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easy. cia comes under fire as one of its operatives goes to court for the minor offenses despite being one first string of terror attacks also. the rescue operation to free the still. precious bar is battling the weather conditions at the ice breakers play one set leaving one awaiting rescue. the u.s.

finds that paying afghan militias to hold back taliban influence is not enough to buy their loyalty. and in business belarus is raising the transit terry for russian oil pipe twelve percent starting from next month or more in twenty minutes. so you're watching r t broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program a former cia operative whose wanted in venezuela and cuba for terrorist attacks throughout the nerika has gone on trial in the u.s. but that's not why it was posada is in court instead he's being charged with lying to immigration offices on tuesday harvest looks at why the u.s. is turning a blind eye to and then turn wrist. miami florida

white sandy beaches miniskirts and. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined the bin laden of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the notorious school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spanned five decades and impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner forty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act posada plans from venice and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened it was a mastermind of the. flight and still he's here posada was convicted in absentia and then

a swell of masterminding the bombing however not only did the u.s. government refused to extradite but started to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element in the country wars which plane winds of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. with a leading figure in the iran contra affair in the one nine hundred eighty s. had the cia stop assad in his tracks just off my shoes my brother was killed in libya the still most brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the us as a victim of the family victim of terrorism and it's absurd distil know an italian businessman was murdered in one nine hundred ninety seven bombing orchestrated by posada it was one of a string of hotel and nightclub bombings in cuba distil know describes as a monster create by a country that is. government officials to push their agenda are

willing to go for any or any wrote after jailing poseidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warn the justice department up aside is terrorist past but he was set free and he was now proceed is on trial in el paso texas the charges against him not international terrorism but immigration fraud and perjury we unleashed him on the world peter kornbluh of the national security archives obtained dozens of documents pertaining to preside his involvement with the cia he says the case is about whether the united states truly can hold real terrorists although in this case a terrorist who was once our terrorist accountable livio acknowledges the importance of poseidon on trial but insists it's going to be too little too late and it wasn't the only acts of terrorism façade it was involved in there was the two thousand assassination attempt on cuban leader fidel castro and

a series of attacks across latin america the legacy of luis posada is that he is a cia created frankenstein and he went out and committed murder and mayhem the cia once described posada as a reliable asset to the u.s. government a man of good character pro-u.s. who would make an excellent official in a post castro government their evaluation of him could not have been more mistaken half a century after posada could be less again doing the cia's dirty work in latin america his bloody legacy lives on for the countless victims and as the u.s. government continues to fight the so-called war on terrorism extraditing kidnapping and assassinating suspects in other countries it continues to harbor one of the hemisphere's most notorious terrorists are t. washington d.c. . around one hundred activists gathered for a symbolic people's tribe you know ahead of monday's trial to hear terrorism

charges against saddam and his accomplices. campaign a brown bag who was also there the eves the wanted is being protected by american interests the american government has harbored terrorism they finance terrorism luis posada karylle is there a terrorist who's been protected particularly by the bush family and he was imprisoned in venezuela but escaped his imprisonment now venezuela is demanding he be extradited and yet the united states government won't extradite him to ben israel because they say they fear that the venezuelan government will torture luis posada it's nonsense is just shows the absolute hostility towards a minute's wailing government towards the cuban revolution and of course showing the world that the united states is above the law above international law there is no good reason moral reason political reason or legal reason not to extradite luis posada carriles to venezuela where he escaped from prison for blowing up a civilian airliner that had cuban athletes on it. well the u.s.

refuses to extradite assad to venezuela claiming he would face torture there altie looks at america's an interrogation tactics in guantanamo bay make this hour we talk to human rights lawyer the bush these cases that camp delta international secret prisons. methods of interrogation the enhanced interrogation techniques as they're so referred are not are not the did not happen to the minority they happen to the majority so what happens is you get instructors who are interrogators and guards for the trained in use techniques that are actually used in military training. to help army men and women resist interrogation being used on these men in guantanamo bay so the majority of our clients have have had at least one of these techniques used on the.

refrigerator vessel stuck in waters off russia's far east is now being towed by two because they're up against harsh weather conditions another supply ship with three hundred crew on board is the last to be freed after being trapped for almost a fortnight and several other vessels have been rescued over the last week or so going to details now from a single one of the ships likely to reach more than. we know that the two icebreaker. a three. refrigerator. will be able to take a. break and then of course return to the supply of the remains. three hundred three. and the rescue operation now it is

a week from the press conference today the federal agents. that they dispatched a helicopter picked up behind me out of a macro. they'd been flying around looking at the ice lay out a lightning the best. the most effectively richard. the emergencies ministry was observed which would regularly freeze and i'm clear and. decided to turn around and come back for the supply ship leaving the refrigerator. to try and get the supply ship the operation has now entered its final and most difficult according to our calculations it will conclude within forty eight hours to get both ships. of course the timing of this rescue operation coming to an end. very dependent on a number of factors most of. the weather we've really had an impact on the

operation since the very beginning. from when. this incredibly poor visibility so that is an estimate we know that it's taken a day already. and of course then they have to gauge but. it has been a long two an operation on the ice breakers have really had. a very beginning. been some speculation about what the two vessels were doing in the. weather in the first place. some long time that. well the place where the vessels are. being an incredibly dangerous moving area and the reason that a lot of the ships travel into that area is profits but for now not having many of . the big incredibly as we said the weather conditions they have these

conditions but they're. not and. this is a low rescue operation and every day that. it's an incredibly expensive operation at the moment the everything will be picking up. one thing. the company why this is whether they take it in ending that in the area and then possibly mine on the back of it at the maybe the bank really getting. the covering up. sarah firth reporting there for us thanks for now. from a sea of ice to world of snow and it's takes you to eastern siberia.

living around one of the coldest regions of the planet is not any return thomas is coming up we'll show you how it's done. twenty two year old man charged with attempting to assassinate a u.s. congresswoman and two murders could face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted the court ordered to i would not be held without bail he's accused of being on the shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona democratic governor giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition the nine year old district judge among the six who died p.r. consultant. this instance could force politicians to distance themselves from public appearances. there's going to be so much more scrutiny for people going to public events the average congressman for years has received death threats these

are usually just from kooks and not taken very seriously well now they take on a whole new light and i predict many members of congress are going to be much more skeptical about public speaking events they're going to want the trappings of a presidential speaking about presidents have. have these elaborate security mechanisms they have security guards secret service they have metal detectors to detect guns so you know unfortunately it's going to really shut down a lot of the communication voters have with their elected officials because elected officials in america are now running scared americans have passionate love affair and it's basically politically impossible for any politician to try to propose limiting handguns you know just recently rules were rewritten to let people bring guns into schools in arizona so that is an extraordinarily difficult political challenge because the gun lobby basically controls congress in america and the

legislatures as well so it is going to be tough what i do predict is you're going to see some change in the rhetoric of american politicians that are more active a stated swan song playing american mass media promoting father since the onset to solving some of these problems. but we do condition people to engage in this kind of violence in our wars and occupations and then we don't on condition them to live again back home but it's it's not just veterans it's americans from all backgrounds we don't we don't have mental health services we don't treat drug abuse as something to be cured we don't provide health care we don't provide job security we don't provide the things people needed terms of education in terms of nonviolent resolution of conflict because largely because we're driving all of the money into those who have too much of it already and the war machine and through the war machine we're educating people through our criminal justice system and the death

penalty we're educating people through everything that our government does to handle problems and everything that hollywood movies tell us solve problems we're teaching people that violence is the answer and of course it isn't because we make guns so readily available the violence is more deadly it's an incredibly destructive state that is part of the whole mentality that drives the wars that our criminal justice system and our intertainment and everything about our culture is just saturated with violence. well he is training that they should gangs to secure outposts here afghanistan's most dangerous areas for a few dollars a month washington hopes to keep the fighters on his side against the tide about jason whitlock found out he their loyalty is not so easily bored. as the southern gateway to kabul and home to a long stretch of afghanistan's national highway has been the focal point of the taliban's comeback in recent years in early two thousand and nine. forces were

struggling to hold back some military planners decided to raise a local militia to help cover the most dangerous gaps sides a kia quit a better paying job to join because he was tired of the fighting around his village in the valley nickname by u.s. troops the valley of death for its deadly ambushes and firefights. the situation was bad and i needed to do something for my family before it gets worse. there are hundreds of militiamen like him spread across wardak province now the afghan government and u.s. military are about to launch dozens of new militias in hotspots around the country the minute this outpost would train for three weeks by american special forces units if you kalashnikov rifles and are paid about two hundred dollars a month to keep watch over their own community they are approved by the village elders and they work within the district there from which gives them not only do they understand the dynamics and the people that they're working with their understand the community and and the threat in the area two years ago the valley

was a taliban stronghold where u.s. forces and armored vehicles came under fierce attack nearly every time they tried to drive through it today attacks are rare in the afghan local militia travel freely in pickup trucks from the beginning however critics have argued that arming militias in place of government forces could create vigilante groups which are impossible to control. be loyal to the government in kabul to president karzai they will certainly be loyal to those who would be able to replace united states. financing the former head of the program in wardak shady ex taliban commander named mohammed has already been replaced some u.s. officials privately suspected he was playing both sides and of the twelve hundred men would begin the program nearly four hundred have quit taking their weapons with them it's believed that dozens of join the insurgency if the militia continues to be under resourced or the governor whom for the i worry is it could backfire to the taliban's advantage these forces if he had not support it and get not addicted it

is sourced it could be used against the government because he will join those groups will get support from those who are in afghanistan government backed militias stand accused of murder theft and rape in northern province local serbia worse than the taleban support for the war effort flagging the u.s. military is looking for a quick fix of forces could leave but hasty decisions risk making a bad situation worse it is more militias are raised in the year ahead it appears there will be more risks to manage jason in the valley for r.t. . but a quick update now on some other of today's well news the raging torrent sweeping through eastern australia has left at least eight people dead and seventy two missing the city of two west of the queensland state capital brisbane is in latest area to be. towns have been flooded with around two hundred thousand people

affected regions west over ten years. south korean peace activists turning their anger towards the u.s. embassy and so all over the country is grabbing the victory of the chances he follows monday's demonstration outside the japanese diplomatic headquarters as a three nations work on forces ties the protests as one of the moves could in a rage the north especially since seoul rejected an offer of peace talks the standoff from the peninsula. reached the peak to be exchanging with. coming up next. a bit one european country faces some medieval style of wrath for widening the texan it. romania's which is curse income tax ruling so because of the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking systems and g.d.p.'s around the world romania's government has started taxing

witches and fortune tellers from the first of january this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought terror because there is fear it's about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog yet well goldman sachs collateralized debt obligation most of it is cat extreme it and dogs this is what they're fighting the federal reserve bank's balance sheet in washington the reason why they're afraid to do an audit at the request of ron paul is because they know that they've got basically dead beatles eye of newt some old chicken bones some dead cat excrement that's about all they've got at the federal reserve because the u.s. is technically. grow up installed so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah there are extreme it would dog poop. how life can be tough in remote eastern siberia what is surprising for

a place which is all could be the coldest inhabited region on this result sean thomas now reports from you. means that those calls in the to turn the landscape frozen features to their advantage. call for extra modes of transportation are fast you're already. started to pick are a form of transportation in america. which. these ducks can live in an extremely harsh environment they can stand easily winter temperatures ranging from minus fifty to minus sixty degrees with strong winds and very hot summer temperatures from plus thirty to plus forty degrees celsius they're well adapted to the local climate. perhaps because of the. versatility traveling long ago became part of the a cuttin tradition. saw back if you like the dogs are all are you cookin like us the equation like is one of the oldest aboriginal greats that exist on this

planet these dogs have been used for i don't know how many thousand years a sledge and hunting animals there in demick to cull them out and the polar area. travelling by dog sled is necessary for those living their lives here but there are many others who come from all over the world for this experience thanks it's just you and the dogs in the forest with the white snow and the snow capped mountains and if dogs aren't your style well you could choose going by reindeer or there's even a special type of course you could hear in a horse specific to this area that can handle the temperatures but no matter what animal you choose you're going to have to pick a sleigh all the way we're going to a third or a new order because i know my ancestors would be a breed isn't hunted my grandfather was a sniper in germany during world war two he was a hero of the soviet union he returned to dia breeding off to coming home from the

war in total there have been about ten generations of deer breed is in our family book and this is a market here and you could scan it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh has frozen and it just lets you know that even the food around here has something to do with ice. stroke and you know it is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved it directly from the fish onto the plate here even the milk is sold in frozen blocks and if you're looking for a quick afternoon snack i want to know if you want. it but want this is called meat the culture of the greens was slow to them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat it frozen because frozen meat preserves more vitamins than when you boil it. convenience we mince the meat in a meat grinder then it's easier to pick up the house and put it in your mouth if the temperatures in this part of the world are sometimes as low as minus sixty to

have shade every aspect of people's existence from their parents how they get around to the very food they eat life here is on ice. in yakutia sean thomas parties. and these are practice i think what our stories are ready to watch any time dot com has a pretty taste of what else is there for you today. the only option is the most infamous for scam millions of time to ninety's limits. a comeback with internet. and the whole thing why doctors are prescribing creature comforts to help cure takes pains about that. if. you. play all the business news is coming your way after

a short break stating. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program it's not just how the industry in russia that the need of modernization a lot some a severe drought exposed major shock cummings and the country's agriculture sector michael explains. thirty five degrees in the shade and no rain the weather played a hot trick on russian farmers this summer with a severe drought devastating more than thirty percent of the grain harvest but it was not just mother nature's fault. russia's wheat crop yield is

a third that if you were to improve you need access to modern seed i mean a seed industry has been lost and foreigners want to sell their technology to us because they're afraid they will be paid royalties for the use of the technology we also lack modern farming vehicles that it's hard to improve technology quickly the government has pumped extra cash into the sector which it hopes will plant twenty percent more props this spring but produces doubt they'll be able to do this on the handouts they've been given and what officials to come up with further stimulus measures because if he wore them a good look at it farmers could be allowed to perspire own interest payments until their loans expire otherwise some of them may go bankrupt and won't pay interest anyway if we are increasing planting you'll need more equipment for harvesting but many farmers don't have money to pay the initial fee for the leasing right now so we also need to deal with this. officials hope the country's grain requirement in

twenty eleven will be covered by domestic production but they're preparing for the worst good just staying in balance i think russia will finally import grain in some quantity we estimate the country's import needs at around four million tonnes with . russia accounted for up to fifteen percent of the global grey market before the drought analysts say there is a considerable potential for growth if this. it took a little bit to prep to see these would also live with the worst effects of the with the good mother nature to. go. let's look at the markets now asian stocks are mixed in early tuesday strife in japan and worries about the eurozone sovereign debt problems are weighing on investor sentiment as they return from their long weekend the nikkei is losing point three percent hong kong's hang seng is up one point two percent void by energy producers after crude oil prices edged high over night.