official political body set up after 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 the very is though i've got a new venue there. you want to be with them or you are against them 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 air strike code until even government officials a bomb landed on the private compound and flattened it killing fifteen people including three kids but 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 while nato has already claimed that the operation to protect civilians must go on with clashes containing and benghazi and nato intensify in 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 they almost be enough people left to experience it all written option r r t reporting from western libya. by the way if you want your say on the situation in libya go online take part in the poll and on the screen you can see that we're

asking why you think the libyan campaign is failing to succeed so far the most popular view is that libyan support will not betray him share your opinion on the subject on our website or. also. passenger jet prevent a major accident with another plane in new york. you can check out the radio recordings of the crew on you tube channel. four news today. these are the images. to rule the day. the white house is standing by its decision to withdraw 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 now says it's also prepared to pull all of its forces out by the same date when the news comes amid warnings from military commanders that progress against the taliban is fragile and reversible nearly seventy thousand u.s. troops remain in afghanistan with a complete promise to take place by twenty fourteen u.s. state secretary has been trying to convince congress for the bomber strategy is the right approach to winning the war. on this report. hillary 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 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 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 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 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 and 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 of gatiss then 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 drawls 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. entry intelligent war strategy as they call it you know when you have no troops on the ground no deaths of your soldiers to just to fire back at home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all these accountability issues 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 civilians in those strikes the pakistanis are furious that their government is allowing the americans

killed there to kill their own people the 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. going to come in there in washington well for more we're joined from the us by lawrence korb he's from the washington based think tank the center for american progress mr called thanks very much indeed for joining us now top u.s. military commanders they think that the bomb was they think the withdrawal plan is risky they would have all gradual pullout why do you think obama is ignoring his he's made it to bras the i mean don't they the experts. well now but the military always is against any type of withdrawal and they want to slow it down as much as

they can and if you go back and you look president bush at the overall his generals they didn't want the surge they wanted the iraqis step up they ignored general shinseki when he said how many troops would be necessary to occupy. occupy iraq after the fall of saddam hussein so that's not unusual president obama has other things than just the you know the advice of the military has got an economic situation needs to keep the support of the american people can needs to send a signal to president karzai he needs to assure our other allies who are there with us so he has much more complex you know needs than the military of course the. u.s. and nato plan is to hand over responsibility of the security of the country to the afghan people themselves will bearing in mind the reports of the the corruption and the inefficiency of the security forces that at the moment do you think that really is a realistic option and goal for the long term. well i mean basically it's really up

to the afghans if they don't want to defend themselves we can't stay there forever and i think everybody knows that karzai and nato agreed on two thousand and fourteen as president obama mentioned last night you have one hundred thousand security forces that's way more than the taliban or you know. and remember that the military agreed with obama if we gave the extra thirty thousand troops that he should be able to start pulling them out right right now in fact he's given them really an extra year his original plan was to get them out by the end of two thousand and eleven. you mention an interesting situation the domestic situation back in the states the problem with the economy and obviously that will score political points for obama to spend less money in the overseas conflict and more money at home is that is that one reason along with the fact that the election is imminent and that troop withdrawal of thirty three thousand troops will happen two months before he stands for election. well i don't think so and i'll tell you why i mean you want to keep the support of the american people for staying there till two

thousand and fourteen but if obama was worried about the election he would have postponed the withdrawal to laughter because those troops get out and something happens i mean it's going to be a political loss for him. what about the other interests from the american people bin laden he's dead now is another reason why obama wants to leave saying that well presumably thinking that the american people no longer really interested in what happens in afghanistan now that public enemy number one is gone. well there's no doubt about the fact that killing bin ladin obama's national security credentials and basically you know the people will say well you've got bad law and so you know and you think we can do it where it will support you whereas if he had not i think you would have had kind of a lot of people speaking up for the you know the generals who wanted to stay and remember that awful lot of republicans are even pushing for a more accelerated you know what you're also politically i don't think he has any

problem at all in terms of you know what he's doing there. but that's nothing to do with the taliban the taliban and that and it's interesting to see that they've been launching talks now behind the scenes with the taliban do you think that talking to the taliban is wise and coming to some sort of compromise with the taliban is the right step for the future for the country. very definitely even our military commanders say there's no military solution you're going to have to negotiate with the taliban and i think this withdrawal more significant than our generals want sends a signal to the taliban that we're not occupiers that you know we're not going to stay there forever and it's a good time to talk to them because this is you know when you have the maximum amount of troops and by the end of this year world you know be down to only ninety thousand and remember even if when obama gets all these troops out he's still going to have twice as many troops as he had when he first came into office. and with

those troops be that on a combat basis in case maybe the taliban gets out of control and the afghan forces can't handle a situation i mean what could they be there for well. well i think basically what you're going to see is we're going to turn over parts of the south helmand province to the afghan security forces keep a small force in reserve in case we have to go back in but you're going to see i think the remaining troops focus on the eastern border with pakistan because that's where the you know the taliban have their hideout but could the taliban return to power in afghanistan and if that's the case have the americans have nato really achieved in creating a democratic country in the future well i mean but our goal is to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks on the united states and its allies and destabilizing the region i don't think anybody in our country would like the taliban to come back

but if they do in the afghan people are willing to do that that doesn't impact our national security interests lawrence korb we're out of time thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on the matter lawrence korb from the public policy think tank in washington thank you for a politician hit the village has been acquitted of the charges of inciting hate and discrimination he faced five separate counts for his controversial speech he gave attacking is them and comparing it to naziism but the cool rules his comments fell within the boundaries of legitimate political debate member of the european parliament philip klein says told me earlier him a nazi that the verdict in the 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 and multiculturalism 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 and that it is balanced and free debate people from outside of europe who come to any country in the european union shoot it up themselves to the local laws the local way of living when in rome do as a romans do and this is very important multiculturalism 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

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well a joy thank you for taking the time to be with us thank you thanks for the interview recently returned from a trip to the u.s. the didn't start world you were denied entry visa the decision was later reverse to but why do you think this happened especially after the fact you visited the u.s. several times without a problem because each time in the past also when i went to us and also to some other countries exposed their own policies are you are saying that we're not going

to stop. by our country and about it on pullman rights human rights and democracy and also imposed on our people don't call yourself dr last who are foot a copy of the taliban and they waste taxpayer money and billions of dollars as now this operation in afghanistan this criminal wall become open secret for good people around the fort and us and also that it opened countries that's why white house couldn't be out to hear death to ten they want to block my wife same fear cycle us a puppet regime. imposed ban on my travel abroad by a freedom loving justice slapping to. good eyes ation an act of waste and us and even democratic minded politician they put pressure on dick our mentor and finally give me reason you've said many times that the us and nato pushed the

afghans from the frying pan into the fire what exactly do you mean by that because these are no doubt lies fundamental most warlords who are mentally same like taliban but only fiscally has been changed after nine eleven and these warlords they were in power from negative to ninety six before of domination of the taliban and alone in kabul they culled more than sixty five thousand and sent people destroyed. a national unity raped event for rio so babies and grand old mothers and many other crimes similar like the kind of bond they committed against our people back there with bloody hands and with democracy suit and tie and they come in power after nine eleven and impose on our people and that's why the situation day by day getting worse through wars but surely things were worse for women under the taliban regime when we couldn't go to school and walk in the street alone what

sort of progress have you seen for women in afghanistan since two thousand and one it is true that. nine eleven tragedy. here in afghanistan especially in some big city us in metro they built some schools. they have access to drop an education i think most of problems herself of going to some special in the fall with problems is in the way lectures and districts situation for women is like killing of women that much easier for the last and also taliban like killing of both tens of thousands of innocent civilians has been killed by occupation forces who have been from the sky most of them are foremen and children and rape case to start mistake while in service as see their tax bonding that goes to school send a money out there to do second woman crimes against women increasing rapidly even historical united states and afghanistan more than ten years ago because the taliban regime was sheltering osama bin laden is dead now does that change anything

for afghanistan unfortunately you know it those who give shelter to osama bin ladin now the u.s. government deny to any why it was to. a mafia puppet regime of how many calves they. were lost also i have no problem with them they are not increase and they are fighting just because of the power because of the dollar and our puppets and enemies of our people. especially for men. u.s. government poor put. their movie a star by killing off or some of bin laden and. because i want to tell you as elections are coming they want sam sexes in disallow action and to deceive people after of wars especially people after us for the people of afghanistan or some of bin laden has died has been killed ten year cycle.

u.s. government used him as a nice to me or to deceive people off the. other so. they need to have this criminal war. so-called war on terror so they've clearly become a fierce critic of the u.s. mission in afghanistan but what happens when the united states reverse their plans to begin drawing down forces this summer are you worried about civil war or a return of the taliban i think you meant to. this almost politician who contend with the war crimes in afghanistan and my country they are just lawyer from one hand they are telling publicly to our people and to get people that they will leave afghanistan by mid off two thousand and eleven or two thousand and twelve by the same but from another hand they are talking up because the strategy she was talking to you are spot on and military bases in afghanistan and they are here for a good strategy if you know you can't you can't trust them there but they cannot

excuse and that's why you to scour main to make an enemy to invent an enemy as always they need to an enemy to justify. war so that they leave afghanistan as now my people they face truly powerful enemies warlord taliban and al corp forces break your heart for a time it's raising the truth. the lou. let's

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a provocateur or that's a cop dressed up like an anarchist hastings here but what's happening max in fact i believe they were i.m.f. agent stress that has anarchists and they are they tear gas canisters had c.d.'s written alongside collateralized debt swap on of tear gas canister 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 all the people in grayson hate the parliamentarians they hate george papa dry and i notice you're showing him the palm of your handwriting in the palm of my hand this is for you.