nine years on the afghan war is going on why us tech savvy u.s. soldiers upload videos of the earth questionable behavior it's all qaida and the taliban that are reaping the benefits. these are america's enemy as u.s. overseas broadcasting seeks to pump its influence we explore whether the country's going on an information for say. an fresh clashes and have the general election in kyrgyzstan while the country's long suffering expect minority say its new homes not a new parliament that they need. eleven

am in the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program now the war in afghanistan today enters its tenth year with a little sign of an am 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 ahead of 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 result and as our policy your reports the online antics of american soldiers are hardly helping matters. house 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 here 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. paying more. religious history of them to go and join 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 is now helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by the taliban. make. the us forces fail the video clips. 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 and 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 we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new 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 locked down. very. easy for people to watch these videos put out 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. 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 probably wants a new image and so the message why buy a mobile phone and. make money but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is consumers in the life but 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. well to talk more on the ninth anniversary of the u.s. led war in afghanistan we're now joined by candace rondeaux a south asia senior analyst from the crisis group thanks very much for being here with us on the program count as well let's take a look at the situation now after almost a decade the u.s. says it's been fighting to bring stability to the contrary but what have we got there i mean we've got billions of dollars of foreign aid poor into the country was that has the quality of life of afghans really improved what has been done to do that. well i think the quality of life for afghans has changed it has improved in some areas of the country certainly in the north and the east and the west of course but it's in the southern areas where the pashtuns are predominance where the insurgency is still fairly aggressive and strong that we haven't seen a lot of development in cities like kabul the capital mazar

e sharif in the north jalalabad there has been massive building construction road improvements major changes have taken place over these last nine years but still there's a lot to be done and i think a lot of afghans feel that the distribution of wealth here that is the gap between the middle class or the upper middle class and everybody else is growing day by day and that's one of the unfortunate by products of a program of policy that is not really aligned with the overall strategic picture here that is to say that the economy also matters in terms of stabilizing the country. why as you just rightly said a lot needs to be done in the country still now the u.s. seems to be on a dual track there of nation building and calling for negotiations with the taliban one hand on the other targeting insurgents so what's really going on. what's really happening here is a conflict of interest in some ways as we now see there are

a lot of disagreement. in the u.s. government with the state department with the u.s. military was other sections of the u.s. government there's no real cohesiveness to the policy and that's become extremely problematic on the ground here in terms of rolling out a counterinsurgency strategy you know it's obviously it's been the military that's been at the forefront but of course counterinsurgency is more than just guns and being on the front line in confronting you know the people at the battle lines it's more about providing governance building institutions and the civilian effort on the american side and nato side has been extremely weak unfortunately and this is been you know and to make and perennial problem of the policy overall since two thousand and one it doesn't know if it's coming or going to sensually it's unclear whether or not united states really knows how much money time blood sweat and tears will have to be invested in order to bring this country up to a place where it can be stabilized to some extent so that the afghan national

security forces can take over as well as so that people can go about their daily business there's a real conflict here right now and unfortunately it doesn't seem like the way is entirely clear the time pressures of course also don't help the july two thousand and eleven date that was set up by president obama has really pressurized the situation making everybody including afghan elite in the political you really scramble to find the best position of the most advantageous place to be so that's causing a lot of confusion in terms of the overall policy picture. not enough time left or i should say a little time left. with many calling afghan government washington spotted by corruption and mismanagement how much of a difference do you think the u.s. withdrawal will make. well it all depends on the timing of the u.s. withdrawal and actually what takes place before hand if we're looking at the two

thousand and fourteen date which seems to be something agreeable to the afghan government you know there's still some time left to make a difference here to build out institutions to reinforce them on some level particularly the big part is of course the police and the judiciary this is a place where there are just massive deficits in terms of. brain power capacity overall i mean the justice system here just doesn't work and that means that for the police who are out there on the frontlines it's very difficult for them to do their job so that's one area of investment that will have to see if we want to see any improvement by two thousand and fourteen. and again i think that you know at the end of the day a clear picture has to be sort of has to come together in the sense that the u.s. government really has to say you know what's the end goal here is it to have sort of. a democracy in the middle of central asia but is it to have some sort of midway point is it to stabilize a via some bilateral agreements say with pakistan with china with other regional

actors india how do you get there i don't think the way is clear yet and unfortunately i think by two thousand and fourteen will find a lot of loose ends still hanging out there and it's rondo senior analyst from the crisis thanks very much indeed for you he was here on our team. how the u.s. my claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but not it seems if it's coming from russia iran of 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 i should again as 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 cause 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 is a 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 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'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 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 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 on all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's why. they more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined and 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 who 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. called the world are supposed to work or it's not resonating it's not. getting traction it seems washington they still getting used to the increasing volume for

media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. . and coming up later in the program here in r t a journalist's murder phil anselmo four years after she was gunned down after his demand russian police do more to find the killer of a holocaust gone. just days ahead of parliamentary elections a fresh wave of violence has flared in kerry stana mob stormed a half waters of a leading political party in the capital discounted followed a protest staged by relatives of those killed in riots that rocked the central asian country in april and toppled the president a more anger and an alleged claims the party was intending to reinstate the ousted president sunday's vote will create the region's first parliamentary democracy but it comes just three months after a deadly after the conflict in the country south enormous could offer ports from the volatile area. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's

still not seen in june just like many other it was the ethnically divided city the lost everything. they're being forced to survive taking any work they can fight these missiles are you with us then they do there's no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we off to what happened to those of us who could already left others are looking for ways hard to get out burned down shops and destroyed pharmacies in the band and cafes are a common sight in orses second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos all of the games mainly young men destroyed shops set cars ablaze and birds 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 all that was be a quarters are only beginning to recover. everything was burned here everybody is

fleeing abroad to look for jobs but we must rebuild before it's called us here. teachin feel. like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election. both in the. 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 that for them is a for greater importance than any election. state funding is very limited if in fact there is any many local see the only hope they are getting is from the red

cross. road one hundred people engaged all together in this crucial game to just do so-called ground brigades. were putting them on a daily basis officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence. to head some say they've been getting messages to. the parliamentary election was six months ago after the president. and his government were. the opposition to control of the country many analysts say the interim government has so far field 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. or. has a lot more in store for you twenty four hours a day here's

a taste of what's online. in chechen man will now have to pay thirty five thousand dollars if they want to snatch a bride not only can down the age old tradition but have drawn up punishment including a fine and a jail sentence for anyone that carries it out. and it's no ordinary invites these russian students are taking out for a span and it's a race into space just testing your designs. vehicle that can be pedal on the moon for more head to our teeth dot com. russian investigators are seeking more time to probe the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow four years ago holocaust 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 he dislikes journalists

to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and they started to describe typical according to polls at least a third of russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on t.v. the most fuel still 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 scale question quest for. tragedy it was widely publicized in news 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 origins of the thames to open criminal cases against us no journalist is willing to take the risk of the 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 pollute course because mark recchi reporting had left two. of them more as 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 rekindling people's faith in justice four years later political skills only murder still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the key is is very challenging but the search for the killers and masterminds is still ongoing. because of his daughter who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of your mother says the family is still hopeful. it's one of

you would 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 if you don't believe it 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 anna. people who knew on the political of gas 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 we're showing you a wish or with kiran in violation of a quote the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less but the shows have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and the legal route through but god is still here attributing her life the condemnation of combat. i kind of. go. with her in our

to the world of business with charlotte. char last year wasn't a good one for airline transit euro can you tell us more yes the russian air carrier has recorded a net loss of around sixty three million dollars for two thousand and nine we'll tell you why later in the program but first this hour the russian president dmitri medvedev is visiting cyprus aiming for closer more transparent financial ties the country is the biggest foreign investment in russia because so many russian companies are registered there that may change as russia tightens up these tax rules touch on employer 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 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 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 that 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 destruction over their management structure study in in terms of. explaining and we've been looking at what is behind the first transaction want to thank you for thoughtful i think this will be a very important change in the minds of. the assessment analysts say no less than half of the russian real estate business resides in cyprus the 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 while in russia this kind of deal would be tax twenty percent in cyprus it's not subject to do to analysts say developers will do everything possible to transfer operations to after all surely 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 but you never do business on team. time else take a look at how the markets were performing in here in russia the bosses are climbing in early trade with the r.t.s. more than one percent of our energy and mining stocks are leading the gains with no real cynical eros left both around three quarters of percent higher and over in asia stock markets are mixed as investors digest a disappointing u.s. jobs report and a strong yen it weighs on sentiment saying as waves like gains are up twenty three percent. now russia's finance minister says the tax burden for business will rise by around four percent in three years alexei kudrin says the increase is mainly due to excise duties of petrol alcohol and tobacco along with rising insurance premiums come several miles of the he said there was no room to cut taxes in russia it would suit and staying with the same russian businesses may soon have to ensure the

salaries of their stars in case of bankruptcy but 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 of the first of september and always ninety eight percent of this is due to a lack of funds in the companies in other news innovation has become a watchword to russian economic policy and one company investing in the strongly is russia's largest private all producer lukoil firm says that aims to triple the amount of oil that it produces using high technology. morkel of what they produce around twenty really in tune with the help of new technology it all goes to produce fifty sixty million tones any only that means billions in investment you can call it means more innovation then the whole russian federation. now staying with the energy sector and russian and british french a ten k. b.p. is interested in acquiring b.p.'s assets now geria that's according to co owner of

the company mikhail freedman b.p. has several projects in the country including the fields and in some i mean us producing around eighteen billion cubic meters of gas a year or third algeria's gas exports yes that's which tank a v.p. said to be interested in could be roughly worth three billion dollars b.p. announced it could sell its state in these assets to take a b.p. in those stakes are valued at around nine hundred seventy billion dollars. now russia is the second largest airline trans aero has reported a net loss of around sixty three million dollars to two thousand and nine the company blames exchange rate difference for the loss is the first time has calculated its results according to the international and not russian accounting standards analysts say the move comes ahead of the company's plans to hold an i.p.o. previous reports suggest that this could take place in the.