in india all these are made of the moviegoer the joy be the jewels the i love you that's a great way to go to the ground imperial tour that george was the first girl until you can oh well so till the close with joe it's ability to go and call your brother said the colonel was no joke as a school retreat. for taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as they to begin sunday between shoulder of the country's provinces to local forces facing huge question mark save their ability to cave. cops and how good is the crisis in the gulf in rupert murdoch's media empire spreads to the british police that with the resignation of competence in a senior officer. and russian security forces the will of major terror plot near not scale which is believed could have caused huge loss of life and.

a very warm welcome this is live from moscow now the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack or the murders khan estell we call it a hundred calls lies half brother who round us out of the country was gunned down the taliban is tech not of the salt on our town officials as major combat troops begin that with school on sunday the alliance hundred overcontrolled with the first of seven designated areas to local forces florida situation unfolding in afghanistan i can now talk live to answer one activist tim brown many being with us and i've given this taliban attacks with senior officials murdered with councils is

do you think be able to take care of their security on the road once nato troops withdraw. no i mean i think you have to ask the question the security for who or for what when they talk about handing over responsibility for security because by all accounts for example the afghan army as it's called is is very much biased towards groups so it starts with the cops from the beginning so the idea that it would be an impartial force will seem to be an impartial force seems to be extremely unlikely and to what extent what they mean by handover is also very questionable i would imagine that nato forces will be hovering in all cases in the background. for you must be providing power

etc but the. afghan forces would not be very independent i would think they want us to know about the kind of country the us is leaving behind dismayed with drew that cheap given is not just still happening. to the country was kind of plumtree is it is it leading. well i mean i would question to what extent they really want to leave clearly they have to present themselves as leaving whether they really intend to leave i think you can gauge by for example the amount of construction that's going on at places. nato bases at places like kandahar and by graham and so on which look very cold hundreds of millions of dollars. but certainly some process is going on. in you know withdrawal or something that we could recognizably call a withdrawal but. compared to the goals that they set themselves although they

claim for themselves ten years ago. there's very little to cheer about the let's talk about the timing of all this jim brown these assassinations the carried out just as the u.s. how. do you think that significance in any way. really does look like there is a program of assassinations yes i mean i saw one report this morning that train was just on the two hundred assassinations of officials from from ministerial level. being carried out in the first few months of this year possibly by a unified taliban come on and possibly a mixture of local initiative and central control and so on and it does look like a program of assassinations so that could well be time directly with the what we

what they call the how much time away do you think that president karzai actually has himself inside the country is he really able to use the taliban. as i understand it he was a dog the mayor of kabul way back in two thousand and two by afghans. implying that he controlled what he actually controlled with kabul and. apparently they still thought i mean he even when for example they have these elections that he appears to win although of course it's disputed i mean he only travels around the courtesy of nato forces whereas other kind of it's can't get around in the same way so it does appear to be extremely limited and it's also repeals that he's had to do with former warlords so the power is curtail that way but above all he does seem to be entirely dependent on nato and after all if you think about it he was picked almost

exactly ten years ago by the united states to be the interim president and unless the united states was incredibly farsighted to pick the one who the afghans would have chosen unless that's true you have to assure him that he remains seen as being the man the americans picked ten years ago ok jim brann from the stop of all coalition many thanks. meanwhile the change at the top the nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus. is director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen hellova see the gradual chance for responsibility for security. to local forces but is jason not lab reports there's concern that afghan forces are too divided ill equipped and lacking in training to spend time on a low rate. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as

a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall looking for them this is the kabul military training center and the boards being fired blanks i'm in here half way 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 that insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in the army we are all brothers and we are all called by one mean. by a call of duty is also struck a chord beyond the able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated it's. 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 have said in two thousand and fourteen juggling 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 quality of troops needed something is the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are literally a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and adding to the was there 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 you too. we need to be. doing you should be killing each other these. groups who are the groups

who control it you. still has much to prove before it can still. do some more toward you called for to. coming up here on r.t. searching. as the recovery operation for you there which sank in russia's volga river continues we'll bring you all the latest from the scene also. remove that emergency that was on friday find out why twenty thousand winners of the green card lottery has seen the long run out on their way to the united states. britain's largest police force is facing one of its biggest crises as a result of the scandal at rupert murdoch's and he's well the country's most senior policeman has been followed by his deputy in questioning as office has become embroiled in the bribery and phone hacking allegations which have hit news corp's

u.k. empire so paul stephenson resigned after it was revealed that he hired a former news of the world executive athan advisor who was later question about illicit fame topping the x top court also took a swipe at the prime minister saying choosing former editor andy kaufman as a crisp explained was much worse position when early on sunday rebecca brooks who ran out of paper was arrested as part of the investigation bart was later released on bail she's due to join at rupert murdoch and his son james and facing m.p.'s on tuesday but i don't agree with putting methods and police bribery and media around this bill weeks as the price of police being paid player information by the media is not likely to disappear and he's time thing. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a rare sit in leaking they're being paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the arrests 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 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 different levels remember that four years ago all right the police had these bags with i think it was a level of 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 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 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 but if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem and 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 and so big i mean you know britain is is it's shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. rebecca brooks became the tenth person to be detained in the hacking bribery probe i national news of. m i thought i believe the timing of her arrest raises a lot of questions. and

unfortunately we don't seem able to actually ask this one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking this step at this stage. allowing her little real remission and have to say too much and perhaps also really have to say too much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing the amount of information that has emerged about the into the linkage between news international and the police i mean it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the allegedly corrupt police officers in the ring receiving money to provide a protected information and of course it's not just about the phone hacking scandal there are other practices their peers have been implicated such as the technique of painting where you triangulate some of the location using a mobile phones now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for counterterrorism branch office special branch or potentially of course the spies so where and where all

this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption as a failure of accountability and oversight as well within the police force. well the recovery of the cruiser the tank in russia is vulgar of a killing around one hundred thirty people may take up to several days officials say the vessel removed off its side and that is one of the operations with difficult stages attempts to put the ship on an even keel resume dr balancing feeling ruptured on sunday but its tone is to search the river for fifteen missing victims and then raise the boats twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives then that definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sunk but recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in the silt at the bottom of the volga but all gary went down in just a matter of minutes with more than half an hour to make drowning and one of his worst ever shot disasters is. now

a major terror plots in the last region has been foiled by russian security services police have detained a group of four people from the north caucuses who were allegedly planning the attack our correspondent in the court of the he's in the caucuses has the details. well all the members of the group that was detained by russian special forces were originally from the north caucasus regions and they were planning an attack in crowded areas as well as a transport hubs of the moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and scandals all of these planned attack also old of the detained people have confessed and police other people there are believed to be linked to the planned attack were also found now president mediated has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed attack to visit barely punished now since the start of this yeah there has been a number of terror raids and despite the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed

during those operations still the potential terrorist rats' remains high according to russia's interim ministry and today off through the news of this failed operation of this failed attack president mugabe just underlines about the situation in the region remains very town the last twenty four hours has seen two dogs the blast that hit russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven others one says when an explosive has a search operation in the mountainous area and that was the second one happened in the republic of dagestan it was a roadside bomb detonated as potholed car was passing by the explosion allowed to policeman and three others wounded oldies blast happened in the wake of the recent terror raid that was launched in the region in the republic of dagestan two days ago now despite being a number of air raids and fighting against terrorism go zones still good friends

remains and search operations continue. you know with our sea plenty head in the program for you including revealing the secret universe unique russian observatory if they're all going to study galactic objects. and find out why some russian girls are showing their support for the deal of it in ahead of next year's presidential elections by taking back loans are. now for some twenty thousand people who want a green card lottery to live in america good luck seemed suddenly to have deserted them dreams of a new life were dashed when the u.s. state department claims they had been a computer error and that the results were no longer valid now the story has caused fresh channels on the way the lottery operates as are you again as you can report.

hoping for a better life in america or from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so we 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 control court but i want to lots of sort of trying to look at what it's all for. that's why for each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jet party is the right to live and work in america is advertised this 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 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 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 they department claims one of the arguments is that even an era like that could produce a random result then 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 it's only record if all the tracks are on your cd player when you have to run you made the tracks three four and five and track twelve are still around 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. can and should count our t.

washington d.c. . more stories making headlines around the globe this hour now and according to that it's clear the ninety seven year old darion man of nazi war crimes or cut hero a former police captain did not use being told not supposed to be hostages in serbia during world war two it was alleged trolling on to his commanders took part in the murder of jews and slaying in a raid by a garion forces in one hundred forty two over the top hundred people were killed in the tourist moscow. south africa is celebrating former president nelson mandela's ninetieth birthday to mark the a better people around the globe but also the charity work the sixty seven minutes representing every year of my demos life interactive politics millions of children also sang a special version of a happy birthday song to the x. leader the eighteenth of july is recognized by the winners bendel

a database major contribution to the cause of peace and freedom. un to highest court has ordered that both cambodia and highland withdrawal their chief from a disputed border area around an ancient temple complex the two nations to allow neutral observers to monitor the same spot the temple belongs to cambodia but much of the surrounding land is in toyland tensions increased when the building was awarded world heritage status in two thousand and eight. the lonely vigil of nasa's hubble telescope with audit has come to an end as it now gets to share the job of looking deeper into the universe than anyone has done before russia has sent up its own eye in the sky and it got the shop the site is the galaxy refinished i was out a launch pad to see it on. this is the moment a russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory equipped with a cutting edge telescope

a huge top in universe expression as an enormous i. see further and deeper than ever before it's really possible to observe the most mysterious the darkest and the most shadows of corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even to be able to observe black holes and shed light on the bare dark nature and these huge enormous i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution thousand times sharper than america's gold well i'll let you enjoy the moment. it's nice to believe. if. you're strong and i can sit with your. colleagues with a nine month old to we will be the first new images of the universe. repulsion from

baikonur. well there's more video of the launch of this amazing observatory on our website r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what else you can find online right now as death desperate financial problems continue to terrify europe we bring you accept analysis and opinion on how the scale of the problem just keeps rising. and no more secret how a mistake by a russian mobile phone giant then all private messages including in smoke bombs were made public. now with us for a year before the next presidential election in russia voters already coming up with their own ideas of how it's that was a potential candidate and here's one of the more extraordinary ones an online campaign has been launched urging young women to bat project information by looking at their clothes a group calling itself the fusion army is calling the girls are invited to send in

videos of them to feel with this promise to the winners will some of the some of the calming make a petition in russia last year students from the top university to pose for war she's now under express in the alphabet there. he's a novel any ideas there are next there is something a little bit more stage but is this which i mean change. really campaigning or self p.r. we'll have to wait and see to find out for those of you piece considering a bed for two major russian oil firms sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both nafta and passionate course already the course of a looks at how likely such a deal would be. that's certain as ever since their companies float on the london stock exchange last month they raised over two billion dollars

which could hardly form the acquisition of super russian oil producers last never ever grew snap worth around twelve billion dollars the stakes in question would be bought from russians are driving near you have to send those holding company and they have places the emma none of the companies being talked about have made an official statement but analysts we've spoken to believe that such a deal could be possible if he has repeatedly said that it has no interest in selling outsold bosh and that angers them but analysts say the price talked about is not enough to make a have play take it seriously especially since all companies i know its core business at the same time envious all and natural gas corp has been in small with passion of andrew staff to merge the two companies and by its twenty five percent stake both whoever ends up getting these assets one thing is for sure and that is that they will be getting access to one of the biggest that discovered oil fields in russia. russia spurred largest oil producer and he's continuing its

international expansion has agreed to buy a forty five percent stake in an exploration project in the amazon forest area couples around fifty thousand square kilometers and hold over five hundred million barrels of oil equivalent sources close to the l.c.t. n.k.v.d. quit pay of two one billion dollars for the. move to the stock markets we start with the united states has a low almost percent fool and actually more of the same both for the dow jones and the nasdaq this is news or six came out on builder confidence index on the show that it went up two points for june but no sign of improvement for european stocks are extending last week's losses the stress test results have shown and then this may have to raise additional cash banks a leading them. side rally here in london and in frankfurt footsies down one point two percent and run. in a rush hour pretty much the same picture just fifteen seventeen more minutes to go

before the end of trade investors are waiting for this week's use some of which the leaders will once again try to find solution to the greek debt problem look at some of the individual stock movers the blue chips are actually in the red rose never down one point eight percent on a decline in crude d.t.b. down one point two five percent despite very good results financial results for the first quarter and the long miners' polymaths all is again on the rise is up four percent of the verses are looking for safe haven stocks such as gold. in the year so far for russia's second largest bank of the t.v. is reporting record profits of one hundred twenty million dollars for the first quarter earnings release of seventy percent on the same period last year and well above analysts forecast provisions for bad loans hard with the bank also benefiting from improving efficiency of its operations investors are still concerned about these most troubled assets newly acquired bag of moscow which is still heavily

weigh it's not a bad debt however the deputy chairman of the t.v. news says the bank expects twenty eleven to be even more profitable than previously thought. we've decided to upgrade our profit forecast we were guiding investors. initially at earning eighty billion rubles and then transcribe bank earning eight so eighty eight in total now we've got investors that the entire group including translated bank will earn one hundred billion rubles so three digit number of first time with burning up much money coming up next on our cialis with.

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