do you fish. on the phone i pod touch from the. video on demand. in my old car. and street now with the palm of your. on the dot com. and look at the week's top stories calls releases the rest of thirteen that edged russian spies a groundless political fawaz aimed at scoring political points was made to but this

was brought fear among some georgians. make time nightmare for the democratic party with a major defeat and elections and loss of control of the house of representatives but some say it's big business rather than the american people which has had the biggest say. i'll say let's see how shocking paul was he caused by the board in iraq also some to risk their lives to make ends meet smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran strictly by armed. and a top level investigation is ordered by russian president dmitry medvedev after the virtue attempted murder of a leading investigative journalist and also links to his what. hello and welcome to the program this is all cs weekly review. main story well.

thirteen people arrested in georgia accused of spying for russia innocent victims of political gains their foreign ministry describes the verb as a political force orchestrated by the administration attention seeking before a nato summit involving russia but as aussies arena cover ports many georgians fear their governments could learn them and present it. 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 time 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 asian would 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 georgia from being with. the limits husband was george's envoy to nato he was named in a documentary just shown on one of george's main channels restudy too 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 may be announcement with much pomp and circumstance aspiring for years a work by the georgian counter-intelligence service a more embedded 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 many say it won't do georgia any good mosco reacted

almost to meet. the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine mania fueled by under russian sentiments in recent years the georgian leadership has resorted to fabricating similar scandals more than once cynically hoping to 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 their struggle against a position which still is not consolidated body 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 fall and with a healthy dose of irony. this whole affair seemed to be fashioned on the american

spy scandal only it lacked and on the chaplin the sex symbol but apparently the taste at the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to another escalation. but police 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 contradiction they donated to right now but when they will they will accuse me of a movie. to be lisi georgia. a question mark appeared this week over the ratification of the strategic arms reduction agreement between moscow and washington russia's state duma foreign affairs committee revoking its approval of the start treaty following a number of changes made by the us senate the treat it could also face more

opposition within the us after american meantime elections gave republicans more seats in congress the deal signed by presidents made that if and in april this year we'll see the nuclear arsenals of both countries slashed by a set to come into force it has to be approved by the russian parliament and the u.s. congress despite the difficulties president obama hopes the senate will approve the historic nuclear arms reduction deal with moscow by the end of the get this and he will accept this and journalists called course and believes the democrats have made so that he changes to the treaty in an attempt to win the support of the republicans but it's still sort of regional puppets. 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 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 the mutual reduction of american russia's nuclear weapons stockpiles and turned it into a farce. republicans the trees in the u.s. make term elections could pose serious problems for president obama's administration the policy capitalize and public frustration with the pace of economic recovery winning a majority in the house of representatives but as a house he's got an education found out some experts say it's not the american people but influences that determine the outcome this was a special election year in the u.s. 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 by big business is 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 that will 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 reportedly taken over four million dollars from wall street and pledge 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 parties two years ago corporations supported obama knowing he 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're betting against his party believe no fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably the third rationing 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 aspiration. but many americans now fear their interest in being left down because of someone's special interests on the outside this democracy is new for it's people coming to polling stations putting a quasi with the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on meat first it seems all really has the vote in american mail is money going to check out on t. washington d.c. . as the republicans make a comeback in the house of representatives one republican for president is also returning to the scene with his memo was next on a look at george w. bush's legacy almost two years after he left the white house. not be able to get a 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 will be looked upon as maybe a decent president. investigators and. searching for those behind a vicious attack on a russian newspaper journalist could have sound correspondent was brutally beaten near his moscow home on early saturday morning and is in hospital in a coma with severe injuries has already undergone surgery twice and doctors say his condition is serious but stable investigators believe conscience journalism is probably linked to the virtue assault and attempted murder inquiry has begun police are examining c.c.t.v. footage showing two people that talking to journalists the case has drawn wide public outrage where the run is supporting caution and also in st petersburg president dmitri medvedev says that tigers must be fined and punished and the former editor in chief of comments sound andrey receive says the leg was not afraid of writing force wide which could have made him colonel and.

of course the reason for this attack is conscious professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open minded and in the people concerned has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist. which took place a couple of years ago this mention of his fingers for example the person who could not write any more there is a harsh element. in japan appears to be ready to repair ties with russia returning its was george ambassador to moscow earlier than expected he was recalled earlier this week us for a run of the president and that is a visit to the coup real islands which tokyo also claims but has also as a kind of boyko found out moscow maintains sovereignty with big plans for the remote tree. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore barrels pointed toward japan they're about to be scrapped. when the visit by the russian

president put them at the center off another fiery exchange between russia and japan discovered in the seventeenth century the audience changed hands several times to. 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 the arlin sovereignty. 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 opened disparaged on the island of she katon after decades of seeing its population window they are and is now in the midst of a baby boom. we have the highest birth rate in the entire celing 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 at ikeja motor is teaching japanese at a local school and here class seven greater sit alongside their parents and many of them getting a job and to fans is that best shot at lifting their families out of poverty our classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year b.s. sometimes it seems like i am 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 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 grounds the ons are a prime spot to buy seafood an opportunity that mitchell advent of 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. apparent. we don't have any problems with the supply of alcohol here. the president's visit wasn't missed on the japanese side caucus foreign minister said the trip heard japanese public sentiment and temporarily recalled its ambassador from moscow. it is extremely regrettable that president made very do 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 unmoved for that simple 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 plan to once again been a big risk a 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 korea while an unfortunate they stressed that their first priority is to make sure that the people who actually leave 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 korea lorenzo 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 so the boycott artists in russia's far east. this is still ahead for you this hour as things are still space station alex tanguay is in orbit up to looks back at the ups and downs of the project writing for the times to module satellite into homes for up to six space explorers the size of a football field. and russia's prime minister has been

a thrill seeking i gather look at allegedly putin's latest extreme hobby. let's turn to iraq now but the ravaged economy with estimates suggesting nearly a quarter of the population live off just two dollars a day in dire poverty so have resorted to legal and desperate means to make ends meet risking does to smuggle alcohol into neighboring iran where it's strictly banned sébastien followed them in that dangerous quest. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a brain although alcohol is forbidden in islam a public much of tirant bourgeoisie can't refuse to drink and do smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around here absolute. teachers you see here mr chavez risky black and white whiskey 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 smirnoff rock and this box of rocks will cost a smuggler hundred five dollars in iraq he will sell in toronto for over four hundred what all the profits appear amends to men who actually take the 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 and desperate while those that have it i do this because i'm a literate how did you know you didn't know i was cured 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 in police ambushes have been fined up to half a million dollars and then charged 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. the job dangerous but the living conditions are bleak on the iraqi side of the small river that makes the border city a series of shanty towns full of tattered checks serve a small shelters for the smugglers as well as for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down there and money this isn't a life and there's no food or drink during the cold in the way. on the other side said hundreds of iranian 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 show everyone. the iranians left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine

a phone call comes in saying that 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 desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer forty on the iran iraq border. and for more on that story and any other we're covering log on to our web site also go home and there are lots of others too marking the anniversary of the historic and defined one nine hundred forty one parade in red square pointed out about a story of a man it's courage as many soldiers taking paul as we're heading straight for the front to fight did not seem deja. roth's count these stunning well that's what the organizers of this unusual beauty pageant to russia would say pet rodents from all over the country how then it's time to. stop or perhaps on a ranch more than a class will see for yourself on our web site also you don't call.

one of the whole thousand russian veterans of elite forces and acts of servicemen have rounded in moscow to demand the resignation of the country's defense minister they were protesting against. a radical reforms costing as many as two hundred thousand offices that jobs but as these tests i'll see there are polls the minister says the challengers also streamlined the forces to count of modern day threats. now here at miter margaret there is a currently a rally going on to protest against the current russian defense minister i've been told he said you called her yesterday to be your commander in a match was there more troops than anybody michel and i did call on you not to go ahead with the protests and offers of this protest movement not to go ahead and

that will have to be there is a series of grotesque want to get surgical involving razor assignation interest to give a bit of a background to go to surgical was appointed by then president but it was in two thousand and seven minutes to basically to implement that to corruption measures in the armed forces and to make our forces more efficient over two thousand and eight so if you call from a number of reforms and you want to implement these reforms that involve cutting a lot of the jobs the officers jobs than a few more visited make a lot of the members of the armed forces very happy to be saying that the military has what you asked to the current grounds and brush what is basic and he's saying that russia is no longer facing the threat of a full scale war that it once did back in the past and therefore a massive military is not exactly what russia needs what russia needs is an efficient and non-corrupt military advance was are you company wants to do so despite a lot of these oppositions open oppositions and the moment for his resignation so

you cough is going to take a firm stab he says that by twenty sixty it is still down the number of the military to one million people versus five million but because we have so this is still his bladder and he's going to continue to do it. and pov it was let off every time a major general says the reforms by the first fashion civilian defense minister in one thousand years would never have been dead for any military figure but the maturity reforms were able to start things to the effect that surgical for the civilian the civilian element in our armed forces helps to implement changes that rama officials would never have dared to introduce the saying goes to do with the personal interests of one servicemen not with the fact that these people do not accept the reform. this week the only human habitat outside as the international space station marks it stands birthday it's a clave the previous record for continuous living in space so past the spacecraft

more than one hundred thousand people from sixteen nations across the globe cooperated to make the i says dream a reality aussies eagle a cardinal takes a closer look at the project. 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 former sworn enemies. in the ten years since the isis has expanded to the size of a football field and received two hundred visitors but for a short bit of up to before the i.s.o.'s is a breakthrough corporation before there were separate space agencies now they work together to come up with it's a leap forward 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 going up trains but then i says crew members his own training was more chaotic than we're going to give them and i said when we started training for the station itself did not exist there were no manuals 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 in the united states and the first time these parts came together wasn't space as the militia would be the first two weeks on there were extremely stressful but if we failed 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 in it 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 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 are assessed still proves that space research can be right at the edge of human endeavor eager unnerve artsy moscow. russian prime minister vladimir putin may be looking to become the world's fastest moving politician on four wheels he might have achieved his goal when he hit the

race track in st peters by. the world when there's no space in my old soviet. guys might have been a little crammed they probably i was still able to keep them for the forty kilometers per hour and they say formula one car seems to like yellow colos and they say he tested a new russian highway in the canary kind of not a but cause may know been out for the prime yet he's also got to take the controls of fighter jets bikes and combine harvesters. that's all we need for now well headlines coming your way shortly thanks for being with us here on out c.

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