sixty six years of victories on r.c. . sure is that so much about me is unlimited it is a show me these people have english language continues to flourish is it threatening other languages with one in three people speaking english does this promote western. france is a military spending on no foreign operations or spirals out of control as the government is accused of not something out of people's needs and. the ends that may not justify the means us methods in the war on terror including charges of torture and overseas prisons again face criticism following the killing of our sum up in. a court of sentences to russian nationalists to life and eighteen years for the murder of a human rights lawyer and a reporter in moscow two years ago. and commodities are taking up

pounding after the biggest selloff in the sector for almost two years get the latest from business r t in twenty minutes. it is just off a three pm here in moscow this is r.t. now the billions spent on france's military for rays abroad have already accounted for the years in defense budget of paris only increasing its foreign adventures the political crisis could also be costly for the french president. heat or eight that's the choice faced by modern kids just of supporting the elderly fraud says government is accused of using that money for war. france says it doesn't have enough funds for a time and pension as must tighten their belts right now spends over thirty billion euro a year on the france 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 or every coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just five months into twenty eleven the forces a broke even with madame kyoto's pension can pretty much end up defense operation here 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 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 everyone you shoot is closer to losing aaa steeds france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remits

in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin on it now 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 the treatment of the united nations costs are reportedly hidden from the public this military advisors but from libya he says for months france has set soldiers on the ground there contrary to its claims we have gone troops and i think you're with. that we had. already called for to to find targets and so on but it was not every kid says she worked all her life for a decent retirement no politician or 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 are all the military campaigns worth it if the government can't take care of people of that time then your bush or party paris international contact group on libya has agreed to give the rebels more money of a temporary fund you to be in place within weeks but russia says the group shouldn't be taking sides in what is effectively a civil war martin you couldn't get over the reaction. i asked the russian foreign minister a press conference today watch he thought about the idea of including russia in this international contact group on libya towards sergei lavrov said that in russia's beauty only international which is intrusted with the adoption resolutions and one is hearing 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 of the resolutions and the foundational place haunted with believe me or any other group is simply not needed is the feel of those. groups

a 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 with or do other states in the region we believe that all sides should be focusing on the peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one song 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 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 pull abstained in the no fly zone vote on leave 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 arrest appears to be a bitter war between get out his forces and rebels what russia and china and again

they stressed it today believe that nato is going far beyond its un mandate by even considering and on the ground operation in libya and minding the rising number of casualties and leave it's likely that russia and china would be to any u.n. resolution which would place ground troops in libya. several major spanish banks have been a financing contra. producing companies which make cluster bombs any report suggests alarm a spanish company supplied bombs in two thousand and seven which have since been used by colonel gadhafi against his own people and he will campaign out joe says the international community has to take urgent measures to prevent banks from giving loans for weapons. grade difficulties on one hand programs to say yeah this is general purpose finance clearly it aspirin now and it will be useful or production i ams and many other activities to make this company work so it's very

quite clear linkage between what's agaricus finance and the company and finances they know very well let's hope that activity a company does before granting and there are many states that have ratified a convention of us you know which means that the states can now it's assists in the production of question missions for example and their countries and as far as i'm. a new zealand there have been facts and not to be sliced that prohibited their banks to invest in these controversial items. now around the clock up based on what's happening in libya you can always have a website that's called mind including the gold coin behind the intervention to find out why some believe the coalition may be fighting to prevent you from marrying the american with a shiny new local currency and a look at what else we have for you find out right now let's see what's going to immigrants who came to america with big ideas of a better life without leaving the country from elsewhere as emerging economies we

can seem to prosper. osama bin laden was planning to attack a u.s. trade on the tenth anniversary of nine eleven that's according to information found in his compound in pakistan the american special forces mission to kill al qaeda leader was hailed as a success by washington but there's now a widespread criticism over why he wasn't taken alive if that is as he got each account has been finding out it's not the first time the u.s. methods in its war on terror have come under scrutiny. it's putting a pretty face on years of torture and a lot u.s. officials talk about the efficiency of enhanced interrogation techniques as they call them in locating bin laden we have to take that information through waterboarding and some of those who say that waterboarding there's a word you say that it should be stopped in their use again we've got vital information would directly where as to why are you denying that waterboarding was in part on 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 laden although a detainee named cally cheik mohammad 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 saying is that waterboarding enhanced interrogation techniques just like professional interrogators had been saying for years always result and 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 in modern in i'm convinced we would have found them a lot earlier had we not resorted to torture and these attempts to justify torture seem outrageous to those who have been unjustly subjected to inhumane treatment if u.s. prisons overseas more outscore now this 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. because i refused to sign it and. i go approach of them i refuse. to. post a great old. evidence or in prime. time

. never charged with any crimes for 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 sure is run it through 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 times and matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred in carry gay sions in iraq and helped track down a number of carriers he says torture that was used by the us 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 that said that torture and abuse was okayed is number one recruiting tool and so this policy of torture. interviews 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 as many experts say not only have not made americans safer but have motivated more terrorists i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. well meantime pakistan says it's going to investigate its failures in the mission to track down osama bin laden but it was so warm that it might rethink its alliance with the u.s. if washington carries out any more secret operations on its soil such as the rain which so often not killed the town and colonel anthony shaffer says that the u.s. should stop funding the 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 had been naive or worse were guarding the fact that they were not playing ball this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt even their incompetence or an evil way square with that said one of the things we've recognized and we want to 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 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 our or anyone allies in the process of what we're doing here with our satellite from moscow russia according to life sentence to a nationalist convicted of killing a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow two years ago as a source or it was given years in jail. is also called for us and how do you work on a set of sentences being seen as something of a watershed moment for this type of crime in russia. well it is indeed a very unusual case primarily because really for the first time in new russian history it perpetrators of hate crimes were not only tried but actually convicted and given a lengthy prison terms hate crimes on

a tourist be difficult to prosecute and as a result in the past many of the people implicated in hate crimes were tried on. other charges ranging from hooliganism to homicides and as a result going to wave a lighter sentence this but this case was different because one of the defendants they found and in this case was. the next similar turn he god a life imprisonment i'm talking about. of the thirty year old. guy who was found guilty of murders he was wrong killed. killing a prominent human rights lawyer callous and a reporter for no very honest i see above board what now he's associated girlfriend gania haas is the twenty five year old was spawned guilty of acting as an accomplice and she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now both of them.

unhappy with the sentencing we actually denied their involvement in the killings and they said that they're going to appeal the verdict within the next ten days the way they behaved during the verdict was also very unusual i would even say. insulin that some point be sure drugs while the charge was reading the verdict be laughed out loud you gania has to sound like her boyfriend wasn't raring. so on a number of occasions she was holding his hand she was trying to honk him at one occasion she laid her hand on his shoulder and was trying to show a fraction in all possible ways both during this particular hearing ather all of the trial basis one of the reasons why the spare has been nicknamed the russian boney and quiet now unlike the defendants who are unhappy with the verdict and are

going to appeal it as i sat the families of the victims said they were quiet satisfied because this isn't now what's interesting about this case is not only the a lengthy stanton's that the defendants were given but also then the usual motive for the crime according to the court. be the two defendants decided to kill off mark kelly because of the ideological he treated and be filling a wide supremacy which is a lot more callous was a prominent human rights lawyer here representing victims of hate crimes in a number of occasions and he was quite unpopular really in the rough. ultra nationalists and according to you before that was the main reason why he was killed by these couple and honesty about guru i happened to be a witness and she was killed just because they didn't want to help to haue bin

castigation to be identification of the killers now the family of the victims are satisfied to be a very big and number of international organizations have also welcomed the decision saying that it represented a very important departure from the culture. that is usually associated with the killings of human rights activists and reporters here in russia. thank you. coming your way shortly here on our t.v. they won't have wings clipped which a russian aerobatic team performed. turns to the delight of international. it was spectacular but it was just the. there was next to no progress on the european joint missile defense system meeting of the russian council the idea initially forward by moscow has been met with little enthusiasm from nato or the us. or to the. politicians not the military who are holding things back. you were under the impression that the military dialogue is running ahead of

the 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 u.s. missile defense system is not targeted at russia the americans want to deploy interested are 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 one of the same time which 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 in washington says the missile defense project will help to protect europe from countries like iran and north korea and moscow has repeatedly voiced concerns it could also threaten its own national security of russia nato summit in lisbon last year the sides did find a compromise agreeing to work together on the project. right where you are with

r.t. that such accounts and other international news are great for you this hour syrian security forces are reading themselves as antigovernment protesters begin a new day of rallies around the country demonstrators are taking to the streets for what they call a day off defiance reports say pro-government troops have set up. some areas that protests in recent weeks after the. central ira account several weeks ago. that 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 about it and it's a months long process hearing evidence from hundreds of witnesses a judge made a number of recommendations which she said may save lives in the future although seven hundred people were injured in the suicide bombings of three underground trains and a bus. extreme weather continues to batter parts of the u.s. as communities try to recover from the devastation. left over three hundred people

in a number of eastern states are bracing themselves for record breaking floodwaters meanwhile the latest reports from texas and parts of the southwest warned of the threat of a severe drought and people are preparing for the worst forecasts offer little hope of any response to this. for twenty years one russian everybody it seems has been wowing the crowd all around the world the pilots over the russian word for swifts are famous for their displays with less than a meter between each plane's wings parties caterina i thought i was lucky enough to catch one of their performances. this is truly a spectacular sight one of the world's finest. aerobatic in the sky. with their mastery of such huge machines basically making them look so nice

of course everybody here knowing that it is one of the most difficult things in the world these people have mastered the russian knights along with the russian swiss are the world's most famous aerobatic teams and the knights are in the skies in honor of their colleagues who are celebrating their twentieth anniversary today of course both teams have existed for twenty years it's an anniversary year for them all so all the teams are in the sky doing what they do best all kinds of aerobatics stunts known to mankind the barrel rolls the loop de loops the stills and everything they do is just breathtaking being here in the crowd watching them perform with such grace is just an incredible feeling of course they are doing it because it is their anniversary and it's for them the only right way to celebrate up in the sky in front of the crowds doing what they love and it's like fun. and just a few moments here crosstalk cagers opinion on whether we need

a value free global language and whether english is footing the bill for the business up there with me so. thanks for a hello and welcome to business here on r t commodities prices are taking a pounding is 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 a rolls figures out later on friday some investors are suggesting that commodity used room is now over let's take a look out for numbers boil prices are leading the commodities pack down words on friday after seeing vases of around eight percent overnight light sweet is currently training around ninety seven dollars per barrel involved brant is around

one hundred and. gold is one of the rare elements of calm it's holding firm after making big losses in previous sessions meanwhile silver is down two percent this hour and that's more than twenty percent below recent highs. european markets are mixed the footsie is losing about a third of percent while in germany the dax is up more than half percent this hour that's recovering from earlier about the time the wave of heavy selling just before close on thursday. here in russia the markets are particularly volatile both the r.t.s. and the my six open sar play lower but have since been revolving the arts in the us is down more than half a percent while the my sex is twenty seven percent that's despite the market being heavily dominated by resource stocks. now the current correction on the russian market has seen equities sell off fifteen percent since the beginning of april but

as i think from a to b. 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 it's a profit in the stocks that have been the most obvious of you and guess now we see that 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 what investor the centrino whereas the financial sector is actually it is correct seems that 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 it is also because they had a very bad year and actually there is a lot of upside in those names on a one year one to two year horizon so i think the names probably we are not better to sell. in other news north stream has finished laying the world's longest subsidy pipeline across the baltic and has to start pumping gas from russia to germany in

the autumn had ignored stream but by as far as the eleven billion dollar project will not add enough capacity to meet future demanded more pipelines will be needed . from different institutions for example so showing. becomes i'm sure i'm supply and consumption you will be in the mix. i'm. not simply a couple fifty five. so this is a quarter of. supply routes to cover the new. york china could outperform the u.s. as the world's leading economies in less than a decade if it continues to grow at the current pace mark from the reinventing bretton woods community explains what the new world order could mean. china is

emerging as a main economic power or china is going to rely less on exports and it's going to rely more on the basic demand we're going to cost you more so we should have benefits for the for the for the u.s. for use for europe meaning the u.s. we need to rely. more on next poll driven mode. and china we need to rely on more domestic good main motive 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 there's a reverse you know that you could have more but it's probably going to be. well that's the latest for now from the business task you can get more from our team and less than an hour or is here next with the news headlines stay with us sir.

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