save the struggling euro investors are left and right. and that's why european markets are down one percent doesn't dozens of disappointed by the lack of action taken by merkel and sarkozy by the russian mob hits are ignoring this why point out the business. just after one pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. and then went on to british inquiry into its agents use of torture overseas has been islam before it had its chance to get started 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 led a human rights groups to boycott the inquiry saying it lacks credibility as laura abbott now reports. walking

a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to talk terrorist suspects. 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 i am completely one hundred percent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room not being could be involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly. and they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my show. 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 of prisoners would suffer and if it was worth it to go ahead amnesty international says there's a mounting pile of credible evidence on the extent to which britain was involved in torture as yet another 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. you know ministers were very senior officials authorised agents to participate in in situations where it was more likely than 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 a control to see about the chair of the investigation so peter gibson used to be the intelligence services commissioner the government doesn't see a conflict of interest there but many m.p.'s do 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 on that point it fails 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 hear about the types of torture that took place however when the government said that they will hold to account those people who are involved in torture and we take them for the wood and if the government

then goes against that and we'll have this inquiry but it's going to be in secret you won't get to see those people involved in your torture 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 at 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 radicalize ation whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture your anecdotes he. billions of dollars worth of aircraft sales are likely to be inked over the next few days at an airstrip in moscow as the international air show takes off for its second day it's already proving to be quite a sight on the ground in the year with air. hundred planes due to take part in

a skylight showcase artie's royce's shape now reports. r.t. is live for the next few days here at the max two thousand and eleven international air show i'm a real researcher have a look at this bad boy and with right now this is a russia's latest high tech version of the search and rescue helicopter the. state of the art technology on the inside let's have a look and see what the fun to play with here. ok here we are inside the. the latest state of the art search and rescue chopper it's got major long range capacity exercise fuel tanks here all the latest gadgetry here in the back plenty of space for emergency helpers a hospital er doctors and nurses a large bed there as well and as i was saying absolutely state of the art technology that we're here as as i was saying earlier the max thirty thousand

eleven airshow so far seeing some dramatic displays of the russian swiftness of flying we have the baltic beings are flying in there acrobatic planes lots of things to see and do here and the crowds are certainly pouring in so as we continue to broadcast for the next few days here from the two thousand and eleven max air show let's turn over to tom barton but his story about the latest russian passenger airline is going to go head to head with boeing this is one of the new hoops of russian aviation it's called the in this twenty one that 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 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 was a short to mid-range passenger jet it will be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven vs a three twenty both will establish planes its

makers and fully. where of the challenge ahead we understand he will not we're not terrorists on his markets. market part but we hope will help some for our whole market. system. 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 powerful in the freezer of one of the shifts to present some. approximately fifteen percent or so of course operation of course. but the n.s.a. twenty one also follows the earliest so-called super jet as one of the first russian airliners built in years the efforts are being led by the united and craft corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together like air persons done in europe reduce the engine euro so engineers are capacity from suporn

company to consume two point two political illusion it's 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. a lot to the max two thousand and eleven throughout the week to bring you the best of moscow's jet powered air show. hands. closer. approach. future flight. marty tends to the max air show. well in

a few minutes we'll update you on the worst oil spill a decade said that british waters will shell oil says it's controlled but green groups are not convinced with the crude gushing into the sea for six days. and as american drone strikes continue to hit pakistani journalists add up with lethal civilian costs will be bringing you their findings. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event for the planet is time we don't. it's been going on for months twenty twenty five years and since it's been eco terrorists before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who

were accused of property sabotage and label then as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not the parents real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who play trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. sound. sound. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

all combat now europe's nations are on the verge of blurring into one all financially at least with germany and france calling for economic harmony across the euro zone where growth is grinding to a halt and countries are struggling to stay afloat and they are as big players think that the assar is to force mandatory budgets member states but as our europe correspondent daniel bushell explains surrendering sovereignty is not what people. 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 this 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 is suspected this may make him even more important 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 denounce 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 range of proposals on offer here. well investors subban left mostly unimpressed by chancellor merkel's on president sarkozy's plans saying that they

expected more well dr shah a professor of business and international affairs says that the decisions are political not fiscal unfortunately this is not going to make much difference for the ongoing crisis all the news that came out at 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 stabilization facility their bailout fund for the european euro zone members will not be expanded and they believe it enough as it is for the moment the second thing there is no common euro bond that is going to be issued in there were very clear about this in the markets we're 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 market's needs for clear concise action but 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 hailing russia's step plan to help restart international talks on terror disputed nuclear program well russia's foreign minister and his iranian counterpart have just been discussing in moscow and under russia's proposal

major powers will reduce sanctions against iran for each step to take stores opening its atomic ambitions to international inspection iran is at loggerheads with world powers over its nuclear aspirations the latest round of talks stalled in january without agreement well during the meeting in moscow the foreign ministers also talked about the launch of iran's first nuclear power plant built with russian help well iran says the bush era facility will be fully online in the near future. but you could had all life or war on the news we're covering on the air and let me run you through some of the reports lined up right now at our to call the struggle to stay alive by selling your own or gets the grim reality for poverty stricken indians who are preyed on by the illegal bodyparts market. in last selling siberia three star wars a movie for the russian president to fog

a giant statue of r two d two the highlight delusions techno progress story authority dot com last you can find all our video reports of argue. the oil firm a 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 in british waters for more than a decade about thirteen hundred barrels have leaked so far well the company says

the first pipe rupture is now under control and the flow of oil into the sea is down to two barrels a day green groups sounded the alarm that there will be big consequences for the environment shell that eventually came clean well out of bonnets who's an energy analyst from the environmental organization platform says that a lock 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 claiming that its regulatory regimes were breasts. and resilient against the kinds of things approved happen in the not supposed to last year however this particular spill calls for those crimes and question folks in particular since to clear it for breeding. program if certain moments. are so sure has been found whether it's part of the

difficulty in the certainly it requires of all the moving growth. we also know that charles using dispersants isn't been highly controversial. on the use is questionable because for the doers for more on the smaller boats and more difficult for. proper ocean staunchly. from government for these even to those they are still climbing the pool don't have adequate information coming from show certainly insurers and public at large are still in the dark about a lot of share has a move east very small bits more information and there's been no official statements coming from an embarrassing more. members of the of the company or the board of directors which there's quanta question seriousness through which the company is taking. now let's look at some other world news in brief this hour anya's a prime minister has criticized the country's most prominent anti corruption campaigner

describing his actions as quote totally misconceived other has is on hunger strike in jail demanding tougher laws against fraud and bribery thousands gathered in front of the facility chanting slogans of support has already spent a night behind bars despite a government decision to free him. a serious state news agency says the army is withdrawing from the eastern city of zoar after clearing what it calls terrorist gangs the military crackdown on protestors shows little sign of slowing though security forces reportedly opened far on thousands who gathered in various cities calling for president assad to go human rights activists claim over eight hundred people have been killed since the uprising of ruptured in mid march. eight turkish soldiers have been killed and nine others injured after a roadside bomb exploded in the southeast of the country the mine is believed to

have been planted by the outlawed of kurdistan workers party and went off as a military vehicle passed over it the organization is behind a number of attacks on the turkish military killing over twenty people in recent weeks the assaults came after the government unveiled a plan to adopt new measures in the fight against terrorism. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rioting by using facebook well they became the first people to be set down by judges for the mass civil on the dress that swept england and in a separate case three men who were jailed for between is sixteen months and two years for looting and handling stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected rioters had been brought before the courts. and investigative journalist reports says u.s. drone strikes in pakistan have killed at least three hundred eighty five civilians almost half of them children but washington is refusing to pull back on its

aggressive military campaign against al qaida chris woods from the group which studied the deaths says american officials are getting in the way of comprehensive research on that killing innocent people. a minimum of three hundred eighty five civilians we think and as many as seven hundred seventy five civilians are among those killed just to be clear the cia has now admitted that they have killed around fifty civilians in pakistan during the duration of the certainly years of the drone war but they say they haven't killed a civilian since may of last year and our evidence suggests entirely the contrary we were hearing rumors of u.s. officials in washington trying to cast aspersions on our study before it was even published and for example trying to link us to someone they were claiming was a spy in pakistan and also raising doubts about the validity of our research itself we went back and looked at over two thousand individual media reports from

pakistani us u.k. international media looking at the strikes and then once we don't actually untangled that process and got the clearest idea of what had taken place we don't cross reference with a host of material which included legal studies case notes of lawyers who are fighting cases behalf of civilians in pakistan leaked intelligence documents us secret cables that were leaked by wiki leaks earlier this year and so on so we're trying to build up really as comprehensive a public view as we could of what's actually been taking place with the cia attacks although it's time for the business dimitri. thanks to the russian council has been having a tough time in recent wave of markets while it's just marginally strong at this hour in my six trading however you just love this about it from deutsche bank believes to be able could win back some of its positions although it won't be quick

. there is scope for the will to recover given the fact that will prices so far are quite resilient 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 does for significant value at the same time of the fact that risk levels are elevated across the border across the world economy that i think will act as a deterrent to the very fast recovery in the ruble i think this recovery will take some time. as well let me transfer up to six billion dollars worth of its international reserves from europe and the u.s. to russia brazil and china and opposition lawmaker says he's obtained documents showing the venezuelan finance ministry plans to move the cash to niger markets and these countries are considered to be more friendly and they say the move would make

little financial sense however it's in line with claims from president chavez about ending the dictatorship of the. move to the markets now start with commodities crude prices are rising ahead of us symmetry reports char expected to show a decline in reserves brant crude is at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel lights readers are almost a dollar to europe now it shares up somewhat recovered from the one and a half percent drop shortly after the opening investors are disappointed with the lack of action coming out from tuesday's meeting between the angle of merkel and nicolas sarkozy russia's margin ignoring the negative sentiment in europe as stocks are supported by high oil prices is the snapshot of the market moves on the my sex most blue chips are showing gains gazprom point seven per cent to energy shares of following suit ross telecom is down just slightly now investors are pricing in the

announcement that the stock has been included into the m.s.c.i. global standard in the seas as of the first of september the bank is losing almost two percent despite reporting a forty five percent net profit growth for the first seven months of the year that's under russian accounting standards. and the bank says given the current market volatility players prefer to buy into less liquid but safe stocks for long term investment. but we have seen some activity from only institutions which are picking up some second tier names across the russian universe in small quantities they're cognizant of the fact that we're probably going to get a bit lower from here but they're happy to start buying now. so a select second tier names are potentially. a good investment opportunity for long lonely investors for investors with the long term price and in terms of chips the activity has been quite volatile there hasn't been any sector health performance which is markedly. explicit over the last few days and i really doubt this will.

change somehow in the next couple of weeks horizon at least. the world's fourth largest group calls but has seen a second quarter profit dropped by twenty two percent russian drink is taking their appetite for beer company says sales in russia fell below expectations as a result of a thirty percent price increase due to higher taxes russia's top gear brand is one of calls birds he sets the change in fortune as forced carlsberg to more than half of its four year profit outlook. moscow government is getting out of the hotel business and selling its city operation as part of this year's privatization program the hotel company as it is known controls around fourteen properties with two to four star ratings the decision comes after the firm's key investor billionaire ronald lauder decided to pull out the assets are worth around two

hundred million dollars so. headlines are next to stay with us. wealthy british style.

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pull them back half past the hour time to check the main you stories today on our t.v. she were wired scoops are shunning the u.k.'s program to torturing prisoners overseas it's offered details surface about britain secret policy of using extreme maps first if it uncovered information considered valuable enough. and jet set and go at moscow's international air show as a global buyers and fly about its taxi out for the best that aviation asked was for billions of dollars of sales are expected for both military and civilian aircraft. china tests its first aircraft carrier as it beef soffits military machine it will take several years to fully equipped the fossil.