the cia comes under far as one of its operatives goes to court for minor offenses despite being wanted for a string of terror attacks and also. the rescue operation for that yet still trapped in the i thought precious bar is quite bad weather conditions at the ice breakers play one leaving one awaiting rescue. and the us finds that

paying afghan militias to hold back the town about influence is not enough to buy their loyalty. though they are watching r.t. broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program our top story now a former cia operative who is wanted in venezuela and cuba for terrorist attacks throughout latin america has gone on trial in the u.s. but that's not why there were specific arenas is in court instead he's being charged with lying to immigration officers. and how first looks at why the u.s. is turning a blind eye to an alleged terrorist. the. 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 new tory a school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spanned five decades it impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner for fifty five has gone. in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act poseidon plans from venice and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened this was a mastermind of the of the volcano the. flight and still he's here posada was convicted in absentia and venezuela of masterminding the bombing however not only did the us government refused to extradite decided to venezuela to serve

his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element in the contra wars which clean lines 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 after my shoes my brother was killed in libya distil most brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the earth 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 no describes as a monster create by a country that is. government officials to push their agenda are willing to go. into your in your old after jailing posidon upon entering the us illegally law enforcement agencies warn the justice department up aside its

terrorist past but he was set free anyway was now 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 poseidon was involved in there was the two thousand assassination attempt on cuban leader fidel castro in 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 sada 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 post a lot of 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 hemispheres most notorious terrorists are t. washington d.c. . but around one hundred activists gathered for a symbolic people's tribunals ahead of monday's trial to have terrorism charges against assad and his accomplices. campaign that probably becker was also that he believes the wanted man 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 that many and he'd be extradited and yet the united states government won't extradite him to but israel because they say they fear that the venezuelan government will torture luis posada it's nonsense as just shows the absolute hostility towards of men as well and 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. while the u.s. refuses to extradite posada to venezuela claiming he would face torture on t.

the exits america's interrogation tactics in guantanamo bay next hour we talked to human rights lawyer. views cases at camp delta international secret prisons. methods of interrogation the enhanced interrogation techniques so referred are not are not the do not happen to the minority they happen to the majority so what happens is you get instructors who are interrogating and guards for the. 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. a refrigerator vessel stuck in frozen waters off russia's far east is now being towed

by ice breakers but against harsh weather conditions another supply ship with over three hundred crew on board is the last to be freed after being trapped for almost a fortnight so all the vessels have been rescued over the last week or so has the latest details. for you icebreaker about. the. area they've got about thirty to go and then of course they have to go back to collect supplies three hundred crew on board still now we've heard from the federal press conference today that they dispatched a helicopter. from the. blue the helicopter. in the area. the best three to i break his. life get printed up as soon as possible. reconnaissance helicopter sent by the

emergencies ministry as observed through the canals which would regularly freeze over and i'm clear unstable the ice breakers compton's have decided to turn around and come by. for the supply ship leaving the refrigerator now to try and get the supply ship out the operation has now entered its final and most difficult stage according to our calculations it will conclude within forty eight hours first to get both ships out. of cools the timing of this rescue operation coming to an end. very dependent on a number of fact is most intimately the weather we've seen that this is really had an impact on the operation since the very beginning they've had strong winds up but they've been up against both wind this incredibly thick ice and poor visibility so that is an estimate we know that it's taken a day already to cover the distance they still got the other half to get. place where the vessels are stuck with the current. being an incredibly dangerous moving

area in fact the reason that a lot of the ships travel into that area is because the laws profits but for now not having many of. the eyes being incredibly thick as we said the weather conditions recently have was these conditions but there's certainly been questions as to why exactly the buses. and of course as we said it's not and. this is being alone a rescue operation and every day the supply vessel the incredibly large supply vessel if it's close to fifty thousand dollars so it's an incredibly expensive operation at the moment the every a fishing authority will be picking up the bill for the rescue operation once and other such big questions to the companies in the us as to why the whether they take an inadvertent risk into sending them into the area and then possibly have mine on the back of it as it may be the main focus really on getting refrigerated.

recovering up. so well from the sea of ice to well of snow in a few minutes in silence and takes you to some very. good. around one of the coldest region for the planet is not an easy task i'm sure thomas and your group here coming up will show you how it's done. that twenty two year old man charged with attempting to assassinate a u.s. congresswoman to millions could face life in prison on the death penalty if convicted the court. held without bail he's accused of. the shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state of arizona democratic governor of a shot in the head veins in critical condition. at st john. the six died it's a coup his story in terms of them says the media is increasingly vicious would suddenly promote violence. the rest of the american news media tends to

ignore sweep under the rug is that the tenor in the vitriol. and the hatred really that has been going on in this country i think for the last couple of years the far right has become unhinged we have the first african-american president in our history the white supremacists the racists there's been a tick across the board in extremism from the right and with our economic problems as well we are in a period in america right now throw in the guns as well we're in a period right now where it is very volatile and very dangerous it's not surprising at all that there would be violent action directed against political figures that this in this climate despite the efforts of more sane people try to call for a more civil discourse a more civil dialogue to try to tamp down the tone it's really not not happening i think unfortunately the american news media is not doing

a good job of helping to tamp down the tone as well. a blogger and filmmaker danny schechter blames the republicans for failing to ban assault weapons such as the one you used to use in the shooting. assault weapons ban which show republicans in two thousand and four laps this was a big battle over gun control and republicans lined up against a ban on assault weapons that the gun that was actually used in the shooting would have been covered in that ban so actually the failure of having the band you know made that weapon legally available to this young man there are many cases like this of violence that probably could have been prevented had there been regulations and laws in effect obviously you can't protect everyone from from a lone nut says this guy has been called or people who are you know mental distress

and who have access to weapons but clearly more could be done to educate people about these issues there's been a lot of studies about how the coarseness on t.v. encourages you know the sort of bullying that takes place in our schools and the violence in our communities people tend to see monkey see monkey do usually what happens is people take out the violence on themselves with suicides and and killings in their own families from despair and because we are living in an economic recession slash depression people are pretty desperate and if there's a gun around they might use it. the u.s. army's training to secure afghanistan most dangerous areas for a few dollars a month washington hopes to keep the far right against the taliban. for loyalty so easily. and so the good way to call home to

a long stretch of afghanistan's interim. order has been the focal point come back. in early two thousand overstretched afghan forces were struggling. to military planners decide through. as 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 jar is valued nicknamed by u.s. troops the valley of death for its deadly ambushes and firefights mike. the situation was bad and i needed to do something for my family before it got 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 were trained 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 the 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 them to stand the community and and the threat in the area two years ago the gel revelli 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 and 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 militia forces will not be loyal to the government a kabul to president karzai they will certainly be loyal to those who would be able to replace united states and temple financing the former head of the program in wardak a 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 that began the program nearly four hundred have quit taking their weapons with them it's believed the dozens of join the insurgency if the militia continues to be

under resourced or that governor holden for die worries it could backfire to the taliban's advantage these forces if he had not support it and get knocked at the could it is sourced it could be used against. the governor because he will join those groups will get support those who are in afghanistan government backed militias stand accused of murder theft rape in northern province local city are worse than the taliban support for the war effort flooding the u.s. military is looking for a quick fix of forces to 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 job. but so updates from now on some of today's other well nice the raging hard stuff is sweeping through with east australia left at least nine people dead over seventy two missing the

city of west of the queen's on instinct have been is late sister three hit by flash flooding entire towns have been flooded for the two hundred thousand people affected by the region's worst ever reach. there are very different problems in australia's south west with bushfires now raging hundreds were forced to flee their . crews tackle the blaze so. several homes were destroyed and more than two thousand hectares of land and scorched. tension is escalating in haiti all to international election experts propose that the country's government backed candidates we dropped from the presidential runoff but expect to have scientific evidence all one thousand four hundred lost all times poll result in nation one of the riots present when a player has to decide whether to accept the proposal which could spark protests if he does the decisive second round has not been deliberate. well coming up in just

over ten minutes time cries and stacy habits how one that european government faces some of the devil style wrath for the widening of the tax net. many years which is cursed income tax ruling so because of the fine. actual 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 her a boo is 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 beetles

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. insolvent so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah they're. now life is tough and remote in siberia hardly surprising for a place which is the coldest inhabited region on this as artie's sean thomas now reports from the it means the locals need to turn the landscape's frozen features to their advantage. call for extreme modes of transportation are found one. around the corner we were started to pick are a form of transportation america. 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 like it which perhaps because of their versatility travelling became part of the tradition. like you the dogs are all are you cookin like us the quick in like is one of the oldest aboriginal brits 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 call 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. is just you and the dogs in the forest with the white snow and the snow capped mountains and if dogs are 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 your theory or ignore the whole because i know my ancestors would be a breed isn't hunters too 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 breeders in our family and this is a market here and you could scan it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh is frozen and it just lets you know that even the food around here has something to do with ice. through and you know it is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved 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 what was it you. gave but all 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 and when you boil it for convenience we mince the meat in a meat grinder then it's easier to pick up the how bigger and put it. in your mouth i'm not like any of the temperatures in this part of the world sometimes as low as minus sixty two have shaved every aspect of people's existence from their parents how they get around to the very food they eat life here is on ice after. sean thomas archie. stories are ready to watch at a time at r.t. dot com as a quick taste of what else is there for you today knock up your loot to russia's most infamous forced to scam millions of people nineteen nineteen agreement still has a comeback in this segment. helping thing by doctors are prescribing creature comforts to help cure aches and pains from. its

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hello and a very warm welcome to the business program mergers and acquisition activity in russia more than doubled in twenty ten a thomson reuters study is six to seven billion dollars worth of deals were done making the country the m. and a leader in eastern europe telecoms chemical and energy sectors were the main drivers global m. and a market began this year with new highs with eighty three billion dollars worth of consolidation signed in the first ten days of generate that's a rise twenty one percent from the same period last year. but abuse is raising the transit tariff for russian oil by twelve and a half percent starting from next month the increase was agreed by both parties at the end of last year following months of talks but of those expects eighty million tons of oil to be pumped through its territory churi twenty eleven that's roughly

the same as in twenty ten. let's look at the markets now asian stocks are mixed in japan worries about the eurozone sovereign debt problems solved weighing on inverse to 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 who would buy energy producers after crude oil prices age higher overnight. and here in russia the markets have reopened after a ten day break for new year the indices are making all the more gains on the back of the strong but well priced the r.t.s. is a fifth of a percent to my success trading point thirty five percent higher energy stocks are mostly on the rise with look oil up more than two percent. and look at oil is among analysts top picks for investors looking to take advantage of the country's recovery often it's a good sound from the nation's capital also believes russia's likely accession to

the world trade organization will also boost the wider energy industry. it's improving it's information flow it's starting to you know publish very good very strong very strong numbers and another big driver for it is that it looks like russia is going to. drive for reform. could be very positive for all for all products exporters. last year so everybody economic crisis for many companies in russia one of those will stop titanium producer face some feel of a smile and listen expect it to continue performing well mark cuban's time for metropol explains why this company's is one of the. leading producers of time which is their main compliance for aircraft building most analysts expect in and out so you can add.