the torch was the coromandel you can away with a chill through those leisure sedated to go and. run this in the kennel was hotel as used to retreat. to the. trances elderly resort to extreme a money saving measures as the government lets pensions windell it gives the military campaign a free hand on funding. the russian couple of sentences for murdering a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow two years ago. the killers are handed lengthy jail terms in one of the biggest convictions of its kind in russia and that's how they're going to join me for more details in just a few moments. waterboarding returns to form the u.s. officials claim and help them find osama bin laden but human rights activists say

torture techniques are futile. plus we take to the skies with one of russia's top flight aerial display squats. for twenty years these planes and their pilots come round the world with their amazing aerobatics stunts play with their teeth and see exactly what the russian swifts can do. it's now a seven pm on friday here in moscow this is. now french leaders are being accused of funding an ever growing war chest while its own most of the honorable citizens are living on the breadline france is a prominent player and nato is intervention in libya as well as troops stationed elsewhere. reports on how french military ambition is leading to the neglect of its neighbors. heat or heat that's the choice faced by modern kids so instead of

supporting the elderly france's 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 spends over thirty billion euro a year on 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 every coast and afghanistan each french have a missile costs hundreds of thousands of euros so just months into twenty eleven the forces are broke even with madame kitto as pension that's pretty much up the defense 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 so everyone you shoot is a bond closer to losing aaa status france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping remit in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin in pays the price of gunning for regime change and for each. foreign abrasion it's important to follow strict principles the one of the international community the street mandate of the united nations 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're going towards and i think by the where. we had. already gone coops for two

to find the drug in someone but it was not revealed but she worked all her life for a decent retirement. if she wanted 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 at home when your bush or r.t. paris. now russia's foreign minister has weighed in on the nato led coalition's decision to pump money into the libyan rebellion started after office criticism comes a day after the international contact group on libya decided to set up a fund to support the insurgency and their fight against colonel qaddafi but moscow has come down hard on a nato is intervention saying the alliance is taking sides in what is a civil war it was not sanctioned by the un resolution on libya which was designed to protect civilians regardless of their allegiance to the nato led coalition's

been bombing khadafi supporters for nearly two months now and there are growing reports of dead civilians russia and china both abstained from supporting the u.n. resolution march fourth countries the foreign ministers met in moscow on friday at a regret over was that. the russian foreign minister at a press conference today what it was about the idea of including russia in this international concert. so was there to love or observer in russia's view only. the which isn't trusted with their resolutions and one is hearing the implementation of such as the u.n. 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 haunted with believe or any other world is simply not needed is a veil of robes. that's going to a new group 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 what to do in 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 civil war those comments were made at a joint press conference by the russian foreign minister and the chinese foreign minister there we are and we see that russia and china are origin. there are voices in major international events 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 arrest 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 mines in the rising number of

casualties and it's likely that both russia and china would be to any u.n. resolution which would blaze ground troops in libya. reporting right. u.s. vindicates its torturing techniques for saying it helped to hunt down osama bin laden the former target he says questioning methods of american detention centers only serve to fill. the details in just a few minutes. court has sentenced a nationalist to rights lawyer and a journalist to life in prison as accomplice was given eighteen years in jail. reports. well it is a very unusual case because really it's one of the first times that the perpetrators of hate crimes are not only tried but also convicted and given quite lengthy prison terms no 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 as a result they got away with lighter sentences but these cases different because one of the defendants nikitin who was convicted of two murders that hold fast in his life more calories per prominent human. drive slower and honest i see above about a freelance reporter for nobody gives a di killer was sentenced to a maximum prison term that is a lawyer in prison and now he's associated and girlfriend you've given your past is . who was stalin guilty of acting as an accomplice to the murder of martha keller she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now that's a big lauzon that prosecution was asking for but that's still quite a lengthy prison term now the measly plan to kill only the news fluff mark allen

was a very well known human rights lawyer here in russia he was walking down the street tourism here is a mattress station and i suppose the above were a complicated theme to ask a couple of questions and that was one both of them were approached by and killed in broad daylight in a very cold blooded manner now the only point i would like to add is that despite being called the russian born inquired and they actually use these a moment cried a bit during the trial of the jurors a lot of traction for each other holding hands kissing sharing jokes but this was very painful for the families of the victims and the air really as the media not to remember size based crime because it beez to the vigils despite all the affection for each other actually killed two very bright people and they committed the crime in a very callous manner. files apparently sees them killed

osama bin ladin suggest that he remain closely involved in the terror plots it's one of the justifications from the u.s. government for its handling of bin ladin scrolling i was going to use a gun a explains the violent questioning of terror suspect was also being loaded for helping america's most wanted terrorist. putting a pretty face on years of torture and law u.s. officials talk about the efficiency of enhanced interrogation techniques as they call them in locating bin ladin we have to take that information through waterboarding and some of those who say that waterboarding doesn't work and say that it should be stopped and never use again we got vital information which directly where as to why are you denying that waterboarding was in part of long the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission go 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 the petain valuable intelligence on bin ladin although a detainee named cally cheik muhammad was reported to have provided information on a courier that led to bin laden's capture intelligence sources say he repeatedly misled interrogators about the couriers identity and stalled the quest for years he was water boarded one hundred eighty three times what we're seeing is that waterboarding enhanced interrogation techniques just like professional interrogators have been saying for years always result and in either limited information plus information or no information from the laying of the groundwork if you will of these techniques basically i believe wholeheartedly slowed us down on the road towards some of the numerous other members of al qaeda not not just. 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 or out colonels was captured in pakistan in two thousand and one he was working for an angiogram 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 make sign papers where i would agree that crime remember. so of course i refused to sign it of. course it's. because i refused. care to. post so very old my head. for my stomach right. never charged with any crimes were 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 moroc 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 the torture is running from here to stop the pain the international community has wisely condemned the unlawful practices that the u.s. prison amnesty international called a gulag a faraway times and 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 guantanamo and other prisons overseas like the infamous abu ghraib in iraq contributed to more terror when i was in iraq and 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 detainees and both are great and went on obey and this is not in my opinion a department offense tracked the statistics and they were briefed every interrogator right there that the. torture and abuse was okayed as number one recruiting tool and so this policy of torture and. used to not make america safer what it did was it caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of american soldiers recently in the wake of all the cheering about bin laden's death when asked about torture the cia director so whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches i think it's always going to be an open question just a few years ago when brock 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 death it could seem the ends justify the means the means which has many experts say not only have not made americans safer but

have motivated more terrorists i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. now for more insight and analysis of suspicious methods used in the war on terror i just had a dot com and let's have a look online now and see what else is waiting for you with us my mother and make sure you fasten your seat belts it's going to be a lot of bumpy ride watch video of this to pull off as it takes a tumble before the pilots used every ounce of their skill to land it safely the in-flight movie is at r.t. dot com. busway can be easier to get into harvard than getting hired it to hand out hamburgers as the government has revealed a ton away more applicants than the ivy league college. guy you. made him look forward to be held don't

see. the pain and suffering will never be forgotten. as well as the joy of not going to ration. here a spring of nineteen forty five on our cheek. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded. and noone to suffer to the end of the. age was the first but probably not the last unitary uses of this weapon.

will be come. children come on on get. just after quarter past the hour here in moscow you would artsy or for the past twenty years to the russian era but it seems have been a while when crowds worldwide with the stones now they're both slicing through the crowds and celebration of the milestone. of what the show in the moscow. this is truly a spectacular site one of the most famous aerobatic teams in the world in the sky doing exactly what they're famous for the russians west are in the sky today to celebrate their twentieth anniversary and that is why they have taken their make twenty nine up over their home base just outside the russian capital and thousands of people have gathered here to watch them perform their amazing aerobatic stunts

with skills and grace that have made them famous all over the world the barrel rolls the looping moves over those stones and many many more are exactly what this team skilled in that is warming up in the sky and yet another famous russian aerobatic team the russian knights also celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year are known all over the world for forming the stance that no other team has ever accomplished but they're flying in formation nine planes together two different types of planes this with smith twenty nine and the night's s u twenty seven it's very close together and incredibly complicated stuff and very dangerous but they pull it off beautifully every time and of course as the pilots say this. and on their twentieth birthday this guy is the only place they want to be. reporting right without you let's go to some other international news now at this

hour for you and like a saudi official say an american drone aircraft has fired missiles near the afghan border. killing at least ten of them suspects the strike targeted a compound on a vehicle in the al qaeda and taliban stronghold of north waziristan it is the first such a type there since american commandos killed osama bin laden on monday to start the u.s. to stop the assaults because the civilian casualty risks are damaging 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 at protesters near a mosque. to mask this government troops have set up checkpoints around both some areas it's all protests and. more than five hundred sixty people are thought to have been killed since the unrest began seven weeks ago. i was on your ouattara is finally due to be sworn in as ivory coast president it's been

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 lost by vote meantime is being questioned about human rights abuses across he was in. the inquest into the london tube and bus bombings of two thousand and five has cleared intelligence and emergency services of any blame and the deaths caused the coroner said all fifty victims would have died no matter what time the rescuers arrived but she added there were lessons to be learned and the security services need to tighten up procedures to avoid future terrorist and the seventy seven attacks or suicide bombers of blow themselves up on three rush hour two trains and a packed double decker bus. all in our next hour here on r.t. martin andrews walks us through some of moscow's premier streets and squares to soak up the history and find out why they're still pulling crowds today. will be

a story where the latest reads a lost go to the best guy at the moon. way old subscripts of the she originally a way out of the medieval city to knock it off today in the center of the city's not like i'm entertainment. we've arrived pushing the star square one of them a meeting place is here the russian capital think of it as times square open for the circus it's also a place where love is like to meet rebook hold times and give flowers very nice and in a sense here is the eleventh me to statue of the famous russian poet alexander. enjoy must go out on a tour of the capital in just over an hour's time here on street protests before but let's head over to korea with all the latest from the business desk. i don't welcome to business thanks for joining me and we have breaking news this

hour b.p.'s just walk you would have come to see but only on the condition ross consents to signing up to see to. that's the latest ruling of the arbitration court in london which has been looking into a dispute between the british romantic and its current russian partners however rosner have to have always maintained it is knowledge as to having taken k.b.p.s. part of the arctic exploration deal despite this b.p. says the court's decision is a step in the right direction as it clears the way for it to open negotiations about the signing b.p.'s share of the optics deal here. and two other stories russian equity markets and commodities got a significant boost late on friday following stronger than expected economic data in the us the latest drop data suggest that the american economy is in better health economists are feared despite a slight rebound it is likely bad week for commodities which have seen their biggest sell off for getting two years. of the post week or so we've seen

commodities fall off a ten percent accuracy on a ten percent that said you have to take commodity prices still significantly higher than they were concerned about so i would say that the fall has been. informed. initially we had china and india are raising rates to come by it's. predominantly food price inflation but inflation in general that's a result they're going to be willing to sacrifice probably one or two percentage points of growth so that's the general populace doesn't feel the strains of increasing fuel prices that caused a slip in the dollar. and this week we've had. the european central bank meeting to say that they would raise rates would have got you talking about a strong dollar we had been basically saying he would like to see us talk about raising rates that significantly boosted the strength of the dollar versus the euro

and with us with a stronger dollar we've seen a collapse in commodity prices which is an ongoing as we speak. taking a look at the numbers now or prices are bouncing back slightly after saying losses of around eight percent overnight like so it is currently trading around ninety dollars a barrel while grant is trading one hundred and ten dollars a barrel gold is holding firm up making big losses in previous session so it was kind of the arc nearly of the same since this most recent fixing but it's forced it's full of almost thirty percent from its high end. from its highs a couple of weeks ago. now let's cross over to the u.s. where stocks are trading higher. friday after a week of daily losses energy stocks are gaining a turnaround from four straight sessions of losses that's up to the better than expected u.s. and on that report into the sector but equities in europe are gaining a foot seas a point eight percent germany's dax is up one and a half percent this hour coming from only losses and the wave of heavy selling just

before polls. here in russia the markets closed higher friday the artist witnessed over a percent in the red and black an m i six is over two percent higher that's despite markets being every dominated by resources. stream has been a slaying the world's longest pipeline across the baltic and is to start pumping gas from russia to germany in the autumn ahead of an old stream but yes warning says that eleven million dollar project will not enough capacity to meet future demand and more pipelines popping studies from different institutions for some considerable shoring. up become sort of supply and consumption in your. in the next few years ago and who. could be critical not simply uncalled for fifty five. a quarter off because it means.

there has to be also supply rewards to come. into consumption and your 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 from the we've been saying bretton woods committee explains what the new world order could mean. china is emerging as a main you can be power china is going to rely less on export it is going to rely more on the basic demand we are going to cost you more so we should have benefits for the for the for the u.s. for you for your up meaning the u.s. we need to realize i more or next fall driven mode you know and china we need to rely on more domestic remain modell so you we need to reverse what we have today meaning china is exporting to get growth in the u.s. is consuming to get growth there's a reverse you know that you get of no balance global economic. cost and ages for

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