cycle of violence arise police in bahrain fired tear gas at a funeral march for an anti regime activists and died in custody after boys allegedly denied medical attention. in the country systematic human rights violations are kept out of the international spotlight i made a few stations mainstream media is actually on beyond all bahrain's room its. plans georgian president mikhail saakashvili to step down after a grueling election upset at least his apology only been modulus and vulnerable to made.

international news and comment live from moscow this is as he was me hello and welcome to the program torture violence and unrest was used by human rights activists in bahrain to describe the government's attempts to crush the regime support in the latest incident a riot police move to despise a funeral procession for a protester who died behind bars after he was allegedly denied proper medical treatment policy at. mohammed was sentenced to seven years behind bars for participating in problem democracy rallies note that i'm saying pro-democracy rallies his family and his lawyer claimed that he was suffering from sickle cell anemia and he died while in prison because he did not receive adequate medical treatment now thousands of people gathered on tuesday for his funeral procession but have resulted in clashes between protesters and police as the protesters were prevented from reaching the pole roundabout which is the epicenter

of last year's shiite uprising also on cheers date six medics were sent to jail after the the rain highest court rejected their appeal to overturn their convictions for the roles in anti regime protests which swept the gulf kingdom last year and human rights groups have condemned there's the medics were part of a group of twenty doctors who were charged with inciting violence but in fact were really charged with having been perceived to be on the side of those protesting against the regime what we're hearing from human rights groups is that these are prisoners of conscience they're demanding their release and they have criticised the bahraini government for its dismal human rights record both of these stories have gone launched me and noticed in the mainstream media there hasn't been a discussion at the united nations there hasn't been any statements issued by washington and they certainly hasn't been any kind of course by amnesty

international observers are saying that you need to look at the difference in response between what we've seen here and if by comparison this had happened in syria. bahrain's crackdown on dissent was explicitly covered in a documentary made by a former c.n.n. journalist amberley on the film one procedures journalism awards but it was only ad domestically in the us the decision the documentary maker things was motivated by money. we were able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who had run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot ambulance drivers who were beaten and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and buffering about twenty masked men with machine guns who then try to erase all the video that they found and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broads and we were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine bahrain surprise when we got back to

the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage. is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this content you know is editorially independent it doesn't. affect that what we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had c.n.n. to get bahrain coverage accurate coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's the sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying

customers as journalists. the uprising in bahrain started over a year ago and unlike many other internal problem cancers he was covering the story since the very beginning a time line analysts and our first hand reports from the gulf state can all be found at home. after three blasts have reportedly a run for the central square of syria's largest city of aleppo this latest attack comes as alarm bells ring for rebel backers amid concerns the revolution could take another turn some experts are convinced that the church community is the number two target on the rubble hitler stuff to president assad and the journalist calmly already told us that anti semitic sentiment is on the rise in syria. the irony of supporting the rebels who may eventually become great enemies of the west is something that's lost in the into the very eager interventionists who are pushing

the west to intervene in syria to arm the opposition interviewed a group of rebels in damascus who were holed up in various parts of damascus and very suburban i interviewed some of them a few of them who traveled from afghanistan said that they had a big fight against the jews ahead of them and this is a million to me because i've met people elsewhere particularly in pakistan who say that they have a producer ahead of them so they see that as the ultimate. one of the things that was particularly disturbing to me is how class is being groomed as a possible replacement for assad not a lot of people know that men are classes father mustapha class is a first rate he's written a book called the design which talks about the blood libel he was smuggled out class was smuggled out of the country by french spies he is he keeps making trips

to saudi arabia but not a lot of people know the history behind him and people should be wary of. clothes being groomed as a possible replacement. and series isn't the only place where that seems now and find the pilot of the afghan conflict turning eleven say even washington is getting out. of this state of mind about it all. and another blow to wiki leaks swedish police raid the offices of. the whistleblower organization so you think. it's all right. a decade on challenge to rule has come to an end for the now former ruling party of georgia with its head president saakashvili now under pressure to resign and taking up the mantle is the opposition blog georgian dream promising to undo saakashvili its policies and even hinting at legal action against the leader that exceed your chefs your reports now from tbilisi. it felt as if georgia had won the football

world cup thousands in the streets celebrated the surprising win by the opposition and despite fears the ruling regime may somehow hamper this triumph soon their worries were swept aside by the president himself. it is evident that the georgian dream coalition has secured a majority this means this parliamentary majority has to form the next government for us at least for me the use of this coalition were fundamentally unacceptable and still remain so. just six months ago an opposition win was deemed impossible the ruling parties rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that confidence saakashvili was that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually fill himself little did he know he was digging his own home when he made these changes to the constitution again i

would say. it is it time it was a dream that i never see the parliament these are the majority of his party and we knew that one day each. but he didn't seem to fit with council so probably he. just tailing the constitution on his own shape and on his own he could survive this let's say the flotilla or arrest think of a link in georgia but that's legal that's forever. however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released in september he'd saakashvili the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could face more than simply losing his grip on power if there's a big enough majority perhaps to impeach him maybe. next year remember. the

changing point in this election was the allegations of brutality in prisons and torture and the allegation behind that was of course that saakashvili and his prime minister merabishvili had altered this abuse so if you have a situation where the new parliamentary majority wants to investigate abuse it could well produce a crisis full of his close associates so they could not only have lost the election but they could face serious legal complications the georgia dream bardsley leader and possibly the next prime minister because anybody really has already made his position clear. this man's ideology has established a crime of violence and torture the food you have seen of the things happening in the georgian prison is the result of his ideology because he brought together the group that carried it out it would be good if he submits his resignation rather than a starting various procedures to force him to resign. it was not only the prison

tape scandal which brought soccer serious fortress of power down say experts corruption among elites daunting poverty and playing hardball with russia all contributed but for now georgia is welcoming and new era hoping for a fresh start georgia's history is rich with different sorts of bloody cold it does and forceful change of governments in the outgoing president mikheil saakashvili came to power as a result of a revolution so this may well become the first days in its country's history of a peaceful transition of power. r.t. reporting from billy c. in georgia. party politics are making headlines in the u.k. as well with the annual labor conference underway that's leader ed miliband speeches criticized for putting his life story ahead of beijing and our london correspondent brings us the details from. and also later droning secrets which will

tour the author of a fresh report which highlights some aspects of drugs even americans are being kept in the dark about all that after the break. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and would you believe that this machine can fall and strip hundreds of them each day when building this facility we wanted to use advanced technology that would increase efficiency and allow us not to use manual labor also this provides for better quality goods as a result we were able to conquer western markets the demand for korea birchwood is high since our production line is quite efficient where over to work for high wages to our employees the trunks and up here weather turned into planks which branch off to all manner of uses to use wood expats from march but not all of it goes it goes

. here on the museum island traditional methods are used to build and maintain churches and dwellings dating back hundreds of years in this whole what. reaches back to complexity these planks are about to become part of something which exemplifies the combination of tradition and technology. but here at the valley are all viking boat makers what is fashioned into their souls new and old they range from small private boats to. replicas used in the historical t.v. series. my boots are all special they're like children to me we have to design and build them from scratch it's always sad when we have to part ways every time we sail away while we remain at the dock and pavel gets much of his timber from karelia saying custom is pine for its high quality wood. which brings

us to the first six million cubic metres of wood is cut down in careers forests every year it goes to make everything from farm houses to firewood and with growing is proximity to europe and the baltic it's big forests big business culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean again i sit here and am a real mystery let me call it austerity reeling from one crisis to another the western world has come to the rescue of the banking and financial sectors building . more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today .

welcome back this is r.c. the u.k. labor party annual conference is in full swing and miliband is casting himself as a working class hero promising a bright future for great britain while relentlessly criticising the country's current leadership but as he is laura smith reports there was plenty of politics but few policies in the labor leaders address. ed miliband told the labor party conference about his childhood as the son of jewish refugees who fled the nazis and his school days at a london comprehensive which he says enabled him to get on with people from all

walks of life his ultimate goal though to differentiate himself from david cameron and his chancellor george osborne who have been branded from within their own party as to push boys who don't know the price of milk but in reality just how different is ed miliband his father was a socialist intellectual and his upbringing in highbrow north london circles is worlds away from the lives of most british workers he went to oxford and has never had a proper job outside politics apart from a teaching post at harvard's this speech was full of bluster about the all me the police the wonder of the lympics an ephemeral vision for britain some might say that's because policies are few and far between he says he'll still tout the banks make sure companies pay a fair wage and support the national health service but the main announcement of the speech was a promise that if elected labor will instigate

a massive increase in vocational education focusing on the fifty percent of young people who don't go to university a great idea youth unemployment is around twenty percent at the moment but there was no mention of the all important cost and how it would be met miliband has admitted that it's labor was in power they'd be making austerity cuts too but he's refused to give any detail until after elected more than anything miliband has tried again to cost himself as a man of the people but many are saying that if he wants the people to listen what he really needs to do is not talk about himself the seemingly endless anecdotes about his childhood and his family but seriously and in detail about the country and its problems. at a time when much of europe is causing war sound waves can brussels has proposed a massive increase to its own budget the plan to be voted on base week said

brussels on a collision course with the states it represents many of which staunchly opposed any right. new unemployment data the highest in the history of the bloc russo research of the european universities to change the numbers speak for themselves well it says that the state of the economy is absolutely dire and it actually tells us that what these leaders are trying to do through these meetings in these summits is actually aggravating the situation because they are the measures that are being imposed the radical structural reforms each of these things is actually aggravating the situation by undermining growth or mining investor confidence and the humanitarian tragedy i mean there is an enormous public outrage right now in spain as there is in greece as there is in portugal and if these people who are allowed to decide on their own future they would not choose the path of the u.s. forcing them down right now so what you're seeing is a repetition of what we've seen for the past twenty thirty years what's happened in the developing world is that international lenders through international is the

tuitions actually cancel the sovereignty of nation states in order to ensure full repayment of the debt i think everything that they're trying to do ultimately is met by financial market panic and what they're not seeing is that you cannot beat the financial markets unless you're willing to take a stand and say that we repudiate part of that and we move on and we set our own priorities and also focusing on austerities artie's cross-talk and later this hour his gas question just will be very what actually me. running you know that whole term austerity is not one i like very much because it has all these punitive connotations as opposed to what it really means which is that we need fiscal policies that make sense and by making sense you can't spend more than you take him for very long. everybody with common sense knows this now they're calling it austerity like like all of us have done something wrong and well now you're going

to get it and so either you either want austerity or you want the other thing which is to continue the impossible for us austerity it's terribly austere people are suffering terribly there was you know peter at the stockholm school of economics and some time with my visiting appointment there and in that country we've seen upwards of ten percent of the people have to leave in this massive biblical like exodus i mean it's just absolutely terrible crushing and regarding the unsustainability of the system well yes true it is unsustainable but not for the reasons i think that iraq has suggested i. said columbia university have released a fresh report on the dangers of drone warfare for the us the paper says not even top military stuff know the exact death toll of these unmanned strikes hailed by officials as surgically precise and it can have long running consequences for america's diplomatic relations says no rain shock one of the authors of the paper.

whenever the u.s. is going into a country and exerting its force they're going to polarize public debate in those countries so the us and tell you a sentiment it's not that's the beginning of the iceberg the tip of the iceberg really because we're also talking about governments in those countries that are seen as cooperating with the united states they might lose their legitimacy in their own publics views that can have a destabilizing effect on democracies and governments all across the world where we're conducting drone strikes we're talking not just about the number of civilians killed or the number of militants killed but the toll on these communities in parts of pakistan somalia and yemen we're talking about regions where there's already a problem of war but this is really adding to the problem as we have civilians who are really caught in the crossfire between milligan militant groups on the one hand and u.s. drone strikes on the other they're afraid of being being targeted merely because they're associating with individuals because they're outside they don't know what will let them be targeted and that's creating for them environment of hysteria and psychological torment when they just don't know when a drone will strike. in somalia drone strikes are only going to the tension created

by gears of the joint african forces have taken control of the lucrative somali pool. it was then a stronghold by al qaida linked to islamist fighters of the al shabaab group it took five days of fierce street by street battles to reclaim people so this is in the area militants have now been forced from all of somalia's major cities. fifteen people have been injured in the bangladesh capital dhaka in clashes between police and opposition protesters police fired tear gas shells and used bottles against the demonstrators that activists came to the streets to protest the electoral reform under which the incumbent government can oversee the next general election race may be pawns were controlled by an independent take a government. financial matters not where it is that most markets and it all can you tell us about the trading session well you live in european markets just kicked off the trade in session what we're seeing there is that they are extending losses from the previous session most of this of course last to do with

spain and the fact that it might need another bailout even though the prime minister of the country has denied those rumors but also investors are looking forward to hear about the u.s. jobs report studds due out this fry this will see what happens there when it comes to currencies us that goes happen it will be euro dollar and the ruble when it comes to the euro it is still weak and then against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble it's x. then that's losses against the currency basket this wednesday take a look at the russian the markets will see that it's a sea of red there as well and one of the lowest points of course is natural delight in the previous session was news and for the half percent off the report about its second quarter net loss was standing eight hundred million dollars all in fall in commodity prices and oil prices are falling today as well it will take a look at the asian markets they're on their way out and they're one of our technological shares as well as we're going to look at them once again their technological shares as well as carmakers are soft. and enjoy pat and now i want to

talk about the russian government because they put in a lot of effort into attracting foreign manufacturers foreign carmakers actually manufacture in the country and despite all this effort like preferential taxes the world trade organization void hand for my hand for that but as our tease for the senator spoke to one of the main automotive experts and that is stanley routes to find out about this issue and this is what he had to say. over truth however the session is going to be positive for the industry it is going to increase competition but i think it. is so also. about the utilization fee that this has been used to use what you saw if you will. how it's like to sit with for many again it's not exactly aligned for the principle of the beauty which is to reduce barriers to trade but on the other hand russia certainly needs to deal with the issue of setting up the utilization infrastructure

they haven't really got one in place and they need one in place to support to a growing industry given the growth potential for many factors here well most of them are to be honest the twelve major manufacturers are here the first set of operations busily putting together the states and supply chains to fully developed markets i'm thinking that even if the market does increase by fifty percent over the next forty five years yes it could easily do most of that capacity will be supplied by the countries right expanding. this it's too late then for manufacturers but the more open not building here that we're getting that way the door is definitely closing there may be a chance he's put one or two to come in to fill the shoes but certainly most of the major manufacturers that want to be here are here already and they're looking forward to supplying even the growing market.

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entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in others in america advertise his one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so eight centimeters would have brought me right to average for women height isn't so important girl can be sure it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be color just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. for an hour so they call us too. all what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations

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place and if you. need to. follow in welcome to cross talk on the cruel politics of austerity reeling from one crisis to another the western world has come to the rescue of its banks and financial sectors though the future of both remains uncertain but what about the people of politics and economics been reduced to a contest between democratic government and market preference. and. plenty. to cross out the politics of austerity i'm joined by geoffrey summers in milwaukee he's an associate professor at the university of wisconsin milwaukee and a visiting faculty member at the stockholm school of economics and in.