to pump another thirty three billion dollars into the afghanistan war that's despite the massive leak of classified documents giving a bleak picture of what sounds from happening there and critics suggest it's not more money that's needed but a massive turnaround in strategy christine prasar has more. 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 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 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 the 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 due respect i care about afghanistan but the standard is not that we have something better we just win 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 for sound r t. well the consequences of america's misadventures abroad is that in the eyes of the walden using any all forest he has a role model the view of one outspoken rocker in the u.s. who spoke to. i think america's nightmares

a mirror. a reflection of the ugliness we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know yet it's just a facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like 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 be can't be easy. on here what else general still has to say in just twenty minutes time here. every year thousands of vulnerable elderly people across the world full victim to abuse whilst in care however in the czech republic many feel that their government is turning a blind eye but as he got up never ports the country's first helpline for the

elderly could offer some help. to arrive at home in suburban prague are no longer able to survive on the. many 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 have simply failed to acknowledge the problem the basis both for the call and mental that happens at homes and institutions which. 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 hear home i sent my float 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 the answer it seems they have no idea who i am it's gross. 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. 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 rates of older people. starve here say several unfortunate cases of cast a shadow on

a difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and have penalise the worst care homes. but 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. either of the. prague. still ahead in our program enjoying of the summer and one of the place. tempestuous period. a course in russia's far east has wrong internet provider should bar access to accusing the video sharing site of stream is ideology the final question contained

a nationalistic video titled russia for russians the provider said the decision was absurd. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court all of mankind is using this website and provide just like cows don't file a trust. but was still being forced to close the website said that all users can't go in and watch the videos this is absurd according to this logic we have to demolish all buildings that have swastikas on the walls or when two people are discussing a bomb over the phone we have to take away the phones from all the people across russia. well even if that's not a ski he's editor in chief private correspondent in moscow says take a shit how far reaching consequences it's a big issue it's always sure that it's become a national issue it's becoming a global issue as well because basically any court can suspect and access to

youtube this means that you tube is not a company that can operate in russia so i think if this is this sets you know on the first case basis this 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 you show and i think that you do have as been doing so much to prevent this that even though it made life hell for many of its media partners for example chessboard are you the website that i'm editing we have published radio using you tube channel also we publish to be to your post at mass demonstrations and taxes etc and so many times. our video has been moderated out of you to so many times you just telling the whole show our channel and believe that you do best being very vigilant and i think it is

a big setback for them that somebody is still to bring a case against them. u.k. court to has refused to extradite former bosnian president i've guns to. war crimes charges the london jobs said there was evidence the trial could be politically motivated well daughter gallant is accused of luring to the deaths of more than forty yugoslav soldiers in some way gave a with the start of the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred eighty the sixty four year old was seized at london's heathrow airport in march after serbia issue no international arrest warrant gallant denies being responsible for the atrocities mission to govern over. in the balkans a former leader should stand trial in his own country. it would be best if. a court trying to mr graham h. because this after all are current on the territory of bosnia and herzegovina in fact it should be

a responsibility of the boss not the government and the boston institutions to try mr graham or if not mr garmisch to resolve this whole case it is a war crime it needs to be resolved in some way but it appears to me here with the british position is to run away from it and possibly whitewash this whole thing. on our website r.t. dot com have a lot more to check out here's a taste of all streaming there right now. russian and american drug police busted a trafficking ring involving a showman and a corrupt officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last days of sham visit for psychics rather trusting clients out barrels things of dollars from all head to antitoxin. despite the sweltering heat thousands of all the dogs believers are gathered in the ukrainian capital to celebrate the historic but is there more of old russia patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia little religious service

and here where more than a thousand years ago school the russians turned to all the docs christianity. is there for us. now standing just meters away from where the orthodox christianity is started in this part of the world back then it was called the key of this part of the world this land was called the key of rules and in one thousand nine hundred eight prince lemme took a first bunch of pagans into the 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 crowd a lot of orthodox christianity in this part of europe now know ukraine now key it is the capital of sovereign ukraine and here this day is being marked as an official state holiday but for the first time it is being marked in russia as well present even today if in june and now it's to this day to become an official state

holder in russia as well for so for millions of worshippers on both sides of the russian ukrainian border this is now an official state holiday but they are acutely ill 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 the relations between moscow and kiev have finally improved the five years of being very strained under the you could 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 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. the u.s. congress has been asked to give the green light to an israeli attack on a well known really one third of house republicans expressed support for

a measure backing a minute she strike against the islamic republic ironic but the woodrow wilson center for scholars says the move sends a dangerous think now we are reaching silly season in washington with the elections in november and for that there has already been signs that israel is 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 as a pause ago despite the fact that the military the united states has sent a clear signal opposing it congress at least if the republicans take over or 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. what i said piece of l. and his cross calls cross talk discuss whether israel's policies towards the palestinians are staring at terrorists. there happened to be a million two hundred thousand palestinians living with the in 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 that you dance ok well you know you know jay and you know you did you know how do you define israel that may not necessarily coincide with international

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 all resolved with dignity with justice how would that change the face of greater mean middle east politics in your opinion. it would be like spraying water on al qaida i think it would start to wither because the idea of injustice is what feeds the vicious warriors in afghanistan and pakistan in iraq. but you can't cross talk list over an hour's time here along see it get a check on some other international news this hour now and at least five people have been found alive after the arab league passenger plane crashed into hills close to the pakistani capital islamabad another forty five aboard and so these

have been recovered the jet carrying one hundred fifty two people went down after losing contact with air traffic control just minutes before it was to land the plane is reported to be an airbus a three to one flying from ground chief to islamabad. the chinese as 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 authorities say they still don't know whether anyone was killed or course suggest the blast was caused by gas leak and affected now we are hundred meters around the building. in baghdad seized in the neighborhood of the south of the city at least six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a car bomb explosion officials said how can we near a state owned bank where retirees were waiting to collect their pensions one security official was among the dead there were also reports of

a second blast but no one was injured in that one. and not even siberia usually is with freezing temperatures slicing landscapes has managed to escape russia's heat wave that's why families there are taking the tunnels to head to the rivers to cool down we sent in the frogs to the city of almost to have a look see. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surf and sun but in the summertime on the river the that's what you get and it's hot very hot which means the boats are coming out so the boating competition all the beach lovers the family and friends of people. here in people wait a long time for summer they always want to get away from vacation but right now we've got great conditions for that 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. we work twelve hours a day here we have such

a long cold winters that people just one toy out there hours between three and eight o'clock can be a problem they're the hottest and that's exactly what people are here at the beach like one particular veteran of fifty siberian summers with no air conditioning or t.v. would shoot the shit impossible to stay at home it's to hunt a can believe in the flood there's just no air is been like this since may the climate is changing it's like said beer is becoming a part of southern russia weather experts say maybe not like southern russia but so far this summer siberia is pushing through mom and her in both directions. the situation in siberia is very diverse i mean both houghton cool records and a broken. between the cold center and the heat of its unique region where 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. as you can tell by my face it's very hot no more than thirty degrees weeds are growing quick and we're fighting them you can grow anything here if you've got the skills we have very good black soil and we have more sunny days than cent pieces but. we found these old soviet river about right where they care to shimmy all made of rivers meet it's funny because heat in the countryside is so stifling you come back to town it gets 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. lindsay france r t. ok in just ten minutes time we're talking to an american rapper who says the u.s. is losing its status around the world because. there are making business for us a for the business desk hey good to see you again i also when it comes to cause russians that i'm not sure own way. lol in the car industry as a whole sales of luxury calls live bentley a lamborghini rose by more than the third in the first half of this year but more on this later in the program but first this hour is two years since robert dudley then head. fled russia after a dispute with

a russian shareholders on tuesday he was declared the new boss of b.p. taking office in october and in a final twist the outgoing chief tony hayward may return to russia as a board member. so you know it i'm afraid of 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 and refineries and his experience in russia where 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 is 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 and 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 b.p. so obviously catching aeration now for b.p. is one of the product target countries are lining up to pull the barrels from b.p.'s flour the company has already confirmed it 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 task to begin with to plug the well that's still not done yet we're still told the 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 in winning back the trust of the american people who are dudley has shown his skills at getting a good price when he's sold to masses of team key b.p. their 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 dilute the b.p. brand in the process in any bit of a business r.t. . a close contact b.p.'s new chief executive says b.p.'s russian interests will be managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to media speculation the outgoing c.e.o. tony hayward is being drafted in to look after a b.p. 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 appear we call you bob dudley today one of them offered to help obviate with these argument car on another key. or partner t. and he. 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. as i could look out the markets are performing in both the russian both of the sliding more than half a percent on wednesday afternoon leading the decline of the my sector the energy stocks or the gas problem rather than after the move or overtreating or carly's the biggest gain out more than two percent is in the news of the chemical company in elstree and they're still yemen farrell of seeking to replace the c.e.o. found in over in europe shares are also fooling with the dax and slipping into the

red this hour bucking the trend though banks have risen sharply this week on a combination of the prospect of looser regulation and earnings the higher again on wednesday with the m.p.c. power bar shares up three point four percent. russian companies have cut their reliance on banks for financing to the greatest degree since nine hundred ninety instead companies issue bonds and shares which accounted for seventy percent of corporate finance this year according to bloomberg that's up from forty seven percent two years ago their placement of banks is. sources of finance brings russia into line with developed economies where many companies raise finance directly from the market's russian corporate bond issuance has exceeded twenty two billion dollars so far this year with another twelve billion still expected according to citi group russia's gas group may assemble them a sadie's benz a class at this plant in the city of nizhny novgorod where it builds the volga model is in talks with di miller of the failing to reach

a similar deal with chrysler and in just tart up a talk center on the price of gas will get four assembling a car. and sells of luxury cars in russia jumped by more than a third in the first half of this year bentley and lamborghini other best sellers in moscow almost doubling their sales despite the italian sports car losing ground globally in contrast aston martin managed to sell just one car more than a year before. russia's largest producer of could touch or a collie as ambitious plans to fertilize the world the company's co owner of the billionaire three a man karim of has plans to combine with his belorussian rival is offering seven point five billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in bell over harley or will carly is already in talks with russian rival sylvie meter. not sure update for now my colleague stephanie monday will be here next hour to take you through the business for the rest of the day in the meantime you can always find more stories on our website r.t.

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civilian deaths. the czech republic has introduced a hotline to help it senior citizens human being you've used an outdated health care system in. many of the country's elderly vulnerable both physically and mentally. and access to the world's biggest video sharing website has been restricted in. a cool the solid cheaper to follow. some extremists of. america's a failure to get results of a number of military campaigns that the cost of billions has damaged its reputation as a role model for democracy into one outspoken american rap the country's image is just of the salt.