long. investigators say lost in southern russia that injured thirty could have been the work of the al qaeda linked militants behind mulches moscow metro bombings police

in the capital on china. and russia brings together afghanistan to seek a stunning pakistan to discuss how to topple drug traffickers and terrorism and some from asia the afghan was seen as the major cause of instability and. clashes are held every day despite the time of year and weather conditions right now it's extremely hot here but as you can see the troops are pulling dressed in their uniforms don't have to get used to it since this is what they'll have to wear on the job takes you to the front line of the anti drugs fights where a lot of god suppose through tough training for the mission ahead. i started to look at american history and politics and realize that my whole life i had been lied to. the ideals gone silent hundreds of u.s. nationals feel the american dream has failed them and choose to denounce their citizenship.

and i for one studious. in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. police in moscow being put on a high state of alert over fears a car bomb in russia's north caucuses could signal more attacks on the capital the chechen militant leader linked to al qaida is suspected of being behind the blast in the town of which injured around thirty people investigators know who owned the car which was loaded with explosives outside a city center cafe the location of the man is unknown although he's not currently a suspect meanwhile for victims of the blast to be taken to moscow to undergo operations up to twenty five people remain in hospitals in the course from where our correspondent the host of reports. red ribbons to buy the lives of people in p.r. to course the street full of cafes packed with visitors tuned into militants target only police and residents get through the cordon it was the backyard of lianas

shore up that militants used for a parking lot luckily she wasn't and signed by her friend wallace she's still trying to cause a story of survival. my shop is near the site of the explosion i didn't have the words to express how i feel i've just been there the shop is mostly glass no the glass has literally turned to dust it's a miracle the shop assistant is and i have seen her in hospital she's covered in blood and in shark she says when the blast shark she ran out of the shop and lost consciousness and right on the tram line up to forty kilos of explosives left thirty injured and a huge tool is now where a cafe once was because they was parked just over there and you can actually see this car if you take a closer look it is claimed that it's belongs to a local guy was and dandified but hasn't been found here they have been also other reports saying that the car was stolen

a couple of days before an explosion but we haven't received any confirmation of this so far takes a driver lived on is. on the streets the day after the bombing in this business trade as one of his regular routes he was looking for a parking place when the blast smashed windows but left his car untouched what. i found a place to park near the tram rails and there was a blast it was so big that i thought my car had exploded when a car was pushed the way i understood it was a terror attack tram windows were smashed in although the road is blocked level isn't afraid to drive around town he says is his job but some doing shayla bons optimism they've started packing up their things saying they want to move away and leave the horrific sight behind. r.t. . stopping terrorists and stemming the flow of drug traffickers of the topics being discussed in russian city of sochi present in between if it is there hosting

a summit with the leaders of afghanistan to take a stand in pakistan. is following the talks providing security and fighting drug trafficking these were the two topics which took a front seat during today's summit in sochi where the route to this is not going to be easy russia afghanistan pakistan and the cheekiest on a well aware of the challenges they will meet some in the world wonder whether success is even possible and if so whether all countries of the international community are committed to achieve it by bringing the four nations together russia shows its commitment to support a peaceful stable and prosperous afghanistan and stability in the whole region. probably drug threat is a common problem in the region i've already had a chance to discuss it with the presidents of afghanistan and pakistan and the counter answer to this tranche should be a joint effort of afghanistan nor russia nor any other country is able to tackle it

on their own with as i've already said it's a joint problem and we shall combat it jointly while this summit we choose the second in a row is of course a significant achievement of the four countries and it will take a long way to words strengthen economic regional ties providing jobs all of which are critical for the people of these countries russia is ready to align resources behind peaceful goals of afghanistan just recently russia signed to all for the last portion of again a stance that and over all day was twelve billion dollars all this is done because for russia central asia is a traditional sphere of interest and it has always been sensitive to stability which the afghan conflict is causing currently it's drug trafficking and islamic radicalism which are the main security threats opium. all the way into russia and farther into europe through to jake is stunned because no visas are required to travel from to take a stand to russia and this is why the truck floods an easily through the open door

so tightening security on these border was one of the main topics discussed today i t z corpuscle not one to see for himself what challenges the people who are providing security on the border on the tribal border between afghanistan and the chickens stand facing every day turning a boy into a soldier is a tough task but getting him ready to go to one of the most tricky borders in central asia is even more difficult. work i don't know the other people don't. and that's why at this training center. there is no time for games when it comes to dealing with going to stand the center of the global heroin trade. classes are held every day despite the time of year and weather conditions right now it's extremely hot here but as you can see the troops are fully dressed in their uniforms have to get used to it since this is what they'll have to wear on the job after six months

trained soldiers are sent to guard the border while new conscripts arrive continuing the cycle stone's border with afghanistan stretches twelve hundred kilometers around seven hundred fifty miles border guards are being trained by the russian federal security service under a deal signed back in two thousand and four the use of different weapons physical education. and survival techniques all portions of the course. terrorism drug and arms smuggling and human traffic have put this region in the global spotlight that's why there are currently over twenty international organizations including the un in the working entergy to stand alone. afghanistan produces over ninety percent of all in the world according to the united nations the death toll. in the two countries is five times more than all the needle soldiers who died in afghanistan since two thousand and one but according to

the shoot of daughter an independent analyst and the author of dozens of articles and. the flow of drugs he's unlikely to stop no matter how strong and in demand that water when you know this problem here various technical solutions but it will never be fully solved while there is fighting in afghanistan and global demand for all here it's. afghan opium production has grown by a third since the us led invasion it's thought the billion dollar business brings more money then all foreign investments put together that's why it's unlikely even the most advanced border control system passable would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you got this going off our d. . well for more on this i'm now joined by james denzil he's a writer on middle east geo political and security issues thanks very much indeed for joining us there in london james now that meeting has been between four major players in the region but interestingly none of the u.s. led coalition often blamed for the worsening situation in afghanistan and pakistan

were present what do you think is russia actually strengthening its presence now in the region. i think russia strengthening its presence in the world in the last few years and i think it's interesting that afghanistan a country which for ten years during the one nine hundred eighty s. was a source of conflict between the two powers is now a source of potential cooperation between ties that of remarkably improved between moscow and washington they both have exactly the same issues there whether it's drug trafficking or islamic radicalism so i think it's very much a case of russia leading its own initiative to improve security in its own as you say neighborhood that the u.s. can totally and utterly support but having said that within the next few years coalition forces plan to actually leave afghanistan do you see perhaps russia gaining a bigger presence there in afghanistan along with other countries in fact stepping in to fill the void. well i think the first thing to say is that there's no guarantee that the u.s. will be leaving in

a few years although there is this two thousand and eleven deadline for a supposed sort of start to the drawdown of the the surge that stanley mcchrystal supervised general petraeus who is now in charge of operation in afghanistan has been quite clear in the media recently about moving back from that deadline simply because the situation is not moving forward as predicted the kandahar offensive has been stalled the last few months have seen the heaviest fighting for nato troops since the invasion of the country said the first thing to remember is that the u.s. might be there for a lot longer the second thing is while any large power has exerted difficulty in finding employment in afghanistan and it's mainly the competition between pakistan and india in the south of afghanistan i think that will really kind of prove the crux of who really is the kingmaker there in the future can we talk about the drug situation that's certainly having a negative impact on russia in profits from the drugs trade and of course to fund terrorism there but the u.s. military actually says that it doesn't see that country drug traffickers as part of its mission bearing in mind there is

a very serious impact on russia at the moment from the drug trafficking from afghanistan is this something where russia would perhaps get more involved in. well i think it should do i find it almost incredible to think that the americans say that countering narcotics in afghanistan isn't part of its mission and if we look at the size of the amount of money the drugs bring in in this country over a billion dollars and the taliban are estimated to to accrue some three hundred million dollars of that a year which makes up some forty to sixty percent of their annual income according to nato figures so if they're fighting the taliban the taliban are largely reliant upon money from this drugs trade so it would seem to be a total no brainer to suggest the americans try to cut off this funding ok i think it reflects that there is a sort of if america distance itself from from that situation in fact russia has said it would want to be involved in the eradicating drug trafficking. the opium fields and what's connected to it does that actually mean russia would militarily get involved. why i doubt it in the current environment i mean counter-narcotics

doesn't always involve simply destroying of crops bear a mind that although the farmers in afghanistan are reliant on large areas on growing the poppy they're not making huge amounts of money from it so there's been a whole sort of attempt at trying to reintroduce different types of materials different types of crops such as cranberries into afghan fields it's not simply a matter as what was used in vietnam sort of using chemical weapons against these fields border security is an element to it removing the demand back of the border in other countries whether it's in the west or in elsewhere there are many ways to sort of approach a counter-narcotics strategy but it would seem that destroying people's fields is the most blunt and the easiest way to lose any form of hearts and minds you might have in afghanistan as always very interesting here we have to say james joining us live there from london a writer of middle east geo political and security issues thanks for your time here in r.t. . a human rights group says the photos posted on facebook of

a former israeli officer posing beside bound and blindfolded palestinian prisoners are the tip of the iceberg the group breaking the silence even went as far as publishing photos of other soldiers in front of palestinian prisoners israeli army had been defending itself by saying it was a one off and promised to investigate palestinian officials say this incident shows the true attitude of israelis lois frankel from the public committee against torture in israel says the jewish state's army lacks discipline and psychological training. these incidents are not isolated these incidents are part of a of a trend or part of a ongoing situation in which particular in the case of palestinian detainees are seen as objects are seen as tools either for entertainment to pose with them and that's and that's only part of the problem and the major problem is that is that detainees particularly when they are handcuffed when they're blindfolded face physical violence to face humiliation and face psychological

violence on the part of israeli soldiers after they're arrested there's something fundamentally lacking in the training of israeli soldiers there are different factors that force people to go to go into the army took the army has as a career so in terms of the average intelligence or the average a capability capacity mental capacity i think that they are all perfectly capable of making moral judgments the problem is that there is not enough i think not enough human rights training in the army to explain and to make it clear what is allowed and what is not allowed and then there's not enough accountability soldiers are not held accountable the number of soldiers who are actually prosecuted for violence is so minuscule palestinians are afraid to file complaints because they're one they're fraid of retribution and they know that there will not be sufficient prosecutions there's a systematic. problem from punitive whether it be interrogation of torture whether

it be violence against hold against detainees so i think in terms of the image that israel is trying to portray they're trying to on the one hand to shake this off as a one time incident but on the other hand they are able to simply ignore what human rights organizations write about what we report about on a regular basis that we know that you know for years these incidents have been going on for years we've been talking about them and demanding prosecution demanding accountability. for many foreigners an american passport promises opportunity and a better life but an increasing number of u.s. citizens have become disillusioned with their country last year alone over seven hundred people renounce their citizenship three times as many as the year before and were met asked one expectorate why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american in a nation that he believed was the greatest in the world a bastion of freedom and democracy in order to protect those ideals he joined the marine corps and went to fight for his country in the gulf war and that's when the

american dream became a nightmare i was punished for speaking out about something that my superiors were doing. my life became extremely difficult upon my return with a different perspective i started to look at american history and politics and realized that my whole life i had been lied to. i believed in those ideals you know i believed him when i found out that these ideals were really the way america was presenting itself in the world and it became clear to me at some point that i would regards citizenship and renounce that he did keefe apply to the state department to stop being american plane political asylum in holland and burned his u.s. passport o'keefe knows that not everyone will agree with what he's done some maintain he could have exerted more pressure from inside the system but however they choose to do it middle east commentator alan hart says americans must do something i have a love hate relationship with america on one level americans are the most

uninformed misinformed dumbest people on the face of god's earth that's the bad news deep down they're also the most idealistic so i say and americans didn't mind me saying it if they were properly informed about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy work it hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world both economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily eroded that goodwill because it's failing to give. it's ethically now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can ok if it's committed to changing that since giving up his u.s.

citizenship has made it his mission to oppose u.s. military action wherever he can he was on board one of the gaza bound aid ships raided by israeli commando used in may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel can o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't one borne out of hatred you know i realized at a certain point it citizenship was a social contract and i didn't agree to the charms of the contract obligations you have rights and you have obligations among the obligations is paying taxes those taxes are being used to commit mass murder i don't agree to that a lot of people misinterpret renounce your citizenship or hate america. i have a deep love for the american people and i wish that the ideal of america became a reality until that dream becomes a reality o'keefe and others like him will be staying away from the land of the

free and the home of the brave you are at it. in his first major interview ponens new president komorowski said he wants to improve relations with russia and has invited president medvedev to visit will sort this is all part of a new geo political triangle involving russia poland and germany that's according to. the center for european policy studies. the relations between poland and russia do improve we have moved away from the so-called cold war situation into more working correlations where both poles and russians do recognize the importance of one another and for example there is a new emerging triangle between poland germany and russia working closely to forming some sort of core group in the street in closer e.u. russia relations. polish experts are mosco to continue a probe into the plane crash which killed the previous president and more than

ninety fischer was travelling to mark seventy years since the cutting massacre of twenty thousand poles by the soviets in russia's smolensk region was seen as a major historical stumbling block but april's crash appeared to begin a kind of healing process as the two nations mourned together and political analyst and a spot of says there are many other areas of common interest beyond difficult history . my personal feeling is that the small and crush will be a topic discussed for years to come especially if it's not and that if the investigations attended by the end of this year but there are surely more global issues and this is first of all the economy because the economy area where both sides have most for their mutual benefit and of course the different debates over history which has been discussed recently and will continue to be poland's grievances toward russia too deep to be swept aside within months so surely we'll have we'll see a lot of incidents of very unpleasant for both sides. britain's first coalition

government since nine hundred forty five is marking one hundred days in office since elections in may gave no single party a clear majority conservative prime minister david cameron heads the coalition along with the deputy prime minister liberal democrat nick clegg into the formation coalition has unveiled sweeping public spending cuts to tackle the u.k.'s recall budget deficit critics say the cuts have been too drastic opinion polls show support for the performance of the government so far or gavin hayes general secretary compass it's a left wing think tank says it's only a matter of time before the coalition's popularity drops the coalition government is inflicting huge huge cuts on public services here in britain i'm cutting public spending even deeper and hard to miss is that in the one nine hundred eighty s. in this is going to have a dramatic effect on those on both lower middle incomes in mr clegg is meant.

to be a leader of a party that stands up for fairness he also went into the election. campaigning against the conservatives plan to rise in value added tax he went into the election promising to scrap try to if he got into government and all of those things he is broke his promise is a liberal democrat party would have been far better i'm going into coalition with labor and having a progressive coalition we now in this country face the real prospect of a double dip recession which is a direct consequence of the huge cutbacks the in part nick clegg is responsible for and as i say when these cuts really start to kick in really start to hurt people then we're going to have a hugely unpopular government on our. well that brings up to date the moment when r.t. i'll be back with a look at our main news stories in about seven minutes from now in the meantime business with charlotte's next that's after a short break. hungry for the full story we've gone to.

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whether. we should have people in the four years performances follow the plan we set out and the results for the first half of the year meet the forecasts we made at the beginning of twenty ten looking forward we believe we will be able to achieve our plans for the second half of the year and reach an annual profit of around three point two billion dollars talking specifically about the loan segment in the first quarter we saw a decrease in the lending portfolio but from a the trend turned positive in our lending portfolio has grown i can't say the trend is going to continue to strengthen but there have been signs of recovery. what about the un going posters of privatizing the bank rules to be lenient a few months of russia's finance minister. has been saying it is time for some shares in state companies to be allocated for privatization while the markets are behaving favorably and he also meant speer banks should be included when he said this we're not talking about a controlling stake here rather about the eight to nine percent that is in the

hands of russia central bank in excess of the controlling stake of fifty plus one share we see why the private ownership is a positive step it would increase the volume of shares in circulation on the market if this decision is made to go ahead we would support it but. time check out the markets now here in moscow the r.t.s. m i six fish wednesday session in the red on low oil and metal prices by meter gothic i still felt two and a half percent wealth was the main loser on the r.t.s. shedding more than one tenth. of the country's most notable tycoons are going head to head for control of new rails nickel. body therefore talent both own twenty five percent of the myler through their various companies each is accuse the other of mismanaging more nickel and also by their fellow shareholder out but neither wants to sell ryan gauld of specialized research an investment explains the conflict. when you look at the conflict i think it comes down to one basic issue and common

sense says it's money so both patellar and both very possibly need money for their own ventures so. the resolution basically comes down to. who can take full control over else can either take money out of the company in the form of a dividend which would be fantastic for minority investors that's what i promote it in sydney. or they use the shares that they own a real as a deposit or as collateral to a bank for a major loan that they could use to part of their business interests outside of the world those are the two basic centers of a third circuit of course which is probably the worst of all scenarios which would be just a legal battle but it was on and on and on and on and it was an investor would just sort of lose money while they sorted out their own problems so i think the issue is money the resolution will be a decision that will allow with the winner take money out of the company either in the form of a loan or in a dividend and depending on which one they choose as

a minority investor you could do very well or nothing at all. and finally ara fluffs become the first russian line to be included in the top twenty five leading carriers in the well industry magazine at transport world place the russian flagship carry a ten place one hall haven't left their group and that's just the airline's expresso financial dealings in two thousand and nine magazine also put eighteenth the net profit in two thousand and nine which is one hundred twenty two million dollars first place in both categories went to emirates. shop they face but you can always buy most always on our website i. believe it will.

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