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head about consumer advantages in twenty minutes. nine am in moscow i'm not treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story the billions spent on france's military for easer broad have already accounted for the years defense budget with paris only increasing its foreign adventures the political price could be costly for the french president as r.t. is daniel bushell reports. eat or eat that's the choice faced by modern kids so just of supporting the elderly frauds the government is accused of using that money for war france says it doesn't have enough funds for retirement pensioners unless times in their notes why did 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 pension cuts pretty much end up france 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 the poor on the cheap 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 everyone you shoot is a bomb closer to losing

a status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remits in the ivory coast and libya wants express mere dominique de villepin out pays the price of gunning for regime change and for each. for integration it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community 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 on troops and. i think that we had. already called for to sue to find the delegates and so on but it was not revealed but says she worked all her life for a decent retirement no politician. if she wanted the money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because they cancel for the

heating they also call the military campaign is worth it if the government can't take care of people that time when you push your party paris on the fourth anniversary of president sarkozy's election when france is looking back at its promises to break with the past and reshape the country for the better our key contributor karina's italy better things the break appears to be from his own people. when i've heard of the french plans to intervene in syria the first thought that came to my mind was what is the presidential elections in france actually it's in less than a year and how was president sarkozy doing according to the recent paulse he's a director of the world was two thirds of the french population unhappy with his policies i mean francis involvement in afghanistan ivory coast and media was not enough for the french voters to change their mind so because they came up with a new idea to intervene in syria what surprises me is that sarkozy wants his own

brand but he forgets that only to run a former french president will sound french troops to rwanda in ninety ninety four was accused of supporting the genocide of the two such was the conclusion of the public inquiry conducted by the independent rwandan commission into person sex later some declassified french documents confirm that as well of course the violence in syria should be stopped but the intervention would only make matters worse your national current terror group has agreed to give rebel groups more money with a temporary fund and within weeks washington's trying to release more than thirty billion dollars of it are frozen character given to the opposition but professor alan cooperman says it's unlikely to become a turning. if their rebels were strong then 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 would feel the killing would have stopped. and more people would be alive than are alive today so what the intervention really did is just level the playing field this is actually quite common intervention that is intended to end the violence sometimes that's collates the violence and that's exactly what's happened in libya and so could offer so it's secure and 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 it's going to be a peace agreement between the west and the east power sharing and this part of the world are very familiar with those sorts of deals where tribes that are killing

each other one day then share power the next day and so that's really where the effort internationally should be focused. so stay with us here on r t still ahead the rocket that hasn't rocketed anywhere. why are russian spacecraft was put into position on the european launch pad but back to leave. this is just a parliament building in. sixty five

years ago. was the final target. to move through from some from the army. its country became the symbol. of functions sort of. a victory over nazi germany. the former. on thursday meeting of the russian nato council on brussels tackled a proposal of the european joint missile defense system it is initially put forward by moscow was met with little enthusiasm from nato or the u.s. so far russia's envoy to the alliance says it's politicians and not the military who may be holding things back. approached me you. were under the impression that the military dialogue is running his head of the political dialogue they were can policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests they're also refusing to

provide us with guarantees that the proposed u.s. missile defense system is not targeted at russia the americans want to deploy interceptor missiles capable of shooting down our nuclear weapons near our launch sites in ten years time they'll be able to shoot down a large part of our nuclear arsenal if it's launched one at the same time they keep telling us that it's not aimed against russia they see reporters we want them to give us written guarantees but most of the time the u.s. diplomats and politicians simply smile back at us. president barack obama has paid tribute to the victims of the nine eleven terror attacks four days after osama bin ladin was killed by american special forces mission was held as a success by washington but there is widespread criticism over why the hide a leader wasn't taken alive as our he's gotten sticky on 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 abuse 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 for waterboarding and so for those who say that waterboarding doesn't work we'll say that it should be stopped and never use again we got vital information would go directly where as to why are you denying that waterboarding was part of long 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 tain 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 in 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 in 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 into maine treatment at u.s. prisons overseas morata cornell's was captured in pakistan in two thousand and one he was working for an ngo that helped the youth there to quit drugs and adopt a healthier lifestyle he was. sent to guantanamo and torture it for five years it

will be makes. me that i'm. so of course i refused to sign it and. i go to court every time i was. very old. the other. three of whom were struck its right side those papers for. us never charged with any crimes more us now back home in germany the vast majority of the hundreds of individuals who have been held in 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 we're sure is ronny here to stop the pain the international community has widely

condemned the unlawful practices at the u.s. prison amnesty international called it the gulag of our times matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred interrogations in iraq and helped track down a number of terrorists he says torture it was used by the u.s. authorities in one town a mole 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 a reason they come to iraq to fight was because of the torture and abuse of detainees and both are great and went home ok and this is not my opinion a department offense to track these statistics and they were briefed every interrogator arrived there that said that torture abuse was arcade is number one recruiting tool and so this policy of torture and. 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. 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 run on a mole ones that weren't sure it was presented as a done deal but now with bin laden's death it could seem the ends justify the means the means which is many experts say not only have not made american safer but have motivated more terrorists i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team . pakistan says it's going to investigate its failures in a mission tracking down bin laden but it also warned it may rethink its alliance with us 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

a pakistani regime which 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 were guarding the fact that they're not playing ball this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt you know they're incompetent either way it's bad and 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 which we give it to him for and it's fun a lot from 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 our or anyone 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 online for you right now. turning back some immigrants who went to the us with ideas of a better life for leaving the country for elsewhere as emerging economies start to prosper. for the. remarkable

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on the comb. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe protesters in syria are preparing for what they call a day of defiance against the regime this comes as tanks have been withdrawn from our clamp down in the city of daraa and deployed elsewhere its town was effectively be siege for ten days with electricity and phone services cut off and snipers shooting at people from the rooftops violence claimed more than five hundred fifty lives since the interest started seven weeks ago. counting underway after polls close in a series of national and local elections in the u.k. early results suggest the larger the third largest party the liberal democrats are said to lose control in several areas elections also include a referendum on the country's voting system which could see a switch from the first past the post system what's known as the alternative vote

results won't be known to late friday. twenty 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 happened during a shift change most of the victims were police officers no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attack but there are strong suspicions al qaeda is to blame . extreme weather continues battering parts of the u.s. as communities struggle to recover from devastation that's left more than three hundred dead people in a number of eastern states now bracing themselves for record breaking floods meanwhile latest reports from texas and parts of the southwest one of the threats of severe drought many people are preparing for the worst as forecasts offer a little hope of early respite. in iraq it has gone through a simulated a largely to european space port in french guiana

a spacecraft was put into position on the launch pad without fuel just to check that everything was ok ahead of its actual blast off set for august as part of an ambitious joint project between the russia and european space agency's iraq it will carry satellites for europe's own navigation system and galileo into orbit will be the first time a russian craft been launched so close to the equator a location that makes it easier to reach space so as rockets usually take off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan bringing supplies and crew members to the international space station archy's you are ordinary has more about the legendary space ship. with more than one thousand launches from the old and over the soyuz is the world's most successful rocket and now for the first time it will be fun and russian space pulled over the last eight years the european space agency they say and spend more than half a billion dollars on building a launch but i'm adopting the soyuz first serve american space center including.

this was all done by our engineers and designers we had to adapt to the climate here and the different safety standards that we've proven ourselves with this due to the modifications and crews will chose the location the soyuz will be able to do a great alludes into space than ever before but blew the prices than any can put the disease makers in russia is going to benefit more than four decades after its launch the soyuz. should really be showing its age but the terrain is 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 will years ago the numbers were in single digits its chief engineer says the rocket remains popular not just because of its record. it might look similar to the earlier models but inside the so use is being constantly upgraded 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. the first so hughes will be launched from crew in the second half of the year and eventually to space will handle for launches annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the saudis platform either an artsy summer sixty six years after the end of world war two memories are still fresh for those that lived through that tragic period in our special report we need people who remember how they were liberated from the nazi death camps by soviet troops spring of one hundred forty five.

made him look forward to be helped and say. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of the racial. spring of nineteen forty five on our team. coming your way in about eight minutes here on our team first of all the business news with a nice stay with us. oh about into business here in our team nordstrom has finished playing the world's longest substate pipeline across the baltic and start pumping gas from russia to germany in the out of some analysts say the eleven billion dollar construction has certain delivery weaknesses as compared with liquefied natural gas supplies but the

head of north strange says the project has clear advantages for the consumer. i do not seem pipelines. for pipelines. and for the cost well for them. and the supply oh come on they're so they could. be flexible it's come good this can go. to war for a year and you're in the one hundred one competition in the. pipe and the coast. and especially. let's take a look at a snapshot of the markets performing this our oil prices as back up regaining some ground after seeing significant overnight losses like sweet is currently trading above the hundred dollars a barrel mark while france is

a bit below the one hundred twelve dollars per barrel. and in asia japanese stocks are trading sharply lower as the market returns from the long holiday exporters are among the main losers with panasonic down two point five percent car producers are also under pressure one hundred losing five percent hong kong shares are also lower as resource producers suffered further losses of money prices fell overnight. here in russia the markets will start trading in an hour's time because in the red on thursday on a weaker commodities if you are just reaching its lowest level in months. now the current correction on the russian market has seen equities sell off fifteen percent since the beginning of april. from the t.v. capital explains it's been concentrated in a couple of sectors. in such a period of time when the market is correcting this is all looking to taper off in a stocks that again the most that is of is the new oil and gas sector and we see

this suffering the most which is the exactly the trend of the last three days gas from his we've been one of the biggest losers and to remind you it's still up almost twenty percent to get to date so it's quite obvious where investors sense you know where the financial sector is actually it is correcting but financial stocks are a bit more resilient and we're not seen as much momentum in selling the consumer names because they're down heavy year to date and always the utilities or i think the downside is also because they had a very bad year and actually there is a lot of upside in those names and i want to know once it's in your horizon so i think the names probably were not better to sell. in other news china could help reform the u.s. source leading economy in less than a decade if it continues to grow at the current pace mark and from the reinventing bretton woods committee explains what the new growth order could mean. emerging as a mean you could be. green to really lay some explode but it's going to rely more

on that we think we're going to cost you more to. british rates for for the year for us for you for europe. to us we need to read. your next poll driven mode. and show you know we need to rely on more good we think your main motive so you we need to reverse what we have today i mean chinese exporting to get growth in the us is consuming to get growth there's a reverse you know that's a good move but it's probably going to be. that's the latest from now i'll have more for you in less than an hour.

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