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stance on t.v. dot com. of the war in afghanistan into 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 on rest flares once again in quetta just down days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. dangerous top media boss in america slams international news channels including this one and says the u.s. needs to shelter in the global media. lawyer

for most central moscow this is all to do with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us 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 and until then the number of troops is increasing and then attempt to turn around the funds against the taliban but reports the insurgency is often fueled by the way the war is conducted. a false 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 the clip on the internet even if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is barren and that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of acting more young. religious

students to go and joined taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting down returns 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 video clips you are clearly. clearly you want to hang. out in some cases the various soldiers videos of prankish and childish other times they're downright criminal or extremely provocative in this clip us soldiers burn the bodies of good 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 someone's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon here watching videos that make you angry a lot of the only calling we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights watch you can see the proof online watching it alone so the do to. internet cafes are 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 snow it's fast enough to keep people locked down. ready to move until it's easy for people to watch these videos put up by the american soldiers because the most popular videos are of the first page of you tube the mother was also with one guy sees a video he tells his friend get in even 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 him in and sort of taliban send message by by mobile phone and. make money but a good video clips the word it seems always has a way of getting out of going people not to see describe the thing in the internet because everything you see this can see this in the life what the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now thoughts on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r.t. tumble. and brian becker of the national coordinator of the coalition that's a u.s. pressure group believes that a withdrawal of coalition troops from afghanistan won't lead to increased violence . the american government in its propaganda arm just as they did during vietnam

tried to paint a picture that there would be a terrible bloodbath if the occupation forces left but if the occupation forces leave that means drone bombing attacks of afghan and pakistan villages will stop it will mean that the level of violence instead of ask relating every month with more and more thousands and tens of thousands of foreign troops coming in troops who obviously don't understand the country don't speak the language don't understand the culture and are largely demonizing the people and have all sorts of racist characters of those forces when they leave the bloodshed will diminish that doesn't mean that we know what will happen in afghanistan but the american presence has escalated the violence the cycle of violence throughout the country and throughout the region. coming up in the program for you here in r.t. this are the unsolved slaying of a human rights champion. death and human rights demanding justice for what it costs to win the alice it isn't just

a few moments. but first fresh rest has broken out in kind of a stand after a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek security has been beefed up across the country ahead of sunday's parliamentary election but the country remains ethnically splits and wary of more violence as. reports. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still the scene just like many other ethnically divided city being lost if you think. they're being forced to survive where you're taking any work they can fight. us than we do there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we off to what happened there is about to could already left other than looking for ways how to get out bruce dold shops destroyed for missy's in the bad cafes.

second largest 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 mobilizing the army. quarters are only beginning to recover. everything was burned here everybody's clean to look for jobs but we must rebuild before it's. 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 elections. are spread both mean the cube is populated areas and here this is one of the districts of the city as you can see it was almost completely destroyed by the violence and a similar picture can be seen in

a dozen other parts of reconstruction here is in full swing despite the lack of money and people and for most of the locals this is a race against time to rebuild their homes before the bitter winter hits and that for them is a far greater importance than any election. state funding is very limited if in fact there is any. see the only help they're getting is from the red cross. crowd one hundred people together in this push them to just give so-called ground brigades. the species officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence. ahead say they've been getting messages to. six months ago after the president. and his government. and the opposition to control of the.

government has so far failed to provide the needed especially here in the self where most of the voters don't know what each of the parties even stands for. several hundred people gathered here 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 her cases been in the public's attention have a sense. it was at the ronnie. three minutes pause for one that is of course the exact time that on the police called sky was 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 and that was then followed by a short memorial service attended by several high profile politicians and the artists and people who just love diana and wanted to publicly more huddles done

something that she was an upset by the nation. i remember her brother. 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 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 all 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 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 outside 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 against all of that there was an equally large number of people who love the cause who she helps 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 have 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 boy who explains. dennis makes no secret he likes 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. . 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 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 help and when it seemed that everything in his country had failed him one reporter came to his grave it was on the political question. tragedy 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 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 a piece about them. while she's often credited for a kindle in people's faith in justice four years later will it cause because only murders still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the kids 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 it 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 gas station had zero tolerance for thermally and officialdom and she continues to describe them even after her death take this plot for example it was mounted on the building russia leave and the issue with kirkuk in violation of a city called behavior such commemorations within five years of

a person's value and are less cross officials have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe the round. the clock is still here a tribute to her life and a condemnation of. a kind of break up our team moscow the israeli army once again stands accused of disregarding the basic human rights of palestinians a video uploaded on you tube shows an israeli defense force soldier humiliating a blindfolded palestinian woman should be put on from the public committee against torture in israel says that d.f. offenders should face an international court but the problem is not only that it's not the most moral. army in the world but the fact is that there is a culture of impunity where such humiliation such violations and crimes are not convicted by the army or by the other authorities it's a bug time for the international community to intervene to make it clear for is

very elite authority security researchers that no one is above the law and that. absolute british and against torture and ill treatment in relation is really absolute and which means that if you violated once again you will face charges if not in israel then outside. tom not have a quick look at some other international news this hour here on r.t. in our world update at least eight people have been killed more than sixty wounded after twenty explosions struck us in southern pakistan one of the blasts appears to have been caused by a suicide bomber so if you worship sites are often targeted by militant groups who disagree with their interpretation of islam thursday is the busiest time of the week for city mosques when thousands typically gather to pray and distribute food to the poor. hungry is 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 as

a geological tragedy it's feared the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including croatia serbia and remain in a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste burst from the words of one earlier this week leaving four people dead and over one hundred injured. 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 up its game to combat the rise of what he called media enemies including r.t. . as 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 because to fight it marriage has enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela russia and china we care 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'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 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 way more than the budget of our t.v. iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined and maybe money does not really make how 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 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 not. 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 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. called 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 fresh perspective on world issues going to shut down our t. washington d.c.

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hello and a very warm welcome to the business news russian 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. being implemented is no zero taxation and cyprus there was a couple of questions one including the disclosure of information about the company and second about particular purchase of the real estate in russia. 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 yes or the 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 even have a normal tax that tax regime would have a normal chief information i think it's 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 separate it's russian want to coming back home from an offshore tax haven easy come easy go with minimal taxes for business top russian tycoon operating through firms registered on cyprus it's been previously so 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 destruction in the russian business until most of putting more thoughtful sober or in terms of destruction of their management structure study in in terms of their lives explaining them we have been looking at what. behind the fish transaction all of this a business facing this will be

a very important change in the minds of. the 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. polls 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 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 talk of dime that may increase the stakes and expectedly high was rushing for zero three trains seven 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 in 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 insure 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 amount of to more than one hundred million dollars as of the first of september it was almost entirely due to lack of cash flow. british oil group b.p. is to explore and develop a major caspian sea gas filled it signed a thirty year deal on the shelf filled with a stage energy firm the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of gas could strength of the role of visitor by john as a supplier to the west.