suggests the situation on the ground is a far cry from the official. details of civilian death of the hands of coalition troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence could be helping the taliban insurgency u.k. peace activists could find it hard to take on. a former british soldier who was jailed for his refusal to fight or to cool unjust. this is the soldier who said no to the speaking out against the conflict one he calls illegal and unjustifiable his advice to the government also i would say listen some people just simply. people. with. these conflicts. to fall off the wagon which was the message which confusion the story. to a public clinton joined the army in two thousand and four and fought for seven

months in afghanistan he says he came home a changed man suffering symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder for which he claims he was bullied when he heard he was being sent back to afghanistan he did from the army and didn't come back for two years initially his military superiors were understanding but when joe spoke at an antiwar rally in london they upped his charges to desertion which carries a ten year prison sentence jos mother says that exposes the hypocrisy of the conflict bringing democracy we've got freedom of speech we're fighting to introduce it to afghanistan and the lock somebody up for speaking out about the missing benton paid a price for his outspokenness in the notorious military jail the glass house he thinks the reason it wasn't longer was to avoid a public outcry which could have brought on an examination of the war he served his time along with other soldiers who he says were with him all the way on the stand he'd taken. you know so much support from from my fellow

prisoners it was fantastic and so much mildness one point i was going to wonder she's fantastic so you know the only time i think of how long before the first shot and after that. i was correct you are so much for the. jews become the poster boy for the stop the war coalition. a hero's welcome following his release from prison for someone they consider brave and principled well i mean should not be punished at all he's saying what everyone believes and everyone knows the war is not just on winnable it's immoral it's a disaster it's causing defeat for the people of afghanistan a more and more young british men and women are being sent out to risk their lives for a war that only the politicians support and even in private they know it's a disaster joe blanton story is key because it comes straight from the front line as do the ninety thousand documents released this week showing the on van ness

troops of a bloody conflicts and going by clinton's account of the support he received from other soldiers during his time in prison there is dissent inside the armed forces something the government could have a hard time ignoring nor emmett's r.t. london. experts from russia believe a south korean warship which sank in march fell victim to the mine and not a north korean torpedo that's according to newspaper reports in south korea and there's been no statement from russia to confirm the story though north korea house continues he denied firing on the ship despite being blamed by an international investigation and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said there was a welding evidence pyongyang was to blame the incident has made the tense situation on the divide opinion even worse when it's got more on this now from powell at a coffee he drank two of korean studies at the mosque a state university many things with. coming into terms of now do you think that

there is any truth in this report that the south korean warship fell victim to as. of course i can comment of south korean media and russian team still they didn't make any official announcement there was some question given to. who was in charge of the team and he was that there are still some questions which were not asked and by south korean side and i think that's already showed that there are some adults in this situation and so touching so sensible that i think even then it's one percent of doubt it shouldn't be discussed in open mindedly and in case of. chances that this is north korea's fifty fifty very sensitive subject isn't it interesting that the reports appeared in a south korean newspaper saying earlier but what happened in your opinion on the ship back in march how likely is it that north korea had nothing to do with the

sinking of that shit so of course the reason is that it was north korea to blame for the sinking but still there is. some chance of that it was a mine and that it was some accident and i think that the most important thing or even that it was a friendly fire because the most important think is that was the time of military drilling in the west sea and there was of course. reports said that there were no other ships like north to the north korean submarine is but actually there were fifteen or thirteen washrooms from south korea which were just drilling the. actions so it's quite strange that the they were not supported at this if they were spotted at the time then ok. one hundred percent but. two months later so that's the main job for me and as you were saying earlier conclusion reached by that international investigation was that pyongyang north korea sank the ship in

your opinion how likely is that that conclusion could have been construed as a political i think it's almost one hundred percent political because just international it was all conflicts which were side in south korea in the war in the korean war and saw the obvious today when all russia iran or china and when russian experts were invited over some silence to long silence or. jumping to the conclusion to the same conclusion and i think that's already an answer to a question as you said this is a highly sensitive subject a highly delicate situation thanks to the existing tensions within the region so who in your opinion would actually benefit from stirring up tensions between the two koreas in the possibly igniting you know. i guess that south korean military is trying to gain some benefits and maybe a. south korean administration but. now i think that everybody's

losing from that just to go on and on between the new military drills and new action the only way to deal with north korea is just to restart six year the six party talks and maybe you and you go between the united states and north korea they should follow this utah guard but who are started direct talks with south korea and choose a solution maybe that's now turn for obama to follow it's a tough call there obviously this happened back in march and until up until this point we been in this situation he said she said you think we'll ever actually know the truth of what happened sorry do you think we'll ever really know what happened to that ship back and i don't think that we will ever see the truth and ok many thanks for coming in speaking to us pavel let's check off the director of korean studies at the russian state university many thanks you're welcome. so heavy this hour on the laces in all clay so seriously look at the color luger we did in the

center of russia's science industry at a thriving place to do it. now the heat wave in the russian capital has been breaking records with temperatures approaching forty degree fell fears for nine days running it's been made worse the mosque of ice by the harmful small caused by bulk fires which is envelope the city to go to the north is in the moscow region. fires have spread well across the moscow region and scores of firefighters are being sent to fight these blazes every day but their efforts are being hampered by the sixteen the hot and dry weather and we've been told that the amount of fires this year has already exceed last year's fires by two times and the total area of these fires is twelve times bigger than in two thousand and nine and this includes both forest fires n.p. fires especially which are really tricky because they can go on for months deep

underground in temperatures reaching eight hundred degrees celsius and then when it's hot and dry enough on the surface they can emerge and firefighters see that the consul even see new sources of fire new sources of smoke as b. are fighting their current ways as their efforts are also being hampered by the water shortages which is limited which have been also caused by this heat and the dry weather many lakes and many springs have simply evaporated in forty six told us that they often have to build special pipe systems to do it with water from as far as nine kilometers away to the fire and i can tell you that it's highly unlikely that they're going to be able to extinguish all of these fires so long as this extremely hot and dry weather continues weather forecasts all for a few signs of hope because this heat wave has been continuing for weeks now with temperatures being well over the thirty degrees celsius mark and forecast to do see

that the temperatures make cool down a little bit during the weekend we me even see a little bit of rain but the say also that it's highly unlikely that this heat is and dry weather is going to return next week of course this the heat meaning plus the small and especially the fumes in big cities create really difficult and dangerous living conditions there are two major. this one is the risk of the harder taishan because we're straight. forwardness water so we have to take a lot of fluids at the best thing is to drink water about three to four liters every day if there is no obvious heart disease or home of the disease and also we have to take salts because we were salt with the spirit so we sure did salt to products so we should at some salt of the world and smoke of course itself is also dangerous but there's a lot of. products for the car going to one of the other types of products so we're

sure there were open spaces people living in the areas affected by the smoke and the heat trying to do anything to cope with these conditions drinking a lot of water there are actually month long queues for air conditioning only in moscow many people are trying to leave the city thinking that the outdoors may the conditions in the outdoors maybe a little bit better but as you can see around me and i'm now around ninety kilometers away from moscow the conditions here in the situation here is not that much better now there's concern that highly explosive chemicals carried by floodwaters into china's a song who are of a could reach russia barrels holding over five thousand tons of chemicals reach the subsidiary of the river from a plant in northern china are expected to reach russian territory in a week but so far there's no indication that been leaking and retrieval efforts are underway moscow has asked chinese or fourteen's for information about what happened

a one hundred ton that bend the knee into the song river five years ago nearly caused a manmade catastrophe. mortie dot com has many more stories for you to look at of course any time you like here's just some of what's on life you out the moment in the ukrainian it's fifteen. virtue of the fact of the mobile russia was mauled by a bomb blast and then the church killing an elderly nun and injuring. of a case of animal rights abuse of russia catches the eye of tottenham coach how we read now he's decided to take care of the russian dog he said parasailing a vis the p.r. stunt for more head start on us he dot com. ok now let's get a quick check on some other stories making headlines around the globe this hour and pakistan has declared a day of national mourning for those who died in the country's worst ever aviation incident on wednesday

a passenger jet crashed in the hills outside the capital islamabad even a one hundred fifty to one board dead. plane was flying from corruption in balad the capital it's not yet known what caused the crash but the investigation continues its. protests in greece of turn violent after the government is deemed an emergency order to force striking fuel tanker drivers part so what scuffles with police took place is some five hundred drivers that are outside the transport ministry here has run out of here the counters patches stations that it's affecting towards them and cause a few shortages the drivers say they're not directly defined in order to return to work to demonstrate. u.s. scientists say we'll be he's in the field well in the gulf of mexico has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected they say back to make a contribution to the dispersion aiding the marine cleanup effort beaches the louisiana

to florida has been closed to be warnings that swimming could be dangerous skimming crews reportedly now having trouble finding oil to clean up. we both tony hayward has been replaced by robert dudley they said max keiser and stacy habit discuss whether the new chief executives make lots and is intended to lure people into a false sense of security. what they're going to do is replace them with robert dudley and they're openly saying it's because he has an american accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you could fool the american people into accepting anything if you stand adama and he started deep south and in texas and so he said look. we're gonna completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's for him we don't accept it so they put in an american was named dudley robert dudley robert dudley

so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well it will mix goes completely destroy what we've totally eviscerated a big part of your economy and we're occupying your done tree then you're all bunch of peasants now but does the american accent so it's ok. what's the tides report in just fifteen minutes time here on our city ok now let's take a look at russia close up as we take you to another part of the world's biggest country . today which is two hundred kilometers from moscow when the clue bridge in the center of russian science one hundred destry the country's long scientific research complex develops high tech and volunteers engineering and electronics but the region could also face

a flourishing car industry with giants like volvo and both funk and make sure that it's an income that the number of calls assembled like wins every year providing jobs and housing company could actually hit some ex-pats. if you find a. good case of this. for a long time carlo guy has been primarily associated with. maverick scientists from the end of the last century go on years of work on rockets the region was dubbed the cradle astronautics but what is good transportation links to the capital with a population of just over a million people the region has definitely room to grow to take over as one a rough first hotspots for foreign investment we met some of the ex part managers working here to find out how they do that business and cope with that every day lives here. renate may be afraid of horses but she's not afraid of horse power every day she handles one hundred forty and her husband

harold drives just as many the to work up the tree and were among the first expanse to settle down and. the only brazilian calder everywhere i go and i say i'm from brazil of course i get this cheery people talk about football and. so it's always positive maybe in such a big city like most call you are just one more in a crowd and here you stand out specially as a foreigner we're talking as a foreigner here moving now to herald certainly turned hats locally when they drove the german car johns first russian made vehicle the production line russians. or russian or russian it's the same time we see these reserves. towards products made in russia so we work on that everybody.

has the same quality. we have use for germany from. become pretty was an early bird to place its bets on the region. bads worth one billion dollars on seven hundred ten as it built a whole industrial park something which would be unlikely closer to moscow juta higher costs are to come a cause will halt on their tail lights today is home to bobo peugeot citroen and rene just recently is still stamping factory was open and now it caters for all folks magnets car parts this is not just the biggest german investment in russia but also an example of what a life asian it is no longer chaffed the car assembly as it was four years ago these call parts are built with russian hands and ultimately will be built what the russians do you. unlike we're not and harold well desegregate was born in congress but in

a way he also stands out from his thousand chorley he was recruited from a local orphanage frequently out of work service says he's now driven to succeed but i want to stay and work here if they give me a chance to grow i would like to become a foreman and ultimately a manager i see perspectives from reference to more and more companies are opening up in the region which was renowned he was behind the idea to employ orphans she set up a women's club in college which among other projects to patronage of local orphanage is government does a lot and also private. but after eighteen years old they are on the streets and what can we do so if we give clothes one day it's worn out so we thought that. beginning a project that it's not about giving money or giving things but giving an opportunity for them to. sort of use learning german in the hope that one day he will land his

dream job to get to work and give something back to those that gave him a hand when he most needed it to do with our children our t.v. column. ok that is the way the news is he's our hero don't go away they will for a very short break we're going to get a business update you stephanie. i'm great for the. we've got. the biggest issues get voice ceased to face with the news maker.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin b.p. may sell it stakes in three of the venezuelan projects through its russian joint venture t.i.n.k. b.p. according to bring back british petroleum has raised the matter in a letter to a venezuelan state run oil company which it jointly owns the assets the value has not been confirmed but the times newspaper puts it at one billion dollars the oil giant plans to set up to thirty billion dollars worth of assets across the world after suffering heavy losses in the gulf of mexico disaster. the head of a.o.l. has told r.t. he's pleased to see the appointment of robert dudley as b.p.'s chief executive despite the arguments that mot their relationship in the past. we very much welcome the point you know bob dudley is the c.e.o. of b.p. yes we've had some difficulties when he was the c.e.o. of g.m. k.b. those difficulties related primarily to governance disagreement between our and b.p. i wanted to have an independent c.e.o. not somebody appointed by b.p.

who is very close leslie it would be people who worked extremely well together with bob has made a tremendous contribution to communicate b.p. in the early years of the joint venture after about four years our strategies began to diverge and at that point. it was important for the good of the company to have an independent c.e.o. bob unfortunate was caught in the middle but we have an excellent relationship with him and he has done a lot of great things for to b.p. and we look forward to working with him and his or capacity the russian government has reduced the number of candidates in what is set to be the biggest privatization in the country in fifteen years cutting the state were always operator and mortgage agency from the list eleven companies are being prepared for a sale with the aim of raising at least thirty billion dollars to help plug the budget deficit seen argument reports. if you want some of the russia's blue chips well general snifter say the largest banks bear bank now is the time the government is considering selling minority districts in eleven of russia's leading companies

some call it the biggest privatization since the ninety's but it's not yet clear which wires to go and target therefore we're talking about. minorities and this is much different from what we have seen in russia taking place in mind this or prove it is asian in the in the general south because usually when we're talking about truth zation with salespersons for strategic investors so i think that in russia's case now where are talking while government convention to increase flu flood of the state of companies only months ago some said russia no longer deserved its position as a leading emerging market and you inflow of foreign investment could change that perception but the government has work to do before it can sell some of those companies some state monopoly is known to be unfriendly to individual investors others are simply too big to be easily sold to talk about the large states like

ross and after. probably of course want to be on a more. realistic so it's. some effort from the government over serious effort for. the companies make them for investors to sell them at. a fair price the pricing of the assets and the timetable are unclear the government initially suggested thirty billion dollars over three years and really see the government has a choice it can sell weak and cheap but to get the best pricing cover the budget deficit the privatization could stretch over several years they may be a business archie. and it's time to have a look at how the active markets the shaping up in moscow the bourses. making ground climbing around a one and a half the cent each energy stocks are leading the advance transnet is up more than six percent on the my sex problem. are all making healthy gains and there's also

gains being made on european markets as investors welcome results from some of the region's biggest companies on a busy day for corporate news just pharmaceutical company company astra zeneca is the stock perform on the footsie carving five percent off to second quarter profits rose and it increased its share buyback plans. russia's try to make a come as has cut its losses by more than two thirds in the first half with this year compared to the same period of two thousand and nine report by german car make a dime or says come as lost thirteen million euros in the period from january to june and during the second quarter it just seemed profit for the first time in a year the russian company benefited from cost cutting and rising sales owns a fifteen percent stake in comments. and in other news 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 their pre-recession peak in the first quarter of two thousand and eight association says airlines are recovering faster than expected and its actual ficken asia which is increasing the most twice as fast as in europe while here in russia the passenger traffic has grown thirty one percent in the first half of two thousand and ten compared to the same period of last year the biggest traffic increase was seen in international destinations. and also for the business team for now but i'll be back with more updates for you next hour and of course you can always find more stories on our website. slash business.

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fifty. five. it's all gone now in most cases this is honestly the first things stop the war coalition the file from the founding could multi give the and campaign the whistleblower by wiki leaks exposed cover ups which include civilian deaths and a possible link between pakistani intelligence on the taliban. a team of

russian experts found a south korean warship which sank a month in march to seemingly not a north korean torpedo that was according to newspaper reports in south korea but there's been no confirmation from russia. and moscow is choking from heat on small with temperatures having been close to forty degrees celsius from the wind days running is the horses soma since records began in one hundred i'm ok. i'm next to the swamp at the top of them battle the b.p. comes under the scrutiny of former broker. so i'm for the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy kurtz tell us some of those stories police well max let's start with this.