on the internet vote for him to receive 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 like 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 oppression of artists specifically says ship were bought by vocal religious minority. then years ago he shot the radical film in which he was authentic the crucified. i'm not the son of god seven inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian he thought that i was asian and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred i knew there was no position there people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment it was all a deal for him no biggie he's crazy from that moment about how much he did not wait

for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile in bulgaria known. i paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i wouldn't paid an even higher price those people have tried to destroy me just just maybe doing what we have laws to protect religious on the one hand to put in laws that protect individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught between the two bills which were to lick was accused of committing hate crimes that i 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 moderate mattie 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 spots

ability for your death so as another it would be fun to see someone die suggest someone else legace fighting what seems to be a worthy aim now he 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 here or there are no artsy sofia bulgaria. i want to talk more about these devices probably device approach that we're now joined by a lawyer. in the studio good to see you so despite how bizarre this case may be the russian artists have been charged in the past with inciting religious hatred before talk to me about their right to express themselves to constitution of the russian federation which is the main law of the country all citizens are equal in their rights and regardless of their national reach and race sacks or religious beliefs these rights are guaranteed by a constitution and that's specifically stipulated in the constitution and the new

limitation on this rights is prohibited under the constitution so basically there is a general rawitsch of freedom of expression of fuel of us how about even if even if it involves sitting in an electric chair and being bugged by people all around the world well this act is actually very outrageous i would say personally in this particular case but at the same time this is an expression of the person if it does not inflict on the rights of other people if it does not in fleak the oil or more what do they are the people for the same behavior then this is the expression of this particular person it is outrageous that he is free to do that but now there are all religious groups that are already calling for legal proceedings against against this man for what he's performing here do you think your thought he was afraid in any way that this might set a bad example for a very sick stream this group's well i'm not actually in a position to determine whether or not i thought i was a scared but i would definitely say that this particular case attracts attention of

the public and it is probably aimed at the attraction of the tension of the public for this particular matter and it has its good and its bad side step it now mr modi claims his project says something about the state of contemporary society would you agree because internet users are voting for him to suffer on a regular basis and this is outrageous i think about this idea to bring attention to. this particular matter by the internet by the act of this particular painter is definitely outrageous at the same time probably this is he's perception over the matter and his view which attracted the public attention because to be honest he had the public's attention to this particular cases of pay interest is not very broad range direction or so you're saying he's just seeking attention here and he's trying to avoid a possible jail term for his previous offense when he when he staged a photo crucifixion in my opinion he's definitely attracted attention nothing else because i think that internet users will probably vote no for this particular

actions and he will attract the public he will promote himself he will p.r. himself and this is what these actions are and when you can promote himself you can p.r. him so that if there's somebody in some part of the world with online internet access who's having a bad day they can use a electrocute electrocute defeat the whole purpose well definitely this has negative factors i sad to bid for this particular person for this particular painter his attraction his attention by this act and there is no particular legal machinations to say no you cannot do it unless it inflicts on the national really just some different ok so he is allowed to do this legally speaking that by the end of the week we'll see how he feels he's been doing so well here ok long voyage. thank you you thank. well you are watching r t it's good to have your company today and coming up in the program find out why jordan opposition says the government is

just trying to give history of wanted facelift. the price of perfection why the growing number of fake cosmetics in russia is making sure it was play russian roulette. well republican gains in the u.s. midterm elections are worrying americans who fear the conservative party will try to reject president obama's health care reforms from being at the top of the global life expectancy chart the u.s. has now slumped to nearly fifty years with many blaming government policy for the slide to use a loyalist has been talking to a nine eleven hero for whom curing the system is the only hope to stay alive. new york. 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 in the room. here in his closet and you can see why his of course here kenneth 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 the 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 he has 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 that we 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 actually picking up human remains and searching to see what it was or why the aftermath for him is. enforced early retirement in a fixed pension basically a kick out of what 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 really got a foot in the grave because of heart and lung disease and all i did was get punished for getting sick doing my job down there the 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 ninety it 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 america's deteriorating 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 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 and 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 the house now controlled by republicans who vowed to overturn them but as the politicking goes on kenneth still needs his prescriptions but i will tell you paid. these uncovered and he'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. it's 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 laura mr r t new york russian prosecutors believe that a brutal attack on an investigative journalist in moscow was most likely linked to his work and his newspaper articles on blog oleg kashin dealt with sensitive social and political issues the inquiry into his attempted murder is being supervised now by the country's highest ranking investigators you got a piece going off on the latest. dr say i caution is in a critical but stable condition he did suffer from various injuries during that attack and they include a broken jaw as 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 a state of an artificial cuomo to prevent pain shock but i do believe me so it's for that should we consider the surgery we carried out successfully but the patient's condition is serious but stable he'll stay in an intensive care unit for the near future we can't make any predictions about his condition the injuries are serious and a lot depends on different factors usual while an investigation is in full swing at the moment police are questioning containing to question people in connection to the case and to caution himself the portion of 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 that 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 he 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. 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 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 an object presumably a metal rod for several. minutes and the fact that neither his mobile phone or his wallet or his i barely even were not stolen shows that this was definitely not a robbery this is for from the first time that a journalist is attacked in russia. case and this attack the latest attack has

caused a huge wave of outrage 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 be put this case 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. you go to peace going to reporting now bear in mind you can always check out more stories and analysis on our website. and it's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now britain to take to the streets to demand justice for victims of police brutality as a survey says one person a week dies in custody in the u.k. . and the ratto names from around russia unite to prove their pet rodents other terrorists of them all for one hundred strutted their stuff but only one went home with the cheese. r.t.

dot com. the georgian government is preparing to introduce a ban on all soviet symbols and says the move will help fight terrorism and expand democracy but many fear the new measures are just an excuse to suppress dissenting views. over the government's performance. 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 floods 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 maybe allow people with a communist back and minds to keep important parts. but lotsa says many progressive

e.u. members like poland a lot 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. flipped through you. know. anything. serious. think of. nothing to say to the site other critics say that if tbilisi wants to outlaw 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 mountain out of their 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 than 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 but only from russia. and that money with hard work. is a straight 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 on rewriting history but on wiping it out altogether but this is georgia. r.t. . now we are coming to you live from moscow this is r t let's check out some other

international news this hour and a car bomb in iraq has left at least ten people dead dozens injured locals say muslims were targeted in the city is a pilgrimage site the attack follows a series of bombings which killed more than sixty people in mainly shia neighborhoods across baghdad last week. around ten thousand people have fled me and after the country's first general election in twenty years officials say they've escaped to neighboring thailand several people have been killed in clashes between rebels and government troops near the border allies of the ruling military are expected to win in the election which western countries have dismissed as neither free nor fair with turnout as low as thirty percent of the opposition point. the u.s. president barack obama has backed india's request for a permanent seat on the un security council during his visit to the country the

leader also said relations between the two states are a defining partnership of the twenty first century hundreds of survivors of india's nine hundred eighty four bhopal industrial catastrophe are calling on president obama to take action against american corporations blamed for the tragedy considered the world's worst industrial disaster a deadly leak at a pesticide plant it killed thousands of people. what makeup is supposed to enhance beauty but that's not always the case in russia tons of fake cosmetics are making their way into stores cross the country leaving many suffering seriously from their effects and while shoppers are taking a gamble buying the products both already seem unable to stop the trend as artie's finds out. up to thirty percent of all cosmetics is fake 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 toward. rooms with illegal goods produced both in asian countries and incandescent

operations in russia's own backyard but counterfeit leap sticks and perfume has to everywhere. russia is a huge country and it's really very hard to control all flows of product but the loathing to britain to make it even worse last february there if used an obligatory certification for cosmetic and they're no longer inspections so how could it be better to go to an interpol shop in the center of moscow so as here they don't even make it a secret out of their frame of 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 a even an expert can fail to spot the difference if the price can be a real close at hand or tab for chanel or giorgio armani going to tease that your

person has a fake brand and most likely it will fall bad into the bargain. fake is always many times cheaper but the real price to pay could be much greater when the running of blackness 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 it in 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 in the teeth stores are used. to make figs at home but there are also huge fake productions entire factories with equipment similar to those the real brains use or they can just. if you were real think juries so you could get

a jury when in an underpass but just as well a freak is especially shop. so he looks a little clerk a game of russian roulette you never know for sure whether it's fake or not and whether you believe to be a ruby east regional shanty. well ahead of the world buying the suggests bringing back the gold standard to reduce currency volatility now kareen is here with all of it you. know why would the world bank be doing this well or even suggestion comes as countries like united states and china are depreciating their currencies to make their exports cheaper and i will have more on that in a moment but first to other stories russian billionaire or leg there pascoe is buying back a stake in europe's leading construction companies trouble back for more than five hundred million dollars basic element was forced to sell a twenty five percent stake in style back at the highest at the height of the global financial crisis now he's buying back seventeen percent of the company

through his firm rusk area aims to make russia a top free market and will build infrastructure for the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen in a link deal basell will also sell a twenty six percent stake in role building concern trance to strike back. the federal reserve's plan to pump another six hundred billion dollars into global markets has been met with great skepticism among business men and politicians alike have a presidential aide arkady dvorkovich says that the extra cash could benefit russia . i think that in the short term there won't 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 when the show. can be seen as a plus for us. the 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 will be linked to a range of assets through what he calls an open capital account it comes as leading countries in the west china are depreciating their currencies to make their exports cheaper however that makes money worth less and it could even lead to hyperinflation. now let's take a look at how the markets are performing european markets are dipping lower on monday after a strong performance in the previous week italy's and basic materials are dragging on a foot see the gains in tech stocks and financials that tempering losses. here in moscow markets are making up for their four day break with both the artists and the why is it gaining over one point seven percent energy majors amongst the top gainers on the r.t.s. nickel is really outperforming. all the my six banks are performing particularly well recently as a week and a half the site was bought. and long as it was offered to buy twenty percent of rival exchange for one hundred and fifty million dollars remaining. could be

swapped for shares in a new my company which will become the parent company of next year r.t.s. has already announced plans for i.p.o. next year. recovering gas prices drove gazprom profits in the first half of the year lifted net profit by sixty seven percent to sixteen billion dollars domestic and export markets were stronger with revenues up seventeen percent. cash may no longer be king payments why mobile phones are. playing an increasingly important role in the russian market and fact operators see it as a major issue and the revenues that are the parts the russians do have to face in cash many people don't trust banks you just set history of defaults greeting cards are rare david cards are used mainly to his draw salaries from cash machines that leaves the field when 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 rapidly 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 you're in your phone and you can people in range of other goods people from small cities will benefit from mobile payments with fewer bangs well citizens of metropolis can top of 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 kind of loan cash payments. or a straight you know most because they're even a foreigner which is not very. prospective especially from spain so i think we

contribute to this around the banking. side you know we cover bank customers their prospective. marker financing so you have boom is no longer just a gadget it can replace the old rule it's very hard to service is becoming widespread in russia now if you hop on a train becomes not just tropically but also cash free because you can simply face with your phone. then edited a business card team moscow russian poacher producers have asked the government to drop plans to ban frozen poultry from the new year regulators claim frozen poultry as less nutritious produces points to europe and america where eighty percent of. frozen poultry the ban would boost prices and complicate the transport needs to russia's financed. that's your update for now but it can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com.

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we are coming to you live from moscow this is r.t. your headlines now a controversial russian artist is putting his life into the hands of internet users in a bid to promote freedom of expression. and is wanted for inciting religious hatred after a staged crucifixion could be electrocuted if online voters so decide. americans

fear republicans will try to reject president obama's health care reform after the party gains in the midterm elections life expectancy meantime slumping in the u.s. with many saying government policy is to blame. and george is trying to break away from its past as it attempts to also be a symbols it says the move will help to. strengthen democracy but many fear it's just another attempt at writing history. and next we meet the children of those who suffered from radiation in hiroshima and nagasaki after nuclear bombs were dropped on the japanese cities at the end of the second world war. you know. they knew clear eight.