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troll over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there's concern there too divided and trained and it will quit to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason mog reports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern coon or province of afghanistan's most violent corners the mob decided not to default we must push them hard so they can die for under pressure that day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back to tell about a minute insurgency garbus of age or ethnicity then here are what we are old
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brother and we are all calling my one. was right the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahedeen unit made up of four of them veterans of the anti soviet you know this is all good news to u.s. military planners have set a two thousand and fourteen you're going to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quantity of troops may be coming at the expense of quality that was started as more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem on our ability to really match and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to that was a widespread drug use and desertion rates today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regionally their lines
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could leave the country deeply. as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. lift we will be here late ninety's fighting each other really killing each other these people waiting in jihadi groups or other groups to control it in yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to be fourteen states are chasing more clark in kabul for some. and in a few minutes on r.t. the green card immigrants who are now. after winning america's citizenship lottery they're now being told no end to their new lives we'll tell you why. and one of the last world war two era war crimes suspect is due to learn his fate a report from hungary. meantime the resignations keep coming in the british
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newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit sir paul stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor it was later questioned about illicit phone tapping they asked police commissioner also to this why has the prime minister saying his choice was less controversial than the one david cameron chose namely former editor andy colson in a day of rapid developments we're back with groups who ran the paper was arrested as part of the investigation she quit on friday as were murdered and is due to join him and his son james facing m.p.'s on tuesday over an ethical reporting methods and police bribery media analyst filreis says paying officers for information has been going on. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a rest they've been leaking they've been paid for telling people where celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually
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a practice it has become in trying to in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice it's a bit but i don't think it's going to deflect opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a live and thousand about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people. they knew they were taking part investigation these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if
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this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives the officers down down the lines now you could well ask you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are the investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain it's it's shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. the cruiser in that sank in the volga is due to be lifted later on monday once the vessel is moved off its side and what is one of the operations most difficult stages tam's to put the ship on an even keel resumed after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the river bad for
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fifteen missing victims and then raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope that definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank but recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in the silt at the bottom of the ball deliver the bulgarian went down in minutes leaving more than half of the two hundred eight passengers with no chance to escape one of russia's worst ever watery disasters. arcee dot com is closely following the recovery operation and has a bad ground to the tragedy so keep up to date there and there's also our you tube channel for all our video reports of the salvage mission. if. the evening.
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a garion court. charged with a massacre killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six and is one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes r.t. sara for us reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi the trial of ninety seven year old son joke is expected to come to an end today as the verdicts delivered at the court here in budapest he stands accused of the participation in the ne tourist massacre in the city of no he said in one thousand nine hundred ninety one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by him carrying forces though the prosecution say that though he is directly responsible for the deaths the thirty six jewish people thirty if he were put in a lorry and driven away to be shot at the pool it's already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that she wasn't sure that this pheno was even fully aware of what was going on and
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so an adjournment was cooled in order for him to receive a hearing a mental health assessment and that is being restarted in the verdict expected to be that if it's a day that he's one of the last remaining suspected war criminals he was tried and convicted in one nine hundred forty four but that conviction was quashed the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hungary law you can't convict someone of the same offense twice the prosecution is saying that doesn't stand up as his previous acquittal was due to political considerations and not evidence now just a few months ago in may we saw the child of even demean you come to an end he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case it said that they've been pushing for that business sentence going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today. so the first report and there are more stories developing around the world
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this hour of libyan rebels are carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of bragg home to one of country's biggest oil facilities nato has also been targeting program off the forces in the area with days of intense bombardment the alliance is trying to muster support for the rebels who have suffered heavy losses in recent days could not be made another defiant speech at the weekend denying rumors he was leaving libya as he struggles to quell the months long revolt . more lethal clashes in syria this don between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are thought to have died as the fighting worsened when people began using firearms against each other last week three supporters of president assad were kidnapped and killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government damask crackdowns are thought to have killed over thirteen hundred people since they began in january. idjit your leaders have undertaken
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a massive government reshuffle public anger over slow post revolution reform most of the appointments are relative newcomers who are not linked with the regime or hostile bark there are also conflicting reports about the president's health his lawyer says barque coma which doctors deny. that israel as president has transferred some powers to his minister as while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment experts warned that this health issue has seriously affect the political situation in the country the problem here being that he's regina council a lot of internal and external opposition adversaries know to be funded and supported politically economically and eventually even militarily by the united states of america and the united states is clearly bend on making its rejean change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them
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over to latin america so from the i'm speaking from one as i was in argentina i am particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems move debilitating week of the present government in israel and that can be seen as an opportunity by the united states or rather by the power elite that operates from the united states to promote regina change in venezuela and if it starts in venezuela it will no doubt spread to other countries notably ecuador bolivia and perhaps even argentina. nasa's hubble telescope has been a space watching war curse for two lonely decades but now it gets to share the job of revealing the universe's biggest mysteries of russian ion the sky is on its way to help out at its packing the sharpest tools in the known galaxy are just very few national was at the baikonur cosmodrome in castle stand to see off. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creeped with the cutting edge telescope
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a huge top and universe explorer ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the doc has and the most shadowed corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even to be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dog nature these few to know most i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution ten thousand times shop with an america's hobble so we can see something is happening well i'll let you enjoy the moment. because it's you this time i was ready to go on. but i'm going to stick
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really well what is going to happen that's not the fallout of tony robbins ready to strong and i can take a small center here and some one time with me it's an overall but i do a strong to unfold it's twenty seven couples and i make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will sit tall to receive the first results means the first images of the universe for all that good bye i can hope we have been able to speak to the had a russian space agency was called must lead zuma to the balkans and he believes that this mission which is expected to last five years is something all humankind will be able to benefit from. regional sheena hati reporting from baikonur. and i had a russian space agency talk to r.t. later he shares his hopes for the telescope's achievements with us. feel sure that there are foreign scientists not the russian ones serving or telescope is more
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interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here the telescope makes it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes on gov of some statistical dunson on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comment on the universe and to understand why we have all come from used books waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks his return to space science. well it can be tough getting a green card to live in america but every year a lucky few thousand randomly hit the jackpot or so they thought the courts ruled the latest lottery alist just isn't arbitrary enough ad is terry up the immigrants
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invites are just going to shake out explains. hoping for a better life in america. from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a kuchuk war but i want to lots of. other lottery. it's one for each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder
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have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even in the era like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic to means that if only record tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five and then track twelve that's still run to the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has
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gambled with their lives we believe that america. should john r. t. washington d.c. . well now green card required for your access all areas pass to our website here's what's lining up now at our. four wheeled frenzy in the heart of moscow to report in the scenes and you'll see the racing show. and fabulous father showing more than a hundred masterpieces going to show the greatest russian jew. all the time this part of the palace is around in the summer so. while we're looking at the stars in a few minutes but first let's get down to earth with this hour's business news with matt.
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hello and welcome to our business bulletin i mattress i'd good to have you with us europe has given its banks a health check the results of the stress tests published after markets closed friday shows only eight lenders out of ninety one were at a high risk of not surviving a sharp downturn that's fewer than analysts had feared but richard haynesworth from rust rating believes the sector is still far from sound which he says presents an opportunity for russian lenders. the german banks particularly were exposed to toxic assets in the united states. the german banks for example were exposed to iceland they had nineteen billion dollars of exposure to iceland. the irish banks the english banks are also not feeling very well. the. u.s. banks are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so
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within this area within the euro market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well araceli in a position. with cash to go spend money and buy up. relatively good assets in europe and so this purchase by spur of national is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing. take a look at the markets shall we or oil is lower as investors are concerned we're seeing debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and weigh on the fuel demand. in asia the hang sayings on the rise resource for missouri leading the games japanese markets are closed for a public holiday. two hours ahead of the closing bell in moscow the russian markets
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ended in previous week mixed in volumes were down as many people were away on holiday and direction remained unclear. after a largely subdued end to last week's trading cities suvorov a bank explains what investors can expect in the coming week. come and we will be off the investor who wants all kinds of corporate is not so dramatic and companies who saw the results of sternness test of european banks which will determine the time from the market in general and look of peace movement and give those on the markets we saw old fools from the rest of us the most from france from russia most of the great number but that still won't seventy million dollar falls from our should i quit this if the news of the mist of hoofy the skin on my girl different is another kind of the prices are pretty strong and the investments i think will focus on growth stocks like american stocks like you know some consumer stocks which we are all too from the markets. i think that they will try through would the
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second team names. and it seems that russians are turning their sights abroad a report by citibank says the amount of money spent outside of russia grew twenty eight percent year on year and one hundred forty million dollars the stock is record level since two thousand and seven with russians mostly performing to spend the cash in the u.s. italy and great britain. general impression that russia has bounced back to pre-crisis though dinner impression that you know was close to full particulary at the range where it. pretty much stable microcosmic situation in russia people feel more confident. i up today with the i.r.s. business more coming your way in the next hour and any time at r.t. dot com slash business headlines are next. to.
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welcome back you're watching our t.v. here is a look at the top stories the taliban take out another target on their nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a questionable local force in charge they are again army is known for having numerous drug addicts and people linked to insurgency. one bows out while another is bailed them out of media misconduct seize britain's most senior policeman quit over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking while absolute international team from baton rouge arrested and jailed.
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and a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope is russia's own eye in the sky gets ready to seek out the secrets of our universe the radio astronomy both a much higher resolution than it's nasa caused. russia space she's now outlines surety is far reaching outlook for the country's cosmic planets. russia is launching its biggest space telescope at a huge to orbit earth and calf only observe a universe looking deeper and further to shed light on the darkest and the most mysterious corners of our galaxy and all this what does this mean for us and for russia they had a russian space agency ross costless is here with me thank you very much mr cain for joining us especially thank you for inviting me well americans how will now have company it is the russian telescope looking to discover something hubble's
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missing during all the years it's been operating deal with foreign scientists not the russian ones seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here the telescope makes a possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes uncover some statistical data on the basis of which it will be possible to predict the dynamics the development of our climate and the universe and to understand where we have all come from and what's waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks most return it is the solutions america's also about to send its new telescope the web which is supposed to replace hobble in two thousand and fourteen is there any new space.

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