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nine years on the. u.s. soldiers are on. upload videos of their own questionable behavior. of a parliamentary election. meanwhile the country's victimized minorities say they need shelter from the. political shenanigans. is. america. overseas seeking to broaden its reach the competition.

three pm now here in the russian capital you all with welcome to the program the war in afghanistan today has 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 so far 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 all of this ahead of the expected withdrawal of international forces next year afghan officials continue the coalition's efforts but even they admit that after all this time there's still no tangible result. reports. 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 even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is byron and that how's that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more. religious is true then it's 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's not wanted to helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban. easily make. the us forces fail 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 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 new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online it's a lie. internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed a small and overcrowded test say 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 told his friend. less than a decade ago when the taliban was in power home computers were banned they 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. and so the taliban send a message by by mobile phone and. make body 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 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 parliamentary elections a fresh wave of violence has flared any critic is stunned a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek and followed 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 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's south you've got a piece going off reports from the volatile area. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not safe just like many other ethnically divided city they lost everything. being forced to survive taking any work they can fight.

us than they do there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we often what happened to those of us who could already left others are looking for ways to get out burnt down shops and destroyed pharmacies and abandoned cafes are a common sight in kyrgyzstan second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos armed gangs. destroyed shops set cars ablaze and burns 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 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. 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 for errors from the twenty nine parties taking port are spread both in the mean the cuties populated areas and here. this is one of the big 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 or 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 a need many will see the only hope they are getting is from the right call. about one hundred people who do just all together in this push them to just do so called

josh brown brigades. and we are putting them on the p.c. officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence i mean if you're 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 announced six months ago after president. and his government were all through my 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 cells where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty parties even stands for is going off on or. we are coming to you live from the russian capital and coming up later in the program journalists still unsolved. for years on the head death in human rights sound business still calling for justice. in

just a few moments from. the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech not it seems if it's coming from russia iran venezuela or china the head of the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting says it must off its game to combat the rise of what he called autocratic t.v. stations including this one guy. 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 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 there are 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 why. they more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make zero for go or will 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 sets

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 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 have. 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.

. dot com has a lot more in store for you twenty four hours a day here's a taste of what's online right now tracing the sunshine. visiting cyprus mediterranean island has warmly welcomed the head of the russian state the first ever official visit of a russian leader for insight into this historic trip to the politics section of all web site r.t. dot com. and it's no ordinary bikes these russian students taking our first spin race into space as they test their designs for people. from all just head over to onto. the 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 political reputation reporting on a lawless no say in russia's southern republic of chechnya let's now cross live to

our correspondent alison for more details on this so alison for years on off the political skies death tell us what does the investigation stand right now. well ruwi yesterday's toward interesting development when the russian investigators said that they've identified a number of says says the suspected accomplices who they believe in hiding across europe and they've also for the help hold state european police clique's to help tell us and find these people good for we is on human rights activists on the family of on the. growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the investigation and that pointing the finger of blame out the russian police saying you have to do more for their paul the police are saying they're doing all they can they've employed the services of intelligence agencies and did supposed to try and track examine the person who they believe pulled the trigger several people have been detained in connection with the crime but they do admit that the most the hind behind the killing the person who or to. the crime does still remain very much

a large however they do say that they now firmly believe that you whether organized that killing did so from outside of russia and the killing was somehow linked to the work on the political sky both as a journalist and as a human rights activist. it's no exaggeration. meant she wasn't exactly short of enemies want to share. with you she was outspoken she was high profile a controversial person could feel foresees and during the last few months of her life she was most particularly involved in exposing she would run to the fullest although this is from public all the chechnya and several of her former colleagues at the newspaper say that they believe that was directly linked to had however she was also a frequent visitor to the all the equally volatile republics of the sun and. that she was involved in exposing the abuses and corruption of the joint military forces

there but also the mrs themselves she was also directly involved in the conviction imprisonment of several corrupt policemen and of exposing corruption within the defense ministry but against all of that there's an equally long list of people that love down the who she helped she helped the mothers of several soldiers back to their cases in court and full of that as well as a journalistic endeavor she received several prestigious a rules based from within russia and from abroad and not of acknowledgement to a woman who spent her life trying it to make the life of ordinary people a little better as my colleagues on the boy explains. 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. . and 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 help and when it seemed that everything in his country had failed him one reporter came to his aid 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 orthorexic if 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 political skills 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 political skills 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 hira who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful by asking was one of you 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 they don't believe it 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 their families and official them 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 to risk killed in violation of a city that behave in such communications within five years of a person's death and are less proficient have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and i would believe the rounds to move with the clock is to hear a tribute to her life and a condemnation of good they are. going to break up our city moscow. just turning twenty minutes past the hour now here in moscow this is r.t. and russia was holding talks to return about eight hundred million dollars to iran and iran has already paid for its advanced missile defense systems president dmitri

medvedev banned the delivery of the long range rockets as they fall under the un's latest sanctions against tehran iran's defense minister told the move a breach of contract but said negotiations with moscow are still ongoing yeah the islamic republic plans to design its own systems instead russia signed the deal to supply iran with s. three hundred rockets in two thousand and seven but none ever delivered. where they made a putin has received some unusual birthday gifts in his time rare leopard's joke books about him and even a cannon well this year students at moscow state university have come up with a present that's a little more provocative students from the journalism department have released a sexy calendar dedicated to russia's prime minister each model is pictured with a speech bubbles containing double entendres like how about a third time or the fires around but i'm still burning some simply say we love you

the creators say the idea was to show smart young women can still be beautiful but university however call the project inappropriate and all the business news with the union is coming your way after a short break. hungry for the full stop we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. hello

and a very warm welcome to the business program the russian president dmitry medvedev is visiting cyprus aiming for closer and more transparent financial ties the president met the leaders of the country which is the biggest foreign investor in russia that's because so many russian companies of russia's that that but that may change as russia tightens up its tax rules again the political explains. cyprus is a small islands in the mediterranean and it's russia's biggest foreign investor however most of the capital flowing into russia is not safe its russian want to kind of back home from an offshore tax haven easy come easy go with minimal taxes for business top russian tycoons are operating through firms registered on cyprus it's been previously so on call through to that it was added to russia's black list threatening tax penalties for companies registered there in new double taxation agreement is expected to remove cyprus from the notorious list box will boost

information exchange between the two tax authorities but will mean a lot for structuring over russian businesses until most of putting more substance abroad in terms of the district it is starting over the. structure in terms of the. explaining away be a looking up toward what is behind the first resurrection what is the beautiful thought for i think this will be a very important change in being mindful that i shall be as if my analysts say no less than half of the russian real estate business resides in cyprus the common practice has been to register as 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 while in 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 other charlotte cations before the new agreement comes in force in two thousand and fourteen because 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 that developers will devote the time and effort to look for new loopholes 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 destinations to offer a safe harbor from the tax authorities. business r.t. russian businesses may soon have to ensure the salaries of their stuff in case of bankruptcy while that sound of the terms of a new draft failed to be introduced by the economic ministry unpaid wages in russia

amounted to more than one hundred million dollars as their first of september it was almost entirely due to the lack of cash flow. car market maker sold fourteen point nine percent stake involve more than four billion dollars to pay down debt for a no which remains of all those largest stakeholder so its shares jumped the most unfortunate months on the paris stock exchange increasing orders for commercial vehicles allowed to be to earnings estimates and raise its profit outlook for this year. a look at the markets now european markets are positive with strong gains by pharmaceuticals glaxo a fleet of kleiner and astra zeneca hedge fund men probe jumped five percent on twitter for the u.s. takeover of banking shares of down the world bank of scotland last one percent and well it's almost two percent on the u.k. house prices investors are worried how to monitor of policy decisions from the bank

of england and the european central bank. and in russia the pool says a mixed the solid might have slipped back into red all the main players that trading in a narrow range exceptions for those gold up six percent and russian truck they could come on up two percent on the talk that dial and they increase it's to. just some currency news now the ruble has grown to its highest rate against the dollar in five months the greenback has fallen by almost three percent in the last three days and even weak job figures from the u.s. and the world of those benefiting from rising oil prices and let's say speculators have changed the bearish mood for a blondish one and we announced and still bhushan officials who predicted some gains to that level. and a new moscow privatization program was approved by the former mayor who do you want schools two weeks before he left his job while the city is to sell its chain of two

hundred forty five pharmacists the each their particular long with stakes in the hotels bredesen slovyansk and the swiss hotel red hills the aim was to plug a hole in this budget but it's not clear if the. incoming there are rules to the plan. and russia's second largest airline transpire it has reported a net loss of around sixty three million dollars for two thousand and nine the company blames exchange rates for the last cent it's the first time france ira has calculated its results according to international rather than russian accounting standards analysts expect the company to hold an i.p.o. in the next few months. locals deputies c.e.o. needs to do may increase his stake in the company up to ten percent by choir zero point seven percent share for doing may buy the shares from the u.s. oil company conoco phillips not directly as the company's president but given a bit of dated but on the open market according to wednesday's market quotations.