fans from around the world it's russia's showcase of the very latest and the best of modern fly. in broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our t.v. certainly glad to have you with us the british coalition government is facing its first legal challenges over claims u.k. intelligence services were involved in the torture and rendition of terror suspects held overseas the political storm over allegations as collated when warriors and human rights groups announced they would boycott the probe saying because key hearings are to be held in secret they will lack credibility artie's lore and it explains why there are serious doubts about how far the inquiry will go to uncover evidence. 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. with the 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 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 that's just been released that shows that there was you know perhaps circumstances in which. you know ministers were very senior officials authorised agents to participate in an situation where it was more likely than not the torture would occur there's a police investigation into torture allegations under way and as soon as that's finished an inquiry will begin but it's already come under fire the policy on interrogation and all the relevant documents may not be made public which is good human rights groups so much that they've refused to give evidence or go to inquiry meetings. there's also 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 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 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 they said whatever happens it's clear we haven't heard the last of britain's involvement in torture your and it's all to me. and staying in britain where civil rights groups have expressed concern and warned against a lengthy and overly harsh riot related prison sentence the question came under the spotlight after two young men were sentenced to four years each in jail for trying . to store up last week's disturbances with facebook although they both admitted encouraging crime in their hometown they said it was a mere joke and no trouble had resulted from their actions the two men became the

first to be sentenced by judges for the mass civil unrest of that swept through england in a separate case three men were jailed for between sixteen months and two years for looting and handling stolen goods only thirteen hundred suspect rioters have been run for the court david bowden a commentator for social issues whether cite the institute of ideas that says the authorities attempts to regain their credibility has gone too far. having had their . visibly shaken last week with people with the normally would keep the streets safe i think we've seen quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and we'll throw it to you as they try to repay my orthorexic it's superficial to see people being hounded quite severe sentences for often playing quite a minor role in the riots and often for crimes such as stealing a bus of water or some ice cream for which they would have been very unlikely to face charges. jail sentences if they committed the crime the week before and the

strangers because we've now seen by kneejerk 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 in english and i think a mass scale one which actually has more dangerous for information is 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. and of course you are with r t still ahead for you this hour more wobbles on the global markets to berlin and paris ignore the advice of investors on how to save the eurozone from going down under. to other news now tepco the company that operates japan's devastated fukushima

nuclear power plant has confirmed radioactive material is still present in the surrounding area and soil reports also claim the pipes of at least one of the reactors were seriously damaged even before being hit by the devastating tsunami in march the allegations raise concerns of that the facility was doomed from the beginning with deteriorating pipework reported for years the cooling system failed and went into meltdown after the massive earthquake and the following fifteen meter wave the plant has been leaking radioactive material since the disaster despite continued efforts to patch up the damage professor christopher busby of the european committee on radiation risks says that nuclear energy in japan should be abandoned altogether. it was very silly to build reactors on on what what is clearly a fall line and in an area where there are known to be. quakes and we see the result of having done that 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 pulling that really we cannot afford to choose this method of generating electricity because you can't stop it just now because that would bring the whole trip down to a whole because it depends so so much from nuclear what we've got here is a situation where you've got fission taking place no most neutron concentration neutron flux and seawater and then effectively we're producing a very large quantities of radionuclides 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. emotions run high as russia presents its new fifth generation of fighter jet at the

international max biannual air show near moscow the spectacular unveiling of the new high tech super plane bright and day two of the exhibition that's also seen the thrilling high speed maneuvers of aerobatic teams from around the world r.t.s. roy sushi as the action packed details. what an amazing day it's been here for the max two thousand and eleven international show where money is rule research a resort history in the making today with the debut of the super secret stealth sukhoi the team 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 stealthy people strike but he gave it his stamp of approval and how could he not with the maneuvers it was pulling it just tore the sky to pieces a 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 t fifty the idea is to create over a thousand in the coming decades and hopefully have them in service by two thousand and fifteen we saw some spectacular shows from the russian knights and the russians with they pulled some very high maneuver high speed closely knit acrobatics the americans here the french are here the italians in here the baltic beings here during the acrobatic stunts as well and we saw a lot of robotic systems. we saw the drones large drones tiny joints we saw helicopter drones as well so it's been a fantastic day and r.t. will continue to broadcast live throughout the weekend of course you can stay with us for more high octane updates from the leading edge max two thousand and eleven throughout the week. global markets took a nosedive on wednesday undermining the efforts of e.u. economic leaders to calm anxiety over the deepening crisis angela merkel and

nicolas sarkozy called for the creation of a single united euro zone government which would ensure its members took finance more responsibly they brushed aside other proposals including expanding the e.u. bailout fund and of the release of euro bonds which many experts said could prove to be a viable solution the french and german leaders put the emphasis on closer integration of e.u. countries as a way out of the crisis political analyst and author f william believes that the proposed measures just won't be enough and will only create the illusion of stability. 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 steve will 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 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. on to syria now where the u.n. announced a decision to remove all non-essential staff from its offices in the country amid

growing concern over the violent crackdown by government forces on demonstrators the syrian government responded by inviting u.n. personnel to observe the situation on the ground meanwhile activists say over thirty people have been killed since troops seized control of the northern port city of latakia and according to the director of the center for research on globalization me shell chossudovsky much of the hype around the syrian crisis originates from abroad i think that this is really part of a public relations campaign to double the size the syrian government without addressing the fundamental causes of the crisis this is not a peace through this though it is an armed insurrection by. well organized mercenaries. and it is. not only by government sources let's examine israeli and lebanese soldiers as say the protesters have

heavy machine guns so. i think. the united nations decided to move to remove its is no this initial stage stuff essentially. as a prelude to tomorrow's session at the united nations security council. on to iran where they say they are willing to take a step towards the international community tehran announced it could be ready to restart talks on its nuclear program this is after the country's foreign minister visited moscow he confirmed that iran sees russia's revival efforts as key to restarting negotiations. has more on the story. well russia of course has always been against this tough approach to the iranian nuclear eyed gend saying that the only way out is a diplomatic one and that in forcing further sanctions on iran would only worsen the situation and its proposal is a step by step plan which has been deemed acceptable by the iranian side and also

cautiously welcomed by the united nations security council and that plan proposes a greater openness in the return all the reigning officials to the negotiation table in return for a gradual removal of a un imposed sanctions against iran of the iranian side is said to be very satisfied with the russians proposal of the step by step program and said that it is prepared to open its doors to international observers. make sure that. representatives from the international atomic energy agency from the united nations security council can see that iran is not interested in creating nuclear weapons it only wants to have an existing peaceful nuclear energy program but it will not tolerate any further sanctions against it will see those sanctions as basically an infringement on its right to peaceful nuclear energy and this is

exactly where russia's step by step plan comes in and seemingly of course satisfies both sides we'll of course have to wait to see how that plan is implemented and whether it is as effective in reality as it has been so far in words. cut that he knows of a reporting for us there no it is time to move on to some other stories from around the planet. un prosecutors have announced that they want to speed up the trial of bosnian serb general rocco due to concerns over his poor health they want to try the sixty nine year old for the chevron it's a massacre first and then trying them on us. charges fearing that his condition might not allow him to stand a long trial is accused of leading the genocide of eight thousand muslims in srebrenica and nine hundred ninety five and the siege of the sarajevo in which ten thousand people were killed. and turkish forces forces have reportedly launched

a massive retaliation against kurdish forces in iraq after eight servicemen were killed in a rebel attack on a military convoy reports suggest some fifteen warplanes strafed several bases of the kurdistan workers party after turkish leaders said their patience with the long running insurgency had run out last month alone at least thirty turkish soldiers died fighting the kurdish rebel group that's been calling for the autonomy for the area for almost two decades. boyer's for former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn who was accused of sexual assault have denounced a leaked medical report into the case according to the victims and lawyers medical examination of the woman confirmed her injuries were caused by rape and assault but khan's attorneys say the claims are misleading relying heavily on the accuser's word prosecutors are expected to announce next week whether they will proceed with a criminal trial. and there is no respite for russia in its war against terrorism

thought he's carried out several security operations in the north caucasus. cultured over reports only for the last day they have been killed over a dozen government. 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 terrorists working in the region for us 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 of the hands of the chechen republic or arms on credit of said that this operation was planned and prepared in advance meanwhile of this day was also marked by and 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 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 is a diffused a bomb with a massive amount of one hundred kilograms of t.n.t. according to russia's athens b. has another large scale attack or was a preventive and 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. here's what's online for you right now. there are just five years to go before the first space tourists . hundred fifty kilometers above the earth the trip won't exactly be

a budget vacation but they save a service. also on line for you goes on holiday russia's president go fishing and. really do come true. have promised to finance an eight metre tall statue of the robot. next to the local hydro plant because. of the president. many more on our website. the republic. gearing up for an early election following the death of its president

the stakes are high for any future leader as the region is still be covering from the conflict with neighboring georgia we talked to 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 that occasion but 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 in recognition what does it say about applause as a more 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. the governmental mechanisms are working and 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 promise to fight if your victory would be taking from you hopeful are you ready to go. election fraud is nothing but lying to our own people is the worst crime one could commit all of us here enough 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 it could be a threat. what will your foreign policy priorities be. 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 had she been 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 you are 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 threat to our security as a priority issue 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 they keep claiming it there is no way to reach an agreement. georgian refugees are allowed to return to the bordering district of goalie are you prepared to let them return to their homes and so whom the capital of. this process has actually been completed those people who wanted to return did so well. 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 well 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 or those people who have been returned home want to be citizens with full rights we have been visiting towns in 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 and adjust to all international

processes. there is a whole generation of people that applies there 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 their 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 doubted by some potential investors 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. very close to cause is there any profit for a pause in the fact that so much is being invested into solti's olympic projects which at the current stage were already co-working on this project were supplying the olympic construction sites with materials and there are a number of other projects which we are interested in participating in and 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. thank you for your time with us today.

and bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world right here from the heart of moscow this is our team let's take a look at the top headlines right now. lawyers and human rights groups boycott a british inquiry into allegations that u.k. security agencies were complicit in torturing terror suspects overseas there was anger from opposition groups after the government refused to make the probes findings public raising fears that the investigation was a little more than a farce. four years in jail for a nano riot two young british men are put behind bars after posting messages on facebook calling for people to loot their home town which remained untouched by the unrest. radiation is still leaking from japan's devastated.