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with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. of the war in afghanistan in ten videos posted by nato soldiers on the coalition's reputation and drum up new support for the taliban. turn to what is on the rest players once again in days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. it's all too dangerous top media force in america slams into national news channels including this woman says the u.s. needs to shelter in the global media.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day nine years 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 i want to sleep reports that militancy is often fueled by the way the war is conducted. f.l. schools 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 here 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

is to them it's to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting direct links to videos put up on the web by the soldiers themselves in blogs and social networking sites it's the enemy who's not helping the taliban fight its cause they can easily be copied by al qaeda and the taliban. 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 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 for launching it alone so the . internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed a small and overcrowded test say for the past two years and although the connections 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 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 new mail and send message by by mobile phone. make very bloody 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 every time you see this can see this 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 r.t. kabul. patricia de janeiro a political scientist from new york university says the lack of civilian leadership in afghanistan is unacceptable. this form of democracy or this imposed form of democracy which would have started during the bonn agreement has had no

consultation no mentor said no and buys a moment for the government current government to be wed to so milestones can be achieved 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 you 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 due. well still to come in the program this out of the unsolved slaying of a human rights champion. for you to head death in human rights. it's called sky to me alice said that in just a few moments from the. rest has broken out in kyrgyzstan 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 move on and says. 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 they lost everything. they're being forced to survive taking any work they can fired. especially 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 to get out burnt down shops destroyed pharmacies and abandoned cafes are a common sight in kyrgyzstan 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 on that was be a 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 called 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 for us from the twenty nine. are spread both in the untouched mainly curious 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 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 help they are getting is from the red cross. about one hundred people engaged all together in this. game to just give so-called. brigades. were putting them on the p.c. officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence many fear more unrest is ahead some say they have been getting messages to ignore the vote the parliamentary election was announced six months ago after the president. and his government were all through thousands of 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.

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 has been the public's attention ever since it was at the rally. three minutes pass for one that is of course the exact time that on the police called sky was blue surely gunned down on the side how moscow palme 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 loved diana and wanted to publicly more hug. something that she was in the so why didn't. i remember her brother last article she wrote. after reading it i said to my friend and you will be killed soon

and she was killed within a few days the article was about what's happening in 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'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 port of call this guy are growing increasingly frustrated at the slow pace of the case the police for their promising 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 also doug's done in english but against all of that there was an equally large number of people who love the cause who 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 how many journalistic endeavors she was awarded a role of to 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 explains. dennis makes no secret that he dislikes

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 backlogs done 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 quest for our tragedy 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 author of the term 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 pollute corsica's mark recchi reporting had led to. a journalist who deals with people's pay. it is 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 rekindling people's faith in justice four years later political skills only murder still remains unpunished russia's investigative committee says the case is very challenging but the search for the killers and masterminds is still ongoing. because his daughter hira who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful. news 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. 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 gas 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 was not out of the building wish to leave and the issue with kira in violation of a theory quote the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less scottish are happy you reasons to appreciate her reporting and overbilling go rather through a movie but god is still here attributing her live

a condemnation of. a kind of break up r.c. moscow. russia is in talks with iran over the return of one hundred seventy million dollars 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 supply of the long range missiles has been confirmed by president dmitri medvedev iran's defense minister called the move a breach of contract but said negotiations with moscow was still ongoing he added the islamic republic plans to design its own systems instead russia has signed a deal to supply iran with the s three hundred rockets back in two thousand and seven but none were ever delivered. a brief look now at some other into national news this hour and i was updated these people have been killed and more than sixty wounded after twenty explosions struck a sufi shrine in southern pakistan one of the blasts appears to have been caused by a suicide bomber if you worship sites are often targeted by militant groups who

disagree with their interpretation of islam or thursday is the busiest time of the week for safina last twenty thousand is typically gathered to pray and distribute food to the pool. 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 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. thousands of greek public servants are walked off the job for a twenty four hour nationwide strike over wage cuts and job losses and demanding the government repeal stringent austerity measures designed to pull the country out of financial crisis walk out and shut down all public offices including schools and state hospitals flights were also disrupted as air traffic controllers joined in the protests. well the u.s.

much 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 anime's including altie going to become 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 cost to fight in america's 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 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 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 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 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 out 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 statement don't raise the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody 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 on 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 they still getting used to the increasing volume from media voices giving fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. but by the way don't forget to log onto our web site it's all a t don't. always more stories for you there of course and here is some that might catch your eye at the moment if you do not on president dmitri medvedev this is the

cyprus in the mediterranean on into warmly welcomed the head of state the first of an official visit for a russian leader and to get more insight into this historic trip you can log on to the politics section that's on the web site on t.v. dot com. and if you plan on spending this winter in europe stock up on warm clothes as weather forecasters predicted the freeze of a millennium is just a few months away. to bring you up to date and i'll be back with a look at the headlines in about eight minutes from now next with the business. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news russian cyprus have signed an agreement

eliminating double taxation between the two countries 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 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 and second about particularly just little real estate in russia. to be resolved 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 so i think number one task is to. get more investment from cyprus into russia and what's happening i think cyprus is one of the largest investor in russia and i think gradually the russian business will start over 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 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 she explains. cyprus is a small islands in the mediterranean and it's russia's biggest foreign investor however most of the capital flowing into russia is not separate it's russian one a kind of 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 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 destruction of russian businesses until most of. putting more thoughtful so broad in terms of destruction over their management structure study in in terms of let's say they're explaining we've been looking at what worked behind the first transaction want to thank you for i think this will be a very important change in the minds of. the as my 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 mujra stiction and develop new schemes but the opportunities that offshore companies provide for the real estate business for example so 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 harm of which may soon become the nearest destinations to offer and safe harbor from the tax authorities of 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 talk of dialogue may increase state and expectedly high was rushing for zero 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 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 business or 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 and russian amount of to more than one hundred million dollars as of the first of september it was almost entirely due to the like 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 shop by a seam and filled with a stage energy firm the deal involving up to five hundred billion cubic meters of gas could strength of the wall of his that are by john as a supplier to the west. that's all we have time for knowledge join me next dollar for more and get more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.