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 though 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 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 u.s. senator ted kaufman not accepting a 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 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. r t coming to live from the russian capital coming up the legacy of war we'll be speaking to scientific experts who claim weapons used by nato in iraq have caused genetic defects among civilians that's coming your way in just a few minutes from. the first internet provider in russia's far east has been ordered by 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 titled russia for russians other sites affected allowed users to read books of extremist content such as hitler's mind can't the prosecutor who

filed the lawsuit said he was acting quote in the interests of russia but instead provide a involve called the ruling absurd. these decisions shouldn't be taken by a court through all of mankind is using this website and providers like cows don't violate russian law which was still being forced to close the website so the toll users can't smoke 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 and we have to take away the phones from all the people across russia because. the editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper here in moscow events is a risky believes the case could now have far reaching consequences. it's a big issue it's a local issue that'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 of the procedure for the user generated content websites how they can defend themselves in court 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 though it made life hell for many of its media partners for example chessboard are you the website that i'm editing we have published reveal using you tube channel also we've published to be your post that matters to most situations and taxes etc and so many times. our video has been moderated out of you too so many times you should telling close to our channel and believe that you do best 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 associate editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper that well by the way there's more to come here on our team clued in what rich people want to moscow it seems with more millionaires settling down here in russia but what's attracting them and is it they hope for the answers coming up very shortly on r.t. . the first part of the stiletto heels of red had a double agent and a chaplain another so-called friend fatah has been seized in the u.s. this time with a bag full of banned rifle sights but the lawyer of the twenty four year old that being born american citizen says the media are simply gone james bond crazy has got to check on. it seems the u.s. can't go without a hot spice story this summer they banished anna chapman now another and a has entered the stage also in her twenty's this time more of a smuggler than

a spine and if i'm on of it was arrested in new york for trying to smuggle several state of the art night gunsight devices into russia she says she bought them online for her husband and his friends who happen to be fans of hunting but to most american media she's yet another twenty something russian agent. in the line of this season spy hi everybody should women be here to you mistreat. young maybe a schoolteacher maybe a reporter doesn't matter what you do but the allure of a russian spies there and the women are the most intriguing. movie critics say the rest of ten russian agents in the u.s. this summer was the best and campaign possible for the latest movie with angelina jolie a russian spy story saw it too might have come across as

a little out state but after the rest it appears fresh a new. of the most challenging we speak in russian very high language uniform belfour skirt the f.b.i. couldn't make a greater gift to this movie and it's not the only one of the summer nights in date with tom cruise it's a favorite quotes in hollywood but i think in the future they're going to be more comedies almost bunnies rather than serious drama of. real life spying is no joke but when a young attractive russian enters the picture things change. i was. most readers were intrigued and amused by that which i was our first already very pretty woman. and there is this almost media fixation of the matahari sexy spot. on the demand of his profile on a social networking site shows she's online but she's not responding to any media

requests as soon as american police put the alleged as the patient slash english teacher under home arrest for web page was boarded by visits she seems to be not as high and as chapman who had lived in manhattan and hung out with millionaires but this has also earned her own spotlight with the media gani chicken r t. russia's kill has led a special service in the ukrainian capital kiev marking anniversary of the baptism of old russia the city saw the beginning of the crystallization of the russian lands more than a thousand years ago and 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 blues and in one thousand nine hundred eight prince live in it took a 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 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 present even today if in june and now it's to this day 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 the 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 archaeal all across ukraine is as is a good proof to that according to many experts well that was all. reporting from kiev . well meanwhile celebrations will mold in the ukrainian city. when a bomb blast in a local church killed an elderly woman until the people were injured in the explosion and ukrainian officials say the blast was caused by a homemade device to hold on to see it was concealed in a pulse hole near the church's introns. the use of depleted uranium munition by u.s. led forces during the war in iraq is possibly causing cancer and genetic diseases among the local population such the findings of a recent study by a group of researches are now going to speak to the authors of the report professor christopher busby scientific secretary of the european committee on radiation risk . a british iraqi scientist both joining us there live in london thanks very much

both of you for joining us here on r.t. first to you professor busby before we discuss the possible link with uranium and the current health problems being experienced there can you please explain to us what is depleted uranium and why it could be so dangerous well. it's a feedstock as you know for nuclear power but the isotope consists basically of two important isotopes. two three five is a very small amount of two three five in natural uranium about one one hundred forty earth but they have to refine it and remove the in the. in order to use the u. two three five the first side element in nuclear power when they've done the waste that's left behind which is much. much higher concentration of u two three it's called depleted uranium because it's depleted in the element in the i said. well this isn't so much so we think why is it being used then is it to make explosives more powerful. well it was originally used for knocking out tanks because it has

tremendous kinetic energy and it can poke its way through it and can destroy armor but more recently we think that your own emotions are being used in a different form in order to not turn was a sort of thermobaric weapon well done there also in london you've actually been working with doctors very closely in fallujah can you describe to us help people or being possibly affected by this service uranium. i mean what we do know for the past i have been working with doctors i've been working with pediatricians gynecologist neurosurgeons and they all have been giving indications very strong indication that there's been massive increase in cancers and birth defects i mean however the study that we have conducted recently as actually has actually does actually prove that there are massive increases in. in cancers thirty eight fold increase in leukemia tenfold increase in births cancers and the

infant mortality is also staggering really the unprecedented numbers of birth and birth defects and. basically that is the situation surely if we have a humanitarian disaster ok just to ask you then humanitarian disaster you talk about these birth defect surely then the facts speak for themselves is this must be related to because it's not happening elsewhere is it. no i mean we cannot say we cannot say because obviously as scientists we cannot say we have no real evidence that there is di it could be weapons systems it could be a combination we don't know and this is what we are saying we are pleading to the international community to the scientific community but really to governments is to actually do something about it we need to set up an independent investigation we can't just close our eyes because because this is happening and there is a whole new generation of very ill and disabled children and that is actually what

we have faith in professor busby you're up against a brick wall here aren't you because the world health organization the website there of god here claims that depleted uranium has no detrimental effect on newborn babies so in effect they're not listening to you are they. well there probably aren't going to listen to us but i have to tell you that the science in this area is completely being renewed every minute i mean there's an enormous amount of new science which is being completely ignored by the world health organization and by the scientists who work for the governments who are associated with the use of these weapons the science is changing we now know that you really binds very strongly to d.n.a. and causes affects exactly at the d.n.a. where you would expect it to cause the kinds of health effects that we're finding the cancers and the infant mortality in the congenital malformation the leukemia is all of these things that were found hiroshima and nagasaki but actually here we find them to a much greater extent so what can be done about it now like you've been working with doctors there is it all too late or is there

a way of tackling this health crisis in fallujah at the moment i mean realistically i mean what everybody what the international community and what the listeners out there need to understand is that we desperately need these children desperately need an independent independent investigation not just that they need these doctors need training they need the they don't know how to handle these effected complex cancers that they they don't know where to start operating on and that is really the first stage is that there we can make a difference and there is and we can help but number one we need to acknowledge that there is a problem and that's what we everyone has to understand is that the international community governments are not even the iraqi authorities themselves do not acknowledge officially that there is a humanitarian disaster i mean and sort of just back to professor bosnia presumably this weapon is being used in afghanistan at the moment is it. i think we found evidence of the use of this weapon in afghanistan in lebanon and in gaza and so

what we urgently need to do is to ask the u.s. military and the israelis and all the other people using this weapon to come clean about what it is because if we know what it is then maybe we can have some attempt to try and mitigate the problems that it's causing and possibly the international community might decide to ban it and that is that really the aim of your report from the completely out of our report basically was just to back up the it was to try and find out whether or if all the. evidence of these effects was real i mean that's all our report does it's an epidemiological study the first statistical epidemiological study that looks at. the children and the adults on the ground to see whether these effects are real and we find that they are real and if i'm not really real they're very much worse than people of thought we are putting forth a very forceful case here just briefly a final reaction from you before we get a reaction from the like hamdan are you anyway encouraged by any positive reaction to your report so far. we've had a lot of reaction to our report but at the moment there's been

a deadly silence from the people who matter from the world health organization from the united states military from the israelis and from the british military there's been a hushed silence so what next minute condon finally what next for you after all the explaining to do we don't care we don't have a lot of we carry on with our research and we actually we are pleading to the if the governments won't do anything we plead to the public to the u.s. public to the british public to the european to the russian public and try to get their governments to recognize and do something about their very interesting to hear what you have to say thanks very much indeed both of you for joining us live here on r.t. professor christopher busby and alack hamdan there in london. now 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 artie's caterina's arava reports 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's so-called golden mile where real estate is valued at around ten to twenty thousand u.s. dollars per square meter these 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 there's the income tax in russia is just thirteen percent compared to forty in europe the u.s. and of course it's the glamorous life they lead here with parties that duchess the

night clubs the country clubs red carpet treatment everywhere they go who can say no to. the latest man unable to say no b.p. c.e.o. tony hayward in a somewhat musical chairs move mr hayward will replace former b.p. head robert dudley 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 counted for including weekends floyds back home and of course for russia this is beneficial 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 two. glass of their motorcades. catarina is our of our

tea. with a little later we'll be talking to an outspoken rapper who's singing for a change in the united states that that's in about ten minutes from now but coming up we've got the latest business update that's with stephanie coming your way in just a moment stay with us here on r.t. for that. great for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice thanks to face with the news makers. 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 i had to over a puts 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 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 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 eight 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 be p. from every perspective. financial results for the first of the year coming out of. over two billion profit just sort of underscores. the chief executive mr dove will have no choice but to spend considerable energy and effort there is no

way this can sort of be a good. actually worse 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 alternately responsible for b.p.'s posture policies negotiations. 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 recant will dispute hayward supposed 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 and dropping the brown monopoly on mortgage. companies have been paid for so with the aim of raising at least thirty billion dollars to help the budget deficit which we can do i become and it's like going through the roof. the first one that can be easily sellable like for instance the banks they want to take. the money should be the text for a listing on the launch of the post there is this program progress of course for to be always going to be a bit easier. but if you talk about the large states like ross and they have to probably of course want to be on the more. very large states so it's going to take some effort from the government but with serious effort. 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 grab the energy names and let the declines on the my sex with gas pump less hydro and russ left over treating a boss now with down a three percent. us all from conoco phillips is selling at stake and russia's independent all produce. 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 caller who 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 better risk count or cali is already in talks with russian rival sylvie to international passenger traffic has exceeded to pre-crisis levels the international air transport association says it grew by almost twelve percent in june passenger volumes are now around two percent above the previous session peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight you know so you see asian says airlines are recovering a faster than expected but actual fricken asia is increasing at 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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the last couple of slips of the taliban. like. when the government since trying to. moderate flood. right. out of the killing and. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our team. live from the russian capital this is our team good to have you with us time now for our top stories this hour afghan strategy under question as the u.s. congress approves billions more in war funding some lawmakers say they're signing off law lives with no end in sight this 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 on local provider block access to you tube for spreading extremism the really was based on a nationalist video called russia for russians and affected other sites with content such as it was mine camp. jumping on the spine spy bandwagon of latvian born woman sees with weapons in new york sponsored media frenzy with americans comparing her to the. recent russia us. twenty four also has american citizenship has dismissed the allegations saying the rifles were for hunting. while now when someone talks about rap the universe 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 have been fans will join them in their battle to get a different.