in the room. stuck in the middle with intensified nato bombardments claiming civilian lives and alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces some libyans feel betrayed after what initially started as a nation wide uprising. the us trades troops from bonner's in afghanistan obama announces the withdrawal of over thirty thousand troops while deadly drone strikes extent government sponsored fears of more civilian casualties. bringing the best of russia and its heart and soul to a global audience of twenty four hours and our season around new documentary

channel goes along with the help of the president. coming out on business that of us is little cellblock is gone it's gone great it's about time we can strike a country because it's a great line up to say on this thing tonight it's time to. global news twenty four seven this is artsy live from moscow well throughout the course of four months long revolution against colonel gadhafi is raging libyans of found themselves surrounded by threats that our forces have killed hundreds of civilians during their bombardments this according to government claims and the rebels have been accused of committing atrocities against their own people or if a national has their story. this family hasn't had the walk was peaceful like this one for months they've escaped from the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide

in this refugee camp in the west of the country after a life in their native town became a nightmare. i know it's not safe there anymore it's become dangerous and it's not only because of explosions and gunshots one day people from the government and been see you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me and told me we have to arrest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these keep has been long and hard for the family but i remember that a couple of my heritage what i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me from them we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to near zero the bus with the rebels for their purposes we talk about us with our faces covering and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and they let us sane we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there by agency and we were sent here. to get them. rather. a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his

life but he only finally left when he saw a killing. taken with from from from i see your killing him in front of your. own good. because the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body set up after the revolution in libya started in the meat february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is. then you will be in europe. you must be. there you are i do this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy we just want to go on the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not . that say from the sound of the frontline. these people have gathered in the west

of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike couldn't leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three keets we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and no one wants to listen to us now we have to pay a very heavy price of. casualties civilian casualties and also military casualties i think the time has come for the world to understand that this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon when you dug around in these symmetries still fresh while nato has already claimed the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes canteen and benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to say and people are dying on both sides of the frontline

many on the ground fear that when the democracy there were talks about will finally come here there will be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya criminals and barbarians called nato states following a recent arrest right that killed civilians the alliance has said that it regrets the deaths but investigative journalist michelle collins who only just returned from the war torn country just a few days ago you taught us here at r.t. that innocent lives mean nothing to the coalition that's in libya for simple financial gain. they are killing mall civilians that the losses from the initials problems their fuel is more civilians the little bombings so the real id is not protect civilians the deed is to achieve the economical strategy called interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves

of libya remind the us he's a bankrupt country and also all to fencing that caffie who has sort of fall turn a used to the i.m.f. some buying for african development he all ideally is to make do probably international opinion accept the idea that nato is a couple of the world over that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we so victims and indeed the syrian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in its air and war. while the nato campaign in libya is losing the support of its allies after the coalition admitted that it had killed civilians in its own back when it only has now called for an immediate halt to vs trikes of the general public across many states are beginning to question the conflict as they learn more of the truth as well as hear any reports. civilian deaths in libya aren't last making news on

western news networks they say has acknowledged that a number of civilians may have been killed in an air strike last night says it regrets the loss of innocent lives and admits the weapons malfunction may have caused civilian deaths and they were knowledgeable of it of course last night in tripoli and maybe to blame for civilian casualties the operation has been going on for three months and according to libyan officials hundreds of civilians haue already been killed by nato bombs so why has it taken so long for the major t.v. networks and newspapers to report on the carnage because the big problem with our media our mass media nowadays is not that they are left wing right it's just that they go on with whomever is in power and the whole idea of critical reporting is gone and it's not just media noticing that something is going wrong in libya it's only a nato member itself has already lost all faith in the operation in fact rome has

gone as far as to call for a suspension of all military action and to allow adrian to libya france and britain have however dismissed the calls for a cessation in the to his room a pounding of libya need to do is acting under a u.n. resolution to protect civilians but many believe the alliances mean aim has always been to oust colonel gadhafi some european politicians from countries backing the campaign say that's not the job for nato but food even people to decide the british public don't really understand why we've been taken into these wars and yes in the war we probably now colonel gadhafi is a murderous vicious dictator in the world and libya will be better off without him but it is our business to go in there out of office if the libyans want to have a revolution and get rid of him then good luck to them all others believe the longer the attacks in libya continue the moon. difficulties for nato and its

political backers the only exit option of nato was to say we will leave when you're in a good if you will even if the lives of their feet is skewed or if they're going to flee leave on his own ok it will be looked into it but if not the point is there will resort to achieving nothing which would be for nato and specially for london for paris it would be politically disastrous need his admission of killing civilians in recent days and they have made the headlines back home and the expressions of regret have not been felt on the ground in libya unlike the western bonds in missiles which continue to fall killing those the alliance says it's there to protect in brussels it goes. ten minutes past the hour now here in moscow far right dutch politician heard fielder's has been acquitted over charges of inciting hate and discrimination he

faced five separate accounts following a controversial speech that he gave attacking islam and comparing it to nazis and the court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate let's discuss a story now we were joined by emmy people not all from the u.k. independence party joining us live here on. good to see you so were you surprised by the court decision and do you agree with. well first let me just say i think it was a disgrace that he was put on trial to begin with i think it's a victory for free speech i think it's a victory for common sense so it's a victory for free speech and the common sense of where we stand at the moment with the current attitudes towards muslims in europe. well i think the fact that they have builders is under twenty four hour. almost like the rest shall be say is in fear of his life he can't go out without an armed guard i think that says something about radical islam across europe and radical islam which threatens people needs to

be dealt with i need to be dealt with forcibly when you talk about builders are being being guarded by security guards and being afraid to go out it was just a it was a general way of last year wasn't here to lead the dutch cartoonist westergaard he did a picture of with dynamite in his turban and as he was living in a sleepy danish town an axe wielding somali man came and attacked him and he would have killed the man and possibly his five year old daughter had they not converted the house into a safe room i mean does that suit to the attitude towards muslims in europe. well i think it does but this is something that the muslim communities themselves need to get hold of radical islam is a very very dangerous problem across europe at the moment and it needs to be dealt with and let's be clear here till this here we fought two wars in the last century in your free speech free speech is something that we should be happy about it's something which we should protect and the acquittal have had little this is a victory for free speech and the victory for common sense i mean time the british prime minister has criticised our state multiculturalism for radicalizing muslims

and provoking terrorism this war the german chancellor said it would simply failed in her country what would you make of that has multiculturalism failed and is it a matter of integration. yes multiculturalism has failed for many years now it was something which was born out of the one nine hundred seventy s. and the idea that you can have different communities living side by side and never integrate who don't share the same culture don't share the same language is never going away what it will do is it will increase the power base of the far right across europe what we need is insecure asian yes multi racialism let's say no to multiculturalism so we need integration but as you say that multiculturalism the model of it it doesn't have a future. i don't think it has a future at all as i say what it does is it divides people what it does it doesn't allow people to integrate what we need a people sharing the same language sharing the same values getting to know each other unfortunately multicultural divides people it doesn't bring people together

now is the i've been seeing stories or recently as some clothes shops in england have been covering up some of their models are the pictures of them in window shops trying to make them be more covered with clothing so not to offend muslims in the neighborhood so what do you make of that. well opposed to i mean look when in rome we play by road rules this is the way we you know in britain this is the situation that we have and this is british culture and this is british way of life we shouldn't be changing ourselves for those because the people who concert britain to fit in with those it shouldn't affect me the other way around what we need is integration what we need is a shared culture a shared value and what we need to get rid of is multicultural multiculturalism which divides people and doesn't bring people together do you think you think it's an issue of political correctness here that competes of blame for true britons remaining a mum on the subject not wanting to offend muslims and because they're afraid that they'll be deemed a politically incorrect and possibly face the ramifications in their social area or even in their jobs. because of course political correctness is

a massive problem in britain but it's also a problem across europe as well i mean think about it where is the liberal outrage with respect to the head builders trial if you turn this on its head and it was a muslim politician chris. in christianity and was then put on trial there would be liberal outrage from the establishment right across europe this is about political correctness but afraid to speak up now is the time we must speak up because quite frankly things are going in the wrong direction and to blame for this is multiculturalism now and now with the acquittal of builders here what does it mean for the freedom of speech in terms of religion that often become so combative and potentially violent. well look at the builders did was criticize a source of the religion he didn't criticize muslims as people and i think that plays a big part in his acquittal we need to be able to speak freely we need to be able to criticize all the religions because very often progress is made through free speech so i think it's a great day for free speech i think it's a great day for common sense right across europe we use ukip of parkhead to build

this from the start of my former party leader more p.s. and invited her builders over to the house of lords just last year to show his film fitna because we believe in free speech all right paul not all and he and a member of the u.k. independence party many thanks indeed. thank you. for all of iraq obama is around i got support for his decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan francis says it's also prepared to pull out all of its forces but the news comes amid warnings from military commanders that progress against the taliban is fragile and reversible there's also concern that less soldiers will not mean less collateral damage nature can explain. let's start with numbers there are around one hundred thousand american troops deployed in afghanistan right now thirty thousand of them were added by president obama two years ago and now he says by the end of next year to pull out those thirty thousand

troops the drawdown will start this year with some ten thousand troops back into the restaurant by december and analysts say it's not a groundbreaking move from the strategic point of view after all he is filling out what he added at the big. think of his presidency but ahead of presidential elections coming up next year it might be a face saving way he promised they would call school starts least a year and he had to go away for the bigger question is what results has made it so far take a listen we're starting this drawdown from position of strength. is under more pressure than at any time since nine eleven. together with the pakistanis we have taken more than half of all his leadership and thanks to your intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al qaeda has ever known here in the u.s. the pressure president obama faces with regards to forget is that mostly has to do with the enormous war spending and the number of casualties among american troops president obama was elected as

a war and ended up waging move wars and spending more of taxpayers' aliens on inconclusive battles overseas that's what a lot of americans are frustrated about what doesn't get enough spotlight here it is actually the results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they're cautiously talking about progress is fragile progress is they put it pretty arius reports on the ground say insurgency is growing among the afghans the systematic killing of civilians by nail strikes doesn't help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not a high that they are not terrorists they are fighting against who they see as invaders after one of the recent strikes that killed a significant number of civilians including children even the u.s. backed afghan president karzai had to make a harsh face saving statement warning nato that if they continue killing civilians the whole of the afghan population will treat them as occupiers we have to understand that the image of karzai is

a puppet peter doesn't get him and it doesn't get gain him any popularity at home so he has to take a stand here is what he said a few days ago people can no longer to a rate that can actually. do that. action in this regard what some find worrying is that these are coming troop withdrawals the u.s. has actually stepped up air strikes including ground strikes in afghanistan is thought to be part of this twenty first century intelligent war strategy you know when you have no troops on the ground no. deaths of your soldiers to justify at all so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability issues so many afghans are worried that less troops those and necessarily mean less bombs on their homes it's a common thing in the us media for example when they talk about the war losses they just need all losses very rarely do they mention the number of afghan civilians killed and that number is so many times higher experts say apart from civilians

killed another thing that contributes to the growing insurgency in afghanistan is the failure to factor we deal with the drug issue since the invasion in two thousand and one drug production there has increased enormously and it's known that some of that vast drug trade income goes to terrorists so many see americans war on terror as a governor when it's fighting and provoking terror at the same time. that is granny can right there were security forces in belarus have reportedly detained up to four hundred and fifty people during a wave of anti-government protests in the so-called silent revolution the rallies against president look at showing kozik economic policies have taken place in the capital minsk along with over a dozen other cities getting involved as well protestors have organized themselves through the help of social network groups they purposely are carrying posters or chanting anti-government slogans when it is claimed police for detaining a lot of just random passers by along with the activists

a massive financial crisis has hit others after its economy to tear aerated causing the devaluation of its currency and provoking the wrath of the people. here with our c let's get to some other international news we have for you this hour hundreds of syrian refugees are reportedly fleeing across the border into turkey following the deployment of government troops in the area witnesses say soldiers backed by tanks and snipers have entered it could a bit of judith's village all of the turkish border more than thirteen hundred people have reportedly been killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces since march. in the room three people have been killed and thirty two injured in clashes between students and police during a street protest crowds had to block the streets of the city and burned regional government offices police use tear gas and rubber bullets to prevent storming the regional police headquarters stupid so that over plans to build

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thanks rory hello and welcome to the business person here on r.t. the warning lights on europe's debt crisis are flashing red that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank john claud to say his allows analysis might be a little behind the curve according to a number of commentators i think it's only a matter of time before the single currency collapses joining me now to discuss the issues is patrick young editor of the gathering storm a collection of essays detailing a possible financial records apocalypse thanks so much for joining us patrick lovely to have you on show again now the first time after you think we'll still have your own father ten years time well it has to be said katrina i mean it really is difficult i mean but between the apocalypse or the acropolis i mean all things are pointing towards disaster and that's only the letter of the alphabet isn't it i mean quite simply we've got a situation where the e.u. leaders have been sleepwalking their way into

a dreadful crisis and we wrote about it not book a year ago we've had a number of other instances where people have been talking about it all across the media sphere for a long period of time i mean the situation was very acute i mean greece was basically run out of money so it would probably do better if greece actually exited your resume but there's a certain stubbornness in a pigheadedness around by the e.u. that says that it's basically one for all and all for one but it's difficult to see why should german voters basically be spending all of their hard earned cash in order to manage to support one hundred or indeed possibly several countries absolutely look if their currency is to survive greece needs to escape from its catastrophic debts and how is that possible without default but frankly i think it's next to impossible i was actually enough and last week i've been at a different meeting and the situation we have is you've got an incredibly wealthy upper middle class because large numbers of them don't pay their taxes at the same time you've got an incredibly low public sector and absolutely nobody want. today

simply being the person who jump says well we're going to lie and effectively pay off the debt that we should be paying so the economy is totally dysfunctional and i have to say i just don't see how it works obviously tonight there's a euro zone finance ministers dinner and they're going to be discussing what they're going to do but it looks as if they're just going to manage to turn round the begging bowl will come on and i'm in one country alone like the united kingdom is going to be on the hook for another one point seven billion billion euros i mean the amount of money that's being spent here is absolutely catastrophic and and as you're saying looks like greece will have to default what will not let raise the pressure on some of europe's other peripheral economies well of course the difficulty is not katrina i mean if greece were to default and that's presuming that say the germans and the dutch aren't going to write a huge amount you can only run underlie them for the receivable to chair the problem then is that obviously we're going to see very very strong pressure from the market players upon other countries i mean the irish government you've actually been trying so hard to do the right thing in terms of restructuring their debt and

equally of course you've got this problem of portugal which is itself essential in bankruptcy and speer which is not quite financially functional and that's before we start looking at the you know the old favorites of the eurozone people like italy which frankly aren't exactly well they're not paragons of the school rectitude let's put it that way thank you very much for your views there patrick young editor of the gathering storm and that's all for business this hour we'll be back with more just under an hour's time stay with us for headlines next. the world.

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