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his home and remains in a coma. in britain demonstrators have been convictions for police officers responsible for the titles in custody with none so far ever found guilty of killing despite the data rate while we. counted all cs closeout series goes and while it doesn't take a dip and a lot and offering. a very good for business and they say they're in regional told some. news from russia and around the wall this is all see with me. thanks for joining us russian president dmitri medvedev has personally ordered a top level police investigation into the stoppage breezing of

a newspaper journalists near his moscow home saying those responsible must be found and punished cometa sound reporter caution is not a medically induced coma in hospital with multiple severe injuries after a time being treated as attempted murder with investigators say might be lightning so he's what he's been told about reports from. 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

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 bites you sure you know they didn't take anything from him he was conscious and he said 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 this search 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 for us more through the summer hours 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 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 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 in a campaign to try and track down those responsible is currently under way. and then i was spoke to the former chief that have come at santander from london and he says elect cashman is also an outspoken blogger and said that his writing may have been linked to the brutal assault. of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blog and he was more open and outspoken in mind than in the people concerned has a certain style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist. which

took place a couple of years ago the smashing of his fingers for example so that the person who could not write it there is a horror show element. to stay with us for the latest developments surrounding that time journalist and their cash. campaign is in the u.k. are asking why no police officer has ever been charged in relation to prison and deaths in custody they claim that one person a week dies following contact with the police. reports. 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 happy pap's died in two thousand and eight routine stop

and search by the police he was he was being restrained by them when i say restraint it's it's one of. the neither side of the. officer. hit him in the back and that's really how you know it 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 is ok nothing is going to bring him back we know that but you know these things that have been carrying truths. so many years away from the 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 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 voiceless are the first majority of those who die in police custody of buildings with loss of have nots the marginalised often from tough 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 ever been convicted of murder or manslaughter. 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 going to tell everybody you know this is going. to do something about it if there are human rights abuses in iran we can try to complain about human rights abuses happen in britain and this seems to be the silence yes. yes yes yes that's where shouting about these people say but this protest fell on deaf ears the police at downing street refused to take their petition and they had to leave it tied to the railings and very thankful for the five men who were and that our team london. that's coming your way later this hour for me to build walls focused darren's of russian world war two veteran who became a proud father at the age of nearly ninety. it didn't take us very long to experience the extreme conditions in the siberian 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 plenty to offer join up close have team and that central wild nature treasures of siberia interested him but it. doesn't mean that it has vetoed moves by parliamentary deputies to restrict freedom of thought somebody that meant pas by they do or would have tightened they approval procedures for gatherings of demonstrations that have said the restrictions would have breached human rights at same chief of the slogan newspaper says by the saying the triangle is the president was doing his job in defending constitutional rights they mad men who sexually rural prohibitive nature because for instance they were able to buy person resign or proceedings for breaking a law in the past from organizing new rallies number two is that it stipulated time notification of the royal there should be extended whereas obviously. this is again something that prevents the freedom of assembly in russia i think the president as

a director of the constitution not just deborah bradley to defend the constitution the rights of the russian population and that's what he did. for more on this and other stories just log on to our website at r.t. dot com right now. get lost in moscow and find yourself in london the distance between the two has been shortened by graffiti artists find big band beside the kremlin at our table. and other historic day put millions of people who suddenly realized their policy no longer existed nineteen years ago they seemingly untouchable soviet communist party was banned throughout russia up find out how it happened and are rushing the second.

world war two veteran from southern russia has challenged families to retire was by far the three his second son at the age of eighty nine farm raised his now one of the old desires in the world has become a celebrity in his hometown and there's also his dad is the last kid reports local authorities are getting ready to provide more living space to the extended family. out of more east. but he loves to spend time with little love to believe it or not he's not this baby's groom bought. your daddy's boy my son is the father instead of the fairy tales of my niece is telling the child how he fought not six. daddy fought the war you know till the very end. the birth of their child was a miracle for our my east and he's thirty four year old wife you gania nobody want to share the joy with the world would you now 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 our my dear and seldom russia the birth of little or to own turned them into local celebrities. all our neighbors congratulate us. sixty recruits 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. grew a little tired of all the they still shared it with the press their only concern just how much longer this life. most men. have lived long lives so he sobering to see his one hundred first birthday but perhaps the very unusual russian family is how they're going to live their lives some twenty years from now without my us will pass away leaving them on their own. across the region

. have a look at some other international news stories eighteen people and found dead for a fire broke out in a shopping center in northern china the chinese state media agency says twenty four more were hurt most of the victims were shop staff as the fire started shortly after their complex opened police are investigating what caused the blaze. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have returned to the streets of france to protest against state pension and retirement changes the marchers are being seen as a last ditch attempt by labor unions to stop this sarkozy government increasing the retirement age by two years 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 causing major disruption as a weakened supporter protests. tens of thousands of protesters have failed to stop

a train carrying one hundred twenty three tons of nuclear waste from crossing the french border into germany the train was diverted after a huge protest by environmentalist at the border crossing the toxic cargo and the german facility where it's being stored has become the focus of the european anti-nuclear movement it prepares german government hopes to phase out nuclear power life as chancellor angela merkel has extended it more than a decade. up next it's ask his close up series as we continue exploring russia and its secrets. this week we've been exploring the toll the story john in western siberia it's not only rich with oil and gas but is also unique for the bottom right of natural treasures growing in the wild forests are an abundant natural resource for the return of the priceless recreational area for residents test i'll see it found for

his south the trauma zone this siberian wilderness. 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 top it has over a million hectares of agricultural land and more than half the territory is covered with forest. people are. forced families children

young people. who can collect for your own consumption or you can sell them at a good price there are people who live 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. is the first stage of what processing is to get. together to special stations where people bring them there is a huge potential here which needs to be realised 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 the death of our company processes wild berries we store frozen berries in industrial 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 phony here is quite diverse you can spot alex spears 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. would come in urban people are just not suited to all this it takes no one animal's habits and being a good shot 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 so

that 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 that you just tell us a bit more about this industry and talks. first of all in terms it's a sport because half of the people in the city where and season is 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 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 what grows is actually collected so there's a vase for the industry to grow you know to what extent do you think it's going to grow we can speak of 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. be a collection and the process a growing natural products is a developing sector industry as a 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 that is what's most interesting about this sector and to where it's going to be going in the future will again depend on nature. and it's not just the siberian wilderness that has plenty to offer for you how about a journey to disney stay with us as we talk to the chief they won't disney company

in the c.i.s. that's coming up shortly. you . might think you very much for this interview thank you very much for the invitation now more and more russian films take part in the international film festival so

sexually mean that movies are becoming a full fledged business in russia walt disney 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 maybe have a feeling that could just a 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 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. channel in russia. so for all of that to happen i mean the economy needs to be prepared so what kind of products justice nationally sell in russia and the c.i.s. countries will sell 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 we really produce 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 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 to the company and tell them some how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending you know the distilleries that's really interesting to us actually to snowfalls. a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be felt like a very specific content 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 russian ordinance a lot higher than 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 with our fairytales that we started with masters and 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 i mean 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 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 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 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 our 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 said it's very difficult to make business in russia and they are citing corruption and bureaucracy as main stumbling points would you say that the unit or your unit have the distinct local corporations

facing the same problems here well this new company established. in two thousand and. six as 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 no 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 using it maybe there's a chance to japanese anime it will actually squeeze out the traditional cartoon which has actually been bergen in chips which just made for years and years when t.v. . everybody said all the theater will die all of this. so i think there is very different types of entertainment that people would like and definitely japanese animation is a very very important part of kids love the movies kid loves old movies

and emitted movies so i don't think it will influence strongly yes it's one of the very interesting and important sold imation which will a 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 said 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 pirates of the caribbean and i thank you very much for this interview thank you.