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nine years on the afghans war is going online as tech savvy u.s. soldiers upload videos of the questionable behavior it's all tied up in the taliban using the benefits. our t.v. america's anime as a u.s. overseas broadcasting seeks to pump its influence we explore whether in the country is going on and information for say. i am curious authorities probe french clashes ahead of the general election the country's it was that minority ravaged the last time violence inflamed the nation say it's new holds not a new parliament that they care about.

it is not i am the russian capital you're watching r t with joshua welcome to the program the war in afghanistan today and or as it stands here with a little sign of an a on extra american troops may now be in place but public support for the campaign is. slipping rapidly with about two thousand nato troops killed in the conflict it's a critical time for the u.s. led campaign as it struggles to turn around the fight against the taliban and have the expected withdrawal of international forces next year afghan officials continue to back the coalition's efforts but even they admit that after all this time there's still no tangible results and as are his policy reports the online and takes of american soldiers are hardly helping matters. else goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital the culprits soldiers who can

be heard saying fantastic before posting the clip on the internet even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious is to them it's to go and joined the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's not wanted to helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by. easily make. the us forces fail video clips if you want. if

you want to hang. out in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're done much criminal extremely provocative in this clip us soldiers burn the bodies of dead muslims facing mecca today in afghanistan into . net is becoming more and more popular but look around and it's no surprise that in a place like this there's still only a few people who have access to us so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only going on we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato and the americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof on line it's a lie the. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years

and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. it's easy for people to watch these videos put up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he tells his friend. and less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned there were only three places in kabul that had internet but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the sword followed once a knee mill and so on. by a mobile phone. make value but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see the surprise of the in the internet because everything you see is consumed in the life with the taliban picking up on

the form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves pointlessly r.t. kabul. now the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but not it seems if it's coming from russia iran venezuela or china they have the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting says it must up its game to combat the rise of what he called autocratic t.v. stations including this one count has more. it's a common belief on capitol hill that the best way to raise money from congress is to scare them walter isaacson the head of a government agency that manages u.s. international broadcasting apparently wants a lot of money the cost to fight america's enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela russia and china we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies there's that freedom house report that reveals that

today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence the global opinion you've got russia today iran's press t.v. venezuela's telos and of course china as a launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence portably set aside six to ten billion dollars we got to go to capitol hill with that number to expand their overseas media operations to me it sounded like a declaration of information war but later mr isaacson backtracked i don't take a russia or r t as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that they were an enemy so that's just not right maybe mr isaacson really did not mean to offend russia or china it's all a pitch for more money from congress which he's trying to kind of appeal to by saying that other countries are spending more on international communications gear

is really the buzzword that's used to try to generate money for the defense department a cia intelligence agencies and now for international broadcasting but getting the u.s. message across this costly they don't say that mr walter isaacson is heading is called broadcasting board of governors it includes radio stations voice of america one of them and a fairly unpopular middle eastern t.v. channel on all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's why. a more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and then as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make zero for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and if that's the man that raised the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and not a. journalist and i think that's bad it's

a bad example for other countries when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspectives many times u.s. media is slanted toward the united states even the private media and the credibility of the broadcasting board of governors was under even more scrutiny when reports came out about the white house influence on the b.b.c. reporting after iranian presidential election and some experts say american broadcasters that once used to be a powerful voice in the international media are now facing a crisis the problem that they are facing is that the messages they have of how the world is supposed to work is not resonating it's not getting traction it seems washington is still getting used to the increasing volume for media voices giving a fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. . coming up later in the program

a journalist murderer still unsolved four years after she was gunned down after his demand russian police do more to find a killer on a pile of cops. and brushes a new high tech so his rocket is ready to blast off into orbit find out how cars minutes are preparing for flight to be i assess that on your way. jazz days i had a parliamentary elections a fresh wave of violence has flared in kurdistan a mob stormed a half quarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek it followed a protest staged by relatives of those killed in bryant's had rocked the central asian country in april and toppled the president they were angered at alleged claims the party was intending to reinstate the ousted president sunday's world will create the region's first parliamentary democracy but it comes just three months after a deadly ethnic conflict in the country south could offer support from the volatile

area. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity and she says it's. just like many of the. divided city being lost everything. they're being forced to survive taking work to be confide. in us then leave the were there is no stability here there is still time should be his and no one trusts the government to be nice and how could we often what happens if the there is a boss who could already left the kid mothers and looking for ways to get out and bring dole shops destroyed for missy's an abandoned cafes or a common sight or just. in june it failed to complete. games mainly. destroyed shops set cars ablaze and birds hell says officially hundreds were killed several thousand were injured by the time the country's interim government managed to take control of the situation mobilizing the army. all. are only now beginning to recover.

everything was burned here everybody to look for jobs but we must rebuild before. construction is being carried out with the sounds of political agitation feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election where. are spread both in. populated areas and here this is one of the districts of the city as you can see it was almost completely destroyed by the violence and a similar picture can be seen in a dozen other parts of the reconstruction series in full swing despite the lack of money and people and for most of the locals this is a race against time to rebuild their homes before the bitter winter hits and that for them is a far greater importance than any election. state funding is very limited if in

fact there is any many local c. the only help they are getting is from the red cross. about one hundred people a day just all together in this push them to just give so-called work program brigades. were putting them one of the pieces officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence. ahead some say they've been getting messages to. the parliamentary election six months ago after the president. and his government were thousands of protesters and the opposition to control of the country many analysts say the interim government has so far failed to provide the needed stability especially here in the cells where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty parties even stands for.

russian investigators are seeking more time to probe the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya and she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow four years ago politkovskaya made her reputation reporting on lawlessness in russia's southern republic of chechnya her family and human rights activist have hit out at police for not doing enough to find her killer accent a boy who reports. denis makes no secret that he dislikes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and this attitude is quite typical according to polls at least a third of russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on t.v. . on top of journalists and i'm tired of going over things that have no impact on society again and again ironically it was a journalist that helped him find justice in two thousand and one he was badly bitten first by thugs then by the russian police to whom he turned for how and when it seemed that everything in his country had failed him one reporter came to his

grave it was on the political question asked outraged was widely publicized in newspapers and on t.v. but only on the bullet course upon the real life problems of the people she wrote about strong psychological pressure from the authorities the involvement of secateurs in the police the evidence to open criminal cases against us no journalist is willing to take the risk of bringing those things out to the public that story in the know where guys they have to eventually have danny's to win a case against the russian federation and the european court of human rights one of many that bullet caused because mark recchi reporting had led to one of the journalists who deals with people's pain as part of their job and tries to actually help people rather than just reflect their stories should not be something out of the ordinary we have too many objective journalists who only litter the information sphere and i never did that her main goal was to help people not just write

a piece about them a journalist work does not end once the story is done that's what she believed. while she's often credited for a kindle in people's faith in justice four years later politicos because only murder still remains and punished russia's investigative committee says the case is very challenging but the search for the killers and muster my. it's still ongoing. because his daughter veera who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of your mother says the family is still hopeful. but my view was still have hope of course but the way the investigation is going and the way the trial went we can tell that the investigators haven't made much progress i can't see anything that would indicate we're getting closer to the truth. has also become a journalist but she admits that her dedication to the profession is nowhere near her mother's there is number one priority is your four year old daughter and.

people who knew on the political of the station had zero tolerance for thorough malazan and official the issue continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was not out of the building wish to leave and we're sure with killers in violation with the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less proficient happy you reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe will run through the movie but god is still here attributing her life a condemnation of combat. clearly artsy go. also take a look at some other stories from around the world and at least forty tankers hearing fuel supplies for nato forces have been destroyed in two separate attacks in southwestern pakistan the come after the country ordered the closing of its border to trucks carrying vital supplies for police forces to follow the nato helicopter attack which left at least two pakistani soldiers dead while coalition forces have

apologized officials say the strike violated international law. in the u. asked the judge in the first civilian trial of an x. one inmate has ruled a key government witness cannot testify i'm fine jani faces charges of killing more than two hundred people in bombings of u.s. embassies in africa he was also alleged to have been one of the solid logs of body guards the judge says a witness could not testify as he's existence had only been a learned about through going yannis forest interrogation. hungary has opened a criminal investigation into a toxic sludge spilled left four people dead and over one hundred injured a state of emergency has been declared after chemical waste burst from the reservoir. as the disaster could have long term consequences for countries along the danube river it's expected that the cleanup will take at least a year. in chile the rescue operation to free thirty three miners who have been

trapped in the ground for more than two months is expected to end in the next few days with just over one hundred meters left to go drilling has been slowed as there is a risk of collapse in a nearby shaft relatives have been camping at the side anxiously waiting for the miners to be freed since the incident in august. the vast steps are about to witness the latest achievements of the space industry roaring off into they have and on friday the next crew of the international space station will travel into orbit in a brand new soyuz capsule equipped with cutting edge technology tom barton is watching preparations. humanity's highest technology waiting in the wilderness soyuz rockets will soon be planet earth's only link with the international space station hundreds of kilometers above. and for decades they've been launched here from baikonur in the

middle of the step and kazakhstan an ideal launch site. when you go to start you'll see the monument to the conquerors of space on it is written in this place the genius of soviet man was revealed in an instant in the concrete not the cosmos i think you can say better than that about i cannot and the vast concentration of technology here in the middle of nowhere has just become even more advanced this soyuz spacecraft has improved and digitized control power supply and temperature control systems but one thing hasn't changed the humans flying soyuz missions this crew like those before them have been training for years for their six month stint on the i assess the two russians and one american know that in english soyuz means unity and the international nature of their mission so how will they get on you know personalities in there were very easily excitable and. you

know kind of deal as things in a very kind of calm and quiet way so i think we're going to have a. very good working relationship the space station because. the same temperament all three of us and amazingly scott will have family coming to visit him on his mission his brother mark is also an astronaut and will lead the last u.s. shuttle mission to the i assess the be the first twins in space we occasionally flown together in the navy as test pilots but before that i think we you know i was working in dairy queen for twelve years old the floor. of the last job we really had that we work together this lonely launch platform in the wind blasted desert might seem like an odd place to pursue the most advanced of human endeavor but for the past fifty five years it's been doing just. this rocket looks on the outside

much like the first launched all those years ago but after years of improvement and preparation this mission plans to push the final frontier. to bring is have today here in our and next we'll bring you all the latest business news with charlotte. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our jeep.

and i welcome to the business program with racial i was father russian president dmitri medvedev is visiting cyprus i mean it's a close more transparent financial ties the country is the biggest foreign investor in russia because so many russian companies are right just at that but that may change as russia tightens up its tax rules such as import of covert explains. cyprus is a small island in the mediterranean and it's russia's biggest foreign investor however most of the capital flowing into russia is not separate it's russian one a kind of back home from an offshore tax haven easy come easy go with minimal taxes for business top russian tycoon operating through a firm's registered on cyprus it's been previously so on corporative that it was

added to russia's black list threatening tax penalties for companies registered there and new double taxation agreement is expected to remove cyprus from the notorious list but it will boost information exchange between the two tax authorities but will mean a lot for structuring of russian business until most of. all in terms of restructuring over their management structure in terms of their. explaining and we have been looking at what. is behind the first transaction what is the business facing this will be a very important change in their minds. because of my analysts say no less than half of the russian real estate business resides in cyprus a common practice has been to register a separate offshore firm as the owner of the russian real estate project it makes it easier to sell the construction by selling as part of the offshore company one

russia this kind of deal would be taxed twenty percent in cyprus it's not subject to do to analysts say developers will do everything possible to transfer operations to after all charlotte cations before the new agreement comes in force in two thousand and fourteen. they will have to study new jurisdictions and develop new schemes but the opportunities that offshore companies provide for the real estate business for example so the developers will devote the time and effort to look for new. russia's finance ministry is to begin to work with other european tax friendly countries on greater transparency and information exchange that leaves places such as the cayman islands bahamas which may soon become the nearest destination to offer a safe harbor from the tax authorities. of business are to. time

now take a look at how the markets are performing in asian stocks are down as investors digest a disappointing u.s. jobs report a strong it is also weighing on sentiment both the nikkei and honks saying sliding into the red this hour. and here in russia the markets were after the close yesterday r.t.s. games more than half a cent more than my six finally made it into positive territory gaining less than a tenth of a percent most of the major players finished with of all surf bucking the trend though oil majors lost about two percent. now russia's finance minister says the tax burden for businesses will rise by around four percent in three years alexei kudrin says the increase is really due to excise duties for petrol which i'll go whole into back the along with roy's insurance premiums will be come several months solved he said there was no room to cut taxes in russia a good suit for duty and staying with this theme russian businesses may soon have to ensure the salaries of best staff in case of bankruptcy under the terms of

a new draft bill to be introduced by the economic ministry unpaid wages in russia amounted to more than one hundred million dollars as the first of september and almost ninety eight percent of this is due to a lack of funds in the companies. now in other news innovation has become a watchword for russian economic policy and one company investing in this strongly is russia's largest private oil producer oil says aims to triple the amount of oil that it produces using high technology. morkel of what they produce around twenty million tons of with the help of new technology goes to produce fifty sixty million tonnes here nearly that means billions in investment but you can call it more of an innovation than the whole russian federation. and staying with the energy sector and russian of british venture to pay is interested in acquiring b.p.'s assets nigeria has according to the co owner of the company mikhail freedman b.p. has several projects in the country including the fields and so large and producing

around eighteen billion cubic meters of gas per year or a third of algeria's gas exports the assets which ten k. b.p. is said to be interested in could be worth roughly three billion dollars b.p. announced it could sell its fate in may's assets to t. and katy perry the stakes are valued at around nine hundred seventy billion dollars . now russia's second largest airline charles arrow has reported a net loss of around sixty three million dollars to two thousand and nine the company blames the exchange rate difference for the loss this is the first time trans there has calculate its results according to the international and not the russian accounting standards analysts say the move comes ahead of the company's plans to hold an i.p.o. previous reports suggested this could take place in the next it's. not shopped out for this hour but you can always buy more stories on our website at.