lns america has a way to go into the reaches international standards. 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 might want done up close guantanamo and secret detention centers throughout the world to punish those people who torture and execute detainees 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 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 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 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 how we go lives and 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 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 part see me or. next to no call for north korea to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible it comes from russia from south korea from where president would read of war that simmering tensions in the region could boil over he was speaking at talks ahead of the g twenty summit in seoul these are this is for. 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 has 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 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 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 did mention 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 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 high tech we are modernizing russia creating a new economy in our korean friends have a brilliant experience in this as well as in the commercialization of scientific discovery i'm very happy to have signed a memorandum on cooperation in high technology us president would have also had an open discussion with a member 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 lighter 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 string indeed it's not reporting for us well it's the currency conflict that's brewing which is likely to get leaders fired up at the g. twenty the u.s. and china have been locking horns accusing each other of using their currencies as defensive weapons to protect themselves but the wider issue is whether the world's most powerful nations should be allowed to let their exchange rates dwindle to help prop up their own countries more thoughts on this now from mcconnell the new york university in new york good to see here is it realistic for the u.s. to demand china stops developing its currency when washington's money printing is doing exactly the same thing for the dollar. you know it's a little bit of the theater of the absurd here the chinese are become very aggressive the last few weeks at least parts of the government very aggressive and outraged at the united states is trying policies in quantitative easing from the

federal reserve that push down the value of the u.s. dollar or the chinese are very angry that the americans are doing what they have successfully done for many years and the americans continue to run around screaming are we continue to run around screaming at other people from interviewing their currencies while we seem to be learning and learning somewhat crudely in this area ourselves in the last few weeks so it is becoming a theater of the absurd but it does matter quite a bit and it's important globally but what can those poor g twenty leaders do export a vital of course to each of them they'll want to keep their prices low yet bucket on the public demanding that they look to the first of these leaders being pulled in both directions. absolutely i mean the whole point of having a g. twenty is to have meetings so that various world leaders can come together can harmonize policy and people can work out deals so just the kind of risks that we see erupting around the world around american policy with quantitative easing pushing down the dollar don't erupt and so the big test of the next two days in

south korea will be is this a photo op for leaders worried about their political standing at home or is it actually a chance for countries to come together and make sure that everyone doesn't try to grow their economy at the cost of someone else because if they do we get into a beggar thy neighbor type of situation which can lead to a slippery slope to confrontation much russia is expected to demand that the u.s. coordinates crucially its monetary policies with the rest of the g. twenty because what america does it home resonates abroad you think they'll be much support for that. i think most of the world will support calls that we've seen come out of brazil russia china to some extent japan and to some extent some other countries that don't always get featured as watch as they should be it's absolutely true that the united states of late has made. serving policy that was shortsighted and that did not consider the rest of the world even though it's a well known fact that if the united states undertakes actions like quantitative

easing that decrease the value of the dollar this can have negative and severe rounds occasions in terms of global money supply and the value of other currencies and it could look reasonably in some cases like the united states is trying to get out of its economic trouble by exporting that trouble to someone else. the g twenty have it's not a legal entity what difference does it make what they decide at the end of the day . well it does allow the shaping of global opinion it relays news and moves news into the head of the cycle even our conversation right now it's a chance for governments to harmonize their policy in the depths of the sort of disaster of two thousand and eight in early two thousand and nine we did see a coming together with russian and brazilian and german and japanese and american and french leaders and british leaders coming together and trying to do things carefully so that each country could push its own situation up without hurting anyone else as soon as we began to see a recovery very different recovery in different places lagging in the united states

we began to see this sort of every man for himself scenario and what these g. twenty meetings do is provide an opportunity for us to all get back on the same page or if they don't go well it looks like they're not a real highlighting of just how different uncoordinated the policy is with the united states going its own way and setting a potentially dangerous example for other nations around the world to follow in the coming weeks and months ok much fred will think i did you just say it was the talk that if you've got the name of your esteemed university wrong it's the new school university in new york where it is late at night here thanks for being with us thank you. all when just a few minutes policing the police here in russia has offices marked the day dedicated to their profession a major way we look at all the men and women in uniform can do to try to regain the trust of those of the thing to protect report coming up tonight. britain saying its biggest protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts tens of thousands of students poured out of the streets against

a plan to hike in their fees which could see the trouble to nine thousand pounds a year london correspondent laura. behind me is the headquarters of the conservative party and demonstrators have gathered outside that shouting slogans burning that banners in the middle of the courtyard there is a large fire that they've made that burning exult throwing sticks is it blocks police presence inside the courtyard as well and they've managed to break one of the windows of the building of the smoking demonstrations the same managed to make that way up into the ring from where they are waving banners the police are involved police in riot gear have been told and to twenty twenty five police right there are also trying to seal the situation out i've been approached by a couple of people as a news crew who said to me that they want to make it clear this is just a small group of demonstrators who are causing this trouble and that the majority of this demonstration is still a peaceful one and this is the biggest demonstration that london has seen against

all steroids he matches because we've seen demonstrations only be europe students and trade unions a large there are around twenty five thousand people out on the streets we think will they obviously it's impossible to give me that number but they're processing an increase in fees for university tuition from around three thousand pounds travelling to around nine thousand pounds and that is just happened in two thousand and twelve if no one does anything about it i speak to the students about why they turned out today i'm ashamed to say i think it's not right for us to. be regular here even though the government claims this is necessary to hold a whole new level we know for a fact there are many other ways you could help me with this example that should only be seen in financial terms so we need to think about what education is actually for one who its forecast for the water just simply. to buy.

power be backed up with this is that extraordinarily david cameron the prime minister has agreed to increase in the amounts of money that person gives to the european union every. if we stop seven hundred million dollars it's already been suggested that. he. said very simple to well and the. needs of the european union and the seven hundred billion will be upwards of one billion dollars now this is really the first underestimates the need not to stop people expecting that it's about. what is lorimer they're our europe correspondent james pryor he's chief executive of the e.u. referendum campaign he told me pulling out of the bloc will save britain a lot of much needed cash we're sending forty eight million pounds a day forty eight million pounds a day to the e.u. i mean that's a huge amount of money i mean you know our cases are going if we pull out or least

have a referendum and so on and pulling out would be saving that sort of money we can you know we can look at all sorts of other you know savings and all these vicious cuts that you know that cameron and clegg are bringing in the. rich talk that you know this is an organization that hasn't had these accounts altered for fourteen years i think if i'm right from saying they've just rejected the latest round of. accounts i mean you know this is that you know this is an unelected group of people you know it's all down to interpretation i mean anything i think cameron's been completely misses rise in this and i think he's also missed the mood of the people i mean the people are really now showing you know that you know we can stand up these cuts it's all down to interpretation of one hundred twenty billion you send over then we get money back and yes absolutely of course we do. break it down to terms that we can all understand it's the equivalent of sending them two pounds sixty and they give us a pound back that doesn't make sense to me. james prior with the math. wednesday

marks russia's police officers professional holiday but looming layoffs and reforms are leaving little room for celebration right now 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 but everyone's convinced it's set to work he's done a push over 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 what we do hear who won the title hero of the soviet union for his work but he would recall watching 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 not to 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 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 worried about the costs of the name change for the life of me i don't understand why we need to spend so much money what 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 house 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 forces history and history which has seen better days as this museum in law school 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 piece lived and helped put both the police and the police on the same side of the barricades. r.t. school. so exactly you're twenty minutes past eleven at night here in moscow let's take a quick look at what's at r.t. dot com our home page tonight there are rocky schools of justice go after claims that british forces sexually humiliated prisoners by forcing them to strip naked and then watch soldiers having sex with each other is one story on our to talk on tonight. for one sorry is the hardest word in got a bottle to do it a russian firm is taking the pay from you by giving an apology by doing it for you to get a cheap text message or some face to face groveling even some rather nice flowers

clever idea i guess i'm going to make some money on that one party dot com if you want to know. well here's a brief for marty tonight british police say the bomb found on a plane in central england last month was planned to detonate over america's eastern seaboard the powerful device was originally sent by mail from yemen and hidden in a printer cartridge but it was detected after a tip off from saudi intelligence how they'd gone off the tank and say what have exploded near there at four. thirty am on the twenty ninth of october authorities on both sides of the atlantic say the only narrowly averted disaster. a series of bombings targeting christians in the iraqi capital have killed at least five and left dozens of others injured about fourteen roadside bombs detonated in predominately christian areas of baghdad it comes after more than forty christians were killed when all qaeda militants took over a cathedral ten days ago in the capital. another tugboats began telling the shore

now that part cruise ship which became stranded off mexico's pacific coast the vessel was on a seven day trip to the mexican riviera when a fire started in the engine room cutting off the power emergency food supplies are being delivered to the four and a half thousand people aboard the carnival splendor as its name it may reach port by thursday with being told now all the holiday makers are set to get their money back. official looking for more than seventy people are being treated for cholera now in haiti's capital there are fears the epidemic will spread more quickly because of problems with the water supply after last month's hurrican thomas the disease has already left almost six hundred dead outside for the prince millions and consider the risk. in just ten minutes time people of crosstalk panel fashion whether gatherings like the g. twenty are still relevant as to come shortly tonight after the business right now with korean american. hello and welcome to our business program ever goes straight to our top story today

gas promise to supply no less than ten billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to south korea starting in five years time at present russia's applies to asia just liquefied natural gas and modest wagons the plants are delivered to the region as much as gas as it sounds to europe. asia in poor it's just one twentieth of the gas that russia supplies to europe japan india and south korea receive aid billing cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from russia by tanker but the reason for growth visiting small head of gas pramod like say miller says these market alone expanding by fifteen percent within the decade. is in 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 move to the next stage of negotiations gazprom is also in talks with china as ever the sticking point is price of gas consumption in china is expected to balloon to two hundred

billion cubic meters a year offering a new export markets for russia but analysts say russia should keep its western gas fields for europe and supply eastern consumers from annual tap first of all we must think about the result for the action in spite of russia it's very important for us because we know that the future for us in this industry in the east part of us not in the west part of russia because of the decline of production on our. fields and that is why it's a very simple to us with of the new market we have the new fields which are not far from this year what the key to winning the asian markets is such an island in the far east holding vast hydrocarbon reserves gastronomy is accelerating its second three gas project to come on stream by two thousand and eleven if you have any form of business are to. bog areas back to joint venture with gazprom to build

a local section of the south stream pipeline last week the bulgarian energy holding and gas for loss a tender for the initial investment study the actual agreement will be signed during prime minister's put his visit to sofia unsaid. and gas prices should be independent of the oil market says the e.u. energy commissioner as gas becomes 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 energy partner. if you. invest in the russians have already invested more than fifty billion euro in the north stream pipeline and seeking profit and if gas can't flow in then there's no profit so it's in the russian's own 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. companies in russia kazakhstan may benefit from the wave of stimulus money from the united states 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 uptrend energy exporters expect to boost earnings and that will make local bond insurers more attractive plans to place your bonds next week for around one billion dollars. let's have a look at the markets now your stocks are rising holding a two day drop technology stocks have recovered as well as energy is down from hard core by says chevron conoco phillips again one point six percent banking stocks are also our bank of america's leading on the dow up over two percent while boeing slid over three percent after suspending test flights of seventy seven dreamliner fire. stocks in europe are pointing south even trade away by a weak start on wall street with the price of the precious metals including silver

and copper putting pressure on the footsie and mining stocks shares of qatar west point three percent while the rest of the sector posted losses of at least percent . and here in moscow both the forces and the date have read they are tears and the markets lost less than one of a half percent of all the main players finished lower with energy stocks the major drag. fell two percent on the. back was the biggest loser and they lowered. russia's economy could grow to an annual point. percent in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven that's according to a report lower nation's capital the russian investment bank so the economy could grow at the fastest pace since two thousand and eight as government spending rebound in consumer demand and bank lending continued to spur recovery however the total g.d.p. growth expected in two thousand and ten would only be a disappointing three point seven percent. and finally compulsory for insurance may

be delayed for another two years according to one of the country's leading insurers in september president dmitry medvedev called for a mandatory fire insurance for every home after those devastating wildfires by the general director of indoor staff says it goes alone well take two years. but there you. are only talks on how you to implement mandatory fire insurance in the country when we talk of insuring apartments means ensuring liability when we talk about countryside highways use more with property insurance histories hasn't made his decision yet i think talks will go on for at least two years and the implementation of this happening in two thousand and thirteen grieve in two thousand and fourteen in the coming two years it will interfere with the recovery of the insurance sector . that's all for me and the business team here on our team but you can always buy

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a look at the global financial headlines to cause a report. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello this is r t from moscow very good to have you come to this half hour let me take you through the headlines if you the u.n. human rights record of the u.s. racial profiling prisoner abuse and the existence of the death penalty were among the key concerns. looming currency wars are threatening to overshadow the summit of

the world's twenty most powerful countries as their leaders gather and sell the discussions are expected to focus on one of the world's biggest economies should be allowed to take self preservation measures cost to other nations. and tens of thousands of british university students are marching against plans to triple the fees to nine thousand pounds a year it's britain's biggest protest yet against deep budget cuts and comes after leaders agreed to ramp up funding for the. well as the g twenty summit prepares to talk economy a nuclear arms cut next tackle whether gatherings of the world's richest nations ever make a mark is just moments away.