georgians or russians so it's it's hard to imagine it's not the time to read capella now in two thousand and six georgia arrested four high ranking russian officers accusing them of being spies i'm also called that deliberate provocation could we just be seeing a repeat of that kind of event it was a deliberate provocation but it was in two thousand and six now we're living in two thousand and ten there was a war in two thousand and eight now we're living in quite a different political so we're already it's like a temple of russert white blank so we have clarified all our. problems with you we're paying you are seeing now we have clear wide what is security and we have launched the real it would be loaded with us in russia so i don't think that these are we can be taken seriously and yet it's not number one on the agenda between russia and you are you we are all russian us or another georgian leadership is known for the harsh repression of political dissenters do you think this could just be a political process where dissenters are being labeled as spies well first of all mr saakashvili

citizens however way yet to hear any official response from the georgian sides over those arrests now we may not hear until perhaps november the fifth when the georgian foreign ministry has said that they will issue a news conference to talk about the situation at the georgians might not have said anything but russian political figures have spoken out on they say this spice scandal if you will saying that they believe that there's no dues no need for russia to have a spy network in georgia and it this is just the georgian side trying to play russia off as the bad guy again. this looks like another of georgia's internal political battles in russia is used as the boogie man as usual russia doesn't need a spy network in georgia will be waste of resources russian officials can get all the information in georgia without leaving their desks there's a massive georgian jospeh here in russia was jong toys to homeland's so there's absolutely no need for any old spying methods to gather intelligence it's all basically nothing more than pawns of george's internal policies twenty thousand and six

mr elliott the president of azerbaijan has recently signed an agreement with saakashvili the georgian leader about the direct shipment of the as a read gas to romania at the same time he has an agreement with gazprom russian company committing as everybody on to sell its gas to the russian company all these two commitments seem to be contradictory seem to be have a conflict within them but europe should love it. such kind of a contradiction in what we just say but as you suggest i think i have said love and i think a lot of spa there if he was still alive would love it even more because the whole point further john is to have a kind of multifactor foreign policy a lot of extra energy policy they would they would like to make sure that they diversify their buyers so that way they are really needed by everybody so i think that it's really it is actually doing a pretty good job for his country in terms of diversification and maintaining influence it's only maintaining influence it's only surviving in a world surrounded by superpowers or is it trying really to create a russian alliance be

that was who cover georgian opposition leader in tbilisi. well could a comedian in america have more power than the president the majority of voters on an online men's magazine certainly seem to think selecting john stewart as the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and as r.t. is anastasio reports this saturday the funnyman will see if his popularity translates into political action. when its own box gets in the way of political promises he promised during the campaign change you're going believe it right it wasn't change them believe in in eighteen months when the media over with fear and anger. are well in the minds of a population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth on the airwaves were being dumbed down by the news business who are americans left to trust according to a poll conducted by an online men's magazine comedian jon stewart is the most influential man in america after eleven years on the daily show how four million voters bumped him up to the number one spot and i would be concerned if it was

reporting there from the georgian capital. a comedian in america have more power than the president the majority of voters online men's magazine certainly thinks so selecting jon stewart who hosts a national daily talk show is the most influential man of the year in the u.s. . reports this saturday he'll see if his popularity translates into political action. when if and bots get in the way of political promises. promised during the campaign change of the believe in right it wasn't change it to believe in eighteen months when the media war was over with fear and anger. and the minds of a population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth on the airwaves were being dumbed down by the news business who are americans left to trust according to a poll conducted by an online men's magazine comedian jon stewart is the most influential man in america after eleven years on the daily show how from million voters bump him up to the number one spot and i would be concerned if it was they said larry the cable guy was

interior ministry saying all twenty one georgian citizens . you know today fight russian and u.s. forces wipe out a ton of afghan heroin and destroy it for laughs in their first ever joint operation russia's top anti driving forces says moscow and washington can only talk only. strayed if they. working together. and you need to give way to the mall and to the blokes heavyweights tired of paying for all this financial mistakes and agree to amend the lisbon treaty to avert economic collapse new measures including punishing those members overspend and creating a plain out stash. with more developments more news in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we follow a quest for the truth undertaken by the parents of a u.s. soldier whose death was blamed on drug abuse but turned out to be caused by a medicine prescribed by his superiors that's in a special report next. what was it like being on the base finally you know i think. the guy who was. very nice guy took me to are true.

when they start talking georgian sacrificially so this is at least one thing he did. why why is the figure of this man so important that the even even russian and european expres can't find common grounds of evaluating him or his politics i mean it's interesting you say that because i don't really feel that there is a strong support for mr saakashvili as a person or as a politician in in the west i mean especially in european countries i don't think he is so strongly supported i mean he has been very critical of the european union and european politicians don't appreciate that. i would say that really there's a lot of emotions obviously between the personalities in russia and in georgia but i don't really feel that that has overlapped too much to the european union i also feel that their current us government is also different than the previous one and that the kind. kind of very strong support that he received in washington under the bush administration has also shifted now. do you think andrei that the reason for that civilian just said is that is that the new book

authorities no other details have been released in fact georgian authorities say that no information will be available and till the end of next week and they're all keeping mum about the details refusing to give out any comments whatsoever and fred we are from christian science monitor believes this is something to be this is something to pay special attention to when someone is arrested they're entitled to due process that means they can call a lawyer that family members can be contacted therefore arrests are announced and it never happens i can't tell you how bizarre it is to hear a police spokesman say. i can neither confirm nor deny that arrests have taken place the secret arrests are the hallmark of a police state and we do have to remember the political situation in a country which has been in place for the past so year or so a lot of opposition a lot of opposition leaders and members are finding themselves under increasing pressure from the authorities a lot of them are essentially being oppressed and listen to one of the opposition leaders that. we will find out that in fact

georgian opposition leaders speaking from tbilisi. and coming up in the program here in our team fit in or get out that's the stark warning from politicians in germany to immigrants across the country look at how that message is going down in just a few minutes. russia and the u.s. are celebrating their first joint victory in the war in afghanistan opium trade on thursday their operatives destroyed for drug producing labs in the country and seized a ton of heroin afghan president hamid karzai has denounced the operation saying it violates his country's sovereignty but russian officials say everything had been agreed with the afghan interior ministry the drug raid mark the return for russian special forces to afghanistan over twenty years after savia troops left but for some veterans of that war the news came as a complete shock artie's academy now reports. if this one this one through this one this one. this one lost his leg and that he got a mush is showing his cormorants killed in the soviet war in afghanistan two decades ago only f

you know reporting from the georgian capital. could it a comedian in america sway people's opinion more than the president the majority of voters on an online survey certainly thinks so so like being jon stewart who hosts a national daily talk show as the most influential man of the year in the u.s. and as honest a reports he's now taking that popularity to the streets. when it's an bots get in the way of political promises were promised during the campaign change you can believe in right it wasn't change you can believe in in eighteen months when the media up there along with fear and anger. are well in the minds of the population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth on the airwaves were being dumbed down by the news business who are americans left to trust according to a poll conducted by an online men's magazine comedian jon stewart is the most influential man in america after eleven years on the daily show how four million voters bumped him up to the number one spot and i would be concerned if it was

past its first reading in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone is trying to whip up. a social mood to support that a spy scandal would have domestic implications if you if you create a scare but as i say that's just speculation. as it stands the only really important thing that we know about this story is what a bizarre thing it is indeed we're from the christian science monitor thank you thank you well could a comedian in america have more power than the president the majority of voters on an online men's magazine certainly seem to think so they selected jon stewart as the most influential man of the year in america and as artie's anastasio going to reports this saturday the funnyman will see if his popularity translates into political action. when it's an box get in the way of political promises were promised during the campaign change you can believe in right it wasn't change you can believe in in eighteen months when the media over with fear and anger. and the minds of a population are attacked with misinformation there's such a lack of truth

georgian opposition politician says any links to russia seem to be reason enough for prosecution by the leadership in tbilisi. charges. in this period which is always used in georgia. i do not think if these people. like you know to be. business. with georgia it's quite enough for georgia shows to make. and fred with from the christian science monitor says we could be seeing the true nature of the kind of state being run in georgia when someone is arrested they're entitled to due process that means they can call a lawyer that family members can be contacted therefore arrests are announced and it never happens i can't tell you how bizarre ideas to hear a police spokesman say. i can neither confirm nor deny that arrests have taken place secret arrests are the hallmark of a police state. you know there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service past its first reading in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is pos

georgian all georgians rather for spying for russia to d.c. has refused to either confirm or deny the claim. and the first ever joint u. s. russian anti drugs operation in afghanistan has been held a success forces have destroyed four drug labs in confiscated a ton of heroin worth over two hundred million dollars. well the us overestimates the threat of terrorism and therefore squanders billions of dollars on military operations abroad that's according to antiwar activist blogger and author tom engelhardt who's been speaking to archie in his interview is up next. sitting down with tom engelhardt tom dispatch dot com a blog described as a regular antidote to the mainstream media and author of the american way of war how bush's wars became obama's sir thank you for sitting down with us to be here at latest to start off by taking a look at the extent of the u.s. military presence throughout the world right now it's global i mean that's the first thing you can say the pentagon is a little hard to tell in detail the pentagon.

citizens however we're yet to hear any official response from the georgian sides over those arrests though we may not hear until perhaps november the fifth when the georgian foreign ministry has said that they will issue a news conference to talk about the situation that the georgians my daughter said anything but russian political figures have spoken out on the.

past its first reading of the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that some of this trying to create. a social mood to support. one of the country's opposition leaders says tbilisi uses the slightest link to russia as an excuse to prosecute. this kind of charges russian links russian ties russian is spirit is always used in georgia's political propaganda i just know anything about these people but i know that three in georgia it's a quite enough to be some holding three zero i sure know any spanish maybe sir but you for sure fail business in russia or you are family in russia and you are reading georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement off shows to make criminal you're scared about said. and in a few minutes the ethnically diverse iraqi city of kirkuk is a real tinderbox to take you want to leave to prevent the sites from becoming a hotbed for terror attacks. in brazil the incoming leader will have to deal with the enormous gap between the rich and the poor learned about their first steps in a few minutes on r.t. . the first ever joined us russian anti d

intimidation that's the treatment some georgians claim they're getting from their own government. and russia is staking its claim to parts of the resource rich arctic ocean the nuclear powered expedition scouring the depths of the northern front. around the world around the clock this is a good life from moscow security is being stepped up and campaigning is now for a bit in the head of sunday's crucial elections the vote will create a central asia was first parliamentary democracy you're going to is going to reports on why the authorities believe taking power away from the president is necessary for the country's stability. this is truly a crucial vote because it's meant to end instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so. has been plagued by violence and course of the current. where we are now are among the most affected areas and there are fears that this violence could flare up once again during the election the former soviet republic has been struggling to achieve normality since former president. was overthrown from power in deadly street pro

past its first reading of the georgian part of the recently and it is possible that some of this trying to create. a social mood to support. one of the country's opposition leaders says tbilisi uses the slightest link to russia as an excuse to prosecute. kind of. russian links russian ties russian that spirit is always used in georgia's police. i just know. these people but i know that it's quite you know to be holding. your spinach may be true but if you if you feel the. same. georgia it's great for georgia shows to make. it and coming up on our team scouting for bombs to soldiers wait sentencing for using a palestinian child as a human shield and forcing him to check for explosives while his family dog. in brazil the incoming reader will have to deal with enormous gap between the rich and the poor going about their first steps in a few minutes on our team. the first ever joint u.s. russian drug stop or a shin in war torn afghanistan has been hailed a success special forces knocked out four drug labs afghan border with pakistan and confiscated a ton of heroin worth hundreds of millions

and are suspected of being part of a spy network gathering information from moscow the georgian interior ministry has so far refused to comment and says it won't do so until next week russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said moscow was not aware of any details that there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries experts say to relief invasion shows how authoritarian the country is. when someone is arrested they're entitled to due process that means they can call a lawyer that family members can be contacted therefore arrests are announced and it never happens i can't tell you how bizarre idea is to hear a police spokesman say. i can neither confirm nor deny. that arrests have taken place the secret arrests are the hallmarks of a police state there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service past its first reading of the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone is trying to whip up. a so

plus the kickbacks rocketeer in corruption and intimidation that's the treatment some georgians claim they're getting from their own government. live from our studios in central moscow this is the twenty four hours a day security is being stepped off and campaigning is now a big stand ahead of sunday's elections the vote will create central issues first parliamentary democracy. reports why the authorities believe taking power away from the president is necessary. this is truly a crucial vote because it's meant to and instability and political chaos in the country for the past half a year or so kyrgyzstan has been plagued by violence and the salan parts of the country where we are now are among the most affected areas and there are fears that this violence could flare up once again during the election the former soviet republic has been struggling to achieve normality since former president. was overthrown from power in deadly street protests across the entire country specially in the capital bishkek violent riots left dozens of people dead and put the entire country in a state of chao

you know there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service it passed its first reading in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone was trying to . a social mood to support that. george's opposition politicians are also condemning the authorities actions and the country's conservative party here says and to russia seem to be enough to bring a prosecution by the police leadership. kind of charges russian links that are sometimes fresh in the spirit which is always used in georgia police. i do not think about these people but they know that it's like you know the whole thing results. in which may be true but if you do business you rush to your favor with georgia it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement officials to make clear. that. and a georgian opposition leader there speaking from tbilisi now could look at hatto what else is coming up in this hour here in our team hiding behind a chil

the georgian opposition leader there speaking from tbilisi. and all the way here in our team a few minutes it's frightening i get ready to find out how the celebrations halloween is celebrated in the russian capital. russia and the us are celebrating their first joint victory in a war in afghanistan opium trade on thursday their operatives destroyed four drug producing labs in the country and seized a ton of heroin afghan president hamid karzai has denounced the operation saying it violates his country's sovereignty but russian officials say they are puzzled by the statement as everything had been agreed with the afghan interior ministry in advance of a drug raid marked every turn of russian special forces to afghanistan over twenty years after soviet troops left them for some the fact that moscow had to step in and give the us a push in the right direction came as a complete shock. and now reports. poured. this one verse one this one this one. and this one lost his leg. and you got a mush is showing his corporate skilled in the soviet war in

you know there is a new law before the georgian parliament which is called the freedom charter and it's something akin to the patriot act in the united states it will drastically increase the powers of the security service it passed its first meeting in the in the georgian part parliament recently and it is possible that someone is trying to whip up. a social mood to support that. georgia's opposition politicians are also can damning the authorities actions the country's conservative party leader says any links to russia seem to be enough to bring in prosecution by the tbilisi leadership kind of charges russian links russian ties russian experience is always used in georgia's police gunned i just know it's not him think it both these people but they know this stranger it's like you know to be some whole thing these are. knowing is being each may be there but if you do business you russia or you feel your family in the russia you are with the judge it's quite enough for georgia law enforcement of shows to make criminal use it. a georgian opposition leader speaking from tbilisi on the way

which has been no official response as they say from the georgian side.

georgian opposition leader there speaking from tbilisi. now a quick look ahead of what else is coming up in this hour on our t.v. hiding behind a child's back. to meet a palestinian boy used as a human shield during the gaza war two years ago. russia and the u.s. are celebrating their first joint victory in the war in afghanistan's opium trade on thursday their operatives destroyed four drug producing labs in the country and seized a ton of heroin afghan president hamid karzai has denounced the operation saying it violates his country's sovereignty but russian officials say they are puzzled by the statement as everything happened in green with the afghan interior ministry in advance of the drug raid marked their return for russian special forces to afghanistan over twenty years after soviet troops left and for some the fact that moscow had to step in and give us a push in the right direction came as a complete shock because you know her child reports. it to the board. this one this one this one this one. and this one lost his leg and he go

the georgian government to confirm or deny those reports as of yet. they have said the georgian foreign minister has said that they will be holding a news conference on the fifth of november to talk more about the scituate.