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as the war in afghanistan enters year ten online videos posted by nato soldiers undermined the coalition's reputation and drum up new support for the taliban. fears of a return to riots on rest flares. once again in kurdistan days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. this dangerous media boss in america slams international news channels including this one and says the u.s. needs to shell loader in the global media war.

live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day it's nine years since the us started the war in afghanistan already the longest in america's history washington says it wants to start withdrawing its forces next july until then the number of troops is increasing in an attempt to turn around the fight against the taliban but if that is paulus reports the insurgency is often fueled by the way the war is conducted. and house goes up in smoke and where the justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital culprits soldiers can be heard saying fantastic before posting them on the internet even if by burning their house accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious

history with them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be looking more and more islamic extremist websites are posting down returns to the 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 be the eclipse you want here you. don't have a kid you want to hang. out in some cases the very soldiers videos of 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 on mine it's a lawyer so the. internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed this small and overcrowded test say for the past two years and although the connection snow it's fast enough to keep people 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 and also with one guy sees a video he told his friend to get in 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 followed once a knee. and. by a mobile phone. make value but a good video clips the would it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see the spread of things in the internet because everything you see is consumed is in the life with the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves. topple well for more on the anniversary of the conflict in afghanistan we're joined live from london by paul graham the executive director of the british american security information council thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. so the conflict has lasted for nine years now do you think that president obama's

pledge of a military pullout next summer is really achievable. well i think you need to remember that he was pledging to start the pullout who knows how long that will take but i think it's important to also recognize that this is driven largely by domestic opinion back in the states and by allies within nato we've already seen commitments to withdraw completely from the canadians and dutch recently and the british government be solid our live behind united states has all but said categorically that they will be out of the country by two thousand and fifteen so the americans recognize that they are increasingly on their own in a situation which as you say has gone on for nine years if there isn't. just a if there if there is a withdrawal a complete withdrawal of forces but what's the future of afghanistan then what's the likelihood of stability after that well one it's very difficult to say what the

situation is going to be like once there is for withdrawal for withdrawal i would not predict happening for another four years yet two three four years may be even a little longer but the president is definitely looking for for signs of progress because he's going to be facing a reelection in two years time and he went into the last election. with a very strong statement that afghanistan was where the american focus needed to be as opposed to after two iraq his his movies and is now shifting towards withdrawal where does that leave afghanistan i think that as you were i think quite rightly pointed to most of the attention of the insurgency against the american forces themselves it's very difficult given the transformation of the taliban over the nine years conflict it's very difficult to say it's simply going to return to the past are i don't believe that is the case things have changed very dramatically on

the ground i think it's very difficult can we talk about the past you mention the possible since the fall of the taliban administration back in nine hundred ninety one what's your view do you think afghans are actually better off now than they were then. two thousand and one as you thought they are. there are many afghans that are better off security in some parts the country is most certainly improved and for particular individuals it is better it is worse in other parts of afghanistan so i think it's very dangerous to make generalisations and security is such an important factor in the quality of life of people in afghanistan i have to say living here in london and very rarely going anywhere near afghanistan it's very difficult for me to give an objective opinion as to whether the life for the afghans has improved but one indication is definitely clear that recruitment to the taliban amongst many afghans has been continuing which i think indicates if nothing

else that many afghans have become disillusioned if they ever were illusions with the intervention ok we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed that's paul ingram executive director of the british american security information council thanks for joining us there live in london. now fresh unrest has broken out in kurdistan after a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek security has been beefed up across the country head of sunday's parliamentary election but the country remains ethnically split and wary of more volunteers are going off now reports. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity but she says it's still not safe just like many others in the ethnically divided city they 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 off to what happened there is a massive could already left others are looking for ways how to get out bring down shops destroyed pharmacies in abandoned cafes are a common sight in this second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos armed gangs mainly young men destroyed shops set cars ablaze and burned down houses officially hundreds were killed several thousand were injured by the time the country's interim government managed to take control of the situation mobilizing the army for months all quarters are only now beginning to recover. everything was burned here everybody is fleeing abroad to look for jobs but we must rebuild before it's. construction is being carried out with the sales of political education the feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election for. our spread both in the

mean the kiddies 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 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 see the only hope they are getting is from the red cross. crowd one hundred people do just all together in this push them to just do so-called work program brigades. putting them on the b.b.c. officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence many fear more

unrest is ahead some awful say they've been getting messages calling on them to ignore the vote the parliamentary election was announced six months ago after president. and his government were all through thousands of protestors and the opposition to control of the. many analysts say the interim government has so far failed 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. the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but 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 be it must up its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including r.t. . has more. it's a common belief on capitol hill that the best way to raise money from congress is

to scare them walter isaacson the head of a government agency that manages u.s. 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 artsy as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that they were 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 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 up 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 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 of 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 fresh perspective on world issues going to shit on our t. washington d.c. . several hundred people gathered in moscow for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the russian journalist anna politkovskaya was moda gunned down in her apartment block in two thousand and six cases being in the public's attention ever since well she's out of it hits was at the running. three minutes pulse for one that is of course the exact time that on the police called sky was brutally gunned down on the side hamas go home a blog a minute just silence was held just behind me here in the center of moscow that was then followed by a short memorial service attended by several high profile politicians and the

artists and people who just loved diana and wanted to publicly more hugs bonnie something that she was an inch wide divisions. i remember her brother last article she wrote. after reading it i said to my friend and you will be killed and she was killed within a few days the article was about what's happening to her investigation as far as progress is being made in the case on a wednesday interesting announcement came from the russian investigative team who said that they've identified a number of suspected accomplices who they believe in hiding across europe so they've called on the help of the european police colleagues to root out and find these people but we all four years on and the family and former colleagues have on the part of growing increasingly frustrated at the slow pace of the case the police for that paul saying they're doing everything they can they detained a number of people in connection with the case as well as employing the services of

the intelligence agencies and in typical to track down the person who they believe pulled the trigger however they do it the most a mind behind this case is still very much at large however they do now say that they all convinced that the crime was orchestrated and organized from al sunlight of russia and that it was in some way connected to her work both as a journalist and a human rights activist she was an outspoken controversial figure a public critic of the ministration and particularly in the last opponents of her life she was involved in exposing human rights abuses in the volatile caucuses republics. particularly chechnya but also. but against all of that there was an equally large number of people who love the cause she helped during the course of her life including the mothers of several soldiers who she helped pull their cases in court and for that work as well as how many journalistic endeavors she was

awarded a raft of prestigious awards both within russia and from abroad not of acknowledgment if you like for a woman who spends her life trying to improve the lives of ordinary people as my colleague on the boyko explains. dennis makes no secret that he likes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and this attitude is quite typical according to polls at least a third of russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on t.v. . 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 thanks 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. tragedy it 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 earth origins of the term to open criminal cases against us here 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 costco's mark recchi reporting had led to. a journalist who deals with people's pay. it is part of the 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 it but use about them. while she's often credited for rekindling people's faith in justice four years later

political because only murder still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the case is very challenging but the search for the killers and muster minds is still ongoing. because his daughter who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful. and was one of the 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 they 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 the station had zero tolerance for thermally as were an official the issue continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was not out of the building wish only of

a wish or with killers in violation of the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less scottish are happy you reasons to appreciate your reporting and i don't believe go round three and there were but god is still here attributing to live the condemnation of. a kind of wake up r.t. moscow. time now for a brief look at some other international news this hungary's racing against time to prevent a wider disaster after a deadly chemical sludge spill reached the river danube the country's prime minister described the spill is it your logical tragedy it's clear the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including corrosion serbia and roumania a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste burst from a reservoir earlier this week even four people dead and over one hundred injured. but the seven people have been killed more than sixty wounded after twin explosions struck a sufi shrine in southern pakistan the causes of the blasts are unclear the pakistani

places of worship of frequently targeted by islamist militant groups thursday is the busiest time of the week for fifty six when thousands typically gathered to pray and distribute food to. thousands or greek public servants of walked off the job for twenty four hour nationwide strike a wage cuts and job losses are demanding the government repeal stringent austerity measures designed to pull the country out of financial crisis to work out a shutdown in public offices including schools and state hospitals flights were also disrupted as traffic controllers joined in the protests well that brings you up to date for the moment i'll be back in about eight minutes from now with a look at our main news stories this hour in the meantime business news is next with stay with us for that. hello and a very warm welcome to the business is russia in cyprus have signed an agreement eliminating double taxation between the two countries the deal has been reached by

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

a normal tax that tax regime of having normal chief information i think very much matter. cyprus is the biggest foreign investor in russia with many russian companies that but that may change as russia tightens up its tax rules that 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 in 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 uncooperative that it was added to russia's blacklist threatening tax penalties for companies registered there and new double taxation agreement is expected to remove cyprus from the notorious list but will boost information exchange between the two tax authorities

but will mean a lot for structuring of russian businesses in terms of putting more thoughtful sober or in terms of destruction in all of their management structure in terms of. explaining and we have been a looking at what. is behind the first transaction what is a business facing this will be a very important change and be mindful that russia is 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 tax 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 bahamas which may soon become the nearest destinations to offer and safe harbor from the tax authorities the generosity of course of business are to. time to see how the russian indices finished the session for myself slipped back into red at close all the way players were trading in a narrow range exceptions what point is gold up seven percent on high metals prices and plans to boost gold production question truck they could come up two percent on

talk of dime that may increase state and expectedly high was russian fro three hundred seventy continent shares were up twelve percent. and russians are getting more pessimistic about the economic outlook that's according to federal statistics service which has polled five thousand people across the country around twenty five percent expect economic conditions to get worse of the next twelve months that's compared to just seventeen percent in the second quarter and more than one third of the citizens say their financial standing has declined russians increased spending on food last year at the expense of consumer goods russian businesses space soon have to ensure the salaries of this stuff in case of bankruptcy that's 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 it was almost entirely due to lack of cash flow.