twenty years ago the largest country in. the survey's it. must have been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. other crossroads osama bin laden the reason for the u.s. invasion of afghanistan is gone now the world is waiting to see if his death will bring about change and how america handles the ongoing conflict. and strikes in libya seemingly getting nato nowhere but the possibility of a ground attack looming ever more but experts say this was the alliance plan all along. that lacks legislation i don't already use and decisive actions against pedophiles in russia means that many parents resort to adopting a vigilante justice. and from our business desk these stress tests conducted by central banks so banks in the us are still suffering from the after they cannot the

crisis left more and what alice think about the problem out there is not the. worldwide news live from moscow this is artsy but now the symbolic reason for the u.s. presence in afghanistan has gone with the fall of osama bin laden the question is whether america is going to stick to its ongoing war plan the summer u.s. forces aren't you just are pulling out but the recent anti terror milestone the white house to prolong its mission that. point nine reports a possible u. turn would do little to improve life in the water on country. nine and a half years on the war in afghanistan has grown visibly worse while u.s. rhetoric surrounding it has consistently spun in circles we are making progress

that is what has been labeled us to make the progress that we have made i think it's possible that by the end of this year. since two thousand and three washington has repeatedly per cleaned turning points for a conflict that critics call our failing quagmire the reality is that things are still made that things are worse than they were. every year we send more troops every year as we spend more money on the insurgency grows in size karzai government gets weaker in violence gets worse nearly fifteen hundred u.s. soldiers and ten thousand afghan civilians have been killed in a war costing america two billion dollars per week meanwhile after assassinating the man it's been hunting since two thousand and one the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden i disconnect between what the us says and what the world sees may have deepened

a defining moment in the war against al qaeda the war on terrorism by decapitating the head of the snake effectively you have this aging sickly old man who really hasn't done anything of real political significance for a long time and the great kind of triumph against western leaders and really kind of starting to trumpets in the moments. before him turns into this kind of symbol of evil following the nine eleven attacks he's actually more creation of the west than he is a real political kind of terrorist threats in himself u.s. officials branded bin lodgings killing as a success and strategic blow to al qaeda but it is going to have i think very important reverberations throughout the. on the other kind of network in that area i think you can just see them start eating themselves from within more and more this as some see the u.s.

turning and spinning fiction into fact in afghanistan itself it's not going to have that much of a role we're fighting taliban fighting afghan taliban in afghanistan we're not fighting al qaeda you have a new generation of young radicals who have grown up watching these wars over the past ten years that are far more radical than their predecessors osama bin ladin claimed responsibility for the nine eleven attacks that killed nearly three thousand people and devastated new york city nearly ten years later his death is being reported as a victory for the u.s. while the war that america waged to get him still struggles to find a conclusion or enough or not our team new york. well now is the best time for the united states to pull out its troops from afghanistan and rethink its terra tactics this according to katrina vanden heuvel editor of the u.s. based in benghazi in the nation. it's an important moment to consider where we go

from here and in my view this isn't a moment of opportunity. to end the war in afghanistan should bind an expeditious end to this for any given to do the tough regional international diplomacy that is required terrorism as an odious tactic you cannot reach war against a tactic intelligent policing intelligence diplomacy counterterrorism i do think we will see a shift and that is celebrated. the counterinsurgency tactics that have been the what general petraeus and others have tried to impose our policy in afghanistan will now take a backseat counterterrorism has worked and i think we see the cost of a land war that even secretary of defense robert gates said it was point a few weeks ago any adviser would visor presidents to commit to to lend war should have his head examined i think it is a moment to reappraise the national security template in this country which has not made this country safer or or more secure. so what will it enlivens of death really

mean for the stability of the region and for the wider world that's the question being discussed by host a little and as guests are today's cross talk that's coming your way in a just less than half an hour here on out. thirty thousand civilians have died in the last ten years in crisis and just from the terror attack so i don't see this being any in any way a success even though it was sort of some of the lardons killing will probably generate more and more such attacks and if you look at the kind of success that obama is saying that this could be for a van a sunday and that doesn't make any sense either because some bin laden has been a man on the run he's he's got nor professional capability he's not been involved in in battle he's not been involved in any way in the in the liberation war in afghanistan he when i was reading the papers today in pakistan there is this statement by one of the spokesman of the afghan taliban saying that they were

actually surprised that some of the larger was actually alive up to now. you can see crosstalk about a twenty five minutes time here. now the chief of al qaeda operative in the north caucasus has been killed by russian law enforcement a turkish national he's credited with being the international quartet of the region's terrorist cells corresponded and i do know cotton over there is following the developments there. a chief al qaeda operative in the region of blockquote has been killed during a special operation led by russian special forces now it is believed that he arrived to rochelle from georgia now he was and hmong of the al qaida arabic group that was operating in russia's north caucasus and since two thousand and six he has been the deputy had of the chief al qaida operative in the region in charge of cash

flows of funds that paid for terrorist activities in russia now russia's and he terrorist committee as that the results of this recent alteration will disrupt the connection between the terrorists that are operating here in russia's north caucasus with the international terrorist group al qaida and indeed to the killing of the love for it is a part of a major anti terror operation that was launched in this area but still there is no clear information on where russia's most wanted terrorist might be hiding and russia's north caucasus it was believed that he may have been among the dead in another operation in english sense and blood d.n.a. test found no presence of him and currently a major search operations are under way here in russia's north caucasus. not even a question of our reporting right there when all the russian woman was so affected by recent news events that she started seeing things and you can see what on our

website that's r.t. dot com bubble screen question called the police told them she had dreamt that a bomb who planted on one of the capital's major metro stations that after a period of panic the prediction was proved to be a false alarm. and invented on earth but destined for the moon talented young russian engineers present a unique device designed for lunar travel these are much more always available on our website that's dancing dot com. and with r.t. live from moscow where it's an hour ten minutes past the hour italy will host the next major international meeting on libya leaders from nato many arab league will gather this thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or

else sting of libyan leader moammar gadhafi and as a stalemate grips libya and also a spokesman says the use of ground troops may be the only way to move the situation for a real bombardments of libya's which did did in according to nato libya's leader could look at there for years building defensive positions be well civilian casualties from a lloyd bombing continue to mount nato spokesman review this solution send good ground troops. the u.n. security council should adopt a new resolution and libya resolution one thousand seven hundred three there's not invisible man operations we need a new resolution. and forces plan bets all along says a leading u.s. law professor clearly what we're seeing unfold here in libya is a pre existing war player by nato by the british by the french by the americans who would tear libya everything now is going according to play and which

is why i believe since they have failed to our polls khadafi with the steps are solved far the next stage will be moving into a ground invasion and later powers of jupiter the international community into supporting the war and that's one of them protecting civilians was the claim but driving the country's resources is the real goal this is one of the most the. reason transgressions of the rights of a nation national sovereignty and international law that we've seen in the post-war period the west the u.s. and france and britain have been called virtually according to the evidence that's leaking out covertly arming the opposition to gadhafi in hopes of grabbing control of the oil and in the different parts of libya the libyan government promises hell for nato if it sends in ground troops some agree such a war may be tougher than expected we will see increased. iranian air but also on

the ground and maybe this will solve a problem if for the nato countries maybe we. were the one who would be. bombing from thirty thousand feet coalition soldiers feel fairly safe return she was activists want putting troops on the ground not just more civilian killing but many to deaths as well and the further away they get from high tech and they and the nearer they get to low tech then the greater the danger of casualties on both sides turkey china and russia who will criticize the bombardments of libya for minister sergey lavrov thinks nato has already gone far beyond the first u.n. resolution to maintain a no fly zone and hints a second resolution to move in ground troops may not come as easy and all several nations feel tricked if anybody wants to ask for this month it will come to the

u.n. security council we will discuss trying to understand what is planned because the aggressions from the mandate and we're seeing now are enough to learn lessons with international opposition on the rois nato states face an uphill task to make the case for more war britain's prime minister will dealt sending ground troops to libya his defense secretary of the parliament they plan exactly that but you have members good at the number of civilian deaths from nato bombing a drawing likely to welcome escalation of the conflict that odd see london. meantime british politician a john baron who was among those who voted against intervention in libya he says nato could have done more to resolve the conflict before starting the operation and you can watch out his interview in the next hour bertha is a preview. this is the if you like the vagueness of the resolution kicks in because it does talk about enforcing a no fly zone and protecting civilians and using all necessary measures to

implement a policy you could theoretically include in the syrian neighbors includes attacking . and patrols and in tripoli is the baseball and i think we have got to be very careful before the troops back up. you've got to make sure you've got the moral high ground you've got to make sure that it is the measure of last resort where all other avenues of negotiations have been exhausted and i'm not sure we met those criteria when it came to libya as well so i think lessons still need to be learned and i'm afraid we're repeating past was very. you are with artsy now pressure is mounting on the russian parliament to introduce chemical castration for pedophiles activists say the current laws allow criminals to reoffend something which is forced or desperate parents to hand down at their own form of mob justice however some probably have extreme forms of punishment alone but to solve such a complicated issue. elaine is

a mother of three last summer her four year old daughter was raped was really learned what happened she found the man responsible and beat him to death. i don't like him that i can only say that i just wanted to be sure lying was an evil must punish and i would never do such a terrible thing but i had to know it all girl was found guilty of murder she spent a year in prison before public pressure saw her released. sadly it is cases not an isolated one in russia in a country where seventy percent of paedophiles up and rolled with their virginity to reoffend region and to justice is often used as an attorney in a court of law so what you go with him is missable it starts with the statement fails if poor mothers and fathers knew that offenders would get fifteen years in prison or more would be castrated before being released would never be released without a satellite tracking as in the usa and police and know about there if we stay i'm

pretty sure they would not kill them. there have been numerous attempts to toughen the laws on paedophiles in russia in a decade dozens of bills stipulate in chemical castration a life imprisonment and discuss the greatest a duma but not a single one has passed the morgue for paedophiles aren't without support and russia this means some police officers receive money for allowing brother walls and downs to operating hours of the court system acquit and criminals i am not only talking about the child porn industry that is so much money in so many people involved in this corruption with this evil is to hard to avoid. but some don't give up and fight their own war so it is hiding his face he says the country's pretty fast hunting for him killer and information from these papers and t.v. has created an online paedophile database with shawcross files and forto so. what.

ninety eight percent of cases with child abuse is real and people should know that who they are they should know what they look like they should be on alert sergei says in his thirteen years he's been working on the site not a single official has taken any interest in his plight which they have they do have far greater databases but just don't want to open them up we did what the should have done for sex offenders here are divided into categories from those so in sentences to those who have passed away but there are many who are marked as at large i wanted a terrifying thought for parents everywhere. every day some six the children become victims of paedophiles in russia that means in the two weeks we've been working on this report more than eight hundred kids have been abused for years russian legislators have been talking about protecting children but for each they failed to act even more innocent lives are being destroyed. written off now see

more. and i still to come here on the program a tourist cold spot. nobody doubts destroy the natural beauty of your mother with all the exotic foreigner that they have here but does this place look like a tourist paradise to you well certainly the local authority think so freezing weather a remote location no obstacle for those looking for adventures beyond the arctic circle. argue with r.t. let's check out some other international headlines now this hour at the two main palestinian political forces have reached an agreement ending their four year rift i must stand fast enough planning to form a joint government following the national election next year of relations with israel was the main sticking point talks about is unwilling to recognize the jewish state while fantastic ports a peaceful process with television. and following a wave of anti austerity protests. has announced that it has secured

a one hundred sixteen billion dollars financial bailout package from the e.u. after greece and ireland it is the third eurozone member to require a financial lifeline to keep its economy afloat now the exact terms of the deal are get to be finalized but portugal's prime minister announced that no drastic spending cuts were required when the deal is signed with and have to be approved by i don't know e.u. nations nations rather some of which face tough internal opposition. the company in charge of the u. fukushima power plant has released footage from the site's most devastated area shows the installation of air purifiers that are expected to dramatically decrease radioactivity levels in unit one it will allow workers to enter the area and resume their efforts on to restoring the cooling systems destroyed by the tsunami earlier tepco when else that high radioactivity had been detected on the pacific seabed

near the stricken. prison camp for a hotel in arctic landscape proview and the world's best preserved mammoth for a neighbor party's igor good enough to travel to russia's mild region to find a paradise a holiday destination for adrenaline junkies. so far north there's located beyond circle it's so remote it takes eight hours to fly here from western europe so in the spirit it will stall and build his prison camps here welcome to russia's new tourist called him only it's. nobody dared to strike the natural beauty of your model or the exotic foreigner that they have here but does this place look like a tourist paradise to you well certainly the local authority thinks so they're hoping to turn emails limitations into advantages extreme tours will give travelers a chance to go where few others have been before. their plans are thought to

rebuild the former prison camp as a memorial horrors of the soviet birders and the cold weather means the local museum houses the first reserve number and then thought our world it was a good one and those who are scared of your mother scared of themselves the tourists we are hoping to see are the ones prepared to go on a real journey. as the producer of ninety percent of russia's gas is not poor but tourism will help its indigenous peoples struggling to make a living from the traditional the magic reindeer herding lifestyle the locals welcome tourists hungry for experiences and souvenirs. thank you's to be nomads of course but at least this give me a way to leave and i have so many stories to tell that last year eight thousand foreign visitors brave. but with a referral bush there poured more roots and a brand new luxury hotel there arriving in greater numbers every day. so you can

often animals for me it's the mammoths that make this place unique to me it's one thing to see it on t.v. but to be here where they roamed died and were later found it's amazing. the odds for tourist success here are long but as the world gets smaller people want to go further and there are a few places as far away as the mile either of artsy you marlon and its creation right now or type of the business i think for this hour. how about into business here in our team we go straight to our top story banks in russia are still suffering from the aftermath of the economic crisis that's according to new stress tests of the take a central bank in the event of another wave of economic turmoil about half the banks were found to be under-capitalized and over three hundred would be forced out

of the knock it but they are lower from explains what the results mean. so i think what is very really important at the moment is to see that off the two thousand and eight o'clock this will still have a very big number of banks which potentially can be in financial trouble in case of . turbulence and i would say the knowledge of three hundred banks which will be forced all of the market will you hope will the banks to quiet some spoil this is the very deep portion of the banking system and i would say would have seen after the publication of this stress there's the interesting market rates went slightly off so this is definitely generating some nervousness between banks in terms of the altar of their counterpart is released and i think the stress does the whole central bank to be more proactive in controlling want to train we still the banking sector. and russia's largest car maker after hours has had a strong start to the year the car giant almost doubled sales between january and april at the same period last year after bars are still benefiting from the

successful cash for clunkers program and managed to increase exports by fifty percent within the period. of a look at how the markets are performing to sell or prices continue to drop in the wake of supply data in the u.s. which hinted demand in the country could be slowing down u.s. stocks fall sharply on wednesday with the dow industrials telling have triple digit loss energy stocks extend this slide for a third straight session with the price of crude falling back to one hundred dollars a barrel x. and more of a share. with a lot of shelling out for two percent european markets were trading in the red with weaker commodity stocks or may just be people falling over one percent banks in portugal rally on news of a bailout deal for the country also shares in b.m.w. rose by more than a percent on the back of strong results the company more than tripled net profit in the first quarter to almost two billion dollars beating analyst expectations. here

in russia markets closed in the red was expanded two percent lower than the us has said one point three percent looking at some of the individual movers on the energy majors and metal oil is among the top loses this hour locomotive the prices gas from was down over four percent while police called was three point three percent in the red packing the trend though was into rock ending up almost one percent. over a century a full on correction most of what we've seen in a few firms is driving the markets one commodity prices are falling lower on the back of expects an increase in supplies in the us to india has increased. interest rates by more than expected and also living comments coming from china that they're worried about inflation targeting sorts of monetary policy so those two factors together make the second point that the market is now pricing inflation expectations and for the tightening and the third point is that we've seen

a raft of quite weak economic data coming from specifically coming from the u.s. . u.s. government is well underway to hitting its borrowing limit part early august they need to rollover a hefty long taking during the crisis leaves the country's fiscal stability in serious doubt economic nobel laureate. spiraling budget debt problem could bring about the end of the u.s. economic problems. the main concern i have. is the size of the depth of the government of the united states has accumulated. and i would be worried. many businesses who will be instrumental for the growth of the united states in the next. ten or twenty years that they. are worried or the capital owners that they will be worried. they are the ones who car will have to pay for for this government that in which case they will be less for luck than to invest in

future productive capacity innovations and so on. and if that happens so. someone some other part of the world could take over hecker money. that's out of the day for now but on the back with more in less than one meanwhile we can always cite. the little.

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