as the war in afghanistan reaches a year ten online videos posted by nato soldiers undermine the coalition's reputation and drum up new support for the taliban. fears of a return to riots and rest flares up once again in critical days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. is r.t. dangerous the top media box in america is international news channels including this one says the u.s. needs to shout louder in the global media war.

global news twenty four hours a day this is r.t. live from moscow the war in afghanistan already the longest in u.s. history has entered its tenth year and there's little sign of an end on the seventh of october two thousand and one operation enduring freedom launched with massive air raids by u.s. and british bombers and cruise missiles since then the u.s. and nato casualties now more than two thousand of course the public support supply it washington insists it will start to withdraw all forces from afghanistan next year but until the end they're relying on a troop increase to turn around the fight against the taliban but as artie's policy reports the way the war is conducted often feels the insurgency. goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital. culprits soldiers who can be

heard saying fantastic before posting that clip on the internet here if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is barren then bad 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 posting down returns to video as put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's not want to helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban they can easily make. the us forces fail video clips if 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 it so you'd someone's 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 lawyer so the. internet cafes are the buzz in downtown kabul hundreds 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 up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are on the first page of you tube also when one guy sees a video he tells his friend. 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 mill and send message by by mobile phone and. make very very good video clips of the word it seems in ways has a way of getting out of one people not to see describe the thing in the internet because every time you see this consumers in the life with the taliban picking up

on a form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves or r t kabul. any chance of pre-election calm in kyrgyzstan has now been shuttered fresh on rest has a broken out after an angry mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek no one was injured but there are fears of more violence ahead security is now being beefed up across the country ahead of sunday's general election the poll aims to establish a parliamentary democracy in kyrgyzstan the country is currently being run by an interim government led by president roosevelt and by have a critical standing remains ethnically split with a large minority and has yet to recover from the deadly violence that claimed hundreds of lives this summer. you go to prison off reports this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not seen in june just like many

other it was because in the ethnically divided city they lost everything no other being forced to survive or you taking any work they can fight these missiles are you with us then we do there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we off to what happened those of us who could already left others are looking for ways how to get out. burned down shops and destroyed pharmacies in the bad and cafes. city in june it fell into complete chaos. destroyed shops set cars ablaze and. officially hundreds were killed several thousand were injured by the time the country's interim government managed to take control of the situation. are only beginning to recover. everything was burned here. to look for

jobs but we must rebuild before 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. 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 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 many local c. the only hope they are getting is from the red cross. about one hundred people

engaged all together in this crucial game to just do so-called work program brigades. were putting them on of the species officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence many fear more unrest is ahead some say they have 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 all my fellow protesters and 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 self where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty parties even stands for is going off r g. and still come for you here in the program unsold play of a human rights champion. four years of data death and human rights activists

are still calling for justice on the body called sky a join me as if it is 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 up its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including r.t. if you can 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 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 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 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 a fan 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 their 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 then as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make zero for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and if that's the man that raised the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody 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 of how the world are 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 going to shut down our t. washington d.c.

. russia is in talks with iran over the return of payment for an advanced missile defense system that will no longer be supplied because of un restrictions the total value of the contract is around eight hundred million dollars the ban on the supplies of the long range missiles has been confirmed by president dmitry medvedev iran's defense minister called the move a breach of contract but said negotiations with moscow are still ongoing he added the islamic republic plans to design its own systems in the future russia signed a deal to supply iran with s. three hundred rockets in two thousand and seven but none were ever delivered. and a brief look now at some other international news stories this hour hungary is a race against time to prevent why disaster after a deadly chemical sludge spill reached the danube river the country's prime minister described the spill as

a geological tragedy it's feared the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including croatia serbia and romania a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste burst from a reservoir earlier this week leaving four dead and over one hundred injured. pakistan says it hasn't decided whether to reopen a key border crossing used by nato to ship supplies to afghanistan despite a u.s. apology for a helicopter attack that killed three pakistani soldiers islamabad says the strike was a violation of international law and that more than fifty fuel tankers carrying supplies for nato forces have been set ablaze by suspected militants during two separate strikes in southwestern. flash floods in eastern indonesia have killed more than ninety and dozens of others are missing at this point range which began on sunday and led to the destruction of hundreds of homes forcing thousands to flee

officials say that rescuers searching for the missing are being. by folding trees and blocked roads full cost suggests there will be unusually heavy rains during the country's and one soon season this year. while several hundred people gathered in moscow for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of russian journalist. as mota gunned down in her apartment block in two thousand and six has been in the public's attention for since let's. listen but for more details on this so alice tell me how was the rally in the memory of political sky going at the moment. when it three minutes four minutes of silence was held just behind me here in the center of moscow that is of course the exact time that on the police call sky was brutally gunned down outside her apartment block the minutes of silence was then followed by a moral service attended by dozens of people over one hundred we

think including several prominent bryce's fairly family members and human rights activists all mourning the loss of on the police called sky a similar service took place even saved just by going to this is every year since how death four years ago on the seventh of october three minutes plus for. four years on four years on the investigators any closer to a country of the killer. well it yesterday russian investigators made an interesting announcement when they said that they think they've identified several suspected accomplices who they believe are in hiding across europe so they have the support of the european police colleagues to boost house and find these people. who are years older than the family members and. all growing increasingly frustrated with the progress of the case and they're saying to the police you have to do more but the police is saying they're doing everything they can several people have been

detained in connection with the crime they're also employing. intelligence services on interpol to track down the person who pulled the trigger but they do admit that the model still mind behind the crime is still very much at large however the police say they all of the crime was ordered from outside of russia from abroad and that it was linked to how. career as an investigative journalist she mentioned she was also a human rights activist talked to me about legacy. well exactly brewery she was a high profile controversial outspoken activist a critic of the ministration and the last opponents of her life she focused her work on uncovering human rights abuses in the volatile caucasus region particularly the republic of chechnya but also the republics of doug. and a former colleagues of her at the. paper believe that. work is directly linked

to had death but of course she was always too involved in all covering corruption within the police force and within the defense ministry but against all of that there is an equally long list of people who love the guy who she helped including the mothers of several soldiers who she helped cases in court and for that as law as well as many journalistic endeavors she was awarded several very prestigious awards race from within russia iran former broods not of acknowledgment if you like for a woman who spent her life trying to improve the life of a free day people as my colleagues on the boy here explains. dennis makes no secret that he dislikes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and he 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 ironic. it was a journalist that helped hume 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 our tragedy was widely publicized amused by a bit 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 author of the tenth 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 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 politico's because only murders 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. than was one that you will 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 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 station had zero tolerance for their families and officialdom and she continues to describe them even after her death take this plot for example it was mounted on the building where show leave i know we're sure was killed in the vibration of a city but they hear about such commemorations within five years of a person's death there are less happy you reasons to appreciate your reporting and i don't believe going round to move up but is still here attribute you can live a condemnation of. a kind of break up our moscow. get to log on to a website that's our dot com where you'll find many more of the stories we're covering and here are some of them but my country right now president dmitri medvedev is visiting cyprus the mediterranean island has warmly welcomed the head

of state it's the first of an official visit for a russian leader to get more insight into this historic trip to the politics section of our website that's on t.v. dot com. and if you plan on spending this winter in europe stock up on the warm clothes this weather forecasters predict the freeze over is just a few months away. now for the business with you. that's right time to have a look at the world of business russian sign for us have signed and they crave and eliminating double taxation between the two countries the deal has been reached by

russia's president who's visiting sign aiming to develop closer and more transparent financial ties. of course the taxes are still low here but they already been implemented there's no zero taxation in cyprus but there was a couple of questions one including the disclosure of information about the company second about particularly the real estate in russia. to brazil so it's just happened historically the russian business not only partly for the reasons of taxation partly for the reason of providing additional security for investment. in cyprus i think. we can change it very quickly number one task is to. get more investment from cyprus into russia was happening i think cyprus or one of the largest investor in russia and i think gradually the russian business will start probably to move to russia but at the end of the day if we have

a normal tax that tax regime will have a normal chief information i think it's very much a matter of. cyprus is the biggest foreign investor in russia with many russian companies registered them but that may change as russia tightens up its tax rules that can apply equally 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 a firm's registered on cyprus it's been previously so on corporative that it was added to russia's black list threatening tax penalties for companies registered there and new double taxation agreement is expected to remove cyprus from the notorious list but it will boost information exchange between the two tax

authorities but will mean a lot for the structuring of russian businesses in terms of putting more thoughtful so broad in terms of restructuring of their management structure study in in terms of. explaining. the looking at what what is behind the first transaction want to thank you for 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 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 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 or the hamas which may soon become the nearest destinations to offer a safe harbor from the tax authorities that you know business are two british oil group b.p. east explore and develop a major caspian sea gas field it's signed a thirty year deal on the shelf aga. failed with the stage manager for the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of gas could strengthen the role

of assembly john as a supply to the west. trying to see how the markets are faring that sali european markets are closed to the midday trade as the bank of england kept its interest rate unchanged at zero point five percent as expected hedge funds manage her jump five percent on top of a good take over the world bank of scotland lost one percent on lloyds almost two percent off to fall in a house prices. i think want to rush of the forces of the solid my six climbed back into pools or territory all the main players are trading in a narrow range exceptions are gold up six percent and russian trucks make a come out to two percent on the top of the dial when they in place of stake. have some currency news knol there will has grown to its highest rate of gets the dollar in five months the greenback has fallen by almost twenty percent in the last three days of me weak job figures from the us and their overall is better to.