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the war in afghanistan and the terror yeah big tables turned on coalition soldiers posting battlefield videos on the internet. tension mounts ahead of this weekend parliamentary elections and politically divided kurdistan. and america's international broadcasting board calls for more resources to dryland the growing voice of foreign news channels including. news from russia and the around the world this is all see with me your leisure

above all over thanks for joining us nato troops are still in afghanistan nine years after the first deployment making it the longest war in u.s. history washington says it wants to start withdrawing its forces next july but in the meantime more troops are still being deployed that militancy in the country has shown little of easing with many calling recent attacks they taliban's own but as paula sneer now reports as the soldiers on the ground that may be contributing to the increase. a false goes up in smoke and with a justified or not tempers fly in the afghan capital culprits soldiers can be heard saying fantastic before posting them on the internet. if by burning their homes accidentally a copy of the koran is housed that can be easily used as a park or as a means of acting more young. religious

history of them to go in and joined. and. 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 the video clips you want here they. don't have a clearly you want to hang. out in some cases the way 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 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 going on 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 do to. internet cafes all the buzz in downtown kabul hundred have been has managed the small and overcrowded cafe for the past two months and although the connections slow it's fast enough to keep people dumbed down. for a very good movement in the 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 another was 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 followed once a knee mill and 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 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 the form of communication it once banned it's now forced on coalition troops to censor themselves are seen trouble. on security x. the james carafano says the u.s. will only withdrawal from the country in one divine and. nobody thinks that announcing a date to begin the withdrawal of u.s.

troops was a good idea the president himself is actually backed off and said look we're going to do things based on the conditions on the ground the announcement of the withdrawal date was purely for domestic political purposes it was interpreted by our friends and our enemies as a statement of of being unclear resolve on the on the part of the united states. president has actually made the task of nato in afghanistan harder by establishing the state. but i think the reality is is that the the number of troops on the ground and the pace of their withdrawal if we believe our president is going to be dictated on the conditions on the ground that u.s. troops are going to stay there and they're going only going to begin to withdraw once the afghan people have increased their capacity to defend and protect themselves from the taliban and the reason why violence went up is because people were going out and going after the bad guys so the fact that you're actually seeing violence increase everybody predicted that general petraeus predicted that he said

look we're going to go and we're going to take back lands where the taliban are in there beheading people there are terrorizing people and we're going to go and we're going to fight and kick them out so of course the levels of violence will go up. that letter is deputy director of the heritage foundation think time james carafano the head of the russians aren't enough. to say write off as heirs of the u.s. can paint in afghanistan have stores they fight against drugs in the country. you. know news 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.

fresh unrest has broken out in kyrgyzstan after a mob stormed the headquarters of a leading political party in the capital bishkek that security is being beefed up across the country ahead of sunday's parliamentary elections but the country remains ethnic in this thread and wary of more violence as. reports. that this woman asked us not to reveal her identity she says it's still not safe in june just like many others in the ethnically divided city being lost everything. they're being forced to survive taking any work they can fight. us then lead to there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government and how could we often what happened to those of us who could already left others are looking for ways hard to get out burned down shops and destroyed pharmacies in abandoned cafes are a common sight in august second largest city in june it fell into complete chaos

and the games 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 it was be a quarters are only now beginning to recover and what doesn't 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 sales of political agitation the feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election four years from the party staking 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 and that for them is a far greater importance than any election. state funding is very limited if in fact there is 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 josh brown brigades. we're 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. and the opposition

to control of the. government has so far failed to provide the needed stability especially here in the south where most of the voters don't know what each of the twenty. even stands for. several hundred people gathered in moscow says day for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of russian journalist on the political. gunned down in her apartment block in two thousand and six her case has been in the public's attention of a sentence investigators say they have a number of new suspects in the case and working with interpol to catch the most in line behind the killing but it's called schools an outspoken critic of the corrupted and reported of lawlessness in russia's southern republic of chechnya and she also was a human rights activist helping many stories of abuse and unfair treatment get hurt get hurt oksana boyko how small. denis 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. . or on 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 helped him 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 scale 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 earth origins 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 course because mark recchi reporting had led to the trial of the more as 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 a piece about them. while she's often credited for it kindling people's faith in justice four years later political skills only murder still remains and punished 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 resemble. of her mother says the family is still hopeful. we

still have hope of course but the way the investigation is going and the way the trial went we can tell that the investigators haven't made much progress i can't see anything that would indicate we're getting closer to the truth beauty who 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 left the station had zero tolerance for their families and officialdom and she continues to defy them even after her death take this plot for example it was not out of the building where she lived in a way sure was killed 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 go wrong. but god is still here attributing to live

the condemnation of. our moscow the vast cause our steps are about to witness the space industry's latest achievements of roaring off into the sky the next career of the international space station is about to travel an hour's time from now into orbit and a brand new so use capsule equipped with cutting edge technology tom barton is observing the preparations. humanity's highest technology waiting in the wilderness soyuz rockets will soon be planted 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 cause 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 praise 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 but cannot. 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 missions this crew like those before them have been training for years for their six month stint on the i s s. the two russians and one american know that in english so is 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 deal is things in a very calm and quiet way so i think we're going to have a. very good working relationship board 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 to be the first twins in space we occasionally flown together in the navy as a test pilot but before that i think we always work at a dairy queen over twelve years old mopping the floor that was the last job we really had that we worked together this lonely launch platform in the wind blast to desert might seem like an odd place to pursue the most advanced of human endeavor 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. now briefly look at news stories for you at least eight people have been killed and more than sixty wounded after twenty explosions at a shrine in southern pakistan the blasts appeared to have been caused. so if you watch it sighs are often targeted by militant groups who disagree with. thursday's the busiest time of the week or so if they've lost. typically gather to pray and distribute food for 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 probabilistic describes this spill as a journalist tragedy of its fear the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including cooperation of serbia and romania a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste from a reservoir earlier this week leaving four people dead and one hundred injured. thousands of greek public servants told the job for twenty four hour nationwide

strike wage costs and drop losses at the mounting the government repeals to do a story tomorrow this is designed to pull the country a lot of the financial crisis work out of the shutdown public offices including schools and state hospitals flights were also disrupted traffic controllers joined in the protests. the u.s. might claim to be a champion of freedom of speech but not it seems if it comes from russia iran venezuela of 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 calls media enemies including our getting a strict on how small. 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 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 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 their 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 then as well as their list or combined and 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 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's 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 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 these 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. right now as he talks to american author and journalist on drugs about the decade old who in afghanistan that interview is coming up in just a moment. 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 tie 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 unplugged. and and threatening facts let's not make the common mistake of thinking that the devil we see is the only wot exec 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 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 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 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 they. 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 has caught on and 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 come 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.