handing control over a lot of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there's concern there too divided untrained and ill equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason 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 to eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners the mob the thought of that we must push them hard so they can die four hundred pressure 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 governess of age or ethnicity then in the army we are old

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 yeah this is all good news to u.s. military planners have said the two thousand and fourteen need to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and 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 quality 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 reimagine numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to that was a widespread drug use and desertion it's today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival x. warlords who still command loyalties along regional in their declines 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 stop neutral. lift we will be given late ninety's fighting each other we will be killing each other these people by the name of jihad groups or other groups they do control again yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to gain for constraints are they similar clark in kabul for some. in a few minutes on our tina green card immigrants who are now seeing red after winning american citizenship lottery they're now being told no entry to their and your lives why. their resignations keep coming in the british 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 acts police commissioner also took a swipe at the prime minister saying his choice of advisor was a worst decision namely former editor andy coulson in a day of rapid developments rebecca brooks who ran the paper was arrested as part of the investigation she quit on friday as rupert murdoch sort of reaction and is due to join him and his son james facing m.p.'s on tuesday over and asacol reporting methods and police bribery media analyst phil rees says paying officers for information has been going on for years. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a rare sleep in leaking they're being paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice that has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice is

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 those people who've been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a live one thousand letters 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 through mockable 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 making them for drinks privately one even 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 this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives the officers down the lines now you could well 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 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 is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next the timing out of the back of ropes or rest is raising a few eyebrows former british intelligence officer and he was shands as it's more than a coincidence. it's very unusual to have someone this close to the heart the heart of power in the u.k. being arrested but i suppose based on the prima factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not to arrest having said that of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial and to be convicted

so i suppose i'd be more surprised if if she were charging if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think is the timing of this arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through it all rests on the sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so now when she's going to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this it is subject to legal proceedings so in a way i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking this step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room where she didn't have to say too much and would have to say too much about her links with the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing. this is live from moscow on the way to sanity your wait is nearly over it's one of the last world war two era war crime suspects prepares to learn his fate we reported from hungary. the cruiser that sank in the volga is due to be lifted

later on monday once the vessel is moved off its side in what is one of the operations most difficult stages attempts to put the ship on an even keel resume after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims and raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope then 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 volga the bulgaria went down in minutes leaving more than half of the two hundred eighty eight passengers with no chance to escape one of russia's worst ever water disasters. r.t. dot com is closely following the recovery operation and has 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 russia's northern caucasus has been

shaken by two deadly blast four policemen were killed and ten other people in the explosions. who's in the region can tell us more. what is so what do we know about these attacks. well till the last twenty four hours have seen two dadley blast hansa russia's north caucasus now the first one happening two policemen were killed and seven others injured when an explosion hit a search operation in the mountainous area now the second one show the republic of dagestan late at night it was a roadside bomb two policemen dads and three hours in three obvious ones it's now the bomb detonated to when the patrol car was driving through the city of cons which is situated in the republic ulfa dagestan know the explosion was a quick equivalent to four kilograms alpha t.n.t.

and these two blasts happened in the wake of the recent terror raids that was a launched in the republic of dagestan two days ago. well tell us what's being done to combat terror volatile region. well since the start of this yeah there has been a number often a tourist and successful. and according to russia's in terra ministry the number of terrorist attacks have declined since the start of the two thousand and eleven compared to the same period as the year before but still i despite this number as this is a big number of terror raids and the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed systems the start of this yes still the potential terrorist threat remains high in the region and there are two regions where gangs mostly action in about a republic and the republic done so as the search operations and raise

continue in this region and just on sunday two militants were killed two terrorists were killed and so this shows that this number of terrorist attacks declined in this region still the fragile remains and such operations continue. thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject from the north caucasus region caution over there. to other news now one of the last remaining nazi war crimes suspects will soon learn his fate in a court. of hero is charged with the massacre of killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest to do thousand and six and is one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes are reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi he stands accused of the participation in the ne tourist massacre in the city you know he said in one

thousand nine hundred ninety one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by him gary in full says now the prosecution say that though he's directly responsible for the deaths of thirty six jewish people thirty to fit in with pits in a lorry and given away to be shown at the school it's already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that he wasn't sure that this you know was even fully aware of what was going on and so in a german with schools and ordered him to receive a hearing and mental health assessment and being restarted in the verdict expected to be good 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 of the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hungary in 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 trial of eve on dominion come to an end he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case has said that they've been pushing for that business sentence going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today it's our first reporting there and also take a look at some other stories from around the world libyan rebels are carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of bragg home to one of the country's biggest oil facilities there has also been targeting pro get 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 khadafi made another defined speech at the weekend deny rumors he was leaving libya. as he struggles to quell the months long revolt. moralise still clashes in syria this time between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are

thought to have died as a fighting worsened when people began using fire arms against each other last week three supporters of president asad were kidnapped and killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government crackdowns are sots to have killed over thirteen hundred people since they began in january. interim leaders have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after public anger over slow post revolution reform most of the points are relative newcomers who are not lange's with the regime of ex leader hosni mubarak there are also conflicting reports about the house to president's health his lawyer says mubarak is in a coma which doctors deny. venezuela's president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment experts warned that which of us is health issues could 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 notably and supported politically economically and eventually even militarily by the united states of america and the united states is clearly bent on making its regina change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them over to latin america so from the i'm speaking from when i was in argentina i'm particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems will debilitate will weaken the present government in israel and that can be seen as an opportunity by the united states or rather by the global power elite that operate 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 nasser's how will telescope has been a space watching war course for lonely decades but now it gets to share the job of

revealing the universe's biggest mysteries are russia nine the sky is on its way to help out and it's packing the sharpest tools and their own galaxy i guess maria for national was at the baikonur cosmodrome in castle stan the seat up. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creaked with the cutting edge telescope a huge top in universities for ration as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it's with the possible to observe the most mysterious the doc 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 and america's. so we can see something is

happening as well i'll let you enjoy the moment. but i'm going to stick really well but if you are going to that's not going to fall out so any good reading this wrong and i can take a small center here at some time with me i mean it's over for what i know strong to unfold its twenty seven battles and make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will see the top receive the first results means the first images of the universe from their original chena hot tea reported from baikonur. while the telescope takes its place russia's space agency boss tells r.t.

later this hour what he hopes will see. foreign scientists not the russian ones seven or tow scope 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 it possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole process goes on governor some statistical dance on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comment on the universe and to understand where we have all come from is that waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science. well it can be tough getting a green card to live in america but every year or thousands randomly hit the

jackpot or so they thought a courts ruled the latest lottery list just isn't arbitrary enough that is tearing up immigrants invites are just gotta take out explains. hoping for a better life in america or 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 war but i want to bottom for a four star on the lottery. it's one from 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 have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the true 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 an 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 rhonda 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 get 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 gambled with their lives we believe that america. going to shut down our t.v. washington d.c. on our green card requires for your access all areas pass to our website and here's what's lining up now at r t dot com. fabulous more than a hundred masterpieces go on show from the greatest russian jeweler of all time and part of buckingham palace is crowning the summer season. at a formula one frenzy in the heart of moscow we report on the mean machines at the annual city racing show salary dot com for more. well more revelations in our sports later as jansen biden returns to moscow three

years before the city gets its first formula one grand prix so. hello and welcome to your r.t. business bulletin and i match good to have you with us european banks are starting the week on the back foot most are relieved that passing the e.u. stress test but there are still wide open to sovereign shock from baghdad in the united states in europe investment it out though think that could open doors for russian lenders the german banks in particular were exposed to toxic assets 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 but it's also not feeling very well. the. u.s. banks are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so

within this area within the euro market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well are actually in a position. to go spend money. relatively good. in europe and so this purchase. is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks following suit doing the same sort of thing. taking a look at the markets now or a lower with investors concerned about worsening debt crisis in europe and may slow the economy and weigh on the fuel demand european stocks expending last week's losses of the stress test results have shown lenders may have to raise additional cash banks are leading the downside rally and energy majors are following the lead

as crude edges lower here in moscow the markets are tracking europe most of the blue chips trading in the red but d.t.b. is bucking the trend after it published a seventy percent increase in net profit for the first quarter of the year among miners poly metals once again on the rise as investors looking for a safe haven in gold related assets and l m k is in the negative territory after reporting three percent growth in steel production for the second quarter industrial output is speeding up in russia six percent year on year compared with twelve percent in may car production a key driver with the sector benefiting from higher demand and investment activity analysts expect even faster growth in the coming months and the low interest rates and cooling inflation. of the russian equities are struggling to push forward. bank things investors could turn to commodities in the meantime. in the west the soil will be described by possible we can so use those that's why for the rest of us i

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the local. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow here's a reminder of the top stories the taliban take out another target on the other nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a questionable local force in charge you have an army is known for having numerous drug addicts and people linked to insurgency. one bows out while another is they all of them are the media the spawn that seize the bridge and britain's most senior policeman quit over connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking while x. news international team. back and robes is arrested. at a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope of russia's own eye in the sky gets

ready to seek out the secrets of our universe the radio asked ron both so much higher resolution that it's nasa and. the russian space chief now at leinster a teacher has far reaching outlook for the country's cosmic plans. russia is launching its biggest space telescope at a huge to orbit earth and calf really observe our 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 pawle 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

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 to comprise a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here but 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 uncover some statistical data on the basis of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of 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 russia's return to the solutions america is also about to send its new telescope the web which is supposed to replace hobble in two thousand and fourteen is there in new space research raise between moscow and washington.