a leader on human rights pointing out the shortcomings of others for the united states this is a matter of moral and pragmatic assessment 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 close guantanamo and secret detention centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and executed toni's 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 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 oh my 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 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 of 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 mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web sites she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a living hell we go lives of many 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 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 party we are. now there's

a call for north korea to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible it comes from russia and south korea from where president viet of war and that simmering tensions in the region could boil over he was speaking at talks ahead of the g twenty summit and so far she's a nice in our ways there. 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 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 and. that requires our special attention is the situation in the pacific region and on the korean peninsula we

have discussed the issue of denuclearization and have highlighted the importance of six party talks we want them to resume as soon as possible in the asia pacific region the receiver is potential for a conflict and there is no alternative who want to set up a dialogue and improve understanding between the sides. and we ourselves had a chance to go to the border with north korea it's only some sixty kilometers from the center of seoul of course with the 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 mentioned that he is very impressed with the way south korea has developed they've had a huge amount of success with innovation and modernization and looking to south korea to prove to be an example for russia. today versified the economic cooperation between russia and south korea what do we need to do to achieve we need to make it more high tech we are modernizing russia creating a new economy in our korean friends have experience in this as well as in the

commercialization of scientific discovery i'm very happy to have signed a memorandum on ration in high technology was president also had an open discussion with a member from civil society is there they talk a lot about trade between the two countries of course south korea and russia do have strong trade ties but it's nothing compared. with. present certainly pushing. for. specially when it comes to trade and the economy on a lighter note one of the members of the. south korean food in that 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 string . and he's in our reporting there now the world's top economies take center stage

tomorrow in south korea when the g twenty summit kicks off a major issue due to spark debate and so is a battle of currencies president obama is expected to face tough questions over the u.s. decision to pump six hundred billion freshly printed dollars into its economy and the move is an attempt to revive the country's finances but will result in a devaluation of the dollar while we can now talk on the eve of the federal reserve's decision to stephen lewis is chief economist of the broker a monument securities thanks very much for being here this in the program sir now the u.s. is pushing china to inflate the one which is pegged to the dollars you know but at the same time it's allowing the dollar to dip so how fair is think are america's demands well i think that the americans feel that it would be a good thing for the balance of the global economy if trying to allow its currency to appreciate on that point it probably hands a measure of support from west european countries as well but at the same time i

don't think the u.s. is making its case any stronger through the measures that is taking through printing dollars to weaken its own currency because then it looks far too much like a competitive devaluation which is unfair to other nations. well china is not the only country voicing concern over the fans move to pump more dollars into the system but how will this move be reflected in europe how would impact if you are pm countries and economies there. well i think the european countries see it as a dangerous move because what it could do is increase the capital control around the world that's already happening many countries including brazil and thailand every imposed capital controls the next stage after that if those countries continue to see the currency is appreciating too much against the dollar

would be for them to resort to trade protect from that's the fear and for european countries that would be a very serious development because germany depends very much on trade with the world as a whole not just europe but with emerging economies as well and a lot of the european countries in their turn depend on exporting to germany so the western european commonly could suffer very severely if we move towards protectionism that is something against which mrs merkel warmed at the weekend or interesting as well as that you mention germany which is when our financial have economic heavyweights and germany itself finance minister calls america's monetary policy and reasonable describing us as helpless so how damaging is that the u.s. can muster support from economic heavyweights like germany and other countries in europe for that matter i think what it means is that the u.s.

will be on the defensive this g. twenty meeting it will have very few friends willing to support the position that it's taken on its own domestic policies but i would not expect the u.s. to change its policy in response to these international pressures because mr bernanke the federal reserve mr guy i know the treasury secretary see themselves as making policy only for the benefit of the u.s. economy not for the world as a whole they believe that what's good for the u.s. economy will eventually be good for the rest of us. but why do you think washington is doing that i mean what are what is it aiming to achieve what are its long term goals i mean if this move is so unpopular why is washington doing that well we have to understand the policymakers in the us that are on the a lot of pressure from the u.s. population to do something to alleviate the rising unemployment and the troubles in

the housing sector and so there's going to be a tendency for policymakers to take the line of least resistance by forming policies which are really tailored for u.s. requirements to pay little attention to what the rest of the world needs so i think the disc in town at home is more important than discontent in the rest of the world i think is far more important to them how domestic opinion reacts to their policies than how other countries react because the u.s. for decades now has been able to have its own way in international monetary affairs and it has been aware that sooner or later other countries will fall in behind whatever it is wanted to do rome is really is thanks very much indeed for being here with us in the program now is stephen lewis chief economist at monument

securities. you're watching r t live from moscow on the way in just a few minutes policing the police in russia as are those mark their national day a major revamps underway i will work out why the man or women in uniform can do it or regain the trust of those they found to protect. religious intolerance in israel and the palestinian autonomy has found a common target christianity extremist muslims and jews are turning increasingly violent towards christians and their holy sites artie's policy or meets those being persecuted for their faith in the holy land things 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 backfire destroyed the refrigerator and everything back it took three years for israeli police to catch the perpetrator a religious jew ject title who lived in a nearby israeli settlement he'd already killed two arabs he says he's very proud. he begun 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 nice anymore i feel like i'm strange or 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 had 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 one hour as a fighter with arafat i hated christians just as much as i hated jews i was going on around your and looking for their own triangular names 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 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. for 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 whites when his rabies who broke some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire for you see on the t.v. to me so that. wednesday marks russia's phillies officers professional holiday but looming layoffs and reforms are leaving little room for celebration a string of high profile scandals have seen public trust in the force plummet

prompting the government into action while many agree that an overhaul is overdue not everyone is convinced it will work parties darvish call in our reports. 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 pope illusion who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he was a cool fourteen regretfully there are many of cigars 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 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 thousand seven hundred 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 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 remain the biggest concern and worried about the costs of the name change. the law should me i don't. i 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 would police officers of houses there that's what they need to start with confiscations the proposals will be implemented next year in what will be a crucial stage in the force's history a 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 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. and we are across the story online right now at r.t. dot com let's also look at some of the stories we're updating for you on the web site. an apparent missile launch off the coast of california leaves the u.s. government clueless and. excited for news of finding new generations of fans but russian enemy here is making new versions of these channel morality tales pain a bleak picture saying funding is running dry for details ever to dot com. checking around the world now and what else is making news today at least five people have been killed and dozens injured after a series of bombings in baghdad all attacks were targeting christian or areas and about fourteen roadside bombs were detonated at a comes after more than forty christians were killed when al qaida militants to go

work in seadrill ten days ago in the capital. and other tugboat has begun towing to shore a path cruise ship which was stranded off the pacific coast of mexico the vessel was on a seven day trip to the mexican riviera one a fire began in the engine room and the power was cut emergency food supplies are being delivered to the four and a half thousand people on board the carnival splendor may reach forward by thursday all passengers will receive a full refund. officials have confirmed that more than seventy people are being treated for color in haiti's capital and there are fears the epidemic will spread more quickly due to problems with the water supply after last month's hurricane thomas disease as already left almost six hundred people dead outside of port au prince millions more are now considered of risk. while the brings us up to date and time now for some business news with karina. for the four we've gone to.

the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. and i welcome to our business program good to have you with us this hour russia is interested in attracting south korean investors speaking in seoul ahead of the g. twenty summit which will admit of said south korea is one of the top priority partners for russia in the region russia's president added that trade should diversify away from raw materials among the first deals of the trip conglomerate die and russia scuttle great company a transformer production plant worth several million dollars and russia's primark

region known as sound says it may build an assembly plant nearby in the middle section of russians mexico and south korean posco plant a metal box in eastern russia. yes promised to supply no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting from twenty seventeen at present the company supplies one of the half million tons of liquefied natural gas to the country in addition gazprom is considering building a new gas pipeline between the two countries head of the company aleksei miller expects the south korean market to grow by at least the two percent by the time guessed it was because. our korean partners are interested in increasing the gas supply into the korean market and today we were greeted with the coal gas company on the fact that we moved to the next you can go she shoots a commercial negotiations will start this december and today we've agreed a new amount of gas supply which will starting twenty seventeen but. the shares of russia's biggest metals companies have grown eighty percent for the last two years

analysts at most a mystic metal gys are still undervalued on the stock market among these companies are m.k. machel by going to 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 know say they still haven't reached their limits if you look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of stable to marginally up words the price of the offered list coking coal is looking up quarter on quarter the main driver is increasing demand from china the growth of metal consumption in the country has boosted metals 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 call 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 us the next two years will see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for long term metal production we think the recovery of all four construction market. sells well will be of the essential driver or for russian producers the 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 remains the least valued model stock in russia's top five followed by year for us in match my dinner question on business r.t. . gas prices should be independent of the oil markets as the e.u. and as a commission or as gas because on a more important source of energy the union wants to minimize price fluctuations

energy commission also spoke of europe's trust for russia as an actor partner. i think the russians have already invested more than fifty billion euro in the north stream pipeline and that will obviously seeking profit and if gas can't flow in then there's no profit so it's in the russian's own interests to ensure that this gas connection gets up and running and this interdependency is mutual russians are selling gas to us and they can purchase trucks machinery chemicals and engineering expertise from europe. and time to check the markets now both the bourses are falling here in moscow all the main players are down they are tasked with energy stocks the major drag their bank is the biggest loser one point seven percent after losses bucking the trend it's preferred stock is up again for the second day more than twenty percent higher. it's a similar story in europe markets are lower there

a day after some hit two year highs with a fresh round of earnings when some shares in london the four point four percent lower allowed by a two percent fall in rolls royce and one point six percent j. sainsbury which reported first half results. and russian billionaire alexander longmont has bought a three percent stake in h. m. v. group an international entertainment retail chain operating in seven countries and with an annual revenue of three point two billion dollars and of the same amount acquired the shares because of their current low price and some reports say the move even appeared to have a chevy supply. google will boast salaries to stop staff skipping to facebook all twenty three thousand employees will get ten percent more at the start of next year it's also part of a move to trim bonuses and increase base salaries the internet industry has been waging a war for talent in the job market. that's all the update for now but to join me at

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an on nuclear korean peninsula this comes as president of joyce other leaders in seoul for a summit of the g. twenty group of nations. and russian police officers mark their professional holiday a sweeping reforms and huge layoffs hang over them but many wonder if the measures will be enough to restore public trust in the force after a string of high profile scandals. the allies here in our tino it's time to delve deep into the secrets of the past as we examine a world war two artifacts at the bottom of the black sea. with the banks and supplies all loaded the years main event is about to kick off. to me if this is the most important part of the year.