christine for sound 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 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 the 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 us 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 convict. 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 believe something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have garments that is good enough we should leave that day up push back while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine for is now r t well the consequence of america's misadventures of brewers is that in the eyes of the well that's losing any real farsi is a role model well that's the view at least one else they can run for in the us he spoke. 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 it's just a 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 be can't be easy. or what else said we'll still have to say at a mountain out of time. you know every year thousands of vulnerable elderly people across the world for him to abuse whilst in cap however in the czech republic many feel that their government is having a blind eye to the problem because he got a lot of never ports 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 to acknowledge the problem the basis for the call and mental that happens at homes and institutions which got 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 abe's to change attitudes it's the country's first telephone hotline for the elderly responding to dozens of pleas for help daily. that he said when i was pleased to gear home i sent 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 made answer it seems they have no idea who i am to get us. the hotlines 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 cost to shadow all of difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and have penalized 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 and how it treats its senior citizens and any improvements may be too late for some eager and the party proud. so head to our program enjoying the summer and one of the coldest on find out how to play pool temperatures in the siberian. court and russia's far east has ruled out the internet provider bar access to. accusing the video sharing site of hasting extremist ideology the following question contained a nationalistic video titled russia rocks and the provider said the decision was absurd. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court your all of mankind is using this website and providers like ours don't

violate russian law which we're still being forced to close the website so that's how users can't smoke on and watched 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. event as risking his editor in chief of the private correspondence paper here in moscow says the case kids are far reaching consequences. it's a big issue it's always sure that it's becoming a national issue it's becoming a global issue as well because basically any court can suspect and access to you tube this means that you tube is not a company that can operate in russia so i think if this is this is said so you know on the first case basis this sets the op the procedure for the user generated content websites how they can defend themselves in court and what is the you know

what is the procedure to say to settle this sort of the show and i think that you do have as been doing so much to prevent this that even it made life hell for many of its media partners for example chessboard old are you with a 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 those star channel and believe that you do best being very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody still don't bring a case against them. but you can call it has refused to extradite former bolton a president of damage to sabia where he's wanted on war crime charges the london

judge said there was evidence a trial could be politically motivated little the damages the kings of ordering the deaths of more than four you guess all soldiers in sarajevo at the start of the bull's new war in one thousand nine hundred eighteen the sixty four year old was seized at london's heathrow airport in march. seems an international arrest warrant carnage and denies being responsible for the atrocities we should govern innovation experts on the balkans said that the former meta should stand trial in his own country. it would be best if boss niram caught trying to mr garniture because this after all occurred on the territory of bosnia and herzegovina and in fact it should be a responsibility of the bosnian government and the boston institutions to try mr graham or if not mr garnish 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.

that our website r.t. dull corn there's also a lot more for you to check out of course here's just a taste of all streaming there at the moment russian and american drug police busted at trafficking ring involving a showman and what officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last day of sounds psychic seem calm that substance clients out of thousands of dollars for more heads to calm. now despite the sweltering heat thousands of orthodox believers have gathered in the creating capital to celebrate the historic baptism of old russia patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia led a religious service in kiev where more than a thousand years ago scores of russians turns to author of christianity and if he had a chance is there for us. i'm now standing just meters away from where the orthodox

christianity started in this part of the world back then it was called and in one thousand nine hundred eight 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 crowd of christianity in this part of europe now. now ukraine now key it is the capital of solver in 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 as present even today if in june and to this day 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 official state holiday but they are acutely ill of the russian orthodox church is on a weeklong visit now to ukraine which is common a did 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 usually good ministration now with victory on a government office they're moving towards each other and the fact that millions of worshippers are greeting but they are to deal 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 and the u.s. congress has been to give the green light to israel. and he won't quote a powerful republican expressed support from minute she strike against the islamic republic iran expert posting from the woodrow wilson center for scholars who send the signal. 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 that signal is being sent to israel that actually if it 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 signals opposing it congress at least if the republicans take over or even 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. well let's have a valentine's cross talk guest whether israel's policies towards the palestinians and terrorism in the great seven. 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 that today it's ok well you know i you know jay and then i don't see how you did you know i don't know how 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 were resolved with dignity with justice how would that change the face of

greater meet middle east politics in your opinion. it would be like spraying water on al qaida i think our car would start to wither because the idea of injustice is what feeds these vicious warriors in afghanistan and pakistan in iraq. to watch crosstalk in just fifteen minutes time here on r.t. now to tackle some of the international news this hour and every passenger plane crashed into hills outside the pakistani capital islamabad killing all of hundred and fifty two people on board the jet went down after losing contact with air traffic control minutes before it was due to land it was flying from karachi to islamabad us. 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 your thoughts

and say that they still don't know whether anyone was killed reports suggest the blast was caused by gas leak and the fact is nary a one hundred meters around the building. in baghdad these the neighborhood of south of the city at least six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a car bomb explosion at the source that happened you are stating bank where were time i resolved to collect pensions one security official was among the dead were there were also reports of a second blast but no one was injured in that one. not even siberia usually associated with freezing temperatures slicing landscapes has managed to escape russia's heat wave and that's why families there are taking the chance to head for the rivers that cool down and we said in the france to the sea to have a let's say. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surf and sun but in the summertime and the irritation river that 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. people with a long time for summer they always want to get away from the 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 with all of this 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 there are the hardest 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. work sure that it's impossible to stay at home it's two hundred a can believe in the flood there's just no ear it's 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 the thermometer in both directions of nature of support the situation in siberia is very diverse i mean both hot and cool records and they are broken because located 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 the right as you can see my face it's very hot now more than thirty degrees quick and we're fighting. 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 riverboat right where they care to shimmy all made of rivers meet it's funny that heat in the countryside to sell stifling you come back to town to get still equally as hot but the air coming off these rivers is. still funny people are sweating here. gorgeous. and the captain agrees you through what 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 i hate that is the way the news this is our whole take away all the business in

just a few moments is to me. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. hello welcome to the faces but i said hello not it's two years since robert dudley then head of b.p. and fled to russia after

a dispute with russia held us and on tuesday he was declared at the new boss of b.p. taking office in october and in a final twist the outgoing head tony hayward may return to russia as a board member and k.p. seen as in the reports. robert dudley has already earned he's created for handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill the gulf represents one third of the company's oil and gas wells and refineries and he's experienced 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 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 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 of dividends officially for the last year he reported for more than thirty five billion dollars of revenues and if they can

stand alone. he 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 be one of the promised 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 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 been 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 sold upstream assets 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 brand in the process than any bit of a business r.t. a close contact of b.p.'s new chief executive since b.p. is russian interests will be managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to media speculation that outgoing c.e.o. tony hayward is being drafted in to look after. 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 and one didn't offer to help

bob get his visa garamond com another key. partner t. and 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. now let's have a quick look at how the equity markets are shaping up the footsie has raised as modest gains the index is being led lower by fools in utilities and technology stocks higher then following a slew of quarterly results a just b. c. is the top grade on the put sea of more than one percent this hour. on both the russian forces the negative of the earlier games and leading the declines on the mindsets of the energy stocks with gazprom a rotten after all retreating coral county is the biggest gainer we're going to present it's in the news after the chemical company announced billionaire soon in

monaco is seeking to replace the c.e.o. of the for. russian companies have cut their reliance on banks for financing to the biggest greatest degree since the one nine hundred ninety instead that companies issued bonds and shares which accounted for seventy percent of corporate finance this year we're going to be broke that's up from forty seven percent two years ago the replacement of banks is sources of finance brings russia into line with developed economies where many companies raise finance directly from the markets russian corporate bond issuance has exceeded twenty two billion dollars so far this year with another twelve billion is still expected according to citi group. russia's largest producer of potash oral calley has plans to fertilise the world the company's co know the billion assume a man cut him off has plans to combine with his fellow russian rival he's offering a seven and a half billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in bother with county or cali is already in talks with

russian rivals in utah. russia's fight against corruption has resulted in bribes becoming bigger the interior ministry says the average bribe almost doubled in value in the first half of the year it now stands at around one thousand three hundred dollars one explanation is that the risk of getting caught to meet a smooth ride is no longer worthwhile most bribes of paid when launching a new firm according to a survey by the levada center traffic regulations came second. and that sort of business news for now but of course you can always find with stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business. a

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a must see the documents exposing the minute she's been states as well as civilian deaths. the czech republic has introduced a whole ploy to help could see mysticisms who are being abused now take to the health care system and leave many of the country's elderly vulnerable both physically and mentally. and that access to the world's biggest a video sharing website has been restricted in boxes from overseas to the court decided you to post haste and file showing examples of extremism. now peter bell and his guests say israel's top picks in the west bank that's in crosstalk.