fifty details on that and so much more coming your way shortly. and very well this is the line from moscow human rights groups are boycotting a british inquiry into allegations of torture saying the government's taking an irresponsible approach to the case insists the probe is a waste of time and public money because downing street will have the final say over whether or not to disclose the results or emmett's made one torture victim who also downs the inquiry will bring justice. walking a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies were encouraged to decide when to talk terror suspects. was held 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 but i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room had it not been for the involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly. but. they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my shot and my lecture. 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 a prisoner 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 the document that's been hidden for a very long time has 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 an situation 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 you can try to say 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 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 british 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 were involved in torture and we take them for the wood and if the government then goes against that and so when i have this inquiry but it's going to be in secret you won't 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 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 radicalization whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture your anecdotes he. now two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stop last week's rioting using facebook both then posted messages on the social networking site calling for their friends to join the rest will they later said it was just. a rioting actually broke out as a result of the posts that was live out of brussels told us take nothing for a bit more of this many things being with us here mr gosling now four years in prison for not one riot is this

a fast sentance. well it's it's clearly a sentence which has been increased because of the whole circumstances but i think it's a little bit rich jordan blackshaw and perry keenan to say that this is a joke because clearly in the sort of situation that we had here in britain a week ago for the people who were really afraid to go out because more people rampaging around the streets as they were in some of our cities this is not a joke at all and i think actually it's quite right for the courts to take this very seriously is incitement to criminal behavior and of course these people should go through the normal channels and possibly go to jail for what they've done which is inciting rioting very serious offense and also we've got a situation also though where you know david cameron and the cabinet and particularly the city of london the bankers of also been doing

a looting of our economy i mean this has been massive bailouts they're using these bailouts to what they're actually doing with that is to lobby the government for more and more power and less restrictions on what the bankers are able to do we're now in this banking spiral as a result so you can see that there are is a certain amount of prosy for the government to actually criticize these two individuals ok almost the last let's get back to these riots it was pretty clear wasn't that the police couldn't get those rights are not control last week so are they now perhaps taking these arrests too far as you said was only incitement to causing violence so i mean for example one twenty two year old man is now in custody for stealing i think it is two scoops of coffee ice cream after a riot is a smash into a car. there are a catholic that's right this is very dangerous i think for the courts to be putting people down for numbers of years for very simple offenses like stealing water for example is one of them so i think actually what's going to happen is there going to

be a bit of a backlash against this stiff sentencing the way we actually decide who's way people sentence in this country is in itself is quite controversial lord leveson who's in charge of the sentencing council is actually a close personal friend of elizabeth murdoch and and so there are questions about his judgment and the judgment of those who are deciding in britain how our people are sentenced i think what will happen is with certain of the more extreme cases with this rioting is that people will actually get a lot less sentences you know much lower sentences possibly even be released because they've been in jail for a certain amount of time after they've been to appeal or know at least one of these two facebook people actually is going to be definitely appealing against this four year sentence now let's talk more about the issue of facebook and twitter and other social networking sites and all of this the british prime minister has said that the free flow of information can be used for crime and could the government now we're trying to take control of these social networks do things. well i think to

get to a certain extent behind the scenes there already are controls on them i think facebook has done everything they can to make sure anybody even under age people who are part of facebook which is really terrible i mean you shouldn't shouldn't be you know sort of eleven twelve thirteen year old children using these kind of social networking sites and i think actually it's quite sensible to make sure that the rules that already exist are enforced but the last thing we need is a knee jerk reaction against our ability to communicate it's quite clear we have to separate the difference between ordinary communications and those kinds of communications which involve incitement to riot incitement to other kinds of criminal behavior and of course the kinds of things which are actually part of a conspiracy such as the phone hacking scandal it's now been. unclear there were communications going around on email to do with hacking into people's phones and that was actually a criminal conspiracy as well to see in the months to come so i think we've got to separate the two let everybody communicate freely but if people are actually in so

much in criminal offenses and making things worse generally they are criminals and should be arrested as such doesn't mean to say you should then restrict the actual communication wait until people communicate and then arrest them if they committed an offense and of course some are suggesting this so with these accusations being levied against social networking sites by the british government we're seeing something of a double standard taking place british government was very swift to praise such sites in space that can twitter as tools for democracy during the arab uprisings but now considering prosecuting people in the u.k. for using the very same sites. well one of the ironies of this is as you try and restrict these internet sites what happens is actually if you if you for example as you gypsies did when they closed down the internet in certain places during the tahrir square the uprising earlier this year is that people actually come out in

the street so they have a chance anyway and i think this is being used actually as you're hinting at there as an excuse to regulate more more government interference in the way we communicate which i think would be a terrible thing and i think it's a bit rich coming from david cameron who and the government i mean who are many of whom are we talking about george osborne boris johnson david cameron who are members of this elite oxford bullingdon club and i'll quote now one of the things they said back in ninety six was that they smashed the place up and boris set fire to the toilets i think they should take a close look at themselves and their club that they used to be part of in oxford a drinking club where they would smash the places up one occasion apparently two bottles of wine were smashed by these behaviors regards layers vandals to me i don't know if you've got really go lecturing the rest of us moving away from university antics and talking more about what actually happened on the streets of london last it was very serious why do you think that those riots happened in the

first place do you think that there really is some sort of split in society day. well i think to a certain extent people see the looting that's been going on by the bankers and by the politicians colluding with them actually allowing them to get away with it by big corporations and they're angry this is one of the reasons they're on the streets but of course there's no real excuse for this criminal behavior the anger is there what we've got to do is address the anger and make sure our younger generation of got a hundred percent chance of getting a decent job and have a future because as many of them out there right now i can tell you who are angry because they see no future in conservative britain. tony gassing of ethnic german speaking to us from brazil many thanks. well global markets have taken a nosedive after the leaders of the strongest economies fail to come fears of a deepening crisis angle americal and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of

a central economic body which would ensure eurozone members take more financial responsibility but they brushed aside suggestions of expanding the bailout fund or releasing europeans to help keep the single currency afloat. bushell reports. 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 haven't 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 important because the people of europe but in polls in opinion polls they say that they don't close the european integration angela 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 that you're a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries did so they refused to bail out the royal problems in countries like italy and spain they also denounced the rumors and speculation and said they'd fight against this. that they say are trying to bring down the euro a tax 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. still ahead this hour the worst oil spill in decades in the case without anyone that is a green group say we'll have grave consequences for the environment. a billion dollar exhibition at. promising lucrative deals for the displays of the nations

that profit spectate is staring up at the sky at first public glimpse of fifth generation fighter jet among wednesday's highlights is a. report. what an amazing day it's been here for the max two thousand and eleven international annual show what money is wrong research show you we saw history in the making today with the debut of the super secret stealth sukhoi the t. fifty it's been hidden from everybody it came out today much to the approval of the prime minister vladimir putin he was here to watch the debut of the stealth you can drive. and how could he not with the maneuver as it was pulling it just for the sky to pieces a truly sensational piece piece of machinery it is designed to go against america's f. twenty two and f.

eighteen the idea was actually dreamt up between russia and india it was a mutual deal to produce the super secret stealth the t fifty the idea is to create over a thousand in the coming decades and hopefully have them in service by two thousand and fifty we saw some spectacular shows from the russian knights and the russians with some very high maneuver high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians are here the baltic being here during the acrobatic stunts as well and we saw a lot of robotic systems. we saw the drones large drones tiny drones we saw helicopter drones as well so it's been a fantastic day and r.t. will continue to broadcast live throughout the weekend the week and the weekend here just on the outskirts of moscow i should turn now to my colleague tom barton who has a story about the new russian passenger jet that is soon to come on the market possibly already selling one hundred that could be the next order on the table now i'll let it i'll let you go to tom bargain for the meantime i just need to find the

keys. this is one of the new hoops of russian aviation it's called the in this twenty womb it's turning to it is an airline in the twenty first century there's a lot riding on the fate of this plane presents the efforts of the. 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 sort 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 part but we hope we will opt for our whole market. we'll see. 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 on that crucial substance field. is to present some. approximately fifteen percent or so of course operation of 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 air craft corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together like airbus has done in europe we use the engine euro so engine is capacity from suporn company so of course we were talking 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 banse and marty. a

lot is bringing you the best of max twenty eleven throughout the week states and for more highlights from the pallet assaye. plans. of approach. shape our future flights try hard to take some to the max air show. to other well these now and work is that the fukushima nuclear facility in japan say that the structural cracks have been found in the plant and this is releasing a radioactive steam they will think say that pipes and at least one of the rats was seriously damaged before the devastating tsunami hit the area and mobs were the allegations raise concerns of the facility was deemed even before the earthquake

triggered the disaster problems with deteriorating pipes at the plant have been reported to me as the cooling system failed to stop riyadh has going into meltdown off it was hit by the fourteen it's a high waves the plant's been leaking radioactive material since the disaster despite efforts to clean it up don't drop or take a piece of the hiroshima peace institute says focus team is reacting as didn't f.p.s. be equipped to cope with natural dissolved is. 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 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 earthquakes even when they happen at a high level they're not individua. the bench there followed by a series of subsequent or quakes and so we're seeing now that these reactors are now shaped for earthquakes let alone force you know. where they were shell says it still doesn't know what caused the big one of its north sea platforms the company was forced to admit it's responsible for the worst spin in british waters for more

than a decade about that eight hundred barrels have been so far confirmed it's still struggling to control the secondly it said the first part is now under control and the flow of oil into the sea is now down to one barrel a day well greenpeace is criticize the company for taking too long so i'm taking information about the oil spill public adam oddities in energy and less from the environmental organization platform says a lack of transparency is a warning sign. what's important is that the u.k. government has been rather smart in planning that its regulatory regimes were breasts. and resilient against the confidence of put in government support last year i remember this particular spill calls all those claims and question it's a particularly since two. year for breeding. for

a drive almost certain city. owned or sort of share was one point where it's been difficult to plug in the certainly big players of all the new ring growth. we also know that shows using dispersants is a highly controversial. on the use is questionable because well they do. more on the smaller boats and more difficult for. proper motion staunchly on. government for these even to stores to climb in the pool don't have adequate information coming from show certainly insurers and public at large are still on the road about a long. sure it's very small information and there's been no official statements coming from seymour or members of the company. or the board of directors which does call into question seriousness to which. of the leader of russia's chechen republic says seven of militants including

a top terrorist leader have been killed by security forces that comes with a major anti terror operation underway in the north caucuses six militants and two policemen have been killed and a major terrorist attack involving massive quantities of explosives prevented artie's medina court reports. two russian servicemen were killed when a group of militants attacked to be call them off the russian military forces of the republic of dagestan everything happened during a search operation that was carried out by the russian troops and in a wooden area of the republic they were looking for the militants who earlier farida point the russian military forces early on a tuesday night and as of the moment of the fighting continues and what we know so far is that six militants have been killed in that battle basically at the same time and very near to the location of the fighting russian federal security services have a diffused a bone with an m.

presidential and a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. and the bomb was also filed with a destructive components and to the explosive device that was hidden in a pipe that was a lying at the back of the car that was parked a very near to the market it was a removed he couldn't hold a bomb ass of the criminals installed homemade electric heater nader's on to it and the russian terrorist committee so it was the people who first noticed the suspicious looking car being parked and so they called the police meanwhile it's not the first time pope such kind according to russia's alpha's b. has a quite recently another large scale attack and those time on the russian railways in the most cruel region was prevented by the special forces team or had fever it fast as cuts a little bit of his business with. her

welcome to business here at r.t. august seventeenth is a dark day in russian financial history of the country declared its own defaults back in one nine hundred ninety eight caught between a fall in crude prices and the asian crisis that was called short roll and national capital says we're not in line for a perfect storm to. the ninety nine price just makes me sick of the buy would look like a walk in the park in ninety nine the last ninety three percent of its value last week the the russian market lost about fifteen percent of its value paid her but it was nothing compared to the nine hundred ninety eight russia has moved on a lot further for bad you know russia russia now it performs along saw it a lot of the other emerging markets and looks to its lead in ninety nine zero eight it was really a case of its own. and a pretty terrible period for anybody had to get through it the exchange rate is a lot more flexible than it was before the banking system is really quite stable

you've got some money leaving the country but again not nearly as much as that it's a very very different place you know people are investing people are building businesses you know why they just didn't exist in the in the late ninety's we've had ten years of you know there's been a lot of volatility but relatively speaking it's stable compared to the previous ten years. or climbs to its highest level in almost two weeks after an unexpectedly large drop in u.s. supplies of gasoline and other fuels brant crude is trading at one hundred ten dollars a pound well the w t i as said eighty eight dollars a barrel and stocks in the u.s. scaled back gains as technology stocks head after dell forecast a weaker sales growth tel fell nine and a half percent to fourteen dollars thirteen cents a share retailers media companies are also among the decline as wall street offered little reaction after the neighbor department pointed us producer prices again point two percent in july and european markets and lower as well after the talks between french and german leaders failed to convince investors decisive action will

be taken off the debt crisis forty and the dax both are down now let's take a look at the closing figures in russia and we're seeing a positive trend with equity markets ending in the black ignoring the negative sentiment in your thoughts on high oil prices and here is being snapshot of the markets move on to something why i say most of them. took strolled modest gains on added over two and a half percent cross telecom closed also up investors pricing the announcement the stock has been included into m.s.c.i. global stock indices review bank reversed from earlier losses and gained over one and a quarter of the sounds the bank has reported at thirty five percent net profit growth for the first seven months of the year but that's on the roughest accounting stuff . that's our update for this hour but join me in forty five minutes for more.

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