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

live from our studios in central moscow this is with you twenty four hours a day it's 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 salty's policy reports the militancy is often fueled by the way the war is conducted. f.l. schools up in smoke and whether justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital culprits soldiers can be heard saying fantastic before posting that clip on the internet even appear if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is byron and that how's that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of practicing more. religious

history with them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting down returns to 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 can easily make. the us forces fail the video clips if you want to. hang. out in some cases the us soldiers videos are prankish and childish other times it's downright criminal or extremely provocative in this clip u.s. 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 it so you'd someone's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only calling we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato new americans are talking about human rights you can see the proof online version it's alone so the. internet cafes on the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded test say for the past two years and although the connection snow it's fast enough to keep people logged on. the rate of movement and it's 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 when one guy sees a video he tells his friend to get any of you know 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 mill and so. message by by mobile phone. make value but a 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 what the taliban picking up on the form of communication it once banned it now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r.t. toddle. back at the national coordinator of the coalition the u.s. pressure group believes that 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 a lady in 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 caricature of them 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. the head of russia's anti narcotics agency victor ivanov says years of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan have stalled the fight against drugs in the country. due. the nine years of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows more fighting equals less chance to destroy the

narcotics business only the government capable of ruling the country based on the population supports consoled the drugs problem when americans say you can't leave the peasants without their only way of income giving a sign to the afghan authorities to keep out of the opium business because those left without cash will turn to the taliban for support but this is just an excuse for. fresh unrest has broken out in a stand after a more storm the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek security is being beefed up across the country head of sunday's parliamentary election but the country remains ethnically split and wary of more violence as. piskun are now reports. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still in june just like many other ethnically divided city being lost everything. being forced to survive. us then lead the way there is no

stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how good we are to what happened there is a massive good already left others are looking for ways how to get out. shops destroyed pharmacies in abandoned cafes. orders. in june it failed to complete here. the games mainly young men destroyed shops set cars a blaze and birkdale houses officially hundreds or killed several thousand were injured by the time the country's interim government managed to take control of the situation mobilizing the army for. quarters are only beginning to recover. everything was burned here everybody to look for jobs but we must rebuild before school construction is being carried out with the sounds of political education

feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary elections. are spread both in the. 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 the reconstruction series 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. about one hundred people engaged all together in this for. them to just do the so-called work program brigades. were paying them one of the

pieces 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. and the opposition to control. many analysts say the 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 on thursday for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of russian journalist anna politkovskaya murder gunned down in her apartment block in two thousand and six her case has been in the public's attention ever since the vest again to say they now have a number of new suspects in the case and are working with interpol to capture the

mastermind behind the killing was an outspoken critic of the kremlin and reported on more listeners in russia republic of chechnya which are also human rights activists helping many stories of abuse and unfair treatment get heard oksana boyko has more. than his makes no secret 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 would be read in newspapers or see on t.v. . one time 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 help here 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 he's relieved it was on the political question quest. 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 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 pain as part of their job and tries to. actually helped 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 on 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 who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful. that it was one of these was still have hope of course but the way the investigation is going and the way the trial went we can tell the investigators haven't made much progress i can't see anything that would indicate we're getting closer to the truth if you 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 their families and official the issue continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was mounted on the building russia leave the issue of here

in violation of a. behavior such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less scottish are happy you reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe the route through but is still here attributing to live a condemnation of. a kind of wake up r.t. moscow the vast steps are about to witness the space industry's latest achievements roaring off into the sky the next crew of the international space station is about to travel in several hours from now into orbit and a brand new soyuz capsule equipped with cutting edge technology and tom barton is observing the preparations. humanity's highest technology waiting in the wilderness soyuz rockets will soon be planet earth's only link with the international space station hundreds of kilometers above. and for decades they've been launched here from baikonur in the

middle of the step and cars extend. an ideal launch site. when you go to start you'll see the monument to the conquerors of space on it is written in this place the genius of soviets man was revealed in an instant in the concrete of the cosmos i think you can see better than that about the economy. and the vast concentration of technology here in the middle of nowhere has just become even more advanced this spacecraft has improved in digitized control power supply and temperature control systems but one thing hasn't changed the humans flying soyuz missions this crew like those before them have been training for years for their six month stint on the i assess the two russians and one american know that in english soyuz means unity and the international nature of their mission so how will they get on you know personalities in there were very easily excitable and. you

know things in a very kind of calm and quiet way so i think we're going to have a. very good working relationship board the space station because we. have i think the same temperament all three of us and amazingly scott will have family coming to visit him on his mission his brother mark is also an astronaut and will lead the last u.s. shuttle mission to the i assess to be the first twins in space we occasionally flown together in that maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen were twelve years old mopping the floor for the last year the last job we really had that we work together this lonely launch platform in the wind blasted desert might seem like an odd place to pursue the most advanced of human endeavors but for the past fifty five years it's been doing just that this rocket

looks on the outside much like the first launched all those years ago but after years of improvement and preparation this mission plans to push the final frontier the. see. time now for a brief look at some other international news this hour at least eight people have been killed and more than sixty wounded after twenty explosions at the rhine in southern pakistan the blasts appear to have been caused by suicide bombers so if you worship science are often targeted by militant groups who disagree with their interpretation of islam on thursday is the busiest time of the week for surfing mosques one thousand is typically gathered 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 country's prime minister described the spill as a geological tragedy it's feared the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including croatia serbia and romania a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste burst from

a reservoir earlier this week even four people dead and over one hundred injured. in thousands of greek public servants have walked off the job for twenty four hour nationwide strike over wage cuts and job losses and demanding the government repealed stringent austerity measures designed to pull the country out of financial crisis the walkout of shut down all public offices including schools and state hospitals were also destructive as traffic controllers joined in the protests. one of 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 anime's including all the tea going to 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 because 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've got to go to capitol hill with that number to expand their overseas media operations to me it sounded like a declaration of information war but 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 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 it up 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 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 advocate. it's 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 sets a bad example for other countries when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspectives many times u.s. media is slanted toward the united states even the private media and the credibility of the broadcasting board of governors was under even more scrutiny when reports came out about the white house influence on the b.b.c. reporting after iranian presidential election and some experts say american broadcasters that once used to be a powerful voice in the international media are now facing a crisis the problem that they are facing is that the messages they have of how the world 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 going to shit on our t. washington d.c. . who want to bring us up to take a moment with a look at telling stories about eight minutes from now in the meantime altie talks to the american author and journalist and june's about the decade old war in afghanistan that interview is coming away next on our team.

r.t. is sitting down with journalist and author ann jones her most recent book is called war is not over when it's over and thank you very much for sitting down to speak with art it's my pleasure i'd like to be in by asking you about your time on a u.s. military base in afghanistan in june tell me what you saw and experienced the foremost thing i learned there was from the base commander when i talked to him about the counterinsurgency strategy in afghanistan and he said i'm not fighting counterinsurgency here i'm fighting conventional war since his battalion had taken over this base only a few weeks before he'd lost a lot of man. he was right there on the border of pakistan and there was

a lot of activity and of course all the news that was being reported here was about the build up to the great assault in khandahar and all the journalists who were in the south and i apparently was the first american journalist to go to that base and they were really fighting for their lives i want to also ask you about something you recently wrote an article about afghan women. being abandoned you said the taliban do terrible things that the problem with demonizing them is that it diverts attention away from other equally unpleasant and frightening facts let's not make the common mistake of thinking that the devil we see is the only want thanks actually the us the devil in afghanistan well the us is yeah i think you could say that in a way because we are supporting an administration that is not only

corrupt but of course as fundamentalist in many ways as the taliban. not just the executive branch and the cabinet but the parliament as well they're all controlled by former mujahideen. islamic extremists that the us the bush administration put in power and so we're on the one hand talking about spreading democracy and equal rights for women and all of those nice things and on the other hand in many ways there's not a dime's worth of difference between the government we're supporting and the taliban were fighting against and now of course where we keep talking about having negotiations cars i want wanted to negotiate for years in the us opposed it but now seems to be supporting it as a way out but you can be sure that if these negotiations go forward with the

taliban and the karzai government. it's afghan women and minorities who are going to suffer in the long run based on what you saw when you were in afghanistan what does the u.s. fundamentally want with afghanistan i have no idea i can't answer that question and many of the soldiers i've talked to couldn't answer that question many officers couldn't answer that question certainly. there are a lot of people in our political system who couldn't answer that question i think they're struggling with that in the white house as well clearly the afghans never asked for america to invade and occupy their country who benefits from all this that's happening more contractors a lot of money is being made off the war. you know when you look back in history when it comes to war and conflict uprising we've seen the soviet union fail we've seen britain falle but we've seen those like china gets caught on alexander the

great succeed but they had to exterminate majority of people any chance the u.s. would use that type of measure obama has said consistently that he wants to begin withdrawing troops he doesn't really want to be there but at the same time the generals are offering him. no range of options at all they're just wanting to remain wanting to increase the number of troops and this raises i think a very troubling constitutional crisis because the president is the commander in chief and as we see his generals boxing him into a corner what does that say about who's running the government in this country do you think the day will calm where this war will follow us home well we've already suffered that that's what nine eleven was it was

a blowback for our interference in that part of the world and now it comes back to us in many other ways. obama himself said he hasn't ruled out the possibility of another similar terrorist attack that would be blowback for our continuing involvement there but also it comes back in what's happening to our own country in. as our soldiers come home in terrible condition with. appalling physical and mental injuries and casualties and of course in what it costs this country to fight these illegal unnecessary wars and jones thank you very much for your time thank you.