a look at the week's top stories and most who calls the police arrest of thirteen alleged russian spies a groundless political force was aimed at scoring political points with nato but the suits brought fear monger some georgians. may turn the internet for the democratic policy with major defeats in elections and loss of control of the house of representatives but some say it's big business rather than the american people which have the biggest say. and also see how shocking poverty caused by the war no wrong forces some to risk their lives to make ends meet by smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran wait strictly by. plus a top level investigation is ordered by russian president dmitry medvedev after the brits were tempted of a leading investigative journalist to moscow links to his work.

and welcome to the program this is weekly review of our top story now. thirteen people addresses in georgia accused of spying for russia innocent victims of political games the foreign ministry described this as a political fos orchestrated by this aakash with administration attention seeking before a nato summit involving russia but as. reports many georgians feared the government spying man year could land them in prison. 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 a city or a very unfair they said some three thousand and 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 some 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 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 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 a mall invaded 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 immediately the saakashvili regime suffers from some chronic spine mania fueled by only 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 the 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 on the chaplin the sex symbol but apparently the tastes differ at the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to another escalation. but police in moscow exchanged verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her and. i'm not afraid but i know that if need be the 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 in those court t.v. to be lisi georgia. russia received made his invitation to cooperate in the joint

european missile defense system on wednesday the alliance's secretary general was on a visit to moscow hoping to take relations to a new level wonders for rasmussen stress that nato sees russia as a friend and an essential in 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 dmitri trenin told r.t. that a joint russian nato missile defense project could be a breakthrough for both sides the secretary general is a champion of joint. russia's. cooperation with. the state during his first speech on russia first major speech on any issue. last year basically you need to realize that no amount of the strategic arms reduction did love occasions can transform the

russian russia western russia u.s. relationship one nice to have those that deja collaborative project looks like. is the one thing. the project that has the potential at least to transform the entire russian western relationship it's a game changer or fail to seize appalled that it could be a game breaker. later as the original plans for a non to missile shield in europe while george bush was in power sent a new troll through relations with russia but recently things have been positive in september nato invited russia to take part in their lines as lisbon summit and last month the two sides carried out a joint anti drugs grade in afghanistan. and wild russia and nato stepping up their joint efforts in afghanistan most could do with the first of sixteen planes loaded with russian weapons and ammunition to come on tuesday the. small arms a big supplies to help the on going government's fight against militants drug

trafficking and other crimes in the country russia's defense minister says military experts may be sent to help train security forces too but most who says its troops will not be returning to have that instant despite media speculation that russian lights that might get involved in military operations that. republican victories in the us me term elections could pose serious problems for president obama's administration the past a couple of lives of public frustration with the pace of economic recovery winning a majority in the house of representatives but as also he's going to church account found out some experts say still the american people but corporate influence that determines the outcome of this was a special election year in the u. was 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. 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 walls 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 pledged to fight against tougher rules. the financial market and it seems there is no way around it

the election system in the us 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 out of core option is the privatization of public party 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're betting against his party no fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably the perforations remained 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 stressed ration. but many americans now fear their interest of being left down because of someone's special interests on the outside is democracy as usual with people coming to a polling station fans putting a quasi before the name of a candidate they like but in these elections with the influence of corporations on me it seems all really has the vote in american mail is money and it's shut down on t. washington d.c. . but as the republicans make a comeback in the house of representatives one republican former president is also returning to the scene with his mum a law as they say on would look at george w. bush's legacy almost two years after he left the white house. now i've got

a job after college that is 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 in russia are searching for those behind a vicious attack on a russian newspaper journalist commerce and correspondent cashin was brutally beaten near his moscow home early saturday morning and is in hospital in a coma with severe injuries is already undergone surgery twice and doctors say his condition is serious but stable investigators believe cousins journalism is probably links to the brutal assault and attempted the murder inquiry has begun police are examining c.c.t.v. footage showing two people attacking the journalist the case has drawn wide public outrage with the rallies supporting caution in moscow st petersburg president dmitry medvedev says that tigers must be followed and punished and former editor in

chief of commerce and andrei receive says culture was not afraid of writing forth wide use which could have made him criminal and. of course the reason for this attack is conscious professional activity he was a popular blog and he was open and outspoken in mind then and the people concerned has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist because all of which took place a couple of years ago the smashing of his fingers for example so that the person could not write any more there is a harsh element. japan appears to be ready to repair ties with russia returning its was drawn ambassador to moscow earlier than expected he was recalled earlier this week after the president admitted that his visit to the coup real islands which talk here also claims but as are his acts on the 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 but their barrels pointed toward japan they're about to be scrapped for match how 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 arlon sovereignty. sixty five years after their handover the tussle to define the islands national identity still goes on this crossed a period here if you years ago when the russian orthodox church opened its parish on the island of secret on after decades of seeing its population window they are 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 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 many of them getting a job in japan is that bass chart at lifting their families out of poverty are classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year i'm 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 try to paint a pretty picture of the roads and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's financial problems. 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 and opportunity that mitchell nevada didn't miss lloyd

what is it smelt can i 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 in stock. apparently don't have any problems with the supply of alcohol here. the president's visit was a missed on the japanese side talk is 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 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 president was visiting russian territory with already explained this to were just

a nice porkers plan to once again an ambiguous new 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 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 korea lorenzo 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 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 and some of the artists in russia's far east. a lot more coming your way shortly the fuel of the future find out why some scientists are claiming the mess hall a story and could be the best future alternative source of energy around and if it

really could end our dependence on fossil fuels. let's turn to iraq now where the war has a round at stake all the way with estimates suggesting nearly a quarter of the population live off just to dollars a day in dire poverty some have resorted to legal and desperate means to make ends meet and risking death to smuggle alcohol into neighboring iran was strictly banned sébastien maya followed them and 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 the islamic republic much of tehran's bourgeoisie can't resist a 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 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 smear rucka this box of what will cost a smuggler a hundred and five dollars in iraq he will sell it into run 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 in desperate dollars that i do this because i'm a literate i don't know how to do anything else i was 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 had been fined up to half a million dollars in venture the price of the bullets that were shot at them. the mind of a step down. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings arrests or fights terrible much nothing we can do because. of the job 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 shaky towns full of tattered share. of a small shock is for the smugglers as well as for the horses the police is filthy in stinks of course down there and money this isn't there's no food or drink during the cold in the well. you know that's. 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. who came from the other side and took three of my mules back across the border and shot everyone. the remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers nine a phone call comes in soon that the route 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 away to those who are desperate enough to do it sebastian meyer. on the iran iraq border . look now at some other international news stories this hour but sins of the mount merapi volcano eruption in indonesia have been buried in a mass grave the disaster has claimed the one hundred lives in the past fortnight friday saw the volcano unleashed its most powerful rupture in the century in a while as in iraq it shows no signs of calming down a spokesman experts fear that acid should belching out may also damage the fabric of ancient temples in the area. at least twenty people have died in two. gang killings over the weekend in the mexican frontis city of that while rhett's two police officers are among the dead in a recent or worsening of violence in areas bordering the u.s.

the city has become one of the world's deadliest with over six thousand killed there since the drugs war began in two thousand and eight. b.n. maher has held its first elections in twenty years but with turner out turnout as low as thirty percent after an opposition boycott a military dictatorship in power in the form of burnet since one thousand nine hundred sixty two retains control after the elections dismissed by critics as a sham before a court was led by opposition i can i sound suchi who was detained after her national league for democracy party one thousand nine hundred ninety elections but it was barred from power most seats will go to pro parties with why did national criticism after reports of fraud and intimidation. as the world war is about energy sources for the future some scientists say they found a cheap alternative fuel they claim that the saurian was clean and abundant and that one ton produces as much energy as three point five million tons of coal but

as altie is lower and that has been discovery it's yet to gain a foothold in that market. we all use energy but at what cost. energy security why many more wars are thought the oil's running out and there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative insights but unbeknown to most there's an energy source that says clean green and abundant all over the globe story m z nuclear fuel and its supporters believe it will change the world conflicts that we've seen today based around energy could go away and that these energy sources that i'm talking about which don't emit carbon dioxide or or greenhouse gases and don't produce dangerous ways cool would enable us to have cleaner water cleaner air and less intrusion

on our environment from energy production a ton of the silvery metal produces as much energy as two hundred tons of uranium or three and a half million tons of coal. the amount of thorin that would take her vida all the power to run your entire life. is about the size of a marble. a group working on story in the u.k. says it hasn't managed to get the british government on board so far so it's looking to cooperate with countries like russia for several years now a russian physicist has been proposing to build saurian power stations but i wanted his ideas haven't been taken up a lot of focus on renewables at the moment so maybe that's where they feel that there's more public support rather than nuclear research on three and was largely halted in the middle of the last century after a year rainy and powered reactor was designed. many believe

also fell out of the spotlight because making a bomb out of it is thought to be almost impossible but today not all scientists are. so foreign reactors don't really work for every challenge and it's a whole new technology which has very insurmountable problems in my opinion. since two thousand and seven cities from london to sydney have held our turning the lights off to save energy proponents say the worry of power became a reality we could turn the lights back on with confidence. through. the rooms a divisive thing some say it's a technology that's being tried tested and found lacking others say that because the light water reactor got there first the room was never given a proper chance but while it's cheap abundant and even

a possibility the scientists here at the annual story and conference say give it a go it might even change the world you are at it. after two years out of you george w. bush has come back into the public arena with his published man was looking back on his life his presidency and even some mistakes from his past and the way harvard is the reporter called the president went on to the streets of new york to hear just how he's viewed now. 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. obama's inaugural day that's how i remember going to prom with him his 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 no 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 college that that is well my rock war a lot of things i remember about george bush though do you think that his dating out of the limelight for a couple years has helped with the image of dollars that kind of just so 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 president the end whether that's in two thousand and fourteen or twenty eighteen we'll have to wait and. that's all the news for now mohammed lines are coming your way shortly.

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