little school calls to police is a rest of said see an alleged russian spies a groundless political fossil aimed at scoring political points with the need to put this group see among some jewel journalists. need to put the democratic party with major defeats in elections and the 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. the top level investigation is awarded by russian president dmitry medvedev after the brutal act and to the murder of the leading investigative journalist in moscow links to his work. once we see our shopping poverty caused by the winograd forces some to risk their lives to make ends meet by smuggling alcohol into neighboring iran when strictly back.

hello and welcome to the ground this is our season weekly review i mean you know main story mosco says thirteen people arrested in georgia accused of spying for russia innocent victims of political games the foreign ministry described this as a political fos orchestrated by this administration attention seeking before a nato summit involving russia but as. reports many children's fear their government spying 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 three and five 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

it's easy to say that anyone's a spy in georgia something. as has been 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 and wrapping 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 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 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 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 even 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. end 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. the same time it's an attempt to lead the situation between russia and georgia to numbers collation. police in mosco exchange verbal blows one woman continues to wait for justice for her husband well you know i'm not afraid but i know that if need be georgian authorities can accuse not only me but any georgian citizen and spying for any country they don't need to right now but when they will they will accuse me of the previous. court to be lisi georgia russia receive mater's invitation to cooperate in a joint european missile defense system on wednesday the alliance as secretary secretary-general was on a visit to moscow hoping to take relations to a new level under so rasmussen stressed that nato see as russia as

a friend and an essential player in which all stability president medvedev said partnership with their 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 dimitri training told out say that a joint russian later missile defense project could bear breakthrough from both sides. the secretary general. of the joint. russia's rationals. corporation with nato on missile defense he made that statement during his first speech on russia first major speech on any issue. in september last year basically you need to realize that no amount of the strategic arms reduction limitations can transform the russian russia western russia u.s. relationship one needs to have a strategic collaborative project and it looks like. it is the one thing.

the project that king 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. plato's original plans for an end to missile shield in europe while george bush was in power it sent a new chill through relations with russia but recently things have been positive in september nato invited russia to take part in the alliances lisbon summit and last month the two sides carried out a joint un to drugs raid in afghanistan. and while russia nato is stepping up their joint efforts in afghanistan also delivered the first of sixteen planes loaded with russian weapons and ammunition to kabul on tuesday these small arms and bring supplies to help the afghan government fight against militants drug trafficking and other crimes in the country russia's defense minister says military action it's maybe sense to help train security forces too but most there says its troops will

not be returning to afghanistan despite media speculation that russia might get involved in military operations that. republican victories in the u.s. make ten elections could pose serious problems for president obama's administration the policy compass allies don't public frustration with the player the pace of economic recovery winning a majority in the house of representatives but has also he's going to check and found out some experts say it's not the american people but corporate influence that turn them steroids come 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 owned 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 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 boehner 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's 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 only. in 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 party two years ago corporations supported obama knowing he 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 fear mongering and constant attacks on obama were arguably the corporations 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 this democracy is new voice people coming to a polling station friends putting a cost before the name of a candidate they lie but in these elections with the influence of corporations on me it seems all really has a vote in america now is money going to check out on t. washington d.c. . as the republicans make a comeback in the house of representatives one republican former president is also returning to the scene with his mother who was textile look at george w. bush's legacy almost two years after he left the white house. to be able to get a job after. 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 i'll be looked upon as maybe a decent president. investigators in russia searching for those behind vicious attack on a russian newspaper journalist called the sound correspondent a leg tashan that was virtually bisa near his moscow home an early saturday morning and was 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 links to the brutal assault but an attempted murder inquiry has begun police are examining c.c.t.v. footage showing two people attacking the journalists the case has drawn wide public outrage with rallies supporting caution in moscow and st petersburg president dmitry medvedev says that tigers must be found and punished. andreeva silex has all the cash and was not afraid of writing fourth wife which could have made him

criminal and. of course the reason for this attack is conscience professional activity he was a popular blogger and he was more open and outspoken on mind than in the paper concerned has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist mikhail because 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 horror show element here. japan appears to be ready to repair ties with russia returning its was torn a bouncer to moscow earlier than expected he was recalled after the president that is a visit to the korea lilah's was talking claims but as our seas of santa boyko found out bosco went tain sovereignty with big plans for the remote territory. it's a leftover from the second world war old soviet tanks rusting on the shore but their barrels pointed toward japan there are about to be scrapped for matter 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 there are lines changed hands several times it took the soviet union last than a month to expel the japanese army from the islands in august of nine hundred forty five that prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty leaving your door open for japan to claim the island sovereignty. sixty five years after their handover the tassel 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 secret on 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 are quite decent nowadays just a few hundred metres from the church i did to you my mortar is. teaching japanese

ago local school and here class seven great or sit alongside their parents and many of them getting a job in japan is their best shot at lifting their families out of poverty our classes are very popular and people keep coming here year after year i'm a hippie sometimes it seems like i'm 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 poor roads and crumbling infrastructure betrayed the island's chronic financial problems. it's an important part of our land we would definitely invest some money into the region. and the midst of reach this thing grounds the audience are a prime spot to buy seafood an opportunity that mitchum event 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. apparently you don't have any problems with the supply of alcohol here. the president's visit was a missed on the japanese side talk his foreign minister said the trip heard japanese public sentiment and temporarily recalled its ambassador from moscow more to do it 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 unmoved yet simple as that only japan's reaction is an acceptable it's a whirl and the russian president was visiting russian territory with a ready explained this to our japanese porkers to once again in ambiguously 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 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 they aren't. maybe and integrity part of russia. but they cannot make clear and logistical way there are still very march before in. some boyko r thirty in russia's far east. still ahead for you this motion seems to have been born we explore how and why china says it's increasingly been demonized in the uighurs and whether britney. turn to iraq now whether

a war has ravaged they call it away with estimates suggesting nearly a quarter of the population level just to dollars a day die of poverty some have resorted to legal and desperate means to make ends meet risking death to smuggle alcohol into neighboring iran where it's strictly bond. followed them in the dangerous quest. in northern iraq kurdish smugglers load their horses with hundreds of boxes of booze they're taking into a way. although alcohol is forbidden in the islamic republic much of tehran's boards wasn't can't resist a drink and these smugglers provide them with an extraordinary selection we hear in a smuggler storm in a mountainous area of northern iraq that borders around we have absolute. teachers here mr chavez whiskey 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 not. this box of what will cost the smuggler one hundred

five dollars in iraq he will sell it in tehran 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 he does work for the poor uneducated in desperate dollars that i do this because i'm a literate are already doing so this is the only job i can do. 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 in venture the price of the bullets that were shot with a mind of a stepped on. we crossed the border and there are explosions shootings rests are fights terrible much nothing we can do because we have who are oh it. is 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 shanty towns full of tattered shacks to serve

a small shelters for the smugglers as well as stables for the horses the place is filthy and stinks of course down then when it is this isn't a life and there's no food or drink during the cold and went. down. on the other side said hundreds of a rainy. border police some in concrete towers others in canvas tents but all ruthless in their pursuit to keep the smugglers out of their country a few days before we arrived we mounted an ambush on one of the smugglers. came from the other side and took three of my mules back across the border and shot everyone to see that he remains left the corpses rotting on the riverbank as a warning to the smugglers that nine a phone call comes in soon that the route is clear that 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. and for more on that story or any other we're covering log on to our web site. and there are lots of others to. knock it out of us here at the historic defiance nineteen forty want to write a red square find out about a story of courage as many countries as many soldiers taking part of were heading straight for the fronts to fight the nazi invasion. in two thousand rats can be a stunning well that's all the organizers of this unusual beauty pageant in russia would say perhaps rodents from all over the country have been strutting their stuff on a raft or. see for yourself on our website i'll see you dot com. if . you.

one of the hall sounds of russian veterans of a need forces and have rounded to moscow to demand the resignation of the country's defense minister they were protesting against and the totally sceptical of radical reforms costing as many as two hundred thousand officers that jobs but as also used to s.l.c. ever polls the minister says the charges also a streamlined the armed forces to come to day threats are now here at miter war going there is a currently a rally going want to protest against me currently russian defense minister i've been told he said you called him or ever yesterday be your commander in a merger is there more troops now he. did call on you not to go ahead with the protests and obviously this protest movement not to go ahead with the whole me i mean there is a series of grotesque want to get surgical calling for his resignation interest to give a bit of a background undergone a surgical was appointed by then president vladimir putin in two thousand and seven as a defense minister basically to implement to corruption measures in the armed forces

and to make our forces more efficient to two thousand and eight so to cough and now see a number of reforms if you want to implement in these reforms that involve cutting a lot of the jobs the officers jobs that if morsi visited make a lot of the members of the armed forces very happy to be saying that the military has to adjust to the current grounds and brushwood is a 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 and that's was only called wants to do so despite a lot of these oppositions open oppositions and calling for his resignation so you cough is going to take a firm stab he says that by twenty sixteen it is a down the number of the military to one million people versus five million that because we have so this is still his bladder and he's going to continue to do it.

and look at all the retired major general says the reforms by the first russian civilian defense minister in ninety years would never have been any military figure . but. the reforms were able to start things to the effect that until the surgical fiza civilian the civilian element in our armed forces helps to implement changes that are on officials who would never have dared to introduce the saying goes to do with the personal interests of one service men not with the fact that these people do not accept the reform that. economists warning that a new trade war could be moving between two major nations with china's economic clout growing rapidly washington seems to be accusing beijing although every offense from currently manipulation to expert polis is its own arch and children story made in china three common words quickly becoming bad words as part of smear campaigns made in the usa used to be voted to give china's special trade status the

chinese are being set up to be the next bogeyman and the only thing that's interfering with that is that the muslims are ineffective bogeyman for right now but that hasn't stopped china and its alleged us supporters from being the bad guys does your great help foreign companies create chinese jobs to make it in the us china's ascent in the world is becoming the popular perceived threat from washington maybe you ought to run for senate trying to hollywood i'm going to get it over to you they're remaking the eighty's flick red dawn. but this time around instead of soviet troops invading the west you guessed it it's the chinese it seems for longer the us economy stagnates barely growing at all oh. and the more china celebrates the ten percent plus rise in its economic growth the more we see china vilified it's very important to see more progress by the major

emerging economies with policymakers accusing the country of manipulating its currency to boost exports at the expense. of the u.s. recovery and demanding they do something to change that every just look at the issue from that perspective you may think china is to blame here but if you want and china have a very dynamic interconnected relationship and when you look at what the us is doing because a lot less clear who is the bad guy but it takes two to tango. and the only way to get out of. a process that is mutually beneficial. and in balance that has china the largest creditor nation on the globe. funding the west the largest debtor nation in the history of the world asking for the dollar to go down twenty percent against the chinese currency chats to you on essentially as china who holds two point six trillion us dollars in its reserves to just lose

a half trillion dollars china doesn't want that and economists say this is anything but mutually beneficial to us no we want to screw you we want to bankrupt you like we grip to trip him we want to disable you because if we can destroy your canonically then you can never become a military threat and outside of this and paranoid psychosis but it doesn't stop the u.s. from parading its military might around china's borders china's also held drills in recent months and both sides are duking it out in what's been dubbed a currency war i happen to think china should open its currency up and be freely convertible on the other hand the united states is running up the gigantic debts and printing money now everybody is making mistakes here and that's where economists say a larger war is impending looks like we have a trade war developing a losing battle for both sides nobody in history has won

a trade war but that may not stop anyone from putting up a fight and recent u.s. history as seen here here and here doesn't seem to even be allowing a fair one lorin mr r.t. new york. you're up to date more headlines and that's shortly. from. much.

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