really. pushing the purpose instead of pulling out quickly the u.s. cloudy afghan exit strategy overshadows the mission's tenth anniversary with a deadline expected to be broken. the wrath against wall street gathers momentum spreading beyond new york into other major cities as thousands of americans a vendetta against poverty and corporate greed. five years after the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya police say they've reached a turning point but a conviction that skill eludes them. eight

am in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story the war in afghanistan will stretch beyond thirteen years according to washington's top military commander what began as a decade in what began a decade ago as a mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has now transformed into an open ended campaign with an unclear end date as jason not a lot of reports the growing american bases indicate that the military's in a little hurry to move on. would you asleep forces overread to tell about at least two thousand what bugbear flips a little more than a flight the correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city but still do over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military hardware quick enough vehicles to cause traffic jams in the expansion is

no way i'd buy scores of club tractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more bidding war where. there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for telephone long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to find majority enjoy a cappuccino and grab some take out for new pizza not for insurance and if they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and such although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have them and these are extremely obvious choice leave no need to leave this planet they have to take. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without agreement a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone

agrees diddly telephone rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded and threats of those living inside multiplies no matter how high its walls become everyone gets a close call when you this can just get just what you quit in first know it's all in the one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget it times this is still a war zone jason mukluk inbox for a t. . some former u.s. military officers are growing disillusioned with the afghan war lieutenant colonel karen quite koski is one of them she thinks the true air of the invasion was to create a platform for keeping an eye on or even invading other possible targets in many ways american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build a sense which we have done and to man those bases and to operate militarily from those bases against other countries in the region that mission has actually been

somewhat success or quite frankly i don't think we ever intend to hand it back to any of the afghan people we put karzai in charge in december of two thousand and one as a supposed gallacher and of course never never let a bad time a friend of a patsy of the american government and he remains there to this day you know we had no intention of allowing the afghan people to choose if they had if we were allowed to choose i think we would be long gone. you know this is not about the air here you know it's unfortunate because the terrible terrible things are going down to that country but by americans and by nato but it's not about this is about big power they can't kick us out and we're going to stay with permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and be there to look at over the mountains in china . the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan that failed to meet most of its original goals because they are shit in the shifting as the war drags are according to our his military

contributor who now assesses the situation from the afghan capital. the initial intent was crystal clear to catch or kill osama bin laden no strings attached period but from the outset the operation has gotten the wrong turn and today ten years later it's painfully obvious that it has degenerated into the mission creep be very open ended commitment and no graceful exit in sight for the united states forces or peace and security for the afghan people the w. bush administration. has ignored the key principle keep it simple stupid advocated by the u.s. special operations command and undermines and somewhat their efforts in that pakistani afghan. tribal battle.

otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission accomplished. stay with us here on r.t. still to come libya's x. leader a lashes out and audio message seemingly from gadhafi tries to rally his loyalists while nato bombs continue pounding the colonel's hometown it's coming your way. but first the banker back rush in the united states is spreading with major rallies held in the capital los angeles and several other cities thousands and joining to express their anger at economic inequalities and high unemployment the uprising started last month when protesters started pitching tents in front of the new york stock exchange out of a banner occupy wall street earlier this week heavy handed police were film using batons and pepper spray to disperse demonstrators the aftermath of years of financial strife are causing people's patience to run out and they're angry at the banks for triggering it in the first place one journalist who joined

a campaign says the protester. will not stop demanding social and economic justice . the police did receive voters at four point three million dollars from j.p. morgan chase just a couple days ago to help secure and they're really hurting themselves and their image and they're showing what oppressive force there is to people who are just trying to peacefully walk down wall street i mean all these people want to do is they want to walk down the iconic new york stock exchange they want to walk down wall street and they're treating it they're treating us like we're dangerous terrorists so i do see the police being manipulated by these elites they're given the money and of course they're using tactics to try to squash us but that's only going to build us and make us a lot stronger. and stronger a strong arm tactics used by the officers spread beyond dispersing the angry crowds one independent reporter trying to cover the events says she got anything but police protection as an independent journalist i actually had my own sort of

run in with the players i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend with seven hundred other people as i was filming and so were our live stream clears i was also knocked down by a police officer on the front lines and me i mean and square protests. and i think it's raised a lot of interesting questions about what the role of independent journalism is you know as we sort of move forward. i mean i know that on the brooklyn bridge there were a couple times reporters that were arrested as well but you know it's it's a little frustrating that we are never afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are they are documented something that is happening. for americans enduring rising unemployment and following standards of living you can feel like capitol hill is talking a different language sometimes the rallying calls and optimism are a far cry from the once mighty cities which are now all but close with their people

on the poverty line is our he's a marine a port reports. these are difficult years for our country but we are americans we are tucker than the times we live in the u.s. great recession began as a real estate crisis in two thousand and seven today it's expanded into a national job emergency impossible to ignore the purpose of the american jobs act is simple. to put more people back to work according to the u.s. government nine point one percent of americans are unemployed yet experts say deceptive measures and statistical shenanigans are being used to mask a jobless epidemic that's far worse they even notch out part time workers who were in real time war and they also don't count long term unemployed people are people who've been unemployed for over six months maybe a little or some but the not consistently looking for back in time get those people would have been considered unemployed but the government constantly changes the

definition of who's unemployed and they do that so that the unemployment number looks lower than it otherwise would have been so the numbers over the years have been massaged so that up in the economy will appear to be in better shape than it really is when part time workers and the unemployed who have given up hope are factored in the real u.s. unemployment rate increases to more than sixteen percent and more telling but often ignored statistic as they were included and you know the government would have to acknowledge that they truly have a major crisis on and on and you something you know this is part of the problem and campaign it'll austan to continue the status quo and society starts. down broken down and in ruins the city of detroit is feeling the full force of america's economic decline one in three residents live below the poverty line half of the

city's public schools are closing and crime is skyrocketing the capital of the country's motor industry now has an official unemployment rate of just under thirty percent but city officials and residents like to know via jeffries say the real figure is close to fifty how do you describe a big if. i think it's. indicative of what's going on in the. so the country in the end is now feeling it to heal america's economic suffering experts say u.s. leaders need to abandon exaggerated optimism for the ugly truth unemployment is going to continue to get higher inflation as you can do you get higher and rather than trying to protect an i that the situation isn't as bad as it is we need to accept how bad it is obvious then we have a better chance of recognizing that the mistakes that were made and that the policy is it was and that more of the same more stimulus more government regulation is not

going to make the situation better u.s. president barack obama has proposed a four hundred forty seven billion dollars plan for college professor to america's workforce but just like any light saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when the police say it's fully understand or enough more than i am artsy new york. friday marks five years since the murder of russian journalist anna politkovskaya gunned down in her apartment block in moscow in two thousand and six the case has drawn international attention and while police believe they've arrested the chief suspect strong evidence appears thin on the ground as art he's carried a grudge over reports her family wants to see justice finally served. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder of a woman huff way through their ship i round four pm for a v i don't believe there it was hard way through her pregnancy but she got a call her mother had been shelled outside her apartment it was

a watershed moment and there is life before and after. when you might have seen you i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle is say if something happens to me documents are the money's here here are all the numbers to call but we never really took it seriously i was four months pregnant the family was full of hope and my mother promised that after her first grandchild was born she would stop going to church now and take up quite a journalistic work for words. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on a political scale with just a gated corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she help people when there are cases in the highest courts in russia and in strasbourg but the irony is that five years later your own murder still remains unpunished will get us there have been different periods in the process busy when ten people were

arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passive when nothing was happening however the events of recent months give us certain optimism for a successful ending successful in terms of finding the mastermind of the murder i can tell you if the investigation was active five years ago as it is now by this time we would have had more evidence. or the twenty levon has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger. was arrested in chechnya after years on the run in belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were closed just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. a former high ranking police official dimitri poverty and co it was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal more consisting of four people cardio gives us nation he kept tabs and. provided the perpetrator with a gun and would organize other members of the group we also have other information

about the alleged mastermind of the killing but it's too premature to release that information which was. not very good as yet aware are not fully worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist's murder the newspaper's deputy editor says it's good that interest in the case is so high both in russia and the brought that it's bad when it turns into pressure on prosecutors . and your friends period before we still believe. before people. brothers and their friends were in. in two thousand and nine regional or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot. for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happens because there was a public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think there are races were too premature dominical with the russians supreme court the knowledge

of two thousand and nine and reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not dns one of the biggest challenges for investigators of these points is to find other suspects who are now on the run outside the country but just like on the political spectrum so their family and colleagues will never give up as they strive to find the truth it takes very little to describe someone's death in case on the political just the governor words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could not a feat and a forty by forty marble play. it's even though their children are teen mom. libya's foreign leader moammar gadhafi has apparently released an audio message calling for people to rise and resist the country's interim leaders the colonel's whereabouts have been unknown ever since the capital was overtaken by the

opposition in august transmission came as fighting between remaining loyalists and the former rebels aided by nato airstrikes intensified his hometown of sirte. the libyan civil war was joined by nato in march with an objective to protect civilians under a un resolution but as the president of the arab warriors association tells our t.v. overwhelming death toll proves that nato did not have peaceful intentions from the start. we have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to a no fly zones to impose a no fly zones and it was there to protect civilians of end of the day we end up with nato actually going to war against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevails there is no reason to declare war on the people often libya by nato i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding behind nato so that no one can point the finger but the figures of the casualties

caused by nato bombing is really mounting two weeks ago and the human rights council in geneva the commission which was asked to investigate the situation in libya came with the report saying that they have discussed with nato but nato has confirmed to ago. that they have not had any targeting ideas that civilians i think nato is continuing its war against the libyan people albeit that they got rid of the dictatorship but we seem to be heading to the same exercise they have done in iraq and i think russia was right in taking the position vis a vis syria because we got on better people form and swear by the un took the position in iraq and then took the position. the u. n. is not there to change regimes it's made profit humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in the run up to the raid that killed osama bin laden could be charged with high treason state investigators claim shut him off three d. operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where the terror leader was eventually killed pakistan is furious for being kept in the dark over the u.s. mission to wipe out in latin saying it bali elated the country's sovereignty. or been a fierce clashes between police and students in the chilean capital a day after education reform talks collapsed at least thirty people were injured including police as they used tear gas and water cannons to break up demonstrators a head of several demonstrators several thousand activists the student leader said the violence was unprecedented in the five months of contentions of confrontations since the demand for education changes emerged. time not for russia to close up to

take you deeper into the culture of the world's biggest country. we continue our journey through the panzer region which is six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital is also founded as a small fortress in the seventeenth century on the banks of the river sora there's also high tech within it's a rich heritage it's also home to a unique heart valve factory saving people's lives around the world every day or he's you grow older and they're going to check it out. both inside and outside of russia the health of ordinary russians and also the state of the russian medical profession are often seen as something of a mixture between a joke i love horror story but there are parts that challenge that stereotype here just outside of producing artificial heart valves in

a company that started out just over fifteen years ago and the saudis have been so successful for the overthrow of the thought country. life saving surgery the doctors or so in an artificial valve and to allow dismounts heart to function again because struction of the deceptively simple mechanism will determine how he lives the rest of his life and if he survives it all twenty years ago all these bells have to be imported until this company opened in penzance originally this was meant to be a huge lawn producing harvest the soviet made p.c.'s but then when the u.s.s.r. collapsed of course there was no good more important from a computer has the empty shell of a building and turned it into something else for russia's biggest producer of artificial heart valves started by a single russian physicist middling sprung up without government support none of the small team of inventors had worked with the medical equipment manufacturer

before now seven in ten dollars implanted in russia come from here it may look like an overextended workshop but the quality of its products has allowed this company to supply them for over twenty countries they're here been. that success can be fleeting. we know we've had our successful invention but technology moves on we are small compared to our international rivals and so we know we have to keep meeting new mortals just to survive. but usually for russia every new model was developed together with local. doctors here but the first little skepticism about the russian made piece of medical equipment which is so weird to doctors are very conservative very nature and first they and the patients were very mistrustful of the valves to make people chose something new in themselves was difficult but i'll tell you this twenty years ago much of one in five used to die during the

surgery now the figure is around one percent of. the surgery was successful so again national. army officer will be discharged within a week. i look forward to the rest of my life i can feel the cuts better film and hard working better as to the i researched everywhere in the internet about it and it's fine i trust the vaal that is inside my heart. either. see. your weekly guide to the russian capital coming your way shortly but first a business update with kareena stay with us. good morning from moscow welcome to. russia central bank is calling on the government to ensure it maintains a balanced budget chairman alex. europe's sovereign debt crisis is pushing up

borrowing costs even for countries like russia which is running a virtually zero deficit. there's really. so the case i'm going to be very careful about the. book is what it much should be gentle fiscal situation if we refer budget deficits in this case will close some call for an end of the only way confronts the budget deficit come to the markets. so really i'm not going to increase all debt and get the super five zero budget deficit. turnings of the market's numbers oil has a razor early decline heading for the first weekly gain in three brands is trading at just below one hundred six dollars a barrel. is it almost eighty three dollars a barrel. now asian stocks rise following a strong performance in the u.s. up to the release of better than a forecast unemployment claims claims data japan's nikkei gaining one point one

percent and hong kong's hang seng is up over three percent banks are notable gainers up with bank of england and european central bank announced easing measures so it's on its financial group advanced one point eight percent and mitsubishi financial group rose to help percent in tokyo cannot of the related firms rallied as well after a search for oil futures a new york on thursday now were two hours ahead of trading here in russia the indices bounced back on thursday following the shops sell off in the previous sessions both be out yes on the my six were up more than four percent of the close investors were inspired by the european central bank introducing new munich with the measures to support the banks it also announced a program to purchase coverage bonds but it's being seen as only a positive place with no sustained backup. there's another nod towards the end game for greece and other countries survival in the euro zone sexo bank's chief told me that there are no sovereign debt solutions which members are prepared to

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