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hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. in the ma'am. russian president dmitri medvedev says those behind the attempted murder of a newspaper journalist must be found and punished after one of russia's top

investigative journalists caution was severely beaten here is home and remains and at home. in britain demonstrators have been demanding convictions for police officers responsible for many talons in custody with none so far ever found guilty of killing despite a death rate in one week. and are he's close up series goes wild as we take a dip into the land offering ample bounty for food and business in the siberian region of tops. one am in moscow i met good to be with you here on r t our top story police are investigating the brutal attack on a correspondent of russia's commerce newspaper oleg caution was fiercely beaten near his home in moscow and now in an induced coma investigators are saying his

professional activity may be the motive for the assault artie's 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 the cash in 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 why these these two people we can hear now from neighbors of mr caution who found him shortly after the attack very belatedly be aware that 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 he showed them to the doctors as the boy you sure you know 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 that was more through the summer i was in the midst of the investigation is considering very smart leaves behind this is nation attempt including his work of course currently the investigators are studying this 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 it has to keep the investigation of the a to concussion 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 the teacher 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 had now if you go back to the

incident with mr cash and the attack on his boat quite a reaction here in moscow with members of the public campaigning to try and track down the two people he 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 under way our team spoke to former chief editor of newspaper. london he says all they caution was also an outspoken and avid blogger and his views 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 paper common sense has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist because of which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example so that the person could not write anymore there is a horror show element here. to stay with our team for the latest developments

around the attack on journalist all they 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 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 outside restraint it is one of. the neither side of him back and two officers been. hit in the back and actually having. 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 to the police station had stopped breathing he died a short time later there's no ideal outcome as my brother's dead ok 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 voice to the voice of 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 police officer has. that the convicts 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 census and mental institutions police officers they just commit all the minor crimes where they commit the crime of murder. and that's the main reason people are you to go to life would you know that this is going on and on people to do something about it if there are human rights abuses in iran we complain when we complain about human rights abuses happen in britain and the sense of be the silence.

that's worth shouting about these people say that this place hast pile on it's the police to downing street with peace to take that petition and they had to beat it tight to the railings. know what you were and it's. been stay with us here on our coming your way later this hour we have the world's oldest and dad's a russian of world war two veteran who became a proud father at the age of almost ninety. 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 and join our close up team in their search for wild nature is treasures of siberia just a few minutes. but first an amendment to the law governing protest rallies has been

vetoed by russian president dmitri medvedev the proposal supported by the parliament would have made the process of getting approval for a gathering tougher medvedev defended his decision saying that the legal adjustment would have been a breach of human rights yet or in chief of the slovo newspaper says by vetoing the changes the president was doing his job. the mad men is actually rural british beauty of nature because for instance they were a bit of a 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 railings 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. moscow in kabul have agreed to

step up the fight against drug trafficking from afghanistan this follows previous condemnation by afghan president hamid karzai of the recent joint russian nato anti-drug raid which he said violated the country's sovereignty military analysts yevgeny khrushchev says that the afghan leaders u.-turn was unpredictable. 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 an official top lobbyist for afghan drag lords and now he has a unique opportunity to lead the way the they have been counting our katic police in hell manned and khandahar and thus to prove he's relevance as the genuine leader again is stand and to lead the aerial and airborne assault on the poppy fields in

southern afghanistan you 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 to 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. for more on this and everything we cover here on our team can always click to our website our team dot com here's what's online right now. get lost in moscow you could find yourself in london the distance between the two capitals has been shortened by graffiti artists by the big ben beside the crime one at r.t. dot com. plus a historic day for millions who suddenly realize their party no longer existed one thousand years ago the seemingly untouchable soviet communist party was bad for russia find out how it happened in our russian now section.

he may be pushing ninety but a world war two veteran from southern russia has shown he still has what it takes to become a dad our mice knows our became one of the world's oldest fathers this summer as r.t. dennis blonsky discovered he has plenty of stories to tell his baby boy. out of my east 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 who died before the war you know to live very end the birth of their second child was

a miracle for our my niece 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 no for my future and so the russia the birth of little water to turn them into local celebrities. oh 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 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 loam this life will lest most men in other mice not thought of his family have lived long lives so he's hoping 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 then as the laws across the region. later in the program we delve into the events of one of the toughest most important periods of the second world war the spring of one thousand nine hundred five when a big part of europe was still in the hands of nazi forces and our special report those who were liberated by soviet troops unveil new details of the war and its aftermath. looked forward to be helped and see. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of. spring of nineteen forty five on our. turning now to some other stories making

headlines across the globe eighteen people have been killed in the northern china after a fire broke out of the shopping center another twenty four people were injured and more than ninety had to be rescued according to chinese media there were few victims among the visitors as the blaze started shortly after the center opened more than sixty shops were at the center many of them selling electronics. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets of france to protest against state pension and retirement changes the marches are being seen as a last ditch attempt by labor unions to stop this are cozy government increasing the retirement age by two nears to sixty two the bill passed by lawmakers has been hugely unpopular with a large section of the french public but militant action by trade unions leading to major disruptions has weakened support for the protests. and a train carrying one hundred twenty three tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste has crossed from france to germany despite protests from people in both countries

authorities diverted the train after environmentalists gathered at the border in a bid to block the transport the train which is bringing 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. next we take off on another edition of the close up series as we continue exploring what russia has to offer. this week we continue exploring the tomsk region in western siberia it's not only were rich in oil and gas but also for the variety of natural treasures growing in the wild life forests are an abundant natural resource for the region and a priceless recreational area for residents our contests are so he 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 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 was very interesting here is that this is really growing in the wild so people here can just go to the forest 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 region 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 that is to get 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 picked is processed here 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 your wife is this before we patrol the surrounding forests the following 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 and when true 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 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 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 and it's not just the siberian hinterland that has pointed to her how about her journey to disney stay with us as we talk to the chief of the walt disney company in the c.i.s.

coming up shortly. 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 says

actually mean that movies are becoming a full fledged business in russia was just a 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 this new movies so i think with a lot of comfort i can say that. this is a really important and very fast growing market in russian but yet do you maybe have a feeling that that could just make company came a little late to the russian market. in our view it was exactly the right time. 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 are 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 sell our programming on a lot of channels i will. 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 us to snare actually sell in russia and 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 two 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 one european mean what do russian companies need to do to catch up with a standard itself their 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 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 some how we tell stories how the characters develop and always have the happy ending in all the release that's really interesting to us actually of. 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 strongly believe that russian audience has a very distant taste definitely a lot of our big blockbusters work in russia and russia nor do. they love 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 with our fairy tales that we started with masters we tapped into something

that was no doubt. 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 film festivals around the world what we see in traditional russian stories can also travel just beyond the russian audience even though the book of masters was created for the russian origin specifically that d.v.d.'s is one of the sources of your income's piracy is a huge problem in russia one of the annual losses for this name 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 disney not only in russia in a lot of countries what we see recently that people try 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 a call it's

a legal product to the audiences for very different price points and what we see our d.v.d. sales and brewery 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 they 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 is the main stumbling points would you say that the unit or your unit of local corporations facing the same

problems here will this new companies temper shellfish. in two thousand and six and imagine at that time there was nobody 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 than 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 and especially on the cartoon market do you think maybe there's a chance to japanese anime may will actually squeeze out the traditional cartoon which has actually been bergen in chips for years and. when t.v. . everybody said all the theater will die all of this. so i think there is very different types of thing to tame and that people would like and definitely japanese animation is a very very important part of that kids love the movie kid loves old soviet movies

and mated movies so i don't think it will influence strongly yes it's one of the very interesting and important types old imation which will i 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 the new very interesting releases are obviously tangled very exciting movie and next year we're really really looking forward to releasing parts of the caribbean thank you very much for this and we thank you.