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i did miss a british investigation into torture allegations as god's law for the government says only it will decide whether to actually release the results. four years in jail for the unknown or why it seems young british men to put behind bars live to princeton hate messages on facebook calling for people to use their hometowns. more baubles on with global markets after berlin and paris ignore the good promise of investors and how to save the eurozone from going down. and aviation sensation must go as international air show welcomed by the flying of the eggs as the passing edge of the world's aircraft take to the skies near the capital.
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witnessing history in the making with the day you will be super secret stealth fighter russia's new through boy the details on that and so much more coming your way to a. very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow he would ride scoops of boycotting a british inquiry into allegations of torture saying the government's taking an irresponsible approach to the case and serious insists the probe is a waste of time and public money because downing street of final say over whether or not to disclose the results one torture victim who authored inquiry will bring justice. walking a tightrope of pain versus gain it's emerged that's how britain security agencies
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were encouraged to decide when to talk terrorist suspects. was held back ground 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 call on time or alter but rather. intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly in program in guantanamo and they were physically present when i was being abused they saw 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
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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 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 are very senior officials authorised agents to participate in situations where it was more likely than not that 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 angered human rights groups so much that they've refused to give evidence or go to inquiry meetings. there's also control to see about the chair of the investigation so peter gibson used to be the intelligence services commissioner the government
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doesn't see a conflict of interest but many m.p.'s do we have to 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 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 that 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 that 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 goes against their will but it's going to be in secret you won't get to see those
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people involved in your torture then people will lose. any supporting any idea that government is actually going to try to. carry out justice many fear the inquiries that to begin shortly will be ineffective in the 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 you are emmett artsy. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rioting using facebook they said it was just a joke insisting no rising broke out as a result of their posts when they became the first people to be sentenced haidar just for the not civil unrest. in a separate case remember jane between sixteen months and seemed years for looting
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handling stoning kids in the thirteen hundreds is that right is brought before the courts david bowden a commentator for social issues website if you divide is dot com. your party's attempt to regain their credibility has. brought thora to peaceably shaken last week with people we've been unable to keep the streets safe i think we've seen quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities they try to retain that all forward through it superficially seem to be being hounded quite severe sentences for often crime 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 likely to face charges at least jail sentence lost if they committed for a loop through any strangers because. the knee jerk reaction to.
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work and rights to say they want to have a right even if they haven't followed it up with organizing the right itself and i think we're trying to clamp down on social networking in this way is quite a kneejerk response to a new problem in terms of people's ability to communicate and organize a mass scale which actually has more dangerous verifications for your average law abiding citizen 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 and free speech then any of the actual would be limited number of troublemakers we had. global markets have taken a nosedive after the leaders of the e.u. strongest economies fail to calm the fears of a deepening crisis angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which will ensure eurozone members take move financial responsibility but they brushed aside suggestions of expanding the e.u. bailout fund all releasing euro bonds to help keep the single currency afloat.
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bushell reports. the key decision is they have announced a single united eurozone government they also announced the corporation takes 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 lost because sarkozy the president of france faces an election next year where he's already trailing behind his rivals and suspects that this may make him even more unpopular because the people of europe you know especially in polls in the new polls they say that they don't want to exclude the european integration angle or 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 europeans are not a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries did so they refused
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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 group is that they say are trying to bring down the euro tax on financial transactions was also announced. that the purpose was to harmonize economies and taxes across europe so a very wide range of proposals on offer here. skeptical about whether the recovery measures proposed by about in a paris will help the euro in the long run respond less than all that really. needs to look out. i think the collective economic government that americans sarkozy are talking about is really a desperate political ploy to try to create the illusion of stability where the underlined stability doesn't yet exist there is no political will not in germany
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nor in the rest of the eurozone countries for as surrendering national sovereignty to a collective entity that has any decision power so that it's simply a shimmer that's been thrown out there to try to calm the markets the alternative really is is to get a stable export market relations i think above all with russia the central asian republics china and the rest of asia in the middle east and if that is created then you can have a growth vector that leads you out of this debt the impasse that the eurozone countries are in without that and so long as as the. dollar system dominates international financial relations that moody's standard and poor's do the rating on sovereign debt for european union countries and that there is no independent european credit rating agency and there isn't is no. growth perspective not only austerity there is no out of this crisis. so ahead this hour new evidence of
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negligence work is that japan's focusing a lot of these things is the deal to fail before the for those who get hit by. the public glimpse of russ's fifth generation clients debt with the high life in stocks assayed in moscow now the second day of a mack truck the best in all things to deal side on the ground and eyes plays in this guy's voice are safe and watching the action for. what an amazing day it's been here for the max two thousand and eleven international annual show one is rory so you say 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
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prime minister vladimir putin and he was here to watch the debut of the stealth t.c.p. strike that he gave the crew and how could he not with the maneuvers it was pulling it just the sky the pieces of the sensational piece piece of machinery that is designed to go against america's f. twenty two and f. eighteen the idea was actually comes up between russia and india it was a mutual deal to produce the super secret stealth p.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 russian swift some very high move a high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians in here the baltic be here doing their acrobatic stunts as well and we saw a lot of robotic systems to we saw the drones large drones time drones we saw helicopter drones as well so it's been a fantastic day and r.t.
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will continue to broadcast live throughout the weekend the week on 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 a 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 gardner for the meantime i just need to find the kings. this is one of the new hoops of russian aviation it's called the in this twenty one and it's time to it is an airline of the twenty first century there's a lot riding on the fate of this plane it represents the efforts of the russian aircraft industry that so far failed to break into international markets and it will have to be as modern as its. as it is perceived by the competition. as a sort to mid-range passenger jet will be going up against the likes of boeing seven three seven an airbus has a three twenty well established planes its makers are fully aware of the challenge ahead we understand it will not we're not interest on these markets. market.
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but we hope we will have. a probable market. they're confident the m s twenty one will be able to technically match its competitors with a third of it built like composition cereals and totally us think it will save on that crucial substance field in the one percent to present some. approximately fifteen percent or so of course operational 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 aircraft corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together and i care for us has done in europe the use of engine war so the. capacity for
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a so-called home port or some consumer to grow properly of course but it you know. it's early days yet but with a wealth of very notable engineering experience from soviet times hopes of flying high p.m.s. twenty one will put a new generation of question airliners up in the clouds from boston actually. a lot is bringing me the best of max twenty seven throughout the week a change from more highlights from last days it gets powered. the work is out there pushing the nuclear facility in japan say that the structural cranks have been found of the plot and that it's releasing radioactive steam but they also say that pipes and at least one of the reactors was seriously damaged before the devastating tsunami hit the area in march the allegations raise concerns of the facility was do you even before the earthquake triggered the disaster problems with deteriorating pipes of the plant have been reported for years and the
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cooling system that failed to stop reactors going into meltdown out it was hit by the forty nice high waves plan on the has been leaking radioactive material since the disaster despite efforts to clean. the european commission on radiation rests so that nuclear energy in japan should be founded. it was very silly to build reactors on what is clearly a fault line and an area known to be. a great sort of. we see the result of having to you cannot really believe that you can create new things and expect them not to come out and not to have these sorts of accidents and other accidents will occur in the future and these accidents are so terrifying the consequences of them are so pawling that really we cannot afford to choose this method of generating electricity course you can't stop it just now because that
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would bring the whole of ground to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear power what we've got here is a situation where you've got fission taking place enormous neutron concentration new form for oxygen and seawater. and then the flexibly were producing a very large quantities of ready to close all the time and they haven't been able to deal with that we're talking about something that is absolutely ongoing and it's just it's just being ignored is being it's being it's not being adequately reported by the authorities in japan or indeed in the international atomic energy. to syria now where the u.n. is pulling out of and made a growing concern about a violent crackdown by government forces against demonstrators it comes of that they say over thirty people have been killed since troops seize control of the northern port city of latakia for analysis of the crisis in the uprising torn country and all joined live by michel it will delve ski director of research on globalization many joining us here on our team this evening now the u.n.
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is making its move out of syria is it a sign do you think the situation is just getting out of control that. salute you go visions is moving go north central star oh it's but i think that this is really part of a public relations campaign to down below is the syrian government without addressing the fundamental causes of the crisis this is not a peaceful process though it is an arm it's a reaction by. well organized mercenaries. and it is conferred. not only by government sources let's examine israeli and lebanese sources say the protesters have heavy machine guns so. i think. the united nations decided to really to remove it says no the central star
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staff essentially. as a prelude to tomorrow's session of the united nations security council it is believed that the five month long uprising has seen over eighteen hundred people killed in the violence there is escalating say gerri this is the right time for international action first of all those figures all. those figures are not so good by anything which is tangible become from foreign sources but i think what we have to address. first of all the causes and consequences of those those that's i've been following this day by day since it started to admit it may march in daraa in the southern city of daraa which has a population for forty five thousand people and what we have here is. islamist. salafi as well as muslim brotherhood.
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was shooting at civilians as well as shooting at police and israeli sources actually confirm that these these. militia and i quote. although with heavy machine guns they say they will say that this is not a protest movement because that seems to be the the media consensus but then they say the protesters are armed with heavy machine guns and rounds now since way of peaceful civilian protesters armed with heavy machine guns and i often see people walking side by side we've seen in the past that he while these. terrorist groups that you're talking these are then squads which are supportive. by turkey and israel and it's the intelligence operation they come pick cross the border they they go into communities i have looked at the reports from some church groups they
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go into syria into the christian communities they intimidate people they shoot on room to kill them so the question we have to ask ourselves who who is the source of this to me what all the what all the underlying causes of this opiate of this insurrection and then we also have to learn what is your proof of these allegations that ankara and i had already had. a couple of months it's. syria oh yeah this year i actually i left the country shortly before this started but i have been following the press reports and i got relying on the government sources i've are allowing on the lebanese. lebanese israeli and western sources if you read but between realize be a village existence of an armed insurrection. and they also acknowledge the
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fact that the police beat shot on it so to right from the beginning you have to read the press reports very carefully we're dealing with a big as far as the get information this has. the media don't even have access to syria so they are there drumming up a whole series of interpretations which are from my standpoint biased. ulcerate information and i heard you got a big allegations coming out as to cheat is also an interesting perspective on what's going on in syria say maybe. the center for research on globalization and speaking to us from montreal thank you. ok there is no let up on the front line of precious war on terror the rule of course is this region where security operations are in full swing just over the past twenty four hours over a dozen militants have been killed by special forces in also suffered casualties we did of course of our in the volatile region. the latest information that we have
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received is coming from change now where during an anteater 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 russia's north caucasus he was also preparing suicide bombers as well as he was planning future attacks in the region and the identification of the other six is now in process the hatch of the chechen republic arms on could that have said that this operation was planned and prepared in advance meanwhile of this day was also marked by end not the rate that happens 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 in the fighting that broke out later another six militants were killed average one hand is on high alert and just recently basically at the same time and
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a very close to the location of the fighting russian federal security service is a diffused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. according to russia's the had to and not their large scale attack or was it prevented this time on the russian railways in the moscow region in july of why the special forces but the number of their terror attacks went up by thirty percent in the first half of this year. ok let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this foreign u.n. prosecutors have announced to speed up the trial of bosnian general luggage due to concerns over his poor health they want to try sixty nine year old luggage for the stripper needs a months ago first and then try him on other charges fearing that his condition might not allow him to stand along the trial luggage is accused of leading the genocide of eight colonels and muslims and said writing and under siege of sarajevo
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which ten thousand people were killed. and explosion in these turkey close to the iraqi border has killed nine soldiers and wounded several authors turkish officials say the troops died after their military vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb they suspect kurdish militants were behind the attack last month the twenty people died in a clash between turkish soldiers and members of a kurdish rebel group that has been calling for autonomy of the area for almost two decades. lawyers for the former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn of the hotel maid of accused him of sexual assault have disputed the evidence for medical records into the case the maid's lawyer says the fall show she had injuries caused by a salt rape but defense attorneys say the leaked claims are misleading and to seek full prosecutions are expected to announce that next week proceed with a criminal trial. ok time now to catch up with all the latest in the world of
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business with. iraq to business here in r.t. august seventeenth is a dark day in russian financial history it's on the country declared its only to fall back in one thousand nine hundred eight caught between for a fall in crude prices and the asian crisis russia was caught short. of capital says were not in line for a perfect storm. the nine hundred ninety eight price just makes what we're seeing at the moment look like a walk in the park ninety nine. 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 ninety eight russia has moved on a lot further room for lead you know russia russia. performs along saw it a lot of the other emerging markets and looks through his lead in ninety nine zero
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eight it was really a case of its own. and a pretty terrible burden to have to get through the exchange rate is lobel 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 to relatively speaking it's not evil compared to the previous ten years. but take a look at the markets now u.s. stock scaled back gains were technology stocks falling the most after dell forecasts the weakest sales growth dell fell in line a half percent to fourteen dollars that sounds retailers and media companies are also known for declining this wall street offered little reaction after the labor department reported u.s. producer prices gained twenty two percent in july now let's take a look at the closing figures in russia you see equities markets ending in the black ignoring the negative sentiment in europe that's
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a high oil price and here is the snapshot of the market movers on my sex most of the blue chips show gains gas chromatograph are two and a half percent cross telecom closed higher as well investors priced in the announcement of the stock has been included into the m.s.c.i. global standard in this has taken bank with earlier losses again over one and a quarter of a percent the bank has reported a thirty five percent net profit growth for the first seven months of the year but that's under russian accounting standards. as well. we have four for you headlights and accept our.
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