for a week or until he's hospitalized i think you're 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 a vocal religious minority ten years ago he shot that radical film in which he was authentic we crucified. i'm not the son of god certain inscription on his back. prominent orthodox christian youth organization and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred knew the most the position the people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment all they feel for him no biggie he's crazy. that a moment mathematic 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 had gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price tools people have tried to destroy me just moved in with nothing in short we have laws to protect religious 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 they think is wrong with you. since his crucifixion performance dozens of other artists have been fired and have their shows closed most after mass destruction by christian groups moderate mattie says he has no fear of death and thousands of responses pour in 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 sponsibility 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 if anything happens to him over the next week everybody involved in this story will be a loser because there are no artsy sofia bulgaria lawyer margaret is a key and says the device of project is simply never mind he's attempt to promote himself. this particular case attracts attention of the public and it is probably aimed at the attraction of the attention 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 the perception of the matter and his view would attract the public 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 action is that aimed. commentary from lawyer margaret

is the key in speaking with us earlier just to let you know the story is on our website and our you tube page log on and have your say dot com. the u.s. should stop blaming its practices on those problems rather in other countries and instead focus on its own practices that's the message from new york mayor mike bloomberg who was addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong or he's got an h.q. has more from washington. if you look back at these me term election campaigns in the u.s. china was everywhere a lot of attack ads featured 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 u.s. 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 will producing more and export even 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 a green to produce green energy the u.s. supposed to be all for it but apparently not when it comes when it's made in china . journalist and author richard paris says the u.s. should realize that it's part of a global community and educate its citizens. unfortunately arriving in some trouble with that video bring you that later in the hour here on r

t but stay with us here in the program coming up. find out why georgia's opposition says the government is trying to give history and unwanted facelift. and americans fear for the future of their health care as republican gains in the midterm elections put the president obama's reforms at risk. stay with us here at our table be back in thirty seconds after this short break. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images seen from the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day.

for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. russian prosecutors believe a 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 dmitry medvedev says those behind the attack will be found and punished r t z as 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 he already 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. 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 continuing to question people in connection to the case and to caution himself the potion the bullet we 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 that we're checking the circle of people he knew his business and personal nash works with 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 one 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 about this was definitely not a robbery this is far from the first time that a journalist is attacked in russia cautions 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 a through all investigation president need to meet the media put this case under the personal control of the chief will ferocious police and the prosecutor general little journalists work is so risky the state should pay better attention to the professional activity i checked media reports some say those responsible for this attack will never be found but they will be found no doubts about that hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation the georgian government is preparing to introduce a bad all soviet symbols it says the move will help battle terror 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 artie's arena reports from tbilisi. 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 of blood's a 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 posts. 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. has. anything. serious finger

and. nothing to say to this 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 london not of the polity so this is yet another step in an anti people policy which our government is conducting this is no time 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 presumably from

russia. and that money with. no plans to is democracy is a straight road tools at a 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 two years 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 its own rewriting history but on wiping it out altogether and if this is george it even goes r.t. you can always check out our team dot com for more stories and analysis here's a taste of what's online right now. breaking the state 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 owners that's right rat owners from around russia united to prove their pet rodent so the fairest of them all more than one hundred rats rather their

stuff but only one went home with the big cheese by that more r t done. turning to the u.s. political scene republican gains in the midterm elections are worrying americans who fear the conservative party might 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 the early fiftieth with many blaming government policy for the sly artie's lauren lister has been talking with a nine eleven hero who for whom curing the system is the only hope for staying 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 he is of course you can it is the 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 from president obama he still can't afford his health care a lot of the medications i need include. 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 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 already got

a foot in the grave because of the heart and lung disease that i did was get punished for getting sick doing my job down there the kind of case is unique in that he was a nine eleven first responder grim statistics show he is not alone the united states now ranks forty nine in the world in overall life expectancy this is a drop from twenty fourth back in one thousand nine hundred nine if put that behind countries that is south korea bosnia as well of the european union the prime reason for that why researchers say it's america's deteriorating health care system with a growing number of people who are uninsured or underinsured so. people just like kenneth i think that insurance companies make decisions that are not necessarily towards. the betterment of the patient some of his patients are even worse off than canada if they don't have insurance that means it's all out of pocket a lot of these people are not working there's a lot of problems and 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 wait till you're 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 shari'ah muslims were targeted 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 and maher 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 dismissed as neither free nor fair with a turnout as low as thirty percent after an opposition boycott. 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 obama to take action against u.s. corporations blamed for the tragedy can sort of the world's worst industrial disaster the deadly leak at a pesticide plant killed thousands of people. russian billionaire old leggett better pasco is buying back a stake in europe's leading construction company korean delegation joins us now to tell us all about it so why did he sell in the first place well that well there are basic element had to sell a twenty five percent stake in style back when the global financial crisis was at its peak and the company was in dire straits more coming up short. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

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out on welcome to a business has got to have you with us countries are continuing to lash out at the us decision to print six hundred billion dollars in new stimulus money central bankers and economists warn of inflation you bubbles and hot money inflows and russia could be on the receiving end of all of them as the set of political reports . stimulus war as. the biggest offensive from the west strong has washington's decision to print new hundreds of billions on greenbacks japan was forest with over sixty billion dollars a freezing my. the u.s. shot back with a round of stimulus ten times as big huge waves of hot money i 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 us 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 if you're a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate this inflationary expectations in its great interest rates which eventually would mean that treats 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 currency is 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 your business our team. now let's take a quick look at how the markets are performing u.s. stocks are trading lower on monday after hitting two year highs last week but actual companies are down the most at one point two percent while intel added one percent after u.b.s. raised its rating of a stock to buy from neutral it estimated that a semiconductor sector will see another couple of quarters of inventory adjustment globally in europe markets were also lower monday after a strong performance in the previous week banking stocks dragged on the indices world bank of scotland lost over three percent on the full see followed by lloyds

banking group and i'm going merican and commerzbank top to lose list of the dax sharing over five percent. here in russia markets ended monday's trays in the trading session in the black energy majors were among the top again is on the r.t.s. last may kill top the winners list finishing four and a half percent higher than my six banks performed particularly well bt gained three percent at close mark rubenstein for metropol says investors see value in russia stops. 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 in that should lead russian economy growth pace higher versus what's expected now and a lot of investors fact a mocker cannot make expectations 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 this certainly is another plus. to russia investors in our eyes. and my six has offered to buy twenty percent of rival exchange r.t.s. for one hundred fifty million dollars remaining eighty percent could be swapped for shares in a new my six joint stock company r.t.s. has already announced plans for an i.p.o. next year. the coming gas prices will serve gazprom revenues in the first half of the year both domestic and export markets were stronger with profits up sixty seven percent to sixteen billion dollars. russia's foreign trade surplus has grown thirty seven percent so far this year to over one hundred twenty billion dollars however the grown the growth is mostly due to rising oil prices they jump from less than

fifty dollars a barrel to over eighty dollars russia is the largest oil producer in the world half of its exports are represented by all and petrochemicals. russian billionaire all the exit in pasco is buying back a stake in europe's leading construction company struck back for more than five hundred million dollars their pos cars basic element was forced to sell the twenty five percent stake in struck back at the height of the global financial crisis now he's buying back seventeen percent of the firm through his company ross parea aims to make russia a top free market and will build infrastructure for such olympics in two thousand and fourteen in a ling deal bezel will also sell a twenty six percent stake in road building concerned transport to strasburg. that's all the update for now but i'll be back with more in less than one hour so.

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a story of. a trip to the soto to true school toto. in a sea of this. visit. nine thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our team these are your headlines a controversial russian artist putting his life into the hands of internet users in a bid to promote freedom of expression. he was wanted for inciting religious hatred after staging crucifixion could be electrocuted online voters so decide.

new york's mayor accuses americans of making the scapegoats of other countries including 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. and georgia is trying to break away from its past as it attempts to bad also. we have symbols that says the move will help build terror and strengthen democracy but many fear is just another attempt at rewriting history. next we said we need 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 stay with us here on r.t. . material the capital project on the american military. by the slum bikini and attack the ground zero. that contaminated and deserted.