has more of a glimpse into the way it really is on the battlefield now made more clear by the release of more than ninety thousand secret documents on wiki leaks dot org. they paint a portrait of an afghanistan aided by pakistan which is supposed to be helping the u.s. government they also demonstrate a point u.s. senator john kerry sums up the also calling the leaks unacceptable and illegal that after nearly nine years of war more than a thousand american casualties and billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars. the taliban. appear to be strong as they have a stronger enemy means experts on policy in the middle east are calling for a stronger strategy asking for more time i think the first time we ought to do is to stay is to stop talking about twenty eleven and start talking about twenty four tane and more resources the second they were need is

a big tactical hit on the taliban dr david kilcullen a counterinsurgency expert says in other words you have to do a lot of damage on the taliban before they'll be willing to talk a strategy that may sound familiar more money more troops and more time and if you do well there's no guarantee anything will change is it possible that this war is just unwinnable but certainly possible the thing is we want to know until we get to the point where we begin to pull out and we see if the afghan government is sustainable it looks rather that significantly break from the one president obama announced in december and what lawmakers say they are listening to many do not like what their hero now what point do we say that we camps we can't make this work u.s. senator ted kaufman not accepting the familiar strategy i'm not for spending one more dollar and one more american life until we have a conviction that we can get governance that's good enough this is not about

resurrecting afghanistan with all due respect i care about afghanistan but the standard is not that we leave something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have carmen's that is good enough we should leave that day a pushback while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine frizz now r t. and staying in the us were the anti muslim sentiment from the immediate aftermath of nine eleven lingers on and some worry it's innocent muslims going about their lives falling victim to media scaremongering r t is an associate you're going to take a look at how is the religion of islam turned into a source of fear in the us well the american media has been doing a heck of a job if you will in phobias to me that you are not. working with our enemies have had enough some of bin laden became the poster boy for all muslims

or a billion muslims in the world this one guy symbolized all those all muslims for most americans because americans are so politically and educated unaware of what's going on in the rest of the world our t.v. doesn't report it our schools don't teach about it the latest estimate from the council of american islamic relations says there are seven million muslims currently living in the u.s. there are no exact numbers available however the american census bureau does not collect data on religious identification but this identifying yourself with a religion or rather standing behind it is exactly what seems to have been spreading paranoia across the united states islamophobia as a term became commonly used in the u.s. only after the attacks of september eleventh that brace's him is alive well and kicking with its main focus now on muslims i think you have to nine eleven is when

the big shift happened because. nine eleven was largely about demonizing muslims and the recurring images that we get every couple of months of a new car bomber or an underwear bomber or. the impression is that muslims are crazy. the popular impression over half of american muslims reportedly believe that the u.s. government's anti-terrorism policies have been singling them out twenty five year old mohammed says he's stereotyped every single day of his life you go to work as a check your name any name is more like you know skip you like to read a hard to the next person instead of you basically sometimes like when i travel like you know an airport and all that like you get double check because of the name and i. a wave of protests has taken place in new york the muslim

community once just to their religious holidays to be days off in schools only today i mean if christmas holiday to get a ten day break why cannot we have today it's elementary i want the school system michael bloomberg. the chancellor klein here close to educate the schools. here they have the abilities they have the power they can do it if they wish to because the muslim kids are as much as part of this community as everyone else to many this non inclusion in the education system is just the tip of the iceberg projects to build a number of mosques around the u.s. . whatever skeletons of intolerance by remaining in the closet we're going to use a simple search system to try to see exactly what the deal is with the number of mosques in new york compared to locations representing other religions this is what you get for catholic churches all of these red dots right here this is what you get

for synagogues in new york and this is what you get for mosques a staggering difference that really speaks for itself a planned islamic center and mosque just steps away from ground zero is the biggest such project fuelling resistance right now nobody in their right minds would have any problem with that but of course. the. including people who've been brainwashed by the nine eleven inside job and the people who are history that are going to make sure that there is a lot of controversy about it the belief is growing that when islam does turn radical it's because us foreign policies create a vicious circle eighty percent of the soldiers in iraq were asked why are you here they said payback on nine eleven you know even though iraq had nothing to do with lebanon a person is radicalized not by the ideology of it but by american u.s. foreign policy and this is actually the objective of the quote unquote terrorists

if you will to get the west to show its true face in the international arena to show itself as an imperialist power to show itself as an ideological power that is false and so the more they suppress domestic rights the more they are exposed for each and every muslim to see and the more muslims will take the view that we are at war with the west hundreds of hate crimes have been committed since nine eleven and the end of the decade of fear is not yet in sight. new york and the u.s. congress has been asked to give the green light to an israeli attack on iran nearly one third of house republicans expressed support for a measure of backing a military strike against the islamic republic iran expert trita parsi from the woodrow wilson center for scholars says the move sends a dangerous signal. there has already been signs that is was going to be a major element that some republicans will use to be able to get both voters as

well as finance donations to campaigns away from the democrats but the problem is that this is not a theoretical exercise at the end of the even silly season has real repercussions in the real world and the danger here is the signal is being sent to israel that actually if we were to take this action in spite of the fact that the white house has sent a clear signal supporting congress at least if the republicans take over and take take over are sending a signal that actually they would welcome it i think it can be seen as an encouragement for various reasons one being that this is essentially a preemptive greenlight this is not a situation in which the israeli government had made a decision to do it then afterwards u.s. congress comes out in a support of it but this is actually in advance of that coming out and saying we would support that so that is a little bit different and can be interpreted as an encouragement later parallel and he's crossed our guest discuss whether israel's policies towards the

palestinians are stirring terrorism in the greater middle east. there are going to be a million two hundred thousand palestinians living with the in one nine hundred sixty seven so are we suggesting that there should be a transfer of population bilaterally and that the palestinians that are living increase sixty seven israel should be transferred to the west bank today in some area and. you know jay and then that's how you do you know do you find israel that may not necessarily coincide with international or robert and you know i don't think i've ever come across someone that knows the greater middle east better than you do tell me in your opinion after what thirty four years of living in the region if the palestinian issue resolved with dignity with justice how would that change the face of greater middle east politics in your opinion. it'd be like spraying water on al qaeda i think it would start to wither because the idea of injustice is what feeds these vicious warriors in afghanistan and pakistan in iraq.

how much crosstalk in just over an hour here on our team. now every year thousands of vulnerable elderly people across the world fall victim to abuse while in care however in the czech republic many feel that their government is turning a blind eye to the ugly statistic but as reports the country's first helpline for the elderly could offer some hope most arrive at this care home in suburban prague are no longer able to survive on their own. money have no close family. pension goes on pay medical bills their lives aren't oily in the hands of the carers independent charity say that up to twenty percent of elderly checks have been subject to abuse they say that the country has simply failed to acknowledge the problem the abuse is both for the call and mental that happens at homes and

institutions which cover my grandmother was turned to the bed naked and covered in her own excrement she said the nurses dropped the bed under her got angry and just slapped her there telling her to behave when i found the chief nurse she said my grandmother had been bad and we could take her home if you wanted. ninety eight to change attitudes it's the country's first telephone hotline for the elderly responding to dozens of pleas for help. the quote that he said when i was pleased in gear home i say my flight over to my son but he promised to take me to my country house during the summer months but he didn't win a from the house some people have never met answered saying they have no idea who i am growth. the hotline's founder believe that with the health care system inherited from the communist regime and pensioners the other little economic power compared

to their counterparts in the worst older people will continue to suffer oh here. the people working at the institutions want to decrease their workload even if this means that the pensioners themselves are restricted in what they do but the problem is wider than that there is little concept of the rights of older people are doing . stuff here say several unfortunate cases of cast a shadow on a difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and have penalized the worst care homes available for things are not nearly as bad as they were even three years ago we have a place just ordinary housewives working here with trained nurses where changing here there is little doubt that the czech republic lags behind western europe in how it treats its senior citizens and any improvements may be too late for some eager and nerve of see prague. the pentagon has lost track of almost nine billion

dollars which was meant to be spent on reconstructing iraq that's ninety five percent of the money given to the development fund the american military was given the money raised from the sale of iraq a gas and oil by the un after the invasion in two thousand and three a u.s. audit found for control over where the assets were spent in a country still suffering a lack of electricity and other basic services former cia analyst ron government says the lack of oversight needs further investigation there were doubtless people who were supposed to be supervising overseeing these funds the fact that as it's said here that they have sort of disappeared and that they were liable to have been per law and you know that's no explanation and we have to find out who provided them and what happened to these funds you know most reminds me of of the search for weapons of mass destruction in iraq the so-called b m d's judging from who didn't

get sacked last time there probably will be people promoted despite all this doesn't seem to be much in the way of accountability here since specially in the pentagon where money has always been so plentiful that a billion here a billion there nine billion billion is a drop a drop in the lake or what the pentagon spends now to the degree that the mass media choose to play this up well then you will get a lot of very angry americans americans angry at the expenditure of funds in this way abroad and in iraq. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two and a half fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say

after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good. former cia analyst roy mcgovern there and our website or two dot com has a lot more for you to check out and here's a taste of what's streaming there right now. russian american drug police busted a trafficking ring involving a show man and a corrupt officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last days of sham psychics will call on their trust in clients out of thousands of dollars more had to r t dot com. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and an air blue passenger plane reportedly carrying one hundred fifty two people has crashed into hills close to the pakistani capital islamabad rescuers are trying to reach the scene but roads in the region are difficult to navigate due to recent rainy weather and initial reports suggested a much smaller plane had gone down. low john b.p.

suffered a record loss of seventeen billion dollars in the second quarter of this year in the wake of a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico you know when cayless b.p. boss tony hayward took the decision to step down and bob dudley will replace him as chief executive of tolbert while hayward's expected to be offered a new role with a joint venture between b.p. and the russian oil company t m k. south korea and the u.s. are holding joint military drills for a third day in the sea of japan the exercises have already involved locating and destroying potential submarine attacks off the korean peninsula the north was accused of sinking its saab belonging to south korea in march something it denied pressed anger at the war games threatening physical response. not even siberia usually associated with freezing temperatures and icy landscapes has escaped russia's heat wave that's why families there there are taking a chance to head for the rivers to cool down and we stand with de france to the

city of bombs to have a look to. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surf and sun but in the summertime and the air to river the exactly what you get and it's hot very hot which means the boats are coming out so are the boating competition and all the beach lovers the family and friends let's go talk to some people. didn't people wait a long time for some or they always want to get away from the vacation but right now we've got great conditions for the. three thousand miles southwest of moscow you'd never know that these sweltering siberians will be running for shelter from the most famous winters in the world in just a few months. of this we work twelve hours a day here we have such a long cold winters that people just want to eat out their hours between three and eight o'clock can be a problem they're the hardest and that's exactly one of the people who are here at

the beach like one particular veteran of fifty siberian summers with no air conditioning or t.v. we're sure that it's impossible to stay at home it's two hundred a can believe in the flood there's just more air is been like this since may the climate is changing it's like say beer is becoming a part of southern russia weather experts say maybe not like southern russia but so far this summer siberia is pushing the thermometer in both directions of nature of what the situation inside beat is very diverse i mean both hot and cool records a neighbor agreement. between the cold center and the heat if you could hear its unique region in a way the contrast between summer and winter is overwhelming. we hit the road from the beach to find people working in this weather instead of just enjoying it after a minor setback when the cab overheated we found a farmer and his daughter toiling on their land twelve kilometers outside of town where the snows of the steps make way for potatoes the only right as you can see my

face it's very. more than thirty degrees quick and with writing that you can grow anything here if you've got the skills we have very good black soil and we have more sunny days than st petersburg. we found these old soviet river about right where the entertainer should be on a rivers meet. it's funny because heat in the countryside is so cycling you come back to town to get still equally as hot but the air coming off these rivers. still funny people are sweating here. gorgeous. and the captain agrees. everybody comes here especially in summer when the weather is nice everything depends on whether sometimes i make seven or eight trips a day yesterday we carried over eleven hundred people we have nice summers in siberia i've been enjoying them all my life and for the rest of this short summer

the people of omsk will be enjoying these record breaking temperatures before the evaporates and the winter siberian weather decidedly takes over. lindsey france r t and just ten minutes from now we're talking to an american rapper who says u.s. is losing its status around the world but first for that we'll talk to charles farley has got the latest business news good morning so what i would offer us this hour oh well for the first time since the beginning of the year low rates in russia are on the rise it's also the government warned the rights were too low given the risks in the economy we have details later in the program but first this hour is terry assumes robert dudley then headed to pay fled russia also to speak to the russian shareholders on tuesday he was declared the new boss of b.p. taking office and october and in a final twist the outgoing chief tony hayward may return to russia as

a board member of. the united unfed of reports. robert dudley has already earned his created for handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill the gulf represents one third of the company's oil and gas was and refineries and he's experienced in russia way to keep b.p. generates about a quarter of b.p.'s revenues and he should be well prepared to take over the whole company where she's likely true means central to b.p. strategy with analysts dismissing media reports that the company could sell a stake in its cash generator team t v p possibly to gas room or ross nifty tiki b.p. is a cash generator on an original investment of seven billion dollars in two thousand and three b.p. has already seen twelve billion dollars of dividends officially for the last. year reported for more than thirty five billion dollars of revenues and if they can stand alone. indeed is the largest piece of cedars in terms of revenues

and probably in terms of maybe dark and profit and of course think you please one of the largest cash sources for b.p. so obviously catching aeration now for b.p. is one of the problem of target countries are lining up to pull the barrels from b.p.'s flour the company has already confirmed that is looking to sell of assets with few details an ounce to exxon mobil and chevron now both in talks to take over the company but first things first to stop the leaking first asked to begin with to plug the well that's still not done yet we're still two to three weeks away from that even though the spill has now being contained it has not been plugged so the first order of things is to get the plug done second is to figure out how the reinvestment side going to be done and then it's a question of reconstructing and winning back the trust of the american people robert dudley has shown his skills at getting a good price when he's sold to masses of team keep b.p.

they're telling to. come in handy now that b.p. needs to raise cash to pay for consequences of its oil spill in u.s. waters the question is how much he has to dilute the b.p. brand in the process than any bit of a business r.t. a close contact b.p.'s new chief executive says b.p. is russian interests will be managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to me just speculation outgoing c.e.o. tony hayward is being drafted in to look old. chief executive of b.p. will oversee russia along with the board of directors of b.p. will make all the key decisions. i think that the fact that michael friedman apparently quoted bob dudley today in wonder or offer to help bob get his visa garamond car on another key. or partner here in k b

p said that they're working for to dudley's taking over as chief executive as well as tony hayward coming in as a member of the board suggests that. i think really signals that things are going to go reasonably well president dmitri medvedev wants a top new sources of finance diversify russia's economy he said investments along with business support services from role to accounting of a king to innovation correspondent and tie to have closer as the details. the meeting of the presidential commission on more devastation has shown that when it comes to venture capital investment in russia it's easy to say what needs to be done for them to make what has already been achieved so far there i would be twenty three venture funds working in russia with a total capital of two billion dollars which of course absolutely not enough for the country build a bit of a tech economy now president to decide that there is

a lot of hope to monta on the products on the market and he criticized the properties which are reluctant to take the risk and invest in innovation he proposed several concrete measures that are designed to or how make the bench of capital investment work in russia so. we need to develop the services needed for business accounting information and services it's also necessary to increase appear to small enterprises using grants and loans finance we need not only to attract foreign investment but also to develop our financial markets so that capital inflows stay in russian companies regardless of the situation in foreign markets. let's have a look at how markets a performing well they also yes talk of change is a frontier in moscow that is gaining at the start a trade off to finish tuesday session one percent in the bug top day no more than two percent turnover in asia shares a high on wednesday we'll take

a market charging ahead on solid cool things from canada the company has jumped by three point eight percent tonight in trading across the region a growing following of gains we're paying american financial sector have said it's gaining more than hoffman percent sound. and loan rates in russia growing for the first time since the beginning of the year russia's central bank says rights reached eleven the hoffa sent in june experts say banks hired to write songs that earnings of corporate lending to dip bias had competed to cut rights the first half of the year but in june the head of spec bank warned the rates were too low given the risks and the economy. that's all the business news for now we can always find more stories on our website called sash business.

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the stage has provided citizens with. rights of. up so the last couple of the taliban. like the one the government's instincts. the right luck. right. out of the killing and dramatic. welcome back to watching r t here's a look at the top stories the u.s. senate to studying the faltering campaign in afghanistan even as another thirty billion dollars extra funding is approved for the war that's despite the leak of thousands of documents detailing among other things

a cover up civilian deaths. the czech republic has introduced a hotline for its senior citizens in need of help and outdated health care system and poverty manny of the country's elderly are severe risk of both physical and mental abuse. and russia suffers from the worst heat wave in decades some areas of the country haven't seen rain since may with crops being destroyed by fires forest blazes have also engulfed several villages in central russia and cause a heavy small to hang over the capital. mostly headlines now america's failure to give results in a number of military campaigns at a cost of billions has damaged its reputation as a role model for democracy that according to one outspoken american rap artist who believes the country's image is just a facade. not that long ago.