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the headline. nine years on the war is turning. us soldiers are unwittingly playing into. videos of their own questionable behavior. including meanwhile the country's victimized. from the cold. political should. america. overseas broadcasting is seeking to broaden its reach while slamming the competition. coming up in the business update the ruble climbs to its highest

rating. and a lot more in about twenty minutes time. twenty four hour news live from moscow this is a very warm welcome sir. the war in afghanistan today enters its tenth year with little sign of an end 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 artie's pull

a slew of 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. if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious students to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are hosting 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 al qaeda and the taliban they. really make. the us forces fail to believe your clips you want. you want to hang. out 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 us so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon 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 alone so the. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded to say 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 myself then the sword follow once a knee. and so the taliban send message by by mobile phone and.

make body but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out one people not to see this kind of thing in the internet because everything you see is can see this 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 r t kabul just days ahead of a parliamentary election fresh wave of violence has flared in cricket stunned a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek it followed a protest staged by relatives of those killed in riots that rocked central asian country any april and topple the president they were angered at 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 ethnic conflict in the country south you go to personify reports from the

volatile area. with this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not safe just like many other ethnically divided city being lost everything. being forced to survive taking any work they can fight. us then there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we often what happened there is a massive could already left others are looking for ways how to get out bring down shops and destroyed pharmacies and abandoned cafes are a common sight in this second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos armed gangs mainly young. 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 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 called 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 for. our spread both in the me in 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. see the only help they're getting is from the red cross. crowd one hundred people together in this. they're just so cold. brigades. we're putting them on the b.b.c. officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence. ahead say they've been getting messages to. the parliamentary election six months ago after president. and his government. and the opposition took control of the. government has so far failed to provide the needed stability especially here in the south where most of the voters don't know what each of the parties even stands for. and

coming up for you later in the program journalists murder still unsolved. for years solved to her death and human rights activists are still calling for justice on the politkovskaya join me alison that in just a few moments from all. the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech spurted not it seems it's coming from russia iran venezuela or china the head of 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 guy in a chicken reports 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 cars to fight in 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 is 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 tell us 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 where 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

a fan russia or china it's all a pitch for more money from congress which she's trying to kind of appeal to by saying that other countries are spending more on their international communications gear is really the buzzword that she used to try to generate money for the defense department a cia intelligence agencies and now for international broadcasting but getting the us message across this costly there goes that mr walter isaacson is having 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 way 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 for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the

difference and in the 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 the 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. and 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 the 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. call the world are supposed to work is not resonating it's not. getting traction it

seems washington these 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. . dot com has a lot more in store for you twenty four hours a day and here's a taste of what's online right now. who will now have to pay forty five thousand dollars if they want to snatch a bride. only can age old tradition would have drawn up a punishment including a fine jail sentence for anyone that carries it out. and it's no ordinary these russian students taking off for a spin it's a race for space as they test the designs for a vehicle that could be peddled on the moon or more just head on over to our. russian investigators are seeking more time to probe the motor of journalist anna

politkovskaya she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow four years ago. reputation reporting on lawlessness in russia or something republic of chechnya that's now for life you want to use our lives have been for more details on this so on the fourth anniversary. where exactly are we with this investigation. will worry we have an interesting announcement yesterday from investigators they say that they've identified a number of new suspected accomplices that they believe are hiding across europe so they've also the help of a european colleagues to help them find these people but as you say four years almost on the political sky was gunned down outside her apartment and still no one has been brought to justice and human rights activists in the family. are now pointing the finger at the police and saying you need to do more the police for their part saying they're doing all that they can and they're involving intelligence agencies they're also involved in the hope of interpol to track down

the man they believe pulled the trigger and who is still at large however the most somali and the person you all go straight to this killing still remains very much knowledge at police say they are now convinced that the killing was all to. from abroad and that it was most likely linked to the work that anna politkovskaya i did both as a journalist and as a human rights activist. i was not only an investigative journalist but as you were saying a human rights activist as well i suppose plenty of scope to build enemies that. well exactly right boys she was vocal she was high profile she was controversial during the last few months of her life she was most particularly involved in uncovering human rights abuses in the russian republic of chechnya and full colleagues of hers. yet in these papers say that they believe that could be linked to had death of as you say she had a great number of enemies she was highly critical of the forces both here in russia

and in the north caucasus republics of chechnya dagestan in the do there she was very involved in uncovering abuses within the various militant organizations and the military operating down there she was also directly involved me she was also directly involved in the challenging on the president of several police she on cupboards corruption by the defense ministry on the joint but its influence is based down in chechnya dagestan and english. so if you just number of potential enemies however she was also great to know of the work that she did she was involved in helping the mothers of certain soldiers in course and also just helping ordinary people both in russia and support and for that she received several prestigious awards both for russia and from international groups the workhouse the journalist and human rights activists but it was the ordinary people that she was most interested in helping as my colleagues on the board has been

finding out. 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. . i'm talking to journalists and i'm tired of going over things that have no impact on society again and again ironically it was a journalist that help 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. our tragedy was widely publicized amused 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 orthorexic 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 this based on my nine year experience with that story in the norway guys 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 bullet costco's mark recchi reporting had led to the trial of the 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 in these about them. while she's often credited for a kindle in people's faith in justice four years later politico's because only murders still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the kids is very challenging but the search for the killers and masterminds is still ongoing.

because his daughter hira who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful by asking was one of these we 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 the other bullet 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 space station had zero tolerance for thermally and officialdom and she continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was known to the building where she leaves and the issue was killed invalidation of a city that behave in such communications within five years of a person's death around lescott fishes have few reasons to appreciate her reporting

and the beleaguered rounds to move with the clock is to hear a tribute to her life and a condemnation of good bad kind of breakup r.e.c. moscow. well the future face of russia's arsenal is taking shape a state of the art intercontinental missile has been successfully launched in a project that's been marred by previous costly failures the pull of was fired from a nuclear submarine in the white sea it is the thirteenth time the naval ballistic rocket has been tested with only five previous launches proving successful the missile has a range of eight thousand kilometers and can carry up to ten nuclear warheads. and a brief look now at some international news coming from other parts of the world this hour officials say the chemical sludge from a spill in hungary that left four people dead and over one hundred injured has now reached the river danube it's triggered fears that pollution could reach six

countries including croatia serbia and romania and gary north or to use have already opened a criminal investigation into the ecological disaster a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste burst from a reservoir it's expected the cleanup will take at least a year. 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 attack since the country or the closing of its border to trucks carrying vital supplies for coalition forces that followed a nato helicopter strike which left at least two pakistani soldiers dead while coalition forces have apologized official say the incident was a violation of international. commission investigating the b.p. oil spill disaster in the gulf of mexico was sharply criticized the white house a draft report said the obama administration blocked the government scientists from warning of the potential to task for free but also statements about the size of the

spill were overly optimistic and the worst case scenarios kept quiet the white house has denied the claims and says it only ever told the truth april's rig explosion left eleven workers dead and one of the worst environmental disasters in u.s. history. hard time now to delve into the world of business or charlotte charlotte so we hear the taxes in russia are set to increase oh yes according to the finance minister alexei kudrin taxes for businesses are said to rise by four percent in the next three years we'll have the details later in the program but first this hour the russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting cyprus aiming for close more transparent financial ties the country is the biggest foreign investor in russia because so many russian companies are registered there but that may change as russia tightens up its tax rules such an importer korver 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 safe it's russian want to come 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 structuring of russian business until most of. in terms of restructuring of their management structure in terms of. explaining the looking at what. is behind the action what this will be

i think this will be a very important change in their minds. because this money 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 while in russia this kind of deal would be taxed twenty percent in cyprus it's not subject to due 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 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 island. which may soon become the nearest destinations to offer a safe harbor from the tax authorities but you're not going to call my business our team and stay with taxation the russians finance minister says the tax burden for business or rise by around four percent in three years alexei kudrin says the increase is mainly due to excise duties to paschal alcohol and tobacco along with rising insurance premiums it comes to several miles of days that there was no room to grow in russia now as well as facing higher taxes russian businesses may soon have to insure the salaries of their staff in case of bankruptcy under the terms of a new draft bill introduced by the economic ministry unpaid wages in russia to more

than one hundred million dollars as of the first of september was almost entirely due to the lack. conflict of markets now and the sliding south in europe with the early trade mining stocks leading the downside. both slipping into the red and they behave in russia the forces are climbing slightly but a friend mindsets back into positive territory this hour all the main players are trading in a narrow range of narrow phonecall helping studies in markets who feel concerned to me r.t.s. . and some currency news we know the ruble is growing to its highest rate against the dollar in five months the greenback is holding by the way three percent in the last three days and weeks just to give the u.s. the ruble is going to be seen from rising oil prices analysts say speculation is a change a parish move for a foolish one and with the announcement of the russian officials predicted some gains to the group will. know a new privatization program was approved by the former. two weeks before he left

his job the city is to sell its chain of two hundred forty five pharmacies up ticky along with stakes in the hotels rather. and the swiss red hills where he was to plug a hole in the city's budgets but it's not clear if the incoming mayor will stick to the plan. another news rush is second largest airline trans ever reported a net loss of around sixty three million dollars for two thousand and nine the company blamed exchange rates will last it's the first time trans there has calculated its result only to international role of the russian accounting standards expect the company to hold an i.p.o. in the next few months. lukoil deputy c.e.o. . may increase his stake in the company to ten percent. seven percent share may buy the shares from the u.s. .