i think you're born rich or so at this is a test of how society interprets freedom do they want to use it to save or to kill 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 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 in russia sued him for inciting religious hatred knew the verse that was ashish in 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 but remarks he 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 to move. we have laws to protect true gent on the one hand and laws that protect individual's right to freedom of expression he was caught 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 my remark 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 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 will 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 if there are no artsy severe garia us should be should stop blaming us problems on other countries including china instead focus on its own practices that's a message from new york mayor michael bloomberg who is addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong artie's guy 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 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 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 well the u.s. has been trying to tame another big export of germany but germany was an apologetic

and b. fan it is right to engage as competitively as possible in international trade but as michael bloomberg said the u.s. should stop criticizing other countries for producing more and actually forty 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. 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 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 peres says the u.s. should realize that it's part of the global community and educate its citizens accordingly. 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 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 are coming up in the program why george results mission says the government is trying to give history and wore a new face lift. a lot of medications and leading called the. you know 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 though 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 postings oleg kashin dealt with sensitive social and political issues president medvedev says those behind the attack will be found and punished more piskun all of has the latest. dr say i led 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 cuomo to prevent pain shock but i do believe me so it's the should we consider the surgery we carried out successfully 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 but 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. 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 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 was a word with 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 mobile phone or his wallet or his m i pad even or 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 of through investigation president need to be put this case under the personal control the full ferocious police and the prosecutor general level of the smug 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 they will be found. hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation the georgian government is preparing to an entry to sabbat on all soviet symbols it says the move will help fight terrorism and expand democracy but many fear the new measures are just an

excuse to suppress dissent as anger mouse over the government's performance or teaser 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 in mind to keep important parts of the. third 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 to think about and. nothing to say to this site other critics say that if tbilisi wants to outlaw all things soviet then it means outlawing the communist party as well a prospect which doesn't go down well with party members. and a 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 if people are really 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 and 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 predominately from russia. in that money with. no proper tools democracy is straight goods tools at a time the terrorist regime. who knows if georgia's parliament has its way this to move 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 if this is george. r.t. . check out our web site for more stories and analysis our team here's a taste of what's on live right now britain's take in the streets demanding justice for victims of police brutality as a survey says one person at a week dies in custody in the u.k.

. owners yes i said rap owners from around russia unite to prove their road and sort of fairest of all one hundred rats threaded their stuff but only one proved itself to be the big find out who are to be. turning back to u.s. politics republican gains in u.s. midterm elections are worrying americans who fear the conservative party will try and reject president obama's health care reform from the from being at the top of the global life expectancy chart the u.s. has slumped to nearly fiftieth with many blaming government policy for the slide artie's lauren lyster has been talking to one nine eleven hero 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. 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 a little ego from president obama he still can't afford his health care a lot of the medications i'm eating called good. you know it's expensive his insurance fall short which means every month he has to pick and choose what ailments he treats this is what i do a lot of times i stick with the course here to help me breathe at night and i skip some of the other medications my sleeping pills that we sleep even without sleeping pills he hasn't slept well since nine eleven a city employee working on highways he was drafted into the search and rescue team in the aftermath of the attack on the twin towers actually picking up human remains and searching to see what it was or why the aftermath for him has been forced early retirement in a fixed pension basically a kick out of what and

a cut in health care which puts him in a deadly dilemma forced to make possibly life or death decisions because of the chronic diseases he suffers arising from his work at ground zero but i already got a foot in the grave because of heart and lung disease that i did was get punished for getting sick doing my job and 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 ninety it 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 are not working there's a lot of problems and i think the president has tried to do our best to repair a system that's out of whack you as president obama's health care reforms might help someone like kenneth but there's still lots of red tape to be faced with insurers and now the reforms themselves are under threat from the house now controlled by republicans who vowed to overturn them. but as the politicking goes on kenneth still needs his prescriptions but i will tell you paid. these uncovered and he'll still be forced to make desperate choices on which ones he can afford and which ones he can't this in the richest and largest economy in the world in a country where he was praised as a hero 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 concert concert right now lauren lyster r.t. new york. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a wave of bombings has rock southern iraq leaving around thirty people dead and scores injured in their wake the first two happened at the holy cities of karbala and najaf where at least twenty died third car bomb was detonated near a busy street filled with cafes and shops in the city of basra locals say all three blast targeted iranian shia muslims. around ten thousand people fled me on 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 the rebels and government troops near the border allies of the ruling

military are expected to win in the election that western countries have dismissed it as neither free nor fair with turnout as low as thirty percent for an opposition boycott. of president barack obama has back to 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 eighty four bowl poll industrial catastrophe are calling on obama to take action against u.s. corporations blame for the tragedy considered the worst industrial disaster the deadly leak at a pesticide plant killed thousands. a coalition between two trains carrying fuel triggered this massive explosion in northeast poland one of the drivers was injured in a fierce boys that broke out dozens of groups of firefighters are at the scene as huge flames below across the area one of the trains are said to have smashed into

the back of the other. next door representing a rockies demanding justice after alleged torture by british troops speaks to r.t. phil shiner explains what his clients say they went through and why they are demanding a public inquiry stay with us. today i'm talking to fellow shina human rights lawyer and the head of public interest lawyers there representing a group of iraqis who allege that coalition forces abused them during the occupation of iraq they'll sign it thank you very much for talking to r.t.

now if you were taking a case to the high court representing one hundred forty two iraq east tell me what that's all about. are these iraqi clients complain that over a period of time the whole time that we've been in iraq actually from march two thousand and three to december two thousand and eight. they complain of censorship with blacked out goggles or. all sorts of sexual matters various techniques designed to intimidate and coerce including harsh threats and insults of the shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues it's. my all rape. all sorts of very troubling aspects of the u.k.'s interrogation policy none of which has been fully explored and that is that there's a sort of odd sexual element to a lot of these claims is an exercise nature is a lot to do with nakedness some accusations of pornography having been. yes well

it's clear that the interrogation policy included a directive to all these. strip that the iraqi internal force make us and keep them naked if they wouldn't cooperate. now this nakedness was to take place often in front of a group of soldiers who'd be laughing and sometimes when so some of our clients refused to strip so force was used to strip the iraqis and then shades into other matters so for example one of our clients complains that one of the soldiers straddled his back and masturbated on is on his back when he was naked that kind of that kind of abuse can often follow from that struggle to strip clients but there are other aspects as well for example many

of our clients complain that they were played loud hardcore pornography all night sometimes. of the they were intended to render themselves unclean or porn mags were left in the showers and the toilets and they'd be observed to see how they reacted to the. female and male soldiers and guards were having sex in front of our points masturbating in front of a whole range. of sexual matters which are very troubling and no one has. got the beginning of an explanation as to what on earth was going on this is all taking place within a secret compound. which is where the joint forward interrogation team was operating and they were a compound within a compound on simple not to the military chain of command but to london and no one

seems to go anywhere near them by design. we're not aware that the red cross every inspected the the area that was the joint for interrogation team so they seem to be able to do what they wanted. and one of the. interrogators in the bar inquiry gave evidence on the twenty sixth of april of this year saying the only limits to coercion were the with the limits the stretches of one's imagination and you can see that very clearly in all of the the complaints that are being made it's easy to imagine that these kinds of abuses could have been perpetrated by rogue elements in the armed forces but in fact you're seeking to prove that this ill treatment is systemic in the armed forces there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bar inquiry so we know for example that there was

a policy of getting them naked get the make you keep them if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched harshing we have video. training video of this on the website this is clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to suggest this is a few but. that's the interrogation policy needs to be exposed we need to ensure that we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly unlawful what kinds of people are these iraqis that are making. these allegations tell me tell me a couple of their stories how they came to be arrested or what happened. but by and large they're in their homes usually sleep with their wives usually one o'clock two o'clock in the morning the door is exploded open twenty soldiers rush in. they're

abused calf often rifle sometimes hooded sometimes the women and children are abused in two of our cases pregnant women who have miscarriages because they've been so badly abused. our clients are iraqis and civilians they don't know what they've done they're never told they're never charged and after days weeks months years they're venture released but not before they've been subjected to all of this abuse kept in solitary confinement deprived of food and water deprived to sleep etc etc. but they all seem to be by and large iraqi civilians who are going about their lawful business and they've no idea what they've done wrong and they still don't know what they've done wrong because no one ever told them oh you're going to be charged with x. y. and said you are the public interests lawyer do you think it's in the public's interest to spend public money proving that there is systemic corruption inside our

armed forces i think it's in the public interest that if we go into a place like iraq. supposedly to enforce the rule of law and principles of democracy fairness and justice good old fashioned british principles that we behave in accordance with that and we haven't done and i think it's in the public interest that that behavior should be exposed and eradicated and those who are responsible brought to account. thank you very much thank you very much. this is just a parliament building in murphy and. then. sixty from years ago. it was the final target minus major offensive from the main army.

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style polls sometimes. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines today in two cars a report on our. fast. midnight in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our t.v. 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 of ramadi is wanted for inciting religious hatred after a staged crucifixion and now he could be electrocuted if on line voters so choose.

new york mayor mike bloomberg accuses americans of making scapegoats of other countries including china and says the u.s. focused on its own practices instead bloomberg made the comments when he was addressing a meeting on climate change in hong kong. and georgia tries to break away from its past as it attempts to bat all soviet symbols it says the move will help terror and strengthen democracy but many fear it's another attempt at rewriting history. next to meet the children of those who suffered from radiation in hiroshima and nagasaki after nuclear bombs were dropped on the japanese cities at the end of the second world war stay with us. here. in. the nuclear age sixty used china as far east.