vast areas are left uncrossed. and therefore european indices are falling around one per cent this hour as investors are disappointed with the lack of action coming out from that meeting as we go inside crazy but russian markets are ignoring this why find out some business i'll do twenty. three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live now with our top story an imminent british inquiry into its agents use of torture overseas has been slammed before it's had a 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 but that's led human rights groups to boycott the inquiry saying it lacks credibility as a lawyer and that reports. walking

a tightrope of pain. it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to talk terrorist suspects. held. 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 only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed. one hundred. british intelligence officers quite regularly. they were physically present when i was being abused they saw. me. according to policy documents seen by the guardian newspaper senior

five and m i six agents were asked to weigh up the quality of information. with the level of mistreatment of prisoners 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. 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 to participate and 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. 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 say 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 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 told that the list as an agent. of 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 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 goes against that and says when 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 say 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 you are emmett. millions of dollars worth of aircraft sales are likely to be over the next few days at an airstrip here in moscow as the international air show takes off for its second day well it's already proving to be quite a sight on the ground and in the air of course with over one hundred planes due to

take part in a skyline showcase. well arty's worries to say is at the max airshow for us course he's taken off his aviator's still looking as cool as a category i know you're a big fan of aircraft what's catching your eye and ears the second day of the show . and he said the question is what's not catching my eye and what's not blas to my poor is at the moment it's just the best of the best here for the two thousand and eleven annual international air show here the biggest you can find here whether it's in the civilian sector or the military sector we have the big three a c. that is absolutely enormous is about the size of a skyscraper just lying on its side enormous civilian passenger bus that the a three eighty but then we have the military aspect for example we have america's c.e. five this thing is a colossus we went inside it was like being inside the bowels of

a whale you can feel this thing with numerous tanks multi-ton tanks and you can still fly to any part of the world that's the c. five but we also saw the historic b. fifty two bomber the b. fifty two iconic because during during the cold war era that was what the americans were using for high sky patrols these b. fifty two loaded to the teeth with nuclear weapons but part very near to it is the russian version the russian bed that is just a sight to see a truly iconic image it's such a such a monster what's interesting is that the b. fifty two and the russian bear apart very very close to each other and when you watch the children walk by they will bias here with these are lovely big airplanes but when you see them more elder people those who are alive during the cold war you see the look in their eyes that they look at these two planes and there's something in their eye because you know they're thinking these could have been the beginning of the end these could have been mutually assured destruction had they leveled those nuclear weapons during the cold war now aside from that we've got the military strike strike jets here we all very much anticipating the unveiling of the

just bound to be an amazing aircraft the russian sukhoi t. fifty it's supposed to go head to head against america's f. twenty two and a f. eighteen raptor it has a stealth capabilities that it carries all of its weapons inside the body of the aircraft so it's easy to detect the actual cross on radar it's supersonic it's called long. range protective abilities and striking abilities very advanced comes in at twenty tons which is right in between the f. eighteen and the f. twenty two as well so if you look behind me over here you might be able to see that is the russian version of the eva that is the american we over there and in england we have the a watch this is the russian version of it which is ultimately just a flying floating radar station now it's just an amazing day today all the families are out here literally tens of thousands i must say lots and lots of people here dozens upon dozens of planes and it's just a good time to be had by all aussies going to be here for the next few days at

least we're going to continue continue giving you live coverage i want and i do want to say one moment i really i'm looking forward to hopefully later today is that there will be a reenactment of the battle for moscow where we will have ten vintage soviet aircraft in the air reenacting how they drove the nazis back many many decades ago now enough for me let's turn over to my colleague tom botton he has an insightful story now about a new russian passenger jet debuting on the market his my colleague tom. this is one of the new hopes of russian aviation it's called the m.s. twenty one and its talented 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. as a sought to mid-range passenger jet to be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven an airbus is

a three twenty both well established planes its makers are fully aware of the challenge ahead we understand they will not we're not terrorists on these markets. market fifty five but we hope we will have. for our whole market. will succeed. they're confident the m s twenty one will be able to technically match its competitors with a third of it built like complicit materials and totally us it will save them that crucial substance feel. it want to see is to present some. approximately fifteen percent as opposed operation course. but the emmis 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 and craft corporation which

is trying to make russian plane companies work together like airbus has done in europe we use the engine there are so engineers capacity from suporn home porting so course you know where to go to political solution it's early days yet but with a wealth of aeronautical engineering experience from soviet times hopes of flying high the m.s. twenty one will put a new generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom boston. what so many people are calling the best of the biggest international show on the planet this is max two thousand and eleven i'm sure i will keep you posted as this whole event moves on that's right we will be at the marx show for the next couple of days to do stay with our team for that. close of. the.

show future slot. for two takes to the max air show europe's nations are on the verge of blurring into one at least financially 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 euro's big players think the answer is to force mandatory budgets on to member states they're also pledging to harmonize corporate taxes but are rejecting the introduction of the joint that guarantees or euro bonds and a time soon investors have been left mostly unimpressed by chancellor merkel and president sarkozy's plans saying they expected more dr remen a professor of business and international affairs for the sessions are political not fiscal. unfortunately this is not going to make much difference for the ongoing

crisis all the news that came out of this best conference was quite negative for the market the most negative i believe was the fact that it was announced that the european fund a full stabilisation facility that 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 is 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 where 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 as 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 for 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 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. russia says it hopes international talks on iran's disputed nuclear program could restart soon both countries foreign ministers have been talking in moscow with iran welcoming the kremlin's efforts to help renew negotiations. has been following the progress and joins us live good to take us through what russians planas. russia's proposal is

a step by step plan of action that would basically see iran resume its called gratian with the six nations that are basically monitoring the situation in return for the gradual lessening of sanctions that the united nations security council has already opposed on iran and iran of course has reacted very angrily to this proposal by russia seems to be well received by all of the size involved in these negotiations and the iranian side is said to be very happy with the proposal and is willing to take participation in the plan so what does that mean in terms of a breakthrough how much those this mean for the progress of negotiations. or it's difficult of course to say whether it is a breakthrough or not just at this moment but it is definitely a big step forward according to russian foreign minister the sanctions that the

united nations security council kept imposing on iran were leading to a dead end in the problem in the negotiations that that the only way out was a diplomatic one to get iran. back in cooperation with the united nations security council and it seems that russia has managed to achieve that there step by step program is getting everybody back to the table and of course iran has said that it is prepared to let more international inspectors in to open its nuclear program to further inspection but has said also. that it will not tolerate any more pressure on his program so sanctions any further sanctions will not be tolerated by the iranian side the russian foreign minister has said that this is a very good staff step by step approach plan proposed by russia should lead to the satisfaction of both sides to the iranians having their peaceful nuclear energy

program and to the security council and giving the ability to see that there is nothing to fear but of course. there are still some doubts and it will be until that plan is fully implemented that we can actually see how effective it is we also know that the bush share energy station the first iranian nuclear power plant will also be operational very soon we know that it's already working but it's not yet producing that nuclear peaceful nuclear energy that iran needs and that is also on the agenda right through those are both live in central moscow thank you very much for that update. workers at japan's fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks the cooling system of the plant failed after the devastating tsunami hit japan in march sparking a nuclear crisis but new evidence suggests that fukushima reactors were doomed to cripple even before the massive wave reached them joining me now via broadband is

dr robert jacobs who's a professor at the hiroshima peace institute how alarming are these latest reports about steam emerging from the cracks under fukushima how serious could this. it's a very serious and alarming development because this started to happen specifically after two large earthquakes in the last few weeks there was a six point four earthquake on the thirty first of july and a six point zero earthquake on august twelfth and so what this would indicate is that there may have been some breaking of some of the pipes and some of the structures underground that happened during these earthquakes and they there could be radioactive water that's venting into the soil and what's more as the it has cracks are opening they're making their way that steam and radioactivity is making its way up so first of all this will make it much more difficult for workers to work there because the problem will not be contained within the building contained

within the structure of the reactor vessel and so it's harder for workers to work in an area in which radiation is emerging from unknown and unsuspected places and it's an indication that that radioactive material is moving under the ground and also workers say the damage was done when the earthquake struck not after the tsunami swept through such a facility like this have been much more quake proof given their regularity in japan. yes. this this facility you may remember it was designed to withstand an eight point zero earthquake and what we had was a nine point zero earthquake and so these facilities were designed with the best case scenario in mind and clearly there's much higher earthquakes are possible so yes if it's the case that we should there's certainly a great deal of evidence that appears to suggest that the first reactor reactor

number one was melting down by the time the tsunami hit so if that's the case that the reactor was melting down as a result of the earthquake and not as a result of the tsunami a nine point zero earthquake is something that has the potential to happen throughout japan and that would put the reliability and the design safety of all of these reactors in question and just to refer back to that first point about the radioactive steam we there is continuing to be these aftershocks so when you have a fragile structure that's already suffered a great deal of damage and you have continual aftershocks at the level of six point zero there's there's been some even higher. what we have now is we have the radioactive core that has melted down into the basement into the bottom of the containment vessel of these reactors and if the radiation level is going down where it's being monitored inside the buildings and if the water pressure is going down and the temperature is going down it's not as though the radiation is just suddenly going away it means that the radioactive material the melted core is simply moving

further away from where it's being measured and it may have as a result of these aftershocks be moving down out of the building itself so that may be why we're seeing radioactive steam and as you can see earthquakes even when they happen at a high level they're not individual events they're followed by a series of subsequent earthquakes and so we're seeing now that these reactors were not safe for earthquakes let alone for tsunamis one of the not going to be enough i mean if the earthquake structurally compromised the plant and the safety of its nuclear fuel and now we have this steam another very hazardous situation what is going to be time to close down reactors like these. well in my opinion now i think that this has been this is been a clear example of the fact that natural disasters are certainly much stronger than our ability to prepare for them. and there's there's all kinds of natural disasters

that can strike plants and so these these reactors only function well in a perfect world in which things don't go wrong and that's not the world we live in so i think we need to question the viability of these reactors as a concept all together dr robert shakeups live via broadband with us thank you very much for your insight thank you. well you had on line for more on the news we're covering here let me run you through some of the reports lined up now at r.t. dot com the struggle to stay alive by selling your own organs the grim reality for poverty stricken indians who are preyed on by the illegal bodyparts market. and there is no rocking the boat between russia's leading pair watch the president and prime minister angle for a couch on the country's biggest river including video of them both happy to get to hump a perfect pipe it's all at r t. a

look now it's a world news in brief for you this hour india's prime minister has criticized the country's most prominent anti corruption campaigner describing his actions as totally misconceived on the house are a 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. serious state news agency says the army is withdrawing from the eastern city of war after clearing what it calls armed terrorist gangs the military crackdown on protesters shows little sign of slowing security forces reportedly opened fire on thousands who gathered in various cities holing for president to go human rights activists play over one thousand nine hundred people have been killed since the uprising were brought to march.

two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rioting by using facebook they became the first people to be sent down by judges for the mass civil unrest that's in a separate case three men were jailed for between sixteen months and two years for looting and handing handling i should say stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected rioters have been brought before the courts. well in a few minutes r.t. debates whether antiwar movements in the west are waving the white flag and surrendering but first let's get the latest business with dimitri. thanks very much and he's the russian currency has been having a tough time in the recent wave of markets around while it's declining marginally versus the euro this hour in my sex training however you guys let me someone from deutsche bank believe the ruble could win back some of its positions although it will not be quick there is scope for the world to recover given the fact that oil

prices so far are quite resilient and what we're seeing in the markets is that people are still very cautious and taking on the risk and even though the. current levels does look cheap. it does off 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 and that will bill i think this recovery will take some time. venezuela may transfer up to six billion dollars worth of its international reserves from europe and the u.s. to russia brazil and china an opposition lawmaker says he's obtained documents showing the venezuelan finance ministry plans to move the cash to markets these countries are considered to be more friendly analysts say the move would make little financial sense however it is in line with claims from president chavez

about ending the dictatorship of the don't turn to the markets now in crude prices are rising ahead of a u.s. imagery report which is expected to show a decline in reserves brant is up more than one dollar fifteen cents and light sweet is up just almost a sense that a barrel you have now shares have somewhat recovered after dropping one and a half a century after the opening investors are disappointed with the lack of action coming out of tuesday's meeting between angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy russia is ignoring the negative sentiment in europe as stocks all supported by high oil prices here's a snapshot of the movers on the my six most of blue chips are showing gains especially in the energy sector gazprom is adding one and a half percent telecom is trading also in line with the market and this is up pricing in the announcement the stock has been included into a global standard in the seas and v.t. being is just one of these sold blue chip losers down by

a notch point one percent after reporting a thirty five percent net profit growth for the first seven months of the year but that's on the russian account. world's fourth largest brewer carlsberg has seen its second quarter profit drop by twenty two percent as russian drinkers take their appetite for the company says sales in russia fell below expectations as a result of a thirty percent price increase due to high taxes russia's top be a brand is one of carlsberg key assets the change in fortune has forced calls burke to more than haul of its profit outlook. moscow government is getting out of the hotel business of selling its operation as part of this year's privatization programme 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 ronald moore the decided to call out yes and so well for around two hundred million

dollars. so my colleague and fifty minutes time she'll be with an update on the latest business news on this is next with.

at three thirty pm moscow time these are the headlines on r t human rights groups are shunning the u.k.'s probe into torturing prisoners overseas that's after details surfaced about britain's secret policy of using extreme measures if it uncovered information considered valuable. jetset go at moscow's international air show as global buyers and flying fanatics taxi out for the bass that aviation has to offer billions of dollars of sales are expected for both military and civilian aircraft. also discord over a closer european parliament in france and germany a unified economic front to save the struggling euro but investors are left unimpressed amid growth grinding to a halt the process the eurozone.