violations during the campaign experts found indian law saying the u.s. should pack up and move the was fast becoming home winnable christine prospal reports late at told it 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 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 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 due respect i care about afghanistan but the standard is not that we leave something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have carmen's that is good enough we should leave that day a pushback while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine frizz now r t. america's political landscape is a major theme for many musicians in the country take the mic to voice their concerns about where the u.s. is heading and encourage people to fight for what they believe to rap he says the country needs to drop its mosque and make reality match 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 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 working with the united states government it can't be can't be easy. i have a general still have to say it around twenty minutes time here on. top of that he's out of course in russia's far east has ruled an internet provider should bar access to several websites including the popular video sharing site you cheap recusing them of hosting extremist ideology the only one was based on the posting on you

chief of a nationalist video titled russia for russians all the sites affected allows users to read books of extremist content such as hitler's mind can't the prosecutor who fall from will suit said he was acting quote in the interests of russia but the internet provides involved called the ruling of. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court your all of mankind is using this website and providers like cows don't violate russian law of which we're still being forced to close the website so that all 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. but the editor in chief of the private correspondent newspaper here in moscow even for those who believe the case can't now have far reaching consequences

. it's a big issue so although he's sure it's become an international 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 sets you know on the first case basis this sets the 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 settle this sort of issue and i think that you do it has been doing so much to prevent this even it 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 first mass demonstrations in taxes etc and so many times.

our video has been moderated out of you to so many times i'm sure telling those who are channel and believe that you do best been very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody is still to bring a case against them. even the editor in chief at the private correspondence paper. but of course and still plenty more to come on the program including it's a big day for all to christians in russia and ukraine. it's been exactly a thousand and twenty two years since russia adopted christianity now it's an official state holy in ukraine and russia will bring you the report from the crowd of orthodox christianity the cranium capital of kiev. the whole flight for the elderly has been set up in the czech republic following the disclosure of cases of abuse and neglect charity work and say many seniors are on the way with their wrongs and fall victim to the cruelty of

a piece of cara's it all reports. 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 perc knowledge the problem the basis for the call and mental it happens at homes and institutions which govern 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. the that he said 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 made answer it seems they have no idea who i am to get us. the hotline's phone they believe that with the health care system inherited from the communist regime and pensioners who have 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 or didn't. starve 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. yeah there is little doubt that the czech republic like special and western europe you know how it treats its senior citizens and i have proven it's maybe too late for some eager and chilly for all. coming up in the program a sizzling film i made a mistake while saying really is classed as one of the coldest parts of russia find out what's boiling in just a fever that. the state has provided citizens with. it's

a. tough sell to. the. other like. when the government. might lead. right. out of the current and dramatic. would be soon which writer if you knew about the sun from place to crash in the sun . starts on t.v. dot com. russia's paycheck carol has held a special service in ukrainian capital kiev to mark the anniversary of the baptism

of russia this is the beginning of the christian i think of the russian lands more than a millennium ago several thousand orthodox believe came to take part in the celebrations and the report. i'm now standing just meters away from where the orthodox christianity is start. and in this part of the world back then it was called key of rouge and in one thousand nine hundred eighty three 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 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 as present in the data 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 victory 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 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 say all a hundred fifty two on board a passenger plane that crashed in hill surroundings now about have died and. five

survivors trying to wear their blue plane was flying from ground to bound of the capital and the best occasion is under way to establish the quality of the crime. at least twenty five people have been killed after a bus hit a roadside bomb in afghanistan's province dozens were injured in the blast officials say the passenger bus was traveling on a busy highway on route to the capital kabul president hamid karzai condemned the attack calling those responsible enemies of. the parliament in the spanish region of catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting in a landmark decision the vote comes after one hundred eighty thousand people signed a petition saying it's an outdated and brutal form of entertainment the sports supporters argue it's one of the oldest traditions in the country and should be preserved the regional bar which is the first in mainland spain comes into effect

in january. north korea's repeated calls for the u.s. to drop what it says is washington's hostile policy towards iran yang 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 north for many attack on the south a recent international inquiry into the sinking of a south korean warship in march concluded pyongyang was responsible and accusation that developments. will later be developed at his crosstalk destine scarfs whether israel's policies towards palestinians are fueling terrorism across the middle east . there happen to be a million or two hundred thousand palestinians living within sixty seven so are we suggesting that there should be a transfer of population bilaterally and that the palestinians that are living in the seven. should be transferred to the west bank today in some area and that you know it's ok well you know jay and then i don't know you did you know how do you

find 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 is palestinian issue all resolved with dignity with justice how would that change the face of greater me middle east politics in your opinion it would be like spraying water on al qaeda i think it would start to wither because the idea of injustice is what feeds the vicious warriors in afghanistan in pakistan in iraq. what's the what's the latest edition of course talk in full in about an hour's time here and asking ok what comes to mind when you hear the word siberia well probably not sunny days crowded and people are seeing ice cream in order to save cool but that's exactly what you'll see right now is sweltering summer heat waves even

reaching out to russia's most remote regions so we said from all sides this is involves some fun in the sun. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surf and sun but in the summertime on the 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 of the topless people live those 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 that oh. 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 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 air 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 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 the right as you can tell by my face it's very hot now more than thirty degrees. growing quick and with financing 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 soup pieces but. we found these old soviet riverboat right where the air tear should be all made of rubber as meat it's funny because heat in the countryside is so stifling 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. it's gorgeous. and the captain agrees. everybody comes here especially in summer when the weather is nice everything depends on whether sometimes i make seven or eight trips a day yesterday we carried over eleven hundred people we have nice summers in

siberia i've been enjoying them all my life and for the rest of this short summer the people of omsk will be enjoying these record breaking temperatures before the evaporates and the winter siberian weather decidedly takes over. lindsey france r t. and we've got plenty more to keep you acquired on all websites of cool small gold anytime you like for the stories that we're covering and of course prince you but all in all the regular program as well that has a quick taste of what's almost to come at the moment for you find out why georgian president mikheil refusing to apologize. accuse him of making a great system all. to stop. playing for the russian empire before the u.s. even appears.

and a little later we talked to announce that he could wrap you singing of the change in the united states outside about ten minutes time from the album first of all a check out that he does business with stephanie. hello and welcome to the business but a ten it's two years since robert dudley then head of b.p. fled russia after a dispute with the 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 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 in refineries and his experience in russia where t.v. generates about

a quarter of the abuse revenues and he should be well prepared to take over the whole company where she's likely true means central to b.p. strategy with analysts dismissing media reports that the company could sell a stake in its cash generator team t v p possibly to gas room or ross nifty chinky 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 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 use one of the largest cash sources for b.p. so obviously catching aeration now for b. is one of the promised 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 task 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 the 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 who are dudley has shown his skills at getting a good price when he's sold upstream assets of team keep b.p. the 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 brand in the process than any

bit of a business r.t. a close contacts of b.p.'s new chief executive says b.p. has russian interests we managed directly by robert dudley that runs counter to me just back elation that outgoing c.e.o. tony hayward is being drafted in to look after. 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 apparently according to bob dudley do want an offer to help bob get his visa garamond car on another key. or partner. so that they're walking forward to. 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. on

a kind of look at how the actor markets are shaping up the footsie have raised modest gains made earlier in fashion the index by pulled him from the title of technology stocks back to some higher though falling asleep of course himself spartans is among the top names on the front seat of more than one percent and u.s. stocks are also dipping lower in how you trade on wall street thoughts after more disappointing economic data. showing a slowdown in manufacturing growth uncertain corporate results are also weighing on investor confidence and here in moscow both the russian forces are edging into negative territory in the last hour of trade leading the declines on the my sector some of the energy names with gas from the rest and ross left over treating us after the raise the previous sessions games and is now shedding more than two and a half percent. look court has agreed to buy its own shares back from conoco phillips currently the american company owns twenty percent in russia's oil major you quote will acquire almost half of this for three and

a half billion dollars the remainder of conoco stake will be sold on the free market by the end of two thousand and eleven it's all part of a plan to shrink liquids debt by selling ten billion dollars worth of assets conoco phillips has said it's struggled to profit from its investment in duke or because of the advantages given to state owned producers. russia's largest producer of potash calley has ambitious plans to fertilize the world the company's co one of the billion assume a monk has plans to combine with his brother russian rifle he's offering seven and a half billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in value of county or cali is already in talks with russian rival sylvie to. international passenger air traffic has exceeded to pre-crisis levels the international air transport association says it grew by almost twelve percent in ga passenger volumes and now around two percent of the pre-recession peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight the association

says airlines are recovering faster than expected hot air traffic in asia is increasing twice as fast as in europe. and not so from the business team for their support of course you can always find more stories on our website at www dot com slash business.

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it's all down here in moscow this is the u.s. congress of lights and billions more dollars for the war in afghanistan so no make is islam the move saying the funding would be to the people paying with the lines

this comes just days after a leak of top secret documents revealing military details of the war including a cover up of civilian deaths. access denied name or you change components of russia's far east as a cool pulls the plug on the popular video sharing site the spreading extremism the wording was based on the nationalist video called russia for russians that affected all the sites it was contents of just hit list my accounts. with the rest excels neglect and abuse and check retirement homes and you hotline val's to help but the government has failed reports suggest that up to twenty percent of elderly people of the country have suffered some form of a mental or physical. i want someone talks about rap the last thing that often springs to mind is politics but thoughts changing in the united states more and more all the becoming vocal about that country's policies are unclear.