welcome to you a russian artist has a strap himself into an electric chair and has asked online viewers to vote on his fate oleg a mother of mattie who lives in self-imposed exile in bulgaria is known for his controversial public stance and this time he says his electrocution experiment is meant to highlight censorship issues in russia you may find some images in this story disturbing. this happens every time one hundred people on the internet modem but there is a massive electric jolt anyone can vote he'll do this every night for a week or until he's hospitalized i think you're born rich or so if this is a test of how society interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill me this is a lot about our society my remark he says his electric shock treatment is symbolic of what he calls the pressure of artists specifically says chippewa vocal religious

minority. ten years ago he shot a radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the son of god certain inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian youth organization and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred and knew there was no position there people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment is all a theme for him no beauty he's crazy. not for much he did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria no. i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i had gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just maybe. we have laws to protect religious on the one hand to put in laws that protect

individual's right to freedom of expression caught between the two bills but the link was accused of committing hate crimes that they think is wrong with you. since it's crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows closed most after mass destruction by christian groups mathematics says he has no fear of death and thousands of responses for him because no one should be driven to suicide by religious fanatics says one why are you giving people on the internet the power to decide your life and theirs fonts ability for your death so as another it would be fun to see someone die suggest someone else a legacy fighting what seems to be a worthy aim now he didn't get injured today but if anything happens to him over the next week everybody involved in this story will be a loser here or there are no artsy sofia bulgaria. fears that republicans will try to repeal president barack obama's health care law have risen following the

recent u.s. midterm elections for once being out the top of the global life expectancy chart america has slumped to nearly fiftieth with many blaming the ailing health care system for the slide to use a loyalist has been talking to a nine eleven hero for whom reform of the system is the only hope to stay alive. new york for. the big apple it's the city that never sleeps and just beyond the urban chaos. neither does kenneth george from one of the most. deer in his closet and you can see why he is of course you can it is a sick man and despite appearances the photos with us politicians in plaques from the president recognizing him as a hero in the aftermath of nine eleven at ground zero is what i got from president obama he still can't afford his health care a lot of the medications i need in college. you know it's expensive his insurance

fall short which means every month you have to pick and choose what ailments he treats this is what i do a lot of times i stick with the course here to help me breathe at night and i skip some of the other medications my sleeping pills to help me sleep even without sleeping pills he hasn't slept well since nine eleven a city employee working on highways he was drafted into the search and rescue team in the aftermath of the attack on the twin towers basically picking up human remains and searching to see what it was or why the aftermath for him has been forced early retirement in a fixed pension basically a kick you know and a cut in health care which puts him in a deadly dilemma forced to make possibly life or death decisions because of the chronic diseases he suffers arising from his work at ground zero i really got a foot in the grave because of the heart and lung disease you know i did was get punished for getting sick doing my job down there the kind of case is unique in that he was a nine eleven first responder grim statistics show he is not alone the united

states now ranks forty ninth in the world in overall life expectancy this is a drop from twenty fourth back in one thousand nine hundred nine and put that behind countries such as south korea bosnia as well as bigger opinion yet the prime reason for the decline researchers say it's american to carrying health care system with a growing number of people who are uninsured or underinsured so well the course is about people just like kenneth i think that insurance companies make decisions that are not necessarily towards. the betterment of the patient some of his patients are even worse off than canada if they don't have insurance that means it's all out of pocket a lot of these people are not working there's a lot of problems i think the president has tried in our midst to repair a system that's out of whack you as president obama's health care reforms might.

help someone like kenneth but there's still lots of red tape to be faced with insurers and now the reforms themselves are under threat from a house now controlled by republicans who vowed to overturn them but is the politicking goes on can it still needs his prescriptions but a way to get paid for these uncovered and you'll still be forced to make desperate choices on which ones he can afford and which ones he can't this in the richest and largest economy in the world in a country where he was praised as a hero by its president but that won't change his grim reality his prognosis as well as of his nobody knows. but just like the city that never sleeps kenneth george may not ever either who is here take care of my family when i'm gone and even if his family does no one is resting easy constant constant right now laura mr r.t. new york all the way in just a few minutes here on r.t.

criminal code six find out why the fake makeup market in russia is making people suffer. well investigators believe the brutal beating over now and russian journalist oleg kashin is most likely to be linked to his work in the come a sun newspaper or his personal blog an inquiry has been opened into his attempted murder like not want to you go to prison or for the latest on this developing story here hello to you so just bring us up to speed while you go to what is the latest on questions condition at this point. well doctors say that idea caution remains in a difficult but stable condition he did suffer from numerous injuries in that attack like a broken jaw broken angled broken hands and broken fingers fractured skull and more and he's already under undergone several operations at a hospital in fact the doctors even had to put him in a state of an artificial cold one in order to prevent shock from pain however there

is also some positive information coming out of the hospital from the doctors they do see that cautions brain was not damaged in the attack and previously there were reports that he may be taken out of this artificial coma on monday but we're still yet to find out if that is going to happen today or not ok you go to so we know the question is in serious but stable condition at this point so tell us about the investigation how is the progress going on that. while the investigation is in full swing police are continuing to question people connected to caution and to this whole incident they're also studying footage from sixty cameras in the area and even are studying conversations from mobile phones and made also in that area of the attack on the time from the unite on the friday to saturday and the investigators say that the two main aversions off the causes of the attack are

cautions professional activities as a journalist and also his personal blog in the internet. is just as we have questioned more than thirty people witnesses colleagues relatives and friends of the journalist our investigators are studying his articles and his online postings in a search for possible motives to the assault you were checking the circle of people he knew his business and personal nash works we've searched his office and his apartment later in the day will question the top executives at commerce on to the priority version is that the attack is linked to conscience professional activity or his personal civic activity in his blog. the footage from the c.c.t.v. camera which actually captured the attack itself has leaked into the internet on monday and the police have strongly criticised this saying that they're now looking into how this footage got into the internet and also they say that it doesn't really reveal the identities of the attackers themselves however it does reveal the

brutality off the act of this attack how a caution was approaching his zero point one blog on the night from friday to saturday and he was just attacked by these two men who beat him for several minutes with some type of an object presumably a metal rod caution fell on the ground from the very beginning of the attack and was obviously helpless throughout the entire time of the assault and also the fact that his mobile phone and his wallet and his i pad remained on the site after the attack and were not stolen just shows that it was this was definitely not a robbery now you go to this case has caused a massive public outcry especially in the journalism community what makes it so high profile do you think. well first of all unfortunately this is not the first time this is far from the first time that a journalist is attacked in russia and i look caution has been very widely known

for his work on the social and pull of political topics in russia his blog is being followed by thousands of people in the internet that's why this the latest attack caused a wide. huge wave of outrage both in russia especially in the journalist community and also in the international community as well with people calling for the authorities to find the attackers and to hold a quick and successful investigation and previously president need to meet video personally put this case under his supervision and has also put it under the supervision of the head of russia's police and also of the prosecutor general however the fact is that several previous high profile cases of attacks of other journalists on other journalists in russia they were also put under a special control from the authorities but in many cases that didn't lead to anything and in some cases the attackers have still not been found and.

this also shows that despite such a huge wave such a huge reaction in the society here in the international society this is all this is still not enough to prevent from further attacks because we're now getting reports of a new assault on another journalist in the city of moscow region just last night however this information is still sketchy and we will tell you more as we find out more information about you got it all right you're going to spin off live from moscow thank you. well now back to one of our top stories here and russian artist known for his controversial public stunts has been stirring up the internet once again as he is strapped himself into an electric chair and has asked online users to vote on his fate now for more on all of these latest experiment let's cross live to alexander but huff skeet director of the moscow based social think tank so for.

hello to you so well know what you think oleg mathematically is saying with this electrocution experiment some might say he could be crazy what are you trying to prove. by if you're asking me i would say that the actions of each performance which most of them are to perform many years ago was not the sole dangerous to open a criminal case it's all. in its north of the fifty which has to be prosecuted john with criminal court. now artists targeting religion it's an easy way to get headlines but surely this is nothing to do with oppression of god it's just a p.r. gimmick and surely we shouldn't be giving in the public today in the first place. but i think we have to read carefully our criminal called article two eighty two it's about incitement to hatred to people based on the the city or

a strategic and social things it's not about incitement to hatred to religion itself is somebody criticised for the chin or do anything really to the legion to gain yeah they do yes it's not to cry and according to our laws so this case is not . i would say couric to use for criminal law if they say we may say about the good call story did ok so you do so my daughter for ninety and i fear for this well known exhibition for britain are. the same thing if. these objects or whatever which was exhibited. was let's say against christian if you were in the figure of it that it doesn't mean it is inciting hatred to people for three ships are non christians to care for and it's just as

a maximum with some flash i mean it's not an aside their fate. so it can be punished. according to a law it was a mistake or let me let me jump in here if i can so let's talk about repercussions let's talk about end game do you think artists like him should be prosecuted. so. you mean member of marja should should he be prosecuted he be prosecuted should artists putting the same type of stung speak prosecutors here. it doesn't matter if he's artist or not it's it's not about the art itself which can be prosecuted. i think any statement doesn't matter if he's thinks it's art i may disagree i would say it's not all it's just an opinion but if this statement itself incites hatred to people to to persons to some certain group of people it may be seen as a crime i think that that action which over time are too i do use to already ten

years ago or something like that. as i know about. it it was not oriented to incitement to hatred to people it was an imitation of course of fiction of course if you mean i think it's you know full well show if i may whether it's artistic expression here or whether it's just a plea for attention the russian orthodox church and religious groups are initiating these criminal proceedings here should they be getting involved in the arts or should they be getting involved in the first place. i would say that it's not the church in the shade just some certain groups of believers the went to prosecutor's office. urgent to open from up to snow the church in general. different people in the church some of them disagree with such a particular issue. i would see it sir.

such cases are always very controversial inside this believes. that's important that some radical groups. radical orthodox groups that say they're also they always insisting on opening criminal proceedings are a religious group asked the religion as you say they are the one saying that legal proceeding should go against this guy but i think at the end of the day the online internet reaction will speak volumes about what this man is trying to achieve alexander of a director of the center for information and analysis thank you. well make up is supposed to enhance beauty but that's not always the case in russia more and more fake cosmetics are making their way into stores across the country shoppers are taking a gamble when buying the products you seem unable to stop the trend as artie's

finds out. up to thirty percent of all cosmetics in russia afaik it's a huge figure but even these official stance by the ministry of internal affairs could just be the teep of the iceberg almost every month police raids torus with illegal goods produced both in asian countries and incandescent operations in russia's own backyard but counterfeit leap sticks and perfume us to everywhere russia is a huge country and it's through a very hard to control all flows of product but the laws seem to be written specially to make it even worse last february they refused an obligatory certification for cosmetics and there are no longer inspections so how'd could be better if. you want to go to an interpol shop in the center of moscow so as here don't even make any secret out of what they're offering how much is chanel number five thirty dollars thirty dollars it's cheap isn't it it's

a fake you want it's produced in the united arab emirates illegally no there is a license it smells strange it's the sea it just may not be the curable than the original it's not always easy to tell the real from fake even an expert can fail to spot the difference the price can be a real quote a ten dollar tab for chanel or george or money going to ease the fear of person a fake brand and most likely it will fall back into the bargain. fake is always many times cheaper but the real price to pay could be much greater when the running a book most current from a scene a special and unforgettable luke she could hardly imagine what kind of special it would turn out to be. the first week was all fine but then my i started teaching terribly became read and were watering i couldn't drive because i couldn't see anything i was diagnosed with blepharitis inflammation of the eyelids it led to

kind of allergy thrown into says she'll never ever get anything from a devious. began but the problem still remains as there is no guarantee even if the teak stories are used. in the court they make freaks at home but there are also huge freak productions inter-faith troops with equipment similar to do is the real brains use where they can just steal from real thick trees so you could get the gene went in and there paris but just as well if eagle is a specialist shop. so it looks a lot like a game of russian roulette you'll never know for sure whether it's fake or not and whether you'll be left to beauty ruby east grief nationality. are time now to check out some other news stories making headlines around the world this hour and at least ten people being killed in a car bomb explosion in the iraqi city of karbala locals say shia muslims were targeted as the city is a pilgrimage site and dozens were injured in the blast the attack follows a series of bombs which killed over sixty people in mainly shia neighborhoods

across baghdad last week. the u.s. is proposing to drop sudan from its list of states which support terrorism as an incentive for the country to move towards peace american officials say paying you for poor performance reward rather that doesn't include lifting a crippling economic sanctions could be enforced as early as july of next year it comes on the condition that two upcoming referendums to stabilize the south are conducted fairly and they were assaults are respected the votes are part of the peace agreement that ended the country's devastating civil war and wish to a million people died. police have arrested a man suspected of shooting randomly at immigrants in a year long rampage in sweden the thirty eight year old was arrested on suspicion of one murder and seven attempted murders the victims nearly all with immigrant backgrounds of being shot at bus stops in their cars and even through the window of

a gym the suspected serial sniper has denied the allegations. more news to come shortly but now stephanie is here with a little business update and so i stuff bad news for chickens what's going on well it might actually be good news rory russian podgy produces a calling on the government to drop a plant on frozen poaching meat in the new year but we'll have to see what happens to have more a bit later on in the bulletin but fast cash may no longer be king of payments for mobile phones are playing an increasingly important role in the russian market in fact operate to see it as a major shock of their revenues seen argument that if it reports russians still have faith in cash many people don't trust banks you just said history of defaults greed guards are rear debit cards are used mainly to withdraw salaries from cash machines that leaves the field one open to live while operators who can build on the common use of prepaid those but this is one of the fastest growing share of

operators revenues and it will continue to grow quite privately according to both operators estimations and other analysts now we have very truly all people having mobile phones we think that micro payments will very well be very popular among russians ninety five percent of mobile prepaid big man you're in your phone and you can people in range of other goods people from small cities will benefit the most from mobile payments with fewer bangs well citizens of metropolis can top up their mobile on almost any foreigner saving time nurse and queues and for their rushing point to me it's good because it's a crime to go alone cash payments. for australia you know most because remember foreigners which is not very. prospective especially from spain so i think we

contribute to this round to be banking. society you know we cover the bank customer from that perspective. marker financing so you assume is no longer just a gadget it can replace the old wallet. third budget services are becoming widespread in russia now if you hop on a train becomes not just traffic free but also cash free because you can simply pay with your phone then a bit of a business card to moscow. let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are performing european stocks are slightly high on monday after a strong performance in the previous week utilities and basic materials are dragging on the footsie the gains in tech stocks and financials are temporary losses and now. here in moscow markets are making up for their four day break with both the r.t.s. and the bisects gaining more than one and a half percent so far and if you wages are amongst the top it is only on ts on the us nickel is really outperforming up three and

a half percent on the my six pints of performing particularly well b t v is up three point three percent this hour. recovering gas prices drive gas from profits in the first half of the year the monopoly lifted net profit by sixty seven percent to sixteen billion dollars both domestic and export markets were stronger with revenues up seventeen percent. and my sex has offered to buy twenty percent of rival exchange r.t.s. for one hundred fifty million dollars remaining eighty percent could be swapped for shares in a new my six joint stock company which will become the parent company of my six group next year but us has already announced plans for an i.p.o. next year the federal reserve's plan to pump another six hundred billion dollars into global markets has been met with great skepticism among businessmen and politicians alike however a presidential aide. says the extra cash could benefit russia. you do most of

could go through it in perspective yes i think that in the short term there will be a big effect on the russian economy but some additional capital inflows into russia of course you know interest currently foreign capital is very small and we are interested in attracting further capital so in the short term this move can be seen as a plus for us the brazilian head of the world bank robert zoellick has suggested bringing back the gold standard to reduce currency volatility rather than a formal tie to gold he says major currencies have been linked to a range of assets through what he calls an open capital account it comes as leading countries from the us to china are deep reshaping about currencies to make their exports cheaper however that makes money worth less and it could even lead to hyperinflation. russian policy producers have asked the government to drop plans to ban frozen poultry from the new year regulators claim frozen poultry is less nutritious produces point to europe and america where eighty percent of them

revenue of an ready meals rather used frozen poultry the bank would boost prices and complicate the transport of meat to russia's east. and that's the update for now but of course you can always find most stories if you log on to our web site that's called slash. is just a parliament building in. the. sixty's from

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here in. the headlines no shock tactics a controversial russian artist asks online users to electrocute him in a bid to promote. freedom of expression he was one religious group crucifixion. was sued for inciting religious hatred ten years ago. before the. fighting for health hopes are fading for a better health care system in the us as republicans gain control of the house and vowed to repeal for some americans forced to forego treatment because insurance companies refuse to cover the expense of. the price of beauty fake because shoppers playing russian roulette with potentially dangerous products poured into the ministry of internal affairs some thirty percent. in the country.

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