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 an 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 u.s. 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 all my life 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 poor prison conditions and racial profiling don't stand idly by don't be silent when dissidents elsewhere on. in 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 termed 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 don't know what the hell we go lives of 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 during a fortnight 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 after leaving office there forty third president is now having his or his time in the white house in the book decision points he reveals his thoughts on the first controversial 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 on the interrogation of terror suspects he says he personally approved the use to boarding comes here to help prevent attacks former congressman tom andrews says no such methods can ever be justified under any of the. 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 foot they're faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to those who were the united states brought into custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake 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 the 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 watched 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 now the russian president is in seoul ahead of the g. twenty summit he met his south korean counterpart and gave a speech at the civil society for latinas and he said no a sporting event is it for us let's cross live to so. peace on the peninsula is among the topics on the agenda sense but all russia and south korea planning to do

. to maintain it. well this is a concern not just for south korea and russia but for the whole world really pretty much everyone understands how important peace on the peninsula is not just for the sake of peace but for the economy and for stability in both russia and south korea like i said very much understand that this is a big issue for all we hear so much about iran and president medvedev himself brought up the fact that iran has never declared itself as a nuclear state while north korea very much have so it is a concern for russia once again president medvedev reiterated that moscow is alarmed over north korea's nuclear ambitions but believes the only way to go about solving them is through negotiations. the yury of that requires our special attention is the situation in the region and on the korean peninsula we have discussed the nuclear zeeshan and have highlighted the importance of six party talks we want to resume as soon as possible. and

we ourselves had a chance to go to the border with north korea it's only some sixty kilometers from the center of souls of course with these twenty most powerful leaders in the region over the next couple of days this is a lot of something we're going to hear a lot about at the g. twenty as well as something that of course president medvedev and his counterpart counterpart i should say focused on during this meeting. the modernization of the russian economy is among the main initiatives of. what's being said on that so. it is it's something our president medvedev is pushing for very strongly at home and he mentioned that he is very impressed of course with the way south korea has developed they've had a huge amount of success with innovation and rapprochement modernization and my dad is looking to south korea to prove to be an example for russia.

we want to diversify the economic cooperation between russia and south korea what do we need to do to achieve this we need to make it more height we are modernizing russia creating a new economy in our career friends have a brilliant experience in this as well as in the commercialization of scientific discovery which i'm very happy to have signed a memorandum on cooperation in high technology. the president would have also had an open discussion with members from civil society is there they talked a lot about boosting trade between the two countries of course south korea and russia do have strong trade ties but it's nothing compared to the u.s. and china when you look at those so president medvedev certainly pushing to put a lot of effort into deepening ties especially when it comes to trade and the economy on a wider note one of the members of the civil societies did bring up south korean food in that mode to a lot of talk about russian vodka and president medvedev pointed out that this is a great chance and

a great reason to build the cooperation between the two countries on the lowest levels at a civil level so people in korea understand that it's not just that russian strength. in the u.k. and they say they have it there for now and they said ali reporting from self thinking. still to come later in a program how christianity is under attack in the middle east and take a look at how one faith is common for both jews and muslims and at what cost. 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 or a form of adoring for some system is under way but he's at the ports restoring a 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. 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 who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he was a cool looking 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 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 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. 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 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 crust remain the biggest concern and worried about the costs of the name change. the law should me i. i don't understand 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 house is 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. or online few twenty four hours

a day with many more stories blogs features videos and much more here's a taste of what you can find just a click away at r.t. dot com anything world's most famous death row prisoners gets another shot of breaking free find out all the details on its case and how from behind bars he became an honorary citizen and twenty countries. plus the mask of zorro comes to moscow check out the costumes and behind the scenes interviews and lots more from the set of the sword wielding musical that's on our newly designed cutting edge web site on t. dot com. if . you. 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 or t's'pol

a slayer 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 we all know 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 in the blew him through the kitchen and made a hole. in this choice most of the thrusts 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's. 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 mantra 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 case and the more i feel like i'm strange 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 tusker abu sada ignores the threats

he's one of a growing number of muslims who converted to christianity in recent years one hour as a fighter over there i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your and looking for their own zone. and to 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 re consolingly 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. everything i have to do because in the piece is my country but it's not without its problems. in the world of each time i go home in uniform someone will call it be trays or things like that it doesn't influence be. but in recent months attacks against christians in christian

sites have increased at the beginning 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 three hour team to resell them. doctors say a prominent russian journalist who was brutally beaten in moscow is recovering well after undergoing a third operation because she was rushed to hospital after two men hammered him with metal rods on friday night russian lawmakers are now considering a draft law to adopt heavier punishment for attacking journalists investigators suspect cautions work for the commissar newspaper and his internet blog as reasons for the official says the journalist made a name for himself for criticizing several high profile government officials president dmitry medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice for. three attacks on police and troops have taken place in russia's south leaving two men

dead and seven wounded the republic of dagestan policemen were searching cars on one of the region's motorways when a gunman opened fire on them and another attack in the same region one assumes wounded when an improvised explosive device went off as a police convoy was passing by in the neighboring chechen republic a soldier on a search mission was killed by an explosion russia's north caucasus has recently been facing an increased number of militant attacks despite efforts by the forties to crack down on terrorist groups. iraqi officials say at least four people have been killed in a spate of bomb different neighborhoods across central baghdad. dozens were injured in the blasts comes just ten days after forty six christians were killed when the gunman took over a baghdad cathedral. health officials in haiti have confirmed over seventy people are being treated for cholera in the capital aid groups are setting

up medical centers to help contain the disease has already killed more than five hundred eighty outside port au prince the water borne infection increased in the wake of flooding caused by hurricane thomas over a million people living in makeshift camps of the being left homeless by devastating earthquake in january. the tugboat has begun towing to shore cruise ship which caught fire under stranded off the coast of mexico the economy will spend with about four and a half thousand people aboard a south of san diego when the blaze broke out of the engine room u.s. navy helicopters and aircraft boats as the stricken vessel which is expected to report by thursday. swedish media have released the name of a man suspected of shooting randomly at immigrants on a yearlong rampage thirty eight year old peter mangas is being held on preliminary charges of one murder in five attempted murders the victims nearly all with

immigrant backgrounds have been shot at bus stops in their cars and through the window of a gym a suspected serial sniper has denied the allegations. or that circle so to the business desk now enjoy it. welcome to the business program here on our team with me scholem's farley russia is interested in acting south korean investors speaking in seoul ahead of the g. twenty summit to me very of says south korea is one of the top priority partners for russia in the region russia's president added that trade should diversify away from the rule materials among the first dues of the trip conglomerate and russia's great company will build a transformer production plant worth several million dollars russia is a mosque region but only says it may burden him with a buy in the metal sector rushes metro south korean pasco

a metal works at least in the future gas promise to supply no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting from twenty seventeen a person the company supplies one point five million tons of liquefied natural gas to the country in addition gas problem it's 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 by the time gas deliveries begin. our korean partners are interested in increasing the gas supply and your degree market and today we were greeted with the coal gas company on the fact that we moved to next you can go commercial negotiations will start this december and today we've agreed a new amount of gas supply which will starting twenty seventh. the shares of russia's biggest metal companies have grown eighty percent for the last two years. most domestic metal giants are still undervalued on the stock market among these

companies are and then k. year for us and mitchell medina caution of find out more. 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 i say they still haven't reached their limits if you look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. up were as the proceeds lawford was coking coal is looking up. 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 ton 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 we think the recovery of trucks and markets. will be of use. for russian producers metals producers remain undervalued and that includes m.m.p. 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 my dinner question how does this r.t. . and wall metal stocks from a wall of glee undervalued this precious metals which are enjoying a gold rush. and so over to historic highs on fears of inflation

a concern every year as a debt or a us dignitas package list say that a month of precious metals could continue but. traded at eighty x. caps london says is not clear how high the rally will go. difficult the moment i see the round figures was 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 underlying price of gold but you're seeing more and more traders buying futures contracts and i think most importantly why. i'm not going to push the price of gold it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable through the on line with is there's enough of the underlying asset there. to be able to be delivered if the futures contracts work so you can see. it's a difficult situation for gold that we could come screaming back down if it does

choose to sell off. and staying with gold coast and soon it has to know he's calling for a return to the gold standard he says the u.s. should be and we want to settle with that currencies should be a reference point for a new monetary system. new international financial order to replace the press which the courts. time to see how the markets are performing they are both the bosses of following interest here in moscow all the main players the down after bucking the trend preferred stock is up again the second day more than twenty percent higher than my sex is a similar story in europe markets are lower a day after some hit two year highs with a fresh batch of earnings away on some shares in london the first point three percent by two point three percent for the rolls royce and one point six percent full for j. sainsbury's p.l.c.

which reported first off. every major stock markets are mixed after a down session overnight in new york as u.s. investors shifted to commodities such as silver and copper there are fears that the federal reserve plan to buy bonds could drive up inflation hala qualities as. seen by some as a safe haven. russian a billionaire alexander mort's has bought a three percent stake in a big group an international entertainment retell chain operating in seven countries with an annual revenue of three point two billion dollars analysts say money to acquire the shares because of the current low price and some work or save maybe even appear to have caught him by surprise. how much out there for this hour we can always buy more stories on our website. business.

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russia and south korea sealed their partnership with a string of new cooperation deals agreeing to push for a clear korean peninsula the two countries will work closely on modernizing and integrating their economies. and as russia's law enforcement force celebrates its its being rebranded and reform of the new fears it could take a lot more to lease the force. has been recently mobbed by crimes committed by offices and i think ations of corruption. they can always check our interactive website at r.t. dot com for more analysis and features i'll be back with more news in around thirty minutes time out there a special report. with the banks and supplies all looted the year's main event is.