in front of i.c.u. paying good his body on the world of general hospital the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels official political body set 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 no. new venue there will be a new. us the wisdom where you are again is that they took about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bear all the refugees here say they now finally feel safe but it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in a strike code and to leave and government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing 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 who she is very unlikely to happen any time soon the new dog ground in the symmetry still fresh while nato has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes containing and benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli but is 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 they'll last me enough people left to experience it.

and if you want your say on the situation in libya you can go online and take part in. 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 the libyan support. your opinion on the subject on the web site also online at the moment. a large passenger jet prevent a major accident with another plane that j.f.k. airport you can check out the gripping radio recordings from the crew on. channel. four news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. today.

the white house is standing by its decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan barack obama is rounding up support after announcing the more than thirty thousand troops by the end of next year france now says it's also prepared to pull all of its forces. 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 fourteen u.s. secretary hillary clinton has been trying to convince congress the strategy is the right approach to winning the war well live to washington now where a corresponding tracking events top u.s. military commanders calling a. risky and they actually advised a much smaller drawdown so how is the white house justifying its decision.

well here we could face the difficult task today to justify the billions of us taxpayers' dollars on the war that seems to have no ending on the whole rights and there was a great deal of skepticism among the senators even to be at the end drawdown of troops in afghanistan so the secretary of state had to focus on progress that complex there and she did she mention the killing to feel tired of members old soledad as she said the u.s. has broken the taliban's momentum although various reports on the ground say you surge and 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 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 say one 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 growing strikes in afghanistan he's thought to be part of this twenty first century intelligent war strategy as they call it you know when you have no troops on the ground no deaths of u.s. soldiers to justify back home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability shoes. come into all of this the u.s. is also fighting a war there of course only with drug attacks no boots on the ground is the white house looking to to go war road in the same sort of course do you think. well bill analysts say while the ganas that worries becoming kind of old school pakistan on the other other hand could be seen as an example of this new kind of warfare in pakistan the u.s. doesn't have boots on the ground but he's chasing

a suspect that 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 kill their own people they can have their leaders of doing that in exchange will be dollars they received from 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 us did all but accused pakistan's military intelligence agency of sheltering bin laden and recently the pakistanis have arrested five cia informants who led to the bin laden great so the senate was interested not so much in civilian deaths there but 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 stepped out that case against it carried think pakistan which means more drone strikes and more bombs on pakistan some experts say by killing innocent people to go after is only going to generate more extreme in the region but that was not one of these just hillary clinton addressed in her testimony before the senate committee on foreign relations this thursday we're going to thanks very much indeed for that. live from washington thank you. 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 withdrawal 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 is being reelected in twenty 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 announcing this drawdown critics of the obama administration have said that despite how many people that he the president is going to. withdraw all about there will always be there may be a u.s. presence in afghanistan for decades to come. far right dutch politician here devilled as has been acquitted over charges of inciting hate and discrimination he

faced five separate counts for a controversial speech he gave attacking islam and comparing it to naziism but the court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate but discuss the story that's now of course alive to brussels to talk to member of the european parliament there if you look 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 and everyone else should have the right to speak freely and openly on problems like mass immigration is a. multiculturalism but attacking islam and comparing it to nazis in i mean i know he was insisting his comments were not directed actually of muslim believers but surely those sort of comments no matter what the course says all are offensive to

muslims and incite racial hatred and cause further divisions among communities. well first of all think it's not prohibited to offend people you know in any debate people can be offended and that's not always nice but it's a byproduct of any debate of freedom of speech and then in the mock recy as long as you don't and side people to you know to violence against other people i think there is no problem 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 be discussed 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 so now and you know it's very

important to assess the problems and you know we've always been told that multiculturalism and was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on the contrary it has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to you know to put forward his own solutions to the problem so what do you suggest what 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 shoot themselves through the local laws the local way of living if someone comes to germany well he should speak german he chewed through the german culture and german way of thinking and what you do at home you know is your own is your own rights 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 are seeing big problems in major cities major topic roles in western europe where we see the power of the societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to adapt themselves to the way of living in the country they went to 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 obviously britain germany and admitted that this whole multiculturalism multiculturalism idea has failed so the pressures are really even greater now on your part that you'll there in brussels what are you going to do about it. yes i think your opinion should make clear that it wants to once its own rules to be respected and we have problems with the shang an area

where there are no controls border controls on the intel 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 the able to cope anymore with the huge immigration wave that is taking place from the middle distance from north africa and we should god and protects us 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 on the to have the borders protected clauses ask you finally this will this case that we're talking about principally today does it represent a new far right wave of sentiment in europe against muslims and should be worried about this development. they shouldn't be worried about anything so what will this has done you know he has talked about the problem of islam isolation and he

has never attacked muslims personally has not with active people who you know overwhelm muslims and this court decision is about protecting the freedom of speech and i think was limbs should not be worried about having a debate on the problems that this religion is posing to to europe because there are a lot of problems you know people should respect our way of living some basic european fallis and it's good that there is a debate on this you know there should be equal treatment of of men and women the separation of church and state the rule of law freedom of speech is a basic european folly you know that need to be shared by everyone who's coming to europe and if that's not the case that is the problem but you know in itself rather than think there is any problem and muslims should not be worried by the decision i mean pre-fill applies joining us live in brussels thanks very much for your time here on r.t.

thank you. well know let's check out some other international news we have for you today in the world update twenty one people being killed in iran forty injured in the iraqi capital of the three explosions at the local market police say the bombs targeted a shiite mosque there is no immediate claim of responsibility but such mosques are frequent attack by sunni extremists including al qaeda. european union has hit syria with 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 and businesses now face asset freezes and travel bans including president bashar assad sanctions 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 clashes between students and police during street protests 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 have

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. fantastic atmosphere here in central moscow ahead of the opening of the thirty for 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 the glamour a lot of them over here right now how are you all doing. there enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a bad day's 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 sheila both the star of the transformers movie also michael bay the director of those films he was mobbed by fans as he entered transformers three get things under way today and then it ends with the death a thriller spy thriller that will end the festival but there's 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 bosko film festival it'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 all do very very well one of them is already won the best movie award at the sunspots the on film festival this year that's it 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 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 that i'm definitely going to be trying to see the movie is called called the set in brotherhood in northern england should be something really in the sea there but also another movie that i really want to check out is the angels of evil an italian movie about gangsters in the seventy's and the like a gangster movie who gets the big prize now if i was a betting man i would be looking towards american translation french movie a. 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 chips 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 up by geraldine chaplin now if you might have guessed from that last name she does know a thing or two 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 job at the end of the festival peter all of that and of course as you can see the weather in moscow is absolutely wonderful a moment at this time of the year no time to get an update on the business with katrina she'll be with us after a short break stay with us live here in the russian capital.

right if you knew. from. the start on t.v. don't. know welcome to the business bulletin here on odds he says are dropping 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 of the movie is intended to offset the loss of production from libya which is currently engulfed in civil war possums head of research at national bank explains why he thinks he has taken this unusual step. buying is 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 are like fairly alarmed at the prospect of rising inflation and prices our 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 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 and 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 i think it's individual shares 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 two percent bucking the trend i was aeroflot the company was named the best east european airline at the only going. in paris

and that's all the business for this hour but we'll be back with more just under an hour's time.

we twenty four hours a day this is from the russian capital top stories this hour stuck in the middle with intensified nato bombardments claiming civilian lives in the atrocities committed by rebel forces some libyans feel betrayed and one of the she started as a nationwide uprising forces that promise to fight for freedom pose a danger to the population. the u.s. trade groups for bombs in afghanistan or announces there were draw in more than thirty thousand troops while deadly drawing strikes are stepped up sparking fears of more civilian casualties seventy thousand americans will still remain in afghanistan after twenty two. years of inciting hatred and discrimination against muslims. get this week's free from according to. a win for

freedom of expression experts say his trial shows europe's multiculturalism policies have had the opposite effect drawn in communities. and bringing the best of russia and its heart and soul to a global audience twenty four hours a day new documentary channel goes live for the help of a. don't brings the best of russia's culture and history to a global audience well costing in english. well and join me for more on those stories in about thirty minutes from now but before that we talk to those who still remember nazi germany's first offensive against the soviet union which took place in the city a breast in more than a race that is next on a. breast fortress today it's on the territory of the sovereign republic of belarus formerly the soviet republic of belarus a fortress was once the western most outpost of the soviet empire each day schoolchildren

in the town of brest take part in a ceremony by a local monument to commemorate what happened there. on june twenty second one thousand nine hundred forty one german fascist forces invaded the soviet union without a declaration of war the defenders of the breast fortress found themselves in a dead end situation it is here that the myth about the invincibility of the german army was broken after the end of the war and the rest fortress as a name became synonymous to perseverance courage and belief in victory for years to come. the early hours of june twenty second nineteen forty one german artillery unleashes a massive barrage from the breast garrisoned. german war plan.