hotel rooms the home of venus the gateway to the grand imperial truly the taj was close coromandel you can go with a little closer mission which says don't need to go and. read this in the kenilworth hotel as a treat. 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. trading cards football games the white house defends its decision to drop more than thirty thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan. the move comes as deadly drone strikes in the war zone are stepped up sparking fears of more civilian casualties join me in just a few minutes from washington. and bringing the best of russia and its

heart and soul to a global audience twenty four hours a day party's new documentary channel goes live with the help of the president's. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is seen throughout the course of the four month long revolution against kind of the regime libyans have found themselves surrounded by threats and they say forces have killed hundreds of civilians during our bombardments according to government claims and rebels are being accused of committing atrocities against their own people. explains. this family hasn't had a war peaceful like this one for months they've escaped through 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 kid has been long and hard for they will and their family what i remember that. 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 benghazi to nazir 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 they let us assume we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there we were sent here. son was brother booked as a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw appealing. from the from or from your

killing him in front of i.c.u. . on the world that was because 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 in libya started in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the your legitimate representatives of libya but there is. very new so you west. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just. the refugees here see the now finally feel safe but it's not. that say from the side of the frontline either. of these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike according to leave and government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and threatened killing fifteen people including three key aides

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 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 made to has already claimed three operations to protect civilians must go on with closures containing 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 worst talks about will finally come here there will be enough people left to experience it.

r.t. reporting from western libya. well ever since the libyan conflict broke out in february the price of oil is skyrocketed but this thursday gold surprisingly dropped in its value let's turn to our business now for the nation katrina is there katrina what is fueling this price drop well bill you're absolutely right we did see a spike there has been right for quite a while but this drop that we've seen so drastically for thursday is due to a decision by the i know that's the international energy agency and their decision to release pretty thick reserves now fifty percent of those reserves i come in from the united states meaning that the demand for oil and western nations is far lower operating more on the story shortly in the bulletin between a thanks very much indeed that circuitry in our business newsroom more from her a little later here she says here in r.t. the white house is standing by its decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan iraq obama is rolling up support after announcing the

pullout of more than thirty thousand troops by the end of next year frantz nel says it's also prepared to pull all of its forces out by the same date the news comes in with warnings from military commanders that progress against the taliban is fragile and reversible seventy thousand u.s. troops are said to remain in afghanistan with a complete pullout promise to take place by twenty fourteen your state secretary hillary clinton is going to try to convince congress that obama's strategy is the right approach to winning the war well live to washington where our correspondent is tracking events top u.s. military commanders according obama's plan risky they actually advise much smaller drawdown so how is the white house justifying its decision. well hillary clinton faced the difficult task and that is to justify the viewings of u.s. taxpayers dollars on the war that seems to have no and inside and there was a great deal of skepticism among the senators even amid the announced withdrawal of

troops in afghanistan so the secretary of state had to focus on progress accomplished there and did she mention the killing of key al qaeda members also that as she said the u.s. has broken the taliban momentum although various reports on the ground suggest the insurgency is not really subsiding there and some even say it's 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 they are not terrorists they are fighting against two bases 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 they continue killing civilians the whole of the afghan population will treat them as occupiers actually it's not just the afghan people it's also the neighboring pakistan whose assistance is key to the

u.s. efforts u.s. efforts in afghanistan and nonetheless the secretary of state said the pakistanis would rather see the u.s. leave of get us then take a listen. 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. many afghans are actually worried less troops doesn't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes and need these upcoming trip was a draw as the u.s. says we're probably stepped up airstrikes including drone strikes in afghanistan is 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 your soldiers

to just do five back at home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability shoes. to those on the drones how does pakistan come into all of this the u.s. is is fighting a war there but with drone attacks no boots on the ground do you think the white house is looking to turn the afghan war rather than the same sort of course well bill analysts say while the of gadgets and war is becoming kind of old school pakistan on the 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 it's chasing suspected terrorists with drone strikes and very actively doing so it ends up killing mostly civilians in those strikes the pakistanis are furious that their government is allowing the americans killed there to kill their own people the cues their leaders of doing that in exchange for billions of dollars they received from washington some experts say by

killing innocent people the u.s. is only going to generate more extremism in the region but that was not one of the issues hillary clinton addressed in her testimony before the senate committee on foreign relations this thursday. thanks very much indeed live from the u.s. capitol correspondent. the voice of russia radio host recalled a young told me to you that president obama scoring political points ahead of his reelection attempt by making such announcements. if you look at the timeline the 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 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 and in announcing this drawdown critics of the

obama administration have said that despite how many people that he the president is going to announce withdrawal about there will always be there may be a u.s. presence in afghanistan for decades to come. still to come later this hour an r.t. will talk to a human rights champion the line of joy she claims the u.s. led occupation of a country has thrown the afghan people from the frying pan into the far. removed it brought in power to put a copy of the taliban as dubai this is getting lost in million south africa and by presence of concern for thousands troops in afghanistan to stop it from injustice insecurity corruption joblessness quality and now afghanistan is the second most corrupt country and of course more than sixty million dollars in she received from the so-called international community ended in the mostly construction of afghanistan and schools are funds it's a truck but most of these money when people park across these two i don't even

family are comic as they have some corruption a star from the palace and to this small. finality. like the violence against women there by the increasing more in the world then suffer thousands of innocent people has the most trust in most women and children what was the never come democracy never come by military invasion democracy never tried by class the thought by white phosphorus by my cigar by bumping our wedding party is. that interview coming your way a little later here in our will still to come to moscow welcomes the star wars. the russian capital gets a bit of wood. as the moscow international film festival gets underway. the first far right dutch politician real there's been quick to get over charges of

inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a controversial speech he gave attacking islam and comparing it to narcism but the court ruled his comments well within the boundaries of legitimate political debate member of the european parliament place has told me that the verdict and the trial is a victory for the freedom of expression. this is very important not just for here through this but for freedom of speech in itself i think you cannot have a working democracy a functioning democracy if you don't have freedom of speech and certainly as a member of parliament diverse and everyone else should have the right to speak freely and openly on problems like mass immigration is an association and multiculturalism you know we've always been told that knowledge of culturalism 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 and either

a balanced and freed abate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot it up themselves through the local laws the local way of living when in rome do as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism you know in reality does not work in europe we are seeing big problems in major cities major capitals in western europe where we see our societies that have emerged you know with so many people who don't feel they have to do that themselves to the way of living in a country they went to and so this has to change i think we need a much more restrictive immigration and integration policy. let's check out some other international news we have for you today in our world update thirty four people have been killed in iraq eighty two injured in the iraqi capital after 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

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and the glamour a lot of them over here right now are you all doing. they're enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a partes 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 proof the star of the transformers movie also michael bay the director of those films he was mobbed by fans as he entered transco mystery get things under way today and it ends with the debt a thriller spy for a little n.b.a. festival but there's some great movies to see of course we go outside of the competition there's also a competition called the golden georgia much wanted statue that you get for winning this costco film festival there's also some great films that i'm a bit biased it is an international film festival are two british movies that i believe will do very very well one of them is already won the best movie award at

the sons of the on film festival this year that's 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 mostly 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 that movie is called called of the all but certain brad pitt in northern england should be something really into see them but also you know the movie that i really want to check out is the angels of evil italian movie about gangsters in the seventy's and if you like a gangster movie who gets the big prize now but i was a betting man i would be looking towards american translation french movie i am. 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 tip to you would you would 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 good films she'll be deciding who picks up that prestigious golden george at the end of the festival played all of our reporting there from the heart of moscow business news with katrina that's coming your way in just a few moments stay with us live here in the russian capital. hungry for the full stop we've got it from. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in indonesia oh she's available in hotels coming dolly resort and spa my good

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the global economy and bear in mind that central banks around the world central banks and governments alike but 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 as a byte 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 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. looking at the equity markets now 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 and the red line is a down as well the dancer and glencore losing two percent and banks are a drag down almost three percent and here in russia the plummeting price drag the markets down with the r.t.s. closing of it said in the red. i think it's an individual share moves on the my sex energy majors were among the main losers with lukoil down almost one percent banking stocks were also under pressure it was down more than a percent bucking the trend i was araf lot of company was named the best east european airline ever. in paris. gazprom is just one step away from getting full control over the guest transportation network in bella ruse become free says it'll sell fifty percent of network operator beltran's gas for two

and a half billion dollars gazprom already owns the other half the deal would allow it to get direct access to the european market with links to such countries as poland and lithuania the asset sale is one of the term set down by russia and its partners to bail out cash strapped valorous gazprom though is yet to say whether the terms of the deal are acceptable. japan's master will invest eighteen million dollars to build a car assembly plant in russia's far east the club will produce between twenty five and fifty thousand vehicles a year with thirty percent of the parts being made here in russia mansour is one of the last of the big foreign manufacturers to be learned by the special thames russia office to make their cars luckily. and that's all the business for the south will be back in just under an hour's time stay with us for headline next.

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