in the movie going to the joint be the children's the home of venus the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly a tortuously push coromandel you can a little child who knows legislature see don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hurt you know as a retreat. from cisco believe resort to extreme a money saving measures as the government lets window gives the military campaign a free hand on funding. a russian couple of sentenced for murdering a human rights lawyer and central moscow two years ago. the killers are handed lengthy jail terms in one of the biggest convictions of its kind in russia and the sun i'm going to join me for more details in just a few moments. waterboarding returns to the u.s. officials claim to help them get osama bin ladin but a human rights activists say brutal interrogation is nothing but needless torture.

plus we take to the skies with one of russia's top flight display school. for twenty years these planes and their pilots coming around the world with their amazing aerobatics stunts stay with our team see exactly what the russian swifts can do. and in business commodity as seeing the biggest selloff in the sector for two years with all raw material shockey down on the reasons for the decline in our business. twenty minutes from now. just after five pm here in moscow this is out now french leaders are being accused of funding an ever growing war chest all its own most vulnerable citizens are living on the breadline france is

a prominent player and nato is intervention in libya as well as troops stationed elsewhere. were forced on how the french military ambition is leading to the neglect of its most needy. heat or eat that's the choice faced by modern kids history of supporting the elderly frauds is government is accused of using that money for war. francaise it doesn't have enough funds for a time and pension as must tighten their belts now spends over thirty billion euro a year under 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 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 madame kitto his pension that's pretty much up to the fence 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 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 to a status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin 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 back 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. we had the hood of a vehicle for tools to find a dug in someone but it was totally weird 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 called for the heating they ask all the military campaigns worth it if the government can't take care of people for a time when you push your party paris down in time for president sarkozy leaving france and being a world policeman is doing nothing for his flapping popularity ratings which are at an all time low but he's a contributor to the editor says that by focusing abroad instead of at home the voters will be reluctant to give him another chance. when i've heard of the french

plans to intervene in syria the first thought of it came to my mind was when was the presidential elections in france actually it's in less than a year and how president sarkozy doing according to the recent poor also he's the record low was two thirds of the french population unhappy with his policies in france us involvement in afghanistan ivory coast and libya was not enough for the french or just to change their mind so because they came up with a new idea to intervene in syria what surprises me is that suppose he wants his own drowns out but he forgets that's meant to run for the former french president who sound french troops to rhonda in ninety ninety four was accused of supporting the genocide of the sick such was the conclusion of the public inquiry conducted by the independent rwandan commission in two thousand and six later some declassified french documents come from that as well of course the violence in syria should be

stopped but the intervention would only make matters worse. russia's foreign minister has weighed into the nato led coalition's decision to pump money into the libyan a rebellion so the criticism comes a day after the international contact group on libya decided to set up a fund to support the insurgence in their fight against colonel gadhafi from moscow has come down hard on nato as intervention saying it is taking sides in what is essentially a civil war was not sanctioned by the u.n. resolution on libya which was designed to protect civilians regardless of their allegiance the nato led coalition's have been bombing supporters for nearly two months now there are growing reports of civilian deaths russia and china both abstained from supporting the u.n. resolution in march both countries foreign ministers met in moscow on friday. was there. i asked the russian foreign minister of a press conference today a reward. what about the idea of including russia in this international contact

group. toward sergei lavrov said that in russia's view the only international which is intrusted with the adopting resolutions and one is hearing the implementation of such is the u.s. security council and that any country member to the u.n. which signed under its charter is supposed to follow all of the resolutions and the foundational place haunted would only be aware any other world is simply not needed is available so. the contact group has established itself and now is trying to take responsibility for what the international community's policy tools libya should be and not only libya we're hearing voices calling for this group to decide with doing other states in the region we believe that all sides should be focusing on the 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 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 both 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 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 un mandate by even considering an on ground operation in libya and minding the rising number of casualties and leave it's likely that both russia and china would be to any u.n. resolution which would place ground troops in libya. come here on r t the us. torturing by saying it helped to hunt down osama bin laden the former interrogator says. violent questioning methods at american detention centers only

serve to feel the ranks of al qaeda those details in just a few minutes here. a moscow court has sentenced a nationalist human rights lawyer and a journalist to life in prison his accomplice was given eighteen years. reports. well it is a very unusual case because really it's one of the first times if perpetrators of hate crimes are not only tried but also convicted and given quite a lengthy prison terms now crimes extremely difficult to investigate and prosecute and this was one of the reasons why people implicated in hate crimes were usually tried on other charges ranging from homicide sometimes hooliganism and as a result they got away with lighter sentences but these cases different because one of the defendants nikita who was convicted of two murders.

in his life maher caliph a prominent human rights lawyer and all the necessity of a buddha by a freelance reporter of for nobody has yet to die killer was sentenced to a maximum prison term that is a lot of imprisonment now he's associated and girlfriend evanier hass is who is strong guilty of acting as an accomplice to the murder of markelov she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now that's a big lauzon the prosecution was asking for but that's still quite a lengthy prison term now the niece really planned to kill only as the new software caliph was a very well known human rights lawyer here in russia he was walking down a street towards and here is a mattress station and does the above compliment him to ask a couple of questions and that was one both of them were. taken out and killed in

broad daylight in a very cold blooded manner. files were from seized in the raid that killed osama bin laden suggests that he remain closely involved. it's one of the trust occasions from the u.s. government over its. killing. explains the violent questioning of terror suspects is also being a motive for helping america's most wanted terrorist. 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 obtain that information through waterboarding and so for those who say that waterboarding there's a word to say that a true stop to never use again we got vital information which directly read as to why are you denying that waterboarding was in and part of the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission so 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 under the law did although a detainee named kelly shaikh mohammad 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 seeing is that waterboarding enhanced interrogation techniques just like professional interrogators have 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 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 at u.s. prisons overseas were not colonels 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. to guantanamo and torture it for five years it will be made. will break through the crime remember. because i refused to sign it and. i go to court so it's. kept to a. very old. overlocker. so my stomach it's right it's time for. us 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 the torture is ronit truth here to stop the pain the international community has widely condemned the unlawful practices of the us prison amnesty international called it the gulag of our what times 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 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 term obey 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 assess whether 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 would seem the ends justify the means

and 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 r.t. . for more insight and analysis of suspicious methods used in the war on terror said it was a column and let's check out what else is a few right now on the web site and taking space relationship to the next level the soyuz rocket gets ready for its joint russian of european project follow the countdown on our web site. plus the why is company easier to get into harvard than getting hired to hand out because that's mcdonald's is revealed to turn away more applicants than the ivy league college.

now for the past twenty years two russian aerobatic teams have been wowing crowds worldwide with death defying stunts. slicing through the clouds and celebration of the milestone. watched the show in the moscow region. this is truly a spectacular sight one of the world's. aerobatic in the sky. with their mastery of such huge machines basically making their clothes so we see 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 barrel rolls palooka loops the stills 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. to rid us of reporting right there let's get some more international news for you now and pakistani officials say an american drone aircraft has fired missiles near the afghan border killing at least ten suspected militants the strike targeted a compound and a vehicle in the al qaeda and the taliban stronghold of north waziristan it's the first such a talker since american commandos killed osama bin laden monday pakistan wants the u.s. to stop the assaults because the civilian casualty risks

a government. public support in fighting terror on the border. the latest antigovernment protests across syria have seen at least six people reportedly killed it comes as the demonstrators gather for what they're calling a day of defiance security forces have fired tear gas and protesters near a mosque in the country the basque government troops have set up checkpoints and closed some areas that still protests in recent weeks over five hundred sixty people thought to have been killed since the unrest began seven weeks ago. alasania ouattara has finally been sworn in as ivory coast's president with a long time coming for the winner of last november's election after the previous president refused to stand down it led to months of bloodshed in the country which is thought to have killed around three thousand people. are now being questioned about human rights abuses while he was in power. the inquest into the london tube and the bus bombings of two thousand and five has cleared intelligence and

emergency services of any blame in the deaths caused the coroner said all fifty to three teams would have died no matter what time the rescuers arrived but she added there were lessons to be learned and that the security services need to tighten up procedures to avoid future terrorism but the seven second attacks or suicide bombers grow themselves on three rush hour tube trains and a parked double decker bus. now in our next hour here our team often andrews walks us through some of moscow's streets and squares to soak up the history and find out why they're still pulling crowds today. we'll get story later streets a long. way also the streets of the russian originally a way out of the medieval city. today the center of the city's like a me. we've arrived because he's got a square one of the main meeting places here in the us in capital think of it as it

is. it's also a place where love is like for me to read books hold hands and give flowers very nice and in a sense a hero is the eleven meet a statue of the famous russian poet alexander is going. to join us go on a tour of the russian capital in just over an hour's time here on sci now as russia prepares to mark the victory we explore the soviet troops fight to defeat the not seems that's about time it's time becoming up after a recap of the headlines and of course the immediate schedule next day's business update with. her welcome to the business thanks for joining me commodity prices are taking a pounding the biggest selloff in the sector for two years and weakening trend has suddenly accelerated as best as worry about the strength of the global recovery skyrocketing inflation the all markets have been leading the charge downward

friday's session adding to the eight percent decline. and to find out what's going on commodities i'm joined by jeff king from the energy and metals information. hello jeff thanks for joining the program so what's driving this sell off. well it's a combination of factors really i mean we've got some weak. economic data that's come out of the u.s. and germany this week we have in asia talk of well we're not just talk but some of the emerging economies are being raising interest rates in attempt to slow the economy's down there and i guess we've also had a little bit of the risk premium come out of the market this week with the death of osama bin ladin. news out of the middle east north africa all some analysts say that the commodities boom is over do you think so as well. well the process seems to be. still around one hundred dollars i mean it's if analysts are saying that the

that's their opinion. rather not going into it and where could support come could support come from oil. which is just what they have in the. oil well at the moment we still support there with the. situation in the middle east i mean that's the market still watching that very closely there's still a risk of it spreading although it's been pretty quiet lately. you know with libya we don't really know where that's going to go how long it's going to last. so the area there is definitely providing the support now just how much of this is down to fundamentals and is this sell off the blasting of us from some kind of a speculative bubble. as far as fundamentals are concerned i mean there's even a even with the libyan. issue and the one point six one point seven million barrels

that normally come out of the missing you know saudi arabia has sort of suggested that the market is well supplied and they've offered to put more of the market and no one's willing to take it so they're going to as far as fundamentals are concerned it it seems at the moment as if. the supplies are there well we might see some slowing in china and india but they're still growing quickly and you know doesn't this guess that they'll be strong future demand. as far as you try to in your consumer concern they've both indicated that they want to slow down the their economy but i mean how that impacts demand remains to be say well from what from your point of view does what's more important demand in the united states or china. they're both important the u.s. is the biggest consumer. of oil there remains probably always been important work

with. a growing market isn't. ok thank you very much that was just came from clouds thanks for joining the program now let's take a look at some numbers in the markets like sweet is currently trading around ninety nine dollars a barrel while brant is one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel gold is one of the rare elements of calm it's holding firm making big losses in previous sessions silver is currently are only a percent having fallen almost thirty percent from the recent highs. now equities in europe are gaining the foot seize up half a percent while in germany the dax is up over eight percent this hour covering from early losses and a wave of heavy selling just before the close. here in russia the markets are heading up towards the r.t.s. and isaacs are rebounding and that's despite the market being heavily dominated by resource stocks. your stream has finished playing the world's longest subsequent across the baltic is to start pumping gas from russia to germany in the

autumn but the head of north stream one excess that eleven billion dollar project will not have enough capacity to meet the demand and more pipelines will be needed . from different institutions for example so showing. the consumption and supply and consumption in your. in the next few years. could be. not simpering couple fifty five. so this is a quarter because this. has to be also supply routes to cover the new. york. that's the latest we have for you but don't forget you can always by most always just log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business or join me in less than one hour from. i am a. fish

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