at twenty eight 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 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 it is 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 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 conviction that we can get governance that's good. no. this is not about

resurrecting afghanistan with all due respect i care about afghanistan but the standard is not there will be 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 south r.t. america's political landscape is a major thing for many musicians in the country take to the mike to voice their concerns about where the u.s. heading and encourage people to fight for what they believe that all she spoke to a rabbi who says that the country needs to drop its mosque and make reality not just the image it's trying to portray. 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

a facade of you know everybody is the makeup 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 it can't be it can't be easy. now what else to general still have to say in an hour's time ham on aussie. moving to other news now in a court in russia's far east has ruled as an internet provider should bar access to several websites including the popular video sharing site you cheap accusing them of hosting extremist ideology but the argument was based on the pedestal only of the nationalists video entitled russia for russians other sites affected allowed to

stream this content such as hitler's line count the prosecutor who filed the lawsuit said he was acting quote in the interests of russia but the internet provider involved called the ruling. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court all of mankind is using this website and provides like those don't violate russian law which we're still being forced to close the website so the toll users can slow going 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. for private correspondence paper here in lost. the case kid now have far reaching consequences. it's a big issue so although we sure it's become internationally sure it's becoming

a global issue as well because basically any court can suspect and access to you tube this means that you have to 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 up 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 us to settle this sort of the show and i think that you do it has been doing so much to prevent this that even the made life hell for many of its media partners for example chessboard are you with a website that i'm editing we have published radio using you tube channel also we've published video of him as demonstrations and actions etc and so many times. our video has been moderated out of you to so many times it's just telling the

goldstar channel and believe it you do bears being very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody still managed to bring a case against them. even as it was. the point i think correspondents of our. a lot to come here on the program. it's been exactly a thousand and twenty two years since russia adopted christianity now it's an official state holiday in both ukraine and russia we bring you the report from the cradle of orthodox christianity the ukrainian capital of kiev. a hotline for the elderly has been set in the czech republic following the disclosure of cases of abuse and neglect charity work many seniors are unaware of their rights and the cruelty of abusive carers. most arrive at 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 charities 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 situations which. 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. to change attitudes it's the country's first telephone hotline for the elderly responding to dozens of

pleas for help daily. the that is that when i was pleased to 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 or us. the hotline's founded 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 rights of older people or. staff 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. but things are not nearly as bad as they were even three years ago i have a place just ordinary housewives working here with trained nurses where changing. here there is little doubt that the czech republic likes to call in western europe and how it treats its senior citizens and any improvements may be too late for some eager and of prague. in the program a sizzling siberia. class is one of the coldest. find out what's boiling. to spain to the heart has to reach the wilderness and the great house it's a form of. he goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing where his street life and its banks.

american citizens can find a new. welcome to the. club so. it's provided citizens with. it's a pretty tough sell to feel. like . when the government since tanks. are going to kill an intruder. crosses the patriarch kirill has held a special service in the ukrainian capital kiev to mark the alabaster of the

baptism of russia this is he saw the beginning of christianizing should of the russian lands more than a millennium ago several thousand. came to take part in the celebration reports. now standing just meters away from where the orthodox christianity is started in this part of the world back then it was called key of rouge 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 is considered to be the crowd a lot of christianity in this part of europe now no 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 as present in the date of in june and now it's to 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 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 a 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 up to five years of being very strained under the usually good ministration now with the very unequivocal in office they're moving towards each other and the fact that millions of worshippers are greeting party are to deal all across ukraine is as 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. pakistani officials all the hundred and fifty sheep on board a passenger plane that crashed in hill surrounding of lamb about have died. five

survivors have been retracted while the air blue plane was flying from corruption for the capital of escalation is on the way to establish the cause of the crash. at least twenty five people have been killed after a bus has roadside bomb in afghanistan's numerals province dozens were injured in the blast officials say the passenger bus was travelling on a busy highway on route to the capital kabul president karzai condemned the attack calling those responsible the enemies of muslims. the parliament of the spanish region of catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting and alarm our decision the vote comes after one hundred eighty thousand people signed a petition saying it's an outdated and brutal form of entertainment and sports supporters argue it's one of the oldest traditions in the country and should be preserved the regional bow which is the first in main in spain comes into effect in january. north korea's repeating of calls for the u.s.

to drop what it says is washington's hostile policy towards pyongyang it comes as the u.s. and south korea conduct a fourth day of military exercises off the korean peninsula the war games are aimed at discouraging the dogs from any attack on the south a recent international inquiry into the sinking of a south korean warship in march concluded john young was responsible and accusation it denies. now what comes to mind when you hear siberia probably not sunny days crowded beaches and people eating ice cream to state school but that's exactly what you'll see right now is the sweltering summer he weighs even reaching out to russia's most remote regions and we sent lindsey france off to the city walls for some fun in the sun. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surface. but in the summertime and the air to the river the that what you get and

it's hot very hot which means the boats are coming out so the boating competition and all the beach lovers the family and friends let's go talk to some people. siberian people with a long time for summer they always want to get away from the cold mango invocation 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 they're the hardest and that's exactly when the people are here at the beach like one particular veteran of fifty siberian summers with no air conditioning or t.v. with 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 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 in siberia is very diverse i mean both hot and cool records in a broken located between the cold center and the heat of 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 hot now 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 sit pieces but. we found these old soviet river about right where the entertainer should be on a river as meat it's funny that 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 is cold it's. 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 evaporate and the winter siberian weather decidedly takes over. lindsey france

r t. of course we've got more people on a website just. for extras and all the stories that we're covering and of course present. on those that don't make it all right in the program well here's a taste of what's on the dot com at the moment i were all staying how do you keep a cool body in mali what even the tall mugs boiling in the sun they hate how you'll say and find out what all those are thinking. and discover how the shores of alaska were clinging to the russian empire long before the u.s. is in the past. r.t. dot com to check it out if you haven't done so already don't go anywhere now they've

got all the nation's business news coming your way now with stephanie good to see you and it seems that also dr there passenger numbers during the economic oysters people are now taking to the skies again yeah that's right alice according to the international air transport association international air traffic has now surpassed pre-crisis levels i'll have more in just a moment but first it's two years since robert dudley then head of b.p. fled russia after a dispute with russian shareholders on tuesday he was declared 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. 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 wars and refineries and his experience in russia where to keep b.p. generates about a quarter of b.p.'s revenues and she 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. indeed is the largest piece of cedars in terms of revenues and probably in terms of the dark and their profit and of course think you ps one of the largest cash sources for so obviously catching aeration now for b.p. is one of the product target countries are lining up to pull that barrels 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 asked 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 contained it has not been plugged so the first order of things 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 sold masses of team keep b.p. tell him to. come in handy now b.p. needs to raise cash to people consequences of that toil 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.c. chief executive says b.p.

has russian interests will be managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to me just speculation that outgoing c.e.o. tony hayward is being drafted in to look after b.p. . the 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. the fact that michael friedman appear we call you bob dudley today in wonder or offer to help bob get his visa garamond car on another key. or partner. so that they're working for to do 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. now let's have a quick look at how the acting markets are shaping up the footsie has

a race modest gains made earlier in the session indexes being level by forcing new tentative and technology stocks higher both following a slew of working with outs barclays is among the top green on the first three up more than one percent this hour. and both the russian forces are negative after earlier games leaving the declines on the my sector some of the energy names with gas on the roster after a three treating start is a graze the priest previous sessions games and is now shopping and maybe three percent. russian companies have cut their reliance on banks for financing to the greatest degree since nine hundred ninety instead companies issued 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 a source 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 still expected according to citi group. russia's largest producer of potash has ambitious plans to fertilise the world the company's current. the billion assume a month of has passed to combine with his brother russian rival he's offering seven and a half billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in better risk calley is already in talks of russian rivals so the need to. international passenger traffic has exceeded to pre-crisis levels the international air transport association says it grew by almost twelve percent in june passenger volumes are now around two percent above their previous session peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight association says airlines are recovering faster than expected but as is increasing twice as fast as in europe. and that's where the businesses are now but of course you can find more stories on our website that southie dot com slash business.

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it's. this is as the u.s. congress greenlights billions more dollars for the war in afghanistan some rule is that the new saying the funding will need to make people paying with their lives this comes just days after a top secret documents revealing military details of recruiting

a cover up of civilian deaths. access to know more you tube involves of russia's far east as a call pulls the plug on the popular video sharing site for spreading extremism the ruling was that based on a nationals video called russia for russians and affected all the sites of contents such as hitler. with the riff expelled with neglect and abuse in check retirement homes and you all line values to help where the government has failed reports suggest that up to twenty percent of the country has suffered some form of obesity and mental physical. ok these are the headlines here and now it's time for a sneak preview of the laces innovations and scientific advances in technology updates.