banned in russia or in many european countries but freely operates in finland terrorism expert phil reese told me earlier that the support of some states for militants exposes the notion of a global war on terror as a sham and the militants and terrorists in the caucasus have always had close ties to afghanistan and i think that unfortunately what this shows is while the globe and the world can talk about a war on terror in the face a lot of countries still support other countries if they feel that their political interests and their leverage over that country may be helped by that and i'm afraid that's a tragic reality of global politics. georgia's legal system is under fire for failing to naches claims of democratic development number of prisoners a significant increase since president mikheil saakashvili came to power seven acquittals and twelve thousand legal cases over the last year noise claim it's practically impossible to get a fair trial. the people of georgia do seem to have the right to speak their mind. but if you're unfortunate enough to be detained it appears that for many a

america and europe and indeed russia will now be in place and better roots of terrorism expert phil reese talking to us from london. but with the similarities between the moscow and metro bombings russia is a better position than most to give but in recent dealing with the aftermath of terror attacks. on the presidential representative on combating terrorism spoke about the need to share experience gained through such tragedies. we've all paid such a high price for this experience that it's simply criminal immoral not to share with other people we should share our experience with pain we should share any experience both in our mistakes in areas where we've been successful and we have been successful i can give you examples and others use our experience in this sense there is no other way right there can be no individual experience will be totally incompatible with the general experience each country puts its own national experience in a common basket of cooperation in after some separation it turns into a universal product later each individual country can use it for its own account to co

terrorism expert phil reese supports the militants in some states exposes the notion of a global world as a sham. militants and terrorists in the caucasus have always had close ties to afghanistan and i think that unfortunately what this shows is while the globe and the world can talk about a war on terror in the face a lot of countries still support other countries if they feel their political interests and their leverage over that country may be helped by that and i'm afraid that a tragic reality of global politics. so he spoke to the pastor you have malaria right after he was questioned by the finnish plates you can watch that interview on our website article com as well as other reports and comments on that story. produced out export and invested that's how the former british prime minister gordon brown described the european and american economies and the summits in american town threatened woods but that's declined could mean opportunity for others result of these two explains russia and other fast i think nations consumed moving to pope position. we heard a former prime minister

phil reese is a terrorism expert based in london he told me it's unlikely that look at his political opposition had anything to do with. members of the opposition. it is elements within government that are behind this now just because it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean that it's necessarily wrong because the president look at anker one disputed election in december and there is a deeply disgruntled opposition saying that the opposition is never showed any signs of being able to be involved in something like this nor the sophisticated methods that are needed and moreover some people are probably the most members of the known opposition and either been in jail or under a twenty four hour observation from the k.g.b. so that they would be able to plan something as complicated and sophisticated as this coming up on the program and on high alert the countries raise the severity rating of its nuclear crisis now to the highest level putting the emergency on a par with the chernobyl disaster we got reaction to that coming up live just ahead . first though military experts are accusing coal

many european countries but freely operates in finland for more on this let's cross live now to phil reese is an expert on terrorism and also the author of the book dining with terrorists meetings with the world's most wanted militants thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. tell us what does this actually tell us about the situation in full and does it actually mean that terrorists and extremists can enjoy freedom of speech their priests can't. well i think this is actually a fascinating case which apart from on russia today it's got very little coverage because it does actually invite questions over the limitations of freedom of speech when should those who encourage acts of terrorism allowed freedom of speech but of course the pastor involved also made criticisms of chechnyans in finland and he's been it's been suggested that he's accused of inciting racial hatred which is another law which has been brought in in most european countries i mean the last decade which again limits and freedom of speech that i think this case is very very important in terms of discussing both of