think it will influence strongly yes it's one of the very interesting and important types old animation which will way to live together with all the other types of animation. will be successful in two thousand and eleven zero where really excited about two thousand and eleven for us it's already started because all financial year and it's at the end of september for us then you very interesting releases are obviously tangled very exciting movie and next year we're really really looking forward to releasing pirates of the caribbean thank you very much for this interview thank you.

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