this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect mother and mattie 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 so like this is a test of how sometimes he 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 of op vocal religious minority. ten years ago he shouted radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the son of god seven inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian youth organization and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred and knew this was the position their people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment was all

they feel for him no it's a pity he's crazy. mathematic did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile and bulgaria nor does touch of a circle return 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 is just my view. we have laws to protect religion on the one hand and laws that protect 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 with you. since his 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 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 for its 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 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 severe garia meantime margaret says this divisive project is basically an attempt to grab attention. this particular case attracts attention of the public and it is probably aimed at the attraction of the township of the public for this particular matter this idea to bring attention to this particular matter by internet by the act of this particular painter is definitely outrageous at the same time i am probably this is he is our perception of the matter and his view would attract the crowd like attention 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 this actually is and. that's margaret is talking to me just a bit earlier just to remind you this story is on our website and on our youtube page let us know what you think at r.t. dot com 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 now of the global life expectancy chart the u.s. has slumped to nearly fifty years with many blaming government policy for the slide lowered lister has been talking to a nine eleven hero for whom touring 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 missing. gear 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 act around zero is what i got from president obama he still can't afford his health care rather than medications i'm eating probably. 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 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 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 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 but i really got a foot in the grave because of the heart and lung disease you know i did was get punished for the sake of 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 the drop from twenty fourth back in one thousand nine hundred nine if put that behind countries such as south korea bosnia as well as bigger yet the prime reason for the decline researchers say it's america tarried ing 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 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 will not work and 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 laura next year r.t. new york you are watching r t it's good to have your company today and still to come in the program find out why workers opposition says the government is trying to give history unwanted facelift. the price of perfection by the growing number of fake cosmetics in russia is making shoppers play russian roulette. russian prosecutors believe the brutal beating of an investigative journalist in moscow was most likely linked to his work in his newspaper articles and blog oleg

kashin dealt with sensitive social and political issues president dmitry medvedev says those behind the attack will be found unpunished r.t. as you go to this going off has 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 broken jaws a broken ankle broken hands and broken fingers and a fractured skull as well he already went through several surgeries at hospital in fact the doctors even had to put him in a state of an artificial coma to prevent pain shock even leave me shots for the should we consider the surgery we carried out successfully but the patient's condition is serious but stable so he'll stay in an intensive care unit for the near future we can't make any predictions about his conditions of 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. did still have questions 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 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 which could be 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 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 we've 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 all investigation president need to be put this case under the personal control of the chief of russia's police and the prosecutor general level of the smug little journalists work is so risky the state should pay better attention to their professional activity i checked media reports some say those

responsible for this attack will never be found but they will be found and. hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation you go to prison on reporting that while the georgian government is preparing to introduce a ban on all soviet symbols it says the move will help to fight terrorism and expand democracy many fear the new measures are just an excuse to suppress dissenting views as anger mounts 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 of blood's a 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 policy. but 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 add law all things to soviet then it means outlawing the communist party as well a prospect which doesn't go down well with party members. are not of the polity 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 really 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. is not to say we're off base in total control over money transfers. overseas but only from russia georgia and that money with hard work. is a straight right store to take time to turn around 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. . and you can check out more stories and analysis on our website. and here's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now britons take to the streets to demand justice for victims of police brutality the survey says one person a week dies in custody in the u.k. . from around russia unite to prove the. fairest of them all over one hundred struck at the start but only one with the g.'s. dot com. let's check out some other stories making headlines around the world this hour and a car bomb in iraq has left at least ten people dead and dozens injured locals say shia muslims were targeted as the city is a pilgrimage site the attack follows a series of bombs which killed more than sixty people in mainly shia neighborhoods

across baghdad last week. around ten thousand people have fled me in mile after the country's first a 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 the election which western countries have dismissed as neither free nor fair the turnout was as low as thirty percent after an opposition boycott. the u.s. president barack obama has backed india's request for a permanent seat on the u.n. security council during a visit to the country a leader also said relations between the two states are defining partnership of the twenty first century hundreds of survivors of india's nine hundred eighty four industrial catastrophe calling on president obama to take action against american corporations blamed for the tragedy considered the world's worst industrial

disaster a deadly pesticide plant killed thousands of people. a train carrying nuclear waste has reached its destination in northern germany after police were forced to clear protesters from the tracks and activists oppose the government's commitment to nuclear energy the train did suffer several delays due to protests since it departed from france dozens of activists were injured during clashes with police on sunday. well make up is supposed to enhance beauty but that's not always the case in russia tons of fake cosmetics are making their way into stores across the country leaving many suffering seriously from their side effects and while shoppers are taking a gamble buying the products authority you seem unable to stop the trend artie's maria from investigates. up to thirty percent of all cosmetics in russia are 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 torus 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 north into britain to make it even worse each not february there if used in obligatory certification for cosmetics and there are no longer inspections so how could it be better to go to an interpol shop in the center of moscow so is here don't even make any secret out of what they're offering. how much is chanel thirty dollars thirty dollars it's cheap as you know it's a fake award it's produced in the united arab emirates illegally i know there is a license it's real strange it's seem it just may not be that the original it's not always easy to tell the real from fake even an expert can

a fail to spot the difference but the price can be a real a ten dollar tab for old. order money going to tease that here person a fake brand and most likely it will smell bad into the bargain. fake is always many times cheaper but the real price to pay could be much greater when they're 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 a porn movie here the first week was all fine but then my i started it in terribly became red in the 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. in the court they make fakes at home but they're also huge fake productions entire factories with equipment similar to those the real

brains use or 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'll be left a beauty or a beast grief notion artie mosco. in our exclusive interview later this hour we look at iraq allegations of torture and abuse by british troops but first in just a moment it's kareena with the business news. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. which

brighten. from months to impression. don't. have a welcome to business have a go straight to our top story russian billionaire or like to apostatize buying back a stake in europe's leading construction companies struck for more than five hundred million dollars basic element was forced to sell a twenty five percent stake at the height of the global financial crisis now he's

buying back seventeen percent of the farm through his company ross parea aims to make russia a top three market will build infrastructure for the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen and a link deal will also sell a twenty six percent stake in road building concept concerned transport 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 businessmen and politicians alike have a presidential aide in a crowded bar code which says that the extra cash could benefit russia. 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 vision can be seen as a plus for us. they had of the world bank robert zoellick has suggested bringing

back the gold standard to reduce currency volatility 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 from the us to china are depreciating their currencies to make their exports cheaper however that makes money worth less and it could even lead to hyperinflation. let's take a quick look at how the market's up with falling wall street is falling in early monday morning trading commodity prices and natural resources stocks are under pressure from a rising us dollar the dow jones is trading point seven percent and the nasdaq is down by three percent last week u.s. stocks were at their highest level since lehman brothers collapsed in september two thousand and eight. now in europe markets are also lower after a strong performance in the previous week utilities and basic materials are dragging on the fourth see the gains in tech stocks absolute tempering losses. and

here in moscow markets are making up for their four day break and two majors are amongst the top gators on the r.t.s. and norsk nickel is really outperforming up nearly percent at the close on the lie six banks are performing particularly well we should be is up three and a half percent. and my six have offered to buy twenty percent of rival exchange r.t.s. four hundred fifty million dollars the remaining eighty percent could be swapped for any new. company which will become the parent company of my six group next year r.t.s. has already announced plan. for an i.p.o. next year. we're covering gas prices drove gazprom crawford's 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. cash may no longer be king payments on mobile phones are playing an

increasingly important role in the russian market and in fact operators see it as a made to share their revenues related reports. the russians still have faith in cash many people don't trust banks you just set history of default greeting cards are rare debit cards are used mainly to his draw salaries from cash machines that leaves the field wide open to live while operators who can build on the common use of prepaid those bases 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 your new phone and you can people and range

of other goods people from small cities will benefit the most from mobile payments with fewer bangs while citizens of metropolis can top of their mobile on almost any foreigner saving time nurse and q.'s and for their rushing for me it's good because it's a kind of long hair spray melts down the street you know almost because grieve in a corner which is not very old perspective especially from space perspective so i think we contribute to this round to be banking. side to how we cover the bank customer from their perspective. mike are financing so you assume is no longer just a gadget it can replace the overall it. third spot to services are becoming widespread in russia now if you're hoping to change becomes not just traffic free but also cash free because you can seem to face with your phone. then add a bit of a business card to moscow. and 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 and uses point to europe and america where eighty percent of ready meals use frozen poultry about would boost prices and complicate the transport of meat to russia's far east. after suffering one of the world's stephens declines in output russia's economy is recovering the foreign trade surplus is up so far this year by thirty seven percent on an annual basis however the growth is mostly due to rising oil prices while there is stable at about eighty dollars per barrel that's shopping higher than a year ago all and petrochemicals account for around half of russia's exports. and that's the update for now but join me at twenty past the hour for more business stories here.

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it's now six thirty pm here in moscow you are with 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. who is wanted for inciting religious hatred off the stage crucifixion could be electrocuted if online voters decide some.

americans fear republicans will try to reject president obama's health care reforms after the party gains in the midterm elections life expectancy is slumping in the u.s. with many saying government policy is to blame. and georgia is trying to break away from its past as it attempts to ban old symbols and says the move will help to terrorism and strengthen democracy but many fear it is just another attempt at writing history. well up next a lawyer representing iraqis demanding justice after alleged torture by british troops speaks phil shiner explains what his clients say they went through and why they demand a public inquiry. today i'm talking to phil shiner who's a human rights lawyer and the head of public interest lawyers there at.