top stories of the week here on r.t. spies and lines many georgians fear tbilisi's and see russian paranoia could find them accused of espionage the next. two heads are better than one russia

and nato pledged to work together to create a defense system to neutralize common threats. obama called it a shellacking critics say it was just a good old beating but something cash not vote for the republicans to victory in this week's u.s. midterm elections. alkie public go out tokyo's goodbye president medvedev to visit to russia's real island which japan claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing in its remote. and international space station is celebrating ten years of human life in orbit the longest stretch spent outside the earth's atmosphere goes to the space citizens.

we are running down the top stories off today. and all of this week here on r.t. this week has seen a new scandal flaring up between russia and georgia tbilisi said thirteen people were caught spying for moscow russia claimed the whole story is a political farce sound deliberate provocation by the georgian authorities ahead of a key nato summit and as aziz arena reports from tbilisi the opposition is considering the swoop to be yet another attack on the government's opponents. for alina this spy scandal was a horrible deja vu her own husband. was thrown into prison for allegedly spying for russia during the two thousand and eight conflict between georgia and south the city or. they said some three thousand three hundred pages of data which my husband supposedly sam to russia that's

a blatant lie we have presented evidence numerous times that on from ation with witchcraft and worked was just his analysis if you look at his case you'll see that it's easy to say that anyone's a spine ga something with. the lynas husband was george's envoy to nato he was named in the documentary just shown on one of george's main channels to as one of the russian spies who didn't get away in fact the film was just part of what seemed to be a spy novel unraveling in a small caucasus country over the past week first the news of the arrests that came suddenly and not from the authorities but through western news source then a week of silence after which the georgian interior ministry made the announcement with much pomp and circumstance aspiring for years a work by the georgian counter-intelligence service amol invited into russia's chief intelligence directorate so what is this latest spy scandal all about

a political farce a desperate plea for attention or simply much ado about nothing moscow says it's a combination of all three and benny's say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted almost immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine mania fueled by under russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating simula scandals more than once cynically hoping to turn political dissidents inside the country and abroad some analysts believe the whole affair was an attempt to put pressure on georgia's opposition. the regime of circus really does not feel safe and they use any possible to again in the in their struggle against a position which still is not consolidated but is getting in power more and more and in georgia the spy story was met with distrust. everything that concerns any

information coming from the georgian authorities is highly don't for and with a healthy dose of irony. this whole affair seemed to be fashioned on the american spy scandal only it lacked on the chaplain the sex symbol but apparently it tastes different at the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to have those collation. the twelve tbilisi in mosco exchanged verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her and. i'm not afraid but i know that if need be georgian authorities can accuse not only me but any georgian citizen inspiron for any country they don't need to right now but when they will they will accuse me of the committee. to be lisi georgia. russia received nato as proposal for a joint european missile defense program when the alliances secretary general

anders fogh rasmussen visited moscow this week the nato chief stressed that the alliance sees russia as a friend and partner as being essential to regional stability the russian side has stated that the plan should be based on principles of the equal development of a system that would neutralize common threats the meeting comes ahead of a key nato summit in lisbon on november the twenty of an expert in conflict resolution dmitri trenin told r.t. that a joint russia nato missile defense project could be a breakthrough for both sides it's. the secretary general is a champion. joint missile defense on russia's russia. corporation with nato on missile defense he made that statement during his first speech on russia first major speech on any issue that he made in september last year under the auspices of the carnegie endowment basically you need to realize that no amount

of the strategic arms reduction in those limitations can transform the russian state the old russia western russia us relationship one nice to have a strategic collaborative project and it looks like missile defense is the one thing the silver bullet the project that kim has the potential at least to transform the entire russian western relationship it's a game changer or if with fail to seize upon that it could be a game breaker. scandalous and hysterical is how russia viewed the temporary recall of the japanese ambassador from moscow the reaction followed president medvedev this visit to the russian coup real islands which tokyo claims for itself as artie's office on a boycott reports moscow says a more visits are planned to promote business development in that region. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore it had

barrels pointed toward japan there are about to be scrapped. when the visit by the russian president put them at the center of another fiery exchange between russia and japan discovered in the seventeenth century the audience changed hands several times to the soviet union lost in the month to expel the japanese army from the islands in all this stuff nineteen forty five that prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty living a door open for japan to claim they are the seventy. sixty five years after their handover the tussle to define the islands national identity still goes on this cross appeared here and few years ago when the russian orthodox church parish and the island of she katon after decades of seeing its population window the on and is now in the midst of a baby boom. we have the husband straight in the entire region there are many kids

here and parents bring them to be baptized and livingston's it's a quite decent nowadays just a few hundred metres from the church at ikeja motor is teaching japanese at a local school and here class seven greater see the long side their parents many of them getting a job and japan is that best shot at lifting their families out of poverty most of our classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year. sometimes it seems like and with my family again. this is precisely why the president came here to tell the locals that russia has not forgotten about them and while the regional officials tried to paint a pretty picture of roads and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's chronic financial problems so it's important possible land we will definitely invest money into the region. and the midst of reach dishing grounds on and. a prime spot to buy seafood an opportunity that mitchell inventive didn't miss the

point is it is. ok to get some. while fish and seafood are affordable here everything else costs almost twice as much as on the mainland the locals complained of unreliable supply but as the president noticed one item was always talk. apparently you don't have any problems with the supply and i'll call here to get the president's visit wasn't missed on the japanese side foreign minister said the trip heard japanese public sentiment and temporarily recalled its ambassador from moscow. it is extremely regrettable that president medvedev visited the korea lions even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations his russian counterpart was an. idiot savant because that only japan's reaction is an acceptable it's our land and russian president was visiting russian territory with already explained this to

were just a nice porkers to once again been a big risk to retreat this position however we're not going to take any steps that would change relations while the russian officials consider last week's rout over the greenland unfortunate they stressed that their first priority is to make sure that the people who actually believe on the islands aren't left feeling more wrong according to a two thousand and nine nationwide poll about ninety percent of russians would strongly object to handing the grill audience over to japan but the overwhelming majority of the respondents have never visited this territory and are very unlikely to do so in the future the audience may be an integral part of russia on the map but they cannot make clear and logistically they're still very much a foreign land it's not a boycott r.c. in russia's far east. and coming up a little bit later in the program here on ars he delivered it to the hospital with no water and a massive blood loss a woman dies after several days in

a coma who should take the blame when i dog's bite is worse than its bark also. big will be like harry truman it may take twenty years twenty years later i think i'll be looked upon as maybe a decent president after two years out of the limelight george w. bush publishes his memoirs the resident checks out if people have any fond memories of. a top level police investigation has been launched into a vicious attack on a russian journalist oleg kashin a correspondent for the newspaper com our son was brutally beaten nearest home and is now in an induced coma with a severe injuries police are searching for suspects as a c.c.t.v. footage was obtained showing two people attacking the journalist the assault has drawn a wide public response with many rallies in support of cash and taking place in moscow the russian president has personally commented on the case saying that those

responsible must be found with the help of the country's best investigators and the former editor in chief of commerce and says questions writing it may have been linked to the brutal assault. of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open and outspoken online than in the paper common sense has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist mccown's think it all of which took place a couple of years ago this mission of his fingers for example so that the person who could not write any will there is a horror show element here. the mid-term elections in the u.s. were a big blow to obama's administration and the republicans wrote a wave of public frustration to take the house of representatives unlike in previous elections there was no limit to how much big businesses could bankroll the

parties but critics say money decided the outcome not the american voter. this was a special election year in the us for the first time corporations were allowed to funnel as much money as they wanted into political campaigns and they definitely did not miss out on the chance to buy influence on capitol hill we've come to take our government and by big businesses pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of the republican party that's now in charge of the house of representatives so what was at stake what they're hoping to do is bend laws and regulations or prevent new laws and regulations from being approved they'll cut in their bottom lines the problem is that a lot of these rules and regulations exist for a purpose they're supposed to protect the public interest to watch corporate influence inaction take republican john boehner now a majority leader in the house of representatives wall street invested millions of dollars in his campaign he's also a darling among large health insurers oil firms and drug manufacturers has been or

is campaigning against all kinds of government regulations and against a tax increase for the rich and other republican congressman spencer baucus is going to be the chair of the house committee on financial services he has reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street and pledged to fight against tougher rules for the financial market and it seems there is no way around it the election system in the u.s. is such that it's virtually impossible to run for office without strong financial backing but the bigger the backing the more candidates over to their benefactors many argue the latest supreme court decision which made it possible for corporations to invest unlimited amounts of money in politics and be able to be credited as anonymous donors has basically legalized corruption one definition of core option is the privatization of public policy two years ago corporations

supported obama knowing it was going to bail them out but now that he imposed tougher rules on the financial markets. and wants to increase taxes for the rich they are betting against his party no fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably the perpetrations the main tools for making things work their way and it wasn't hard with most americans on happy with the way economy works and with the unemployment rate at its worst in almost thirty years people are frustrated they're deeply frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery some corporate darling channels like fox news were especially good at channeling people's trust ration. but many americans now fear their interest of being left out because of someone's special interests on the outside is democracy as usual with people coming to a polling station putting a quasi for the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on

me first it seems all really has the vote in american mail is money and it's shut down on t. washington d.c. . russia will reconsider its decision to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty with the u.s. that's in order to look into the twenty six amendments to the original version made by the american senate among them all clauses stipulating the treaty doesn't cover the deployment of a u.s. missile defense system or ballistic missiles with conventional warheads the deal signed by presidents obama and medvedev in april would see both country's nuclear arsenals slashed by a third but the mid-term elections have trimmed democrats majority in the senate meaning the treaty could face stiff opposition from the republicans antiwar activists and radio host scott horsley does things democrats have made a farce of nuclear weapons. in order to get the republicans to sign on to the start

treaty they basically had to add so many amendments and riders to the thing that it basically allows for the creation of a brand new. generations of hydrogen bombs dozens and dozens uncounted new facilities for manufacturing hydrogen bombs more submarines more air power and they've changed the accounting methods for the nuclear warheads in such a way that actually the united states doesn't really have to reduce their stockpile of nuclear weapons hardly at all so they've turned what ought to be the most important issue in the world to the mutual. reduction of american russia's nuclear weapons stockpiles towards zero and turned it into a farce turned it into a way for republican congressmen to get bankrolled so that they can run again next time and keep the companies that manufacture nuclear weapons and or make the parts for the manufacture nuclear weapons in business at the expense of the rest of us and at the risk of our entire species in fact while the u.s. president hopes the senate will approve the historic nuclear reduction deal with

moscow by the end of the year. we have negotiated with the russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms this is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support this is a traditionally democratic or republican issue but rather an. issue of american national security and i am hopeful that we can get that done and send a strong signal to russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenals. almost two years after the end of his controversial presidency george w. bush is releasing his memoirs laurie oftenest also known as the resident tries to see what he is most remembered for and if the time out of the limelight has restored his image.

decision points george w. bush's memoir is hitting bookstores everywhere how do you remember him this week let's talk about that i remember him as will ferrell being dropped to the stage gently on the cable from a helicopter and landing in times square fictionally being dumped and saying when he arrived that was weird on obama's inaugural day that's how i remember so you don't have necessarily fond memories of even two years later well i would say that's a fund memory i got a problem with in the school my book though do you think that people in general feel better about him now two years later than they did when he was in office. i would say that i know but. but i don't think obama's really proven anything you know above and beyond what he did so makes him look a little better i guess and one might not be able to get

a job after that as well iraq war a lot of things i remember about george bush though do you think that his out of the limelight for a couple years has helped with the image of dollars that kind of just i don't think it's changed you know the first six seven years were good for less year we had the financial difficulties and the difficulty we did a war i think will be like harry truman it may take twenty years twenty years later i think will be looked upon as maybe a decent president if you think it's fair for a lot of presidents it takes some mattress back i think so i think the only thing we could look barely upon initially was nixon with the watergate he never really seemed to recapture new glory the bottom line is it's always easier to judge in hindsight so it'll be interesting to see what people think about bama two years after his presidency and whether that's in two thousand and fourteen or twenty eighteen we'll have to wait and.

an elderly woman who was mauled and disfigured by her neighbor's dogs sparking heated debate over who should be held responsible for such attacks. found out the issue is difficult to solve with some pointing the finger at dog breeds while others blame bad owners. this eighty five year old woman fell victim to an attack by two pit bulls a neighbor she deserved the woman screamed for help called the police when the officers arrived the raging animals turned on them. if these dogs smelled blood once that said they turn into killer dogs the officers fired several rounds eventually killing both but the bulls by the time the woman was unconscious she was immediately taken to a nearby hospital apparently results in the can show as we had to perform an operation immediately had to amputate her arms she was literally torn apart by the dogs the injuries were serious to her hair her face and the neck and arms and legs

were damaged badly when the patient was of a state of shock of resistance and invasion since the owners of the bulls kept them for breeding but it seems they didn't keep them secure enough since on the free full day they managed to escape jumping over a fence and tearing through the neighborhood so their leader had to believe unfortunately it's not the first time when dangerous animals are causing severe and sometimes deadly injurious there is a gap in legislation when it comes to dog ownership and punishment for those whose any most attacked people large dogs should be considered dangerous just like handguns. initially the owners of the bulls were charged with negligence resulting in bodily harm but the victim later died from her injuries after spending a week in a coma now the case could be reclassified as negligence resulting in death and it may have pulled out the owners behind are up to us who are the product that others attack as want to secure our to our our specific legislation should be introduced

in russia currently twelve countries have bans for special conditions but pit bull and american stuff are cheered terrier ownership restrictions are not an option say the members of this dog owners club in the city of sochi let's speak to the enemy trainer and greek the seventy year olds the. terrier you know when you could do it even the company there should be no breed specific discrimination dog owners should consider certain traits when choosing a drunk but it doesn't mean that some dogs should be labeled more dangerous and there for some kind of special super training. class now that maybe girls who nursed likes that long that insist that the most cases it's not the end of all this but their owners who are doing the average p.c. training course work to be carriers last two to three months these costs are just six hundred dollars but when presented with a case as horrific and preventable as the one surrounding the death of this elderly

cross and our resident a few hundred dollars seems a small price to pay. r t crossed in our region well you can always find more news videos on blogs on our website www dot com let's take a look now at what what's waiting for you want to wear like how to smile and unique inventive great historic significance sixty nine years ago troops marched from the red square directly to the front line to defend moscow from nazi germany in commemoration of this day our website called provides full coverage of the annual military parade but. also a furry beauty pageant russia's most charming norad's are competing for the title of the queen of rodin's pick your favorite contestant on t.v. dot com.

one of the most ambitious projects in history the international space station is marking a decade of manned operations this is the longest period of continuous human habitation outside the earth artie's learn what it takes to become a space satellite. member the second two thousand the first permanent crew reaches the international space station as the world watches its arguably humanity's most them vicious engineering project to date a mixture of science technology and political cooperation between formal sworn enemies. in the ten years since there i says has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred visitors while for a shock but at the before the i s s is a breakthrough corporation that of before there was a separate space agencies now they work together like a commodity it's a little more this station has cost the taxpayer one hundred billion dollars and

that's just absurd it's too much but it's their money now admit they're not sure what to expect from the station and that includes the expedition one cosmonauts themselves you to get them get the trains but then shall i says crewmembers his own training was more chaotic come over to me because i when i should when we started training for the station itself did not exist there were no manuals for and there were no exercise machines with the first crews job was to fully activate the station much of it had been assembled separately in russia and the united states and the first time beach parts came together wasn't space of the militia would be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful but if we felt that we'd have to return to earth and abandon the station it would never have been constructed as planned expedition one was a success despite problems with construction following the columbia shuttle disaster three years later most of the modules were eventually successfully docked the completed space station provides a unique platform for experiments and weightlessness that could develop new

materials and medicines starting real now and next year we're going to find out if you have researchers tinkering in space we can have breakthroughs if not the whole thing was a waste but others believe that the value of the i assess is not that scientific discoveries its lifespan has already been extended to twenty twenty and possibly beyond that if we're looking at projects of using that i assess as a docking port for missions to the moon and even mars. and if mankind does venture further afield i search will serve both as a blueprint and an instruction manual of space should do so and don'ts whatever its limitations and budget over and. di assess is important at the tar worth no longer seemed like everything was possible in space and there are no longer the cold war budgets to fund that all the still proves that space research can be right at the edge of human endeavor either our nerve artsy mosque.