collection. was a movie. but they. remain stranded in all but there's a technical glitch stops the shuttle for long docking but mission control says the crew is in no danger. also tonight cia trained after death squads are reportedly fighting the taliban in pakistan well concerns over what will happen to. the u.s. is out of the region. also calls for peace a few years ago the biggest gathering of world leaders in the big apple. as the international community calls on iran to get back to a dialogue president accuses the united states of trying to dominate the world we'll bring you all the latest updates just ahead in the program.

this is our team it's nine pm here now in moscow thanks for watching this hour i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and first for the first time ever a soyuz spacecraft has failed to undock from the international space station leaving the crew stuck in orbit two russian cosmonauts and astronauts ready to return to earth one of the signal technical problems. a difficult maneuver and not a good time to hear warning bells after spending nearly six months in orbit three of the current i says crew get held up trying to head for home well trying to undo the automatic lock between the space station and seize landing module feel to open system. an alarm went off aboard the spacecraft saying that the airlock isn't

properly secured and the vehicle isn't isolated from the vacuum of space after a thorough inspection it turned out this was a false alarm and this is no ordinary jammed lock this journey home takes intense preparation. they haven't slept for a day preparing for the landing and checking the spacecraft costumes and testing the air tightness and now they have to go through that all over again which means another day of no rest it's very tough but they're well trained with safety is the watchword here mission control center needs to be one hundred percent certain before giving the next green light we could have proceeded with the undocking and landing today but we decided to do it tomorrow just to be sure there is nothing wrong with either the station or the landing module. now the problem is solved nothing should stops a spacecraft from successfully detaching his plans in case of emergency in case the spacecraft fails to undock again there's always a back up module that they came here to for i pad to earth and there's always

plan c s then by say you spacecraft that's ready to take off for the isis and bring the stranded crew safely back to earth not only the r.t. kind of moscow region. elite anti terror kill was run by america's intelligence agency of no take in the us beyond afghanistan those are the claims in a new book called obama's wars by veteran journalist bob woodward and he reveals that a secret army of some three thousand afghan fighters sent in the taliban have now infiltrated pakistan but as artists paul asli reports the fact that the cia's been managing a covert afghan squad was never a well guarded secret. u.s. officials for some time has been talking quite openly and brazenly about secret armies operating here although these officials speak anonymously some of them of gone so far as to actually brag and boast that some of their most effective

counterinsurgency efforts have been thanks to groups like this now in a book that will be released next week and titled obama's war was written by bob woodward he suggests that there are as many as three thousand afghan assassins who have been directly trained and funded by the cia to carry out can design operations in which they capture and kill al qaeda and taliban fighters and leaders here in afghanistan and also across the border in pakistan and this is something that is not going to go down well with his numbered there has always been a red light on u.s. forces operating here in afghanistan not to cross over into pakistan and this coupled with the fact that the u.s. has been firing missiles from a manned u.s. drone aircraft to do rate higher than the bush administration does point to an enlargement of the u.s. president barack obama's close it when the region that is the million dollar question what does happen to these heavily trained heavily equipped and heavily

funded groups if and when the u.s. loses interest in this part of the world this is a decades old strategy we're not talking about something new we're talking about a system when for whatever reasons it is not politically or economically or militarily. viable for the united states to take some kind of direct action it employs proxy armies the same thing or a very similar type of operation happened in iraq against al qaida there we saw the same thing happening back in the one nine hundred eighty s. here in afghanistan when the cia sponsored which if you didn't take on the soviets and very often people would say to this as we sold the door option a throwback to the seventy's and eighty's when the us sponsored disquiets in countries in latin america to take on its enemies. paul asli reporting there from afghanistan's capital kabul cray shoes from the think tank project for pakistan of the twenty first century he says the death squads may become a major source of problems for both afghanistan and pakistan. the united states

continues to rely on warlords in afghanistan when when i heard about the this mercenary force of three thousand well trained up guns i still there's one part of the story that is still missing and that is where these three thousand of gun volunteers for this mercenary army came from and i have no doubt about the answer to this question and that is they came and they were recommended by some of the warlords of course as you know there is a there's a problem of loyalty and enough to understand you cannot recruit people without knowing exactly where they coming from so most of this three thousand force must have come recommended from some of the warlords and these warlords are really milking the u.s. government and the u.s. military they're making a lot of money and of course we all know the story of what happened in tora bora back in november and in december two thousand and one when it was some of bin laden actually from tora bora thanks actually to the very allies of the u.s. military the of gone warlords who some of them according to reports took money and

let many almost one thousand al qaeda fighters really skate so you really these are really shifting loyalties and these three thousand fighters must have come from somewhere and they must have loyalties to some warlords inside afghanistan and this confirms actually that we will have problems about these militias and these mercenaries getting out of control at some point in the future. coming up a bit ahead of the program tonight follow oxys closer to want to just expose the ethnic diversity of the secular region in russia's far east. for that achieving pace should be the focus of the u.n. general assembly instead mahmoud ahmadinejad stole the show with a tirade against the west adding that the u.s. could be behind the nine eleven attacks that sent delegates heading for the exits with barack obama calling the remarks hateful and offensive but it's not even this is in new york says the. president was not a character. obviously president mahmoud ahmadinejad has earned himself

a reputation over these last couple of years and is known to traditionally come up with theatricals when he addresses the united nations general assembly but yesterday's speech was in fact a surprise this was the first time that the reading and president mentioned the events of september eleventh and the underlining message that he sent to the international community was something that sent the u.s. delegation out of the assembly hall yet. there were three viewpoints first that a very powerful and complex terrorist group able to successfully cross all the years of the american intelligence and security car you don't need to talk this is a privilege you point which has been supported mainly obligated by american statesman second but some segments within the u.s. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining american economy and its grips in the middle east in order to save the zionist regime the majority of the american people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view while mahmoud ahmadinejad also took time to extensively criticize

dominating nations he talked a lot about the history of certain world powers dominating others other nations and of course in these last couple of days mahmoud ahmadinejad has really been a one man reality t.v. show he's been in new york for several days he has said. several media appearances and has really been sending out mixed messages to to the to the international community while the international community has been trying to say that we're ready for dialogue we want dialogue to resume again and of course your new york yesterday thursday one. shot was giving his speech one of the biggest protests took place we saw buses of people arriving with signs saying mahmoud ahmadinejad is a terrorist a tie around and so on there was a. cartoonish figure of ahmadinejad right outside the united nations and people were really getting worked up criticizing the era. any and human rights situation as well as it's controversial you read him in richmond program barack obama of

course who was also addressing the u.n. general assembly on thursday obviously brought up the issue of iran he said that the united states is still expecting that dialogue could resume and hoping that iran would start negotiating directly again i'm not sending out different messages but the u.s. does says it still wants iran to prove that its intentions are peaceful yesterday russian minister russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said what the international community wants iran to do is start cooperating with the international atomic energy agency sign up to the important international nonproliferation treaties as well as really get rid of all suspicions and really prove that it's open and it has nothing to hide. we can count on the fact that this signal was heard we see signs proving that to iran is seriously reviewing the current situation and studying the propositions which were given to worry iranian colleagues the foreign

ministers of russia the u.s. china france germany the you carry hold a meeting where the i mean big it was lee confirmed that our emails to start negotiations we expect that soon we will hear from iran that they were ready to begin this process well even though these calls from the international community came repeatedly asking iran to join the dialogue again we have definitely been seeing very mixed messages from the iranian leader over the last couple of days starting from the. speech at the united nations general assembly to sending out messages and giving contradicting statements used he said that if the united states continues attacking iran if the united states attacks iran's you. facilities that a war would take off then he was saying that yes iran is ready for dialogue but iran is not happy with the format of the dialogue being suggested and then he would say that iran has been ready for dialogue this entire time so we're going to have to wait and see if a real dialogue takes place any time soon. so. reporting from new york now let's

talk about a web site for the plane to explore there and have your say on any stories that to catch your attention catch your fancy you feel strongly about hit the discussion button and r.t. dot com let us know about it tonight online singapore is accused of inflating its economy and expanding its coastline with sand that's been smuggled in from neighboring countries get the backstory about them. rather odd story this one piece on the case of it though employed muscovite says he is the victim of a three million dollar theft police though as i say are on the case to try to find out how the money was lifted from a safe deposit box you're funny about more about that one take a look at r.t. . the u.k.'s intelligence service was given the green light by a former government government minister to interrogate terror suspects in countries known for using torture tactics that comes from information released by security sources involving david miliband who was britain's foreign secretary into

a few months ago critics say his actions amount to sanctioning torture that's something miliband denies let's talk more about this with tim cook creep which is a prisoners' rights group itself thanks for being with us could these documents actually at the end of the day be able to prove mr miliband sanctioned torture. well good evening and thanks for having me on the first thing to say is that we don't actually know the exact content of these documents but nor of the documents the most important story here what what the important thing is to recognize that whilst the u.k. has a very strong commitment to human rights and a very strong track record of mental torture what we're talking about here is the very difficult circumstance when an individual is detained by a country that is known to use techniques that are palatable to the united kingdom the united kingdom his lawyers and the secret service want to gain information from that person or to interrogate them so mr miliband would have been presented with. a request from the secret services who would have said that this is

a difficult case there's a risk that this individual might be exposed to school inhuman or degrading treatment but we would like to interrogate him and they would have said to him relationship we cannot reduce this risk through taking normal measures like asking for mitigation and so on in the circumstances mr miliband was then faced with this very difficult decision as to whether or not he ought to go ahead and take and get the information whether he could reduce that risk of torture and unfortunately in this case it seems like it may have been the wrong decision and those individuals we're talking about two or three people were subject to torture not by the united kingdom or thirty's but unfortunately by the services which they were held overseas because most of it was but a change of government the current prime minister david cameron's old inquiry into britain's treatment of terror suspects do you think that's a step in the right direction for the u.k. to resolve all the allegations of torture. well perhaps i should explain i work for a charity named reprieve been investigating these allegations of torture ever since

we started representing individuals held in guantanamo bay eight or nine years ago and we've been calling for an inquiry ever since then we agree that an inquiry is necessary but we would hope that the inquiry will be sufficiently forensic sufficiently empowered and will will will be given the scope to really investigate these allegations and to do that in a public fashion we have some reservations about the way the inquiry that has been announced appears to be panning out i was going to ask you going to i was going to ask you about the intelligence services commission's got the job of leading that inquiry but it's been his job of course to review the bureau's actions for the past four years so i guess the question that could be asked can he really be considered to be impartial is the best man for the job well the question of impartiality about the individual almost isn't relevant is a senior judge and no doubt he's a he's a fantastic judge and

a deeply impartial man the problem is that he comes from an institution that has technical oversight of the actions of the security services now if he didn't know about what was going on and he wasn't looking into these allegations then there's a problem with the way that these things are regulated and it's important that in fact that problem gets looked at is he the right person to look at that reprieve we've written to him and said we don't think that he is however if in the conduct of his inquiry he's able to. to distance himself from those cases in which he himself might or should have had knowledge then perhaps that inquiry might work i guess you had no response from that letter that you've written yet. well we got a very rude response in fact but we're willing to cooperate with the inquiry and we've made a number of very pragmatic and very sensible suggestions as to how to do it what we want is an inquiry that complies with the united kingdom's international human rights obligations and finally settles on these very very difficult issues of

allegations of torture times a bit again since there's one other thing i want to ask you mr miliband is currently course in the race with his brother to lead the labor party the was voted out of office of may well know the winner tomorrow all these revelations you think have affected his quest for party leadership but the allegations of torture a very old these latest ones came very late in the day in the election contest and frankly i don't know nor do i particularly care whether they make any big difference the important thing is that the government and the labor party recognize that there may be flaws in the rules in the way that we approach these more difficult cases of torture and that they amend them so that these things don't happen in the future all right well the cocoa from reprieve of prisoners' rights group thank you for your thoughts on tonight. looking ahead on the way to close up team take another road trip to bring you the very best of russia.

i'm tonight we're headed seven thousand kilometers from moscow to the country's far east coast take a look at the map see where it is we're talking about russia's biggest island suckle and it's also one of the country's most prosperous regions too as you can see it's located not far from japan it was the scene of territorial struggle between moscow and tokyo in the early twentieth century in the late nineteenth thirty's sakhalin became home to thousands of koreans sent there by japan is cheap labor and his lecture is yes he spoke to members all but unique community who still call the island their home. artie's close up team continues its inside in the circle in region in the russian far east and this time we'll talk about what this region is like in terms of its social structure now this region has more than a powerful million residents predominantly russian more than eighty four percent of the people living in the cycling island and everywhere around the region are ethnic russians also we have less than six percent of ethnic koreans the diaspora which

was sent here by japan at the time when this this island was occupied by the land of the rising sun and the korean diaspora in the second is the largest of all russia and we know that all this half a million koreans living in every way across russian mainland but the biggest chunk of this diaspora is living in here in the circle and region and we did a report with inside on the tragic story of these labor migrants in this part of russia let's have a look at this report right now. korean team there prefers to be called the idea or russian style this nineteen year old man worked in saddam schoolmarms for more than four decades ago was under two different. political regimes he still remembers the night his life changed completely. japanese soldiers came to our village in korea in one thousand nine hundred three and dragged me and some of my family out of our house they said they were taking us to sakhalin to work in

a mine and promised we would only be there for two years but as you can see i'm still here. kim lives in a small mining village in eastern sakhalin home to several hundred people whose share his story koreans were sent to cycling by japan as forced labor migrants to work and call mines thus they supply talk with the resources needed for the war. the japanese occupation and more than six decades ago and most of the coal mines are no longer operational but the koreans are still here. just under a thousand koreans were sent to cycling by talk while their country was on the japanese rule thanks. now there are almost fifty times as many living on the island and if the third generation has adapted to live here some of the older people who see themselves as forced migrants still dream of going back

given their holiday gatherings turn into political rallies as you can demand historic justice. this organization deals with we've got three ation and has helped more than fifteen hundred koreans return home over the past twenty years its president says this number would be higher if talkee or provided help. as we believe japan is guilty of causing the situation in the first place since nine hundred eighty five we've heard tokyo apologize twice but it hasn't gone anywhere from there there's been no action that's why we rely on our own resources and help from russia and south korea. moskos stance is to assist the repatriation of the cycling koreans and local authorities say they try to do just that but the number of people wanting to leave is diminishing every year but it is going to go with a but will fully cooperate with local green organizations on the pattern but ethnic

koreans are getting more and more into south and in life they held positions an administration there is successful in regional business and they get a good education and that's why some even come back after a patch ration to korea. says he'd happily return to korea but all of his family are here so like many within the diaspora he sees no point in leaving his home even if this was not the home he chose lets you assess the r.t. reporting from the cycling region. beautiful place and it shows here in just a few moments. hungry for the food we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we hope you understand how we'll get there and. the

best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our g. hello and welcome to the business program with me was folly the world bank is planning to jump start lending in russia with a fund to buy bad debts from banks is hope this will free up cash to the banks can ease credit the banks international finance corporation is in talks with russia's deposit insurance agency to set up in two thousand and eight to buy troubled land. in russia believed to be around seventy billion dollars given that investors trade about twenty percent of non-performing loans this means russia has a potential market of thirteen billion dollars. now global mergers and acquisitions have risen for the third consecutive quarter and showed their strongest results in

two years active teetotal six hundred dollars up thirty five percent from a year ago a recovery in financing options allowed companies to deals previously first on hold during the crisis growth is being driven mainly by emerging markets in particular the bric countries of brazil russia india and china which accounted for a fifth of m. and a activity so far this year activity in the u.s. has held steady offsetting a slow performance in your. films have a look at the markets now here in the end of the week in the black boxes. the law says session the positive sentiment was in line with global trends good money factual data from the us and the rise in german business confidence provided the most the course was bad but getting along two point five percent. and staying with the markets and it's been a quiet week here in russia although generally more positive than negative. from

investment bank gives his verdict on the last five days people expect that there is going to be probably somewhere appreciation know what the markets are commuting in the united states and started coming tuesday the market for the basic review is going to be some increase in the purchases over the summer olympics and comes from and so what we believe is going to be you're not happening until gold we are beginning to remember them up at the same time offered a very small role where your base industry was so we've seen some rather negative for two things coming out which was very much like nothing out of the market for what sort of business political number but the market was trying to gain the metal units of russian and gold mining. plans to raise up to four hundred million dollars by holding an i.p.o. on the hong kong stock exchange a source of an investment fund says the company has already begun. the order book is to close the six table from pricing is to say they will be the second to russian firm to be listed hong kong after aluminum producer. russia offers tremendous

potential for carbon trading that's according to a group of international experts who've gathered here in moscow to discuss the possibilities for developing the markets one some say could be worth more than two and a half billion dollars a year we do not question has the details. carbon trading was one of the key elements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to greet and vicki odd a product called russia was the last to ratify the product which came into effect in two thousand and five onto the trading system and government issued permits to companies to volume of greenhouse gas if a company than once to invent more c o two equivalent than it can buy the rights from in another company that will end at last the system also works between countries but even if the mechanism were widely adopted it still would not properly address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions the challenges are it's more from what your political level i mean we have you know china is a new power in the world that is growing and it's growing its emissions we

have the united states that there's still a bit reluctant. to reduce emissions because that will. you call me we have for europe europe that's very active the first domestic carbon trading proposal was made by russia's knowledge his bank is burbank the c.m. thirty five companies made bids for seventy seven point five million tons of c o two equivalent meanwhile ukraine's national environmental investment agency wants to create and join carmen trading platform between russia and belarus carbon trading russia really just kicked off the approval fifteen projects which reduce emissions thirty small scale so far we've got somewhere to go just under forty million tonnes of carbon to put out the context of surround three hundred fifty million euros but the potential is much greater however the private sector is has returned to about making long term investment in content trading as the kyoto

protocol exploits and twenty twelve and its success has not yet been a great the weak governmental support for missions trading is adding to the uncertainty of these markets. with a long term view because we believe that the spider difficulties we are observing in terms of finding new international agreements we believe we will be leaving and i mean to you to constrain the war so far very little money has been made from carbon trading in russia without profit incentives it's hard to persuade private companies to get involved in the markets but the governments will get enough a chance to rewrite the rules in two thousand and twelve when the kyoto protocol expires and possibly build in more financial incentives for companies to go green might you know question a business i want to. show up they face out but you can always find more stories on our website called business.

wealthy british style. guide. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. more news today once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.