the big three are nazi germany. france's military spending on foreign operations spirals out of control the government's accused of not standing up for people's lives back home. and as that may not justify the means u.s. methods in the war on terror including charges of torture and overseas prisons again a security following the killing of osama bin ladin and. the world's most successful rocket russian soyuz giving the green light for a summer blasted off from a european space port. and the russian markets opened lower and with the r.t.s. falling even further from thursday's thursday's five month low that's as crude

prices dropped overnight i'll have more from the business desk in twenty minutes. eleven am in moscow i met president good to have you with us here on r t our top story the billions spent on france's military for easer broad already account for the years defense budget with paris only stepping up its foreign adventures the political price could be costly for the french president as art he's getting a bushel reports. eat or eat that's the choice faced by murder kids so instead of supporting the elderly francis government is accused of using that money for war. france says it doesn't have enough funds for a time and pensioners must tighten their belts now spans are referred to be one euro a year under founds 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 ivory 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 madam ghettoes pension cuts pretty much eaten up the 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 borrow on the cheap because 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 can shoot is one closer to losing aaa status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping

greenlit 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. for integration it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community the treatment of the in a commission costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors back from libya he says for months france has six soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we have gone corpse and i think your we are. in that we had . already called hopes for to find the dog and so on but it was totally free. since she worked for a decent retirement politician. if she wanted to put money spent on campaigns abroad cost of war pensioners forced to cover up because the concert for the

heating. of the military campaign is worth it if the government called take care of people but then a bushel or two. in the fourth anniversary of persons are causing these election victory for answers working back at his promises to break with the past in a reshape the country for the better our two contributor catarina as it were better things to break appears to be from his own people what i've heard some 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 this president sarkozy is doing according to the recent paulson he's at the record low was two thirds of the french population and happy with his policies and in france us involvement in afghanistan ivory coast and maybe i 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 your own

brand so he forgets that literally on the former french president will sound french troops to war and in mind to 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 sets later some difference if i french the finance come from that as well of course the violence in syria should be stopped but that intervention would only make matters worse. international contact group on libya has agreed to give the rebels more money with a temporary thaw and set up within weeks washington is trying to secure the release of more than thirty billion dollars of could all these frozen assets and to reallocate them to the opposition but professor alan cooperman says it's likely to become a turning point if there 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 defeated the killing would have 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 and sometimes escalates the violence and that's exactly what's happened in libya and so. that's why it's secure and 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 alternate 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 the 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. stay with us here on our team still ahead the rocket that has a rocket it anyway find out why a russian spacecraft was put into place on a european launch pad but didn't actually lift off but when you details in a few minutes. a cluster mission. and inside the container you have a small bomb and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of miles there's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. but you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that are basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is be go to these places they

will hire local train the locals how to do the clearance will let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of. it. and. wealthy british soil. sometimes it's because. of the. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on

our. staying. us here on r.t. eight minutes past the hour in moscow there was next to no progress on the european joint missile defense system at a meeting of the russian nato council the idea initially put forth by moscow has been met with little enthusiasm from nato or the u.s. so far russia's envoy to the alliance says it's the politicians and not the military who might be holding things back or who were under the impression that the military dialogue is running his head of the political dialogue the american policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests they're also refusing to provide us with guarantees that their proposed hewas a 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 tin years time they'll be able to shoot down a large part of our nuclear arsenal if it's launched at one of the seam time which

they keep telling us that it's not aimed against russia they see reporters we want them to be was written guarantees but most of the time the us diplomats and politicians simply smiled back at us overseas osama bin laden was planning to attack several u.s. cities according to information found in his compound in pakistan american special forces mission to kill his leader was hailed as a success by washington but there is now criticism over why he wasn't taken alive as art he's got a shaky on reports it's not the first time u.s. methods in the war on terror have come under scrutiny. putting a pretty face on the years of torture and abuse a lot of u.s. officials talk about the efficiency of enhanced interrogation techniques as they call them in locating bin ladin we have taken information for waterboarding and so for those who say that waterboarding doesn't work and say that it's reached out to never use again we got vital information would directly where as to 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 to obtain valuable intelligence i'm delighted although a detainee named kelly shaikh muhammad was reported to have provided information on a courier that led to the moderns 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 seeing 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 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 inhumane treatment if u.s. prisons overseas more ought to 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 tortured for five years it will be made. where i will to agree to a crime. because i refused to sign. a course of time i refused. to. post so very old my appearance over the upper. stomach.

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 like 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 sure is run it from here to stop the pain the international community has widely condemned the unlawful practices at the u.s. prison amnesty international called the gulag a far with times matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred interrogations in iraq and helped track down a number of terrorists he says torture that 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 when time of day and this is not my opinion the department offense tracked the statistics and they were briefed every interrogator right there the. courtroom use was okayed is number one recruiting tool and so this policy of torture and. 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 but torture it was presented as

a done deal but now with bin laden's death it would seem the ends justify the means the means of which as many experts say not only have not made americans safer but have motivated more terrorists i'm going to check out we're putting one washington our team. pakistan says it's going to investigate its failures in addition to track down bin laden but 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 which saw bin laden killed lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer though says the u.s. should stop funding a pakistani regime that 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 are not playing ball this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt either they're incompetent or because those little way 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 of what we give it to him for and it's funneled off in these other 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 you can get updates around the clock on all the stories we're covering a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online for you right now. turning back some immigrants who went to the u.s. with ideas of living a better life are now leaving the country for elsewhere as emerging economies start to prosper a lot. more from all adventure of explorer if we just returned from a solo trip to the alaskan wilderness watch the video would argue dot com and remember to check out all the videos on our you tube.

video. she's among the old. irish in st with the palm of your. comb churning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe protesters in syria preparing for what they call a day of defiance against the regime this is tanks had been withdrawn from

a clampdown in daraa raw and deployed elsewhere was effectively under siege for ten days with electricity and phone services shadow. of people from the rooftop. moving by. the. counting underway after polls close in a series of national and local elections in the u.k. early results suggest the third largest party liberal democrats are set to lose control in several areas your options are also include a referendum on the country's voting system which could see a switch from the first past the post to what's known as the alternative vote results won't be known until late friday. going to you people killed dozens injured after a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a police headquarters in central iraq last in the city of hillah south of baghdad and during a shift change most of the victims were police officers no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but if they're still suspect that was behind it.

extreme weather continues battering parts of the u.s. as communities try recovering from the devastation that's left more than three hundred dead people in a number of eastern states bracing themselves to record breaking floodwaters meanwhile latest reports from texas and parts of the southwest one of the threat from severe drought many people are preparing for the worst as forecasts offer a little hope of an early respite. a russian rocket has gone through a simulated launch of a european space for a space port in french guiana spacecraft was put into position on the raj pad without fuel to make sure everything is in order and head of its. august part of it ambitious joint project between russia and the european space agency rockets will carry satellites for europe's own galileo navigation system into orbit and 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 i use rockets usually take our from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan bringing supplies and crew members to

the international space station r t z were gordon have has more legendary space ship. with more than one and a half thousand launches far more than any other the soyuz is the world's most successful rocket and now for the first time it will be fired off from an old russian space board over the last eight years the european space agency e.s.a. and stern more than half a billion dollars on building a launch pad and adopting the soyuz first serve american space center including. this was all done by engineers and designers we have to adapt to the climate here and the different safety standards that we have proven ourselves with this due to the modifications and crews will chose a 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

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 several years ago the numbers were in single digits its chief engineer says the rocket remains popular not just because it's record well you know it might look similar to the earlier models but inside the cell use is being constantly upgraded and so the reason we still use the basic model i believe it's the perfect rocket 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 so 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 use will be lord from crew in the second half of the

year and eventually to space what will happen will fall on annually the russian side hopes the success of this project will encourage other space agencies to adopt the soyuz but for either a party some are. here with us here on our teens as our next business. hello and welcome to business this hour here on our north stream has finished laying the world's longest subsidy pipeline across the baltic and is to start pumping gas from russia to germany in the autumn by the head of north stream passes far nick says the eleven billion dollar project will not be able to meet the overall european command. studies from different institutions for i was showing. them supply and consumption and your ruby in the next two years and. not so you can cover fifty five.

so this was a quarter before they got. to be no supply of. good news. let's take a look at a snapshot of the market's performance this hour oil prices continue their fall after seeing around state percent overnight losses the drop followed a weak u.s. jobs report and the sell off in other commodities the light sweet is currently trading just below one hundred dollars per barrel mark while brant is bumping around one hundred ten dollars per hour her brother and in asia japanese stocks are trading sharply lower as the market returns from a long holiday exporters are among the members with panasonic down two point five percent corporate users are also under pressure one hundred losing five percent hong kong shares are also lower as resource producers suffered further bosses after

commodity prices fell overnight. and here in russia the arts yes and nice acts have already opened up and falling even further from yesterday's losses here's an individual share of moves oil majors once again that came under pressure due to lower crude a similar story with precious metals where oil is called it's also losing bucking the trend is dross to the common and it's gaining more than one point five percent . the current correction on the russian market has to equities sell off fifteen percent since the beginning of april but i laid. off because of rather. capital explains it's been concentrated in a couple of sectors. in such a period of time and one market is correcting this is all looking to take profit in the stocks that have been the most visible and yes now we see this suffering the most which is the exactly the trend of the last three days gas from has been one of

the biggest losers and to remind us still. it's quite obvious so we're in this or the century know where the financial sector is actually it is corrects him but financial stocks are a bit more resilient and 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 downside is also because they had a very bad year and actually there is a lot of upside you know the names on one euro once it's in your horizon so i think of the names probably were not better to sell. and 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 zandi from the reinventing committee explains what the new world order could mean. emerging as a mean you can be. exported he's been through i mean we're going to cost you more. but if it's for for the year for us for you for

europe really to us we. explored greed with. in china we need to rely on more good basic good main modell so you we need to reverse would we have today we need training as exporting to get growth in the u.s. in school shooting to get growth there's a reverse you know to get a more balanced global economy. and that's the latest from now from the business desk we'll have more for you in less than an hour the news headlines are next here on our city.

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