russia you may find some of the images in this story disturbing. how this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect mother mattie to receive a massive electric job anyone can vote you'll do this every night for a week or until he is hospitalized i think you're born so like this is a test of how society interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill this is a lot about our society mother mattie says his electric shock treatment is symbolic of what he calls the oppression of artists specifically says ship of our vocal religious minority. then years ago he shot a radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the sort of got seven 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 all they feel for him now is bt he's crazy. mathematic did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria. i pay the high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just. we have laws that protect religious on the one hand and laws that protect the individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught between the two but the link was accused of committing hate crimes that i think is wrong. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fined and have their shows closed most after mass destruction by christian groups. my remark he says he has no fear of death or

thousands of responses for it 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 their response 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 if you didn't get injured today but the funny thing happens to him over the next week everybody involved in this story will be a loser if there are no artsy severe bulgaria now fears that republicans will try to repeal president barack obama's health care law have risen following the recent us midterm elections for once being at the top of the global life expectancy chart america has slumped to nearly fifty years with many blaming the ailing health care system for the slide to use a long list it has been talking to a nine eleven hero for whom reform of the system is the only way to stay alive.

new york. the big apple going to go it's the city that never sleeps and just beyond the urban chaos. neither does kenneth george from one of the messages. and fear 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 if anybody was or why the aftermath for him has been forced early retirement in a fixed pension basically a kick it up 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 but i already got a foot in the grave because of the heart and lung disease who i did was get punished for the 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 in 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 ninety it put that behind countries such as south korea bosnia as well as bigger opinion yet another prime reason for the decline researchers say it's america deteriorating health care system with

a growing number of people who are uninsured or underinsured so how 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 but 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. 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 as the politicking goes on can it still needs his prescriptions but no 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 concept right now lauren the sister r.t. new york well coming up for you here on r t sick of all things soviet with the government poised to ban decades of the country's history some say it's only trying to draw public attention away from the problem of today. investigators believe the brutal beating over now and russian journalist oleg caution is most

likely to be linked to his work in the commerce a newspaper or his personal blog an inquiry has been opened in his attempted murder of live now to all these you've got a pretty good offer more details on this developing situation here so we know that caution is in hospital under the close watch of doctors but tell me what is his current condition has it improved. dr sarah caution is in a critical but stable condition he did suffer from various injuries during that attack and the include broken jaws a broken ankle broken hands and broken fingers and a fractured skull as well do you went through several surgeries at hospital in fact the doctors even had to put him in the state of an artificial coolmore to prevent from pain shock and however there is some positive news coming out of that hospital as well since they say that thankfully cautions brain was not damaged during the attack and previously we also heard reports that of the journalist may be taken out

of that artificial calm on monday but we're still waiting to find out if that's going to happen or not president has called for the best investigators to get involved with this case tell me how is the investigation going at this point. while an investigation is in full swing at the moment police are questioning continuing to question people in connection to the case and to caution himself they're also studying footage from c.c.t.v. cameras in the area and are even studying phone conversations made from mobile phones in the area during the time of the attack the two main version so far cautions professional activities as a journalist and also his personal blog in the internet. as we have questioned more than thirty people witnesses colleagues relatives and friends of the journalist and 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 in his apartment later in the day we will question the top executives at commerce and the priority version is that the attack is linked to conscience professional activity or his personal civic activity in his blog. is the. one video from a c.c.t.v. camera which actually captured the attack itself leaked into the internet on monday the police have already strongly criticized this saying that they are now looking into how this video actually got into the web they also say that it doesn't reveal the identities of the attackers which is true however it does show how brutally caution was attacked as he was approaching his apartment building in the very center of moscow on the night from friday to saturday the video shows him being approached by two figures and then being brutally beaten with some type of object presumably a metal rod for several minutes and the fact that neither his mobile phone or his

wallet or his i pad even were not stolen shows that this was definitely not a robbery you go to we've seen a massive public outcry over this both in some petersburg and here in moscow and of course online as well why is this case getting so much public attention. well unfortunately this is for from the first time that a journalist is attacked in russia we do remember just several years ago a very similar case when another journalist who was working in a local newspaper in the town of him just outside of moscow and one of the stories he was working on was the force he was brutally beaten as well in fact he is now handicapped after that attack and he can kill us is one of the stories that i caution worked on as well we don't know if these two cases could be connected or not but it is a fact that as you've said i look crush ns case and this attack the latest attack has caused

a huge we've. both in russia and in the international community especially among journalists people are demanding the authorities to find the attackers and to hold of through investigation president need to me the video as you previously said has put this case under his personal supervision and he also put it under the personal control of the chief of russia's police and the prosecutor general so hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation all right r.t. if you're going to spin off a lie for us from moscow thank you. well georgia may soon introduce a ban on old soviet symbols the new law has already passed its first hearing in parliament but the opposition fears this could be used by the authorities for another crackdown on human rights. reports. out with the old in with nothing new the georgian parliament has approved a first hearing of what it calls

a freedom charter it's controversial and seeks among other things to wipe out all soviet symbols the author get the bloods and believes it's a necessary step to help georgia make a break from the past. there are two main parts to it fighting terrorism and getting rid of the country's communist legacy georgia cannot develop in a democratic manner if we allow people with a communist back in mind to keep important policy. that lotsa says many progressive e.u. members like poland and not here have successfully adopted such a law and he thinks georgia should follow suit but not everyone agrees and many want the authorities to focus on the present rather than the past it showed that during. his you know. anything. serious to think about and. nothing to say to this site other critics say

that if tbilisi wants to call it law all things the soviet then it means outlawing the communist party as well a prospect which doesn't go down well with party members. of those in the london lot of the polity so this is yet another step in an anti people policy which our government is conducting this is an attempt to rewrite history the situation in the country is critical people are already saying openly that it was better to live under socialism and in the current system the government is just trying to show the west that they belong there. aside from making everything hammer and sickle related illegal the plans would also tighten control over money transfers anyone receiving more than thirteen thousand dollars must name the source of that income. as they were based in total control over money transfers. overseas predominantly from russia where millions georgians money with work afterwards democracy is

a straight road towards at a time of terror and regime. who knows if georgia's parliament has its way this time of the unknown soldier a soviet symbol in itself could soon to be outlawed it's been almost a year since a world war two monument was controversially destroyed in a controlled explosion and the way it's looking right now georgia's government is not just set on rewriting history but on wiping it out altogether and if this is georgia it even goes r.t. and on the way in just a few minutes criminal cosmetics find out why the make up market in russia is making people suffer for beauty. now let's check out some other news making headlines around the world this hour and at least ten people have been killed in a car bomb explosion in the iraqi city of karbala locals say muslims were targeted as the city is a pilgrimage site 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. 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 the pay for performance reward that includes lifting crippling economic sanctions could be enforced as early as july next year it comes on the condition the two upcoming referendums to stabilize the south are conducted fairly and the results respected the votes are part of the peace agreement that ended the country's devastating civil war in which two million people died. police have arrested a man suspected of shooting randomly at immigrants in a yearlong 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 have been shot at near bus stops in their cars and through the window of a gym the suspected serial sniper has denied the allegations. and three

people have been killed in clashes between rebels and government troops in a day after the country's first election in two decades some ten thousand have fled to thailand as tensions rise votes are being counted in a poll condemned as neither free nor fair internationally with a turnout of only thirty percent in one nine hundred ninety the national league for democracy beat the army back party but the result was ignored by the ruling junta. a train carrying nuclear waste has reached its destination in northern germany after police were forced to clear protesters from blocking the tracks activists oppose the government's commitment to nuclear energy to train journey has undergone several delays due to protests since it departed from france on sunday dozens of activists were injured during violent clashes with police. make up is supposed to

enhance beauty but that's not always the case in russia more and more freight cosmetics are making their way into stores across the country shoppers are taking a gamble when buying the products sandals already 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 teeth 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 really very hard to control all flows of products 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 was there for a. how much is chanel number five thirty dollars thirty dollars it's cheap isn't it it's a fake you want is produced in the united arab emirates illegally know there is a license it smells strange it's the same 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 presence of the price can be a real quote a ten dollar tab for chanel or george armani going to tease that here person a fake brand and most likely of well bad 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. here the first week was all fine but then my i started

teaching terribly became a read in 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 dubious. shop again but the problem still remains as there is no guarantee even if it takes tours or used. in the court they make fakes at home but there are also huge fake productions inter factories with equipment similar to those the real brains use where they can just steal from real thick trees so you could get the gene when in an underpass but just as well a fake is especially 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. are a beast. there's a lot more to discover online just head over to r.t. dot com any time and your own leisure with exclusive coverage of videos and

opinions there's plenty that. is a quick taste of what's available right now on our website the. russian military faces its largest performing but some of the top brass are not marching but you know. on this day a nine hundred seventy five by russian naval officer fed up with stagnating soviet union tried to stage a marxist revolution obvious on all the details and many more stories at r.t. dot com. stephanie is here now with the latest business news. hello and welcome to the business bulletin cash may no longer be king payments five

mobile phones are paying an increasingly important role in the russian market in fact operate to see it as a major share their revenues united midfielder reports russians still have face in cash many people don't trust banks you just set history of default greeting cards are rare debit cards are used mainly to was drawn from cash machines that leaves the field wide open to move while operators who can build on the common use of prepaid tunes 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 us prepaid mine your new phone and you can be put

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 one to meet you it's good because it's a kind of non-cash raymond's. rush you know because remember corner which is not very old perspective especially from space perspective so i think we contribute to this thread to be banking. side you know we cover bank customers their respective. marker finances so you assume is no longer just a gadget it can replace your wallet. but to service is 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 add a bit of a business card to moscow. now let's take a quick look at how the equity markets are performing european stocks are dipping low on monday after a strong performance in the previous week due to the teens and basic materials are dragging on the footsie gains in tech stocks and financials are tempering losses. and your moscow markets are making up for their four day break with both the r.t.s. and my six gaining around one and three quarters percent so far and you majors are amongst the top gainers on the r.t.s. and the world's nickel is really outperforming up three and a half percent on the my six bytes up for me to be well b two b. is up three point three 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 the shares in a new my sex joint stock company which will become the parent company of the my six group next year r.t.s. has already announced plans for an i.p.o.

in two thousand and eleven. covering gas prices drive gas from profits in the first half of the year the monopoly lifted net profit by sixty seven percent sixteen billion dollars but domestic and export markets were stronger with revenues up seventeen percent. the federal reserve's plan to pump another six hundred billion dollars into global markets has been met with great skepticism among both businessmen and politicians have a presidential aide arkady dvorkovich says the extra cash could benefit russia. you're do most of the picture 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 ahead 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 depreciating about current seems to take to take their exports cheaper however that makes money worth less and could even lead to hyper inflation. russian poultry producers have asked the government to drop plans to ban frozen poultry from the new year regulators claim frozen poultry is less nutritious producers point to europe and america where eighty percent of ready meals use frozen poultry the ban would boost prices and complicate the transport of meat to russia's east. russia's population it may have shrunk by almost five percent since the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred ninety one that's according to the first national census in eight years but when you results indicate that one hundred forty one million people are living in the country two decades ago the population stood up more than one hundred forty eight

million demographic experts say the decline hut economic growth and inward investment. and that's your update for now but of course you can always find the stories if you log on to our web site that's r t dot com slash it's us. the measure is the same of charge and goes right to the writers of the models

there's the taliban bad guys republican party moves to make itself felt in washington how will this impact us foreign policy and the ongoing war in afghanistan and. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are ruled the day.

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tactics a controversial russian artist asks online uses to electrocute him in a bid to promote freedom of expression he was one slammed by religious groups for a staged crucifixion. or sued for inciting religious hatred ten years ago but fled to before the court's decision was. fighting for health hopes are fading for a better health care system in the us as republicans gain control of the house repeal barack obama's reforms some americans claim they are forced to forego treatment because insurance companies refuse to cover the expense of. the price of beauty for. because. playing russian roulette with potentially dangerous products according to the ministry of being. thirty percent of all cosmetics in the country counterfeit. more of those stories in thirty minutes time but up next peter lavelle

and his guest discover rather discuss.