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led the war in afghanistan and as it yeah the tables turned on coalition soldiers posting battlefield media is all they need to. balance the head of this weekend's parliamentary elections and politically divided scariest on. its next prompted by canoe cosmodrome in kazakhstan a russian soyuz a broken harriet's three crewmen underpaying the navigation and data systems is now on its way to the international space station.

and welcome to our c twenty following news live from moscow. let's go tell main story now nature troops are still in afghanistan nine days after the first deployment making its 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 sign of easing was many calling listen to time the taliban's own said but has also called us here now reports it's 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 be heard saying fantastic before posting on the internet you are on the view if by burning the homes are accidentally a copy of the koran it is. byron and that house that can be easily used as

a tactic or as a means of practicing more young. religious is true then it's to go and joined taliban and al qaeda and it seems to be working more and more islamic extremist websites are posting down returns to videos put up on the way 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 but i'll carry them the taliban they can easily make. the us forces fail the video clips you want here you. don't have a kid you want to hang. out in some cases the us soldiers videos are going to shoot and childish other times they're down much criminal or extremely provocative in

this clip we were soldiers of 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 someone's home connection is so unreliable that every afternoon he's here watching videos that make him angry one of the only calling and we see hundreds of videos about afghanistan nato and the americans are talking about human rights watch me if you see the proof online version it's a lawyer so the do to. internet cafes of the buzz in downtown kabul funded have been has managed the small and overcrowded say for the past two years and although the connection snow it's fast enough to keep people dumbed down. for later many of the internet 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

of otherwise also. one guy sees a video. in the less than a decade ago when the taliban wasn't home or home computers were banned there were only three places in kabul that had intimate but now the global jihadists understand that sometimes an e-mail might just be myself then the sword. and so. for. me what are you but a good. who would. always has a way of getting out of good people not disposed of the because. the life at the time have been picking up on a form of communication that once banned it now force on coalition troops to censor themselves. phyllis bennis and analysts from the institute

for policy studies says there is a lack of political will to end the u.s. war in afghanistan where there because no u.s. president no u.s. politician is willing to say this was a failed war from the beginning we should never have been there from the beginning we should get out the entry to afghanistan was a defeat from day one the bottom line is it was not a war of self-defense we were not attacked by afghans the notion that we were going because we were worried about people's human rights under the taliban that doesn't explain why we were so willing to deal with the taliban before this we were dealing with the taliban over creating oil pipelines across afghanistan there's a lot of hypocrisy here and i think that we do ourselves a disservice and we do the people of afghanistan a disservice if we blur that we were attacked in a horrible crime against humanity the answer to that should never have been war. and will a veteran and member of the rethink afghanistan movement just didn't think that the u.s. led war will leave

a lasting impression on future generations of afghans. the question i ask is like why are we still there and what are we actually doing what is the effect on the population because yes we talk about regional stability with afghanistan and pakistan as well but we don't ever talk about the civilian impact the impact on women do women have increasing women's rights today also what about the children this is the future generation that is actually going to take over to rule the country once we leave so the impact we're having on what they're seeing the level of violence their friends and family being killed these are very negative impacts that if we did pull out it would have a good long term benefit is because we're right now we're breeding terrorism in the region we're creating instability in pakistan bar continued presence in afghanistan with cross border attacks we're seeing on nato supply lines and on u.s. bases from the pakistani side into afghanistan as well. that was of. the wrist same gun

a sudden movement just in thompson coming up later in the program the unsold slaving over human wide champion. four year. old it's called sky jimmy alice it was in just a few minutes from. the america's international broadcasting board calls for more resources to ground a growing voice for news channels including r.t. although it's interesting that. a russian soyuz rocket has successfully blasted by going to cause more drama in kazakhstan. a spacecraft carrying nasa astronaut scott kelly and calls on as an example. the international space station they will spend the next six months as members of expedition twenty five on board the station new navigation control and data

processing systems are also being delivered to the ice as they sell hughes is expected to dock with the station in two days' time. fresh unrest has broken out in kurdistan after a north stormed the headquarters of a leading political process in the capital bishkek security is being beefed up across the country ahead of sunday's parliamentary election but the contrary manes ethnically split and wary of more violence has gone off reports. this woman asked us not to reveal her identity but she says it's still not safe in june just like many other ethnically divided city they lost everything. they're being forced to survive taking any work they can fight. us than we do with there is no stability there is still tension no one trusts the government to do and how could we often what happens if there is a boss who could already left others and looking for ways how to get out bring down

shops destroyed pharmacies in 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 to death of 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 in the 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 cells of political agitation feeling in the streets like the rest of the country is getting ready for the parliamentary election four years from the twenty parties taking port are spread both in the me and the kid is populated areas and here. this is one of the big 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 for 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 do just all together in this crucial for them to just do so called josh brown brigades. and we are paying them on a daily basis officially over three thousand businesses were affected by violence many fear more unrest is ahead some say they've been getting messages calling on

them to ignore the vote the parliamentary election was about 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 feel to provide the needed stability especially here in the cells where most of the voters don't know what each of the twelve parties even stands for. several hundred people gathered in moscow for a minute's silence to commemorate the fourth anniversary of russian journalist anna . gunned down in. two thousand and six her case has been in the public's attention have a sense of this habit. three minutes polls for one that is of course the exact time that on the police called sky was gunned down on his. 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 of people who just love diana and wanted to publicly more. than the something exceptional she was and so by the nation. who knew i remember her brother lost articles she wrote to them after reading it i said to my friend and you will be killed and she was killed within a few days the article was about what's happening to her investigation as far as progress is being made in the case although when state interesting announcement came from the russian investigative team he 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 four years on and the family and former colleagues have on the part of growing increasingly frustrated at the slow pace of the case the police

for that all saying they're doing everything they can they detained a number of people in connection with the case as well as employing the services of the intelligence agencies and in typical to track down the person who they believe pulled the trigger however they do it the most a mind behind this case is still very much at large however they do now say that they all convinced that the crime was orchestrated and organized from al sunlight 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 helped battle their cases in court and for that work as well as how many

journalistic endeavors she was awarded a role off to prestigious awards both for 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 likes journalists to intrusive to simplistic to manipulative and they started to describe typical according to polls at least a third of russians distrust what they read in newspapers or see on t.v. . on top of journalists and i'm tired of going over things that have no impact on society again and again ironically it was a journalist that help 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 screen. tragedy was widely publicized in news papers and on t.v. but only anna politkovskaya touched upon the real life problems of the people she wrote about strong psychological pressure from the author of the term to open criminal cases against us here no journalist is willing to take the risk of the bringing those things out to the public i say that is based on my nine year experience with that story in the norway goes the other eventually how danny's to win a case against the russian federation and the european court of human rights one of many that pollute costco's mark recchi reporting had left to. me more as a journalist who deals with people's pain. it is part of the job and tries to actually help people rather than just reflect their stories should not be something out of the ordinary and his main goal was to help people not just write at least about them. while she's often credited for rekindling people's faith in justice

four 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 muster minds is still ongoing. the daughter who over the years has grown a striking resemblance of her mother says the family is still hopeful when your son was one of you 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 the other booth 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 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 only of a wish or with killers in violation of the behavior of such commemorations within five years of a person that there are less but the shows have few reasons to appreciate her reporting and i don't believe the route through but god is still here attributing to live the condemnation of. a kind of erica r.t. moscow. a brief look at some other international news stories hungary's racing against time to prevent a one to disaster after a deadly chemical sludge spill breached the river danube the country's prime minister described this bill as a geological tragedy it's feared the pollution could ultimately reach six countries including croatia so that under mania a state of emergency was declared after the chemical waste passed from the reservoir earlier this week leaving the people dead and hundreds of.

thousands of greek public servants i was told the job twenty four hour nationwide strike over wage cuts and job losses that is demanding the government repeals three hundred all stammered two motors designed to pull the country out of financial crisis they were crowded it was shut down offices including schools and state hospitals flights were also distracted as a traffic control is joining us. as one of the world's most desirable star and paying donovan does coming up in geneva next month at almost twenty five carrots the final say in terms. could fetch nearly thirty eight million dollars the diamond was last sold sixty days ago by new york. 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 low china the head of the media organization which oversees america's

international broadcasting says it must stop its game to combat the rise all of what he called media enemy is including all see. 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 r t as an enemy and certainly did not mean to imply that there are 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 it's 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. more than the budget of r t iran's press t.v. and then as well as their list or combined i may be money does not really make her forgo or will 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 man that raised in the lurch 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 when that when they say that because obviously other countries have their perspective many times u.s. media is slanted toward the united states even the private media and the credibility of the broadcasting board of governors was under even more scrutiny

when reports came out about the white house influence on the b.b.c. reporting after 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 going to shit on our t. washington d.c. and now he talks to american author and journalist and drones about the decade old war 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 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 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 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 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 has caught on and alexander the great succeed that 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.