all. sure is that so much i can tell you if you're trying to hit the market there's the taliban bad guys the so-called. has it failed. to date on terror there's only increased violence around the world. in india in the movie. the gateway who took the brunt imperial trilogy the top western coast coromandel

hotel. to go and. run the city the colonel was so told treat. 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 of a return to rest flares once again in days before parliamentary elections are due to be held in the troubled country. is all too dangerous media boss in america slams international news channels including this one and says the u.s. needs to shout louder in the global media war.

live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us now million 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 . now reports the militancy is often fueled by the way the war is can. talk to. 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 the clip on the internet even appear if by burning the house accidentally a copy of the koran is barren then that house that can be easily used as a tactic or as a means of practicing more young. religious

history of them to go and join the taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be looking more and more islamic extremist websites are posting down returns to 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. really make. the us forces fail to be the eclipse you want dearly. you want to hang. out in some cases the us soldiers videos of prankish and childish other times downright criminal or extremely provocative in this clip us soldiers of 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 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 watch where you can see the proof online version it's alone so the. internet has. faisal the buzz in downtown kabul funded have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two years and although the connection is slow it's fast enough to keep people dumbed down. already. 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 a mother also with one guy sees a video he tells his friend to 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 father wants a new mail and so the taliban send message by by mobile phone and. make body 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 with the taliban picking up on a form of communication that once banned it's now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves policy r.t. total countries rondo and others from the international crisis group told r.t. that washington seems to have no clear cut strategy on how to win the war in afghanistan. there are a lot of disagreements in the u.s. government with the state department with the u.s.

military was other sections of the u.s. government there's no real cohesiveness to the policy and that's become extremely problematic on the ground here in terms of rolling out a counterinsurgency strategy you know it's obviously it's been the military that's been at the forefront but of course counterinsurgency is more than just guns and being on the front line in confronting you know people at the battle lines it's more about providing governance building institutions and the civilian effort on the american side and nato side has been extremely weak unfortunately the time pressures of course also don't help the july two thousand and eleven date that supper was set up by president obama has really pressurized the situation making everybody including afghan believes in the political you really scramble to find their best position at the most advantageous place to be so that's causing a lot of confusion in terms of the overall policy picture. the head of russia's anti narcotics agency viktor ivanov says years of the u.s.

campaign in afghanistan have stalled the fight against drugs in the country. to. the nine years of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows. 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 the only way of income big 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 a shine rest has broken out in cutting 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 election but the country remains ethnically split and wary of more violence as artie's you go to the reports. with 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 it is no one trusts the government and how could we often what happens if there is a bounce it could already left others are looking for ways to get out burnt down 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 young men destroyed shops set cars ablaze and burned down houses officially hundreds were killed several thousand were injured by the time the country's interim government managed to take control of the situation mobilizing the army for months all. are only now 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 education feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election where. parties taking port are spread both in the me and the kid gets 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 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 so-called ground brigades. were putting them on the b.b.c. 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 thousands of protesters and the opposition to control of the country many analysts say the interim government has so far failed to provide the needed stability especially here in the self where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty. even stands for. several hundred people gathered here 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 investigators say they now have a number of new suspects in the case and are working with interpol to catch the mastermind behind the killing. was an outspoken critic of the kremlin and reported on more listeners in russia southern republic of chechnya she was also a human rights activist helping many stories of abuse and unfair treatment get heard. as more. dennis makes no secret he likes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and this attitude is quite typical according to polls at least a third of russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on t.v. . i'm tired 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 he 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 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 orthorexic the attempt to open criminal cases against us no journalist is willing to take the risk of that 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 the trial. a journalist who deals with people's pain as 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 him a nice about them. while she's often credited for rekindling people's faith in justice for years later police cars because 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. the daughter who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful. that it was one of us who is 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 they don't believe 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 and people

who knew on the political of the station had zero tolerance for their families and official them and she continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was noted in the building where she lived and the issue with here in violation of a. behavior such commemorations within five years of a person is that there are less but michelle's have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe go round three but god is still here attributing to live a condemnation of. a kind of break up r.c. rothko the vast cuz i step serve out 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 two hours from now into orbit and a brand new soyuz capsule equipped with cutting edge technology where tom bowman 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 ca's extern 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 soviet man was revealed in an instant in the concrete of the cosmos i think you can say better than that about pocono. and the vast concentration of technology here in the middle of nowhere has just become even more advanced this spacecraft has improved and digitized control power supply and temperature control systems but one thing hasn't changed the humans flying soyuz mission it's this crew like those before them have been training for years for their six month stint on the s i s. 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 calm and quiet way so i think we're going to have a. very good working relationship the space station because. 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 will be the first twins in space we occasionally flown together in that maybe as a test pilot but before that i think we get a dairy queen or a twelve years old mop the floor. of 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 a few minutes 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. odyssey by. prefer it to some other international used news at this stage of the day at least eight people have been killed and more than sixty wounded after twenty explosions at in southern pakistan the blasts appear to have been caused by suicide bombers if you worship science so 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 why did this. asked 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 leaving four people dead and over one hundred injured . the world update the south thousands of public servants i walked off the job for twenty four hour nationwide strike over wage cuts and job losses demanding the government repeal stringent sturdy measures designed to pull the country out of financial crisis to shut down public offices of t.v. schools and state hospitals flights were also disrupted as air traffic controllers joined in the protests. well 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 us. has more. it's a common belief on capitol hill that the best way to raise money from congress is to scare them walter isaacson the head of a government agency that manages u.s. international broadcasting apparently wants a lot of money the cause to fight america's enemies in the media which he identifies as he ran venezuela russia and china we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies there's that freedom house report that reveals that today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence the global opinion you've got russia today iran's press t.v. venezuela's telos and of course china is a launching international broadcasting twenty four hour news channel of correspondents around the world spence portly 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 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 why. a more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and as well as their list or combined i may be money does not really make zero for global media clout mr isaacson says that it's truthfulness that will make the difference and in the and the truth is on our side and if that's the one that raised the alert with some freedom of speech advocates somebody who says that truth is always on the united states side is a propagandist and not a. journalist and i think that's bad it 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 iranian presidential election and some experts say american broadcasters that once used to be a powerful voice in the international media are now facing a crisis the problem that they are facing is that the messages they have of how the world is supposed to work is not resonating it's not getting traction it seems washington is still getting used to the increasing volume for media voices giving a fresh perspective on world issues kind of chicken or t. washington d.c. you have to bring up that for the moment with a look at our main news in about eight minutes from now in the meantime marty talks to the american author and journalist and jones about the decade old war in afghanistan that interview coming up next stay with us on altie.

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 begin 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 in 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 threatening facts let's not make the common mistake of thinking that the devil we see is the only want and exactly the us the devil in afghanistan well the u.s. 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 u.s. 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 in 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 a soviet union fail we've seen britain falle but we've seen those like china is 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 a 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.