held by progress after forces loyalists holed up in the towns of certain bunny wanted of being given until saturday to surrender however they vowed to resist despite the deadline colonel gadhafi himself earlier released an audio message claiming he hasn't fled and that he never will flee his homeland despite reports that his supporters of crossed the border into neighboring nature at the country's capital tripoli meantime fell the rebels last month but there's still no sign of life improving there as of his riff and optional reports next there's just as much fear in the streets today as there is joy of the victory. a city celebrates for more than ten days than even capital has been rejoining in the dictator's fault. only he wanted to bring his quarter here in the central square for his roof for the second anniversary to report our flag instead we whine we're so happy without him. it seems in the last two weeks rebel fighters have

fired bullets into the air they were shot during this whole country three are no alcohol. oh you feel the pheno very very well with. this third gadhafi. gadhafi is victor thought he told me oh yeah the war love me all the people wrong we know you see love hear me all of us we're out of freedom is that we don't really get that big and we don't like where they are care but away from jubilant crowds we meet those who are not so pleased up a lot of money lives in chief police district historically pro khadafi when the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia. other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and ceased want to hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children so when

it's dark we are afraid and we always wait for something bad only that he was here at least we didn't have to sleep a wink we do know. up the rahman says he also want to change and the brighter future for his country but not base way. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed no one cares do they seriously think that they changed it for the better don't want you so just look around is that what you wanted and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos the badly damaged buildings matched by the rise in stink of garbage and decomposing bodies youngsters roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the cities symmetries are growing bigger and bigger. shortly after tripoli fell into rebel hands the national

transitional council libya's new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi but weeks have passed and there is still no sign of its presence on the ground zero of order being restored the city functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and allocate. tripoli libya. ahead the repeat scenario of libya must not unfold in syria moscow refuses to take sides over damascus saying peace through bloodshed isn't the answer is calling on both the rebels and the regime to lay down arms and turn to dialogue instead of more of their. also the world's ice hockey community grieves the loss of a locomotive team with many international stars after it was wiped out in a plane crash in russia city of heroes starting earlier this week.

a funerals been held in london for the man whose death triggered a wave of violent riots across the u.k. father of four mark duggan was shot dead during a police operation back in august but his door and that report. and is in mourning today as the funeral. takes place when you will remember. this area who was allegedly shot by police marksmen at the beginning of august that. riots which start in the wood green tottenham area spread to other parts of london and then eventually to the rest of the country leading to a large amount of civil unrest which the government and police are still reeling from the funerals being attended by around about a thousand people far too many to fit inside the small church and interestingly the police presence here today is incredibly. there are hardly any police here that all dressed in their normal uniforms no riot gear. no aggressive policing whatsoever

and this is community that has a deep mistrust which is any being intensified by the shooting of mark duggan there is an inquiry underway into what happened to cause his death but there have been no results. and the funeral is an important turning point people are still asking what actually happened people in this community also asking where is the mini cab driver who was supposed to have been driving at mr duggan at the time when he was shot he hasn't appeared in the public. people here are not sure whether he's even being questioned by police there is quite a tense atmosphere here people are worried about the effect of the police on that community that will take any welcoming to the media given a little bit of a hard time when we went to the state where mr duncan and his family lived. very very respectful affair and that's how the community here want to keep it but they still have questions that need answering about what happened to mr duncan why was he shot by police marksman what were the events that led up to his death and

those are questions which so far have nuances. of reporting for. it was an event that stunned the world and even a decade on still these few people are moved the repercussions of nine eleven are still being felt today in the form of the now maligned war on terror and yet as out of play it reports for r.t. it seems for the majority of the people who felt the full force of the world's fury in the aftermath of the attacks nine eleven is just another day. helmand in southern afghanistan is the province that's borne the brunt of the fighting between the taliban and coalition forces. afghans in this war torn province think about nine eleven and its consequences. while on patrol with the marines i get a first opportunity to ask a couple of young afghan men what they know about nine eleven but those who are. here. a few more and can us that they know where it

is we don't know if that's because because you're a former we never heard about the need to support the world more so coming. two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say. no you see you. just can see the smoke from the buildings and that's it that's when you think you can see it when you go show this picture. so i think it was a call what if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is pretty much the stone ages where we are. what to do about their reactions. to the guy who said it was kabul was never going to kabul. just shows you how isolated they are even in their own country you don't want to stand. where you are don't think you know the america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to attack in the united states you know how much. it was nice to

go from iraq to them here it's a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and you see at that picture you know if you fix your mind. so here's what you see after looking at it in this article where you form a career in the right. to prepare for. what was. going to help you did this one thing and it is how many funding and this is going to help you where is the help but not the way down what this is going to give you to our kids going into fighting and they do it to their own kids in a paper that i don't and. i do sympathize or understand what you're some were saying it's not even just from the weather we've had recently people losing their homes and nobody to help them so you know when you have when you can feed yourself to her house yourself are you to care about somebody you know six thousand miles away. so i can understand this from this is what i tell you that i never thought to ask those questions of anybody here that's why we're here amazingly in

a country where for ten years a war has been fought with nine eleven as its root cause and justification turns out not only with the villages oblivious to nine eleven but so were the afghan police and even some of the translators working with the u.s. military to go over there so you know i have no idea. if you haven't seen it for. a survey taken in twenty ten by the international council on security and development found that ninety two percent of afghan men in helmand and other afghan provinces had no idea what nine eleven was with american troops said start withdrawing this year it seems likely that they will leave afghanistan without the vast majority of afghans ever having really understood why they came in the first place from afghanistan for no well after a decade of the global war on terror let's discuss what's been achieved and sure what's been missed may be together with michael he's a former head. of the us live on the line from washington thanks for being on r.t. so the said here we are after ten years of military occupation the security

situation in afghanistan appears to be as bad as it ever was the taliban stronger than at any point since two thousand and one do you agree with that what what went wrong. i think the problem with afghanistan is that we gave up and diverted our attention without actually focusing on on afghanistan and trying to develop the country once we chased the taliban out the first time. we are to attention of course was diverted to iraq and i think that that was a fatal error in our strategic judgment. we should have focused on afghanistan and helped to develop that country train the people doing the things we're trying to do now on an extremely tight deadline and probably will not. succeed in time because the taliban has been able to resurrect itself and it's also

been joined by foreign forces which ultimately could be threatening in. central asia as well as even and tie in with people in your north. in your north caucasus so it's a it's a potentially much more serious problem than it was just ten years ago folks again after all afghanistan that if you heard that report there michael we're hearing that ninety two percent of afghans haven't even heard of nine eleven the primary cause the only reason why they're invaded in the in the first place they do see their country has as have been being occupied for the best part of a decade for no reason that's not good news is it i mean it's a real breeding ground for extremist cells a lot of animosity in that country. now they look upon us as foreign occupiers there's no question about it they don't quite understand why they. the taliban has been around it's been a highly influential it's helped build up but but it's also been very. the taliban

has also. been unable to convince the in the people there that they are a better bet or a lot but that's all that the folks have there's still a lot of corruption that goes on there is there is a question whether the taliban will even join any coalition to. the government i tend to doubt it i think that they feel that once the united states is out then. they're going to be able to do more. and be much more be freer about it in terms of what they can accomplish i hope that that's not going to be the case but michael the u.s. also talking more and more plans to keep troops in place in afghanistan after the war is officially over to as they put it assist and train the afghan army again one that just diligence of eyes the afghan regime even more in the eyes of the people. well the afghan government indeed is

a minority and when you look at the spread of of the taliban it's even now into the northern areas yeah the united states may try to keep some soldiers back to for training purposes as we're thinking of trying to do in iraq right now but it's not going to be sufficient part of the problem of course is that afghans as a as a rule can't even read or the soldiers can't even read and write and that's now having to be done in order before you can provide any kind of training for these troops and that's that would require many many more years we should have been much more proactive rather rather than militarily but in trying to develop infrastructure and trying to work with people at the local level to educate and to train and to build from an economic standpoint i think this is one of the interesting things that i'm seeing now with with russia for example and that they're they're lowering customs unions they want to develop. countries like

kazakhstan and what have you and perhaps roll and other central asian countries to be part of a sort of a common market people want jobs they want to be educated and they and i think that that might tend to put a curb on the radicalism once we can be done but in the short term i think the government of afghanistan is a fight in the uphill battle and and u.s. troops may focus on the south where it. may be going back and forth between afghanistan pakistan but it's certainly not taking care of the problem with taliban now going up to the for the northern parts which is now threatening to go into. a stand in front of a stand as you well know that then opens up the entire central asia area as they merge with foreign troops is not a good picture you're painting there michael maloof former pentagon official we really appreciate your time on your inside of the program thanks for joining us on

the line. thanks rick. well as the u.s. prepares withdraw its troops from afghanistan some are already counting all the cash that it will save but with record unemployment in the states and the military industry being one of the last stable employers it may be more beneficial to keep those troops where they are we've got that discussion coming up in a few minutes also gyptian is gathering tahrir square again this time demanding fast democratic reforms and a handover of power from military to civilian. russia will send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the situation there the decision was announced by the country's presidential envoy to africa. following his meeting with a delegation of syrian opposition leaders here in moscow they blame president bashar al assad for the political deadlock in syria right now saying he's making the same fatal mistake says libya's embattled leader colonel gadhafi moscow the promise is to do its best to avert a libyan scenario in syria telling both sides of the conflict that it's time to

move from the battlefield to the negotiating table now president medvedev made that position clear this latest interview. would be comparable to the resolutions we would approve to send a strong message to the syrian regime should in fact be addressed to both sides things aren't just black and white and the antigovernment protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of them are to put it straight extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not that simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government and president assad we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table start talks and stop the bloodshed. and if you'd like to hear more of what president very fair to say is interviews in full on our website r.t. dot com there of course you can also find more opinion on the timeline to the syrian uprising as well. so world news in brief the world's ice hockey

community remains in mourning with the loss of almost the entire lokomotiv team after their plane crashed on wednesday forty three people died when the forty two crashed on takeoff near the russian city of yaroslav all people also gathered in proud to remember three czech nationals who were among the many top players killed hundreds of delaying flowers and chanting the names of the former world champions in their memory candles have also been lit at the bratislava hockey stadium to remember the ones for back in player who also died the coach the national team who used to train locomotives arrived here in russia to pay tribute not only to the players those who work. only six months ago were used to fly with almost all of them and two months ago we attended a formal ceremony where that scene was awarded the bronze medal we talk to each other and everyone was preparing for the upcoming season they had serious goals in sight they wanted to win bigger in cup and now we see of these hopes were dashed in a matter of minutes. the start of the team for it in years were close friends and

had been since i got acquainted with them when i first came to europe. the crashes struck me very hard it's a serious tragedy for me personally. with burns to ninety percent of his body the only surviving locomotive player on that play legs and they believe more from a conscious after the crash and insisted on seeing his relatives the place still in the intensive care tonight his condition still described as critical but there's also another player who didn't get on the plane after being told to stay behind by the coach now on our website r.t. dot com you can read his amazing story the full story of maxine a very lucky man. this is very terrifying to me a hockey team is like a family i lost a family of forty people people i was close to for such a long time. under the better ocean covered all men square the locomotive team was heading on that fateful flight a special commemoration ceremonies been held thousands of fans packed into the

stadium to remember those who perished in wednesday's disaster. and we look into the plea results from the flight recorders of that tragic flight which suggest at the time the engines were intact at the time the plane went down no take a look at these c.c.t.v. pictures we've got as well capturing the moment a huge ball of smoke rose into the air as the plane burst into flames as more of more on this whole terrible episode on this week at r.t. dot com. people living in the west bank are rising up in a campaign for statehood ahead of the un vote on palestine fate at the end of september massive coronated rallies are planned across the west bank the leaders of the demonstrations say they're determined to keep them peaceful even if israeli forces move in and try and stop them palestinians have to carry on until they achieve sovereignty and a un membership however washington says it will veto the bit if it's put to the un security council that's despite support expected from most other member states such

backing could provide crucial leverage for resolving the settlement issue with israel according to a key elder chief political commentator for the how it's newspaper. the fact that one hundred thirty or one hundred forty members will raise their hands in favor of recognizing palestine. a sovereign state will mean a lot for for israel for you could patient for the settlements since even if the u.n. does not accept them as full member this one hundred thirty or one hundred forty countries will say the israeli occupation is unacceptable they will be able to become members of international organizations such as soon as go which means. they will have something to say about the israeli control over the holy sites in east jerusalem in the old city of jews and. and i believe that this will be a kind of a snowball it may start a kind of

a process there may end up with more isolation of or israel with more sanctions israel is losing the support of the international community and the palestinians are getting more and most sympathy. president barack obama has presented his much anticipated jobs act to congress they are vicious programs to reverse the country's troubling unemployment statistics it also calls for almost half a trillion dollars in funding it came with a blunt warning to republicans to stop the political circus and pass the measures that would not have been told they say he believes the cuts must come from the most bloated sectors first. president obama's promise to propose this jobs back to the question that you are asking now is what he can get through congress and the argument will be made a hundred billion dollars that we can afford this would increase the nation's debt if you move two hundred billion dollars from the military budget to the domestic

budget by withdrawing all u.s. troops in your iraq you would save more than four thousand jobs in u.s. military spending creates jobs compared to nothing it's the least efficient means compared to other government spending including tax cuts in the context that we're in now with the united states is that there is a ten year window to or create who are reducing u.s. government's debt that's what the budget control act of the super committee is all about one point two trillion dollars in reduced u.s. government debt over ten years. but nyman policy director the just foreign policy think tank with me but. some international news for you turkeys by the same israel of the national court over its blockade of gaza it's already cut all military and trade ties with televisa refused to apologize for killing nine turks last year they were part of a humanitarian flotilla that tried to break through the blockade at the time israel and imposed it in two thousand and seven after hamas came to power the palestinian

authority prime minister promised that in future the navy will escort a chip's traveling to the gaza strip. in egypt crowds are gathering again in cairo's tahrir square urging interim military rulers to accelerate democratic reforms and announce a concrete timeline now for a handover to civilian rule but also demanding an end to military trials for civilians the so-called million man protesters likely to become one of the largest demonstrations since the february uprising at another part of the capital protesters are told parts of the security wall outside the israeli embassy. your charity for muscular to catch up with a business now brain is here that. business here on art see well in the wake of the plane crash in the president dmitry medvedev has called for widespread reform of the aviation sector although the cause

of the disaster is still not now the industry has recognized problems such as poor maintenance facilities and weak regulation and part of the overhaul is likely to include every article reduction in the number of airlines. one hundred. and out of these one hundred thirty ten execute eighty five percent of transfers so basically ten is sixty two quite a wart and i mean one hundred twenty feet even more so before this one hundred twenty go to zero actually and then i mean even ten it's quite a lot so there should be a probably five to seven airlines in russia three or four really. competing maybe is the lines and. read you know maybe really relying on government support because regional transfers are not that profitable so this is this team to reach who should more. or less like

a look at the markets now will start with oil prices there are down as investors fear obama's proposed sacked worth more than four hundred billion dollars is just too late still the troubled us economy w.t.r. is trading close to eighty seven dollars per barrel while the birth blanks out one hundred twelve dollars per barrel. over in the u.s. markets are in the red in financial stocks suffered the biggest drop after the wall street journal reported that bank of america is considering laying off thirty thousand people. european stocks on the day deep in the red led by losses for carmaker porsche following a delay to its worship with volkswagen and g. this was seven point seven percent lower hollo oil went up twelve percent after the company said it discovered oil off the coast of french guyana. and here in moscow it was a similar picture following the negative sentiment in europe and the last yards yes and the my sex and the trading session over two and a half percent down let's take

a look at some of the individual share moves on the bisects bank was lower after posting a one hundred thirty five percent increase in that profit for the first eight months of the year and that was on the rocks of accounts and standards well before many loans dick. then level double the market average and that's what paul is called on stronger money on price alexander that trying to since capital wrapped up that would say for us. the really interesting to characterize this week like the first half of the week was the billion liberated expectations from the obama speech the last part of the week just the expectations were elevated and the market just realized this i actually think that the main event of the week was the three share statement that they will not be resumed rates for the considerable period of time because of the the european economy enough to justify some period of stability and exactly this was the reason why you were started to tank all the commodity of

optimism from us and european markets just evaporated. so business looks the sour the headlines on the likes of to have a. movie

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it's ten thirty pm here in moscow thanks for being with r.t. these are our top stories the deaths which sparked the ukase national riots as a funeral procession is held people still questioning whether he was a victim of police brutality. moscow's not taking sides of a serious saying will be no peace through bloodshed and calls on both the rebels and the regime to lay down arms and turn to dialogue. keeping face palestinians running for statehood ahead of the u.n. vote to stay peaceful in spite of possible israeli attacks saying that recognition rests on the image. of president obama unveils his half a trillion dollar jobs act accompanied by stern warnings that there's no time left for political bickering. next moscow out explores the nicest routes to moscow for general stroll over the usual indian summer of september vides a great time to visit.