sounding the alarm saying the u.s. should pack up and move of the rules fast becoming on when it will crossing for. at tony 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 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 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 believe something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have carmen's that is good enough we should leave that day a pushback while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine for is now our t. . americas the political landscape is a major theme for many musicians in the country artists take at the mike to voice their concerns about where the u.s. is heading i'm encouraged people to fight for what they believe to iraq but he says the country needs to drop its mask 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're working with the united states government can't because it can't be easy. well what else general still had to say in an hour's time here on our say. a court in russia's far east has ruled an internet provider should bar access to several websites including the popular video sharing site you cheap bikies and then facing extremist ideology the argument was based on the pasting on you shiva nationalist

video titled russia for russians other sites affected users to read books of extremist contents of just hitler's mind 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 absurd. these decisions should be taken by all of mankind is using this website and provides lycos don't violate russian law which we are still being forced to close the website so that all 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. the editor in chief of the private correspondent newspaper here in moscow events and first believes the case could now have far reaching consequences. it's a big issue so although we sure 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 this is this is 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 you know what is the procedure to us to settle this sort of you show and i think that you do is been doing so much to prevent this that even if it made life hell for mediocre it's 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 that mass demonstrations and taxes etc and so many times. our video has been moderated out of you too so many times you just having those

start channel and believe that you do bears being very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody is still to bring a case against them. yvonne's also screw the editor in chief of the private correspondent. well that's open she's come on the program of course that's a big day for orthodox christians and russia and ukraine. in exactly a thousand and twenty two years since russia adopted christianity now it's an official state holiday in both sovereign ukraine and russia we'll bring you the report from the crowd of orthodox christianity the cranium capital of kiev. a hotline for the elderly has been set up in the czech republic following the disclosure of cases of abuse and neglect can say many seniors are unaware of their rights and fall victim to the cruelty of a piece of cameras that purports. most her rival 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 them it checks have been subject to abuse they say that the country has simply failed turk knowledge the problem the basis for the call and mental it happens at homes and institutions which cover my grandmother was straight to the bed naked and covered in her own excrement she said the nurses dropped the bed under her got angry and just slapped her there telling her to behave when i found the chief nurse she said my grandmother had been bad and we could take her home if you wanted. ninety eight to change attitudes it's the country's first telephone hotline for the elderly responding to dozens of pleas for help daily. the

quote that he said when i was pleased to hear home i say my flowed over to my son but he promised to take me to my country house during the summer months but he didn't win a from the house some people have never met the answer it seems they have no idea who i am it's girth. the hotline's founder believe that with the health care system inherited from the communist regime and pensioners they are little economic power compared to their counterparts in the west older people will continue to suffer oh here. we have 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 laws have introduce more independent care assessments

and have penalized the worst care homes available for things are not nearly as bad as they were even three years ago i 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 some eager and artsy prog. coming up in the program a sizzling big make name a stay while staying really is close as one of the coldest cults of russia find out what's boiling in just sixty minutes. into the casio the wilderness of the great town so from. now our team goes to central russia where the car industry is rapidly developing

where history finds life in it. and where american citizens can find and. welcome to the. club so. soon which brightened new moon about songs from silence to be sung. don't come. rushes the page carol has held a special service in the ukrainian capital kids some all the all of us who have the baptism of old russia the city saw the beginning of the christianization of the

russian lands more than millenia ago well several thousand orthodox when even to take part in the celebrations i don't think the reports. i'm now standing just meters away from where the orthodox christianity started in this part of the world back then it was called key of rouge and in one thousand nine hundred eight 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 of orthodox 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 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 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 the 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 archaeal all across ukraine is as is a good proof to that according to many experts so people are now celebrating and we see services are being held everywhere across ukraine and russia. pakistani officials say all a hundred fifty. pounds and a plane that crashed in the hills surrounding his love hours that died earlier reports claiming five survivors have been retracted the air blue plane was flying

from karachi bound for the capital an investigation is underway to establish the cause of the crash. at least twenty five people have been killed after a boss has roadside bomb in afghanistan's minerals 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 the enemies of muslims. the parliament of the spanish region of catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting in 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 the sports supporters argue it's one of the oldest traditions in the country and should be preserved. which is the first to 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 vassall policy towards pyongyang it comes as the u.s. and south korea conduct a fourth day of military exercises off the career been insular war games and just discouraging the north 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 an accusation it did not raise. i want comes to mind when you hear siberia will probably not sunny days crowded beaches and people eating ice cream to stay cool but that's exactly what you'll see right now is the sweltering summer heat waves even reaching out to russia's most remote regions and despite the devastating effect the whole weather is having in some parts of the country siberians are up for 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 people. 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. 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 to hunt a can believe in the flood there's just no ear it's been like this the climate is changing its likes a 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. the situation is very diverse i mean both haughton cool records and a broken. between the cold center and the heat of its unique region where the contrast between summer and winter is. 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 on the right as you can tell by my face it's very hot no more than thirty degrees weaves a 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 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 is 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. lindsay france r t. and of course we've got plenty more to keep your website just won't go any

time you light for extras on the stories that we're covering idols are going to feature is that all it in a way to the program well here's just a quick taste of what's on all seems ok here at the moment find out why georgian president mikheil saakashvili is refusing to apologize to the media accused him of making a strong. and discover how the shores of alaska were claimed for the russian empire long before the u.s. even if it is. that is the way the news leaks this hour don't go away though that is business news coming your way just a moment. for the full story we've got. the

biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our g. hello and welcome to the business bulletin the russian shareholders of t.i.n.k. b.p. thought they'd seen the back of robert dudley two years ago when a corporate round led to him quitting the country but now he's back as head of the global operation and that's how to hack over reports his rough ride in russia could not prove useful. the name bob dudley prompts mixed memories in russia his

departure from the post of t.n.t. b.p.c. accused of acting against the interests of russian shareholders back in two thousand and eight left a bitter taste but no one would underestimate his part in building russia's third largest oil producer nor his managerial skills is the right person for the job right now for b.p. clearly the situation to b.p. is in demand of a change at the top it's quite obvious that b.p. is not going to be able to address the problems in the united states with tony hayward still in charge so to that extent changing hayward was no choice. of course a lot to be made the fact that these american knows that region well but also you know the fact that he was the chief executive of b.p. during a very contentious period of that company's history in two thousand and eighteen that he has the right credentials perhaps to take on this challenge for b.p. particularly in the united states and the task is stopped dudley will have to

reestablish trust and drive the company back from the edge by raising up to thirty billion in funds but that's not going to happen by selling the russian assets russia is extraordinarily important to the p. from every perspective the financial results for the first you're coming out of p.m.k. today over two billion profit just sort of underscores. as a chief executive mr dog will have no choice but to spend considerable energy and effort there's no way this can sort of be delegated by actually was became kind of a scapegoat boy a lot of people. quite frankly for the dispute that he is now. taking over as captain of the ship and will be alternately responsible for b.p.'s posture policies negotiate. with the russian government supporters.

it will end up being one of the great corporate stories to be told as for the outgoing c.e.o. of b.p. tony hayward he's going to be nominated for board seat at t.n.t. b.p. analysts say the reshuffle will not recur until the dispute hayward suppose does not executive director won't require his presence in russia and any greater role for him in the russo british consortium has already been ruled out of business r.t. . the budget deficit in russia will be lower than five percent this year according to promise putin that's compared with an earlier for cost of about seven percent of g.d.p. the prime minister is chairing a commission to discuss the budget for the next three years the commission is to unveil the details of russia's biggest privatization in a decade to help cut the budget deficit two times over the next three years. and for more we're now joined by equity analysts from unicredit securities brad america's next of i've ever met thanks very much for joining me now what is it for

this sale how how do you expect the government to sell these assets and who will be the buyers. usual number they can try to find a strategic investor or an asset or you can. hold the northern option for you in case of. probably companies you can go for for a second the replacement case of. private companies who can hold an i.p.o. . i don't know what what option. the government chooses or probably it will decide on a case by case but. i would say that probably this is the most appealing way and in this case you can target. the local stock market only you can go for four long term investors or you can probably even go for hong kong.

but you mentioned the government possibly targeting strategic investors how lucky do you think that would be. depends on the company or will. probably it will be hard to find a strategic investor for the whole also have staked out trying to offer but some cases like the russian agricultural bomb it's their growth. and now if we're looking specifically at foreign investors what in what uncertainties are that. well first of all there's the. whole russian risk i mean the risk of investing in russia and the government the strength so well at least thirty billion of. russian assets that's one thing that's a that's a rather big sum of money. certainly the one to find. buyers and sell the assets at that truck price and i think that that's what they hope for. they should make the companies themselves more attractive for investors

in the walls of cases that will include. real improvement in corporate governance especially in some in. part cases like cross there. now which companies do you think are the most attractive if you would to sell them to investors which would you go for the. world the more. i would say. it's one of the most useless. so it's nine percent. nine percent of shares and more than three and it's probably six billion stick but i still think it's. rather easy to sell if you go for full overseas listing and launch the along the way that it was thirty six program it's all fine to demand for sure. other assets are also attractive for can be made to truck to government why some effort to this thank you brother and thanks very much that was agassi i'm liz from you

part of securities about america's self. and now let's have a quick look at how the equity markets are shaping up the footsie has a range of modest gains made earlier in the session utilities and technology stocks are down basic materials are not the only game that's u.s. stocks also differing on the wall street economic data suggest a slowdown in manufacturing growth on certain corporate reports are also weighing on confidence and here in moscow the russian bosses added that wednesday's trading session in the red to energy lead the declines on the my sex with john vause enough to retreat think was enough to raise the previous sessions games and losing of around three percent. i'm not sold the business years from now but of course you can always find with stories on our website. slash business.

culture is that so much going on there's a huge musician on your russian democracy bill bombing and it's making his public be mended fences with israel after the show and really isn't enough to restart what is called the peace process.

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after the top secret don't give it's really a minute she tells of including a cover up of civilian death. access denied mamal you volleys of russia's reeses a clue pulls the plug on the popular video sharing site for spreading extremism the ruling was based on an action this video. and the fact that the sites with content such as hit this morning come. with a riff of neglect and abuse and check ins in the hotline val's to help the government. fails pete suggests up to twenty percent of the people in the country have suffered some form of abuse. this. next debate program this time his guest discuss how peace can be achieved in the middle east and whether the israel's alliance with the u.s. is preventing that from happening.