stars in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no i've been you and then you there will be a new. you must be was them where you are again is that they took about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to pair up the refugees here say they now finally feel safe and it's not that safe from the sound of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in a strike code into the government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened 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 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 she's very unlikely to happen any time soon the new dog ground in the symmetry is still fresh while nato has already claimed that 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 the west talks about will finally come here there won't be enough people left to experience it regional r.t. reporting from western libya. criminals and barbarians is how colonel gadhafi called nato states following a recent her strike that killed civilians the announcer said it regrets the deaths but investigative journalist michael cohen who only returned from the war torn

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 mall civilians that the losses from the initials problems their fields most civilians the nato bombings so the real id is not protect civilians. to achieve the economical structures you call interest off there of the west us in europe i mean the oil i mean the financial reserves of libya brain mind that the us is a bankrupt country and also preventing that kind of would be assault of china 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 nato has the right to make wars where they want revisit the people in hospitals and we saw victims and you did the civilian

population is attacked that must be very clear it has nothing to do with him in a chair and walk. 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've been supported daffy more betray him european subject on a website on t.v. dot com you can see the reaction so far that also online pundits have a large passenger jet prevent a major accident with another plane at 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. and these are the images.

from the streets of canada. a giant corporation to rule the day. barack obama is running up support for his decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan front 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 collateral damage. has more in this. let's that was numbers there around one hundred thousand american troops deployed to 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 one of those thirty thousand troops the drawdown will start this year with some ten 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 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 week he promised the withdrawals from start this year and he had to deliver the bigger question is what results has he made that you're 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 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 u.s. 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 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 it

is actually the results on the ground if you listen to american military officials they are cautiously talking about progress fragile progress as they put it but 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 is. the u.s. backed afghan president karzai has 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 of a poppet leader doesn't get him it doesn't get again 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 tolerate the attention there. in

that one do that again go. to a unilateral action industry got what some find worrying is that 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 doesn't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes it's a common thing in the u.s. media for example when they talk about 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 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 see america's war on terror as a double edged sword when it's fighting and provoking terror at the same time. got to check on their reporting from washington. far right politician get builders has been acquitted over charges of inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a controversial speech he gave attacking islam and comparing it to nazis them but the court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate and me people not all he's from the u.k. independence party he believes the whole case has been a false. 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 the head of builders is on the twenty four hour. 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 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 who 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 rome's 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 to 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 multiculturalism which divides people and bring people together that's 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 putting out over thirty thousand troops. well that is of course as i say at the us a sixty four thousand dollar question is that 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's several things that president barack obama has to look at issue as you know in his speech last night he talked about a drawdown about thirty thousand in all and obviously the troops on the ground by two thousand and fourteen but 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 announcing this drawdown but the u.s. will still have nearly seventy seventy thousand troops there in afghanistan after this drawdown by twenty forty. pulling back the combat troops which you just mentioned he sent in two years ago i mean is this really a pullout can it be described as a complete put 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 is 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 and there may be a u.s. presence in afghanistan for decades to come and that u.s. presence that will be want to support the afghan military and police i mean they claim they're actually ready to step in and provide security it doesn't really look that way that they can manage their own affairs after this point. well i've talked to several afghanistan experts over the past few weeks on radio on the borders of russia and that is that's the opinion of some folks in afghanistan and of course opinion of others saying that no the afghan forces are not ready that 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 commander is actually saying that his plan obama's withdrawal plan is risky and they devised a much smaller drawdown why do you think he's ignoring the ones who are supposed to be advising him. 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 these commanders that are talking they also have an interest in afghanistan and iraq and i think do think that from a political standpoint he is the president seeing this situation one way and the commanders are saying another the ultimate question has to be asked you know what does the united states win in 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 to 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 taliban has been waging to come back 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 are forced into the taliban want back in 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. capital voice of russia radio host and analyst ricardo young thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us on. security forces in bella ruse reported they detained up to four hundred fifty people during a wave of anti-government protests in the so-called sun revolution the rallies against president because economic policies have taken place in the capital minutes and with over a dozen other cities to test as a group an awesome sells through the help of social networking groups and they purposely carry posters with chanting anti-government slogans it is claimed police were detained detaining a lot of random passers by along with the activists a massive financial crisis hit by the roost after its economy deteriorated causing the devaluation of its currency and provoking the wrath of the people. let's check out some other international news we have for you today in the world update the european union has hit syria with more sanctions aimed at seven individuals and

four companies says the measures were brought because of the gravity of the situation in the country currently thirty four people and businesses now face asset freezes and travel bans including president bush on sanctions following months of clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces that reportedly killed more than. a thousand people. or so i will update disarm peru three people have been killed and thirty two injured in clashes between students and police during street protests crowds have blocked the streets of the city and burned three regional government offices police used tear gas and rubber bullets to prevent their stalling the local police headquarters and students have been angered over plans to build a new university in the region which they claim could divert funds from that institution. breathtaking journeys around the world's largest country along with spellbinding stories are now accessible for you twenty four hours a day that's after present dmitri medvedev officially launched on talk it's a new channel all about russia very have visited artie's headquarters here in

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research at national strategy bank explains why he thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this unusual step. 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. by overtightening 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 of far greater unemployment than was initially anticipated european markets 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 vedantam and blanco are losing two percent and banks are a drag with noise down almost three percent and here in russia the plummeting oil prices dragged the markets down but the ante is closing of the two and a half percent in the red. looking at some individual share examined my sex now energy majors were among the main losers with lukoil down almost one percent banking stocks were also under pressure the sperm bank down more than a percent 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 valerie's. the country says it'll sell fifty percent of the network operator bell france gets the two and a half billion dollars gazprom already owns the up one home the deal will allow it to get direct access to the european market with links to such countries as poland and lithuania he answered so it was one of the term set down by russia and its partners to bail out cash strapped valorous gazprom is yet deciding whether the terms of the deal are acceptable. japan's must or will invest eighteen million dollars to build a car assembly plant in russia's far east the plan will produce between twenty five and fifty thousand vehicles per year with thirty percent of the concert being made here in russia mazda is one of the last of the big foreign manufacturers to be moved by the special terms russia offers to make their cars locally. and that's all the business for this hour we'll be back with more in just under an

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thank you for taking the time to be with us thank you times. recently returned from a trip to the u.s. that didn't start world you were denied entry visa the decision was later reversed but why do you think this happened especially after the fact you visited the u.s. several times about the problems because each time in the past also when i went to us and also. exposed to long policies of us in that way in afghanistan who occupy our country and did about it on film and rights human rights and democracy and also imposed on our people said dr blasts who are foot a copy of the taliban and they waste taxpayer money and billion dollars as now this nation afghanistan discriminant wall become open secret political people around to quote and us and also. to its that's why white tower.