stuck in the middle with intensified nato bombardments claiming civilian lives and alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces some libyans feel betrayed after what was initially started as a nation wide uprising. the us trades boots for bombs in afghanistan obama announces the withdrawal of over thirty thousand troops while deadly drugs drugs are stepped up sparking fears of more civilian casualties. accused of inciting hatred and discrimination against muslims far right politician courage builders walks free from a court in amsterdam experts say his trial shows europe's multiculturalism policies

have simply driven communities up on a. plan to bring the best of russia and his heart and soul to a global audience twenty four hours a day parties a new documentary channel goes live with the help of a president. this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after seven pm on the recent show welcome to the program but throughout the course of the four month long revolution against colonel gadhafi his regime libyans have found themselves surrounded by threats of forces have killed hundreds of civilians during the bombing campaigns this according to government claims and rebels have been accused of committing atrocities against their own people. for not for national expense. this family hasn't had the war quiet and 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. 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 didn't 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 khadafi. these cave has been long and hard for they were in their family well i remember. it well i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me and then we knew there was a bus coming from gaza to the bus with the rebels for their purposes we took that bus with our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and a lot of soon we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there via tennessee and we were sent here. to get them. son was a brother of sabri

a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally in that when he saw a killing. taken from from from you killing him in front of your own because but on the world that. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels' official political body that are part of the revolution started and the means february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as they are legitimate representatives of libya there is. very. so the west. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war. the refugees here say the now finally feel safe but it's not. that's a friendly side of the frontline either. but these people have gathered in the west

of tripoli to bury those killed in the air strike you wouldn't believe and government officials bar landed on a private compound and flattened killing fifteen people including three keets we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and no one wants to listen to us and 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. this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon. ground in these symmetries still fresh well made too has already claimed the operation to protect civilians must go on those 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 front line

many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll not be enough people left to experience it. r t reporting from western leave. criminals and barbarians called nato states following of recent strike that killed civilians the alliance has said that it regrets the deaths but investigative journalist i'm a shock call on who only just returned from the water on country just a few days ago he told us here at our see that innocent lives mean nothing to the coalition that's only in libya for financial gain. mall civilians that's the losses from the initials problems their fuse loss invasions the nato bombings so the real i.d.'s not protect civilians the rio de these to achieve the economical strategical interest off there of the west us in europe i mean. i mean the

financial reserves of libya are a pretty mind that the us is a by and corrupt country and also or preventing that would be a sort of a turner used to do i.m.f. some buying for african development the old idea is to make the public international opinion accept the idea that nato is a copy of the world or that nato has the right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and indeed this is a million population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and more now ever since the libyan conflict broke out in february that the price of oil has skyrocketed but this thursday gold has surprisingly dropped and it's friday let's cross over to a business person and find try find out why they were it well the main reason that we seeing this plummet in oil prices is you are sitting right by the i.a.e.a.

now that the international energy or thorazine they've decided to release strategic reserves and fifty percent of those reserves are being released by the us which means the demand for oil from western nations will drop i'll bring you more on this story about fifteen minutes time very good we will see you soon. well brooke obama is rounding up support for his decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan france 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 projects and reversible there's also concern that less soldiers will not mean less collateral damage as he's done each counterpoints 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 now he says by the end of next year the u.s. is going to pull out those thirty thousand troops the drawdown will start this year

with some pen thousand troops expected to be withdrawn by december and analysts say it's not a groundbreaking move from a strategic point of view after all he's pulling out what he added at the beginning of his presidency but ahead of presidential elections coming up next year it might be a face saving me he promised withdrawals to start this year and he had to deliver the bigger question is what results has his leadership brought so far take a listen we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength. is under more pressure than at any time since nine eleven. together with the pakistanis we have taken out more than half of all colleges leadership and thanks to our intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al-qaeda has ever known here in the us the pressure president obama faces with regards to of ghana's 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 but ended up waging more wars and spending more of taxpayers billions on

inconclusive battles overseas that's what a lot of americans are frustrated about what doesn't get enough spotlight here is actually the results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they're cautiously talking about progress fragile progress as they put it put the various reports on the ground say insurgency is growing among the afghans the systematic killing of civilians by nato strikes doesn't help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not all cry 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 whole of the afghan population will treat them as occupiers we have to understand that the image of karzai is a puppet leader doesn't get him it doesn't get gave him any popularity at home so

he has to take a stand here is what he said a few days ago he can no longer tolerate that tension there. you need action industry goes good fun find worrying is that i mean these are coming proper withdrawals the u.s. has actually stepped up airstrikes including grown 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. so if your soldiers to justify our own so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability issues so many afghans are worried that less troops doesn't 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 give nato 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 effectively 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 seem erika's war on terror as a double edged sword when it's fighting in provoking care at the same time. he's going to reporting that right now the far right dutch politician a host of builders has been acquitted of the charges of inciting hate discrimination he says five separate counts following a controversial speech that he gave a talking islam and comparing it to narcism but the court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate and he pulled out a little from the u.k. independence party believes the whole case has been a farce. 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 first free speech i think it's a victory for common sense i think the fact that builders is on the twenty four

hour. it almost like arrest shelby saying he's 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 and needs to be dealt with forcibly 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 can never integrate who don't share the same culture don't share the same language is never going to where what it will do is it will increase the power base of the far right across europe what we need is integration yes multi-racial isn't but let's see north of the vehicle to listen when in rome you 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 in this is british way of life we shouldn't be changing ourselves for those because the people who come to britain to fit in with those it should in effect be 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 culturalism which divides people and bring people together. you with our team now our security forces and below have reportedly detained up to four hundred fifty people during a wave of antigovernment protests and the so-called silent revolution the rallies against president lukashenko economic policies have taken place in the capital minutes along with over a dozen other cities getting involved protesters organized themselves through the help of social networks groups and they purposely aren't carrying posters or charging anti government slogans that witnesses claim police were detaining a lot of random passers by along with the activists a massive financial crisis has hit bottom of sartre's economy to tear causing the devaluation of its currency and provoking the wrath of the people. well a breathtaking journeys around the world's largest country along with spellbinding

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still to come. that's right it's a green carpet not a red carpet but it's still doing exactly the same job as you would imagine a fantastic atmosphere here in central moscow ahead of the opening of the thirty to thirty third international film festival here in the russian capital plenty of fans come out to greet the great in the good in the glitz and glamour a lot of them over here right now tell you all doing. they're enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a bad taste work when you get sent here great atmosphere we've seen a lot of the stars entering into the the cinema just behind me at pushkin square in the center of the russian capital and we've seen sheila both the star of the transformers movie also michael bay the director of those films i think he may still be back there signing autographs somewhere he was mobbed by fans as he entered. or as peter to tell us what films are the most hotly anticipated by the

critics and the public at the festival. well the film starts and ends with two great films to create a highly anticipated movies transformers three get things under way today and then it ends with the death of a real estate thrill and i'll end the festival but there's some great movies to see of course we go outside of the for a competition there's also the competition for the gold in georgia much wanted statue that you get for winning this both go film festival there's also some great films now i'm a bit biased it is an international film festival i've picked out two british movies that i believe will go to very very well one of them is already won the best movie award a piece on sebastiaan fill in festival this year that needs a drama about well known educated delinquents about young people in scotland that's supposed to be a very very good film also the biopic of the of the british playwright underage dunbar now that's mostly a very gritty biopic

a very heartwarming biopic it was nominated for a bafta and something that i'm definitely going to be trying to see that movie is called called the set in bradford in northern england should be something brilliant to see there but also another movie that i really want to check out is the angels of evil italian movie about gangsters in the seventy's and the like it comes to movie and you can ask a good rundown of the films certainly some stiff competition but tell us who tipped to pick up the gong the prestigious and georges kong. well exactly who gets the big prize now if i was a betting man i would be looking towards american translation french movie a. classic romance tale of young love with a bit of a twist when it turns out that one of those young lovers has a tendency to kill people very gritty drama supposed to be a little bit raunchy as well so that's really my tips for you to win it but i don't get to make those decisions there is a panel of of really two people that know what they're talking about the judges

here now they're headed by geraldine chaplin now if you might guess. from that last name she does know i think it's you about the movie business she's the daughter of the great charlie chaplin so i'm sure she knows a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to picking good films she'll be deciding who picks up that prestigious golden george at the end of the festival people will just have to see how it goes over the next ten days indeed stiff competition as you were saying . thank you. while the aging of people one three four airliner will be permanently grounded in russia by next year the order was given by president motivator for who said that a forced replacement program must begin so the plane can be finally retired from service the decision was taken following a crash of one of the jets in russia's northwest on monday forty five people died in that incident but seven others were badly injured live larry data points towards pilot error as the main cause of the tragedy. right let's check out some other international news we have for you this hour and

hundreds of syrian refugees are reportedly fleeing across the border into turkey following the deployment of government troops in the area witnesses say soldiers back by tanks and snipers have entered jews a village along the turkish border more than thirteen hundred people have reportedly been killed in clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces since march. in peru three people have been killed and thirty two injured in clashes between students and police during street protests crowds had blocked the streets of the city and burned three regional government offices police used tear gas and rubber bullets to prevent them storming the local police headquarters students had been good over plans to build a new university in the region which they claim could divert funds from their institution yeah. right you're up to date here on our next day with the latest from the world of business with katrina that's in just a. hello

and welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. oil prices are dropping sharply that's after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves fifty percent of this will come from or from the u.s. with other major economies providing the wrist will be released in volumes of two million barrels per day it's only the third time in history that the i.a.e.a. has sanctioned the release of reserves the move is intended to what it lost production from libya which is currently engulfed in civil war brant crude is currently down around six percent at one hundred seven dollars

a barrel. to discuss the oil market i'm joined now by nick parsons head of market strategy at national strategy right thanks for joining us here and i had seen it first half was this a surprise to you and. it is a surprise in terms of its absolute timing as you mentioned in your introduction it's only the third time it's ever been used the first time as in the first gulf war the second was after katrina and i don't think anyone really expected this certainly if it had not been a surprise the oil market wouldn't have fallen six percent in the course of a little over ninety minutes itself to know now why do you think the eye is releasing reserves what alice is saying that the market is already well supplied. i think it's two reasons the first of these relates to the global economy and bear in mind that central banks around the world central banks and governments alike fairly alarmed at the prospect of rising inflation and oil prices are

a major contributor a factor here they certainly don't want to drive their economies back into recession. over tightening interest rates in order to deal with inflation so working directly at the root cause of these price increases i think is a very very shrewd move so the first reason is because they're concerned with inflation i think the second reason is also to show that the balance of power across the world doesn't lie entirely with opaque and i think the opec decision fifteen days ago that was taken not to increase production i think did actually upset many people around the world so partly it's about power it's also about inflation now do you think that i think that he this is a warning that prices are getting through high. oil prices have already been coming down from the peak and i think it's fairly clear by these actions that the governments that are behind the i would like indeed to see prices come lower still

so i think it's mentioned it's partly a power play but i think it also does reflect a more deep seated desire to do something about inflation globally and we're also seeing other commodity commodities for why is that. where you're absolutely right it's not just oil that has fallen if you look right across the range of commodities be they base metals by the industrial raw materials whether it's cocoa or orange juice you name it everything is down today in fact an index of nineteen of the most widely trade traded commodities is already down twelve percent from its peak and actually below the average of the last two hundred days for the first time in almost a year so it is going to drag other commodities down i think that that. whole commodities space tends to move as worn on occasions and i think we are going to see further downward pressure across all of the commodity space now this is a one off event can we really expected to be positive economic growth in developed

economies. well it's not going to be a negative whether or not it proves enduring remains to be seen but i think the very facts of the rarity of this event and as we mentioned know it's only the third time in twenty years the and the fact that it was so unexpected will continue to keep traders on the defensive now and i think the idea that we can push prices up indefinitely is going to be seen as a thing of the past or a relic from the days that were and i don't i think this is going to be a positive for growth it could actually endure far more than some of the skeptics might suggest right now well thank you very much for your views nick castle's from israeli national. i know it's all a business but that's not we'll be back with more in just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines next.

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