activists while i'm president assad for the alleged shooting of protestors. it's nine am here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. an imminent british inquiry into its agents use of torture overseas has been slammed before it's had a chance to get started well it was revealed that britain was prepared to use harsh interrogation if the potential information that was gained was considered important enough well that's a lot of human rights groups to boycott the inquiry saying it lacks credibility as lore and it reports. walking a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to torture terrorist suspects bag was held by graham in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand

and five he says he was tortured and accuses the u.k. of being complicit in that torture only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed we and i am completely one hundred percent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room had it not been could be involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly in rome and want to know why and they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my hands and my. guns pointed towards me they saw my according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior m i five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information they might obtain with the level of mistreatment to prisoner would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty into now. says there's

a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture. where security service officials were sending questions receiving information participating interrogations in situations where they either knew or ought to have known that he was being tortured or otherwise mistreated garcia was youth rendition flights and there's this sort of you know every week or every month there's a new piece of evidence a document that's been hidden for a very long time that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circumstances in which ministers were very senior officials authorized agents to participate in its actuations where it was more like that the not the torture would occur there's a police investigation into torture allegations under way and as soon as that's finished an inquiry will begin but it's already come under fire the policy on interrogation and all the relevant documents may not be made public which is good

human rights groups so much that they've refused to give evidence or go to inquiry meetings there's also control to see about the chair of the investigation so peta gibson used to be the intelligence services commissioner the government doesn't see a conflict of interest but many m.p.'s do i think there are a number of issues with the torture inquiry the first thing is we should have confidence that the judge presiding is not somebody who has been heavily involved with the secret service in the future in the past and i think. powerful people including tony blair jack straw and david miliband have refused to reveal whether they knew the policy led to a number of people being tortured but the ministers and agents who wrote it knew the public would be outraged according to the guardian it includes warnings that if it got out the policy could lead to increased radicalization. agrees it's true anybody would get radicalized if you. about the types of torture the took place

however when the government said that they will hold to account those people who were involved in torture and we take them for the wood and if the government then goes against that and says we'll have this session this. session about complicity and torture this inquiry but it's going to be in secret and you won't get to see it and you will get to see those people involved in your torture and then people will lose. any support any idea that the government is actually going to try to. carry out justice many fear the inquiry set to begin shortly will be ineffective and that a second one will be necessary out vast expense but there's also concern that creeping revelations about just how complicit the u.k. has been in torture and extraordinary rendition will lead to further radicalization whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture you are emmett r t. now billions of dollars worth of aircraft sales are

likely to be nk so over the next few days at an airstrip in a moscow as the international air show takes off for a second day. well one of the biggest crowd puller says this year is the unveiling of a new russian stealth fighter the t. fifty military orders are expected to make up the bulk of sales but high flying developments in civil aviation are also want to show artie's tom barton reports on a new russian jet that's hoping to break through the boeing and airbus to operate with a plane that's kind to the planet at cheaper to run. this is one of the new hopes of russian aviation it's called the m. is twenty one and it's time to it is an airline of the twenty first century there's a lot riding on the fate of this plane it represents the efforts of a russian aircraft. industry that's so far failed to break into international

markets and it will have to be as modern as it says it is to survive the competition. has a short to mid range passenger jet it will be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven an airbus has a three twenty both well established planes its makers are fully aware of the challenge ahead but we understand they will not we're not terrorists on this market . market part of what we hope we will hobson or our whole market. will say. they're confident the m s twenty one will be able to technically match its competitors with a third of it built from light composite materials and a totally new airframe it will save on that crucial substance feel. is to present. approximately fifteen percent or so of course

operation of course. but the emma's twenty one also follows the earlier sukhoi superjet as one of the first russian airliners built in years the efforts are being led by the united air craft corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together like air persons done in europe reduce the bingeing or so engineers are capacity from suporn company to court soon to go to political illusion its early days yet but with a wealth of aeronautical engineering experience from soviet times hopes of flying high that the m.s. twenty one will put a new generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom boston party. l r t is at the max two thousand and eleven a throughout the week to bring you the best of moscow's jet powered air show. hands.

off approach. shape our future slightly higher bar two types to the max air show. meanwhile china is taking its military might to a new level finishing a round of trials of its first stepper aircraft carrier although building the future carriers will take time beijing is already heralding a new chapter for the country's naval fleet gordon chang for forbes business magazine says that its neighbors need to keep a close eye on what's happening it says its new aircraft carrier is for scientific research and training well of course it's not it's meant to try to intimidate countries in the region especially in the south china sea where china is claims the entire body of water as an internal chinese lake and of course china wants to project power not only southwards but northwards towards mongolia and russia they

talk about the last territories clearly beijing wants to get the use territories in a later date but no country right now threatens china and that really is what is bothering the countries in the neighborhood and the united states and basically what's going on is there is a military build up which really is the biggest in the past is in the world today it is most recent wired to talk about information technology and cyber war also clearly they're putting money into their navy and to their air force the only laggard really is the army the army used to get almost all the money but now clearly china wants a big air force and a big navy so that's where a lot of the money it's going into as well as strategic forces in other words nuclear capable missiles well china has probably more than the united states you know the chinese like to lecture washington about the dollar. is to g.d.p. ratio is that at least as bad as america's it's probably almost double and when you

add didn't do to the acknowledged dead china probably has a debt to g.d.p. ratio of one hundred fifty to one hundred sixty percent nearly the military has become much more popular for college graduates because they have not been able really to find work in the civilian economy so people who are. no you will do has actually done better on recruiting in the last three years eventually it is going to really undermine chinese foreign policy because all the countries on the periphery in the south and the e.u. are now very very concerned the only countries that are complaining are north korea and burma. well in a few minutes we'll update you on the worst oil spill in decades in a british waters all shell says it's under control but green groups are not convinced with a crude gushing into the sea for six days. europe's nations are on the verge of blurring into one well financially at least with

germany and france calling for economic harmony across the euro zone growth grinding to a halt and countries are struggling to stay afloat the big players think that the answer is to force mandatory budgets onto the member states but as our europe correspondent daniel bushell explains surrendering its sovereignty is not what people want. the key decision is they have announced a single united eurozone government they also announced a corporation tax to unite the corporation taxes of germany and france so we're moving slowly towards a fiscal union which is what many had predicted but of course there's one small problem which is the people of europe have been asked because the the president of france faces an election next year where he's already trailing behind his rivals and suspected this may make him even more unpopular because the people of europe but in polls in opinion polls they say that they don't want the european integration angular merkel the chancellor of germany says they showed great courage

to do this and they dismissed the use of euro bourne's which many have said would be the solution agreed eventually they said the euro bonds are not a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries did so they refused to bail out the rising problems in countries like italy and spain they also denounced the rumors and speculation and said they'd fight against this the rumors that they say are trying to bring down the euro attacks on financial transactions was also announced. that the purpose was to home annoys economies and taxes across europe so a very wide ranging proposals on offer here but investor said been left mostly unimpressed by chancellor merkel's and president sarkozy saying they expected more well dr shah had us out a professor of business and international affairs says that the of the sessions are

political. unfortunately this is not going to make much difference for the ongoing crisis all the news that came out of this press conference was quite negative for the market the most negative i believe was the fact that it was announced that the european fund stabilisation facility the bailout fund for the european euro zone members will not be expanded and they believe it's enough as it is for the moment the second thing there's no common euro bond that is going to be issued and there were very clear about this in the markets were not expecting this other bad news for the market was that taxation is going to go up especially in terms of corporate taxation more harmonization and then down the road they also want countries to have a balanced budget so the european leaders unfortunately have done it again they haven't really addressed the markets needs for clear concise action for what they

are doing instead is looking at the long term political solution to this dilemma that they have it doesn't seem that they understand the markets seriousness about what's going on no one is asking the taxpayers to pay another bailout instead they're using the european central bank as a mechanism to buy the bonds for italy and spain what most europeans don't understand is down the road when the greeks cannot pay their money back it will be the taxpayers from germany and from france that will end up paying for these bonds down the road the bad news is that we're not going to see any growth and i think everybody understands that and with that joblessness will not get any better and not any time soon. iran is welcoming of russia's latest proposal for restarting international talks on terror rons disputed nuclear program now under the proposal that major powers will reduce sanctions against iran for each step to take stores opening its atomic ambitions to international inspection president ahmadinejad

praised the initiative at a meeting with russia's chief security official in tehran well iran is a loggerheads with world powers so over its nuclear aspirations the latest round of tall start the talks stalled in january without agreement well ways to renew the negotiations will also be on the table when russia's foreign minister meets is on counterpart in moscow later on wednesday now syrian security forces have reportedly opened fire on thousands who've gathered in various cities calling for president assad to go well he won rights activists claim that over eight hundred people have been killed since the uprising erupted in mid march but as many if an ocean of reports the problems aren't as black and white as they're made out to be. residents of the eastern city of theirs or have taken to the streets to thank the army for saving them. they claim that

a month ago an unknown armed group took control of the town and they found themselves trapped in their own homes i mean my. face bandits blocked their rights put up barricades it became a gay city we were hiding we were just like hostages. weaknesses say the occupation lawsuit for at least twenty days. they are terrorist who gave them power martha told the guy the barricades that i'm going to a drug store he said i don't care and didn't allow me to go through we are the army to come and help and we asked them. the military claimed to have killed several of those who had occupied the city while many were arrested and others just to run away. soldiers of the syrian army i live in the city of the so near the iraqi border. officials are saying operation is now over that the city has

been freed from armed groups as you can see people are welcome in the soldiers as the waiters. critics of the regime don't share this euphoria claiming that assad is trying to cover his own army's wrongdoing by discrediting peaceful pro-democratic protests as a terrorist conspiracy but exactly who is behind the protests and who are the genuine protesters of course we have peaceful demonstrations here we want reforms and we don't make a secret of this but those who burn cars there are different story once i asked the guy the barricades why he's there he answered because they paid me a major center of the country's all industry six hundred kilometers from the capital there's or is said by some to be an important. target but local officials a much less guarded. i have a feeling that all those protests have been orchestrated they call themselves opposition but they took part in what's applaud

a conspiracy against our motherland israel is the only side to benefit from it while it's still unclear who benefits from the endless conflict in this region one thing is clear it's ordinary people who suffer. and while streets may have quite down in there is over for now reminders of the countries and go in conflict and hard to find and fear remains in the air. he reported from those or in eastern syria. well head on why for more of the news we're covering on air let me run you through some of the reports lined up now what r.t.e. dot com be a struggle to stay alive by selling your own organs the grim reality for poverty stricken indians who were preyed on by be illegal body parts market. loss selling siberia through star wars a movie fan asked the russian president to bond a giant statue of r two d two to highlight the region's techno problem.

and now let's look at some other world news in brief one of india's most prominent anticorruption campaigners has been arrested after he began a hunger strike to demand tougher anti corruption laws in the country thousands of his supporters were also detained by security forces and authorities said the arrests were because the protesters had not abate police conditions for the demonstration. yemen's president is vowing to return to his country two months after leaving for saudi arabia to be treated for injuries after his palace compound was attacked yemen's been torn by six months of vast street protests calling for president saleh to be ousted and there are fears his return might spark a civil war the u.s. has frequently urged him to quit over concerns that a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based wing of al qaida. to

men in britain have been a sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's writing by using facebook or they became the first people to be sent down by judges for the last civil unrest that swept influence and in a separate case three men were jailed for between a sixteen months of two years for looting and howling stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected rioters have been brought before the courts. of the oil firm shell is struggling to plug a second leak at one of its. north sea platforms the company was forced to admit it's responsible for the worst spill of british waters for more than a decade that's about thirteen hundred barrels have been leaked so far well the company says the first rupture is now under control and the flow of oil into the sea is now down to two barrels a day the green group sounded the alarm but there will be big consequences for the environment shell that eventually came clean and it was an energy analyst from the

environmental organization says that a lack of transparency calls into question the seriousness with which the company is treating the incident. what's important here is that the u.k. government has been rather smart in planning that its regulatory regimes were breasts. and zillions against the kinds of things are put happened in the who are not suppose. for this particular spill calls for those crimes and question it's a particular sense to the period of the year for breeding. program of certain see. and also shows when cloning where it's been difficult to plug in the certainly it requires of all the growth. we also know that charles using dispersants that isn't been highly controversial. on the use is questionable

because well they do. more on the small boats and the more difficult for. proper action staunchly. from the surface government is even suppose they're still climb in the pool don't have adequate information coming from shore certainly insurers and public at large are still in the dark about a lot of. very small bits more information and there's been no official statements coming from and in the more. members of of the company. or the directors which there's call into question seriousness through which the company is taking action and in just a few minutes we meet those who have devoted their lives to fighting for the health of our planet but before that that's the business case with dmitri. thanks to learn welcome to business on sea and we start with the business of high altitude in the moscow region the international asher is seeing dozens of new deals

being struck in the. polls this is set to be a record breaking year for mocks with more people than ever coming to the show while the spectators at the meiers the technology and gas but the aerobatics display team is there's also plenty of serious business taking place the russian market is expected to grow rapidly boeing says potential off one hundred ten billion dollars over the next twenty years and says it's ready to invest heavily to build on its position here over the next thirty years we expect to invest about twenty seven billion u.s. dollars here in russia about eighteen billion dollars in titanium five billion dollars in engineering support and expertise in about four billion dollars in other ventures a number of deals have already been announced ab os has agreed to sell eight a three hundred twenty jets the russian ally and trans they're all with

a catalog price of over seven hundred twenty million dollars russian made ad craft also selling well sukhoi has agreed to sell twelve super jets to indonesian airlines almost four hundred million and following the success of the plane its parent company united aircraft corporation has announced a bold new plan to build a long range aircraft this would be in direct competition with planes from blowing out and it expects to start production in twenty. one of the markets now in crude prices are rising ahead of us some of which are expected to show a decline in reserves brant crude is one hundred nine in the hall full list for barrel light sweet. sixty eight cents eighty seven dollars fifty cents. saying is gaining around one percent where the nikkei is falling by a fresh concerns about the european economy are weighing on investors said the

following disappointing course in the euro zone and german growth faults financials are the first to suffer with one point two percent and exporters are also under pressure here. in moscow trading floors will begin operating at around one hour's time here is the closing picture of the fourth tuesday for you all two years is down one point four percent. two percent so. we're likely to continue seeing losses across markets today and throughout the rest of this week and perhaps a couple of weeks to come that's because there are still issues which are quite substantial on the table that have no resolution as we see it now from that we can conclude that perhaps we should be trading currently around the levels of the summer of two thousand and ten the june july august levels which were the pre-k. we two levels we talk about the u.s. markets or the russian markets we're talking about ten fifteen percent downside

from here and that's when in my view we will be able to talk about a potential rally potential bargains to be picked up as markets move to the bottom and to the fair level where they could switch into two thousand and twelve figures for the price and the slower growth than we all expected and then look into a value place perhaps. the russian currency has been having a tough time in the recent wave of markets however the us loving someone from believes the ruble could win back some of its positions although will not be quick . there is scope for the will to recover and given the fact that oil prices so far are quite resilient for what we're seeing in the markets is that people are still very cautious and taking on risk and even though the. current levels does look cheap it's does saw for significant value at the same time of the fact that risk levels are elevated across the board across the

world economy that i think will act as a deterrent to the very fast recovery in the world but i think this recovery will take some time i was over now we will be back in fifteen minutes time or you can knock on top side or if you don't come forward slash business taxes next from the headlines to stay with us.

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back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our t.v. human rights groups are shunning the u.k.'s probe into torturing prisoners overseas and softer details surfaced about britain's secret policy of using extreme measures if it uncovered information considered valuable enough. jet to set up and go what moscow's international air show is global buyers and a flying fanatics taxi out for the best that aviation has to watch for billions of dollars of sales are expected for both military and civilian aircraft. china tests its first aircraft carrier as it beefs up its military machine but it will take several years to fully equipped the vessel but beijing says its name.