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 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 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 have something better we just win 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 south r t. well it's not only politicians who are debating bills and policies in the us musicians are taking to the stage to voice what they think should be done to improve the country well arty's spoke to a rapper who's encouraging fans to stand up to the government and demand 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 has 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 be easy. and hear what else rapper general steele had to say in an hour from now here on. an internet provider in russia's far east has been ordered by a court to bar access to a number of 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 title russia for russians other sites affected allowed users to read books of extremist content such as hitler's one camp prosecutor had for the lawsuit said he was acting quote in the interests of russia but the internet provider involved called the ruling absurd. but. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court all of mankind is using this website and provide this like cows don't fire

late russian law which was still being forced to close the website so that our 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 if you believe the case could now have far reaching consequences. it's a big issue so although we 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 would 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 these sets that 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 say to settle this sort of be sure 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 chess board 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 believe that you do best been very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody still managed to bring a case against them. events of ski editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper there well coming up on the program this hour a sizzling siberia make no mistake what you're seeing really is cloth as one of the

coldest parts of russia you can find out what's boiling in just a few minutes. the 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 among those settling are c.e.o.'s of large international companies while it is governors are of the reports now on what they find so alluring about life in russia. 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 are

you still so what brings them here. well first of all it's the money moscow is considered quite dangerous by most of these companies so they get paid extra just to come then as the income tax in russia is 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 dancers 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 d.p.c. oh tony hayward in a somewhat news ical chair is move mr hayward will replace former b.p. head robert dudley who will move to b.p. headquarters in london the boss what benefits not just the ex-pats in the region they have entire. villages built for them which if they choose to they don't even have to leave their every whim is catered for including weekend flights back home and of course for russia this is quite

a bit official as will the drilling experts culture is very valued because it's to 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 is our of our mascot. well there are plenty more ahead here including dialing for help we investigate the rise in abuse of the elderly in the czech republic and whether a new helpline will make a difference. first russia's patriarch kirill has led a special service in the ukrainian capital kiev marking the anniversary of the baptism of old russia the city's or the beginning of the christian association of the russian lands more than a thousand years ago and i watched the event. 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 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 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 even today if 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 on a government office they're moving towards each other and the fact that millions of worshippers are greeting but they are to deal all across ukraine is as a good proof to that according to many experts and that was on the next you know just keep reporting from kiev well meanwhile celebrations in the ukrainian city. when a bomb blast in a local church killed an elderly woman and eight other people were injured in the explosion ukrainian officials say the blast was called homemade device equal to. local reports say it was concealed in a pulse hole near the church's entrance. the whole life of the elderly has been set up in the czech republic following the disclosure of cases of abuse and neglect

charity workers say many seniors are unaware of their rights and fall victim to the cruelty of abusive care as you go often have 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. 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 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. to change attitudes it's the country's first telephone hotline for the elderly responding to dozens of pleas for help daily. that is 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 girth. the hotline's founder believes 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 or 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 rates of older people.

starve here say several unfortunate cases of cost to shadow difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and penalise the worst care homes. but things are not nearly as bad as they were even three years ago i haven't played just ordinary housewives working here with trades now i think we're changing. here there is little doubt that the czech republic lags behind western europe in how it treats its senior citizens been improvements may be too late for some eager and nerve of prague. pakistani officials say all one hundred fifty two people on board a passenger plane of questions still surrounding islam about have died early reports claiming five survivors have been retracted the plane was flying from karachi the capital investigation is underway to establish the cause of the crash.

at least twenty five people are being killed after a bus hit a roadside bomb in afghanistan's 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 in the parliament in the spanish region of catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting and a landmark decision the folk comes after one hundred eighty thousand people signed a petition saying it's dated and brutal form of entertainment and sports supporters argue it's one of the oldest traditions in the country and should be preserved. ban 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 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 in the south recent international inquiry into the sinking of a south korean warship in march concluded that pyongyang was responsible for an

accusation it denies. while the sweltering summer heat waves reaching out to russia's most remote regions and side period is no exception despite the devastating effect the hot weather is having in some parts of the country siberians keen to enjoy the sunshine and we said lindsey france to check out the summer in 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 air to the river the exactly 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. people with a long time for summer they always want to get away from the cold michael 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 the who does 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 one of the people who are here at the beach like one particular veteran of fifty siberian summers with no air conditioning or t.v. we're sure that it's impossible to stay at home it's too hot i can't believe in the flood there's just no ear is 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 say beat it 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 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 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 air tear should be on a river 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. still funny people are sweating here. it's gorgeous. and the captain agrees

yes it was more 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. we've got more for you a plenty more to keep your part on all websites just log on any time for extras on the stories we're covering about on screen and also plenty of features that in our regular programming here's a quick text of what's on t.v. dot com right now you can find out why georgian president mikheil saakashvili is refusing to apologize after the media accused him of making a racist remark. i'd also discover how the shores of alaska were claimed

for the russian empire long before the u.s. even the place had all the loyalty dot com. well stephanie will be here shortly to bring you all the latest in the world of business that's coming your way in just a few minutes and i'll be back with the main stories in about ten minutes from now stay with us. i'm grateful for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. hello

and welcome to the business bulletin robert dudley is returned as head of b.p. but 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 had to 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 change at the top it's quite obvious to 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 being 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 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 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. important to p. from every perspective. results for the first of the you're going to go 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 a good. 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 we will be ultimately responsible for b.p.'s posture policies negotiations. with the russian government on this war supporters. 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 nominations for board seat at t.n.t. b.p. analysts say the reshuffle will not recant all 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 ruled 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 monopoly and mortgage. companies have been had for sale with the aim of raising at least a thirty billion dollars to help it but it does work and they would become peers lycanthropes. the first one that can be easily sellable like for instance the banks they want to take. the money should be. taxed for listing and. there is this program for openness of call for to be always going to be a series of. what we're talking about the large states like for us nafta probably

of course want to be on the more. very large states so it's will take some effort on the government but with serious effort. from the companies make them for investors you know to sell them at a fair price. to pay the russian bosses and they did what this day trading session had them grab the energy names and let the declines on the my facts with gas pump less hydro and rest after overtreating abbas left with down a three percent. us all from conoco phillips is selling get steak and russia's independent open. lukoil is selling its entire twenty percent stake will acquire almost half of this but three and a half a billion dollars the remainder of conoco stake will be sold on the free market by the end of two thousand and eleven is trying to cut its debt but also says that it struggled to profit from its investment in vehicle because of the advance just given to state owned rivals. russia's largest producer of potash overall county has

ambitious plans to fertilise at the world the company's co no the billionaire sulaiman have him off his plans to combine with his belorussian rifle he's offering the seven and a half billion dollars for a fifty one percent stake in battle risk out or cali is already in talks with russian rivals. 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 the previous session peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight. says airlines are recovering faster than expected but actually can 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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