cementer channel. on the radio to lead the. church in new delhi who. may be how to carry election ramona close a. maiden. close a distant promise with a precocious promise. of military spending on the foreign operations of spirals out of control the government is accused of not stumping up the people who needs. the ends of it may not justify the means us methods in the war on terror looting charges of torture and overseas prison place criticism following the killing of osama bin laden of course sentences true russian nationalists to life eighteen years for the murder of a human rights lawyer and a reporter in moscow two years ago. a

very warm welcome to here this is r.t. live from moscow where it's not just after two pm well the billions spent on france's military for have already accounted for the defense budget with paris sunday increasing its foreign adventures the political price could also be costly for the french president. bush reports. heat 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 the time and attention as must tighten their belts now spends a red thirty billion euro a year on the grounds 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 are broke even with madam kiddo's pension pretty much eaten up before operational budget for the year military excess snaps france's reputation as a careful spender investors now plan to scrap the country's prized 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 everyone should is the one closer to losing to a status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin 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 united nation costs are reportedly hidden from the public its military advisors back from libya he says for months france has set soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we have gone towards and i think either we are. we had. already called coops for tools to find the dogs and so on it was totally free 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 can't afford the heating they ask all the military campaigns worth it if the government can't take care of people that's home and a bushel party paris the international contact group on libya has agreed to give

the rebels want money with a temporary funding due to be in place within weeks but russia says the group should be taking sides in what is effectively a civil war at the minister of iraq has the reaction. i asked the russian foreign minister at a press conference today what he thought about the idea of including russia in this international call to grow. towards sergei lavrov said that in russia's beauty only . the which isn't trusted with the adopting resolutions and one is a ring the implementation of such as the years security council and that any country member to the un which signed under its charter is supposed to follow all other resolutions and the foundational haunted groupon levy or any other word is simply not needed is that he loves you. so it's completely group the contact group has established itself and now is trying to take responsibility for the international community's policy tools libya should be not only libya we're hearing

voices calling for this group to decide what to do in other states in the region we believe that all sides should be focusing on a peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one side in an internal conflict which is essentially a civil war those comments were made at a joint press conference by the russian foreign minister and the chinese deputy foreign minister very often we see that russia and china are coordinating their voices in major international advance and the most recent example of that was in march when they both abstained in the no fly zone vote on libya and what the two countries feared might happen as a result of an international intervention is happening now we see casualties i was started as an armrest appears to be a bitter war between get out his forces and rebels but russia and china and again they stressed it today believe that nato is going far beyond its u.n. mandate by even considering and on ground operation in libya and minding the rising

number of casualties in lead it's likely that what russia and china would be to any u.n. resolution which would place ground troops in libya. meantime several major spanish banks are you know. financing controversial arms producing companies which make cluster bombs and the report suggests one spanish company supplied bombs and two thousand and seven which have been used since by a colonel gadhafi against his own people or campaign joe says the international community has to take measures to prevent banks getting loans for weapons. grade difficult it's on one hand for banks to say yes this is general purpose finance clearly it be as well now it will be used for the production of my arms and many other activities to make this company work so it's very quick linkage between the lights his finance and the company's finances they know very well websites will have to be accompanied as people grants and. there are many states that have

ratified convention us alone which means that the states can now it's assists in the production of question missions for example other countries and starts them and sources new zealand that have been facts and that could be a slice of that that prohibited their banks to invest in these countries. now for around the clock updates on what's happening in libya just head to our website of course that's all it's your karma including the gold coin behind intervention find out why some believe the coalition to be fighting to prevent could benefit from burying the american buck with a shiny new local currency and look at what else we got lined up for you here now if you don't come immigrants who came to america with big ideas of a better life and now leaving the country for elsewhere emerging economies begin to prosper. osama bin laden was planning to attack the u.s.

train on the tenth anniversary of nine eleven as according to information found in his compound in pakistan in a special forces mission to kill the al qaeda leader was hailed as a success by washington there is now widespread criticism over why he wasn't taken alive it's obvious advantage karen has been finding out it's not the first time u.s. methods in its war on terror have come under scrutiny. it's putting a pretty face years of torture and a lot of 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 so for those who say that waterboarding there's a word you say that it should be stopped and never use again we got vital information would go directly where are you denying that waterboarding was in part excuse to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission no i think some of the detainees clearly were you know use these enhanced interrogation

techniques against some of these detainees no tangible proof has been presented as to how torture helped of taint valuable intelligence and been lauded although a detainee named cally cheik mohammad was reported to have provided information on a courier that led to good margins 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 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 some of bin laden and numerous other members of al qaeda not not just in modern 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 at u.s. prisons over scenes morag 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. where i will break free of the crime remember. those i refused to sign it and. your approach of. ours i refuse. to. post very old. the author. who were. never charged with any crimes more us 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 cheer is ronit truth here to stop the pain the international community has widely condemned the unlawful practices at the u.s. prison amnesty international called the gulag of our times and matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred in kerry geishas in iraq and helped track down a number of carries he says torture that was used by the u.s. authorities in one town a mill 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 that said that torture and abuse was arcade is number one recruiting tool and so this policy of torture and. use 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 porch or 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 americans safer but have

motivated more terrorists i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team . meantime pakistan says it's going to investigate its failures in the mission to track down osama bin laden but it also warns that it might rethink its alliance with the u.s. if washington carries out any more secret operations on its soil such as the raid which still going to kill lieutenant colonel anthony says the u.s. should stop funding a pakistani regime which cannot 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 you know naive or worse regarding the fact that they are not playing well this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt either they're incompetent or in cahoots either way spat with that said one of the things we've recognized and we won't talk about is that 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 do not use it for the purposes for which we give it to him for and it's fun a lot of 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 were endangering our own our our indian allies in the process of what we're doing and that's what was intended to me talking about pakistan's alleged links to terrorist groups. the russian court has handed a life sentence to a nationalist convicted of killing a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow two years ago his associate was given eighteen years in jail. is now outside the courthouse for us. this is a very unusual trial not only because of the sentence but also because of the crime that was committed she just finally at least in that pos most of the hate crimes perpetrators in russia they were trying to get isn't charges and this is probably one of the first times in new russian history that the perpetrators of this crime were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on these exact charges now.

in this particular case the main defendant. was sentenced to life in prison and he was found guilty of the murders and according to the jury he deserves no leniency he's common the twenty five year old from moscow why you gave the houses of was found to be acting as an accessory to one of the murders and she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now this crime was striking not only because of the sentence but also because of the way he was conceived and carried out both he can offend half his belonged to an ultra nationalist group and. according to the more they killed the more gallup because of the ideological differences of course was a prominent human rights reporter he made in the name for himself representing victims of various hate crimes and what he was very much just live with it be

community of russian culture nationalist and neo nazi sympathizers and they did that he committed the crime in broad daylight and they followed marvellous after one of the news conferences that he'd given in the center of moscow he was walking down the street at company by. rule which was a free lunch journalist she joined him asked some additional questions and they were both killed in broad daylight and. reporting right there you are with r.t. in life from moscow and coming your way shortly they won't have we slipped out of the russian aerobatic team performance of their spins glides and turned the life of international spectators the spectacular maneuvers are just. another words are next to no progress on the european joint missile defense system but a meeting of the russia nato council the idea initially put forward by moscow has

been met with little enthusiasm from nato war the u.s. so far russia's envoy to the alliance says it's the politicians and not the military who are holding things back. you were under the impression that the military dialogue is running here of a political dialogue they were going policy clearly refuses to consider russia's interests they're also refusing to provide us with guarantees that the proposed he was a missile defense system is not targeted at russia the americans want to deploy interested or missiles capable of shooting down a 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 one of the same time if you keep telling us that it's not aimed against russia they see we're partners we want them to give us written guarantees but most of the time the u.s. diplomats and politicians simply smile back at us. that washington says the missile defense project will help to protect europe from countries like iran and north

korea but moscow has repeatedly voiced concerns it could also threaten its own national security russia and nato summit in lisbon last year the sides found a compromise agreeing to work together on the project. that it's like it was another international news for you in this hour and the protesters in syria caring for what they call quote day of defiance against the regime it comes as tanks have been withdrawn from a clampdown in daraa and deployed elsewhere the town has effectively been under siege for ten days electricity and telephone from just cut off cyprus positioned on different provinces over five hundred fifty votes in for the rest of again seven weeks ago. an inquest into the london bombings of two thousand and five has ruled that the fifty two people who died in the attacks were unlawfully killed and it's a months long process hearing evidence from hundreds of witnesses the judge made a number of recommendations which she said may save lives in the future of the

seven hundred people were injured in the suicide bombings of three underground trains last. stream weather continues to batter parts of the. u.s. science community is trying to recover from the devastation that left three hundred police in a number of eastern states bracing a good subs for record breaking flood waters and while the latest reports from texas and parts of the southwest one of the threat of severe drought people are preparing for the worst that's for costs of a little hope of any. well for twenty years one russian aerobatic team has been a while the crowds around the world. famous for the displays with less than. between each plane's wings. was lucky enough to catch one of the performances. crowds gathered all over the world. eight countries why in the course

of their career performing stunning aerobatics dogs that house while their colleagues from a renowned aerobatic teams all over the world they of course doing things that go out there every back steve has ever attempted to do of course as well as the usual stunts such as barrel rolls loop de loops and leak loops they do things such as flying in the sand with another famous russian aerobatics which also added strength anniversary this year the russian knights they do. i'll fly over with nine of them all information course free rides on planes flying all very closely together something that no other aerobatic team in the world has ever attempted or achieved of course this is their anniversary so it's their gift to the people and their gift to themselves they're taking to the skies once again wowing the crowds with their

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it's twenty two minutes past the hour welcome to business here our chief this hour there's a bloodbath taking place in the commodities market it's the biggest selloff in the sector for two years and virtually all wrong materials are sharply down the weakening trend has suddenly accelerated as investors worry about the strength of the global recovery and the possibility of higher interest rates in china recent economic data in the u.s. has done little to inspire confidence and there is considerable nervousness about keep arrows figures out later this friday some investors are suggesting the commodities boom is now over let's take a look at those numbers oil prices are leading the commodities pack downwards on friday after seeing losses of around eight percent overnight light sweet is currently trading around ninety seven dollars per barrel brant is around one hundred eight dollars. gold is one of the rare elements of calm it's holding firm after making big losses in previous sessions meanwhile silver is making

a comeback and is gaining almost half a percent this hour however that's still twenty percent below recent highs. and the european markets are mixed the footsie is losing more than a third of a percent fall in germany taxes up almost half a percent this hour recovering from earlier losses and the wave of heavy selling just before the close on first. here in russia the markets are particularly volatile both the r.t.s. of the my sex open sharply lower distance been rebounding the r.t.s. is down more than half a percent while the my sex is up zero point four percent that's despite the markets being heavily dominated by resource stocks. now the current correction on the russian market has seen equities sell off fifty percent since the beginning of april but it's also from free to be capital explains it's been concentrated in a couple of sectors in. such

a period of time when the market is correcting this is a look into a profit in the stocks that have been the most obvious that we will get sector now we see this suffering the most which is exactly the trend of the last three days gas from has been one of the biggest losers and to remind you it's still out almost three percent year to date so it's quite obvious what investors centrino whereas the financial sector is actually it is correct him 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 obviously utilities are i think their side is also because they had a very bad year and actually there is a lot of upside in those names on the one year once into your horizon so i think the names probably were not better to sell north stream has finished laying the world's longest subsidy pipeline across the baltic and start pumping gas from russia to germany in the autumn but the head of nord stream of finance of our next as the eleven billion dollar project will not add enough capacity to meet future

demand and more pipelines will be needed. from different institutions for example so shoring. up and become something from supply and consumption you'll move in the next. couple fifty five. so this is a quarter of. the. whole supply of words to cover. and to consume your. and finally this hour china out of form that you go out as the world's leading a con i mean less than a decade if it continues to grow at the current pace mark zandi from the reinventing bretton woods committee explains what the new world order could. china is emerging as a main you can be power to say no it's going to rely less on explode they think

great i more on that i think the main we are going to cost you more to all which we have been if it's for for the forcing us for you for europe meaning don't see us we need to rely. more on next poll driven modell. and china we need to rely on more domestic demand in the modell so you we need to reverse what we have today meaning chinese exporting to good growth and the u.s. is course you're going to get growth there's a reverse in order to get more but in the global economy. that's the latest from now i'll be back in less than an hour with more stay with r.t. .

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