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come. the war in afghanistan. videos posted by nato soldiers. reputation draw new support for the taliban. it's overturned it says on the west. days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. and dangerous. international news channels including this one and says the u.s. needs to show up in the global media.

live from our studios in central moscow with you twenty four hours a day. since the u.s. 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 as well to these reports the insurgency is often fueled by the way the war is conducted. house goes up in smoke and weather justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital culprits soldiers who can be heard saying fantastic before posting that clip on the internet even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of attracting more young. 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 means to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's not i want to be 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 the 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 us so you'd sometimes home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make him angry a lot 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 for launching it alone so the. internet cafes on 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 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 tells his friend to get in 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. by a mobile phone. make buddy buddy good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of one people not to see describe the thing in the internet because everything you see is consumed in the life with the taliban picking up on a form of communication that once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves r.t. . and for more on the ninth year of the afghan war i'm now joined live by patricia de janeiro she's a political suffers from new york university thanks very much indeed patricia for joining us now the obama administration has now set

a goal of course on the beginning of the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan next july what do you think do you believe the pentagon will actually meet that deadline . well first i think that was basically a misunderstanding and what president obama said i think the understanding is that the troops that completed the surge will begin again to pull out in july so it won't be a full pullout of troops and but having said that i don't think i think we're still going to be in the country for a very long time i mean we're hearing from the generals at least five years do you think that perhaps troops should be pulled out because the afghan president hamid karzai is reportedly held talks with insurgents quite recently do you think that the role of the military action perhaps negotiation could be the way food. well absolutely i think the negotiation is way overdue it should have started ten you know nine years ago when the invasion started but i think what what's happening

here and what's happened over the last five years are the nine years excuse me is that you see a noticeable absence of a civilian led compliment to this war everyone talks about the fact that it can't be won militarily that a lot of the military strategy needs to be complemented with the civilian effort yet the secretary of state even the president obama even international world leaders there are missing and so we don't have any civilian leadership here we don't have a civilian counterpart for general petraeus which we did have and do have in iraq so this has been noticeably absent for the last nine years and frankly is unacceptable and should be should actually be looked at right away and change it i mean it's way past do another which people are finding unacceptable in extremely worrying is the afghan administration is accused of rampant corruption so who's at fault here is it the u.s. and nato or is it actually a failure. i think it's

a failure in overall policy and again we've been trying to manage this war in an international effort with forty seven countries piecemeal you know you have the military part you have several thousand civilian parts going on nobody's coordinating that nobody knows what to do with that the violence is getting higher people are not getting out more they're actually staying in more you see noticeable noticeably more to walls around development efforts people don't go out as much they're on lockdown more it's become more violent so all of these pieces are a problem within that context in addition to that i think you know in all fairness there are absolutely corruption issues within the president's office i've been there however there have also been noticeably a laugh. mentorship advise demand so this government learns how to operate this form of democracy or this imposed form of democracy which would have started during

the bond agreement has had no consultation no mentorship no an advisement for the government current government to be wed to so milestones can be achieved and changes can be made could i just from your point of view as an international security specialist what would the consequences be for the for the rest of the world indeed for you and me i'm not talking about afghanistan and the people in afghanistan but for the world if let's say the us does withdraw and we do see the taliban return and set up an administration and a government there what will the implications be well how knowing the afghans really well i don't i don't really think that after afghans themselves are going to allow the taliban to return i think they'll fight that absolutely but i think what the consequences you're going to see is you're going to syria turn of the civil war and that goes back to the first question that you asked whether or not these negotiations should take place and the answer to that is yes they should have taken place a long time ago but today why not start better late than never and have all parties

come in and take part in these negotiations there's a civil war that has never been ended that is never had any kind of you know. out of agreement or change so i think that civil war will absolutely start up again if we don't have and hold the space for security for these negotiations to go through through all party it's not just between the taliban in the current government thanks very much indeed patricia de janeiro political so it is from new york university in new york thanks. fresh unrest has broken out in kind of a stand after a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek security is being beefed up across the country ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections but the country remains ethnically split and wary of more violence. reports. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not safe just like many others in the ethnically divided city the lost everything. being forced to survive

taking any work they can fight. especially the were there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government to do and how could we often what happens if there is a massive could already left because others are looking for ways to get out. del shops destroyed pharmacies and abandoned cafes are a common sight in august second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos armed gangs mainly. 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 all. are only 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 agitation feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election four years from the twenty nine parties taking port are spread both in the me and the kid gets 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 the reconstruction curies 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 engaged all together in this push them to just do

so-called ground brigades. we are putting them on a daily basis officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence. ahead some say they've been getting messages to. the parliamentary election six months ago after the president. and his government were all through. the opposition to control of the. 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. several hundred people gathered in moscow for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of russian journalist anna politkovskaya gunned down in her apartment block in two thousand and six

a case has been in the public's attention of a sense. it's at the ready. three minutes pause for one that is of course the exact time that on the police called sky was gunned down on the side to moscow palma blog and militia silence was held just behind me here in the center of moscow and 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 hug us by naming something that should have been upset by initially. i remember her brother lost article. 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 wednesday the interesting announcement came from the russian investigative team who said that they'd 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 for years all of 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 at mit that 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 organize 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 fall of sellable caucuses republics. particularly chechnya but also. against all of that there was an equally large number of people who loved. her she helped during the course of her life including the mothers of several soldiers who she helps battle their cases in court and for that work as well as her 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 colleagues on the boyko explain. dennis makes no secret that he likes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and they started to disquiet 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 got 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 help 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 in news papers and on t.v. but only anna politkovskaya touched upon the real life problems of the people she wrote about strong psychological pressure from the earth origins of the 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 course because 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 images about them. while she's often credited for rekindling people's faith in justice weir's later police cars because only murder still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the case is very challenging but this suit for the killers and muster minds 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. and will support and ideas 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 no way 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 thorough malazan and official the issue continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it is not out of the building wish only of a wish or with here in violation of the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less but the show is happy you reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe her rather through the movie but is still here attributing to live a condemnation of. a kind of wake up r.t. moscow. the u.s. smarts 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 up it's going to combat the rise of what he

called media enemies including all to me. 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 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'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 well 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 leader mr isaacson backtracked i don't take a russia or artsy as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that they're an enemy so that's just not right maybe mr isaacson really did not mean to offend russia or china it's all a pitch for more money from congress which he's trying to kind of appeal to by saying that other countries are spending more on international communications gear is really the buzzword that's used to try to generate money for the defense department a cia intelligence agencies and now for international broadcasting but getting the u.s. message across this costly there goes that mr walter isaacson is heading is called broadcasting board of governors it includes radio stations voice of america one of them and a fairly unpopular middle eastern t.v.

channel and all this the board spends more than seven hundred fifty million dollars and it's way more than the budget of our t.v. iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined so maybe money does not really make up for global media clout mr isaacson says that its truthfulness will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and it's that statement that raised an alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and that. 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 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 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. . up to date for the moment business is next with you here that's coming your way off the short break stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

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a couple of questions one including the disclosure of information about the company and second of all particularly the real estate in russia. brazil so it's just happened historically of 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. to. get more investment from russia happening i think cyprus or one of the largest investor in russia and i think gradually the russian business will start to move to russia but at the end of the day even have a normal tax that tax regime would have a normal chief information i think very much matter. cyprus is the biggest foreign investor in russia with many russian companies register them 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 get him back home from an offshore tax havens 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 will boost information exchange between the two tax authorities but will mean a lot for destruction of russian businesses until most of putting more thoughtful sober or in terms of the destruction of their management structure study in in terms of the let's say they're explaining them we have been looking at what. is

behind the first transaction what is the business of basing this will be a very important change in be mindful that. 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 and safe harbor from the tax authorities the jennifer to business are to. time to see how the russian indices finished thursday's session from isis 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 of russian truck they could come up two percent on the talks a direct may increase state and expectedly high was rushing for zero three chains seven continent shares were up twelve percent. and russians are getting more pessimistic about.