in the lives of individual human beings america long the self-appointed global leader on human rights pointing out the shortcomings of others for the united states this is a matter of moral and pragmatic necessity but scenes of injustice like these are taking place not in other countries instead happening right here in the u.s. a point being made by the united nations human rights council in its first comprehensive review of washington's record two hundred twenty eight points to be precise recommendations on how the u.s. can do better in practicing what it preaches everyone. tension centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and executed arbitrarily the u.s. dismisses many of the suggestions calling them political provocations by hostile countries he had even america's allies are highlighting grave flaws friends in ireland demand obama follow through on the promise to close gitmo britain belgium

and dozens of others calling on the us to abolish the death penalty for many it's the ultimate hypocrisy how a state with roughly three thousand people on death row lectures the world about humanity it's almost like a case in point mumia abu jamal viewed as america's very own political prisoner the united states the perpetrator of gross human rights violations is using human rights as a political football against its enemies and its enemies are enemies not because they violate human rights necessarily but because the us wants to change the government in their country the country often accusing adversaries like syria iran and north korea of oppressing citizens is now faced with defending domestic practices like indefinite detention for prison conditions and racial profiling don't stand idly by don't be silent when dissidents elsewhere are imprisoned america is home to the world's largest prison population with two point three million. people currently behind bars children can be sentenced to life in prison

a place where more than one hundred undocumented immigrants have died while awaiting deportation. increasing discrimination against muslims another blemish on america's human rights record. hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams maccollins nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a woman how we go lives americans no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the us has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leaving many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do not artsy.

as the obama administration tries to tackle human rights violations in the country former president george w. bush is once again sparking controversy this time with his new memoir was almost two years ago after leaving office america's forty third president is now having his say on his time in the white house in the book decision points with fields his thoughts on the most historic and disputable moments of his presidency he claims that iraq's lack of weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him but he still believes the u.s. was right to invade terry gratian of terror suspects says personally approved the use of to boarding because he believed it helped prevent attacks former congressman tom andrews says no such methods can ever be justified on any. first of all it is illegal. you can get an attorney to say anything you want but

the fact of the matter is it is illegal secondly it violates international law it violates the geneva conventions and thirdly it puts american soldiers at risk so that when they find themselves god forbid in an enemy's hands then you feel they're faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to to those who the united states brought into custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is is not surprising but but again unfortunate you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in the united states and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle in the failure of the federal government to respond to that horror came disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq

a violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american soldiers over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and make it worse you had american soldiers seven hundred of whom were lost their lives in iraq because in this war of choice this administration did not think it important enough to provide them with the protective armor that if they had it they would be alive today. former congressman tom andrews there well still to come late to the program how christianity is the target in the middle east we take a look at how fast some jews and muslims make sure no one swaps faith. russia's police are marking their professional holiday on wednesday but it comes at a hard time for the force after

a string of high profile scandals its image is tarnished a reform of the door and foresman system is on the way but as artie's pushed over reports restoring public trust in the police is now an extremely hard task. their pictures which shocked and asian and left the image of russia's law enforcers in tatters it's now over a year since this drunken shooting spree by police officer. killed two and wounded seven others but the case remains one of the most alarming in a series of high profile police scandals it also came as a blow to people like former officer alexander who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he was a cool fourteen regretfully there are many of sickos out there i'm a former policeman myself but even i try to avoid police officers they have guns and they can shoot it was also last year that a young officer tried to blow the whistle on police corruption with an internet

video and sparked a political storm i have many acquaintances in the police who care about the truth he called for a national inquiry and accused police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people the bill planted a wave of similar revelations as other officers came forward the interior ministry itself admits more than one hundred thousand offenses involving police officers were registered in two thousand and nine alone. you know in the one hundred seventy s. policemen were motivated by reasons that would be totally on appreciated today we work to solve crimes for the excitement of the job and for justice to prevail. in response to the scandals prison really needed it ordered a multi-billion dollar reform of the interior ministry last december the new measures set out to make clear the rights of the police and those they detain one of the main talking points however became the new name for the force leaving behind

the old militia and going back to the internationally more accepted police many said crossed rimming the biggest concern and we are worried about the costs of the name change. the law should me i don't under. stand why we need to spend so much money but will they be changing the lettering on the cars it's no use changing the name first they need to take a look at all those villas in the moscow region she which police officers of house that's what they need to start confiscations. the proposals will be implemented next year in what will be a crucial stage in the forces history and history which has seen better days as this museum in moscow testifies the museum tells hundreds of stories of bravery courage and heroism this is the list of those who died in the line of duty and were awarded both humorously however the organizers of this exhibition say there are many more out there whose stories remain unknown where the image of law enforcement

in russia remains a tarnished one the question now is whether the reforms will be more than just a facelift and help put both the police and the police on the same side of the barricades. r.t. moscow. russian president dmitry medvedev has described north korea's nuclear program as the cause of political and military tension in the region he forced his concerns upon arrival in seoul ahead of the g twenty summit the russian leader said young's ambitions are a challenge to the entire nonproliferation program and pose a greater threat than iran north korea has carried out several nuclear tests since two thousand and six with some around one hundred kilometers from the russian border bed of hell of a stress that diplomacy is the only way to resolve the issue. withdrew from the six party talks on the solvent last year raising international concern that the logs come ahead of a u.n.

report due to be published it suggests that north korea may have supplied syria iran and many more with nuclear technology. and you can read the whole interview with the president get up and get into. analysis of all the stories we're covering our web site here's what you can find online right now at r.t. dot com one of the world's most famous death row prisoners gets another shot of breaking free find out all the details of this case from behind bars he became an honorary citizen twenty countries. plus the mask of zorro comes to moscow check out the costumes behind the scenes interviews and much more from the set of sword wielding musical at artesia.

ballance against christians is on the rise at the very cradle of their faith in israel and the palestinian autonomy despite differences between was thems and jews both have targeted christians and their holy sites. there has met those struggling for freedom from persecution think that david ortiz lives dangerously a christian pastor among religious jews in the west bank city of i will he's received death threats for trying to convert jews and muslims to his faith my first time going into a muslim village i got beat up we were giving our bibles someone hated ortiz enough to drop off a package at his house thinking it had a candy inside his fifteen year old son opened it the pipe bomb nearly killed him and then blew him through the kitchen and made a hole in the chest most of the thrusts were in this way but the back fire the straw the refrigerant everything back it took three years for israeli police to

catch the perpetrator a religious jew jacket tie towel who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs and he says he's very proud. he began a favor by trying to cut off. across the west bank the story for palestinian christians is as bleak and the threat comes from both extremists jews and muslims bethlehem the believed birthplace of christ once boasted a population of eighty five percent christian today less than ten percent live here this woman is afraid to show her face she used to go to mantra square and teach about jesus but all that ended after her house was nearly burned down i didn't feel like i belong to this place anymore i feel like i'm staying to give an opportunity she says she wouldn't think twice about leaving the explosion of muslims. you know you feel you feel controlling everywhere every thing my

granddaughter have to memorize. but tuss abu sada ignores the threats he's one of a growing number of muslims whose converted to christianity in recent years when i was a fighter over there i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your and looking for their homes and triangular names into their homes or putting out their cars because i believed christians are spies. for christianity can sit alongside islam and judaism here these two palestinian brothers have no problem reconciling the christian faith with living in a jewish state they volunteered to join the country's army saying they feel as israeli as the jewish and arab counterparts. all give everything i have for this army because in the end this is my country but it's not without its problems. of

the world each time i go home in uniform someone will call it be traitor and things like that it doesn't influence me. but in recent months attacks against christians and christian sites have increased at the big. of november this hundred year old church was burned by right wing israelis who broke some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire for three hour t.v. to resell them. health officials in haiti have confirmed the first death hollerin the aid groups are setting up treatment centers to help contain the disease which has already killed more than five hundred outside port au prince and more affection increased in the wake of flooding caused by hurricane thomas and is further worsened by the capital's crowded living conditions over a million people living in makeshift camps after being left homeless by devastating earthquake injuring. a tugboat has begun to turn to

shore a cruise ship which caught fire and was stranded off the coast of mexico the carnival splendor with about four thousand five hundred people aboard was south of san diego when the blaze broke out u.s. navy helicopters and aircraft carrier ferried supplies to the stricken vessel is expected to reach port thursday. the u.s. government says it was a nazi behind the inch of a mystery missiles zina over the pacific ocean helicopter to capture the footage of a large bag of the coast of california on monday but experts have been left scratching their heads where it came from and claims there isn't a threat. singapore airlines have announced that it will change the engines on three of its a three eighty planes becomes less than a week off an explosion of a quantas plane last week forced it to make an emergency landing in its off to

takeoff trains in sydney noble london are also affected. doctors say a prominent russian journalist who was brutally beaten in moscow is recovering well off undergoing a third operation of the country and was rushed to hospital after two men under him with drugs on friday night russian lawmakers and are considering that the world to adopt a heavy of punishment for attacking journalists investigative suspects russians work for commerce and newspaper internet blogs as reasons for the vicious assault and journalist made a name for himself by criticizing several high profile government officials present and to regret it is about to bring the perpetrators to justice. one policeman has been killed and seven people wounded in two separate attacks in russia's southern republican doug a storm basement were searching cars on one of the region's motorways when

a gunman opened fire on them and in another attack one officer was wounded when provides explosive device went off in a police convoy was passing by pakistan has been facing an increasing number of militant attacks in recent recently despite efforts by the forty's to crack down on terrorist groups. prosecutors in afghanistan have dropped all corruption charges against one of president hamid karzai as national security advisor is investigators in the case say the u.s. is stepping down missions against corruption despite washington admitting it sees the country's problems t.-z. which he contributed says it's time for a person intervention by the american president. they dismiss all of this corruption case against god as the aide who is also officially on the payroll by the cia is the latest reminder that in afghanistan there is no such

a thing as a rule of law afghan president snatch he's aid from the jaws of justice this means that in the absence of any meaningful u.s. policy or strategy in afghanistan it's a horse calling the shots flaunting all possible law customs and international laws regarding the criminal activity so on the eve of the u.s. strategy and policy review in december eighth it's a long overdue for the u.s. commander in chief to intervene personally and to make sure that he's not only paying lip service regarding the growing danger of corruption and drug production in afghanistan we could result in the imploding of any social fabric left in afghanistan and could boomerang and we would discreated completely the u.s.

image not only in afghanistan but far and beyond. that was a minute you continue to get a huge shelf and saw that i would have the space and seize the few minutes i stated this. for the four we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. which brightened. from funds to. come.

and i welcome to the program here and. folly as shares of russia's biggest messel companies of twenty percent i mean for the last two years. the most. valued on the stock market among these companies are m.k. every. medina caution of. matzoh was one of the industries hit hardest by the global financial crisis and it's among the fastest to recover shares of top producers have jumped eighty percent in two years and say they still haven't reached their limits we think. the recovery or for construction markets. will be. rough for russian producers the main driver is increasing demand from china the growth of metal

consumption in the country has boosted mantles prices to buy three times in cost to kate from some two hundred forty dollars to over seven hundred dollars per ton russia's domestic market also house along with government subsidies for the car industry the next driver will be the recovery of residential construction demand for some a finished metal products is still twenty five percent below pre-crisis levels to meet the small in from the next two years will see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for long term metal production you feel look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of marginally up the price of the offered list coking coal is looking up quarter on quarter metals producers remain undervalued and that includes m.m.p. which accounts for some sixteen percent of all metal priest in the country the shares of the rose four times over the past three years still it remains the least

valued model stock in russia's top five followed by year for us in match my dinner business r.t. . gold record highs this week filled by inflation euro zone sovereign debt woes and the latest us to move us package metal is currently hovering around peak levels exceeding the four hundred dollars mark i was predict the demand for gold will continue to climb but vos in the trade. so it's not clear how high the rally will go. it's difficult at the moment i see the round figures as obvious levels for gold fifteen hundred dollars now that has broken through for three hundred would be the next level up from the above that you possibly got two thousand dollars which is a massive increase in the underlying price of gold but you're seeing more and more traders buying futures contracts and i think most importantly why each year six. to

push the price of gold higher it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable through the online with enough of the underlying asset there. to be able to be delivered if the futures contracts worth take is expiring so it's a difficult situation we're told that he could come screaming back down if it does choose to sell off. time out have a look at the markets and asian stocks are mixed after a down session overnight in new york since u.s. investors shift to commodities such as silver and copper birthdays or the federal reserve plant could drive up inflation and heart qualities as seen by some as a safe haven. and here in russia markets and to choose day trading day on a positive note yes saw two percent in my six and over one percent higher gold prices lifted shares of precious metals companies in their roles nickel lead on the arts yes gaining more than three percent but after of us was by far the biggest winner on the my sex is preferred stock sold over two percent without any corporate

. and the reform of the world financial system must continue in the view of president dmitri medvedev speaking journalists in south korea ahead of his visit to the capital seoul but very said it's now the turn of the i.m.f. to face he said russia hopes to join projects with both koreas north and south cooperation could involve the gas sector power and transport industries which it is that russia council active participation by south korean businessmen in developing east bay area. russian far east. investigators chasing illegal money substitution so the main culprits are not banks but other industries like tourism and charities but out evacuate from the federal financial monitoring service says the global crisis has led to an upsurge in money laundering. since the financial crisis broke out we've noticed a lot of new ways to setting up illegal money transactions for example charity

projects sometimes are used as a screen for money laundering then there is the tourism industry which the state is investigating at the moment quite recently we found out that push two transactions are used for illegal money operations we need to establish a more efficient system of control but to do it in a way that does not harm the financial development of the economy. and finally this of new cars and light commercial vehicles in russia rose twenty two percent in the first ten months of this year compared to the same time a year ago association of european businesses seven october alone sales jumped six two percent a total of one point five million so january topped hope and russia is well ahead of these forecasts one point six million cast two thousand and ten takes a year to date growth up twenty percent nine of the top ten best selling models of passenger cars operating in the future. that's outside salvatore's fun little

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you're watching our t.v.'s take a look at the headlines now the u.n. human rights court slams the u.s. for its poor record are americans question whether they really practice what they preach racial profiling the death penalty and crime to prisons top the list of us human rights offenses. russia's law enforcement for celebrates its

underdressed free it's being leaked branded and reformed but there are fears it could take a lot more to police the police force has recently been mauled by crimes committed by officers and other gay shoes of corruption. attacks on christians in israel and the protestant all tony iommi increase at the hands of jews and muslims keen to ensure they once which is their faith but there are those who convert to unprotect christianity against the owens. but g twenty summits has to kick off in south korea tomorrow to tackle the world's most burning economic issues ahead of the gathering altie spoke to the russian president a need of a kind of each believes the world is lucky to afford a trade war between china and the us and that more international financial coordination will help ensure a stable economic recovery.