a very warm welcome to 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 a visit 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 of it better one the 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 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 cent sure that i would not have gone to guantanamo or to back room not being called 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. 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 yet another 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 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 you can try 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 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 says we'll 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. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rising using facebook they said it was just a joke insisting no rising broke out as a result of their posts well they became the first be sentenced by judges are a massive lot of their sweat and in a separate case three men were jailed for between sixty two years for new six hundred stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected it's been brought before the courts say far david bowden a commentator at the station i'm sorry i think. it was your party's attempt to be gain their credibility has gone too far. or thora too visibly

shaken last week with people with the normally would 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 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 which they would have been very likely to face charges. jail sentence lost if they committed for a long week before any strangers because we all seen. the knee jerk reaction to people working trying to say they want to have a riot even if they haven't followed 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 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 with the limited number of troublemakers we had. global markets have taken a nosedive after the leaders of the strongest economies fail to calm fears of a deepening crisis anglo-american and nicolas sarkozy call for the creation of a central economic body which would ensure there is a members take more financial responsibility but they brushed aside the gesture of expanding the bailout fund already singur of bonds to help keep this ingle 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 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 it's suspected this may make him even more unpopular because the people of europe haven't been asked 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 that 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 denounce the rumors and speculation and said they'd fight against this the rumors 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 range of proposals on offer here. skeptical about whether the recompilation messes proposed five alan in paris will help or in the long run this go on the sad old w. angle things to look outside the west to secure its financial future 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 power 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 and 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 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. today i have for you this hour new evidence of negligence work is it just because she didn't say the cooling system was doomed to fail before the facility was hit by the mob synonymy. now the first public glimpse of russia's new fifth generation finds jet was the highlight of an international air show in

a moscow and the second day of the biannual mag's exhibition also use a lucrative deal signed on the ground and high speed aerobatic displays in the skies rory c. shay'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 that he gave to the people and how could he not with the maneuvers it was pulling it just talk the sky to pieces through the 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 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 put some very high we knew the high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians in here the baltic beans right here doing their acrobatic stunts as well and we saw a lot of robotic systems to boot we saw the drones large drones tiny jointly short helicopter drones as well so it's been a fantastic day and r.t. will continue to broadcast live throughout the weekend while that was received here in the rest of the team set to bring you the best of this year's max throughout the week stay with us for more high flying highlights from power. to other news analysis workers at the fukushima nuclear facility in japan say that the father

structural cracks have been found at the plant and that it's releasing a radioactive steam they also say that pipes that at least one of the reactors was seriously damaged before the devastating tsunami hit the area in march the allegations raised concern that the facility was doomed even before the earthquake triggered the disaster problems with the to raising pipes of the plant have been reported is that the cooling system that failed to stop reactors going into meltdown after it was hit by the forcing so high waves the polyps been leaking radioactive material since the disaster despite some efforts to clean this up well professor christopher busby of the european to resell radiation risks says that nuclear energy in japan should be abandoned altogether. but it was very silly to build reactors on on what what is clearly a line and in an area where there are known to be. quakes. 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 and 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 plan to hold because it depends so so much from nuclear what we've got here is a situation where you've got fission taking place you know most neutron concentration neutral in flux and seawater. and effectively we're producing a very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and i haven't been able to deal with that we're talking about something that is absolutely on going 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 stoffel made growing concern about the violent crackdown by

government forces on demonstrations it comes about to face and say over thirty people have been killed since change seize control of the northern port city of. director of the center for research. and. he says the hype around the syrian crisis is being all constraints and from. i think that this is really part of a public relations campaign to double is the syrian government without addressing the fundamental causes of the crisis this is no cause for peace. but it is an insurrection by. well organized mercenaries. and it is confirmed. 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 move to remove its is no essential step stuff essentially. as a prelude to tomorrow's session of the united nations security council. ok quickly in hours of other stories from around the world this hour and the un prosecutors ever they want to eat up the trial of bosnian serb general route game luggage did you concerns over his poor health they want to try a sixty nine year old luggage for the stripper needs the massacre first and then try him on other charges fearing that his condition might not allow him to stand a long trial that it is accused of leading the genocide of eight thousand muslims and say nine hundred ninety five and the siege of sarajevo in which ten thousand people were killed. gunfire and grenade attacks have left at least ten people dead in pakistan's biggest city you can see a former m.p. for the ruling pakistan people's party was among those killed police suspect local

criminal gangs affiliated with the main political parties were behind the attacks proud she's been torn by ethnic and political violence since nineteen ninety five over three hundred people were killed in july alone. lawyers for the former i.m.f. chief dominique stockwell scan of the hotel maid who accused with sexual assault have disputed the evidence for medical records into the case the maid's lawyer said the fall shows she had injuries caused by assault and rape but defense attorneys say the claims of the sleazy deceitful prosecutors are expected to announce next week whether they'll proceed with the criminal trial. that was to let up on the front line of russia's war on terror in the north caucuses well security operations are in full swing during the past twenty four hours over a dozen militants have been killed by special forces who've also suffered casualties but we did of course never reports now from the volatile region. 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 bombers 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 arms on could that 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 a fight that broke out later another six militants were killed everyone is on high alert and just recently basically at the same time and

a very close to the location of the fighting russian federal security service as a defused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. according to russia's b. has 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. we have more news of videos and updates for you on our website dot com he's also online view right now a russian company reveals how much its first ever space hotel is going to cost and what kind of accommodation will be provided for space travelers. also online view russia's top seeing politicians to be delivered very vivid put in take time out to go fishing on the my sea volga river video and many more at our

website called. the republican in the caucuses is gearing up for an early election following the death of its president stakes are high for any future leader as the region is still recovering from conflict with neighboring georgia next one of the presidential candidates prime minister. about the challenges his country faces.

we are in the republic of a pause here where perpetrations are underway for the august presidential election

so the gay shown by is the country's prime minister and also one of the candidates and he's here with us today the upcoming election is the second presidential election after a pause again recognition what does it say about a pause as more than an independent state. we have been an independent state for a longer time than we've been recognized so this is in fact already our fourth election democracy is working its way into our society and so each time elections get more democratic the public gets involved more actively and so we expect this time it will be a democratic process the prime minister of your main competitor is the acting president how do you manage the country well the governmental mechanisms are working as currently in accordance with our constitution presidential duties are performed by the parliament speaker all the ministries are working as usual you with concerns that the elections would be falsified and promised to fight if your victory would be taking from you hopeful are you ready to go. alexion for it is

nothing but lying to our own people it's the worst crime one could commit all of us here not because you will do everything to never let that happen political tensions put the country on the brink of civil war in two thousand and four is that the threat today. if someone attempts to rig the ballot or pull some dirty tricks then of course that could be a threat to world what will your foreign policy priorities be known. our priority strategic partner is russia and our foreign policy will focus on relations with russia in addition to this we keep working on getting the other more distant countries to recognize us we're looking for partners for friendly states which are less dependent on nato as policy and the united states despite some quite high pressure from the major powers such states are at their this process continues and it will not stop we are convinced that it cheating further international recognition will to a significant extent depend on how we keep on developing as

a country on our progress in home affairs and what example we'll be setting. is joining russia an option any time and if you church. we are highly interested in joining those international organizations that russia our strategic partner is a member of for instance such organizations as the shanghai cooperation organization with this joint military program also a sec and the customs union and many other organizations we'd like to participate wherever possible that's our interest but we are not talking about becoming part of another state and neither is russia thinking in such terms are talks with georgia possible. in a certain format the talks with georgia are still ongoing if we think of the geneva talks as for direct dialogue i think it is possible and will be necessary in future though right at the moment the prospects to reach a consensus on this matter appear quite negative first of all the georgian

authorities have themselves restricted the possibilities for dialogue by adopting the law on occupied territories this doesn't leave any chance for maintaining a dialogue is there fear of another georgian aggression. we are quite used to it by now and we have had to deal with a number of acts of aggression but now that we have a strategic partnership with russia which defines our mutual obligations it gives us reliable security guarantees and our society has stopped considering the external for. to our security as a priority issues we have other top priority threats to deal with now. how far is georgia prepared to go to restore what it calls its territorial integrity. these are the roots of our conflict that lie in the fact that georgia is claiming our territory as long as it keeps claiming it there is no way to reach an agreement. georgian refugees are allowed to return to the bordering district of are you prepared to let them return to their homes and so whom the capital of the policy of

. this process has actually been completed those people who wanted to return did so those who didn't are adapting to their lives at their new places of residence and they should be receiving help both from the international community and georgian authorities because the problem of refugees is a two way problem which should be addressed everywhere via a combined two way approach those people who can be brought back home should be helped to return and that's what we did in jew course those who couldn't return should be helped find accommodation where they ended up living those people who can be brought back home should be helps to return and that's what we did in due time well those who couldn't return should be helped to accommodate where they ended up living those people who have been returned home want to be citizens with full rights we have been visiting towns and settlements in the bordering district of galilee during the election campaign and the main thing the district residents are asking for is to speed up the process of recognizing their citizenship providing

them with passports and that's what we want to help them become our country citizens with full rights just to all international processes. this there is a whole generation of people in a positive who survived two wars with georgia during the past twenty years how is it possible at all for these people to live peaceful lives. if we speak of youth organizations we have twelve such groups in abkhazia and two of them are participating in the fair election campaign there. position is neutral and they're going to be observing the upcoming election ten other organizations have gone public with their decision to support my candidacy because it needs foreign investments but is it possible to attract capital to projects in the country when its legal and economic status is dealt with by some potential investors that's years we have a law that provides guarantees to businesses and international investors and we are working on other additional mechanisms to provide security guarantees for their business we're very interested in us and our laws will be increasing the extent of

security guarantees for their business we do want to attract more investors the russian city of sochi is very close to a cause is there any profit for a pause in the fact that so much is being invested into sochi is a limp it projects well over there which at the current stage were already co-working on this project were supplying the olympic construction sites with enormous materials and there are a number of other projects which we are interested in participating in but it is possible we will at any rate we're already receiving support on some communications projects as you know we've obtained a loan to restore our railway system and we've signed a letter of intent pertaining to the reconstruction of our airport and we are considering all this in the context of the sochi olympic project. sergei shamba thank you for your time with us today.

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