tv [untitled] November 7, 2010 12:00pm-12:30pm EST
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was also met with mistrust. one of russia's top investigative journalist severely beaten in moscow his professional activity suspected to be behind the attack. responsive look good will cost the smuggler one hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell it to iran over four hundred poverty and despair for so many iraqis to smuggle banned alcohol into neighboring iran at the risk of their present and their lives are to follows the dangerous trade route. and president obama's party suffers at the u.s. midterm elections but many say it's ordinary americans who have lost out as big business played a big part in deciding the outcome. eight pm in moscow i matras a giving you today's news and
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a look back at the week that was here on r t our top story in a fresh and james bond style scandal between russia and georgia to police he this week confirmed that it had arrested thirteen people accused of spying for moscow russia says the whole story is a political farce and that georgian authorities are simply attention seeking ahead of a nato summit as artie's arena glue show reports many georgians fear the government's anti russian mania could land them in prison for espionage also. 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 formation with witchcraft and worked was just his analysis if you look at his case you'll see that
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it's easy to say that anyone's a spine george or something with. the lynas husband was george's envoy to nato he was named in a 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 thurst 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 me 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
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a combination of all three and many say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted almost immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine area fueled by under russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating simular scandals more than once cynically hoping to political divisions inside the country and abroad some analysts believe the whole affair was an attempt to put pressure on georgia's opposition. the regime of saakashvili does not feel safe and they use any possible to again even in their struggle against a position which still is not consolidated body is getting in power more and more and in georgia despite the story was met with distrust. everything that concerns any information coming from the georgian authorities is highly don't feel and with a healthy dose of irony. this whole affair seemed to be fashioned on the american
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spy scandal. on the chaplain of the six symbol but apparently it tastes the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to have those collation. the twelve tbilisi in mosco exchange verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her and. i'm not a free but i know that if need be georgian authorities can accuse not only me but any georgian citizen inspired for any contradiction they don't need to trade now but when they will they will accuse me of a pretty. tbilisi georgia. russia receive nato proposal for a joint european missile defense system on wednesday the alliance the secretary general was on a visit to moscow and has for rasmusen stressed that nato seems russia as a friend and a central player in
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a regional stability president medvedev said partnership with the alliance could boost security in europe and the world the meeting comes ahead of a nato summit in lisbon later this month which the president will attend an expert in conflict resolution to metering trend and tells our team that are joining russia nato missile defense project could be a breakthrough for both sides. the secretary general is a champion of joint missile defense on russia's rationals or corporation with nato on missile defense and he made that statement during his first speech on russia oakley's first major speech on any issue that he made in september last year basically you need to realize that no amount of the strategic arms reductions and limitations can transform the russian nato russia western russia us relationship one needs to have a strategic collaborative project and it looks like a missile defense is the one thing the silver bullet the project that kim has the
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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. nato's original plans for an anti-missile shield in europe sent russia's relations with the alliance to a new low but recently things have been on the mend in september nato invited russia to take part in the alliances next summit and last month the two sides carried out a joint anti-drug raid and afghanistan. while russia and nato boost cooperation in afghanistan moscow delivered the first of sixteen planes with weaponry to come on tuesday the arms are being supplied free of charge following an agreement between the two sat between the two states on fighting militants and drug trafficking russia's defense minister says it's possible that the country's military experts will help train afghan security forces moscow has however stayed about the troops and will not return to afghanistan despite earlier speculation. to iraq now where
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the war has a ravaged the economy with estimates suggesting a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line many resort to illegal means to make ends meet smuggling spirits into neighboring iran where drinking is a banned r. t. sebastian meyer follows the alcohol trail. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze taking into a room. the homeless forbid in the slum a group public much of who is was he can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smugglers storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around absolute funky teachers here mr chavez risky black and white ski back here we have johnny walker black label we have johnny walker red label over here and we even have over four different kinds of smear know. this box of laws will cost the smuggler one hundred
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five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran for over four hundred miles of the profits appear amends to men who actually take a dangerous journey are paid a mere fifty dollars a night this is not work for those looking to make a fortune. it is work for the poor uneducated in desperate. i do this because i'm a literate. so this is the only job i can do out of the rain is brutal in its approach to keep alcohol out a smuggler recently arrested and was sentenced to life by others who have been wounded in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars and then charge the price of the bullets that were shot with a mind they stepped on. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings arrests or fights terrible nothing we can do because we are. dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side of the small river that makes the border so it's a series of shanty towns full of tattered shacks small shelters for the smugglers
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as well as for the horses the police is filthy and stinks of course down there and money this isn't a life and there's no food or drink it's during the cold and went. down. on the other side said hundreds of a reunion border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents put. in their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived they mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers. came from the other side and took three of my mules back across the border and showed everyone. the remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in it is clear the smugglers quickly finish packing their horses and then take off towards the border what awaits them on the iranian side is uncertain what is certain is tomorrow the same dangerous job awaits those who are
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desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer party on the iran iraq border. stay with us here on r t still ahead visit that's triggered an angry response. team better. as far east euro islands and explore why japan is on happy. and russia's prime minister has been thrill seeking again we look at vladimir putin's latest extreme. but first midterm elections in the u.s. dealt a serious blow to president obama's administration republicans wrote a wave of public frustration with the pace of the economic recovery to win a majority in the house of representatives but experts say it's not the regular voters but big business money that's determine the outcome. 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
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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 the 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 is also a darling among large health insurers oil firms and drug manufacturers baner 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
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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 private to think 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 market. and wants to increase taxes for the rich they are betting against his party fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably the perforations the main tools for making things work their way and
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it wasn't hard with most americans on happy with the way economy works and with the unemployment rate at each 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 down because of someone's special interests on the outside this democracy is usually people coming to a polling stations putting a cost before the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on meet first it seems they really have the vote in american mail is money going to shut down on t. washington d.c. . as the republicans make a comeback in congress one republican a former president is also coming back with his memoirs later we'll look at this
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hour we'll look at how people are remembering george w. bush two years on. the job after that as well iraq war a lot of things i remember about george bush i think will be like harry truman it may take twenty years twenty years later i think you'll be looked upon as maybe a decent president. before we get to that a top level police investigation has been launched into a vicious attack on a russian investigative journalist whole leg caution a correspondent for the newspaper commerce was brutally beaten near his moscow home friday night he's already undergone two surgeries doctors say his condition is serious but stable investigators name cautions professional activity is one likely reason behind the assault police said. tain c.c.t.v. footage showing two people attacking the journalist the case has drawn a wide public response with many rallies in support of caution taking place in
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moscow and st petersburg russia's president dmitry medvedev says the attackers must be found and punished under former editor in chief of commerce says oleg cautions a bold writing could indeed have provoked anger among some. but of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open minded than in the paper common sense has a suit and more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the defensive which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example so that the person who could not write in there is a horror show element. that japan seems ready to mend ties with russia as at some basket or has returned to moscow earlier than expected he was recalled following a dispute over president medvedev his visit to the korea islands to which tokyo also lays claim but as artie's oksana boyko reports moscow has not forgotten its remote territory and has big plans for it. it's
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a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore but their barrels pointed toward japan they're about to be scrapped format 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 allens changed hands several times it took the soviet union less than a month to expel the japanese army from the islands in august of ninety eight forty five that prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty living a door open for japan to claim the arlin sovereignty. sixty five years after their handover the tussle to define the islands national identity still goes on this cross a period here if you years ago when the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of she could. after decades of seeing its population window they are and is now in the midst of
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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 living standards acquired decent nowadays just a few hundred metres from the church atika human motor is teaching japanese at a local school and here class seven greater sit alongside their parents and many of them getting a job in japan is that vast charge at lifting their families out of poverty are classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year and hippias 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 an important part of our land we would definitely invest some money into the region. and the midst of reach fishing
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grounds the ons are a prime spot to buy seafood an opportunity that mitchell inventive didn't miss. what is it smelt can i get some. while fish and seafood are affordable here everything else cost almost twice as much as on the mainland the locals complained of unreliable supply but as the president noticed one item was always in stock. apparently you don't have any problems with the supply of alcohol here. the president's visit wasn't missed on the japanese side took his 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 cruel islands even though japan had earlier notified russia that there could be a negative impact on bilateral relations his russian counterpart was unmoved. because that only japan's reaction isn't acceptable it's our land and russian
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president was visiting russian territory with already explained this to were just a nice porkers plan to once again been a big risk to retreat this position however we're not going to take any steps that would hinder relations while the russian officials consider last week's rout over the greenland's unfortunate they stressed that their first priority is to make sure that the people who actually believe on the islands aren't left feeling marooned 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 likely to do so in the future the audience maybe and then ted rall part of russia on the map but they cannot make clear and logistically they are still very much a foreign land it's not a boycott r.c. in russia's far east. remember our web site r t dot com will always keep you posted on these and many other stories we cover including this on this day sixty nine
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years ago nazi forces got closer to moscow than ever before about soviet troops destroyed germany's ambitions and one of the fiercest world war two battles party dot com offers a flashback to the landmark event. and some people think rats had to be beautiful as has been proved by an unusual beauty pageant in russia you can watch their pet rodents from all over the country struck their stuff on our website r t. an elderly woman in southern russia has died after being brutally mauled by her neighbor's dogs the incident has ignited debate over legislation and punishment for the owners of dangerous breeds as artie's dennis bosky found out opinion seems
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divided. 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 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 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 uses the owners of the bulls kept them for breeding but it seems they didn't keep them secure enough since on the free fall day they managed to escape jumping over a fence and tearing through the neighborhood so when you have to believe
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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 to have the owners behind her up to tomorrow the cross product another is attacked is one of the security guards to go out on the other on a specific legislation should be introduced in russia currently twelve countries have bans for special conditions but pit bull and american stuff are shared theory or ownership restrictions are not an option say the members of this dog owners club in the city of sochi let's speak to the animal trainer and greet the seven. new
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year old staffordshire terrier new when you can feel it even that there should be no breed specific discrimination dog owners should consider certain treatment using a dung but it doesn't mean that some dogs should be labeled more dangerous and there for some kind of special super training. with the last name that many girls who never sleeps with says that and most cases it's not the end of all this but their owners who are troubling the average p.c. training course were pit bull terrier slash two to three months it costs 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 be gentle or to keep our cross in the region after two years out of the limelight george w. bush has published memoirs reflecting on his life and presidency and confessing
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some mistakes from the past warrior finessed also known as the resident took to the streets of new york to check out what memories people have of him and if time may have revived 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 going to prom with him he's cool in 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 they know but. but i don't think obama's really proven
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anything you know above and beyond what he did so makes him look a little better i guess than one might not be able to get a job after that as well iraq war a lot of things i remember about george bush today do you think that his staying out of the limelight for a couple years has helped his image in dollars that kind of just i don't think it's changed you know the first six seven years were good less year we had the financial difficulties and the difficult we do the 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 that'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 ends whether that's in two thousand and fourteen or twenty eighteen we'll have to wait and see.
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switching gears now the russian prime minister of seems to be looking to become the fastest politician in the world his need for speed was fulfilled in st petersburg where he took to the track on four wheels. the world with visible space in my old soviet. well it may have been a little cramped but that didn't prevent the premier from doing up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour in this f one race or yellow seems to me vladimir putin's favorite car color earlier this year he took a spin along a new russian highway and a canary hewitt a lotta clearly likes to be in the driver's seat in the paddock and taking control of the fighter jets bikes and combine harvesters. i'll be back shortly with a headline stay with us as we wrap up the week's news here at our.
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