down is being precipitated by local security forces which contain drug addicts and they is connected to the taliban but despite this now is a big an hundred control over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there's concern there too divided on trained and equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason montblanc 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 province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under 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 beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in yarmuk we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet jihad this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen deadline 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 as the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quantity of troops may be coming in the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are literally a big problem when the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions 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 and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict 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 start neutral. you know you know i do need to be killing each other these. groups are the groups who control it yet another obstacle for a young army but still has much to prove before it can still. use a mortal or been called for to. now in just a few minutes on the green card immigrants who are now seeing a red cell american citizenship lottery they're now being told no entry to their new lives to tell you why. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper

phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit support stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive out an advisor he was questioned about illicit phone tapping the x. police commissioner also took a swipe at the prime minister saying his choice of advisors was of worst decision mainly former editor and he calls that and it's a rapid developments rebecca brooks who ran the paper was arrested as part of the investigation she quit on friday is written chief family is due to join him and his son james in facing and he was on tuesday on ethical reporting methods and police bribery media analyst phil we says paying offices for information is going on. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using arrests it been leaking they've been paid for telling people where the celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of

people is actually a practice it 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 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 was so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who. been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was eleven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation and these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing 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 this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers down 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 it is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who is next for the timing off the back of the rest is raising a few eyebrows with british intelligence officers any national says it's more than a coincidence. it's very unusual to have someone that's 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 the rest process on a sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before a parliamentary committee so now what 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 perhaps would have said too much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing . coming up peaking do you pay into the unknown find out what will move us to feel

righteous brand new space telescope can feel as if we choose all facebook has to reach out to the stop. culture is that so much of an oldish musician the person on the mark when libby is still in the same nato's bombing campaign and aided and taken out the rebels have only hardened political facts something. of a failed state this is not a provocation but a warm. day for it let me show you first step are you sure it's a pretty tree speaks they have no idea about the hardships to the face. they wanted to says it all to tunis and for any army to life never

use any of them is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. victory nineteen forty five don't auntie dot com. now the crews that sank in the volga 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 resumed after balancing feeling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing the 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 volga the bulgaria 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 water dissolve. well r.t. dot com is closely following the recovery operation and has the background to the tragedies if you keep up to date there and there's also all you tube channel for all our video reports of the salvage mission. russia's northern caucuses has been shaken by two deadly blasts four policemen were killed and ten all the people we did in the explosions are to be due to quote use in the region has. last twenty four hours have seen two dadley blast hansa russia's north caucasus now the first one happening chain 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 to produce men dads in three august ones it's now is the bomb

detonated to one the patrol car was driving through the city of khan's piece which is situated in the republic gets down to know the explosion was a quick equivalent to four kilograms by t.n.t. and these two blast happened in the wake of the recent terror raids that was launched in the republic of dagestan two days ago since the start of this yeah there has been a number of the new tourist and successful anti terror raids and according to russia's in terror ministry the number of terrorist attacks declined since the start of the two thousand and eleven compared to the same period as the year before but still i despise this number as this is a big number of anti terror raids and the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed this is the start of this yes still the potential terrorist threat remains high in the region and there are two regions where gangs mostly action for these

bugs in the republic and the republic. we do to coach of the reporting from little. cool which in budapest is clearly a hug area no crime suspects. well ninety seven year old sean dork appeared to deny being involved in the massacre of civilian hostages in serbia during world war two people convicted by a military court of nine hundred forty four for his role in the forces raids on serbia but is sentenced was an old after a few weeks hero was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six and his rule crimes trial is one of the last that take place for holocaust crying. and more stories developing around the world this hour and that libyan rebels the carrying out an assault on government forces in the eastern town of brega home to one of the

country's biggest oil facilities nato has also been targeting pro gadhafi 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 good afi made another defined speech the weekend denying room as he was leaving libya as he struggles to quell the months long revolt. more lethal clashes in syria this time between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are thought to have died as the fighting worse than when the group began using their firearms against each other last week three supporters of president assad were kidnapped or killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government demo so crackdown is. through to thirteen hundred people since they began in january. egypt's interim leaders have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after public anger over so post revolution reform

most of the appointments are to relative newcomers who are not linked with the regime of eggs and. there are also conflicting reports about the hours the president's health his lawyer says mubarak is in a coma which doctors do not. own as well as president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment hugo chavez is battle with the ill this is raise doubts over his fitness to leave the country but officially he still plans to run for reelection next year venezuela based journalist eva golinger believes his political rivals are exploiting his serious illness. the functions that he's delegated are administrate of in nature and i mean there are things that he could continue to do i mean he's not going to be mentally incapacitated you know he's just going to be physically distant and you know i live going undergoing treatment but he still will remain in front of government i mean

they activated an electronic signature so he can sign a document he's going to be via teleconference on different cabinet meetings the opposition was primarily speculating and pushing for him to go to brazil i mean it just so happens you know the opposition in venezuela is very right wing and is very anti cuba were he to have chosen to go to brazil i don't think that their attitude would have been the same whatsoever or he'd have chosen to go to the united states they probably wouldn't have said a word about it so they are being exploited by the u.s. and in fact for and together with those in the opposition so there's sort of a psychological campaign in media just trying to portray this perception of a weak charges of an ailing chavez of a terminally ill child is and those sectors in venezuela that tries somehow to say that this is a power vacuum or i would just remind people that in the united states ronald reagan had a three cancers during his presidency and he was going to the most remembered president of the united states. has been a space watching work for two decades but now it gets to share the job of revealing

the universe's biggest mysteries are russia in the skies on its way to help out in the sharpest tools in the galaxy. without the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakstan to see it all. 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 and universe explorer ation as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it will be possible to observe the most mysterious the dockets and the most shadowed to corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on the bare dark nature of the telescope is just ten meters long but please don't judge by the size here once radio strong is in space a sun tan will synchronize with radio antennas all of those signals will become

bind and that's will create an effect of one huge telescope with a dish thirty times speak it then the diameter and 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. so we can see something is happening as well i'll let you enjoy the moment. if it sticks really. if. you are strong to the false sense of your own sometimes. but i do

a strong to unfold its twenty seven and make everything ready to work with a nine month old to we will start to receive the first results means the first images of the universe from that original should not be reported from baikonur well while the telescope takes its place russian space agency boss tells all he later this hour what he hopes it will see. 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 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 bases of which it would be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our comet on the universe and to understand where we

have all come from is that what's waiting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks russia's return to space science. can be tough getting a green card to live in america but every year animals that randomly hit the jackpot or say they fought a colts ruled the latest loss just all the train not tearing up the immigrant's invites all he's going to teach you can house. 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 that i want to lot in for a 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 all records if all the tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may hear tracks three four and five in the track twelve still running 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 a green card required for your access to larry as part of our website luckily here's what's lining up for you right now at all t. dot com confidence of thomas j. more than a hundred miles of peace is going to say when the race is russian jewel of all time sponsored by this is crowning the pharmacy.

and a formula one frenzy in the heart of moscow a we report on the mean machines of the annual city bracing show accelerates the dog home of. revelation that sports in just about twenty minutes time is jenson button returns to moscow a three years before this is he gets its first formula one grand prix business these decks they with. hello and welcome to your r.t. business bulletin i met treasurer good to have you with us european banks are starting the week on the back foot most are relieved at passing the e.u. stress test but they'll still but there's still a wide open to sovereign shock from bad debt in the u.s. and europe investment analysts though think that could open doors for russian lenders. the german banks some particular 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. and 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 within they certainly within the euro market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well are actually be my position. with cash to go spend money and buy up. relatively good assets in in europe and so this purchase my spirit of international is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing it's been an excellent year so far for russia's second largest

bank be reporting record profits of nine hundred twenty million dollars for the first quarter that's an increase of seventy percent on the same period last year and well above analysts forecasts provisions for a bad loans have to with the bag benefiting from improved efficiency of its operations investors are still concerned about the t.v.'s most troubled asset the newly acquired bank of moscow which is still heavily weighted by bad debt b. t.v. agreed to increase its ownership in the bank to seventy five percent that's the main condition for a fourteen billion dollar bailout from the state. the former boss of b.p. is considering a bid for two major russian oil firms sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both ross nafta and bosh left the two companies are currently mid majority owned by holding company f. k. systemic with stakes war thirteen billion dollars deals one of the series of targets hayward is looking out for his investment vehicle which he co-founded with

billionaire nat rothschild hayward stepped down as b.p. c.e.o. a year ago after criticism of his handling of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico he's now head of b.p.'s russian venture k.p. . take a look at the markets now oil is lower with investors concerned a worsening debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and way on fuel demand european stocks expending the last week's losses as the stress test results have shown lenders may have to raise additional cash banks are leading the downside rally energy majors are following the lead as crude prices and use lower. here in moscow markets are tracking the overseas trends investors waiting for this week's e.u. summit at which the leaders will once again try to find a solution to the debt to the greek debt problem market players also across looking across the pond there is no clarity with the possible increase of debt ceiling in the u.s. despite barack obama asking to raise it immediately. take a look at some individual share moves on the my six most of the blue chips trading

in the red but the t.v. is bucking that trend after publishing its financial results among the miners polly metal once again on the rise as investors look for a safe harbor 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. and in economic news industrial output speeding up in russia it grew almost six percent in june the year on year compared with four percent in may car production is a key driver with the sector benefiting from higher demand and investment activity . analysts expect even faster growth in the coming months amid low interest rates and cooling inflation. now you are up to date on all things financial back in the next hour with more at anytime at our team dot com slash business headlines up next stay with us here on r.t. .

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markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on our. it's. good to see the telephone take out another target on the nato a collaborative list as foreign troops begin with touring questionable local schools and the afghan army is going to having numerous drug addicts and willing to insurgency. one balls out while another is bailed out media misconduct sees britain's most senior policeman quit the connections to journalists suspected of bribery and phone hacking while x. news international chief rebecca brooks is arrested. on

a cause but can come in for the hubble telescope because russia is a nominee in the sky gets ready to seek out the secrets of how you give us the radio astro mobs high resolution that it's not like us. or russia is a space chief now outlines to his far reaching outlook for the country's cosmic plans. russia is launching its biggest space telescope at a huge to orbit earth and carefully observe our universe looking deeper and further to shed light on the darkest and most mysterious corners of our galaxy and others what does this mean for us and for russia which is now the only country on earth capable of offering space launches as america's shuttle program close's they had a russian space agency ross costless is here with me thank you very much mr pocket

for joining us thank you for inviting me well americans have all will now have company in our bit 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 sign and start implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here to 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 hungover some statistical data on the basis of which it will be possible to predict the dynamics of development of our planet 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 space science america is also about to send it.