very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow human rights groups of boycotting a british inquiry into allegations of torture saying the government's taking an irresponsible approach to the case as businesses that 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 on his or emmitsburg one torture victim who also doubts 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 that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room. with british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly. they were physically present when i was being abused they saw my shop and my lecture. me they saw my 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 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 that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circumstances in which. you know ministers are 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 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 were involved in torture and we take them for the wood and if the government then goes against that and we will 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 radicalize they said whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture your anecdotes he. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's ryan singel using facebook both men posted messages on the social networking site holding for their friends to join in the rest with a late is that it was just a joke insisting the rioting broke out as a result of the posts that's was live now to the u.k. and david a commentator for social issues website the institute of ideas dot com has been with us here mr bauer now do you think that four years in prison for calling for riot the never actually happened is

a just sentence. no i don't and i think we're seeing quite a i haven't had or thora to visibly shaken last week with people we've been unable to keep the streets safe i think we're seeing quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities as they try to regain that or dorothy it superficially we've seen people being hounded quite severe sentences for often playing quite a minor role in the riots and often for crimes such as stealing a bottle of water or some ice cream for which they would have been very unlikely to face charges. jail sentence if they've committed a crime that week before and it's dangerous because remember seen. a kneejerk reaction to people working with rights to say they want to have a right even if they haven't followed up with organizing the right itself which is already i think dangerously being the distinction between action and speech so you have one of the cases where somebody was trying to organize riots which obviously

is a crime and something you want to deal with quite seriously but you have somebody else who said he wanted to organize a riot didn't go to extreme lengths to try and organize that so it was a joke and he's been treated with exactly the same severity simply for saying that out loud on the social networking site so obviously the person who was trying to organize a riot so are getting registration very so all the already is now do you think trying to gain some sort of credibility see in making these quite tough arrest do you think after being quite severely criticised for the way that they handled the riots and the apps into play. i think they are but i think the question you have to ask yourself whether they will actually restore much or to your credibility by cracking down and quite severe and often incoherent why on people who are really heavily involved in the problem you have to the question of the decline of all four or three within societies a long running social problem is a very complex one to deal with but i think we can say if you say that the kind of

people who were growing up in the streets of police officers he was visibly sharing in their enjoyment of the week in new places not necessarily be shaken from their actions because a teenager who said that he thought the rights were a good idea was given community service as we saw today. now facebook and twitter have come under fire for helping to spread the public disorder that we saw taking place last week in david cameron has said that some people convicted of rising could be banned from using them do you think that that will happen. i think that would be a very dangerous move if they allow that to happen again you have to try and separate off action from speech in this regard so people can use social networking sites and we can perhaps of said things on social networking sites which we regret a moment later maybe a joke that goes wrong that's very different from going off to try and organize a riot and to try and. actually formally go out there to break the law or even

saying that people should be doing it and supporting that even if you don't know about serious about it and actually doing that and i think they're trying to clamp down on social networking that's why it's quite a kneejerk response to a new problem in terms of people's ability to communicate and organize on a mass scale which actually has more dangerous for. your average law abiding citizen and you think of for example a man last year who is also sent to jail for making a joke about blowing up an air force on twitter and who essentially made that joke and in some he regretted it and then had to go through the law so actually the people who actually want to have frank conversations about how we tackle the problems we have are going to face more problems from clamping down on social networking for the only very long limited number of troublemakers we had of course but surely there in lies the problem the difference that the authorities face in trying to distinguish between these people making jokes on these social networking sites and these people are actually planning to stir up trouble how do the

authorities going about making that separation without perhaps this worrying trend that you suggest that we could see further restrictions being placed on social networking sites in the u k. well i think about that's a job for the police and the law courts to try and ascertain that's the notion of justice where we have a legal system to ascertain what somebody is involvement was a crime where they should be guilty and how they should be punished for it there's a danger in the process becomes involved in particularly the government trying to send a strong message to people which then becomes something slightly separate from whether somebody was making a joke or genuinely trying to start to write or involved in a right it's already trying to use that process to make a statement to people which is going to actually make things more complex and it's not going to do very much to regain police or power see if they respond to what many people would see as unfair incoherent reactions ok david bowden commentator

for the social issues web site institute of ideas dot com thank you feel thoughts. now global markets have taken the nays dive op to the needs of the e.u. strongest economies fail to calm fears of a deepening crisis anglo-american and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure year as a member is take more financial responsibility but they brushed aside suggestions of expanding the e.u. bailout fund to releasing euro bonds to help keep the single currency afloat daniel 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 have been lost 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 unpopular because the people of europe but in polls in opinion polls they say that they don't want the european integration angela merkel the chancellor of germany says they showed great courage to do this but they dismissed the use of your abortions which many have said would be the solution agreed eventually they said that you are not a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries dates 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 they the group is that they say are trying to bring down the euro a tax on financial transactions was also announced. that the purpose was to harmonize economies and taxes across europe so a very wide ranging proposals on offer here. still ahead this hour new evidence of

negligence because it sounds like a long day the cooling system was doomed to fail before the facility was hit by the march tsunami. now the first public glimpse of russia's new fifth generation fighter jet was the highlight of the international air show me a moscow and the second day of the biennial max s. a-basin also a lucrative deal signed on the ground and high speed aerobatic displays in the skies are to see she's been watching the action for us. what an amazing day it's been here for the max two thousand and eleven international annual show what money is rory sushi 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 t. fifty strike and he gave it a stamp of approval and how could he not with the maneuvers it was pulling at just the sky pieces and truly sensational piece piece of machinery it is designed to go against america's f. twenty two an f. eighteen the idea was actually jumped up between russia and india it was a mutual deal to produce the super secret stealth the chief 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 the pool some very high maneuver high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians are here the baltic being here doing their 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 it 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 hopes of russian aviation it's called the m.s. twenty one and it's talented as 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 sort to mid-range passenger jet it will be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven and 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 for us on this market. market

part but we hope we will hobson 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 composition to ariel's and totally us it will save on that crucial substance field in the one persists to present some. approximately fifteen percent of course operation of course. but the emirates 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 akram corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together like airbus has done in europe we use for engineers engineers capacitive from suporn.

so-called soon to go to political illusion it's early days yet but with a wealth of their own nautical engineering experience from soviet times hopes of flying high the m s twenty one puts a new generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom boston. lassies bringing you the best of mack twenty eleven throughout the week stay tuned for more highlights from jet powered. ahead some other world news now because of the focus shimon nuclear facility in japan say that further structural cranks have been found at the plant and that it's releasing radioactive steam they also say that pipes in at least one of the reactors were seriously damaged before the devastating tsunami hit the area and marvel for more on this let's talk to professor chris for busby of be a european commission on a radiation risks he joins us live now from wales in the u.k. many thoughts of being with us here professor busby now reports suggest that the

reactors at the focus ema plant were damaged by the initial earthquake and not the tsunami wave given that us quakes a common place in japan what does this say about the safety of the rest of japan's nuclear reactors. world i mean the obvious response is the should be all be shot i think most people believe this and they also believe that it was very silly to build reactors on what is clearly a fall line and in an area where there are known to be. great. we see the result of having done this this is the obvious response but in the wake of these reports what should happen now in your opinion to japan's network of nuclear facilities. well in my opinion of course they should they should they should all be put into cold shutdown i mean and your plan should ultimately. give up nuclear power as well as as you probably know my opinion is nuclear power itself

is a stream a dangerous process and that you cannot really believe that you can cage these things and expect them not to come in and not to have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying and the consequences of them are so poorly that really we cannot afford to use this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just not because that would bring the whole of japan to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear. then that that is a problem has to be faced now in japan the governments on the plots operator tepco have come under heavy criticism from many courses for the reliability of the information that they've been releasing about this disaster do you think that we now know the true extent of this crisis. no i know that we don't because i've actually visited there and i've taken quite sophisticated radiation measuring equipment and i've been able to satisfy myself that the concentrations of

radionuclides on the ground even as far as one hundred and more kilometers away from the plant very much higher than they've been saying and indeed some measurements that i've been making on air filters from vehicles from as far away as tokyo so that the concentrations of cesium one three seven for example in these filters is more than one thousand times higher than in terms of concentration than the concentration at the peak of the weapons fall in one thousand nine hundred sixty three so we're talking about a serious serious levels of radioactive nuclides and the problem is that this is affectively being ignored by caught by by the authorities concentrating on the external days straight so they say so long as the external dose rate is not more than so many microsleep verse or whatever it happens to be everybody's going to be safe in some sense they're comparing about natural background radiation but actually it cannot be compared with natural background radiation to represent the very very high level of contamination even as far south as tokyo for example we

found one sample in tokyo that had levels of radioactivity higher than levels inside the chernobyl exclusion zone very serious matter same president to how serious all these new cracks to the structure of the think ashima plant should we be alarmed. well the fire the steam is coming out and we know from measurements made in california that the steam contains. the thirty five this isotope is associated with neutron radiation of chlorine and so what we've got here is a situation where you've got fish and taking place you know almost neutron concentration neutron flux and seawater. and effectively we're producing very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and they haven't been able to deal with that i was told by somebody who heard this room where he was talking to the prime minister of japan who said that the releases from the plant and the order of ten to the thirteen back arose. so we're talking about something that is

absolutely ongoing and it's just it's just being ignored is being it's being is not being adequately reported by the authorities in japan or indeed in the international atomic energy marring times professor chris for a scientific secretary of the european commission on radiation risks many speak till after. the world. now the number of terror attacks and counter terror operations is on the wrong lines in russia north caucasus region just over the past twenty four hours a day for a dozen militants being killed by security forces well also has been a quarter of a joins us now live from the caucuses with the latest on all this and we do we understand that the counter-terror operation is still ongoing in the region take us through what's happening there. the latest the latest information that we have received is coming from change now where during an anti terror oprah gratian seven militants have been killed and one of these seven has already been

identified he was one of the high profile terrorists working in the region of north caucasus he was also preparing a suicide bomb as well as he was planning future attacks in the region the identification of the other six is now in process of the chechen republic i was on a bit of said that this operation was planned and prepared in advance meanwhile of this day was also marked by and not the rate that happened in the neighboring republic of dagestan where a group of militants attacked a column of the russian military forces two russian servicemen were killed and then the fighting broke out another six militants were killed according to russian officials the number of atar attacks went up by thirty percent in the first half of this year we know that russian security services are on high alert times in the call this is all they managing to keep a lid on things. that's right average one hand is

on high alert and just recently basically at the same time and of very close to the location of the fighting that i was talking about earlier in the republic of dagestan russian federal security services have a different a bomb with an unprecedented and a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. the bomb was also filed with a destructive components and the explosive device was hidden in a pipe that was lying answer the back of the call that was part of a very close to the markets russia's antiterrorist committee sas that it was the people who first noticed the suspicious looking car being parked so they called the police meanwhile it's not the first attempt of such cry and that has happened quite recently according to russia's athens be had to another large scale attack was the prevented this time on the russian railways in the moscow region was prevented in

july the special forces. many thanks for keeping us updated on these the dean of course of a better reporting from the front lines of russia's war on terror in the caucasus region ok that is the way the news this is our headline shortly but first of all the business with katrina. hello welcome to business here in r.t. august seventeenth is a dark day in russian financial history it's when the country declared its only default back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight caught between a fall and could prices and the asian crisis russia was caught short role in nashville capital says we're not in line for a perfect storm to. the ninety nine crisis makes what we're saying of the buy would look like a walk in the park in ninety nine. the equity market lost ninety three percent of its value last week the though the russian market lost about fifteen percent of its value paid her but it was nothing compared to the ninety nine russia has moved on

a lot further for the day you know russia or russia. it performs along saw it a lot of the other emerging markets and looks through its lead in ninety nine zero eight it was really a case of its own and i've been a pretty terrible period for anybody had to go through 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 so the highest level in almost two weeks after unexpectedly large drop in u.s. supplies of gasoline and other fuels brant crude is trading at one hundred ten dollars a barrel while the japanese try is that eighty eight hours per barrel and stocks in the u.s. scaled back gains as technology stocks hit dell forecast a weak

a sales call for dell fell nine and a half percent to fourteen dollars thirty cents a share retailers and media companies are also among the decliners wall street offered little reaction now to the labor department reported u.s. producer prices going down two percent in july. and mark. it's in europe and lower after talks between french and german leaders failed to convince investors decisive action will be taken on the debt crisis banking shares were especially hard hit barclays focal point two percent go to bank two point eight and societe generale close to a half percent let's take a look at the closing papers in russia where we see equity markets ending in the black. ignoring the negative sentiment in europe that's on high oil prices obviously and here is the snapshot of the market movers on the line six most of the blue chips showed games at over two and a half percent telecom closed one point eight percent higher as well investors priced in the announcement the stock has been included in m.s.c.i.

global standard indices the bank we've heard from earlier also than gained over one and a quarter percent the banks have reported a thirty five percent net profit growth for the first seven months of the year but that's under russian accounting standards. so business update for this hour we'll look at will have most always for you in just one hour's time.

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