but he's very important i have been finding out americans are having to deal with a dose of serious criticism. freedom justice and peace for the world must begin with freedom justice and peace 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 we want done up close guantanamo and secret detention centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and executed janie's arbitrarily the u.s.

dismisses many of the suggestions calling them political provocations by hostile countries yet even america's allies are highlighting grave flaws france and 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 from was 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. prison 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 a practice other countries term entrapment aleesha macwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i don't know what in hell we go let's remember kids 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 u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leading many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do not artsy. well as the obama administration tries to tackle human rights violations in the country former presidents george w. bush is once again sparking controversy this time with his new memoir almost two years ago after the big office america's forty third president is now having his say on his time in the white house in the book decision points he reveals his thoughts on the most controversial moments of his presidency he claims that iraq's weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him that he still believes the u.s. was right to invade the terror geisha of terror suspects he says he personally approved use to boarding because he helped prevent attacks but former congressman

tom andrews says no such methods can ever be justified 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 convention 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 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 with 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 to 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 that instills that. well so the commentator program how christianity is the target least take a look at how fast some jews and muslims make sure that one swaps train.

russia's police are marking their professional holiday on wednesday but it comes at a hard time for the force off a string of high profile scandals its image has been tarnished are full of the enforcement system is under way but as our teams diapers cover reports restoring public trust in the police is now an extremely difficult task. there pictures which an asian and left the image of russia's luring forces 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 candles it also came as a blow to people like former officer and xander. who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he vehicle 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 but 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 prompted 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 forty years ago you know in the one nine 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 prisons 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 remain the biggest concern and were worried about the costs of the name change. the law should me i don't understand why we need to spend so much money but will they be changing the lashing on the cars it's no use changing the name first then you take a look at all those villas in the moscow region she which police officers it houses there 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 tanishq 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. the russian president is visiting seoul way ahead of the g. twenty summit to be trim it better than his south korean counterpart have agreed to deepen their strategic partnership and signed a joint program on modernization trade and economic cooperation also in the spotlight of june the talks the sides will talk about north korea's nuclear program and interview president medvedev described it as the pros of political and military tension in the region on the eve of the g twenty meeting the russian leader said pyongyang's ambitions that challenge 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 and better however stressed that diplomacy is the only way to resolve the issue they can log onto a website with the food version of the interview with the russian media and get in-depth analysis of mother stories we're covering. his famous death for christmas day it's another shock to a great great find out all the details of this case and. one possible became an honest citizen twenty countries. take on the mask of zorro comes to moscow to check out the costumes on the scenes into deeds and much more said the sword wielding musical i thought he got.

shot. first. fallen against christians is on the rise at the very cradle of their faith in israel and the palestinian autonomy christians and their holy sites have been targeted by both extremist muslims and jews his posts there has met them struggling for freedom from prosecution. i 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 ject my towel who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs and he says he's very proud and. he begun a favor by trying to kill us. 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 manchester square and teach about jesus but all that ended after her house was nearly burned down i didn't feel like i've been known to this place and the more i feel like i'm staying just given

the 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 i have to memorize. but tuss abu sada ignores the threats he's one of a growing number of muslims who converted to christianity in recent years when i was a fighter with arafat i hated christians just as much as i hated use i was going on around your i'm looking for their own zone. into their homes or putting out their cars because i believed christians are spies. for christianity can search alongside islam and judaism here these two palestinian brothers have no problem reconciling the christian faith with living in a jewish state they volunteer to join the country's army saying they feel as israeli as the jewish and arab counterparts. give everything i have for this

because in the end this is my country but it's not without its problems. each time i go home in uniform someone will call it me traitor and things like that it doesn't influence me. but in recent months attacks against christians and christian science have increased at the beginning of november this hundred year old church was burned by right wing israelis who grow. some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire . t.v. jerusalem. doctors say a prominent russian journalist who was brutally beaten in moscow is recovering well after undergoing a third operation caution and was rushed to hospital after two men met him with metal rods on friday night russian lawmakers are now considering a draft of them to be a punishment for attacking journalists to go to suspect russians work for commerce

and newspaper internet blogs as the reason for the vicious assault journalist made a neighbor himself by criticizing several high profile government officials president dmitry medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. three attacks on police and troops have taken place in russia's south leaving two men dead and seven wounded in republic of dagestan the policemen were searching cars on one of the region's motorways when gunmen opened fire on them in another attack in the same region one officer was wounded when an improvised explosive device went off as a police convoy was passing by and in the neighboring chechen republic a soldier on a search mission was killed by an explosion russia's north caucuses has recently been facing an increase in the number of recent attacks despite efforts by the authorities to crack down terrorist groups. health officials in haiti have confirmed the first death from cholera in the capital aid groups are

setting up treatment centers to help contain the disease which is already killed more than five hundred outside the prince hold on a section increased when nothing caused by hurricane thomas over a million people are living in makeshift camps so the homeless devastating earthquake jeffrey. a tugboat has begun turning 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 in the engine room with navy helicopters and aircraft carrier very surprised the stricken vessel which is expected to reach port by thursday. the u.s. government says it was not behind the don'ts of a mistry missile the scene of the pacific ocean helicopter captured the footage of

a larger debate with him off the coast of california on monday but experts have been left scratching their heads of where it came from and you can claim is there isn't a threat. singapore airlines has announced that it will change the engines on three of its. a three eighty planes it comes at less than the we call from explosion of a qantas plane was to to make an emergency landing and it's off the takeoff planes currently in sydney melbourne and london are also victims. the prosecutors in afghanistan have dropped all corruption charges against one of president hamid karzai as national security adviser as investigators in the case say the u.s. isn't doing enough against corruption despite washington admitting it is one of the country's main problems military contributed this is it's time for personal intervention and the american president. there dismissal of this corruption case against scott as the aide who is also officially on the payroll by this cia is

the latest reminder that in afghanistan there is no such a thing as a rule of law afghan president snatch his aides 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 first 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 which could result in the imploding of any social fabric

left in afghanistan and could boomerang and it would discreated completely the u.s. image not only in afghanistan but far and beyond. that was artie's but if you contributed a kernel you get to her shop. yeah it's check out all the businesses that we shall attend every crisis has led to an upsurge in money laundering investors that much oh yes investigators say the main culprits are not banks but other industries like tourism and charities have details later in the program but first this hour russia is interested in attracting south korean investors speaking in seoul ahead of the g twenty summit dmitri medvedev says south korea is one of the top priority partners for russia in the region first person added that cooperation between the two countries should diversify away from the rule materials that russia is ready to create so-called modernization alliances with south korean companies learning

korean. promise to supply no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting in five years time today the company supplies one point five million tonnes of liquefied natural gas to the country head of the company alexei miller expects the south korean market to grow by a police fifteen percent in the six or seven years in addition gas promise considering building a new gas pipeline between the two countries. in our korean partners are interested in increasing the gas supply and should agree market entity we agreed with the coal gas company and the fact that we moved to next to you can negotiate commercial negotiations we started december and today we've agreed a new amount of gas supply which will starting twenty seventy. shares of russia's the biggest metal companies have grown twenty percent the last two years which is a small increase when compared to the world's top producers. most message metal

giants are still undervalued on the stock market among these companies are n.k.f. for us and metal but in a question of a finds out more. machel 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. themselves. will be of the essential driver for growth for russian producers the main driver is increasing demand from china the growth of metal consumption in the country has boosted models prices to buy three times in cost to kate from some two hundred forty dollars to over seven hundred dollars per time russia's domestic market also house along with a government subsidy 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 the sun below pre-crisis levels to meet a small in from the next two years will see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for a long term metal production you feel will go away those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of stable to marginally up worries the price of oil for blue skulking calls looking up quarter on quarter metals producers remain undervalued and that includes m.m.t. which accounts for some sixteen percent of all metal pretty used 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 of my dinner question our business r.t. . goal is to record highs this week for by inflation euro zone sovereign debt woes and the latest uy stimulus package they are massless currently hovering around peak

levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars mark predicted and months ago will continue to climb but the laws allowed last senior trainer at a. london says it's not clear how high the rally will go. it's difficult to put a price tag at the moment i see the round figures as obvious levels for gold headed to fifteen hundred dollars now that it's broken through for three hundred would be the next level up from there 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 by e.t.f. trying. to push the price of gold higher it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable through the online world is that there is enough of the underlying asset there. to be able to be delivered if the futures contracts work take is expiry so a difficult situation we're told that it could come screaming back down if it does

choose to sell off. time check the markets and the r.t.s. index is a friend and is calling in the trade here in moscow down almost one point six per cent follows a strong session on choose day for higher gold prices are just as precious metals companies are. the biggest winner on my sex prefer starts sort of over thirty percent without any news in every major stock markets all mixed down session a very nice new york says u.s. investors shifted to commodities such as silver. teas is seen by some as a safe haven. investigations chasing illegal money substitution or laundry so the main culprits are not banks but other industries like tourism and charities pavel all of our need from the federal financial monitoring service says the global crisis has led to an upsurge in money laundering in russia. 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 when there is a tourism industry which the state is investigating at the moment but 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 hour sales 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 he says of european businesses said not alone sales jump sixty two percent total of one point five million units sold in january talked in russia is well ahead of the forecast one point six million car thousand the whole year that takes this year to date growth about twenty percent of the top ten best selling

models of passenger cars are produced here in russia which up davis is far more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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it doesn't mean the country's. russians law enforcement or celebrates its anniversary it's being the brand and we want. to take a lot more police the police force has recently been on crimes committed by officers geishas of. attacks on christians in israel on the protestant in the economy only increased hundreds of both jews and muslims. movements which is the fate of the. tent system against you. the g twenty summit is to kick off in south korea tomorrow to tackle the world's most burning the moment the she's the head of the gathering r.t.e. spoke to the russian presidential aide on. he believes the world is lucky to avoid a trade war between china and the us and called for more international economic cooperation.