funding wars over pensions for all this is accused of forcing the elderly to scroope and say well the government spends a fortune on increasing its military presence of goold. russian companies sentence 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 the boy can join me for more details in just a few moments. the tide turned sort of waterboarding as american officials claimed torture helped to capture osama bin laden while she wants to find this violent

interrogation achieves nothing. plus a show stopping performance courtesy of russia's top flight aerial display squads. for twenty years these planes and their pilots while the world with their amazing aerobatics stunts stay with r t c exactly what the russian swifts can do. it's a national news live from moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day and to have you with us this hour french leaders are being accused of funding an ever growing war chest while its most vulnerable citizens live on the breadline france as a prominent player in a chose intervention in libya as troops stationed in other countries the new push will report some health french military ambition is leading to the neglect of it's needed. heat or eat 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 finance retirement pension is 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 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 kitto his pension can pretty much up the operational 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 bore on the cheap course if you have

a country which is very rich. it can afford is the france has been named as possibly losing its aaa status so so every day you shoot is one closer to losing two police thieves france should have stuck to the un peacekeeping dream it's in the ivory coast and libya wants x. premier dominique de villepin in 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 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 troops and i think. we had. already called for

to find the drug but it was not to be feared but 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 also call the military campaign is worth it if the government called take care of people time. r.t. paris. russia's foreign minister is weighed into the nato led coalition's decision to pump money into the libyan rebellion. criticism comes a day after the international contact for libya decided to set up a fund to support the insurgents in their fight against colonel gadhafi moscow has come down hard on nato intervention saying he has taken sides in what is a civil war is not the solution by the u.n. resolution on libya which was designed to protect civilians regardless of the. nato led coalition's been bombing gadhafi supporters for nearly two months now and there are growing reports of dead civilians russian china both abstain from supporting

the u.n. resolution in march both countries foreign ministers met in moscow on friday. over was there for. the russian foreign minister at a press conference today what you thought about the idea of including russia in this international contact group on media so was there good luck there in russia's view. which isn't trusted with their resolutions and one is hearing the implementation of such is the u.n. security council and that any country member to the u.n. which signed under its charter is supposed to follow the law the resolutions and the foundational point it will probably be aware of any other group is simply not needed is a bill of rights. so it's going to make group a contact group has established itself and now is trying to take responsibility for the international community's policy towards libya should be not only limb. we're hearing voices calling for this group to decide what to do and other states in the

region we believe should be focusing on the peaceful resolution of the situation and not supporting one side in an internal conflict which is essentially 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 up ordination their voices in major international events and the most recent example of that was in march when they both abstained in the no fly zone. 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 the stress did today believe that nato is going far beyond its un mandate by even considering and on the ground operation and and minding the rising number of casualties and even slightly that russia and china would be to any u.n.

resolution which would place ground troops in libya well elsewhere in the arab world unrest thirty people are reported dead in syria as demonstrators took part in what they're calling a day of defiance began nearly two months ago my country has caused hundreds of deaths now as international pressure grows on the massacres the e.u. says it will extend sanctions against syria next week twenty seven countries would impose travel restrictions to freeze the assets of syrian officials over the violent crackdown on protests let's talk more on this now with war correspondent and columnist eric margolis he's joining me now live. in canada thanks so much for joining us now so another intense day of protests across syria as we're reporting just how long can present assad hold out for do you think. so long as the syrian army. particularly the elite units and the security forces stay loyal to him. and the ba'ath party stays loyal to him and the business community which favors

debility stays loyal he can hold out for some time but certainly the regime is under tremendous pressure both internally. and lit is about to blow syria it's very hard for him to release pressure without creating an explosion and syria is also under attack from the outside so it's going to be a close run thing. pressures that give us a lot of pressure. well the biggest most obvious pressure is that. a religious minority that allawi probably no more than between eight and thirty percent of. have ruled syria ever since he came to power because they moved into the military and the police and the majority of the country about eighty percent sunni muslims have launch a for against this and resent that this there was a huge explosion had to be there in one thousand nine hundred eighty two when the

city of hama rose up and there were very very heavy killings by the syrian army there's great bitterness and resentment and there's a fear that there could be another explosion in syria there are other ethnic groups who are arrested and but people are afraid of is that if syria goes blow it could possibly turn into another iraq so. many western governments quite keen to see a collapse of the regime in syria because if what you say could happen would be really what the west what the u.s. israel other countries would really like to see a regime topple that would let go they certainly would there's great excitement in washington at the prospect of overthrowing the syrian government that's been on the front burner in washington ever since the bush administration ideas that would deliver a massive blow to iran. if syria were collapsed the government fell the israelis would like it because it removed any syrian military

capability and would assure that nobody's going to raise the issue of the golan heights which israel still illegally occupied sixty seven so there's that reason there's also a crusading spirit afoot in europe as prime minister who rightly noted and that is that if the right wing governments in europe germany particularly so sir cozy and france was under. challenge from the further right when i become very militant very militant. is there a policy and it's very popular now to go after arabs and what we're seeing is a sort of a counter revolution where the european powers maybe the united states have seized on the revolution to try and bend to their will and they're using a humanitarian intervention as a new reason for sending troops in however humanitarian intervention usually lies the place resources are strategic geography so all we see for an

intervention in syria as you say it could collapse the leads to that void that chaos surely that's an excuse or a great opportunity for western influence to leap in and take control so are we likely to see western intervention the way we see in libya i think we've seen it already as we are in libya the wiki leaks papers have shown that the u.s. has been funding. the bush administration in funding are militant groups in syria along with saudi arabia and israel. overthrowing the regime. this will intensify and we're seeing new broadcasts coming from washington purporting to be syrian liberation front radio broke e-mails it's a familiar pattern we sort of in the caucasus for example and now this new machine this liberation machine you might want to call it is being turned against syria so i think the fuse has been lit were changing. some would say that actually the

response so far from western governments have been pretty soft toward syria compared to what we've seen in libya i mean. people are saying that these sanctions for example which. have already imposed an e.u. have agreed to impose sanctions quite soon many seem to be more symbolic than anything else so we really seeing some sort of pressure on the syrian regime here on the president. the sanctions right or largely symbolic but there is that behind the scenes there is pressure in the sense that there's outside funding. for some in the syrian. rebel years groups there may be armed groups being supported from the outside and there's a diplomatic coalition forming against syria so that it is very very nerve wracking for the syrians right now they're quite isolated and even the saudis are a barrier against them it's it's a time when it's surprising that europe has decided to get so people involved

france in particular because it used to be the colonial ruler of the area seems to be a hankering to return to its colonial roots something is so many people you're a war correspondent you see what's going on in these places before all this talk about the us what the regime change lots of interference and influence there but if you think they haven't really the u.s. the later they haven't succeeded in libya. they haven't succeeded in iraq i mean how can they take on yet another challenge when actually they haven't had any success anywhere else really. they they don't do so well in places that can fight back. syrians have a tough army it's very backwards technologically but going into syria is going to be no cakewalk for anybody did with north korea for example so the western powers have tended to pick on countries that have very little power to resist it can't fight back to hard. code like libya syria and it's also

dangerous because people realize in europe certainly there this thing could blow up create another huge mess that could draw in all the neighboring countries including lebanon so there's there's discussion and debate going on in europe caution patient to get involved just briefly so much talk about iraq. really is that realistic what's happening in other countries is iran really a target for regime change at this stage. yet. it is it has been for a long time. media for america trackers we thought a couple of years ago a little earlier in the pentagon. here still treasure there is funding of the entry regime groups and the broadcast pressures are really interesting to hear what you have to say thanks for your time for joining us live on the web site correspondent . thank you very much of the openness of. well coming up the u.s.

indicates its top three take need spy saying it helped hunt. for the former it's ok to say questioning methods of americans attention centers only serve to fill the ranks details for you on that story in just a few minutes on r.t. . but first a moscow court a sentence a nationalist to murder the human rights law and a journalist to life in prison his accomplice was given eighteen years in jail. as this report. 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 a lengthy prison term now hate crimes extremely difficult to investigate and prosecute and this was one of the reasons why people implicated in hate crimes are usually tried on are their charges ranging from homicide sometimes clearly

going is man 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 that whole process in his life mark caliph a prominent human rights lawyer and all the necessity of a border by a freelance reporter all of. a guy killer was sentenced to a maximum prison term that is a lot of in prison men now he is associated and call a friend gave me a hassle. who was found guilty of acting as an accomplice to the murder of markelov she was sentenced to eighteen years in prison now that's a big cloud in the prosecution was asking for about still quite a lengthy prison term not the missionary a plan to kill only our caliph was a very well known human rights lawyer here in russia he was walking down a street towards and here is natural station and i suppose the above were

accompanied him to ask a couple of questions and that was when both of them were approached by their 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 of pride a bit during the trial of the showed a lot of affection for a child or folding hands piecing sharing jokes but this was very painful for the families of the victims and they are really after the media not to remember the size based crime because they if these two individuals killed very bright people and they committed the crime in a very callous manner. files apparently seized in the raid that killed osama bin laden suggest that he remain closely involved in al qaeda terror plots it's one of the justifications from the u.s. government over its handling of bin laden's killing its got to teach her explains the violent questioning of terror suspects is also being lauded for helping america

get its most wanted. 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 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 directly read as to why are you denying that waterboarding was part of the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission and 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 pain valuable intelligence on bin laden although a detainee named cally shaikh mohammed 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 saying is that waterboarding enhanced interrogation techniques just like professional interrogators have been saying for years always result and either limited information false information or no information the laying of the groundwork if you will of these techniques basically i believe wholeheartedly slowed us down on the road towards some of bin laden and numerous other members of al qaeda not not just been martin and 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 any humane treatment at u.s. prisons overseas morata kernel'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. to guantanamo and torture it for five years it will be made. for agree that a crime. and of course i refused to sign it. approaches. i refused. a trip through. a process so very old. for my stomach it's why i. never charged with any crimes more us now back home in germany the vast majority of the hundreds of individuals who've been held at guantanamo since two thousand and two like moron are said to be of no intelligence value whatsoever some of them were children when they were captured like canadian citizen omar carter who was just fifteen when he was taken into u.s. custody he said because he was tortured he was ready to say anything that will

cheer his run it through here to stop the pain the international community has wisely condemned the un lawful practices at the u.s. prison amnesty international called the gulag with times matthew alexander has carried out more than three hundred interrogations in iraq and helped track down a number of terrorists he says torture that was used by the u.s. authorities in one tunnel and other prisons overseas like the infamous abu ghraib in iraq contributed to more terror when i was in iraq i oversaw the interrogations of foreign fighters and those foreign fighters the majority of them said time and time again the reason they come to iraq to fight was because of the torture and abuse detainees and both are great and when tom 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 okayed 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 i grew up obama was running for president on promises that downed one on a mole on top but. it was presented as a done deal but now with bin laden's there it could seem the ends justify. the means which has 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. if. you're more international headlines making these this pakistani official said american drone aircraft as far as missiles near the afghan border killing at least ten minutes and suspects the strike targeted the compound in a vehicle in the al qaeda and taliban stronghold of north waziristan it's the first

such attack there since american commandos killed osama bin laden a monday pakistan wants the u.s. to stop the assaults because the civilian casualty risks are damaging public support in fighting terror on the border. japan's government is shutting down a nuclear plant south of tokyo because of the continuing high risks from earthquakes and tsunami the facility has been a target of nuclear campaigns for years because it's located in an area that's almost certain to see a major quake in the next thirty years it's been closed as a precaution following the crisis at the fukushima plant. well over the past twenty years two russian aerobatic teams have been wowing crowds worldwide williston's slicing through the clouds in celebration of the milestone all these countries are of a watch the show in the moscow region. this is truly a spectacular site one of the most famous aerobatic teams in the world in the sky

dealing with exactly what they're famous for of the russian swifts 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 aerobatics dance with skills and grace that have made them famous all over the world the barrel rolls the loop with loops oval sounds and many many more are exactly what this team of skilled men is performing up in the sky and yet another famous russian aerobatic team the russian knights or also celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year are known all over the world for performing a stunt that no other team has ever accomplished but they're flying in formation and nine planes together two different types of planes this with make twenty nine and the knights su twenty seven's very close together an incredibly complicated

stunt very dangerous but they pull it off beautifully every time and of course as the pilots say this is. their twentieth birthday the sky is the only place they want to be. well that brings up some of the most exactly twenty five minutes past the l.v. but with the summer of zero may new stories in five minutes from now though forget you can always follow us on twitter and facebook in the meantime kareen is next with the business news. welcome to business news good to have you with us b.p.'s sixteen billion dollars share swap deal with russian oil from ross there can proceed but only on condition rosneft and tank a b.p. into the exploration of the arctic that's the latest ruling from the operation court in london that's being overseeing the dispute between the parties out is that it was over takes up the story the decision appears to have put the ball thermally in bras not schools essentially what the court says is that b.b.

and ross never can go ahead with this war but only if. the politics gratian is done through t n t v p and that decision is down to cross news outlets this renewed will be peace partner in the russian joint venture t n t v p i had a chance to b.b.c. agreement with rosneft to look through the oil in the arctic mood as it said the deal brokered it's a shareholder a dream and now with b.b. and want to make sure the water in britain blocking the deal now that the ban has been lifted will certain conditions b.p. says it will bring use negotiations with iran so it was never proposing to include seeing t b p in the project it is something that al assad says we know but as the suit looms b.b. also sees that the order as a step in the right direction and says that it will continue looking for mutually satisfying solutions in the real snit has previously rejected the call to speech

and also seeing p.d.p. in the baltic exploration and down so far it hasn't given any chance that it will change its position. equity markets and cannot appease got a significant boost later friday following stronger than expected economic data in the us the latest jobs data suggest that the american economy is in a better health than some economists had feared despite a slight rebound it has been a particularly bad week for. commodities which have seen the biggest sell off for nearly two years. now or price is a bouncing back slightly after seeing losses of around eight percent overnight like sweeties currently trading around one hundred dollars a barrel while brant is one hundred thirteen dollars per barrel gold is holding firm all of them are making big losses in previous sessions so we're currently up nearly a percent since its most recent for example but it's falling almost thirty percent from its highs a couple of weeks ago. european equities finished higher on friday the rebound in

the price of major raw materials pushed european stock markets up by nearly a percent backing stock slipped to the footsie with world bank of scotland gained over six and a half sat right here in russia the markets closed higher as well on friday the odds against finished over a percent in the black in the mind six over two percent higher energy majors were among the leads although my six rawson have gained over three percent who call finished nearly three percent higher banking stocks are also high would be to be inspired by creating two percent. that's all from me in the business team here but remember you can always know stories on our website dot com plus it's.

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