org. they paint a portrait of an afghanistan aided by pakistan which is supposed to be helping the u.s. government and 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 the lawmakers say they are listening many do not like their hero now what point do we say that we camps we can't make this work 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 be something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have carmen's. it is good enough we should leave that day up pushed 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 it's not only politicians who are debating bills and policies in the us musicians are taking the stage to voice what they think should be done to improve the country spoke to a rapper who's encouraging fans to stand up to the government and change he says america needs to wake up. i think america's nightmares a mirror. a reflection of the ugliness we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know yet it's just a facade of you know everybody is the make up is there but behind the make up is kind of like it's kind of like 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 do it can't be easy. and hear what else rap general steele had to say in around twenty minutes from now here on. 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 tube accusing them of hosting extremist ideology the argument was based on the posting on you tube of a nationalist video titled russia for russians are the science affected allowed users to read books of extremist content such as hitler's the prosecutor he said he was acting quote in the interests of russia but the internet provider involved called the ruling absurd. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court all of mankind is using this website and provide this like ours don't

violate russian law but we're still being forced to close the website so that all users can't log on 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 correspondence newspaper here in moscow events. he believes the case could now have far reaching consequences. it's a big issue in so always sure there's becoming a national issue or it's becoming a global issue as well because basically any court can suspend 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 said this sets that up the procedure for the user generated

content websites how they can defend themselves and cord and what is it you know what is the procedure to us to settle this sort of issue 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 publish to be your first and 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 close to our channel and deleted you do bears been very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody still managed to bring a case against them. if answer is key editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper there are still plenty to come on the program this hour for you it's

a big day for orthodox 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 holiday in both sovereign ukraine and russia we bring you the report from the crowd of orthodox christianity the ukrainian capital of kiev. but first russia might not be quite at the top of a millionaire's list when it comes to choosing where to reside but each year increasing numbers of foreigners are moving in and among those settling are c.e.o.'s of large international companies and all of these countries are of reports now on what they find so alluring about life here in russia. lundahl civita russian style the media writes about it the people talk about it and very few actually live it and a lot of those who do aren't even russian this is moscow so-called golden mile where real estate is valued at around ten to twenty thousand u.s.

dollars per square meter is apartments are fitted with every gadget and have every conceivable comfort and are let to top managers from international companies who come to live and work in russia. but why do they come by and large moscow's a fast paced developed city but it still lacks the comforts the expert managers or you still so what brings them here. well first of all is the money moscow is considered quite dangerous by most of these companies so they get paid extra just to come then there's the income tax in russia it's just thirteen percent compared to forty in europe in the u.s. and of course it's the glamorous life they lead here the parties the duchesse the night clubs the country clubs red carpet treatment everywhere they go who can say no to that. the latest man unable to say no is former b.p. c.e.o. tony hayward in a somewhat news ical chairs move mr hayward will replace former. head robert dudley who will leave moscow for b.p.

headquarters in london the boss what benefits not just the ex-pats in the room they have until a village is built for them which if they choose to they don't even have to leave their every whim is created for including weekends floyd's back home and of course for russia this is quite a bit official as will the drill we expect the culture is very valued because it's to relates cultural growth. cultural growth there's somewhat doubtful though the top managers party with the best and keenly of void the rest including members of the press something that in their native europe or america would not be accepted well but here they set the rules. and everyone else watches on trying to peer in behind the tentacle ass of their motorcades. catarina. well still to come this. siberia make no mistake what you're seeing on screen really is classed as one of the coldest parts of russia you can find out what's boiling in

just a few minutes from now. a big day for orthodox christians as thousands are marking the anniversary of the power of old russian special services being held in ukraine's capital kiev by russia's patriarch kirill the city saw the beginning of the christianization of the russian lands more than a thousand years ago and it has more. 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 eighty 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 a lot of orthodox christianity in this part of europe now now 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 the five years of being very strained under the usual good ministration now with victory unequivocal in 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 as a good proof to that according to many experts and that was our. reporting from here in and in the ukrainian city of the celebrations of the anniversary of the

baptism of russia being mobbed by a lost in the church nine people reported wounded with the priests wife suffering the worst injuries ukraine security services say the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device and local reports indicate that the bomb was hidden in a poor soul near the church entrance. a hotline for the elderly has been set up in the czech republic following the disclosure of cases of abuse and neglect charity workers say that many seniors are unaware of their rights and fall victim to the cruelty of abusive carers. has this report most arrive at this care home in suburban prague are no longer able to survive on their own. money have no close family almost the entire pension goes on pay medical bills their lives are entirely 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 have simply failed to acknowledge the problem the abuse is both for the call and mental that 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 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 or us. 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. stuff here say several unfortunate cases of cast a shadow on a difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and have penalise the worst care homes have out of awful 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 the party prog. pakistani officials say all one hundred fifty two people on board a passenger plane that crashed in hills around islamabad have died early reports claiming five survivors have been retracted the air balloon 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 to be killed after a bus hit a roadside bomb in afghanistan's new province dozens were injured in the blast and 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 in the spanish region of catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting in the landmark decision the phone 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 regional band which is the first to mainland spring comes into effect in january. and also in our world update the north korea's repeating 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 north from any attack on the south recent international inquiry into the sinking of a south korean warship in march concluded that pyongyang was responsible an accusation it denies. while the sweltering summer heat waves reaching out to russia's most remote regions and siberia is no exception despite the devastating effects the hot weather is having in some parts of the country siberians a keen to enjoy the sun we sent lindsey france to check out the summer and one of russia's call this reaches. siberia may not be what comes to mind when you think of sand surf and sun but in the summertime and the river that's exactly what you get

and it's hot very hot which means the boats are coming out so the boating competition all the beach lovers the family and friends 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. we work twelve hours a day here we have such 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 who 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 too hot i can't 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 siberia is very diverse i mean both hot and cool records and they have broken homes because 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 only right as you can tell by my face it's very hot no more than thirty degrees weeds are growing quick and we're fighting them you can grow anything here if you've got the skills we have very good

black soil and we have more sunny days then sent petersburg. we found these old soviet river about right where the air to air should be on a river is me. it's funny because 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. still funny people are sweating here. gorgeous. and the captain agrees with 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. the france

r t. and we've got plenty more to keep your part on our website that's online all the time just log on any time not for extras on the stories we're covering at the moment and of course plenty of pictures that are in our regular programs you see here on screen now here's a quick taste of what's on our t.v. comedy moment you can find out why the georgian president mikheil saakashvili is refusing to apologize after the media accused him of making a racist remark. was online discover how the shores of alaska were claimed for the russian empire long before the u.s. even the piece. about look at our main stories in about eight minutes from now in the meantime it's the world of business with stephanie.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin robert dudley's return as head of b.p. well have come as a surprise to the russian shareholders of t.i.n.k. b.p. a clash over management style so dudley effectively pushed out of the country two years ago and as i tell you how to over reports his rough ride in russia could now 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 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 but of

course a lot to be made of the fact that he is american and 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 their company's history in two thousand and eight seems that he has the right credentials perhaps to take on this challenge for b.p. particularly in the united states and the task is tough 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 extraordinary important to b.p. from every perspective. from the actual results from the first of the you're going to. over two billion profit just sort of underscores. the chief executive mr dog will have no choice but to spend considerable energy and effort there is no way this can sort of be double gaited by actually was became

kind of a scapegoat for a lot of people. quite frankly for the dispute that he is now. taking over as captain of the ship and will be ultimately responsible for b.p.'s posture policies negotiate. with the russian government and its russian partners. 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. and always say the reshuffle will not recur the dispute they would 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 rolled out of business r.t. . russia's prime minister has chaired a meeting to cut the budget deficit many by selling assets the budget deficit in

russia will be lower than five percent this year according to vladimir putin that's compared with an earlier for cost of about seven percent of g.d.p. the government has cut the list of candidates for privatization dropping around the league and mortgage. companies are being paid for sale with the aim of raising at least thirty billion dollars to help that budget. we can do what the companies lycanthropes. the first one that can be easily sellable like for instance the banks take. the month should be huge and thanks for listening and the launch of the post there is this program probably so forth i p o is going to be a pretty easy. but. if you talk about the large states like ross nafs one and. probably of course going to be on them all need to be pretty large stakes so it's

will take some effort from the government but with serious effort so. from the companies make them sort of for investors you know to sell them at. a fair price. to pay the russian bosses and take what this day trading session and then grab the energy names and let the declines on the my second. gospel risk and ross left over treating with down around three percent oppose. us or conoco phillips is selling its stake in russia's independent or producer lukoil it's selling its entire twenty percent stake a loophole will acquire almost half of this but 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 conoco is trying to cut its debt but also says that its struggle to profit from its investment in luke all because of advantages given to state owned rivals. russia's largest producer of potash

overall cali has ambitious plans to fertilise at the world the company's co know the billionaire sulaiman have him off his plans to combine with his belorussian reichl he's offering the seven and a half billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in better risk coming or cali is already in talks with russian rival so benito. international passenger traffic has exceeded to pre-crisis levels the international air transport association says it grew by almost twelve percent in june and passenger volumes are now around two percent above the previous session peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight years so ca says airlines are recovering faster than expected but actually fricken asia is increasing twice as fast as in europe. and that sort of business use for now but of course you can always find more stories on a website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. top stories now of this afghan strategy under question as the u.s. congress approves billions more in war funding some lawmakers say they're signing off more lives with no end in sight is comes just days after

a leak of top secret documents revealing military details of the war including a cover up of civilian deaths. internet censorship in russia's far east as a court demands a local provider blocking access to you tube for spreading extremism the really was based on a nationalist video called russia for russians it affected other sites with content such as mine camp. with horrific tales of neglect and abuse in check retirement homes and you hotline val's to help where the government has failed reports of just up to twenty percent of elderly people in the country have suffered some form of abuse mental or physical. well when somebody talks about rap the the last thing that often springs to mind is politics but that's changing in the united states more and more artists are becoming vocal about their country's policies and are including their opinions in their songs hoping fans will join them in their battle to get a different point of view across that could change the u.s. when i spoke to one of them who says.