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 stop is to stop talking about twenty eleven and start talking about twenty four tane and more resources the second they want it 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 it's 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 and a tragedy that significantly breaks from the one president obama announced in december and our lawmakers say they are listening many do not like 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. do respect and i care about afghanistan but the

standard is not that we believe 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 up pushed back while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine for example r t. the consequence of america's misadventures abroad is that in the eyes of the world it is losing any authority as a role model and that's the view of one outspoken rapper in the us we spoke to our team. i think america's nightmare is a mirror. reflection of the ugliness we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know yet it's just the facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like it's kind of like chaotic it's a lot of it's a lot of things that. obama has to face you know i'm not. totally

disappointed in him i think that as a as a as a person you have to do your best job and then you're working with the united states government can't do it can't be easy. and hear what else general steele had to say and in our here in 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 but as igor a garage in the free forts 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 almost their entire pension goes on pay medical bills their lives are entirely 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 perk knowledge the problem the base is both for the call and mental it happens at homes and institutions which cover my grandmother was straight 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 daily. that is when i was pleased to gear home i say my flowed 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 earth. the hotline's founder believe that with the health care system inherited from the communist regime and pensioners see of 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. stuff here say several unfortunate cases of cast a shadow on a difficult profession recent laws 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. yet there is little doubt that the czech republic likes peaceful and western europe

in how it treats its senior citizens but they proved once may be too late for some eager in the chilly. so i had on the program enjoying the summer in a one of the coldest places on earth and find out how people are coping with high temperatures in the siberian city of alms. now a quarter in russia's far east has banned access to you tube accusing the video sharing site of hosting extremist ideology the file in question contained a nationalistic video titled russia for russians was discussed this with ivan's a source he who is editor in chief of the private correspond news paper here in moscow if i can you hear me hello to you. yes yes yes well first of all i'd like to ask you what do you think of the prosecutor's decision to bring this issue to court . well i think i think it's a big issue i think that you tube has been ready for this and i think that you do

it has been doing so much to prevent this that even made life hell for media if it's media partners for example chessboard are you the website that i'm editing we have published a video using you tube channel also we publish to be your as demonstrations and taxes etc so many times. our video has been moderated out of you to so many times it should have been closed to our channel and deleted you do best be very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody still has to bring a case against them. well this is you know happened in the far east so do you think it's just a local issue or is it likely to affect the rest of the country in your opinion. well it's a big issue it's so always sure that it's become. internationally sure it's becoming a global issue as well because basically any court can suspend access to you tube

this means that you tube is not a company that can operate in russia so i think this is this is set so you know on the first case basis these sets that the procedure for the user generated content websites how they can defend themselves in court and what is you know what is the procedure to us to settle this sort of issue i mean you tube it is very vigilant there they have best intentions they are clearly headed to all that provocative stuff out of their website so i think the courts should basically leave that restriction once they settle the damage was once they remove the videos and drama and settle the procedure this would be what would happen in america let's say or in other countries so it is very interesting how it will look

in russia when i combine the global companies sees itself in the courts as some local this done courts that it has in no way do influence really well into it as we all know is extremely popular in the world and russia is no exception so hypothetically speaking if he was no longer available to ordinary russians how would their react. well i think that this is not going to happen and i think that you tube will remain available i think that the you tube should should ensure that by hiring the best lawyers they can so that they keep this thing in courts until they find a way to get out of it while iran last question i was last question that i wanted to ask you here is what sort of content in your opinion should be allowed to be posted on you tube. well you see this is. in my view any kind of content can be allowed to be hosted anywhere because content by

itself does not make things happen content is there for people to see and people who see the call and then there are the subjects that are under law are responsible for their actions that point of control should not be the where it should be the people as responsible citizens that under the war should act in the proper way. and respect the law so i don't even let me let me interrupt to hear a lot of people put some extreme. content extreme. videos there should be allowed to think. well let me tell you like this ok for the last five hundred six hundred centuries there is a battle there is a battle against censorship and the battle for censorship that is still raging it is just one more battle in this long war you know so this long war is still there

is still going on there are still people who believe that free expression should be allowed and there are people who believe that creates pressure should be curtailed so that it shouldn't hurt other people sentiments so in these in this long long war we are nowhere near the ending no where near all right just a risky editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper here moscow thanks very much indeed for sharing your views here with us on our team. thank you for. watching r.t. live from moscow now u.k. court has refused to extradite for a bosnian president to you guys to serbia where he's wanted of war crimes charges the london judge said there was evidence at trial kilby politically motivated is accused of ordering the deaths of more than forty yousaf soldiers in sarajevo at the start of the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred two the forty the sixty four year old was seized at london's heathrow airport of march after serbia issued an international arrest warrant got it denies being responsible for the atrocities

and we should get real rich political expert on the balkans said the former leader should stand trial in his own country. it would be best if boss knew him caught trying to mr ago because of this of total or current on the territory of bosnia and herzegovina and in fact it should be of the response ability of the boss no government and the boss no institutions to try mr government or if not mr gummidge to resolve this whole case it is a war crime it needs to be resolved in some way but it appears to me here that the british position is to run away from it and possibly whitewash this whole thing. and i was starting to com has a lot more for you to check it out and here's a taste of what's trending there right now. russian and american drug always busted a trafficking ring involving a show man and a corrupt officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last days of

sham psychics and there are trusting clients out of thousands of dollars or more head to our t. dot com. despite sweltering heat sow's of orthodox believers have gathered in the ukrainian capital to celebrate a storied baptism of old russia patron of moscow and all russia leather religious service in kiev were more than a thousand years ago scores of russians turned to orthodox christianity well we don't cross live here cesky is there for us. hello lexie so what's the significance of this day for both russians and ukrainians tell us if you will. well now standing just meters away from where the orthodox christianity started in this part of the world back then it was called the key of this part of the world this line was called the key of rules and in one thousand nine hundred took a first bunch of pagans into the deeper river here in kiev and baptized them to

become the orthodox christians the whole christianization process took several more centuries but still key it is considered to be the credible orthodox christianity in this part of europe now. now ukraine now key it is the capital of silver in ukraine and here this is being marked as an official state holiday but for the first time since june this year it is being marked in russia as well president even today if in june and this date to become an official state hold in russia as well for so for millions of worshippers on both sides of the russian ukrainian border this is now the. holaday. what we know that the head of the russian orthodox church paid her career as they are to market this holiday so how important is it. indeed as we know about the archaeal of the russian orthodox church is on a weeklong visit now to ukraine which is commentated today with the celebration of

the baptism of the key of bruce but despite what seems to be a purely religious visit it has received somewhat a political connotation here in ukraine some nationalist forces believe that the deal coming here is threatening the autonomy of the ukrainian church i'd like to remind to our viewers that a certain skill isn't in orthodoxy between russia and ukraine still exists as the russian orthodox church does not entirely control the church in ukraine it has its own autonomous church and nationalist ukrainian nationalists believe that q. deal is threatening the autonomy of its church they even went out protesting in the streets of kiev but unlike last year when his visit attracted thousands of protesters in every city where party out a deal went to this time their protest were staged only in the capital city of kiev and managed to gather only several dozen men but despite what seems to be a still a political issue the fact that the number of protesters has diminished for some

some believe that this is a good sign that the relations between moscow and kiev have finally improved up to five years of being very strained under the usual ministration now with victory unequivocal in office they're moving towards each other and the fact that millions of worshippers are greeting party archaeal all across ukraine is as is a good proof to that according to many experts so people are now celebrating and we see services are being held everywhere across ukraine and russia indeed some spectacular images there always here to ask you thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest on this occasion. and let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and at least five people have. found alive after an air blue passenger plane crashed into hills close to the pakistani capital islamabad and other twenty five bodies have also been recovered the jet carrying one hundred fifty two people went down after losing contact with air traffic control minutes before it was due to land the plane is reported to be an airbus a three hundred twenty one flying from paracho. chinese

state media says more than three hundred fifty people have been hurt in an explosion at a factory in the east of the country fifty of them are in hospital the authorities say they still don't know whether anyone was killed reports suggest the blast was caused by a gas leak in affected an area one hundred meters around the building you. 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 of belonging to south korea in march something it denied yang expressed anger at the war games threatening a physical response. the world giant b.p.'s suffered a record loss of seven hundred billion dollars in the second quarter of this year we know the wake of a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico came as b.p.

boss tony hayward took the decision to step down bob dudley will replace him as chief executive told work in a while hey words expected to be offer and new role in the joint venture between b.p. and the russian oil company for more of the story and watch our business bulletin and less than five minutes time. while not even siberia usually associated with freezing temperatures and icy landscapes has escaped russia's heat wave and that's why families there are taking a chance to head for the reverse to cool down and we sent lindsey france to the city of homs 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 on the river that's exactly what you get and it's hot very hot which means the boats are coming out so are the boating competition all the beach lovers the family and friends let's go talk to some people. didn't people wait a long time for summer they always want to get away from the vacation but right now

we've got great conditions for their. sister and cold somewhere usually around twenty degrees we have to the forest for strawberries and russians but in this heat where the beach to swim and sundays believe it there's no snow here in the summer sometimes in may but never in the summer. it's time for the yearly neptune festival where the people of omsk celebrate the god of the sea by bathing in the river. i've played neptune for several years it's my favorite role i lost weight for the show we do it every year the kids believe me and many families like this holiday and like to celebrate it so the music is still pumping the families are still out here but before this sun goes down we're going to head up river dinner on the water ready to go. child is here with all waiters business.

hello and welcome to the program. our top story this hour in two years two years since robert dudley then headed to repay fled russia after a dispute with russian shareholders on tuesday was declared the new boss of be paid taking office knocked over and it a final twist the outgoing chief tony hayward may return to russia as a board member. seen a timid vetiver reports. robert dudley has already earned his credit for handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill the gulf represents one third of the company's oil and gas was in refineries and his experience in russia where t.v. generates about a quarter of b.p.'s revenues and she should be well prepared to take over the whole company where she's likely true means central to the peace jirga e.g. 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 team

g.b. 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 from dividends officially for the last year he 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 the dark and profit and of course think you is one of the largest cash sources for so obviously catching aeration now for being one of the promised target countries lining up to pull the pedals from b.p.'s flour the company has already confirmed it is looking to sell the 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 ask to begin with the 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 been. taint it has not been plugged so the first order of things is to get the plug done the second is to figure out how the room best moments are 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 sold masses of team key b.p. talent will come in handy now that b.p. needs to raise cash to people consequences of its oil spill in u.s. waters the question is how much he has to be grand in the process than anybody with business r.t. . a close contact with b.p. is new chief executive says b.p. is russia interested we managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to me just speculation going c.e.o. tony hayward was being drafted in to look after. chief executive of

b.p. will oversee rush along with the board of directors of b.p. will make all the key decisions. i think. the fact that michael friedman appear we call you bob dudley today and want to offer to help bob get his visa garamond car on another key. or partner. said that they're working for two weeks so 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. let's take a look at how the market performing in both the russian forces returned negative after earlier games believing that because the lies sex and the energy started from was that the lukoil retreating or carly is the biggest gainer up more than two

point five percent of the chemical company and now the filina game and carry more is seeking to replace the c.e.o. . and over in europe shares a slightly higher as investors of the world cup days and chip maker unfairly in technology heavyweight bank than mine is a leading the modest gains which have also followed a slew quarterly results the world bank of scotland one with biggest game is on the footsie up two point eight percent. question companies have cut their reliance on banks for financing to the greatest degree east's nine hundred ninety instead companies issued bonds and shares which accounted for seventy percent of corporate finance this year according to bloomberg and that's not true forty seven percent two years ago their placement of banks as sources of finance brings russia into line with developed economies where many companies raise finance directly from the market russian corporate bond issuance of exceeded twenty two billion dollars so far this year the other twelve billions to. expected that's according to citi group

. russia's gas group may assemble the mercedes benz a class that is planned in the city of new as you know of course where it builds the volga model it's in turk's talks with dime well after failing to reach a similar deal with cries in just tart up the talk center on the price girls will get for some bling the car. and russia's largest producer of potassium carly has ambitious plans to fertilise the world the company's co owner the billionaire some gay man karimov has plans to combine with his a belorussian rival he's offering seven point five billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in bellerose tali is already in talks with russian rival sylvie meter. and that's all of business news for now but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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a massive leak of documents exposing the mildred's mistakes as well as civilian deaths in. the czech republic has introduced a hotline to help and senior citizens who are being abused now data health care system and poverty leave many of the families and elderly vulnerable both physically and mentally. access to the world's biggest video sharing website has been restricted in russia's far east accord decided youtube had a host of files showing examples of extremism. so the headlines here in our team and all the latest innovations and scientific advances in russia and technology update to go away. hello and welcome to technology update three d. no need to worry about the glasses.