stuck in the middle but intensified nature of all involvement is claiming civilian lives and alleged atrocities committed by rebel forces some to be feel betrayed off of what initially started as a nationwide authorising. the us trade goods for bombs in afghanistan a bomber announces the withdrawal of over thirty thousand troops while deadly drone strikes the stepped up strike in korea is of more civilian casualties. but also reporting this hour an aussie accused of inciting hatred and discrimination against muslims far right politician bill this walks free from according to the experts say his trial shows europe's multiculturalism policies have simply driven communities

apart. international news and common life from our studios here in central moscow this is seen throughout the course of the four month long revolution against colonel gadhafi regime libyans have found themselves surrounded by threats nato forces have killed hundreds of civilians. according to government claims and rebels have been accused of committing atrocities against their own people. explains. 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 people from the government and when 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 get out early. these keep has been long and hard for the within the family but i remember that a couple of my heritage i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me some of 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 covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and a lot of saying we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there vitamin c. and we were sent here. to get them through the sun was rather read as 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.c.u. killing him in front of. her own good his body on the world 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 mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya. then. you must. tell you i get this. this is about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy these just want to walk the refugees here say they now finally feel safe it's not. that's a friendly side of the frontline. because these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike he called in to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened the road fifteen people including three kids we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and

no one wants to listen to us now we have to make 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 and you dug around in the symmetry still fresh well 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 here on the ground fear that's when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll not be enough people left to experience it written or r.t. reporting from western libya. criminals and barbarians as hell colonel gadhafi called

nato states on a recent her strike that killed civilians and said it would grants the deaths good investigative journalist michael cohen who only returned from the water one country just a few days ago told r.t. innocent lives mean nothing to the coalition which is in libya for financial gains . they are killing most civilians that's the losses from the initials problems they have kids most civilians the nato bombings so the real id is not protect civilians the rio de these to achieve the economical strategical interests off there of the west us in europe i mean or i mean the financial reserves of libya i remind that the us is a bankrupt country and also preventing that caffie would be a sort of turn to the 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 couple of the world of that that nato has a right to make wars where they want to revisit the people in hospitals and we so victims and indeed the civilian population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and war. by the way if you want your say on the situation in libya you can go online and take part in our poll would be good to hear what you have to say about this today we're asking why you think the libyan campaign is failing to succeed so far the most popular view is that they even support gadhafi will not betray his share your opinions subject on the web site on t.v. dot com you can see the reaction so far that also online pilots of a large passenger jet prevents a major accident with another plane to new york's j.f.k. airport check out the gripping radio recordings from the crew on you tube channel.

four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations rule the day. but obama is running 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 all of its forces out 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 a less collateral damage. has more in this. let's note was 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 the white house those thirty thousand troops the drawdown will

start this year with some thousand troops expected to be withdrawn by december many analysts say it's not a groundbreaking move from a strategic point of view after all he is going out with he added at the beginning of his presidency but ahead of presidential elections coming up next year it might be a face saving week he promised withdrawals to start least a year end he had to believe or the bigger question is what results has he with your clock so far take a listen we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength. is under more pressure than any time since nine eleven. together with the pakistanis we have taken more than half of all kinds of leadership and thanks to your intelligence professionals and special forces we killed osama bin laden the only leader that al qaeda had ever known here in the us the pressure president obama faces with regards to afghanistan 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 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 it is actually the results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they are constantly talking about progress fragile progress as they put it various 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 all cry that they are not terrorists they are fighting against who they see as invaders after one of the recent stripes 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 leader doesn't get him

a 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 and people can no longer read that connection there. in that one do. institute a unilateral action industry don't find worrying is that i mean these upcoming troop withdrawals the u.s. has actually stepped up airstrikes including growing 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 home 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 aren't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes it's a common thing in the west media for example when they talk about the war losses they just give nato losses very rarely do they ration 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 that the earlier to happen we deal with the drug issue the invasion in two thousand and one drug production there has increased enormously and it's known that some of that bad drug trade income goes to terrorists so many see marriage as war on terror as a double edged sword when it's fighting and provoking terror at the same time kind of reporting from washington. for right to touch politician get real this is been acquitted of the charges of inciting hate and discrimination he's fine separate counts for your controversial speech he gave attacking islam and comparing it to nazis them but the court ruled his comments filled with a legitimate political debate let me tell you paul he's from the u.k. independence party he believes the whole case is beautiful us. 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 i think the fact that our head builders is on the twenty four hour. oh most 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 rather cool islam which threatens people needs to be dealt with a nice 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 and never integrate who don't share the same culture don't share the same language is never going to work what it will do is it will increase the power base of the far right across europe what we need is integration yes multiracialism let's say no to multiculturalism when in rome you play by roman 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 come to britain to fit in with those children 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 culturalism which divides people and will bring people together but now return to our top story here concerning barack obama and his decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan for more on this we're now joined from the u.s. capitol by voice of russia radio host and analyst ricardo young. does it look like nato has actually broken the taliban's momentum as the white house is claiming is it a good time to be pulling out over thirty thousand troops. well that is of course as they say in the u.s. the sixty four thousand dollar question isn't the right time but if you look at the timeline that president barack obama did announce while he was running for the presidency and a bit after he said by this time we had to have a troop drawdown and again there are several things that president barack obama has

to look at issue is you know the speech last night he talked about the drawdown about thirty thousand in all and obviously the troops on the ground out by twenty fourteen remember he's also running for reelection so there's an issue of not only the safety of u.s. combat troops there there's also the point of is being reelected in two thousand and twelve and the overall issue of money being spent there so there's about three things that he's had to deal with in the downswing this drawdown but the u.s. will still have nearly seventy seventy thousand troops there in afghanistan after this good on the twenty forty. pulling back the combat troops that you just mentioned we sent in two years ago i mean is this really a pullout can it be described as a complete pull out. well let's look at the history of america. in most countries that they've had some kind of conflict in or some interest in world war two. ended we're still in or the united states is still in germany.

states are still in korea united states are still in japan as many critics of the obama administration have said that despite how many people that he the president is going to announce a withdrawal about there will always be in there maybe a u.s. presence in afghanistan for decades to come and that u.s. presence there will be want to support the afghan military and police i mean they claim they're actually ready to step in and provide their own security doesn't really look that way that they can manage their own affairs well to this point out . well i've talked to several afghanistan experts a little past few weeks on radio and also russia and that is that's the opinion of some folks afghanistan and of course opinion of others saying that no the afghan forces are not ready but the american advisers and soldiers need to be there to help train them to combat the taliban and other forces but then again we have the

issue of are there possible peace talks or private talks with the taliban about being part of a afghan government after the u.s. combat troops leave so again this is still a very fluid situation it's interesting isn't it that the top u.s. military commanders actually saying that his plan is with brule plan is risky and they advised him not to smaller draw down what do you think he's ignoring the ones who are supposed to be advising him as well as we've seen before president barack obama has been at odds with many of his top military advisers but he is the commander in chief of the two of these commanders that are talking they also have an interest in afghanistan and iraq and i think do think that from a political standpoint here the president seeing this situation one way and the commanders are saying another call the ultimate question has to be asked you know what does the united states when it afghanistan what do we win in iraq and i think

that's really why you see there's such a difference in what president barack obama is proposing and what many of his commanders are saying they need when of course there will be those who saying that the u.s. going in with nato they went into that country to establish democracy and prosperity has that really been one has that really been achieved nearly ten years late. well as many have said no the amount of corruption going on afghanistan prevents what many consider to be. or should be a stable society but with the corruption and bribery going on there obviously the war. has been waging to come back here and it's going to be a long time before the afghani people will see the kind of peace that they desire and there are so many other factions of course you know the taliban want back again obviously the karzai government certainly wants to establish itself as the

legitimate recognized government by the people of afghanistan and of course the u.s. has its interests there too so this is still a very muddy situation i don't see personally that's going to be clearing up any time soon live from the u.s. capitol police of russia radio host and analyst rich cohen there young thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us here. security forces in bella ruse reportedly detained up to four hundred fifty people during a wave of anti-government protests in the so-called sun revolution the rallies against president bush and because economic policies have taken place in the capital minutes and with over a dozen cities because there's a group of muslim cells with the help of social networks and they purposely and carry posters will challenge the anti-government slogans and this is plain police were detained detaining a lot of random passes by along with the activists massive financial crisis hit by the results economy deteriorated causing the devaluation of its currency and provoking the wrath of the people. cerner check out some other international news

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that the i.a.e.a. has sanctioned the release of reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya which is currently engulfed in civil war think boson's head of research at national stray about explains why he thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this unusual step. reasons the first of these relates to live local economy and bear in mind that central banks around the world central banks and governments are like a fairly alarmed at the prospect of rising inflation and the oil prices are a major contributor a factor here they certainly don't want to drive their economies back into recession. quite 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 opec 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. looking at crissy markets now the u.s. markets are trading negatively in response to the prediction i found great unemployment than was initially anticipated european markets are also trading on a negative note with the dax and the footsie both well over one point five percent in the red line is a down as well and glencore are losing two percent and banks are a drag with noise down almost three percent and here in russia the plummeting oil prices drag the markets down the ante is closing of the two and a half percent in the reds looking at some individual shares on my sites now energy majors were among the main losers with oil down almost one percent banking stocks were also under pressure the sperm bank down more than of the same backing the

trend there was air flight it was among the main game is on thursday the company was making named the best east european airline at the ongoing level j. air show in paris. gazprom is just one step away from getting full control of the gas transportation network and galleries. the country says it will sell fifty percent of the network operator go france here for two and a half billion dollars gazprom already owns the behind the deal will allow it to get direct access to the european markets and italy assumption of reserves poland and lithuania he answered so i was one of the time set down by russia and its partners to bail out cash strapped by the roots gazprom is yet deciding whether the terms of the deal are acceptable. to brown's master will invest eighteen million dollars to build a car assembly plant in russia's far east plan will produce between twenty five and fifty thousand vehicles a year with thirty percent of the product being made here in russia mazda is one of the last of the big foreign manufacturers to be ruled by the special terms russia

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