every night for a week or until he's hospitalized at the new born rich or so like this is a test of how sometimes he interprets freedom to 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 art by vocal religious minorities ten years ago he shot that radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the son of god so the inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian youth organization and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred new do most imposition the people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment all they feel for him no beauty he is crazy. at the moment but how much he did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile in bulgaria and will. return i

paid a high price i am separated from my homeland but if i'd gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price tools people have tried to destroy me just move. 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 matter about he says he has no fear of death or thousands of responses for it no one should be driven to suicide by religious fanatics says well 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 if anything happens to him over the next week everybody involved in this story will be a loser if you are an artsy so fear bulgaria. turned us politics political scene now america should stop blaming its problems on other countries such as china and instead focus on its own practices that's the message from new york mayor michael bloomberg who was addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong artie's guide agency kyon has more. if you look back at these me term election campaigns in the u.s. china was everywhere a lot of attack ads featuring china as the source of america's problems as a country that stolen americans jobs so something close to hatred was being promoted toward china here some other countries as well but china in particular a new york city mayor michael bloomberg a very influential political figure here in the united states said enough is enough

and here is a quote i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves and of quote elected officials in the us are pretty much in the habit of making scapegoats out of anything in foreign countries if we do a very few americans really know something about seemed to have become a great target but michael bloomberg and the have it can backfire badly he said i quote if you look at the us you look at who we are electing to congress to the senate they can't read i'll bet you a bunch of these people don't have passports we're back to start a trade war with china if we're not careful here only because nobody knows where china is nobody knows what china is and of course that's a pretty harsh criticism of u.s. lawmakers but some elected u.s. officials seem to have no difficulty selling anti chinese or anti any other country ideas in america considering more than thirty million adults in the u.s.

can't read but as michael bloomberg said the u.s. should stop criticizing other countries for producing more and acts boarding more and get back to work going back to china there's a certain aspect that mr bloomberg finds especially hypocritical china is now making a big push into solar and other environmentally friendly energy technologies and surprisingly the attention it gets in the u.s. is far from positive last month the u.s. trade representative's office said it could investigate china's policies over complaints that the country was using tactics to shut other countries out of the burgeoning market for clean energy mr bloomberg says wondering. how can one criticize a country that's offering cheaper ways to produce and three to produce green energy in the us supposed to be all for it but apparently not when it comes when it's made in china. more views on michael bloomberg comments from istanbul based journalist richard paris who joins us live good to have you with us so mayor bloomberg accuse the majority of americans of being ignorant about china and indeed any other

country how fairness arrested and assessment do you think that is. well it is true that three fourths of americans do not have a passport so the odds are that three fourths of the newly elected republicans probably don't have a passport but america has been fairly isolationists for the last fifty years and it is a problem that the use excuses like the chinese in in the global economy but they should work to compete better with them so he's i agree with him on that point but he's not quite a lone voice in this senator john kerry recently spoke about what he calls a culture of know nothingism among americans now he blamed right wing media and talk radio for those who do you think is to play. well i think it's not just the right wing media i think. in example is the the

islamic mosque controversy in new york city which i wrote about a couple of weeks ago americans tend to not travel they tend to not learn foreign languages and america is very isolated from the rest of the world and it's really an educational problem but it is true that the republicans have used the issue of trade in their advertisements the fact is that everything is made in china and in addition to that the u.s. has been doing providing substance. he's for it's own products like cotton. since the end of world war two so it's part of a global economy the u.s. is in a global economy and they have to compete like like everyone else and not look for excuses i think that may or may us no continue with her comments go ahead well mayor bloomberg you know he's

a new yorker he's in your face independent republican a billionaire one of the most successful business people in the world so he's one of the few people in america who really doesn't care about the political impact of what he says and he's very direct and very honest but i think his his comments should really be taken the heart it is true that. we need to we meaning america needs to be competitive with everybody now as you said three quarters of americans don't have passports most of them don't undertake much international travel but they still voice support or condemnation for other countries where do you think they're getting their opinions from. well it's unfortunate but i think would mayor bloomberg say it is true they don't read they do get most of their news from the media television and radio talk shows and there is not

enough in-depth discussion about other countries in the united states and this is particularly the case since nine eleven as you know america was attacked and is almost hostile to you know the muslim world and the business world and feel somewhat surrounded by the international environment so i mean that's it's unfortunate but in the educational system i think that's where america has to has to focus better edges. hated and more competitive. and all right rick example we going to go ahead finish it up finish your thought well i mean i'm an american living in this stumble being interviewed by a russian television station you compete with c.n.n. and al-jazeera so it's an example of a global economy that everyone has to participate in absolutely watch to leave it

there richard paris journalist and author joining us live thanks for your comments . thank you stay with us here on r t coming up in the program. find out why georgia's opposition says the government is trying to give history and unwanted facelift plus. a lot of the medications i need in college. it's expensive americans fear for the future of their health care as republican gains in the midterm elections put president obama's reforms at risk. first the russian prosecutors believe the brutal beating of an investigative journalist in moscow was most likely linked to his work and his newspaper articles and blog oleg kashin dealt with sensitive social and political issues president medvedev says those behind the attack will be found and punished r.t.c. or piskun all has the latest. dr say i like 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 would he 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 but i give him leave me shots for the should we consider the surgery we carried out successful 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 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 the bullet 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 were checking the circle of people he knew his business and personal nash works the priority version is that the attack

is linked to cautions 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 pad even were not. stolen shows that this was definitely not a robbery this is far from the first time that a journalist is attacked in russia i looked russians 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 all investigation present need to put this case under the personal control of the chief of russia's police and the prosecutor general 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 have no doubts about that hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation the georgian government is preparing to introduce a ban on all soviet symbols it says the move will help battle terrorism and expand democracy but many fear the new measures are just an excuse to suppress dissenting views as anger mounts over the government's performance art easel has more. 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. actually 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 and mind to keep important parts. but lots of 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. has. anything. serious. think about

and. 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 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 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 it were based in total control over money transfers. overseas presumably from

russia where many georgians and that money with hard work towards democracy is straight towards a totalitarian 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 and if this is georgia goes go r.t. . you can always check out more stories and analysis on our web site r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's on live right now. britain's take to the streets to demand justice for the victims of police brutality as a survey says one person in a week dies in the custody in the u.k. . and rat owners from around russia unite to prove their pet rodents are the

fairest of them all more than one hundred rats strutted their stuff but only one went home with the cheese find out more are teen. 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 slumped in nearly fifty years with many blaming government policy for the slide artie's laura lister 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 this city that never sleeps and just beyond the urban chaos. neither does kenneth george one of the missing. deer in his closet and you can see why it 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 x.

zero from president obama he still can't afford his health care a lot of the medications and meeting called the. 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 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 but i really got a foot in the grave because of heart and lung disease and all i did was get

punished for 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 that is south korea bosnia as well as bigger opinion yet the prime reason for the climb researchers say it's america's deteriorating health care system with a growing number of people who are uninsured or underinsured. 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 kenneth 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 in earnest 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 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 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 take care of my family when i'm gone and even if his family does no one is resting easy concept right now lauren lyster

r.t. new york. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a car bomb in iraq has left at least ten people dead dozens injured locals say shia muslims were targeted the city is a pilgrimage site the attack follows a series of bombs that killed more than sixty people in mainly shia neighborhoods across baghdad last week. around ten thousand people have fled myanmar 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 the election which western countries have dismissed as neither free nor fair with turnout as low as thirty percent after an opposition boycott. a collision between two trains carrying fuel has triggered a massive explosion in northeast poland one of the drivers was injured in the

fierce blaze that broke out dozens of groups of firefighters are at the scene as huge flames are billowing across the area one of the trains is said to have smashed into the path of the other. and our exclusive interview later this hour we look at iraq allegations of torture and abuse at the hands of british troops but first let's get the latest business news with korean american. but on welcome to business countries are continuing to lash out at the u.s. decision to print six hundred billion dollars in new stimulus money so if a bank as an economist warned of inflation new bubbles and hot money inflows and russia could be on the receiving end of all of them as the ports. stimulus war as. the biggest offensive fund the restaurant has washington's decision to print new hundreds of billions on greenbacks japan was first with over sixty billion dollars of financing but the u.s.

shot back with a round of stimulus ten times as big huge waves of hot money are expected to hit man in the eastern and southern emerging economies russia's official response so far is surprisingly positive. 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. but to many voices are critical germany calls the u.s. policy clueless it will lead to artificial economic growth in the u.s. asset prices bubbles all over the world and eventually in march high inflation that will erode incomes and savings all participants corner me including banks and companies if you see that official targets are not met and inflation is actually

there would as you next year inflation perhaps be even higher and the year after that it will be even higher still which means that if you are a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate this inflationary expectations in its growth in the streets which eventually would mean that trades would go up. credit activity as a result would slow. analysts say developing countries inflation is already quite high and they cannot match the u.s. moved by increasing their own money supply so analysts predict the dollar will depreciate against many currencies speculators capital will do stock markets and keep assets overvalued in ben bernanke his words higher stock prices will do consumer wealth increase confidence and spending analysts say this is simply a rerun of the ass a bubble before the crisis broached as it must once again that's in the political

business our team. now let's take a quick look at how the markets are performing was there is down and morning trading commodity prices in natural resources dogs are under pressure from a rising us dollar dow jones is sharing point four 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. in europe markets were also lower after a strong performance in the previous week banking stocks were dragging the european indices lower world bank of scotland lost over three percent on the footsie on monday followed by lloyds banking group where american commerce bank was topping losers list on the does heading over five set. and here in moscow markets ended in the black on monday energy majors were amongst the top gainers on the r.t.s. but know as neko top the winners list finishing four and a half percent higher on the rise expands before particularly well the city was upbeat for certain close markets time for metropol says investors see value in

russian stock. in the expectations of market growth market performance the russian economy in my view will be adjusted up towards in the near future because more and more factors are more more market data indicates more robust domestic consumption recovery that coupled with strong commodity prices that should lead. russian economy growth pace higher versus what's expected now and a lot of investors fact the marker cannot make expectational in their models that's number one number two russia has not introduced any measures of capital control so far unlike their emerging market economies markets such as brazil china for example and these certainly ease another plus. to russia in investors and on ice. and that's your updates and the what you can always find most always on the web sites going to r t dot com slash dozens.

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york's mayor accuses americans of making scapegoats of other countries such as china and says the u.s. should focus on its own practices instead michael bloomberg made the comments when he was addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong. at georgia tries to break away from its past as it attempts to ban all soviet symbols it says the move will help terror and strengthen democracy but many fear it's just another attempt at least writing history. up next to a lawyer representing iraq he's demanding justice for alleged torture by british troops speaks with r t explains that his clients say what they went through and why they're demanding a public inquiry stay with us. today i'm talking to phil shiner who's a human rights lawyer and the head of public interest lawyers there representing a group of iraqis who allege that code.