a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live 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 activists insist the probe is a waste of time and public money because downing street have the final say over whether or not to disclose the results but one torture victim who also does 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 by graham in afghanistan and in guantanamo bay between two thousand and two and two thousand and

five he says he was tortured and accuses the u.k. of being complicit in that torture only now is the level of the official complicity being revealed i am completely one hundred percent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room not being privy involvement of british intelligence services i spoke to british intelligence officers quite regularly. and they were physically present when i was being abused they saw. 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 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 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 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 there but many m.p.'s do we should have confidence that the judge presiding is not somebody who has been heavily involved with the secret

service in the future in the past and i think on that point it fails powerful people including tony blair jack straw and david miliband have refused to reveal whether they knew the policy led to a number of people being tortured but the ministers in 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. 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 supporting any idea that the government is actually going to try to. carry out justice many

fear the inquiry set to begin shortly will be ineffective and that a second one will be necessary at vast expense but there's also concern that creeping revelations about just how complicit the u.k. has been in torture and extraordinary rendition will lead to further radicalize ation whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture you are emmett r t. 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 rioting broke out as a result of their posts when they became the. people to be sentenced by judges for the mass civil unrest. in a separate case remember jane between sixteen months and senior years the looting and being stoned kids in the thirteen hundred suspected riot has been brought before the courts david bowden a commentator for social issues web site is to divide dia's dot com says your

party's attempt to regain their credibility has been. having had their. visibly shaken last week with people with been unable to keep the streets safe i think we've seen quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and we'll. try to read. it superficially it seem 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 least jail sentence lost if they committed for a long week before any strangers because we've seen. a kneejerk reaction to people working trying to say they want to have a riot even if they haven't followed it up with organizing the right itself and i think they're trying to clamp down on social networking this way is quite a kneejerk response to a new problem in terms of people's ability to communicate and organize on

a mass scale but one which actually has more dangerous for african nations 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 with a limited number of troublemakers we had. well global markets have taken a naze dive after the leaders of the strongest economies fail to calm the fears of a printing crisis angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a central economic body which will ensure you're as a member moved financial responsibility but they brushed aside the gesture of expanding the bailout fund. to help keep the single currency afloat. the key decision is they have announced a single united eurozone government they also announced a corporation tax to unite the corporation taxes of germany and france so we're

moving slowly towards a fiscal union which is what many had predicted but of course this one small problem which is the people of europe have been asked because the the president of france faces an election next year where he's already trailing behind his rivals and. 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 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 euro bonds are not a miracle they're not a cure and france and germany won't guarantee other countries did so they refused to bail out the royal problems in countries like italy and spain they also denounced the rumors and speculation and said they'd fight against this. 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. but skeptical about whether the recovery measures proposed by abedin in paris will help the euro in the long run there's a lesson all that william and gal thing you need to look outside the west is the financial front. i think the collective economic government that merkel and 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 nor in the rest of the eurozone countries for as surrendering national sovereignty to a collective entity that has any decision powers so 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 with russia that 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 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 but there is no up to this crisis. still ahead this hour new evidence of negligence work is that japan's fukushima plant say being system was doomed to fail before the facility was hit by the march for an army. on the first public glimpse of

russia's new fifth generation finds jet was the highlight of an international air show in moscow on the second day of the. exhibition also a lucrative deal signed on the ground and i is be there about its place in the skies to 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 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 two fifty strike jet that he gave to the people and how could he not with the maneuvers it was pulling it just tore the sky to pieces pretty sensational piece piece of

machinery that is designed to go against america's f. twenty two and f. eighteen the idea was actually jumped up between russia and india it was a mutual deal to produce the super secret stealthy 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 the pool some very high maneuver high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians in here the baltic 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 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 bargain for the meantime i just need to find the kids. this is one of the new hoops of russian aviation it's called the in this twenty woman it's turning to it is an airline of the twenty first century there's a lot riding on the fate of this plane it represents the air. that's a russian aircraft industry that's 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 an airbus has a three twenty both well established planes its makers are fully aware of the challenge ahead we understand it will not we're not for us on these markets. market part but we hope we will hobson for our whole market.

will say. 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 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 aircraft corporation which is trying to make russian plane companies work together like campuses done in europe we used the engineers engineers capacity from suporn company to court soon to go to political illusion its early days yet but with a wealth of their nautical engineering experience from soviet times hopes of flying

funny that the m.s. twenty one will put a new generation of russian airliners up in the clouds tom boston marty. well aussies bring me the best of max twenty seven throughout the week state change from more highlights from last days jet powered. now solving the work is out of focus she nuclear facility in japan say that further structural cranks have been found at the plant 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 that the facility was do you even before the earthquake triggered the disaster problems with deteriorating pipes that the plant had been reported for years at a cooling system that failed to stop reactors going into meltdown after it was hit by the forcing me so high waves the plan on the has been leaking radioactive

material since the disaster despite efforts to clean it up. the european committee on radiation rests says that nuclear energy in japan should be a valid and. it was very silly to build reactors on what is clearly a fall line and in an area where there are known to be. we see the result of having to you cannot really believe that you can cage these 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 use this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just now because that would bring the whole trip down to a halt because it depends so much from nuclear power what we've got here is a situation where you've got to you can place your most neutron concentration neutron flux and seawater. effectively we're producing

a very large quantities of radio nuclides all the time and i 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 it's 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 and made a growing concern about the violent crackdown by government forces against demonstrators it comes with activists 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 alps rising country i'm now joined live by michel it just will delve ski director of the center for research on globalization that many are joining us here on our team this evening now the u.n. is making its move out of syria is it a sign do you think the situation is just getting out of control that. salut leave

you go the vision is moving go no essential style oh it's but i think that this is really part of a public relations kind of jew to denver lies the syrian government without addressing the fundamental causes of the crisis this is not a peaceful protest though it is an armed insurrection 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 stuff 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 eighteen hundred people killed in the

violence there is escalating save surely this is the right time for international action well first of all those figures of. those figures are not so good by anything which is fans of all they come from foreign sources but i think what we have to address. first of all of the other calls and consequences of those those that's i've been following this day by day since it started with. him in daraa in the southern city of daraa which has a population of port twenty five thousand people and what we have is. all. islamist gunmen so lucky as well as muslim brotherhood gun. was shooting at civilians as well as shoot to get police and israeli sources actually could further these these. militia

and i caught. on with heavy machine guns they say they won't say that this is all the protest movement because that seems to be the the media consensus but then they say the protesters with heavy machine guns and. now since where not peaceful civilian protesters armed with heavy machine guns and i often see people walking side by side with these the time that he while these. terrorist groups that you are talking these are deaths which are supported directly by turkey and israel and it's an intelligence operation they come across the border they they go into communities are i have looked at the reports from from church groups they go into syria into the christian communities they intimidate people they shoot on moment they kill them so the question we have to ask ourselves. who who is the

source of this killing what are the what all the underlying causes of this of the of this insurrection and then we also have to look at what is your proof that these allegations that anchor and i have already had that first of all they spent a couple of months it's. syria earlier this year. actually i left the country shortly before this started but i have been following the press reports not relying on government sources i growing on a low good news. is really worse than salsas if you read between the lines. existence of an insurrection. also acknowledge the fact that the police have been shot all the right from the beginning you have to read the press reports very carefully we're dealing with a big as far as we get information. that media don't even have access through to

syria so they are they're drawing up a whole series of interpretations which are. totally biased. also of information of the. other big allegations coming out the cheaters all ski but an interesting perspective there on what's going on in syria so many thanks for your thoughts director of the center for research on globalization thanks for speaking to us from montreal thank you. ok there is no let up on the front line of russia's war on terror the north caucasus region where security operations are in a full swing just over the past twenty four hours for a dozen militants have been killed by special forces have also suffered casualties we did a quarter of our reports now from the volatile region. the latest information that we have received is coming from change now where during an anti terror operation seven militants have been killed and one of these seven has already been identified

he was a one of the high profile terrorist working in the region a fresh just north caucasus he was also preparing a suicide bombers as well as he was planning future attacks in the region the identification of the other six is now in process the the it's. republican arms on could have 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 in the fighting that broke out another six militants were killed everyone. and just recently basically at the same time and a very close to the location of the fighting russian federal security service as a disused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t.

according to russia's. another large scale attack was a preventive this time on the russian railways in the moscow region in july the special forces the number of a terror attacks that went up by thirty percent in the first half of this year. ok let's take a look now at some of of stories from around the world this hour a new and prosecutors have announced that they want to speed up the trial of balls the general came luggage due to concerns over his poor health they want to try sixty nine year old luggage for the amounts of first and then try him on all the 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 nineteen and under siege of sarajevo which ten thousand people were killed. and explosion in southeast turkey close to the iraqi border has killed nine soldiers and wounded several others turkish officials say the troops died after their

military vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb they suspect kodesh 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 lawyers say the fall show she had injuries caused by assault and rape but defense attorneys say the claims are misleading and to seek full prosecutors are expected to announce next week whether they proceed with the criminal trial. ok time now to catch up with all the latest in the world of business with.

hello and welcome to business here in r.t. august seventeenth is a dark day in russian financial history it's when a country declared its only default back in one nine hundred ninety eight caught between for a fall in crude prices and the asian crisis russia was caught short. a capital says were not in line for a perfect storm. the ninety nine price just makes what we're seeing of them i would look like a walk in the park i mean ninety nine zero eight the equity market lost 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. performs along saw it a lot of the other emerging markets and looks to his lead in ninety nine zero eight it was really a case of it's only been a pretty terrible period for anybody had to get 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 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. let's take a look at the markets now u.s. stocks scale back gains were technology stocks falling the most after dell forecast a weaker sales growth dell fell nine and a half percent to fourteen dollars thirteen sounds retailers and media companies are also among the declining us wall street offered little reaction after the labor department reported to us producer prices again point two percent in july now let's take a look at the closing papers in russia you see equity markets ending in the black ignoring the negative sentiment in europe that's on high oil prices and here is the snapshot of the market movers on the line six most of the blue chips show gains gas chromatograph were two and a half percent crossed telecom closed higher as well investors priced in the

announcement the stock has been included into the m.s.c.i. global standard in this has beaten the bank with from 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 for for you headlines are next out.

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