this happens every time one hundred people on the internet both elect modem mati to receive a massive electric jolt anyone can vote he'll do this every night for a week or until he's hospitalized at the new born rich or so like 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. mother matty 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 sort of got seven inscription on his back. a prominent orthodox christian he thought that i was asian and russia sued him for inciting religious hatred he knew there was no position there 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. mathematic did not wait for a 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'd gone to prison i would have paid an even higher price tools people have tried to destroy me just. nothing in short we have laws to protect religious on the one hand and laws that protect individual's right to freedom of expression she 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 of the mass destruction by christian groups moderate matthew says he has no fear of death or thousands of responses for him 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 there's a possibility for your death so as another it would be fun to see someone die suggest someone else a legacy fighting what seems to me were the 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 there are no artsy sofia bulgaria. china is america's biggest creditor but despite being one of its top two trading partners the country's becoming enemy number one with that american right to chinese buys among new republican politicians in congress could help spark a full broad trade war which new york's billionaire and that michael bloomberg said was fueled by ignorance as he visited the country he's going to check out reports now on the growing hostility in the u.s. and waters could mean. when the economy's bad unemployment heart i

blame china many u.s. politicians use that tactic to get elected this year maybe you ought to run for senate try something close to hatred is being promoted against china here to the point when new york city mayor michael bloomberg said enough is enough. i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everyone else and take a look at all cells but china is not the only scapegoat us politicians use to score points. when it comes to security and defense issues there's a host of other countries actively promoted as boogie man in the u.s. flyers like this are being turned out by a major conservative think tank in washington they're designed to form a negative public opinion on the landmark arms control deal with washington that's up for ratification in the senate it would be absolutely wrong for anyone to try to demonize russia at

a time when we need russia's cooperation in order to limit the amount of nuclear weapons when it comes to the future of the start treaty the ramifications of washington's fear mongering policy can be destructive as far as i'm concerned forget about reset by not ratifying start by not going forward with the beauty of accession we are just going to bolster that latter group that people don't want to do business with the west sending mixed signals has become normal business in washington d.c. has the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting walter isaacson has recently included the country's suppost partners china and russia on his list of america's enemies as he put it a statement that he later backtracked on speaking of capitol hill is popular trend in demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the cahsee quinces may backfire

badly. if you look at the us as who we are electing to congress to the senate the country i bet a bunch of these people don't have passports where to start a trade war with china if we're not careful only because nobody knows which. nobody knows what chinese fear mongering thrives where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to fear us and some us politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer is it here will be able to remedy the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure get a check on our team washington d.c. . and who seems another casualty in the climate of fear mongering on capitol hill ratification of this start nuclear arms reduction agreement with russia has become bogged down in the senate and josh rogin of the foreign policy magazine in washington d.c. explains why. if they've made this decision that they want to postpone the vote on

the agreement on next year or if they just want it to go down altogether or not pass at all that's a decision that's going to be made totally absent of the rational substantive arguments for against the treaty how it affects our security this is pure politics it's not really about the merits of the treaty it's about the politics of republicans versus the obama administration we've got the public in leadership who wants to sort of see if they really think this could be a benefit to national security and then you've got this far right group the heritage foundation and their friends in some party some members of the tea party caucus we're just going to be against it off together who stands to benefit those who want to put an end to the u.s. russia reset as put forth by the administration the bottom line here is that what they have to benefit is to deliver a huge foreign policy failure to the bomb ministration what we have here is their white house putting all of the credibility of the reset process on this agreement and it's also one of the only few foreign policy successes that they can really count this year so if this goes down this looks very bad for obama it looks very

bad for the senate democrats it looks very bad for those republicans who want to work with senate democrats so there is a new thinking about russia both of the administration and congress but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction so those who are skeptical of the u.s. russia relationship are ripping up their efforts to oppose this new dynamic and that's what we're seeing here and unfortunately the takeover of the house foreign affairs committee by a noted russia skeptic representative ross lane and points to increased power for this group within congress minority and small as it may be for resisting further u.s. russia cooperation so it's much easier to thwart initiative meant to implement it so what we're going to see here is increased attempts by those who are russia skeptics to push back against the administration's efforts to improve relationship with russia and the administration will have to read but its efforts even more to overcome that we just don't know yet how it's going to play out. this is our she answers a come later this hour hammer and sickle on the award points out wide georgia's opposition says the government just focusing on the wrong we choose as it attempts

to bury it solve it legacy. cheap and nasty find out how fake and make up and fragments is which are flooding the russian market pose extreme health risks to suspecting. investigators and rushing to the attempted murder of a top journalist focusing on his recent work to see if it could help find his attackers although carson who was severely beaten days ago near his moscow home covered the sensitive social and political issues in his newspaper articles and blog. nor has the latest on the times which has caused wide public outrage in that country. 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 of broken ankle broken hands and broken fingers and a fractured skull as well he would be 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 even leave me so it's like 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 i pad even or not. stallings shows you that this was definitely not a robbery this is far from the first time that a journalist is a target in russia prussians and this attack the latest attack has caused a huge wave of both in russia and in the international community especially among journalists people are demanding the authorities to find the attackers and to hold

a thorough investigation president need to put this case on the personal control of the chief of russia's police and the prosecutor general small 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 no doubts about it hopefully these steps should bring some positive results in the investigation and you can find more stories analysis opinion and lots of other topics on our website www dot com has a minute or two on line one. british demonstrators are demanding justice for victims of police brutality after survey showed that one person a week dies in custody in the u.k. . adding to the life begins at eighteen no a world war two veteran from southern russia has become one of the boarders in the

world after fathering his second son with his passport born when he was seventeen. the georgian government is planning to bound soviet symbols in a draft law also including add to terrorism and security measures but critics say the administration is simply trying to deflect attention from real problems the country faces as anger mounts over the government's performance. in our ports. 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 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 countries communist legacy georgia cannot develop in a democratic manner if we allow people with

a communist background 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. think of. 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 their 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. base in terms of control over money transfers. overseas presumably from russia where many georgians and that money with hard work is not possible to moxy is a straight road 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 said on rewriting history but on wiping it out altogether and if this is

georgia it even goes r.t. . let's take a look at some other news stories from around the world the way of a vote has rocked southern iraq killing at least nineteen and wounding many more and blog believed to be aimed at iran and share muslims the first explosions were in the holy shiite sites of karbala and the job where around fourteen died the third car bomb was near a business treat build with cafes and shops in the city of basra last week a series of blasts killed more than sixty mainly in neighborhoods across baghdad. around turn thousand people have fled myanmar thailand after the country's first general elections in twenty years fighting between ethnic rebels and government troops is thought to be behind the exodus several have died in clashes near the border sporadic gun and mortar fire continued into monday afternoon an opposition boy called lend a turnout as low as thirty percent of elections dismissed by western nations as a sham allies of the military dictatorship retaining power. the former

french president jacques chirac will have to stand trial on a second set of corruption charges in a case dating back to his term as power somewhere in the early ninety's is accused of creating seven fairly sitting hold jobs to pay salaries to his political allies and give cash to his party seventy seven year old shiran denies that use ations last month another trial on similar but separate charges was postponed until april next year but the two cases are expected to be heard together. make up was supposed to be in harm's bucy but that's not always the case in russia tons of cosmetics are making their way into stores across the country with the authorities seemingly unable to stop them and there's also an area for notion of finds out the side effects from using make believe make up may be severe. up to thirty percent of all cosmetics in russia afaik it's a huge figure but even these official stance by the ministry of internal affairs

could just be the teep of the iceberg almost every month police raids torus with illegal goods produced both in asian countries and incandescent operations in russia's own backyard but counterfeit leap sticks and perfume as to everywhere. russia is a huge country and it's really very hard to control all flows of product but the loathing to britain to make it even worse last february there if used an obligatory certification for cosmetic and there are no longer inspections so how could it be better to go to an interpol shop in the center of moscow so is here don't even make it a secret out of what they're offering. how much is chanel thirty dollars thirty dollars it's cheap as you know it's fake award is produced in the united arab emirates illegally i know there is a license it's real strange it's the see it just may not be that curable than the original it's not always easy to tell the real from

a even an expert can fail to spot the difference but the price can be a real quote a ten dollar tab for chanel or giorgio armani going to tease the here person half a brand and most likely a bit of love out into the bargain. fake is always many times cheaper but the real price to pay could be much greater when the running a book most current from a scene a special and unforgettable luke she could hardly imagine what kind of special it would turn out to be. here the first week was all fine but then my i started it in terribly became a read in were watering i couldn't drive because i couldn't see anything i was diagnosed with blepharitis inflammation of the eyelids it led to kind of allergy thrown into says she'll never ever get anything from a dubious shop again but the problem still remains as there is no guarantee even if her teeth stores. or used or. they make fakes at home but they're also huge fake productions entire factories with equipment similar to those the real brains use or

they can just steal from real factories so you could get a genuine in an underpass but just as well a fake it especially is shop. so it looks a lot like a game of russian roulette you'll never know for sure whether it's fake or not and whether you believe to be a tea or a beast. after next a lawyer representing iraq is demanding justice after alleged torture about british troops speak starting felt as china explains what his clients say they went through and why they're demanding a public inquiry. today

i'm talking to fail shina who's a 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 i thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're taking a case to the high court representing one hundred forty two iraq tell me what that's all about. of these iraqi clients complain that over a period of time the whole time that we were in iraq actually from march two thousand and three to december two thousand and eight. they complain of.

perversion with blacked out gobbles or. all sorts of sexual matters of various techniques designed to intimidate and coerce including ha. threats and insults of the shouted directly into people's faces. a whole range of issues in my all right. 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 there's an exercise nature of it 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 in turn is forced 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. obviously they were intended to render themselves unclean or poor marks 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 clients. 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 seemed 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 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 demick in the armed forces there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get them make you keep them if they don't cooperate the way in which there was to be searched the harshing we have video. the training video of us on the bomb machine quite a website these are 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 theater 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 what happened. in their homes usually with their wives usually one o'clock two o'clock in the morning and the door is exploded open twenty soldiers rushin. their abused cast often rifle sometimes hooded sometimes the women and children are abused in two of our cases pregnant women 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

their venture release 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 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 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. holidaymaker who wouldn't dare to swim so deep. a tourist would be scared of such cold water. and would never die nothing was in the arms for me. they are not to just be our researchers. and few more some land. in deep water. this is just a parliament building emerge and. then. sixty five

should. be the final target the last move through from some from the army. its country became the symbol of the fall of the financial tsunami. and the victory over nazi germany. the fall of muslim argee. clegg and this is our see the headline it's. free to kill a south exiled abduction also has has trumped south to electric chair and going to the deadly internet ballot allows people to flood on line even in lives or dies a leg from nasa says his eccentric experiment was to show just how society views

its freedom. china is america's biggest crisis and one of its top two trading partners has become public enemy number one but the country's right wing politicians because they don't want to pick. would bring out the fear mongering but others like new york mayor michael bloomberg fear that anti chinese sentiment could backfire and spark a full blown trade war. plus no red stars in georgia as the country is about to. get symbols the opposition says it's an ill timed and point because attempts to rewrite history that the government should focus instead of the real problems. going to be transported follows that host also phillip back on boston college about the future of russia's higher education system.