in the mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya the villagers know about being new and very new so they will not be. where you are again it's. about freedom and democracy there is no freedom or democracy they just want to bury 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 the air strike in cold until even 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 which is very unlikely to happen any time soon the new dog ground in the symmetry still fresh well made too has already claimed the two your peroration 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 front line 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. r.t. reporting from western libya. well if you want your say on the situation in libya go online and take part in our poll there on screen you can see that today we're asking why you think the libyan campaign is. failing to succeed so far the most

popular view is that libyan support betrayed him you can change your opinion on the subject. also online at the moment. prevent a major accident with another plane at new york's j.f.k. airport you can check out the recordings of the crew on you tube channel. four news today. these are the images. from the street. operations the day. the white house is standing by its decision to withdraw a large part of the u.s. garrison from afghanistan barack obama is running up support after announcing the

pullout of more than thirty thousand troops by the end of next year france 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 set to remain in afghanistan with a complete promise to take place by twenty fourteen u.s. state secretary has been trying to convince congress that obama's strategy is the right approach to winning the war. on reports. clinton faced a difficult task and that is to justify the billions of u.s. taxpayers dollars on the war that seems to have no and insight 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 podhoretz accomplished and 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 al qaida 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 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 actually it's not just the afghan people it's also the neighboring pakistan whose assistance is key to the u.s. efforts to u.s. efforts in afghanistan and nonetheless the secretary of state said the pakistanis would rather see the u.s. leave afghanistan take a listen 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 that less troops doesn't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes i mean these upcoming trip was across the u.s. as were part of the stepped up airstrikes including drone strikes in afghanistan is thought to be part of this twenty first. training talent into war strategy as they call it you know when you have no troops on the ground no deaths of your soldiers to just to fly back at home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability in pakistan the u.s. doesn't have to it's on the ground but it's chasing suspected terrorists with drone strikes and very actively doing so it ends up killing mostly sebelius in those strikes the pakistanis are furious that their government is allowing the americans

killed there to kill their own people they their leaders 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. talking to me a little earlier on the voice of russia radio host ricardo young he's told me that president obama is scoring political points ahead of his reelection attempt by making such announcements 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 there's also the point of 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 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. coming up in just over an hour's time marty talks to afghan human rights champion malalai joya she claims the u.s. led occupation of a country has thrown the afghan people from the frying pan into the fire. they removed it brought in power difficult the taliban as dubai this situation getting wallsend million south going by presence often suffer thousands troops in afghanistan they suffer from injustice insecurity corruption joblessness poor and now afghanistan is the second most corrupt country and of course more than sixty two billion dollars in she received from the so-called international community

ended in the i'm off the coast direction of afghanistan in schools all phones where you do it's a truck but most of these men is going to do part because these warlords who are in power or even family are comic guys they himself corruption a star from the palace and to this small. part finality below the whole lives like two dollars a day while it's just i guess woman day by day increasing more and more intense stuff thousands of innocent people has become almost lost in one woman and children democracy never come by our completion democracy never comes by military invasion democracy never comes by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by muscle car by bombing our wedding party is. far right dutch politician here bill this is being acquitted over charges of inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts following a controversial speech he gave attacking and comparing it to nazis and but the court ruled his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate

a member of the european parliament philip a close he's told me that the verdict in this trial is a victory for the freedom of expression. this is very important not just for here to do 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 of illness and everyone else should have the right to speak freely and openly on problems like mass immigration is a miser nation and multiculturalism you know we've always been told that much of cultural zimmerman 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 and that it is balanced and free debate 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 when in rome

do as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism you know and in reality does not work in europe we are seeing 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 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. still to come in the program this hour moscow welcomes the starts. the russian capital gets a bit of hollywood glitz and glamour as the thirty third moscow international film festival gets under way. a report from predawn of a coming away very soon but first let's check out some other international news we have for you today in our world update thirty four people have been killed and over eighty injured in the iraqi capital after three explosions at the local market

police say the bombs targeted a shiite mosque there was no immediate claim of responsibility but such mosques are frequently attacked by sunni extremists including al qaeda. european union is said 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 bashar assad sanctions followed months of clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces that reportedly killed more than a thousand people. to pronounce three people have been killed and thirty two injured in clashes between students and police during street protests. brought the streets of the city and burned three regional government offices and police used tear gas and rubber bullets to prevent them storming a 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 their institution. breathtaking journeys around the world's largest country along with

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and the glamour a lot of them over here right now how y'all doing. they're enjoying themselves i certainly am it's not a bad days 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 seem 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 it ends with the debt a thrill in a spy thriller that will end the festival but there's some great movies to see of course we go outside of the for a competition there's also the competition for the gold in georgia are much wanted statue that you get for winning this post go film festival there'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 will i'll do very very well one of them is already won the

best movie award at the science about 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 andrea dunbar 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 at the arbor set in bradford in northern england should be something really into see there but also you know the movie did i really want to check out is the angels of evil italian movie about gangsters in the seventy's and the like against the movie who gets the big prize now if i was a betting man i would be looking towards american translation french movie. 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 which you 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 know they're headed up by geraldine chaplin if you might have guessed from that last name she does know i think it too 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 because all of a reporting there from central moscow let's cross over to the business desk now to get the latest financial news from katrina. thank you bill hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on our today oil prices are dropping sharply that's after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves half of this will come from the u.s. with other major economies providing the rest the move is intended to offset the

loss of loss of production from libya which is currently engulfed in civil war nick parsons head of research at national australia bank explains why he thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this problem in usual step. boeing has two reasons the first of these relates to the global economy and bear in mind the central banks around the world central banks and governments alike but 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. 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 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. now looking at the equity markets 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 decks and the footsie both well over one point five percent in the red line is down as well the downturn and glencore losing two percent and banks also down with lloyds three percent. and here in russia the plummeting oil prices drag the markets down with the r.t.s. closing over two and a half percent in the red. looking at some individual shares on the my sex energy majors were among the main losers with little down almost one percent banking stocks were also under pressure with sperm bank down more than a percent bucking the trend there was aeroflot the company was named the best

airline at the ongoing labor day air show paris. gazprom is just one step away from getting full control over the gas transportation network in ballarat the country says it will sell fifty percent of network operator belt. friends gaz 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 sent down by russia and its partners to bail out cash strapped ballad routes gazprom is yet to say whether the terms of the deal are acceptable. japan's mazda will invest eighteen million dollars to build a car assembly plant in russia's far east the plant will produce between twenty five and fifty thousand vehicles a year with thirty percent of the parts being made in russia as one of the last of the big foreign manufacturers to be lured by the special terms russian offers to make their cars locally. and that's all

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a day new documentary channel goes live with the help of the present. is the report in which max kaiser. find out how the international monetary fund will actually make money on european states in crisis such as greece that's next. max kaiser this is the kaiser report we are back from athens where we were able to stand up to an onslaught of tear gas from provocative jurors what's a provocateur or that's a cop dressed up like an anarchist hastings what's happening max in fact i believe they were i.m.f. agents trapped stuff has anarchists and they are they tear gas canisters had c.d.'s written alongside collateralized debt swap on a tour just sort of that is financial terrorism i think it's called credit default

swaps all right i'll go with that there are so many different names for these derivatives these days and that's actually the big topic of the day is all the debt circulating around the economy but first i want to show you this little image because we return from greece bearing gifts and this is artwork colonel pop and dry oh the people love me those who are causing all the trouble are terrorists the people hate them you know they're outside of the parliament building and screaming . brought all brought up all the people in grayson hate the parliamentarians they hate george papa i notice you're showing him the palm of your he's going in the palm of my hand this is for you george. little george as they call him so well the i.m.f. is in the news and you were speaking to the crowds in st thomas square constitution square and you told them that after greece would come the u.s. low and behold an hour for.