france's military spending on foreign operations spirals out of control as the government is accused of not stumping up for people's needs back home. the ends that may not justify the means u.s. methods in the war on terror including charges of torture and overseas prisons again face scrutiny following the killing of osama bin laden. the world's most successful rocket russian soyuz given the green light for a summer blast off from a european space port.

eight am in moscow i matras so good to have you with us here on our team our top story billions spent on france's military forays are broad have already accounted for the years defense budget with paris only increasing its foreign adventures the political price could also be costly for the french president or his daniel bushell reports. heat or heat that's the choice faced by modern kids so instead of supporting the elderly france's government is accused of using that money for war france says it doesn't have enough funds for a time and pensioners must hasten their parents but it now spends over thirty million euros a year on defense france has more than twenty thousand soldiers currently on foreign soil in lebanon kosovo a new military base in the united arab emirates is fighting wars in libya every

coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces of broke even with madame kitto his pension is pretty much eaten up. operational budget for the year military excess snaps france's reputation as a careful spender investors now plan to scrap the country's troy's aaa credit rating which lets it go on the cheap course if you have a country which is very rich. it can afford it but france has been named as possibly losing its aaa status so so everyone you shouldn't is closer to losing to a steeds france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remits in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de ville in now pays the price of calling for regime change and

for each. foreign abrasion it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community the treatment of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from libya he says for months france has set soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we have gone troops and. by the way if you know that we have. already called for to. find the dog it's a one but it was not revealed but says she worked all her life for a decent retirement no politician or if she wanted money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because they can't afford the heating they ask all the military campaign is worth it if the government called take care of people that's. paris on the fourth anniversary of president sarkozy's

election when france is looking back at his promises to break with the past in reshape the country for the better or to contributor. to the break appears to be from his own people. what i've heard of the french plans to intervene in syria the first thought that came to my mind was when is the presidential elections france actually it's in less than a year and how president sarkozy doing. according to the recent poor also he's at the record low was two thirds of the french population unhappy with his policies. i mean francis involvement in afghanistan ivory coast. was not enough for the french well just to change their mind so because they came up with a new idea to intervene in syria. what surprises me is that sarkozy wants your own brand but he forgets that's literally the former french president who sound french

troops to round in one thousand nine hundred ninety four was accused of supporting the genocide of the sick such was the conclusion of a public inquiry conducted by the independent rwandan commission in two thousand sex. later something classified french documents come from that as well of course not instance the race should be stopped but the incident only make matters worse. the international contact group on libya has agreed to give rebel groups more money with a temporary fund in place within weeks washington is trying to release more than thirty billion dollars of gadhafi frozen assets to give it to the opposition but professor alan cooperman says it's likely to become a turning point if very rebels were strong and a little bit of outside assistance to them might have been enough to topple the government but the rebels were extraordinarily weak in fact the war would have

ended more than a month ago if not for intervention the rebels simply with the feeling of killing were stopped. more people would be alive than are alive today so what the intervention really did is just to level the playing field this is actually quite common and intervention that is intended to end the violence sometimes that's the way it's the violence and that's exactly what's happened in libya and so could offer you a sense secure in tripoli his forces are loyal large parts of the country support him and so a little bit of intervention is not going to compel him to step down there are tribal differences between the west of libya and the east of libya this is mainly a regional war between those regional tribes west and east and that would not change with the killing of one man the ultimate solution in libya is going to be a peace agreement that's going to be a peace agreement between the west and the east power sharing in this part of the world that very familiar with those sorts of deals where tribes that are killing

each other one day and then share power the next day and so that's really where the effort internationally should be focused. on thursday a meeting of the russian nato council on brussels tackled the proposal of a joint european missile defense system eighty initially put forward by moscow has been met with little enthusiasm from nato or the u.s. so far russia is on boy to the alliance says the politicians and not the military may be holding things back. we were under the impression that the military dialogue is running ahead of the political dialogue and the american policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests and they're also refusing to provide us with gear until they see that the composed he was a missile defense system is not a target it rich with the miracles want to deploy interceptor missiles capable of shooting down our nuclear weapons or near our launch thinks it will continue as time will be able to shoot down a large part of our nuclear arsenal and if it's launched what you've got at the same time they keep telling us that it's not aimed against russia in d.c.

reported we want them to give us written guarantee most of the time he was diplomats and politicians simply smile back at us if you will because i'm still ahead in the program the rocket that hasn't rocketed anywhere find out why a russian spacecraft has a kind of european launch pad collectively to actually take off. wealthy british scientists out. of the.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. thanks for staying with us here on our team nine minutes after the hour in moscow u.s. president barack obama has paid tribute to the victims of the nine eleven terror attacks four days after osama bin laden was killed by u.s. special forces the mission was hailed as a success by washington but there is widespread criticism over why the al qaeda leader wasn't taken alive as art he's got a cheeky on the reports it's not the first time u.s. methods in the war on terror have come under scrutiny. it's putting

a pretty face on years of torture and that the use of law u.s. officials talk about the efficiency of enhanced interrogation techniques as they call them in locating bin ladin we have to take that information through waterboarding and some of those who say that waterboarding there's a word you say that a true stop you never use again we got vital information which directly was true but why are you denying that waterboarding was in part of the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission no i think some of the detainees clearly were you know they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees no tangible proof has been presented as to how torture helped of taint valuable intelligence on bin ladin although a detainee named kelly cheik muhammad was reported to have provided information on a courier that led to bin laden's capture intelligence sources say he repeatedly misled interrogators about the couriers identity and stalled the quest for years he

was water boarded one hundred eighty three times what we're saying is that waterboarding enhanced interrogation techniques just like professional interrogators have been saying for years always result and either limited information false information or no information the laying of the groundwork if you will of these techniques basically i believe wholeheartedly slowed us down on the road towards are some of bin laden and numerous other members of al qaeda not not just bin laden and i'm convinced we would have found them a lot earlier had we not resorted to torture and abuse attempts to justify torture seem outrageous to those who have been unjustly subjected to inhumane treatment at u.s. prisons overseas colonel was captured in pakistan in two thousand and one he was working for an n.g.o.s that helped the youth there to quit drugs in the dark to healthier lifestyle. he was sent to guantanamo and tortured for five years.

where i would agree that crime remember. he was to start it and. i go to court every time i see whose eyes are. very cold. every one of them if you three of course it's right. there was. never charged with any crimes more it's now back home in germany the vast majority of the hundreds of individuals who have been held at guantanamo since two thousand and two like moron are said to be of no intelligence value whatsoever some of them were children when they were captured by canadian citizen omar carter who was just fifteen when he was taken into u.s. custody he said because he was tortured he was ready to say anything that would run

it turns heere to stop the pain the international community has widely condemned the unlawful practices of the us prison amnesty international called it the gulag of what times and matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred interrogations in iraq and help to track down a number of terrorists he says torture it was used by the u.s. authorities in one tunnel and other prisons overseas like the infamous abu ghraib in iraq contributed to more terror when i was in iraq i oversaw the interrogations of foreign fighters and those foreign fighters the majority of them said time and time again the reason they come to iraq to fight was because of the torture and abuse of detainees and both are great and one time obey and this is not my opinion that department offense track these statistics and they were briefed to every interrogator right there that's a. courtroom use was okayed is number one recruiting tool and so this policy. these

did not make america safer what it did was it caused the deaths of hundreds or thousands of american soldiers recently in the wake of all the cheering about bin laden's death when asked about torture the cia director said other we would have gotten the same information through other approaches so i think it's always going to be an open question just a few years ago when barack obama was running for president on promises to shut down guantanamo and stop the torture it was presented as a done deal but now with bin laden's there it could seem the ends justify the means the means which is many experts say not only have not made americans safer but have motivated more terrorists i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team . practiced and says it's going to investigate its failures in addition to track down bin laden but it also warned it may rethink its alliance with the u.s. if washington carries out any more secret operations on its soil such as the raid that saw bin laden killed lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer says the u.s.

should stop funding the pakistani regime which he thinks can't be trusted. but we knew this in zero three that the pakistanis were playing both sides of the fence so our own policy leaders have been either naive or worse regarding the fact that they're not playing ball this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt either they're incompetent or an evil a spat with that said one of the things we've recognized and we won't talk about is that a lot of the money we're giving them is going right back into their nuclear weapons program so the problem is any time we give them money we cannot use it for the purposes for which we give it to him for and it's funneled off in these other clandestine programs of their own making and the problem is you cannot continue to fund. a regime which will not play ball and frankly we're in danger in our own are our indian allies in the process of what we're doing get updates around the clock and everything we're covering at r t dot com here's a look at what's lined up for you on our web site right now. turning back immigrants who came to the u.s. with ideas of how to live a better life now leaving the country for other places as emerging economies start

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which is. turning out as some other stories making headlines across the globe protesters in syria preparing for what they call a day of defiance against the regime this comes as tanks have been withdrawn from a clampdown on deployed elsewhere the town was effectively under siege for ten days with electricity and telephones cut off shooting at people from the rooftops violence claimed more than five hundred fifty lives since the unrest started seven weeks ago. counting is underway after polls close in a series of national and local elections in the u.k. early results suggest a larger that the third largest party liberal democrats are said to lose control in several areas elections also included our friend among the countries a voting system which could see a switch from the first past the post system to what's known as the alternative

vote system results won't be known until late on friday. twenty two people have been killed dozens injured after a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a police headquarters in central iraq the blast in the city of hillah south of baghdad took place during a shift change most of the victims were police officers no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but officials suspect. was behind it. is extreme weather continues battering parts of the u.s. as communities try to recover from devastation that's left more than three hundred people dead people in a number of southern eastern states are bracing themselves for record breaking floods meanwhile the latest reports from texas and parts of the southwest warn of the threat of a massive drought many people are preparing for the worst as forecasts offer a little hope of any respite soon. russian rocket has gone through a simulated launch in european space toward french guiana the spacecraft was put

into position on the launch pad but without fuel just to make sure that everything is in order ahead of its actual blast off in august part of an ambitious joint project between russia and the european space agency the rockets or carry satellites for europe's own navigation system galileo into orbit could be the first time a russian craftspeople are so close to the equator a location that makes it easier to reach orbit soyuz rockets usually take off in the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan bringing supplies and crew members up to the international space station. has more on the legendary partnership. with more than one and a half thousand launches for the more than and over the soyuz is the world's most successful rocket and now for the first time it will be fired or criminal and russian space pulled over the last eight years the european space agency the e.s.a. and spend more than half a billion dollars on building a launch and adopting the soyuz first south american space center including. this

was all done by our engineers and designers we have to adapt to the climate here and the different safety standards but we have proven ourselves with this due to the modifications and crews world chose the location the soyuz will be able to take greater loads into space than ever before blew the prices than any competitor to see these makers in russia to benefit more than four decades after its launch the soyuz should really be showing its age but a true manes one of the world's most reliable rockets and in fact orders of plants are going up from year to year. twenty so use launchers will be produced here by the end of the year so really years ago the numbers were in single digits its chief engineer says the rocket remains popular just because of its record. it might look similar to the earlier. but inside the sleaziest being constantly graded as the

reason we still use the basic model i believe it's the perfect market in its fundamental design we predict that they will be used for another forty years at least the constructors are saying that the transition from prestige driven space race of the cold war era to a new way of doing things is complete. this is a project that makes solid financial sense to us it isn't just a political gesture and we're hoping it's just a springboard. but first so hughes will be launched from a group in the second half of the year and eventually the spaceport will handle full launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the soyuz platform either a see some are a. little later we take a walk through the heart of moscow zero guy through the russian capitals means. we'll be exploring streets in moscow the best. way. of the russians.

really a way out of the medieval city. today in the sense of the cities like life and. we've arrived in the skies where one of the may meeting places capital think of it as time square or piccadilly circus it's also a place where lovers lights and meet read books hold hands and give flowers very nice and in a sense here is the eleven to statue of the famous russian poet alexander. for your tour of the capital and about five minutes here on our team but first a look at the business news with any so stay with us. thanks matt i went about your business here in our team nordstrom has finished laying the world's longest subsea pipeline across the baltic and is to start pumping gas from russia to germany in the autumn some analysts say the eleven billion dollar construction has certain delivery weaknesses as compared with

liquefied natural gas but head of north streams says the project has many consumers just. as pipelines. for pipelines. use small groups and for the cost well for the bio it was so close. and the truth is flexible it's kind of. this can go. off to war. in the one hundred m. competition in the long. pipe that's for custom house especially . you know. let's take a look at how the markets are performing this hour here's a snapshot oil prices that's backed up regaining some ground after seeing significant overnight losses light sweet is currently trading above the hundred

dollars per barrel mark while bright is a bit below one hundred twelve dollars per barrel. and in asia japanese stocks are trading sharply lower as the market returns from a long holiday exporters are among the main losers with panasonic down two point five percent car producers are also under pressure with honda losing percent. are also lower as resource producers suffered further losses after crude oil and other commodity prices fell overnight. here in russia the markets will start trading in two hours time they closed in the red on thursday on weaker commodities with the r.g.s. reaching its lowest level in five months. and that's just we're also concerned that tightening economic policy could slow down the growth. but the current correction on the russian market has seen equities sell off fifty percent since the beginning of april but if i make a cost of capital explains it's been concentrating in a couple of sectors in such

a period of time when the market is correcting this is all looking to taper off in the stocks that have been the most obvious of you and your sector and we see this suffering the most which is the exactly the trend of the last three days gas from his have been one of the biggest losers and to remind you it's still up almost twenty percent year to date so it's quite obvious so we're in this for the centrino whereas the financial sector is actually it is correct him but financial stocks are a bit more resilient we're not seen as much momentum in selling the consumer in is because they're down heavy year to date and obviously utilities are i think the side is also because they had very bad year and actually there is a lot of upside in those names on their one year once a year horizon so i think the names probably were not better to sell. out china could outperform the u.s. as the world's leading economy in less than a decade if it continues to grow at the current pace mark or is going from a really reinventing bretton woods committee explains that new world order what the

new world order rather could mean. china is emerging as a main economic power china is going to really lay some export anything to rely more on the basic the main we're going to cost you more to our which we have benefits for for the for the u.s. for you for europe meaning that the u.s. we need to rely. more on explore the proven modell and china we need to rely on more domestic demesne modell so you we need to reverse what we have today meaning chinese exporting to get growth in the u.s. is consuming to get growth this is the reverse in order to get a more balanced global economy. that's the latest now from the business task i'll have more for you last than an hour stay with action.

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