torn now about the kind of country the us is leaving behind as they withdrew their cheap given assault attacks is still happening. today in the country what kind of country is it is it leaving. 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. of basement at places like kandahar about graham and so on which look very permanent hundreds of millions of dollars. but certainly some process is going on. and in a withdrawal or something that we could recognizably call a withdrawal but. compared to the goals that they set themselves or that they claim for themselves ten years ago. there's very little to cheer

about. let's talk about the timing of all this now jim brann these assassinations were carried out just as the u.s. hands even more to local forces in parts of the country do you think that that significant in any way. really does look like there is a program of assassinations yes i mean i saw one report this morning that claims just under 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 timed directly with the what would what they call the house. and how much power way do you think the president calls. actually has himself inside the country is he really able to use the taliban

. as i understand it he was the mayor of kabul way back in two thousand and. plying that he controlled what he actually controlled with kabul and. apparently they still 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 courtesy of nato forces whereas other kind of it's can't get around in the same way so his power does appear to be extremely limited and it's also deals that he's had to do with former warlords so the power is curtailed 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 over coalition many thanks. meanwhile there's a change at the top for nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus leaving to take a view director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen hellova see the gradual chance for responsibility to security from nature troops to local forces but is jason more black reports there's concern that afghan forces are too divided illiquid and lacking in training to fend off the taliban ally right. 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 yarmouth we are old brothers and we are all called by one name. by the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahideen 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 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 illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death 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 ex 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. he will be here late ninety's fighting each other really killing each other these people. groups or other groups to control it in yet another obstacle for

a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason waterlog in kabul for our team. coming up here on r.t. third saying. the recovery operation but for you that which sank in russia's volga river continues we bring you all the latest from the scene also. believe that emergency there was also early find out why twenty thousand winners of the green card lottery have seen their luck ran 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 that we've put murdoch's in these the world the country's most senior policeman has been followed by his deputy in quitting 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 hires

a former news of the world executive athan advisor who was later questioned about illicit fame tapping the x. top cop also to swipe at the prime minister saying she's in for medicine and of course there's the press spokesman was much worse decision when early on sunday rebecca brooks who rather paypal was arrested as part of the investigation bout was later released on bail she's due to join that rupert murdoch and his son james and face the m.p.'s on tuesday either i don't recall reporting methods and police bribery the media around this will reach that the privacy police are being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear and he's telling thing this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a receipt been leaking they've been paid for telling people when some celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the arrests of people i mean is actually a practice it has become in trying or 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'd be. corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a leaven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and 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 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 is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who is next. rebecca brooks that became the tenth person to be detained in the hacking and bribery and national news the film made hundreds of them i thought i believe the timing of her arrest raises a lot of questions. unfortunately we don't seem able to actually 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 also would have said 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 who have been receiving money to provide 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 pinging where you triangulate some of the location using a mobile phone 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 saudis so where and when all this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight as well within the police force. the

recovery of the cruiser that sank in russia as vulgar of a killing around one hundred thirty people may take up to several days officials say the vessel first south to be moved off its side and what is one of the operations difficult stages attempts to put the ship on an even keel resumed balancing feeling ruptured on sunday let's turn to search the river for fifteen missing victims and then raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives 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 vulgar the bulgaria went down in just a matter of minutes with more than one offer to help make passengers drowning or one of the worst ever shocking disasters. now a major terror plots in the mosque a 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 transfer to hobbs of a moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and schedules of of the planned attack also ole of the detained people have can fast and police other people there are believed to be linked to the planned attack were also found now president medvedev has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed attack to be severely 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 in terra ministry and today off through the news of this failed

operation of this failed attack president underlined the situation in the region remains a very tough the last twenty four hours have seen two dads the blast that hit russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven others wounded when an explosive head to search operation in the mountainous area known as the second one happened in the republic of dagestan it was a roadside bomb detonated as car was passing by the explosion allowed to policeman and three others wounded oldies happen in the wake of the recent terror raid that was launched in the region in the republic of dagestan two days ago now despite not being a number of terror raids and the fighting against terrorism goes on till the remains and search operations continue. you with plenty head in the program for

you including revealing the secret even of unique russian observatory to send to study galactic objects. and find out why some russian girls are showing their support for the human hootin ahead of next year's presidential elections by taking their clothes on. now for some twenty thousand people who want to green called long live in america good luck seemed suddenly to have deserted them their dreams of a new life were dashed when the u.s. state department claimed they had been a computer era and that the results were no longer valid now the story has called fresh townsell the way that operates again and she can report. 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 control court but i want to lot to sort of on the lottery what it's going to. it's when 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 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 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 if all records if all the tracks are on your cd player when you hit the run you may get tracks three four and five and then get a truck twelve that's still run 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. . more stories making headlines around the globe this hour now and of course head

clear the ninety seven year old home carrying man of nazi war crimes. appear to a former police captain did not mind being supposed to be off the jews. too it was alleged to patrol on to his. caught in the murder of jews and in a raid by gary and forces in nineteen forty two thousand and twelve hundred people were killed and the tourists most of. south africa is celebrating former president nelson mandela's ninety third birthday to mark the event to people around the globe but also the charity work the sixty seven minutes representing every year of mandela's life in active 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 un as ben della de days major contribution to the cause of peace and freedom. the un to highest court has

ordered that both cambodia and thailand to withdraw their chief from a disputed border area around an ancient temple complex the two nations to allow neutral observers to monitor the cease fire the temple belongs to cambodia but much of the surrounding land is in toyland tensions increased when the building was awarded world heritage status of two thousand and eight. the lonely vigil of nasa's hubble telescope and 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 sharpest sights into the galaxy last i was at the launch pad to see it all. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creeped 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 with the possible to observe the most mysterious the

darkest and the most shadowed corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even it will be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dark nature and these huge enormous i will be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution a thousand times sharper than america's. well i'll let you enjoy the moment. it seems to really. help. and. we will receive the first images of the universe. reporting from baikonur. well there's more video of the launch of this amazing

observatory on our web site www dot com and here's a taste of what else you can find online right now as death financial problems continue to terrify europe we bring you x. but analysis and opinion of how the scale of the problem just keeps rising. no more secrets how a mistake by a russian mobile phone giant meant all private messages including intimate ones were made public. now with less than a year before the next presidential election in russia voters already coming up with their own ideas of how to support a potential candidate and here's one of the more extraordinary one. an online campaign has been launched to edging young women in the back by doing that put in by the book you know their clothes a group calling itself the fujinami is claiming girls are invited to send in videos of them with this promise for the what is will some of the some of the coming from

think of a tradition in russia last year students from a top university pose for a woman she's under expressing that alpha that there. is novel campaigning ideas there are next there is something a little bit more stage that business which to me change. really campaigning or self p.r. will have to wait and see the final form of also b.p. is considering a bid for two major russian oil firm sky news quotes people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both nafta and passionate of course but i'm not in the course of a looks at how likely such a deal would be. have been looking to investor cash ever since there are companies on the london stock exchange last month they raised over two billion dollars which could hardly form the acquisition of russian oil producers they have worth around twelve billion dollars the stakes in question of what we bought from russians like

grabbing more you have to send those holding company a if case is 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 they has repeatedly said that it has no interest in selling out their anger but analysts say the price being talked about is good enough to make a if they take it seriously especially since all companies i know it's poor business at the same time india's oil and natural gas corp has been in talks with passion if ever 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 discovered oil fields a russia. russia's furred largest oil producer to continue its international expansion the company has agreed to buy a forty five percent stake in an exploration project in the amazon forest around

fifty thousand square kilometers and holds over five hundred million barrels of oil equivalent sources close to the deal c t m k b.p. could pay up to one billion dollars for the. move to the stock markets we stopped with the united states markets over the low almost a cent for actually more than the same both for the dow jones and the nasdaq this is a nuisance or six came out on builder confidence index on the show that it went up two points before june but no sign of improvement for european stocks are extending last week's losses the stress test results have shown may have to raise additional cash banks the leading the down. side rally here in both london and in frankfurt footsies down one point two percent one percent. 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 summit of which the

leaders will once again try and find solution to the greek debt problem look at some of the individual stock movers mostly blue chips are actually in the red the rosneft 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 among minors polymaths always again on the rise it's up four percent of the verses are looking for safe haven stocks such as gold. it's been an excellent year so far for russia's second largest bank of e.c.b. is reporting a record profits of nine hundred twenty million dollars for the first quarter earnings crease 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 so concerned about the most troubled asset that's newly acquired bag of moscow which is still heavily weighted by bad debt however the deputy chairman of the t.v. news says the bank expects the twenty eleven to be even more profitable than

previously thought. we decided to upgrade our profit forecast we were guiding investors. initially at a group 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 transcribed bank will earn one hundred billion rubles so a three digit number first time we've earned in that much money. coming up next time out see alice with headlines.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on r.g.p. . it's half past the hour here moffitt is news article it's all about that song but the phone plan on officials claiming responds. for more high ranking killings this comes a day to get one hundred days and told the country's provinces to labor force is facing a huge question mark save their ability to cope. the crisis in the gulf a group of models spreads to the persons police the country's most senior police state it's been followed by his deputy over the links to newspaper executives and boiled in the scoundrel a phone hacking and bribery. and russian security forces for. their moscow police arrested

a group of people from the caucuses who allegedly pounding on a time on crowded areas that major transport hubs. now russian cosmic companion of the hubble telescope has blasted off into orbit to help explore the deepest secrets of the universe the radio astral parallel the quitman can penetrate even the furthest reaches of the galaxy space chief now outlines his hours this while plans. russia is launching its biggest space telescope yet a huge to orbit earth and carefully observe a universe looking deeper and further to shed light on the darkest and the 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 potter 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 science not 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 and gather 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 who.