before it was sure some would prince original the splined original entire truth wins if you tell me it's not your group the future or good how would international house flood the cheese every green leaf or killed in. a bloody end to george's day of rage against president saakashvili as heavily armed police report a brutal start to public just south of. the world's wealthiest nation stormont word time battleground just brush out today's conflicts reports from the g eight and friends. to us judges are convicted of dishing out dodgy discipline making millions by throwing teenagers to private prisons for only very minor offenses. and hot stuff in subzero season only to syntactical record to meet the creatures calling the icy ocean home. in business dresses

sound strange pipeline is looking forward to the final go ahead that is battling energy legislation will bring the full story in business around twenty minutes. it is nine am in the russian capital you're watching our team with joshua welcome to the program to dad and dozens hospitalized protesters in georgia found out the hard way why they shouldn't speak out against their leadership a brutal police crackdown and huge crowds turned out for what's been called georgia's day of rage demanding that president saakashvili resign the government of vowed that nothing would interrupt the country's independence day military parade later on thursday police firing rubber bullets and tear gas began to move against the crowd shortly after midnight. pro opposition to the station was the first scene

of violent clashes with police beating and arresting hundreds of people the arrest been labeled the silver revolution because of the large presence of all the organs present topic of massive corruption and wanting to go there to serve as this eyewitness report from the georgian capital tbilisi. it was held by the opposition as the day that would determine georgia's teacher instead people died as the protests aimed at ousting president like a surely ended in violence and bloodshed a huge pools of riot police moved in on the crowd just minutes after midnight and killed his day of independence from. police came to be i think that's quite heavy right was the crowd having the middle of it we've got police call and that in the background here we've got one on the other side so

began a spate of the surrounded. as the police closed in water cannons were fired into the crowd rubber bullets and gas followed seriously injuring demonstrators and journalists a police officer was killed when he was run over by a car and a protester dies in front of the parliament building the scenes of violence all the more shocking given that many of those involved were of an older generation. we will standing peacefully when riot police kick me onto the ground and started beating me my relatives also suffered they smashed one of my friend's face and left another one and. you can see from my face the kind of force they used and i think god i'm even alive these people don't value human life . it had been dubbed the silver revolution due to the older crowd they turned out demonstrating against lay pensions and rising food prices for five days they held

the main t.v. building in tbilisi before taking their protest to the main hall and an. initial numbers of protesters at the weekend after this peace among the opposition parties themselves that is they were led through the streets on wednesday the crowds once again turned out. to use force. or were going through too she was just too well and the. demonstrators were vastly outnumbered and witnesses to the navy then the two thousand and seven protests in which these hundred were injured say that this time around police presence was even greater and the falls they used just as the questions are already being asked about whether the scale of force used was justifiable. many were arrested and many more injured if the on the streets and remnants of the violent clash. they set up

the main band from which the leader of the opposition gave us. the earlier on just before the fighting broke out was saying she would maybe be holding negotiations that didn't happen they wanted out instead the price and then how it started and things the violent surface r.t. the van so were night previous brutal crackdown by georgian police four years ago tear gas and water cannon were also used to disperse thousands of demonstrators who turned against regime injuring six hundred people are going to be as are all was there because the chaotic and terrifying scenes. and i remember that but we along with many other journalists were just outside the parliament building and then the next thing we know there were tear gas grenades flying everywhere immediately we couldn't see anything couldn't really draining it was chaos people

running in all kinds of directions are being met by riot police actually started hammering gun on them with their butt tongs just kicking people to the ground beating them on their heads as mass chaos everywhere it was people blocking it they couldn't manage to see anything because the sheer gas was everywhere there were dozens of ambulances immediately on the scene just tearing people away all of those that were injured in the first wave of the chair gas attack and then later our producer got hit in the head with a rubber bullet our camera crew also got struck by some of those are our goals it was utter chaos and madness but the most frightening thing about it perhaps was the fact that it was literally so unexpected that protests had been going on for days and nobody expected it to turn this while and this suddenly. as public anger had george's government boils over president saakashvili may be taking

his lead from other similarly unpopular leaders investigative journalist and r.t. contributor wayne madsen explains. alight mubarak we certainly know that one of the criticisms by the opposition is the corruption rampant in his government it's a very not batista administration he runs so we're seeing a lot of people saying you know enough is enough leaving. his government joining the opposition now saakashvili on the other hand is claiming that somehow russia is behind these these rebellions he's doing the same thing that could go off he did in libya by blaming al qaida and mubarak of course blamed everybody for his problems except with this big difference the u.s. supports this they cater this shows the hypocrisy of the obama administration when it comes to georgia or bahrain or any of these regimes that we support for military and strategic purposes these popular uprisings get no support from washington and

our full coverage of the developing situation in georgia is online right now at the dot com and with god means videos and analysis as police round on demonstrators demanding president saakashvili is resignation well there is always our twitter stream and facebook which keep you updated as events unfold. a paradise for the french elite and that historic world war two sides will today see an invasion of the g. eight machine the latest summit gets going on the ship normandy resort of divel

shortly while leaders from the world's biggest economies prepare for business and he says now it reviews what lies have. on the table the situation in libya the economy especially concerning the euro and of course the spring arab uprisings in fact for the first time delegations from tunisia and egypt will be taking part in discussions but the working sessions will only begin much later today on the second day tomorrow the beginning of the summit has been allotted for leaders to meet on the sidelines and bilateral meetings president will sit down with barack obama their missile defense is expected to be discussed russia has raised concerns post signing of the strategic arms reduction treaty that america is not as and as transparent as it could be when it comes to its missile defense systems in europe also once again coming up the situation in libya russia raising concerns there that the resolution have been manipulated and it's now not just the mission about protecting civilians that will come up when president medvedev sits down with

french president nicolas sarkozy of course france was one of the first countries to intervene and as host of the summit this year we here at r.g.p. have been analyzing how france's position on the world stage has changed and it's now playing a much bigger role the g eight has gone full circle the last time the summit was held in france eight years ago the agenda looked almost the same. war the economy somewhere in the middle aid to africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's the libya and saving the euro. two thousand and three france had a very different stance on global politics then it was staunchly opposed to the u.s. invasion of iraq french fries quickly became freedom fries after france u.s. relations soured despite summit smiles but with a new french president came a new friend circles he has rejected entirely the possibility of friends playing

a constructive role in a multi multi-polar world and has aligned himself with the things. our the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in foreign military conflicts abroad then ever before it's a global list more than colleagues and it's not just the friends it's a whole. global plan to change governments as they want. france played a central role in ivory coast's bloody presidential stalemate and is considered the unspoken leader of the intervention in libya this spring so was he wanted is to participate and to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was meant to wean over french voters but hasn't worked france is

a kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and the costs and cost is the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower deficits and save a drowning euro the sex scandal involving i.m.f. had done many extra column might have knocked out a top contender competing against sarkozy for the presidency but experts say d.s. k. was toppled at the wrong time when you've still got worries about whether the euro will still be the currency of all these european countries in the next twelve to twenty four months and at the same time spending hundreds of millions forcing their way into libya conflict they don't see eye to eye but they going to try to regroup

around. the idea that it's a humanitarian intervention and the u.n. resolution a resolution that china and russia do view. dope but it claims has been manipulated to suit western interests perhaps there will be an appearance of green men but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it won't be an appearance appearance at the g eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually some exclusive resort town where you can't hear protests over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling in libya this year france's beautiful normandy was chosen as house leaders as they sit down to debate some of the world's ugliest problems and once again are faced with the question of whether the g eight can regroup on splitting issues and he's now a r t v fronts all around five minutes on artie's interactive sean thomas gets hot of the trail of the south pole scientists. science and research and antarctica is

not only going to the laboratories in fact most of it's done out here in the field or this case in the ocean i'm john thomas in antarctica coming up we look at the lives of the scientists here. it was well over two million people in jail the u.s. has the highest prison population in the world but some are saying the inside of a cell because dodgy judges are getting payback from the private sector artie is going to check out reports of those dishing out justice for a fee. two pennsylvania judges have made a killing out of juvenile prisons mark ciavarella and michael conahan were convicted of receiving kickbacks for more than two million dollars from the developers of several private detention centers but the real crime according to the parents is that these judges then sent more than five thousand children to those various facilities for crimes as small as finding on a school bus or posting a parody of their teacher on the web high in. the end that.

was a god the size of sandy fonzo seventeen year old son edward was a bloody student and sportsman when he was arrested at an under-age party judge ciavarella locked him out for six months after he got out edward committed suicide and never looked into you know the whole picture of the kids like i said he wind them up one by one and send them away shackled. to places. you know god knows what went on and then he throws them back and how does a kid do you work you know my son just never recover from eric so fast he was twelve when judge ciavarella sent him to jail for two years to scratching his mom's car while joy writing for this young man was a teenager was locked up for months for throwing a piece of steak it is mom's boyfriend so i really couldn't believe that being

accused of something like thirty story was all that was needed to be put away the case of the two pennsylvania judges in bed with the local private prisons could be just the tip of the iceberg a recent report revealed america's largest prison corporations poor hundreds of thousands into the campaigns of governors state legislators and judges in the hope of advancing their agenda and it seems to be working the number. private prisons in the u.s. is growing rapidly oh their money every penny they get is a taxpayer dollar that they get from the government and so what they do is they get bigger put money from the government the house prisoners then they turn around and split and spend some of that money by giving it back to the politicians who push the was and the policies that we need to build more people being incarcerated more people being force rated prisons so it's almost a money wandering of tax dollars they're making contributions to judges and

politicians it's sort of like a closed circuit you're making contributions to people who are breaking the laws and then you're making contributions to people who are forced into law with the number of prisons out goes the number of prisoners the u.s. has around two point three million people behind bars more than any other nation you've seen prison populations pretty consistently over the last three decades move up a couple percent a year and say you know unfortunate as a citizen that that's not the most exciting statistic however when you look at it from a business model perspective for the private operators it's clearly good news the good news for the prison business turned into a nightmare for thousands of under-age victims of the two judges in pennsylvania there is an immense sense in private industry obviously to make money that's where private industry is for so there's an incentive to have more person there's an incentive to keep those prisoners incarcerated for longer periods of time there's

really no incentive for rehabilitation incentives reversed this so-called cash for kids case seen as a when you showed just how reversed the incentives can be and raise the question we get is actually interested in sending people away for a longer term thing keeping their benefactors private prisons for what justice can . one pound on i'm going to check out reporting from washington are. something to look at some other stories from around the world and for me the national moderate fun cheve dominique strauss kahn has been moved to a new location while waiting trial on sex assault charges he's a changed his luxury new lower manhattan apartment to a townhouse about two miles away. was released on one million dollars bail after spending several days and torrijos new york prison. crowds of greeks have shown they won't take further cuts quietly as fifteen thousand descend on the parliament

building in athens and athens similar protests in spain weren't demonstrators gathered in a similar display of anger a week ago heavily in debt and greece is struggling to meet the terms of its massive bailout with creditors like germany demanding more cuts in the already struggling country. and other fifteen people are dead as intense tornadoes continue to tear through central u.s. states oklahoma arkansas and kansas are the worst hit by the twister outbreak rescuers are still plowing through debris after returning to level the downtown area of joplin missouri killing at least one hundred twenty five. it takes a certain kind of stamina to plunge into the icy ocean but it's all in a day's work for the determined divers of antarctica and its latest report from the south pole shaun thomas meets the explorers keeping their cool in the name of science. plunge into frigid

entered waters certainly not for the trying to put the screws making this dive a regular experience in the name of science. the main purpose of our trip to antarctica is to establish a foundation for monitoring different species living on the bottom of the ocean we are studying the distribution of animals that live here and we are studying their nature each day during the short summer season as crew makes multiple trips out to sea where they get a firsthand look at what's below the surface. in this case one in the same biological community stretches from a depth of five to almost fifty meters there are certain variations but mostly the picture is the same it's impossible to say anything now it's too early to draw any conclusions we've got too little information just one section of you working out of the cars the wonders of antarctica will not only help scientists identify the types of animals living here but by coming back over time they can study subtle changes in the environment and how the animals are affected by those changes in three to

five years we will repeat our data collection and we can establish whether there have been any changes some animals might have gone and others may have replaced them we can establish why maybe there are some climatic changes that lead to changes among the populations so it will indicate whether it's got colder or warmer here what they come up with can at times seem a bit questionable if not simply messy while other times their cash is quite clear but in all cases important to their research so what is logged in ships to russia what is then catalog and still sometimes new discoveries are made constantly what i'm cataloguing many new types of muscles my colleagues are doing the same we're always finding new and absolutely unknown species proving that there is still much more work to be done and one of the world's coldest ecosystems dark a chant time is fourteen. and chance got more stories from the south pole for you

so we'll bring you reports over the next few of us here on araa. we're going to move from. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is the bones of the sun's. expedition to the bottom of your article. all time now for the latest business update with katrina in just a few moments. hello

and welcome to the business update with r.t. the south stream gas pipeline is in focus in brussels the main players behind the deal a lobbying the european parliament to give the final go ahead for the multi-billion dollar project the european commission says it's supporting a pipeline but there's still a long way to go that's probably a carver takes up the story from gazprom h.q. . it's become a battle of wills with gastro trim partners on one side and the european commission on the other south stream say they're ready to start building but the e.u. has put a spanner in the works with its new energy market legislation. and if the e.u. territory. it will be tough chip to search into a market it is

a mission by applying it to the subject as it internal market with you thought stream for example gives access to guess independent active in russia sense also because it would deliver or peculiar namely it was vacation of woods and counter parties that means a stronger contribution to european that would have occasioned efforts there is a lot at stake for gas prom and its partners but you see a lot has been devoted to gold the necessity of investment into europe's gas infrastructure in the last decade. which took risks and obligations for building against transportation has been and still is russia this proves but of the only thing that russia will be a partner who can be relied on in the twenty first century we're able to supply as much as two year old as it will need this meeting in brussels won't be the last

waiting in the wings is the rival nabucco pipeline aimed at bypassing russia it's been granted an exclusion from the new e.u. rules something russia is not happy with their telecom or business are to. wow russia is dominating gas company gazprom debates deals and prices with belarus and ukraine small independent companies are going seemingly unnoticed that the russian national debt and gas market has plenty of options for customers and not all of them government are and were in a concert ever travel to the countries gas cap of novi you're hearing the rights of find out more about the smaller players. this is where ninety percent of russians gas production takes place and about swine two percent is the world's outputs gas from maybe the king here but it's not the only one as small independent gas companies are also part of the game and we'll find out how.

this is one of the fields of significance it holds licenses developed fields and the companies slow to surface amounts to months of. it's already owned by not such which is are just in the planning process and other parts of it is owned by its heroine which is slightly smaller but still one of the largest in the. either the old own living since. this move in these companies that the chances that it plays. right since then they can make decisions so that's really the seeds are get a lot of signatures. and also they can get this is something that is no longer interests against them for example the one simple choice. to gas that so

it's been given that's not ever run for its money but it's nothing great in the book but this is something that is a great step forward pull off something that's also a business part. time to take a look at the markets now crude prices on trading moderately higher the south a weakness in the dollar is weighing on the market despite the u.s. the rising seas and disappointing economic. across asia japanese stocks are climbing shockley energy majors are among the top gain is riding on an overnight recovery in oil prices japan petroleum corporation is and it was fun to sit this out. conk shares are also in the black after a three day losing streak the resource sector is in the lead bolstered by higher commodities prices petro china adding almost one percent this hour. and here in moscow the trading you start in about an hour's time on wednesday both deonte s. and then my six closed in the black climbing for a second day in a row and if you have the weights were in the lead propped up by

a group price. while crude prices are floating around their record highs russian equity is trading at mid november levels are like yourself from d.g.p. capital since there's still positive sentiment on the markets which are likely to raise their second quarter losses. and we see a bit of strength in the russian market we see the market crash and burn and hence . we don't feel the market is going to be weak any correction is probably going to be short lived and not really significant in magnitude generally and we expect the market there's no interest at all about the seven macro picture which is of importance is not showing a really good sign that there are some sort of clarity in appreciation is going to be paramount to and work its feel. a bit of risk appetite because with no clarity of markets trying to be a little bit risk averse. that's the latest business for now we'll have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us now.

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