nine years on the afghan war is going on linus tech savvy u.s. soldiers upload videos of the or questionable behavior it's al qaida and the taliban that are reaping the benefits. these are t.v. america's enemy and u.s. overseas broadcasting seeks to pump its influence we explore whether the country's going on information for say. and the kirghiz authorities probe fresh clashes ahead of the general election the country's minority ravaged the last time violence and blame the nation say it's new homes not a new parliament they care about. and coming up on the business update you drove through to make businesses ensure the salaries of the stalls will have

the details about twenty minutes time. you're watching r t coming to live from moscow ten am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program not the war in afghanistan today and her as it stands year with little sign of an end extra american troops may now be in place but public support for the campaign is slipping rapidly what 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 ahead of the expected withdrawal of international forces next year afghan officials continue back to back the coalition's efforts but even they admit that after. the stein there is still no tangible results and as are falsely reports the online antics of

american soldiers are hardly helping matters. house goes up in smoke and whether 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 park or as a means of. more. religious history with them 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 want to be helping the taliban fight its cause they can

easily be copied by the taliban. make. the us forces fail the video clips if you want. in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times they're downright criminal or extremely provocative in this clip u.s. soldiers burn the bodies of dead muslims facing mecca today in afghanistan the internet is becoming more and more popular but look around it's no surprise that in a place like this there's still only a few people who have access to it 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 online it's a lot. 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. varied and. 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 told his friend. 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 my shit then the sword followed once and me. and so. forth. but what a good look at the word it seems always has a way of out of good people not to seem disposed of in the internet because the

people you see this consumers in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication it once banned it now falls on coalition troops to censor themselves point c r t kabul while the us might be claiming it's fighting for democracy and freedom in afghanistan author and journalist and your own says washington's done nothing but deal with extremists all along. we are supporting. an administration that is not only corrupt but of course as fundamentalist in many ways as the taliban. not just the executive branch and the cabinet but the parliament as well they're all controlled by former mujahideen islamic extremists that the u.s. the bush administration put in power and so we're. on the one hand talking about

spreading democracy and equal rights for women and all of those nice things and on the other hand in many ways there's not a dime's worth of difference between the government we're supporting and the taliban were fighting against. and can get a full interview with author and journalist and jones in about twenty minutes time here on r t the us my claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but nada 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 that 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.

intel national 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 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 well launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world spence portably set aside six to ten billion dollars we've 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 leader mr isaacson backtracked i don't take a russia or artsy as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that they're 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 buzz word 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 there goes 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 and all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of our t.v. iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make out 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 it's that statement that raised the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and not. journalist and i think that's bad it sets a bad example for other countries when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspective 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 ukrainian 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.

called the world are supposed to work it's not resonating it's. getting traction it seems washington they still getting used to the increasing volume for media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues going to shut down our t. washington d.c. . and later in the program here in r t a journalist murderer still. four years after she was gunned down activists demand russian police do more to find the killer of holocaust. and russia's new high tech so use rocket is ready to blast off into orbit find out how cosmos are preparing for a flight to the ice that's. jazz days ahead of parliamentary elections a fresh wave of violence this layered in kyrgyzstan a mob stormed the have quarters of the ruling political party in the capital bishkek it fold a protest staged by relatives of those killed in riots that 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 in sunday's vote will create the region's first parliamentary democracy but it comes just a month after the deadly ethnic conflict in the country south going off reports from. volatile area. but this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not safe in june just like many other it was because in the ethnically divided city they lost everything you know they are being forced to survive taking any work they can fight. a family but there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we off to what happened there is a massive could already left others are looking for ways how to get out burnt down shops destroyed pharmacies in abandoned cafes are a common sight in kyrgyzstan second largest city in june it fell into complete

chaos armed gangs mainly young men destroyed shops set cars ablaze and burned down houses 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 for months on it was be a quarters are only now beginning to recover. everything was burned here everybody's fleeing abroad to look for jobs but we must rebuild before it's a school construction is being carried out with the sounds of political education feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election flyers from the twenty nine parties taking part are spread both in the untouched mean the cube is 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 here is 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 main local say the only help they are getting is from the red cross. both nine hundred people engaged all together in this crisis some of them to just do the so-called childish the work or ground brigades all round and we are fighting them on a daily basis officially over three thousand businesses were affected by gene's violence many fewer more unrest is ahead some say they've been getting s.m.s. messages calling on them to ignore the vote the parliamentary election was about six months ago after the president. and his government were all through thousands of protesters and the opposition to control of the country many analysts say the

interim government has so far feel to provide the needed stability especially here in the self where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty parties even stands for is going off all or. russian investigators are seeking more time to probe the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya and she was gone down in her apartment block in moscow four years ago. made her reputation reporting on lawlessness in russia southern republic of chechnya her family and human rights activists have hit out at police for not doing enough to find her killer reports. dennis makes no secret that she dislikes journalists to intrusive to simply stick 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. . one time 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 how he find justice in two thousand and one he was badly bitten first by thugs down 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 quest or. tragedy was widely publicized in youth papers and on t.v. but only anna politkovskaya touched upon the real life problems of the people she wrote about strong psychological pressure from the earth oratory the attempt to open criminal cases against us no journalist is willing to take the risk of bringing those things out to the public i say that is based on my nine year experience with that story in the norway goes the other eventually how danny's to win a case against the russian federation and the european court of human rights one of many that the bullet caused because mark recchi reporting had led to. a journalist

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 and his main goal was to help people not just write a piece about them. 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 masterminds is still ongoing. because his daughter who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful. was one of these 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 there are

people who has also become a journalist but she admits that her dedication to the profession is no way near her mother's there is number one priority is your four year old daughter anna. people who knew on the political have to say she had zero tolerance for their families and officialdom and she continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was mounted of the building where she leaves and wish she was killed in violation of a city that behave in such commemorations within five years of a person's death rather lescott fishes have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and the beleaguered rounds to move with the clock is still here a tribute to her life and a condemnation of today are actually very artsy moscow. but i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world and at least forty tankers carrying fuel supplies for nato forces have been destroyed in two separate militant strikes in southwestern pakistan they are the latest attacks as the country ordered

the closing of its border to trucks carrying vital supplies for coalition forces to follow the nato helicopter strike that left at least two pakistani soldiers dead while coalition forces apologize say the incident was a violation of international law. in the us the judge in the first civilian trial of an ex one time obey inmate has ruled a key government witness cannot testify ahmed khalfan ghailani faces charges of killing more than two hundred people in bombings of u.s. embassies in africa in the ninety's and he was also alleged to have been one of osama bin laden's bodyguards the judge says the witness could not testify as he's existence had only been learned while go jani was under duress. hungary has opened a criminal investigation into a toxic sludge spill that left four people dead and over a hundred injured a state of emergency has been declared after the chemical ways burst from the

reservoir the e.u. says 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. the vast caza steps are about to witness the latest achievements of the space industry roaring off into the heavens on friday the next crew of the international space station will travel into orbit and a brand new so use capsule equipped with cutting edge technology dumbarton is watching preparations. humanity's highest technology waiting in the wilderness. rockets will soon be planted the 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 cause extern 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 of the cosmos i think you can say better than that about pocono. 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 s i s. the two russians and one american know that in english so is means unity in the international nature of their mission so how will they get some you know personalities in there were very easily excitable and. you know deal is things in a very kind of calm and quiet way so i think we're going to have

a. very good working relationship board the space station because we. have i think 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 to be the first twins in space we occasionally flown together in the maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen over twelve years old bottom for probably the last year the last job we really had that we worked together this lonely launch platform in the wind blast to 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 the big.

c. baikonur. and we are up today for more member there is our website r t dot com right now it's time to delve into the world of business was a good morning chad and we're also hearing that taxes are set to increase oh yes according to finance minister alexei kudrin taxes for businesses are set to rise by four percent the next three years we'll tell you why later in the program but. the russian president dmitri medvedev is visiting cyprus aiming for a close and more transparent financial toys the country is the biggest foreign investment investor in russia because so many russian companies are right to sit there but that may change as russia tightens up his talks with such a poor kovar 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 want

to kind of back home from an offshore tax haven easy come easy go with minimal taxes for business top russian tycoon operating through firms 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 the structuring of russian businesses until most of putting more thoughtful so broad in terms of restructuring of their management structure in terms of their lives explaining the looking at what what is behind the fish transaction what this will be for thoughtful i think 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 a 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 jupiter 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 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 jennifer to business r.t. . times take a look at the markets now and here in russia the r.t.s. index is open for trading is gaining zero point four percent so far as after both the forces closed at the end of wednesday's session and most of the major players finished higher bucking the trend though those rules in there which was about two percent. and over in asia stock markets are down as investors digest a disappointing u.s. jobs report and a strong yen is also weighing on sentiment both the nikkei and hand saying are sliding into the red this hour. 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 mainly due to excise duties for petrol alcohol and tobacco along

with rising insurance premiums it comes several months after he said there was no room to cut taxes in russia and staying with this theme russian businesses may soon have to insure the salaries of their staff in case of bankruptcy sons the terms of a new draft bill introduced by the economic ministry unpaid wages in russia amounted to more than one hundred million dollars as of the first of september and almost twenty 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 new coil says aims to triple the amount of oil that it produces using high technology. morkel of what a producer and trans are really in tune with the help of new technology all goes to produce fifty sixty million tones here nearly that means billions in investment in coral springs more innovation then the whole russian federation. and staying with

the energy sector and russian and british venture to n.k.p. is interested in acquiring b.p.'s assets in algeria that's according to the co owner of the company mikhail freedman b.p. has several projects in the country including the seals in and producing around eighteen billion cubic meters of gas the year or a third of algeria's gas exports there is the asset switching k p p is said to be interested it could be worth roughly three billion dollars b.p. announced it could sell its feet mimi's outside its tank a b.p. and they stakes are valued at around nine hundred seventy billion dollars and some currency in the ruble is growing to its highest rate against the dollar in two months the greenback is following by almost two percent in the last two days amid weak job figures from the u.s. and the ruble is benefiting from one thing oil prices on a list say speculators have changed from a bearish mood for a bullish one.