i'm. 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 nationwide uprising the. u.s. trade routes for bombs in afghanistan the white house defenders decision to withdraw more than thirty thousand troops on the drone strikes have stepped up sparking fears of more civilian casualties their. own bringing the best of russia at its heart and soul to a global audience twenty four hours a day on the documentary channel goes not with the help of

a president. plus coming up business a shop for the boy was this climate is best in a sense of release strategic reserves complaint. is a national music comment live from our studios here in central moscow and this is r.t. and 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 during their bombardments according to government claims and rebels have been accused of committing atrocities against their own people. explains. this family hasn't had a walk 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 and been 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 cave has been long and hard for the win and their family well i'm. happy that what i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me 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 they let us assume we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there we were sent here. to give them their son was rather booked as sort of 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 your killing him in front of your. own good the world because the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body says are part of 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 there is i got very very. well you i get this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just gone through. the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not. that say from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike he

couldn't leave and 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 k. 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 need our ground in these symmetries still fresh while nato has already claimed three operations 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 there won't be enough people left to experience it. out say reporting from western libya. and if you want your say on the situation in libya you can go online and take part in our poll on our website www dot e dot com today we're asking why you think the libyan campaign is failing to succeed so far the most popular you would see there on screen is that libyan support gadhafi and will not betray him share your opinion on the subject on the web sites are also online at the moment. parts of a large passenger jet prevent a major accident with another plane that new york's j.f.k. airport you can check out the gripping radio recordings from the crew on you chub channel.

four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing from the streets of canada after. trying to corporations today. the white house is standing by its decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan is rounding up support after announcing the put out of more than thirty thousand troops by the end of next year the president says it's also prepared to pull all of its forces out by the same date but the news comes amid warnings from military commanders that progress against the taliban is fragile and reversible nearly seventy thousand u.s. troops are said to remain in afghanistan with a complete pullout promise to take place by trying to fourteen secretary hillary clinton has been trying to convince congress that obama's strategy is the right approach to winning the war well are to washington now where of course probably going to con is tracking events for a scan a top u.s. military commanders are calling about his plan risky and they actually advise

a much smaller drawdown so how is the white house justifying its decision. well here we. face the difficult task today to justify the billions of u.s. taxpayers dollars on the word that seems to have no ending on the whole rights and there was a great deal of skepticism to the senators even to be to be announced drawdown of troops in afghanistan so the secretary of state had to focus on progress there and she did she mentioned the killing with members also that as she said the u.s. has broken the taliban momentum although various reports on the ground say you certainly see is not really subsiding there and some say even growing among the afghans the systematic killing of civilians by nato strikes doesn't really help experts say many of those now fighting against the allied forces in afghanistan are not all qaida they are not terrorists they're 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 many afghans are actually worried that less troops doesn't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes i mean these upcoming troop withdrawals the u.s. has reportedly stepped up air strikes including gross pricing of counties that is thought to be part of this twenty first century intelligent worse ratatouille as they call it you know when you have no troops on the ground no deaths of your soldiers to just back home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability shoes. coming to all of us is also starting a war there of course only with drone attacks no boots on the ground is the white house looking to yes go war around in the same sort of course do you think. well bill and only say while the afghanistan worries becoming kind of old school

pakistan on the other other hand could be seen as an example of this new kind of north ferry in pakistan the u.s. doesn't have its on the ground but he's chasing a suspect there is chasing suspected terrorists with drone strikes and very actively doing so it ends up killing most of the civilians in those strikes the pakistanis are furious at their government for allowing the americans killed their own people their leaders of doing that in exchange will be dollars they receive in washington americans on the other hand as we heard in the senator's comments are not too happy with what they get in return for their billions in the wake of bin laden's killing in pakistan the u.s. did all but accused pakistan's military intelligence agency of sheltering bin ladin and recently the pakistanis have arrested five cia informants who led to the bin laden great soul the senate was interested not so much in civilian deaths there put in that very complicated relationship with the pakistani leadership that the u.s.

has and here is what hillary clinton said. you know they would be perfectly happy if we picked up and left tomorrow but what would we get for it and what would they do with it and i think the answers to those two questions mean that the president's approach which is this steady careful transition while we try to work the the diplomatic and political piece of this which includes pakistan. is exactly the right way to go. also from what she said it's becoming clear that the u.s. is going to continue and it has actually asked about their case against this package carried the trap which means more drone strikes in pakistan some experts say slightly and it sent people to glass is only going to generate more extreme in the region but that was not one of the. in her testimony before the senate committee on foreign relations it's going to focus very much indeed for that let's just kind of

live from washington. and the voice of russia radio host ricardo young he told me a little earlier here in r.t. that president obama is scoring political points ahead of his reelection attempt by making such announcements on this one. 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 but remember he's also running for reelection so there's an issue of not only the safety of u.s. combat troops there is also the point that is being reelected in twenty twelve the overall issue of money being spent there so there's about three themes that he's had to deal with without saying this drawdown critics of the obama administration have said that despite how many people that he president is going to announce or withdraw about there will always be there may be a u.s.

presence in afghanistan for decades to come. for a ride to dodge politician here to fill those has been acquitted over charges of inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a controversial speech he gave talking islam and comparing it to knott's ism and the court ruled his comments filled within the boundaries of legitimate political debate or discuss the story that's now crossing on to brussels to talk to member of the european parliament there philip close thanks very much indeed for being with us here on r.t. so what do you make of the court's decision. well of course i'm very pleased by it this is very important not just for here through this but for freedom of speech itself i think you can all have a working democracy a functioning democracy if you don't have freedom of speech and certainly as a member of parliament rivers and everyone else for that have the right to speak freely and openly on problems like mass immigration is a. multiculturalism but attacking islam and comparing it to nazis him i mean i know

he is insisting his comments were not directed actually of muslim believers but surely those sort of comments no matter what the course says are offensive to muslims and incite racial hatred and cause further divisions among communities. well first of all i think it's not prohibited through offend people you know in any debate people can be offended and that's not always nice but it's a byproduct of any did it of freedom of speech and then in the mock receive as long as you don't and cite people to you know to violence against other people i think there is no problem and i think that everyone should be should get used to a free debate a balanced debate on any possible problem and problems with islam should people discuss openly i think what does this tell us then about multiculturalism in europe many european leaders saying it's failed. if that's the case what's the alternative

. i think you know it's you know you should be able to say freely that it has failed and more and more people are doing now and you know it's very important to assess the problems and you know we've always been through all that multiculturalism and was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on a country that has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to you know put forward his own solutions to the problem so what do you suggest what do you think what do you think of the solutions to this problem. well i think people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shewed that themselves through the local roles the local way of living if someone comes to germany well history you should speak german and shoot it up through the german culture and german way of thinking and what you do home you know is your own is your own right your own problem but you know once you start functioning within

society you know you should know that you are in a certain country you should do when in rome do as the romans do and this is very important multiculturalism in reality does not work in europe we'll see big problems in major cities major capitals in western europe where we see power societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to that themselves to the way of living in the country they went through and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy well of course europe is now experiencing a wave of immigrants from north africa and the middle east is it really ready to accept those people in those vast numbers britain germany have admitted that this whole multiculturalism multiculturalism idea has failed so the pressures are really even greater now on your opponent you're there in brussels what are you going to do about it. yes well i think you. should make clear that it wants to it's

once it so rules to be respected and we have who he problems with the shaman area where there are no controls border controls on the and so on no borders but we should be controls at the external borders and there's the problem because you know we see that certain member states and all they do to cope anymore with the huge immigration wave that has taken place from the middle east or from north africa and we should protect our borders and if this cannot be done by the european union like the european union wants it to be to be done well i think the member states should have the right to put you know the controls to the borders and to have their borders protected because it's also you finally this bill this case that so we're talking about principle is that this it represents a new far right wave of sentiment in europe against muslims and should be worried

about this development. no they shouldn't be worried about anything so what willis has done you know he has talked about the problem of islam isolation and he has never attacked muslims personally has not without the people who are you know who are muslims and this court decision is about protecting the freedom of speech and i think was names should not be worried about having a debate on the problems that this religion is posing to europe because there are a lot of problems you know people should respect our way of living some basic european fallacies and it's good that there is a debate on this you know there should be no equal treatment of of men and women the separation of church and state the rule of law freedom of speech these are basic european falco's you know that need to be shared by everyone who's coming from europe and if that's not the case that is a problem but you know in itself rather than think there's any problem and nothing

should not be worried by the called secession m.e.p. philip slice joining us live there in brussels thanks very much for your time here on r.t. thank you. let's check out some other international news we have for you today in the world update twenty one people been killed in iran forty injured in the iraqi capital off the three explosions at a local market police say the bombs targeted a shiite mosque there is no immediate claim of responsibility but such mosques are frequently attacked by sunni extremists including al qaeda. european union has hit syria more sanctions aimed at seven individuals and four companies and says the measures were brought because of the gravity of the situation in the country currently thirty four people run businesses in el face asset freezes and travel bans including president bashar assad so actions follow months of clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces that reportedly killed more than a thousand people. to prove three people have been killed and thirty two injured in

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seventeen films will compete against each other for the prestigious st george's gone over the course of the next ten days here and a corresponding people of is following the action. contrast the countless fear here in central moscow ahead of the opening of the thirty fifth thirty third international film festival here in the russian capital plenty of fans come out to greet the great in the good in the clips in the column a lot of them over here right now how are you all doing. they're enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a part there is work when you get sent here great atmosphere we've seen a lot of the stars entering into the cinema just behind me at pushkin square in the center of the russian capital we've seen sheelagh of the star of the transformers movie also with michael bay the director of those films he was mobbed by fans as he entered transformers three get things under way today and it ends with the death

a thriller spy thriller that will end the festival but there is some great movies to see of course we go outside of the competition there's also the competition for the golden george much wanted statue that you get for winning this whole scope film festival it's also some great films now i'm a bit biased it is an international film festival i picked out two british movies that i believe all very very well one of them is already won the best movie award at the science across the on film festival this year that needs a drama about well known educated pilling quince about young people in scotland that's supposed to be a very very good film also the biopic of. the british playwright under it done by now that's supposed to be a very gritty biopic a very heartwarming biopic it was nominated for a bafta that's something i'm definitely going to be trying to see the movie is called called the second brotherhood in northern england should be something really in the sea there but also you know the movie that i really want to check out is the

angels of evil an italian movie about gangsters in the seventy's and if you like a dime's the movie who gets the big prize now if i was a betting man i would be looking towards american translation french movie i. it's 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 the people that know what they're talking about the judges here now they're headed by joel the chaplain now if you might have guessed 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 could fill ins she'll be deciding who picks up a prestigious golden george at the end of the festival. dr and of course as you can see the weather in moscow is absolutely wonderful

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a welcome to the business going in here on odds he or france is a drop in shop play 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 the u.s. with all the major economies providing the rest the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya which is currently engulfed in civil war because of the head of research at national bank explains why he thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this unusual step. boeing has 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 a fairly along the prospects 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 trifling 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 the equity markets now the u.s. markets are trading negatively in response to the prediction of far greater unemployment than was initially anticipated european markets closed trading on a negative note also with the dax and the footsie both well over one point five percent in the red here in russia the plummeting oil price dragged the markets down with the r.c.s. closing over two and a half percent in the red clay it's individual share moves on the my six energy majors were among the main loses lukoil down almost one percent banking stocks were

also under pressure was down more than a percent bucking the trend i was aeroflot my company was named the best east european airline are the only going. in paris and that's all the business for this hour but we'll be back with more in just under an hour's time.