week or until he's hospitalized at the new board 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 art by vocal religious minorities. ten years ago he shot the 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 knew the most imposition their people had the right to be protected from having their beliefs insulted the man deserves punishment all they feel for him no beauty he's crazy. at the moment mathematic did not wait for the court decision and fled he's now living in exile in bulgaria.

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 the individual's right to freedom of expression between the two but the look was accused of committing hate crimes that they 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 and 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 either there are no artsy severe gary or attorney margarita zaki and says this device or project is basically mara mob ramadi is 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. 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 aims. commentary from attorney

margarita zaki just to remind you this story is available on our web site in our you tube page log on and leave your comments we'd like to know what you think web site is r t dot com. america should stop blaming its problems on other countries including china 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 agency qian has more. if you look back at these me term election campaigns in the u.s. china it 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 us you look at who we are electing to congress to the senate they can't repeat 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 you're 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 bring the u.s. has been trying to tame another big axford germany but germany was unapologetic and

defended his right to engage us competitively as possible in international trade 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. that it could investigate china's policies over complain that the country was using pakistan shut other countries out of the burgeoning market for clean energy mr bloomberg said wondering how can one criticize a country that's offering cheaper ways to produce a green to produce green energy at 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 americans tend to not travel

they tend to not learn foreign languages and america is very isolated from the rest of the world 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 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 it's unfortunate but in the educational system i think that's where america has to has to focus better educated in and more competitive 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 subsidies for its 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. you're watching our t.v. 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 medications and leaving . you know it's expensive americans fear for the future of their health care as republican gains in the midterm elections put the obama reforms at risk. but before we get to that russian prosecutors believe the brutal beating of an investigative journalist in moscow was most likely linked to his work in newspaper articles and blog postings oleg caution 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 of 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 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. 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 continuing to question people in connection to the case and to caution himself that. 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 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 i want to object presumably a metal rod for several minutes and the fact that neither his a mobile phone or his wallet or his my pad 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 cautions case and this attack the latest attack has caused a huge we've. both in russia and in the international community especially among journalists people are demanding the authorities to find the attackers and to hold off through all investigation president need to me 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 their professional activity i checked media reports some say those responsible for this attack will never be found but they will be found. hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation the georgian government is preparing to introduce a bad all soviet symbols and says the move will help fight terrorism and expand the baucus scene but many fear the new measures are just an excuse to suppress dissent

as anger amounts over the government's performance artie's arena reports from tbilisi. 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 clubs 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 any jemma craddock man or maybe allow people with a communist back in mind to keep important posts. but lots of 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. think about and. nothing to say to the site other critics say that if the police he 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. and lot 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 they were based in total control over money transfers from overseas. presumably from russia. money with. no power tools democracy is straight tools at a time to tarry and regime. who knows if georgia's parliament has its way this to move the unknown soldier is soviet simple 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 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 more stories and analysis at our website r t v dot com here's a taste of what's online right now. in britain's take to the streets demanding justice for victims of police brutality as a survey says one person dies in custody in the u.k.

. and rotten owners from around russia unite to prove their pet rodents of the fairest of them all more than one hundred rockets threaded their stuff but only one became the big cheese find out more at our team. republican gains in u.s. midterm elections are worrying americans who fear the conservative party may 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 to nearly fiftieth overall with many believe it 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.

gear in his closet and you can see why of course you can it is a sick man and despite appearances the photos with us politicians and plaques from the president recognizing him as a hero in the aftermath of nine eleven x. zero is what i got from president obama he still can't afford his health care a lot of the medications i'm eating called would. 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 but actually 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 a grave because of heart and lung disease that all i did was get punished for getting sick through 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 a 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 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. or. 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 are not working there's a lot of problems and 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 the 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's going to take care of my family when i'm gone and even if his family does no one is resting easy concept right now lauren lister r.t. new york. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a wave of bombings has rocked southern iraq leaving around thirty people dead and scores injured the first two happened in the shiite holy city of karbala and najaf where at least twenty died third car bomb was detonated near a busy street filled with kathie's and shops in the city of basra locals say all three blast targeted iranian shia muslims. around ten thousand people fled me on mar after the country's first general election in twenty years officials say they've escaped to neighboring thailand several people were killed in clashes between rebels and government troops near the border allies of the ruling military

junta are expected to win the election which western countries dismissed as neither free nor fair with turnout hovering 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 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 four bhopal industrial catastrophe are calling on obama to take action against u.s. corporations blame for the tragedy considered the world's worst industrial disaster of the deadly leak at a pesticide plant killed thousands. and a collision between two trains carrying fuel has triggered a massive explosion in northeast poland one of the drivers was injured in a fierce blaze that broke out dozens of groups of firefighters at the scene is huge flames billowed across the area one of the trains is said to have smashed into the back of the other. korean american joins us next with all the latest business news

stay with us here on r.t. . hello welcome to business news our top story this hour countries are continuing to lash out at the u.s. decision to print six have a billion dollars in new stimulus money so the bankers and economists warn of inflation new bubbles and hot money inflows and russia could be on the receiving end of all of it as to set up a couple of parts. stimulus wars. the biggest a fanciful on the west front here's 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 men in the eastern and southern emerging economies russia's official response so

far is surprisingly positive but it could be 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 in 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 higher inflation that will erode incomes and savings if you are a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate disinflationary expectations in it's created in the streets which eventually would mean that treats would go up. as a result will 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 speculator of capital do stock markets and keep assets overvalued in ben bernanke his words higher stock prices will do to 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 the business our team. and i say a quick look at how the markets are performing stocks in the us are lower after hitting two year highs last week financial companies are dragging on the indices technology companies are posting gains go into added one percent after u.b.s. raised its rating on a stock to buy from neutral boeing is the worst performer with a drop of one a half percent at reports that the delivery of the seven eight seven dreamliner will be delayed for as long as ten months. and europe markets were also on monday

banking stocks dragomir this is the world bank of scotland lost over three percent of the footsie followed by boyd's banking group an anglo american and commerce bank topped the move as a solid direct trading over five percent. and here in moscow markets ended monday's trading session in the black energy majors were among the top gainers on the r.t.s. known as top the winners list but ashamed four and a half percent higher on the rise six banks performed particularly well again three percent a close mark over this time from the trouble says investors see value in russian stocks. the expectations of market growth market performance the russian economy in my view will be adjusted upwards in the near future because more and more factors are more more market data indicates more robust domestic consumption or. cauvery that coupled with the strong commodity prices that should lead the russian economy

growth pace versus what's expected now and a lot of investors factor marker cannot make expectations in their models that's number one number two russia has not introduced any measures of capital control so for unlike their emerging market economies markets such as brazil china for example and this certainly is another plus. to russia investors and. my sixers offer to buy twenty percent of rival exchange r.t.s. for one hundred fifty million dollars there are many eighty percent could be swapped for shares in a new my six joint stock company r.t.s. has already you know plans for an i.p.o. next year. recovering gas prices boosted gas from revenues in the press half of the year both domestic and export markets were stronger with profits up sixty seven percent to sixteen billion dollars. russian foreign trade surplus has grown thirty

seven percent so far this year to over one hundred twenty billion dollars however 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 around half of its exports represented by oil and petrochemicals. russian billionaire alegria passed buying back a stake in europe's leading construction company struck for more than five hundred million dollars because basic element was forced to sell a twenty five percent stake bag at the height of the global financial crisis and now he's buying back seventeen percent of the from to his company rest period aims to make russia a top free market and will build infrastructure for the sochi olympics and two thousand and fourteen in the link below also saw a twenty six percent stake in road building consarn trance to. me in the business team here in moscow you can always find most stories if you love

and a website called the. culture is the same of jargon for you are under the bonnet there's the taliban bad guys republican party to make itself felt in washington how will this impact us policy in the ongoing war in afghanistan.

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the official. pulled touch from the. video on demand. or a sense feed in the palm of your. home . eleven thirty pm in moscow good to have you with us here on our t.v. zero headlines a controversial russian artist puts his life into the hands of the internet users in a bid to promote freedom of expression. he is wanted for inciting religious hatred after a speedster crucifixion and he could be electrocuted if voters decide. new

york's mayor accuses americans of making scapegoats of other countries such as china and says the u.s. should focus instead on its own practices mike bloomberg made the comments when he was addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong. and georgia tries to break from its past as it attempts to ban all soviet symbols and says the move will help terror and strengthen democracy but many here it's just another attempt at rewriting history. with the recent republican surge in u.s. politics what's next for american strategy in afghanistan will it change or stay the same host peter lavelle and his guests in cross talk go head to head in that debate coming up next. for the full story we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and .