the united states of america is waging war within its own army. kill no advantage no one sign. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces sex in the army. russia brings together afghanistan as a guest on pakistan to discuss how to tackle drug traffickers and terrorism in central asia with the afghan war as the major cause of instability.

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 we dressed in their uniforms have to get used to it since this is what will happen where all the job takes you to the front line of the anti drugs fights with border guards and put through tough training for the mission ahead. also human rights group says the scandal involving an israeli army officer posting pictures of a self posing with down the palestinian detainees is just the tip of the ice when. investigators say a blast in southern russia that injured thirty could have been the work of the al qaeda linked militants behind march's moscow metro bombings police in the capital on high enough. i started to look at american history and politics and realize that my. ideals hundreds of u.s.

nationals feel the american dream has failed them. and choose to denounce their citizenship. live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the russian resort of sochi has welcomed the presidents of afghanistan pakistan and . the high ranking meeting was set up to discuss how to keep the central asian region stable and prevent the work of drug traffickers katrina has been 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 aim 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 what all countries of the international community are committed to achieve it by bringing the four nations together russia shows its commitment to support it 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 president of afghanistan and pakistan and the counter to this should be a joint effort nine afghanistan nor russia nor any other country is able to tackle it on their own with as i've already sent this is a joint problem and we shall combat it jointly well this summit which is the second in a row is of course a significant achievement of the four countries and it will take a long way towards strengthening 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 of ghana stand just recently russia signed all of the last fortune of again assistance debt and over old 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 comes all the way into russia and further into europe through to jake is done because no visas are required to travel from to g q stan to russia and this is why the truck plugs an easily through the open door so tightening security on the. border was one of the main topics discussed today i t z corpuscle not want to see for himself what challenges the people who are providing security on the border on the tribal border between afghanistan and a 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 to let north are both cut or no dollar people don't go out that's why at this training center in tajikistan 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 uniform 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 the stones border with afghanistan stretches twelve hundred kilometers around seven hundred fifty miles dug 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 combat deck ticks and survival techniques are all poured over 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 u.n. in the sea working in his town alone. afghanistan produces over ninety percent of all opium in the world according to the united nations the death toll from opiates in nato countries is five times more than all the needle soldiers who died in afghanistan since two thousand and one but according to the sheet abdul an independent analyst and the author of dozens of articles about the flow of drugs is unlikely to stop no matter how strong and in demand that water. this problem may have various technical solutions but it will never be fully solved while there's fighting in afghanistan and global demand for opiates. afghan opium production has

grown by a third since the us led invasion it's thought the billion dollar business brings more money than all foreign investments put together that's why it's unlikely even the most advanced water control system possible would solve the problem completely business is simply too good you got this going off r t. many states but james thinks there is a chance that afghanistan could become a source of cooperation between russia and the us. i think russia is strengthening 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 in 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 are remarkably improved between moscow and washington they both have exactly the same issues there whether it's drug trafficking all islamic radicalism so i think it's very much a case of russia leading its own initiative to improve security in its own at least

a neighborhood that the u.s. in taking enough to support i find it almost incredible to think that the americans say that countering the narcotics in afghanistan isn't part of its mission if we look at the the size of the amount of money that drugs bring in in this country over a billion dollars and the taliban are estimated to to accrue some three hundred million dollars about 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 counter-narcotics doesn't always involve simply destroying the crops spera might well be the foreigners are wrong our reliance on large areas on growing the poppy does not seem to matter as well if you can do it now to using chemical weapons against these fields border security to it removing the dumond back of the border in other countries whether it's in the west or and elsewhere there are many way for

the approach to 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 gemstones know talking a little earlier and brian becker director of the anti war on sicko nation in washington says the four countries are attempting to reassert their sovereignty over the u.s. . since the dissolution the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one the american government both the democrats and the republicans didn't really matter who was in charge saw south and central asia and and especially the former soviet republics in that region as a new piece of real estate a possibility for an expansion of american of an american empire of an american sphere of influence of course the resources natural gas and oil which are rich in that region are a vital interest for american corporations and the u.s. government and the pentagon see these areas as an effort a place to stage new u.s.

military installations u.s. military bases so we saw the meeting today and in the recent days with russia and to stand in pakistan and afghanistan as an attempt by these countries to reassert their sovereignty their control their independence from the american military occupation in afghanistan but an interest by the united states to dominate the region which predates the afghanistan war the us nato military presence in afghanistan is not really a diminishing so called terrorism or the spread of islamic extremism or whatever the pretext is that it's given for it i think we all know now that the occupation by hundreds of thousands or more than one hundred thousand foreign soldiers in afghanistan is in fact a catalyst for the insurgency for the armed insurgency in afghanistan and probably throughout the region the american military and american corporations have no

constructive role to play in south central asia what you see happening today russia afghanistan pakistan stand a meeting together and working together independently of western imperial forces is clearly a better path to take. well stay with us here on r.t. because there's plenty more to come this for you could be the case for this coalition government since ninety four if it is lucky one hundred days in office time has been characterized by massive cuts in public spending and comparisons to margaret thatcher's government. the first human rights group says the photos posted on facebook of a former israeli officer posing beside bound and blindfolded palestinian prisoners on 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. from the public committee against torture in israel

says the jewish state's army aleck's discipline and psychological training. these incidents are not isolated these incidents are part of a of a trend or part of a i'm going 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 face humiliation as a psychological violence on the part of israeli soldiers after they're arrested there is 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. police in moscow being put on a high state of alert of affairs a car bomb in russia's north caucuses could signal more attacks on the capital a chechen that militant leader linked to al qaeda 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 vacation of the man is unknown although he's not currently

a suspect meanwhile doctors in moscow are treating four victims of the blast to a flight to pick up to twenty five people remain in hospitals and from where our correspondent because of a report. red ribbons divide the lives of people n.p.r. tagore's the street full of cafes packed with visitors turned into militants target only police and residents get through the cordon it was the backyard of lianas shore up that militants used for a part of luckily she wasn't inside by her friend just trembles recalls a story of survival. my shoulder is near the site of explosion i don't have the words to express how i. been there. know the blast was literally turns to dust a miracle is still persistent is that i have seen her and she's covered in blood and. she says when the blast structure ran out of the shop and lost consciousness right on the tram line up to forty kilos of explosives left thirty injured and

a huge hole is now where a cafe once words because there was parked just over there are and you can actually see at this car if you take a closer look it is claimed that it's belongs to a local guy wasn't dandified but hasn't been found yet 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. takes a drive a live one is back on the streets the day after the bombing. this trade is one of his regular routes he was looking for a parking place when the blast smashed windows but left his car untouched watched for their report and found a place to park near the tram rails and there was a blast it was so big that it exploded when a car was pushed the way i understood it was a terror attack trying when doing it was smashed in although the road is blocked

leval it isn't afraid to drive around town he says is his job but some do it shayla bonce optimism they've started packing up their things saying they want to move away and leave the horrific sight behind x. on that r.t. 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 or and the tallest one x. patrick why he did it. ken o'keefe grew up an american nation that he believed was the great. 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. 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 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 renounce citizenship and renounce if he did apply to the state department to stop being american claim political asylum in holland and his u.s. passport o'keeffe 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. heart says americans must do something i have a love hate relationship with america. america. and. people on the face of. the bad news. deep down

they're also the most idealistic so i say. if they were properly informed about the causes and effects of things in the middle east. they could become engaged to make their democracy would it hasn't always been this way at the end of the second world war the us was leading the world economically and morally but according to carol turner from the stop the war coalition it steadily if not good will because it's failing to give its ethically right now attorneys it's increasingly forced back to using its military power to impose its will can a. 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 may and following that he was branded a terrorist by israel but ken o'keefe now an irish citizen giving up his country wasn't an easy decision and he insists it wasn't born 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 and. 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 and that's absolutely not the case at all 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 and all those like him will be staying away from the land of the free and the home of the brave. 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 clue. majority conservative prime minister david cameron heads the coalition along with deputy prime minister liberal democrat nick clegg since its formation the coalition has unveiled sweeping public spending cuts to tackle the you can record budget deficit critics say the cuts have been too drastic and opinion polls show mixed support for the performance of the government so far haven't had a general secretary of compass the left says it's only a matter of time before coalitions popularity drops the coalition government is inflicting huge huge cuts on public services here in britain cuts in public spending even deeper and hard to miss is that you did 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 and 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 on 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've now in this country face the real prospect of a double dip recession which is a direct consequence of the huge cutbacks that 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. in his first major interview new president. said he wants to improve relations with russia and he's invited president medvedev to visit warsaw this is all part of the new geopolitical triangle involving russia poland and germany well that's according to people. from 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 a more working relationship 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. projects but it's remorse going to continue a probe into the plane crash which killed the previous president more than ninety other officials and trying to mark seventy years of the kind of necessary twenty thousand poles by the soviets in russia's smolensk region because it was seen as a major historical stumbling but april's crash appeared to be going to a kind of healing process as the two nations mourned together and political analysts until this point of says there are many other areas of common interest beyond a 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 if that's 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 the area where those 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 told russia too deep to be swept aside within months so surely we'll have we'll see a lot of incidents very unpleasant for both sides. we're with we're going to live from the russian capital time now to have a look at some other international news stories making headlines around the world at least eighteen people are being killed after a mudslide hit a school in india rescue workers are still searching for ten children and two teachers who were thought buried under the rubble the state of the account has been hit hard by heavy rains which of course devastation in some areas earlier this month one hundred seventy five people died off the flash floods for the indian part

of kashmir. watching t.v. the amount of pilots who survived off these planes came off says he'll continue flying spectators at an air show in argentina sort of a small plane crash into the ground during a maneuver the pilot was strapped into his seat when he pulled his parachute and the plane was lowered to the ground leaving him with little more than a bump from. south korea a stage a military drill despite warnings from north korea of a merciless blow tensions have been running high on the troubled peninsula since a u.s. led investigation blamed for sinking military ships members of the security services simulated a series of hostage taking and chemical biological and radiological attacks exercises are part of an annual rehearsal for invasion the u.s. and south korea. well still ahead from this heated debate in cross talk with host putin of discussing what's been achieved in the forty year long war on drugs that's

coming our way very shortly that'll be all the latest business news with charlotte . lower welcome to the business program. and we start with an l.c. business exclusive russia's biggest banks is happy with his performance over the first half and confirms its own course to achieve its full year targets the deputy chief of the bank's board. spoke to us about the results and where the bank goes from here. we should all work for years experiments 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 turn between food 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 from may 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 will still be unused. russia's finance minister. has been saying it is time for some shares in state companies to be allocated for privatization or 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's 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 to check out the markets now here in moscow the r.t.s. and life that fish wednesday session in the red on low oil and metal prices might need to go higher still fell two and a half percent what was the name on the r.t.s.

telling more than one day. two of the country's most notable tycoons are going head to head for control of noelle's nickel. talent both own twenty five percent of the lyla through their various companies it is accuse the other mismanaging more nickel and also by their fellow shareholder out but neither wants to sell wyandotte of specialized research and 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 protected and both very possibly need money for their own venturous so. the resolution basically comes down to. who can take full control or else can either take money out of a company in the form of a dividend which would be fantastic for minority investors that's what i promote insignia. or they use the shares that they own rules as a deposit or as collateral to a bank for

a major loan that they could use to preserve their business interests outside of the rules those are the two basic centers or third circuit of course which is really the worst of all scenarios which would be just a legal battle but goes on and on and on and on and use an investor would just sit and 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 carries in the wealth industry magazine at transport world place the russian flagship carry a tenth place one higher than of tonnes the group that's just the airlines expresso financial dealings in two thousand and nine magazine also put eighteenth the net profit in two thousand and nine which was one hundred twenty two million dollars

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