leeks 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 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 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 the familiar strategy i'm not for spending one more dollar and one more american life until we have a conviction that we can get governance that's good enough this is not about resurrecting afghanistan with all due respect i care about afghanistan but the standard is not that we leave something better we just when the day we decide that we don't have carmen's that is good enough we should leave that day

a pushback while others work to push ahead a tug of war within a real war with no end in sight christine for is now our t. . well america's military campaign in iraq is also making the news a group of researchers claim the use of depleted uranium by u.s. led forces during the war may be causing cancer genetic diseases among the local population one of the authors of the report professor christopher busby believes the health problems could prove worse than among survivors of the nuclear bombing 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 the ukrainian vines 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 coping with lining the cancers and

the infant mortality in the congenital malformation leukemia is all of these things that will try and hiroshima and nagasaki but actually here we find them to a much greater extent than 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 or very much worse than people of thought 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 was professor christopher busby the scientific secretary of the european committee on radiation risks talking to me from london. 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 titled russia for russians other sites affected allowed users to read books of extremist content such as hitler's one camp prosecutor fall the lawsuit 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 for all of mankind is using this website and provide this like cows don't violate russian law but 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 because. the editor in chief of the private correspondence newspaper here in moscow events are sort of believes the case could now have far reaching

consequences. it's a big issue so always sure it's become an international issue it's becoming a global issue as well because basically any court can suspect and access to you tube this means that you tube is not a company that can operate in russia so i think if this is this sets you know on the first case basis this sets the the procedure for the user generated content websites how they can defend themselves in court and what is you know what is the procedure to us to settle this sort of issue and i think that you do have as 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 radio using you tube channel also we've published video of them as

demonstrations and actions etc and so many times. our video has been moderated out of you too so many times it should have been closed to our channel and deleted you tube as been very vigilant and i think it is a big setback for them that somebody is still to bring a case against them. yvonne's a sort of ski editor in chief of the private correspondent newspaper that well by the way there's more to come here on t.v. this hour including what rich people want mosco it seems with no millionaires settling down here in russia but what's attracting them and is it all a hope for youngsters coming up shortly to. first hot on the stiletto heels of red had a double agent and a chaplain another so-called friend for tom has been seized in the u.s. this time with a bag full of banned rifle sites but a lot of the twenty four year old latvian born american citizen says the media have simply gone james bond crazy he's got to come. it seems the u.s.

can't go without a hot spice story this summer they banished anna chapman now another anna has entered the stage also in her twenty's this time more of a smuggler than a spine and if i'm on a vote 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 there is no connection whatsoever between ana and. the folks evident in fort hood back on july tenth and ne she's not a spy the government's not even saying that she's a spy this is just this is just the press trying to us and say she lies the story. but to most american media she's yet another twenty something russian agent.

in light of this season's spy hike every russian woman in the u.s. seems to use mystery. young maybe a schoolteacher or 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 song might have come across as a little outdated but after the rest it appears fresh and new the most challenging was speaking russian very hard learned if you look all powerful study if they're feeling could make a great gift to this movie and it's not the only one in the stomach for now it's a date with tom cruise it's a favorite plots in hollywood but i think in the future they're going to be more

comedy in some spice rather than serious drama. real life spying is no joke but when a young attractive woman enters the picture things change i was. intrigued and amused by the first or very pretty woman. there is this almost to fixation or the matahari sexy spot. on the set a man 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 her web page was boarded by visits. she seems to be not as high end as chapman who had lived in manhattan and hang out with millionaires but this has also earned her own spotlight with the media gani chicken our team.

plenty more ahead here on this hour including dialing for help we investigate the use and abuse of elderly in the czech republic and whether a new pope ploy will make a difference. the first big day for orthodox christians the anniversary of the baptism of russia have been mauled by a church explosion in the ukrainian city of one woman was killed and at least eight other people were wounded. as the details. it is really hard to say what exactly happened in the central ukrainian city. but according to eyewitnesses a certain package exploded at the very doorstep one of the churches in central part of the city during a holy day mass which was celebrating at thousand and twenty two years since russia was baptized since russia drop that christianity authorities are now investigating what exactly caused this loss but few have any had any doubts that this is a terrorist attack this is not an accident because i witnesses say that this was

a package which exploded so. ruling out the possibility of any accident or a gas leak or anything all that sort this incident happened amid celebrations of thousand and twenty two years since russia adopted orthodox christianity and the head of the russian orthodox church they have to deal was on his weeklong visit to ukraine that church you belong to. which is partly running the author talks church in ukraine while the other part belongs to ukraine in a tone of most orthodox church authorities have little doubt that this was a handmade handmade incident and they are now looking for for somebody to claim responsibility for that explosion in the church. and that was. reporting from. the hotline for the elderly has been set up in the czech republic for 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 carrots. as this report moves to relieve the disc in suburban and no longer able to survive and. many have no close family. pension doesn't pay medical bills. their lives are entirely in the hands of the carers independent charity say that up to twenty percent of album and checks have been subject to abuse they say that the country have simply failed perc knowledge the problem the basis 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

abe's 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 gear home i say my flight 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 answered saying they have no idea who i am earth. the hotline's fellow and they believe that with the health care system inherited from the communist regime and pensioners see of little economic power compared to their counterparts in the worst older people will continue to suffer. the people working at the institutions want to decrease their workload even if this means that the pensioners themselves are restricted in what they do but the problem is wider than that there is little concept of the rights of older people. starve

here say several unfortunate cases of cost a shadow on a difficult profession recent loss of introduce more independent care assessments and have penalized the worst care homes of things are not nearly as bad as they were even three years ago we have a place just ordinary housewives working here with trained nurses where changing. yet there is little doubt that the czech republic looks beautiful and worst in europe you know how it treats its senior citizens only proved once maybe too late for so eager. to see prague pakistani officials say all one hundred fifty two people on board a passenger plane that crashed in hills around islamabad have died over reports claiming five survivors have been retracted the air blue plane was flying for the capital investigation is underway to establish the cause of the crash. at least

twenty five people have been killed after a bus hit a roadside bomb in afghanistan's nimrods 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 present home and 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 vote comes after one hundred eighty thousand people signed a petition saying it's an outdated and brutal form of entertainment and sports supporters argue it's one of the oldest traditions in the country and should be preserved regional ban which is the first in mainland spain comes into effect in january. most of our world update this hour judge in arizona has restricted key sections of a controversial immigration law hours before it's due to come into force in the state ruling blocks the pot's which insists immigration papers a carrot at all times and in our police to question people over their status comes after the u.s. government filed a motion saying the law usurps federal authority and critics are demanding the laws

are tracked it claiming it will lead to racial profiling. while russia might not be quite at the top of the millionaires' list when it comes to choosing where to reside but each year increasing numbers of foreigners are moving here and among those settling are c.e.o.'s of large international companies and artie's catarina czar of a reports now on what they find so alluring about life here in russia. well adult 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 that all you got 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 is

a fast paced developed city but it still lacks the comforts the expert matters for you still so what brings in fear. 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 the u.s. and of course is the glamorous life they lead here the parties the duchesse the nightclubs the country clubs red carpet treatment everywhere they go who can say no to. the latest man unable to say no c.e.o. tony hayward in a somewhat musical chairs move mr hayward will replace former. head robert dudley will move to b.p. headquarters in london the boss what benefits not just the ex-pats. they have entire villages built for them which if they choose to they don't even have to leave them there every whim is counted for including weekends floyd's home. for

russia this is a bit official as well 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 the rest including members of the press something that in their native europe or america would not be accepted as well but here they set the rules and everyone else watches on trying to appear in the high. they tend to their motorcades. catarina. moscow. one of little later peter lavelle and he's guess what beijing the prospects of peace in the middle east that's in about ten minutes from now on r.t. but first let's check out what's happening in the world the business that's right stephanie coming up. 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 clever 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 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 but of course a lot to be made 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

things 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 doubly will have to reestablish trust and drive the company back from the edge by raising up to thirty billion and funds but that's not going to happen by selling the russian assets russia is. important to b.p. from every perspective. financial results for the first you're going to be out of here and kate over to bill you can 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'll be alternately responsible for

b.p.'s posture policies negotiations. with the russian government supporters. and the pm 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. k b p analysts say the reshuffle will not recur the dispute heywood's post 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. 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 the budget we can do at the companies like control groups. the first one that can be easily sellable like for instance starbucks take. the money should be and to do that thanks for listening and. there is this program progress of course for to be always going to be a bit easier. but if we're talking about a large states like ross now it's probably of course going to be on a more. pretty large state so it will take some effort on the government but with serious effort. from the companies to make them smaller for investors you know to sell them at. a fair price. to pay the russian bosses and did what they tried in fashion and grabbed energy names and let the declines on the my facts with gas pump . and ross left over treating

a bus now it's down around three percent of us all from conoco phillips is selling at stake and russia's independent or producer 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 kata 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 rifles. russia's largest producer of potash cali has ambitious plans to factorize at the world the company's co know the billion assume a month have him off has plans to combine with his belorussian rifle he's offering the seven and a half million dollars for a fifty one percent stake in better risk coming or cali is already in talks with russian rival. 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 recession peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight the association says airlines are recovering faster than expected but actual fricken asia is increasing at twice as fast as in europe. i'm not so the business use for now but of course you can always find more stories on a website that's called slash business. question

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with no end in sight this comes just days after a leak of top secret documents revealing 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 block access to youtube for spreading extremism the really was based on a nationalist video called russia for russians affected all the sites with content such as hitler's mind kept. jumping on the spying bandwagon and not being born woman seized with weapon parts in new york sparks a media frenzy with americans comparing it to the. the recent russia u.s. spy saga the twenty four year old who also has american citizenship has dismissed the on occasion say the high tech night vision scopes before hunting. well i'll be back with more developments more news for less than half an hour from now in the meantime it's cross talk compete in a van and these guys discuss how peace can be achieved in the middle east and whether israel's alliance with the u.s. is preventing that from happening heated debate next on r.t. don't go.