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 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 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 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 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 u.s. 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. our children can be sentenced to life

in prison a place where more than one hundred undocumented immigrants have died while awaiting deportation. increasing discrimination against muslims another blemish on america's human rights record. hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams 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 and never kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own 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 new york. and there is a call for north korea to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible and comes from russia and south korea were president of vietnam war and that simmering tensions in the region could boil over and he was speaking at talks ahead of the g twenty summit and so now is 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 i'm president 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 asian pacific region and on the korean peninsula we have discussed the issue did nuclearization and have highlighted the importance of six party talks we want to resume as soon as possible in the asia pacific region the re serious potential for 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 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 president 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 it isn't looking to south korea to prove to be an example for russia. to diversify the economic cooperation between russia and south korea we need to do to. 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 studies i'm very happy to have signed a memorandum on ration in high technology because president also had an open discussion with members from civil societies 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 us and china when you look at the present certainly pushing to put a lot of effort into specially when it comes to trade and the economy on a lighter note one of the members of the civil societies did bring up 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 russians during . hours funimation now with air and other major issue due to spark debate and so is

a battle over 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 it's an attempt to revive the country's finances but will devalue the dollar really economist stephen lewis says of policies aimed at boosting public opinion at home and pays little attention to the needs of the world 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 us to change its policy in response to these international pressures because mr bernanke you federal reserve mr geithner treasury secretary see themselves as making policy only for the benefit of the u.s. economy and not for the world as a whole for the seed money in the u.s.

that on a lot of pressure from the u.s. population to do something of the the rising unemployment and the troubles in the housing sector and so it's going to be a tendency for policymakers to take the line of least resistance by forming policies which are really tell you would for us requirements to pay little attention to what the rest of the world needs. live from moscow on the way in just a few minutes policing the police in russia as officers mark their next day a major we vamps on her way and we'll look at why the now women in uniform can do to regain the trust of those they found to protect. and the one disturbing thing which extremist jews and muslims in israel agree on it's the vicious targeting of another face we'll tell you who they are taking a match and the prize being paid for persecution. britain seeing its biggest

protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts and right now tens of thousands of students are protesting against a planned high in tuition fees which could see them travel to nine thousand pounds a year. well let's get more on this from our correspondent for a while to laura well it's been relatively quiet on the protests from where you are but now things are getting violent so talk us through what's happening there. yes maria when when we first arrived at about twelve o'clock today it was i called it a jovial process to his music people shouting laughing and staining banners and as i can show you can imagine from the students but the atmosphere slightly turned a little bit later in the off to noon when the students arrived close to what should have been the end point of that march which is conservative party headquarters on millbank so the headquarters of the ruling party and that they

gathered in a courtyard really just a few of them up to fifty sort of sixty people they list a fire in the courtyard and started burning banners that they had with the and then of course all the students as they continued that much notice that and they all filled it in this courtyard and then what was what has been a little bit of trouble started wally west students tried to break the windows of mailbag. they stormed the building there are a number of them still sitting on the roof at millbank and waving banners they've also been throwing projectiles down at police including fire extinguishers we're hearing reports that nine people have been nine protesters have been injured two policemen have been injured being fires set inside the building at millbank four on the fourth floor everyone was evacuated from the building at one point and of course some quite dangerous throwing of things and generally generally nastiness

really i've spoken to people from the national union of students and they're very keen to point out that these are a very small minority of people causing trouble and that they maybe may not be students at all and that the national union of students does not support that but unfortunately this is probably what's going to be remembered about the march today not the very important message which is the troubling of the fees at university but the fact that there was violence and of course it's not just the students who are protesting there are there lectures as well there are also representatives from trade unions because we are seeing twenty five percent cuts here in the u.k. across a number of sectors including defense cuts in health care cuts in housing benefits and general benefits for the for the unemployed and the less well. to do so i think it's not right that it's true. even though the government claims this is necessary. we know for

a fact there are many other ways you can help this is a lot i was thinking steve in financial terms that we need to think about what education is actually for and who it's for that's where the was just simply going to buy. there will be a worry amongst the peaceful demonstrators the message which you just heard that was has been undermined by the violence and there's also some suggestion that the police were unprepared for what happened but we'll have to wait to see how it pans out it already looks like it's slightly winding down but laura the u.k. still planning to send more money across the channel to fund the e.u. next year but insiders aren't convinced it'll stop at the agreed cost so why is that. well this is the extraordinary thing really marina this this this march was against a wider backdrop of marches and demonstrations across europe against austerity cuts but as you say david cameron the prime minister has just agreed to

a hike in the money that we send to the to every year so he wanted to keep that that the budget that we send to the e.u. the same but in fact he agreed to a two point nine percent rise which amounts to seven hundred million dollars in increased we're also hearing not only that but some suggestion from the one of the e.u. budget negotiators who have been involved in what sort of hikes are going to be imposed and she said that there are hidden rises and that david cameron is in fact lying to the people when he says that's going to be only seven hundred million dollars increase there will be hidden taxes that will have to be paid and in fact the rise in what it costs to be a member of the european union for the u.k. will be up to one billion dollars rise not in total one billion dollars hike in what it cost to be a member of the european union all right laura and things were much indeed for bringing us the sub date from london. and wednesday marks russia's police

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 now everyone is convinced it will work or his diary was going to 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 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 would recall watching log 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 planted a wave of similar revelations as other officers came forward the interior ministry itself admits more than one hundred thousand offenses involving police officers were registered in two thousand and nine alone. you know in the one 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 president dmitry medvedev who did 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 lettering on the car 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 as 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 force's history 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 but the image of law enforcement in russia remains a tarnished one the question now is whether the reforms will be more than just a facelift and help put both the police and the police on the same side of the barricades don't you pushed over r.t. school and religious intolerance in israel and the palestinian autonomy as far a current target christianity extremist muslims and jews are turning increasingly violent towards christians and their holy site are his 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. 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 staying to give an opportunity she says she wouldn't think twice about leaving the explosion of muslims. you know you feel you feel controlling everywhere every thing my granddaughter i have to memorize the koran but tusker 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 wrong door and looking for their own zone. and to their homes or boarding of their cars because i believed christians are spices were the 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 go. some of the windows and threw molotov cocktails inside it's no wonder that christians here are feeling under fire . on the t.v. to receive them. and we are cross the story line right now at r.t. dot com but let's also look at some other stories we're updating for you on our web site an apparent missile launch off the coast of california leaves the u.s. government clueless and. the saudis start to loose finding new generations of fans

but russian animators making new versions of these jam liberality tales paint a bleak picture saying the findings running dry more details. while i bring this up to date and current is next was the business update after a short break. hungry for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. soon which brighten. from silence to.

downtown don't come. here welcome to business good to have you with us that russia is interested in attracting south korean investors seemed so ahead of the g twenty summit said south korea is one of the top priority partners for russia in the region because president added that trade to diversify away from raw materials among the first deals of the trip conglomerate can die and russia's federal great company will transform a production plant worth several million dollars in losses pre-war screecher. says it may build an assembly plant nearby in the metal sector russia's meshal and south korean pasco plant and metal works in eastern russia. and gas from west to supply no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting from two thousand and seventeen at present the company supplies one and

a half million tons of liquefied natural gas to the country in addition gazprom was considering building a new gas pipeline between the two countries head of the company alex a miller expects the south korean market to grow by police thirteen percent by the time gas deliveries begin. in our korean partners are interested in increasing the gossip. mind you the green market and today we greed with the coal gas company on the factor we move to the next you can go she should commercially go she will start this december and today we've agreed a new amount of gas supply which will starting twenty seventy. and stay with gas problem the bulgarian government has approved the setting up of a joint venture with russian gas giant for the construction of a bug area on route of south stream last week people getting energy holding and gas from announce the start of a tender to select a company which will carry out a preliminary investment study the actual agreement will be signed during prime minister vladimir putin's visit to sofia on saturday now gas prices should be

independent of the oil markets that's according to the energy commissioner as gas becomes a more important source of energy the union wants to minimize price fluctuations and as you commission also spoke of europe's trust for russia as an energy partner . the russians have already invested more than fifty billion euro in the north stream pipeline and seeking profits and if gas can flow in then there's no profit so it's in the russians owed interest 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. russian and because i bond markets are attracting investors after the u.s. federal reserve's latest wave of money printing some of those hundreds of billions of dollars into stock markets and emerging economies the bonds of local energy companies are winners with oil prices on the up trend energy exporters expect to

boost earnings and that will make local bond issues more attractive gazprom plans to place your bonds next week for around one billion u.s. dollars. and the time to look at the markets u.s. stocks are lower as europe continues to grapple with government debt problems investors enthusiasm is kept in check ahead of a key meeting by world leaders telecommunications are leading the declines with a t. and t. and verizon dropping point nine percent each and cisco systems is also weak falling point seven percent ahead of its earnings report now in europe stock markets are pointing south an evening trade whereby a week start for wall street we have prices for precious metals including silver and copper putting pressure on the forty and mining stocks shares of four point three percent while the rest of the sector popov losses of at least three percent or more. and here in moscow both the bourses ended the day in the red as well the r.t.s. and i'm isaacs last less than one and

a half percent all the main players finished lower with energy stocks the major drag here is a book or two percent on the burbank was the biggest loser on the wires extending three percent. reintroducing. through fire insurance across russia will take much longer than the government wants that's according to one of the country's leading insurers in september president mitterrand made of call for mandatory fire insurance for every home after the sun was devastating wildfires but the general director of says it goes along will take two years but there you see what we see now only talks on how to implement mandatory fire insurance in the country if we talk about insuring apartments it mostly means ensuring liability but if you talk about countryside houses in this deals more with property insurance the state hasn't made its decision yet i think talks will go on for at least two years and the implementation of this law will only happen in

twenty thirteen or even twenty food chain in the coming two years it won't affect the recovery of the insurance sector. google was but will boost salaries to stop staffs giving to facebook all twenty three thousand employees will get a ten percent raise 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 jobs market. and that so update for this hour but do join me in about fifteen minutes from now for more.

wealthy british scientists on hold since it's not on the front. of the. markets financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two crimes a report on our. culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to make a lot of people a fair enough but when it comes to finding solutions to the world's economic and financial woes is bigger and more better critiques of the g twenty play mother. in some petersburg ots available in hotels a story of a militant ambassador in

a small school to kowtow to triple a soto patricio toto golden golden nova till center. will take stone dostoevsky. and see if come this column if you visit. you know whether it be going to live from moscow i'm marina joshing these are the top stories the un has slammed the human rights record of the u.s. racial profiling prisoner abuse and the existence of the death penalty were among the key concerns. russia and south korea have agreed to work more closely together and are calling for a non-nuclear peninsula comes as president of joins other leaders in seoul for

a summit of the g. twenty nations. and tens of thousands of british university students are marching against plans to treble their tuition fees to nine thousand pounds a year as britain's biggest protest yet against deep budget cuts comes after leaders agreed to ramp up funding for the e.u. . as a g twenty summit prepares to talk economy and nuclear arms cuts peter lavelle and his guest debate whether such meetings so have any relevance in today's world. and. the.