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 sustenance 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 than 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 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 probably the most 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 sentence. 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.e.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams 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 am a living hell we go lives never 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 during

a fortnight artsy me or. was there barbara ministration 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 almost two years ago after leaving office america's forty third president is now having his say 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 lack of weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him that he still believes the u.s. was right to invade on the interrogation of terror suspects says he personally approved use of waterboarding to help prevent attacks with former congressman tom andrews says no such methods can ever be justified under 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 can . mention 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 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 that well that still to come late in the program how christianity is the target. we take a look at how far some jews and muslims get from the one swamps plate. russia's police are marking their professional holiday on wednesday but it comes at a hard time for the force off to a string of high profile scandals its image has been tarnished the reform of the law enforcement system is on the way as artie's diapers kovar reports restoring

public trust in the police is now an extremely difficult 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 denise eve sickles 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 alexander of illusion who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he would recall watching log regretfully there are many years ago 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 lost here 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 fourteen. you know in the one nine hundred seventy s. policemen were motivated by reasons that would be totally on appreciated today we want to solve crimes for the excitement of the job and for justice to prevail. in response to the scandals prison to meet the needs of 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 were worried about the costs of the

name change. the issue of me i. i don't understand why we need to spend so much money but will they be changing the lettering on the cast 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 of 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 but the image of law enforcement in russia remains a tanishq one the question now is whether the reforms will be legal in just

a facelift can help put both the police and the police on the same side of the barricades. r.t. moscow. violence 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 supporters there has met those struggling for freedom from persecution thing 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 this choice most of the throws were in this way but the backfire the story 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 got a favor but 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 belong to this nice anymore i feel like i'm strangers 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 have to memorize her on but test 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 with arafat i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your and looking for their homes and try and. enter 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 volunteered 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 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 go. some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire. team jerusalem. russia and south korea have signed a number of deals to boost investment in the far east and peace on the peninsula dimitri medvedev met his korean counterpart in seoul ahead of the g twenty summit to leaders have reaffirmed the strategic nature of the bilateral relations twentieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties said that within

international always required to maintain peace on the korean peninsula which was a focus of the talks interview two korean media russian media the school of north korea's nuclear ambitions. political and military tension in the region we have however stressed that diplomacy is the only way to resolve the issue. and then you can log on to our website to read the full version of our interview with the russian leader and get in-depth analysis on all the stories we're covering such as one of the world's most famous death row prisoners gets about the shock of breaking free and find out all the details of these raids. on balance in a new citizen from twenty countries. plus the moscow zorro comes to moscow check out the costumes behind the scenes interviews and much more sex of the sort through the eyes of a dog. doctors

say a prominent russian journalist who was brutally beaten in moscow is recovering well after undergoing a third operation of the caution was rushed to hospital after two men hammered him with metal rods on friday night russian lawmakers are now considering a draft to adopt the approach for protecting journalists there's a greater suspect officials were promising newspaper his internet blog as reasons for the assault the journalist made a name for himself by criticizing several high profile government officials president dmitry medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice before. three attacks on police and troops have taken place in russia's south leaving two men dead and seven wounded in the republic of dagestan policemen were searching cars on one of the region's motorways when a gunman opened fire on them in another attack in the same region one officer was

wounded in an improvised explosive device went off as a police convoy was passing by a neighboring chechen republic a soldier on a search missions killed by an explosion russia's north caucasus has recently been facing an increasing number of militant attacks despite efforts by the authorities to crack down on terrorist groups. iraqi official say at least four people have died in a spate of bomb attacks on different christian neighborhoods across central baghdad dozens were injured in the blasts and comes just ten days after forty six christians were killed when the gunman took over that confusion. 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 has already killed more than five hundred outside rinse the water borne

infection increased in the wake of flooding caused by hurricane thomas over a million people are living in the. campsie whom it's devastating like me. to talk about has begun towing to shore a cruise ship which caught fire under stranded off the coast of mexico the carnival splendor with about four and a half thousand people aboard was south of san diego when the blaze broke out in the engine room with navy helicopters and an aircraft carrier rates rise to the stricken vessel which is expected to reach port by thursday. the u.s. government says it was not behind the known ship a mystery misawa the scene of the pacific ocean helicopter captured the footage of a larger debate with plume off the coast of california monday but experts have been left scratching their heads over where it came from the pentagon claims there isn't a threat. and singapore airlines has announced that it will change the

engines on three of its a three eighty planes comes less than a week off an explosion with quantas plane forced to make an emergency landing minutes on takeoff planes currently sitting over london are also affected. prosecutors in afghanistan have dropped all corruption charges against one of president hamid karzai as national security adviser is best to gators 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. when it's a contributor says it's time for personal intervention by the american president. their dismissal of this corruption case against scott as the aide who was 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 he's aids from the jaws of justice this

means that in the absence of any meaningful u.s. policy or strategy in afghanistan it's kind of the 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 we would discreated completely the u.s. image not only in afghanistan but far and beyond those artes but it's to contribute

to that kind of candy who shot. let's check out all the businesses now is charlotte news that money going in russia surged after the financial crisis hello yes investigators say the main culprits are not banks but other industries like tourism charities details later in the program but first this hour russia is interested in interacting south korean investors speaking in seoul ahead of the g twenty summit to region riveted says south korea is one of the top priority partners for russia in the region russia's president added that cooperation between the two countries should diversify away from materials and that russia is ready to create so-called modernization alliances south korean companies learning from korean experience for various visitors so the space or result in a number of business deals in several sectors among the first is likely to come from the coal industry career home and russia's federal food company to transform

a production called with several million dollars in russia's premier region also run a listen since considering to build assemble in the same area. gas from a supply in no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting in five years time at present the company supplies one million tons of liquefied natural gas to the country in addition gas from its considering building a new gas pipeline between the two countries head of the company alexei miller expects the south korean market to grow by at least fifteen percent second half of this decade. cream partners are interested in increasing the gas supply and you'd agree market entity would lead with the coal gas company and the fact it will move to the next you can negotiate commercial negotiations we started this summer and today we've agreed a new amount of gas supply which was starting twenty seven but i don't know the

need to shares of russia's biggest missile companies have grown eighty percent the last two years but most domestic metal giants are still undervalued on the stock market among these companies are and k. for us but you know caution of us finds out more. matta 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 i say they still haven't reached their limits if you look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of marginally up the price of the offered was coking coal is looking up water 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 time russia's domestic market also house along with

government subsidies so 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 world seeps as the next two years will see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for long term metal production withing the recovery or for construction markets. well will be of the essential driver for growth for russian producers metals producers remain undervalued and that includes a monkey 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 to match my dinner question our business r.t. . gold surged to record highs this week by inflation worries over here as their own

sovereign debt and the latest u.s. timorous package yellow metal is currently hovering around pig levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars mark also there is beating the thirty year maximum this particular gold will continue to climb but when all is a lot of our senior traded up so in london it's not clear how high the rally will go. it's difficult at the moment i see the round figures there's obvious levels for gold fifteen hundred dollars now that it's 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 online price of gold but you're seeing more and more traders buying futures contracts and i think most importantly. i'm not going to push the price of gold it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable. enough of young. to be able to be

delivered if the futures contracts worth taking. so it's a difficult situation for gold that it could come screaming back down if it does choose to sell off. time see how the markets are performing both the bourses and for going into the red. and the trade after about bucking the trend is preferred stock is up against the second day eighteen percent on the mines. and every day some markets are mixed after a down session overnight in new york as u.s. investors commodities such as silver and copper are facing the federal reserve's plan to buy to drive up and hard commodities are seen by some as a safe haven. so as 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 so of european businesses said sales jumped sixty two percent in october alone one point five million units was so between january and october which is well

ahead of the a.p.'s for cost of one point six million car sales for the entire year and nine of the top ten best selling models of passenger cars produced here in russia. you can always buy more stories on our website.

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