i mean before the unease or so i can you know it's. about it at the forum and you are some of the main issues for us. well multiculturalism certainly is the main theme at the forum in general and that was something that president to me to me three different highlighted very much so in his keynote speech he spoke about russia as a whole how as a country is so diverse ethnically also income wise and how really the country needs to diversify its economy for it to grow he also warns that he doesn't believe it's something that needs to be done revolutionary really fast he spoke more about sort of this steady evolution and that criticism that ross is not moving fast enough is not something that the country should listen to but you keep going on it said you way towards modernization which of course is a big thing for president because his main platform as president he also spoke about multiculturalism in europe and western europe especially when seeing the past couple months violence on the streets quite

a few terror attacks and he spoke about russia and how russia like you said has been fighting terrorism quite successfully recently nevertheless remains a very serious threat you've warned of the dangers of not being able to deal with integration how that can of course lead to a very serious security threats and that's something that's going to continue throughout the day as the rest of the speakers who are joining in to this discussion will continue throughout the day here at your throttle the president also speaking about the situation more hinting i would say in north africa and the mideast warning that you can't force other countries to use the reference to people really but it was obvious he was talking about perhaps the situation in libya that you can't force other people to live the way you live and a lot of critics recently have been agreeing with back that you can't take a country and try to make it a democratic country that things need to be slowly done and that each country very well has the right to its own kind of democracy. right archies and use of our life

for us thanks for that report. business is next with stay with us. thanks man hello and welcome to business r.t. russia's top lenders burbank has bought the eastern european arm of austria's expansion the final prize could range from five hundred eighty five to six hundred forty five billion years depending on b.b.'s performance by the end of the year the head of the burbank sees the acquisition as the bank's springboard for expansion in europe under the agreement a bank will also provide as burbank with a five year funding of five hundred million europe's. biggest deal between russia and ukraine is getting a new twist here says it will explore the excess natural gas it has it has to buy oil from russia rather to europe ukraine is fighting to renegotiate gas contrast

include in two thousand and nine and of this deal ukraine has to buy thirty three billion cubic meters of gas this will lead to a surplus of six billion next year if key of exports this it will reportedly cost gazprom around two and a half billion dollars russia's gazprom says the current gas contract is still in force but hasn't commented on ukraine's move yet. russia's online retailers on the are you has raised one hundred million dollars for the funding of this money will be used for expansion that includes developing postal services in the country for funding is the largest foreign e-commerce company in russia investors include the existing partner in a major japanese online retailer akutan part of the cash will be used to bolster russia's shipping system by developing on the network the online retailer has grown forty six percent the first half of the year is also considering a free float. stock markets in europe has reversed into positive ground ahead of

obama speech and as the e.c.b. is expected to great heights mining giant glencore is up more than four and a half percent metals are seeing an upswing also in london the royal bank of scotland lloyds are up more than four percent. positive sentiment in europe russia continues the ball run from wednesday when the market gained three percent the r.t. is up is a point four percent my stocks a bit more than that point six for there to look at the main the movers on the nice legs you'll see that stills of the blue chips are down like lukoil down a half a percent this is on the back of a slight decline in oil prices after also significant growth seen on wednesday as burbank is up two percent as we've just heard the confirmation that it's buying into vaults bank and north nickel is also one percent there's speculation that there will be a large premium to the market price when the company if the company of course goes ahead with a share buyback. and the monopoly authorities in russia are cracking down on big oil firms in order to restrain fuel price growth in the country they've introduced

a bill banning producers from adding new filling stations in regions where they already dominate the market those are breached the proposed law will have to restructure and sell known core assets of the answer not police services promising to a new wave of court cases to try and force competition meanwhile prime minister putin as ordered be development of more refining capacity in russia's far east to overcome fuel shortages. and cities planning the biggest asset sale in its history authorities hope to raise up to two billion dollars. you're going to see. it is a question whether any local authority in the world has such a wide eyed bewildering array of assets as the moscow government from airports to business centers to shopping centers to take makers and cosmetics makers and as a direct testament to the air of yuri luzhkov who was married for nearly twenty years until he was deposed last year he was forced to resign in his time the

government had its finger in almost every ploy when every new investment project one the government asked for a share for itself now the new broom has come in. and what he's saying is that it's no job of the government to be looking after the private companies to be involved in all of these businesses she got nothing to do with city administration so now the most interesting of these properties the ones which investors want to get their hands on have been put out for an auction in total over the next yeah they're hoping that these auctions of which there are planned to be tens and tens will bring in fifty billion rubles into the moscow budget which is almost two billion dollars that's how much they're hoping to selling off these various objects the foliage has not yet been revealed but it really is tens and tens of them. headlines are next on our team to stay with us.

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two thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines of a sports team perishes and a country mourns after wednesday's plane crash near the city of jaroslava kills forty three including members of one of russia's top ice hockey teams tragedy also touched other nations as players from many countries were on board on the way developers for the first match of the six. region made better and sends his condolences to everyone connected to the ice hockey team at his keynote address to the global policy forum in the city of jaroslav russia's president also visited the disaster site where he called for a drastic. overhaul of the country's aviation industry. twenty years

behind bars a russian pilot arrested in a us sting operation in liberia sentenced for conspiring to smuggle drugs constantini or showing pro insisted he was innocent while moscow previously accused the u.s. of conducting an illegal arrest and rendition. and britain's government under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly who insisted iraq never had weapons of mass destruction the official cause of death of suicide again being questioned by dr kerner our attention to libya now with more insight into what's going on there the interview coming up. well today we're joined by mr thomas hubbard european commissioner for human rights talking to us from a stars were thanks very much mr however for joining us now let's get right to where well we know that there were cia prisons in europe and people were tortured and now you're pushing for the truth of what more should be done there is

a lot more to know because we haven't had a full account for what really happened and who took the decisions and on what grounds these black sites were established on european sort of the things that we still have to know what do you think is most important i think we have to learn from history and unfortunately during this period of ten years very serious human rights violations for committed and we have an atmosphere impunity when it comes to these violations of human rights i think the truce has to come out on board really happened who took the decisions who allowed the establishment of these secret places of detention and thereby allowing torture to take place now this is the story came to light i mean there have been some governments ordering investigation as well they found very little so far do you think it's possible that they're deliberately trying to play it down and if so is there any proof of them doing so well there is an enormous pressure from washington to keep all this secret

in fact instructions from from syria with the support of the waiters not to give any facts on this so therefore it's not easy to investigate but i think that some of the european governments have been involved they have to decide whether they think that the cooperation between the security agencies are more important than to attack to look into human rights violations and break the fear of impunity ok well we're talking here about european officials authorizing these renditions but what about those who. actually masterminded and those words of directly involved do you think say officials will ever be held accountable for their actions unfortunately it's not likely but if the european governments could take this step clear really put out everything they know and publish that it may start a process in united states where the accountability also there is established but

why is it not likely. it's not likely because this is there is an atmosphere of security confidentiality around this. notion that when it comes to the activities over security agency the truth should not be told to the public and i think that is a real problem because here we have had cooperation between the united states security agency and european agencies under which human rights violations were seriously seriously violated and it is very important that we know when we know the violations were made that we establish that there should be democratic control of the security agencies activities while there are claims that the u.s. and the u.k. set prisoners to be tortured in libya to the gadhafi regime does that seem likely to you yes it's very likely and it fits a pattern and also there are no documents being discovered in tripoli which show

that this actually did happen ok and you've seen the proof of such things happening yourself no not myself but i have been reports last week from human rights watch showing that there was such activities and typically this is not made. for comment from the cia in washington because they have the policy of never making any public comments on such revelations by the commander of the rebel forces that's. really he demanded an apology from western powers over here. as a legislation two thousand and fourteen i logically was arrested in bangkok and had to go batty forces for torture now how do you think they're going to explain their alleged murky deals with gadhafi to the rebels because now they're essentially on the same side. i think the question has to be given to to washington there is an explanation to be given there but he was obviously one of those who were picked up

during this so-called war on terror he was in town and more that's shown and he was obviously one of those who are badly treated and i think he and others this is an apology some of them who were brought there to guntown him or to the sacred place and so detention or to partner countries of the united states in this where they were tortured they were not probably not innocent but still even people who are on good ground suspected they have the right to certain protection when it comes to human rights including not to be tortured now the rebels are now in control and foreigners are reportedly in danger especially black africans because i well there have been accusations of them being that are these mercenaries how do you think this will affect the building of a democratic society in libya you know i'm not an expert on the my focus is on your apart obviously there is a problem there and human rights organizations have already reported about problems

when it comes to how rebels have dealt with africans who have been accused of being mercenaries for for qaddafi we could just do our best in order to ensure that those people are well treated some of them of course may well be genuine refugees from other parts of africa who were trying to reach europe passed via libya and got stuck there and i think it's very important that also european governments deal with refugees from libya coming from other parts of africa in line with the international standards when it comes to decide. policies looking at the humanitarian crisis now in libya that has been reported what do you think is the area that needs the most attention at the moment and how are they going to going to go about solving these humanitarian problems i mean this is very general to break them down first of all it is important to establish security in the country so that the normal life could start again secondly to build democracy because there was no

democracy there which is a very difficult challenge and i hope that there could be a generous approach from from europe to share the experiences we have when it comes to the steps to be taken in order to build institutions democratic ones and to allow for. genuine willo people to be channeled into political decision making ok well going back to what you're an expert on those black sites what do you think is the next step now that the story has come out into the public in poland they have already started through the prosecutor and investigation and i think it's very important that his work is protected and that there is no attempt to slow down his work because he's sensitive when the nation safe with the united states in your remaining there work hasn't really started there was one investigation by a political group from the senate but the prosecutor has not started an

investigation and i really hope that office will now take the initiative and start analyzing the situation and come up with a report now you're saying it's important that the investigation is not like it earlier you were expressing your concerns that there could be directives from higher up to to not give enough information how do you go about going about that hurdle the way you're dealing with governments here is very difficult because of this notion that activities by the security agencies and their cooperation between themselves should be kept secret at all cost i think that is really the notion that we. we have now to start discussing because so many human rights violations have been committed under that notion and the time has come to establish a democratic control of the security agencies they should not be allowed to take action which violate basic human rights yes should not be but do you think that just let's just look at concrete actions we're talking about what is right what is

wrong from your point of view but concrete actions i'm just wondering really legally speaking will it be possible to get all of the truth out i think it would be a very difficult country but i hope that the discussion that may come now will encourage some of the political to take very very steps and back a position when it comes to this because it's not acceptable that we have states within the states who are run on undemocratic places and violating human rights the security agencies must be put under democratic control and they are not for the moment in my opinion but you said you're using the tenth anniversary of nine eleven to raise the issue of cia black sites why is that because. you know. i think that the first priority of course is to pay respect to the victims of the attack on the united states ten years ago but then we also have at the same time to look at how did the u.s.

government and european governments respond to this attack and unfortunately i think there's a lot of lessons to be learned from how this war on terror so-called war on terror was conducted which allowed for very serious human rights violations which unfortunately also had the effect that terrorism has spread the militant groups have increased. the number of people killed and many of them innocent doing those ten years they also deserve some respect in this situation and therefore i think it's absolutely important that. the way we handled this gruesome attack will be under an honest discussion so that we don't repeat this in the future and speaking of the militant groups you just released a report based on your visit to russia's north caucuses which is of course region there marked by sporadic violence by terrorists how do you assess the struggle

against the terrorists over there the struggle is still going on there have been some positive initiatives taken a lot of money has been put on budgets in order to improve the standard of living in the area. there is a focus more on the social dimension of this the roots for terrorism which i think is very possible but unfortunately there is still also a problem of impunity that the crimes which have been committed including by law enforcement forces have not been just factory addressed people guilty responsible have not been brought to justice so there is still a need to do more when it comes to that aspect all right well thank you very much for your time mr thomas how member of human rights commissioner council of europe thank you. thank you.

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here shekel has insisted he wasn't guilty paul bosco previously accused the us of conducting everything legal arrest and rendition. and the british government is under fire for stopping an inquest into the death of weapons expert david kelly with sr the rocket never had weapons of mass destruction the official cause of death as suicide is again to be in question deprived doctors i'll be back with a full news bulletin in about fifteen minutes time but for now it's the latest in sports for that route. hello there you're watching the sports and these other headlines hockey she's trying to rebuild the locomotive yaroslavl team decimated by plane crash which killed thirty seven of its players. last spot our moscow will appeal against right here ballots in six game ban for a challenge on ts garcons boyd legal action fear. is a washout at the u.s.

open as rain holds play for a second day of flushing meadows. but first i saw the chief say they will do all they can to help rebuild russian side automated if you are a sample which was decimated by yesterday's tragic plane crash thirty seven of its players were among forty three people that died but pale boss alexander medvedev has now asked each team in the league to volunteer up to three players to help create a new locomotive side and believes a team can be formed in time to take part for the new season lokomotiv were heading to minsk a play that first game in their plane came down just outside paris travel shortly after takeoff yesterday those that died included russia play even czech stars just of us object and dramatic and cattle to nick and swedish goalie stefan live as well as for bakkies powell the need to start a new season has been perspire owned until september the twelfth for yesterday's

game between sal about you live in atlanta i was abandoned midway through a nice cave three brands and place done by what happened while i saw the stars from the k h l and america's n.h.l. i've been leading the tributes. long history of me like it's all country in the world my friends going to. go to the problem years ago or because someone just said just want to give me some balls and steve. most of that stuff for everybody so actually awful a mess started over a very difficult summer for for hockey players in the hockey world and to suffer a loss is not. you know a lot of these guys. played against sri no you played with them a certain point. and effects everybody so your big family everyone knows each other and you know someone. you know in this league or in the sport worldwide so

i mean whether they're hockey players or not that's a huge tragedy and it's awful that she's strong. enough that it's. going to those people most fam. and while the russian football union says all matches in the country this weekend will start with a minute's silence in memory of those who died another football you spot at moscow say they will appeal against a six game ban handed to their star striker velux and he was given a punishment after this tackle on tear scar go you go i can fear from stuff and the ligament damage and will be at the six months that means i can feel he missed the rest of the domestic season as well as his country you're a trekkie twelve qualifying campaign both and says the tackle was not malicious and believes he's been harshly treated by the russian football union two years ago valid and was involved in a similar clash with been on the eve of the to make a brew of he suffered a broken nose. let's turn to the u.s. open where rain has affected play for a second day dead woman's quarter final between serina wins and to see

a public chunk of or fail to get started well defending champion rafael nadal also suffered he was trained by three games to love in the first set of his fourth round match against luxembourg on clay was stopped also failing to complete their matches were andy roddick along with andy murray who thought it was wrong that they were asked to play at all but the rugby world cup finally gets underway on friday with the hosts new zealand taking on tonga the pressure is firmly on the all blacks who haven't won the tournament since one thousand nine hundred eighty seven despite regular been ranked as the world's best side pretty bum poor fleet caught up with former new zealand captain sean fitzpatrick he says this side it's capable of winning the sport's biggest crown for the first time in twenty four years. we were very excited that's has been three four years since with non with with on the rights highs the world cup and the news on why it was not he said a last time we had of the year and i know what's changed to new zealand sun since as a nation. there's four million people talking at

a stadium or four million people and they're looking forward to welcoming the right the world and when you think of possible caps the ones that up in chile will think all world cups of the world cup set up into it of being gracious being the nice things that have really taken on board what the rugby world cup has and got behind them a museum. i love the rugby and i'm sure that. the right is a byproduct of what we can offer as a national. it's been twenty four years of hurt so far i've you know twenty eight years of how i said probably you know we spoke a couple of months earlier i think there's even one nailed on favorites to defeat south africa and chelsea began to stray and it's going to slightly different there's a suspicion going on in certain. obviously he said twenty four years since we last won the world cup there's a little mike you know back we need to get rid off and new zealand as a team of done very well nasri three years preparing for.