the war in afghanistan may stretch beyond thirteen years according to washington's top military commander there what started a decade ago as a mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has now transformed into an open ended hunt for india loose of taliban and as jason monologue reports the country's growing u.s. bases indicate the military is barely thinking about leaving with u.s. led forces overran the taliban at least two thousand and one bugbear field is little more than a flake tower in a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city that sold over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military and cargo aircraft enough equals to cross traffic jams into the expansion is now with the way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more men and more hardware. there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to find jewelry enjoy

a cappuccino or grab some take on the new pizza hut franchise. and if they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and. 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 . useful if even the length of the case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without beggarman the soldiers my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high it swells because everyone it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may

be to forget the times this is still a war zone jason must look for. some former u.s. military officers seem to be disillusioned with the afghan war instead of colonel karen quite koski thinks the true aim of the invasion may have been to create a platform for keeping an eye on or possibly invading other targets. in many ways american people have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build bases 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 successful and quite frankly 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 suppose a democrat of course never never elected 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 business is not about the afghanis and it's unfortunate because a terrible terrible things have been done to that country by 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 we've got permanent bases and we want to terrorize pakistan iran and you know be there to look out over the mountains into china. the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan's failed to meet most of its original goals because they are shifting as the war drags on according to r.t. is military contributor assessing the situation from kabul. 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 diggin aerated

into the mission creep be that open ended commitment and no graceful exit inside 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 undermined. their efforts in that pakistani afghan. tribal battles 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 former leader lashes out an audio message seen from gadhafi tries to rally his loyalists while nato bombs continue pounding the colonel's hometown that's coming up. but first banker

backlash in the u.s. is spreading with major rallies held in washington los angeles and several other cities thousands joining to express their anger at economic inequalities and high unemployment. demonstrations started last month when protesters started pitching tents in front of the new york stock exchange under the banner occupy wall street earlier this week heavy handed police were using batons and pepper spray to disperse the crowds aftermath of years of financial strife are causing people's pensions to run out and they're angry at the banks for triggering it in the first place one journalist who joined the campaign says the protesters will not stop demanding social and economic justice. the police did receive what is it four point three million dollars from j.p. morgan chase just a couple days ago to help secure downtown 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 strong arm tactics used by officers spread beyond dispersing the crowds and independent reporter who tried to cover the event so she got anything but police protection as an independent journalist i actually had my own sort of run in with the play as i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend with seven hundred other people as i was filming and so were our live stream careers i was also knocked down by a police officer on the front lines and me in the union 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 have 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 falling living standards it can seem like capitol hill is speaking a different language the rallying calls and optimism are a far cry from a months for a once mighty city which is now all but closed with its people on the poverty line artie's marine important explains these are difficult years for our country but we are americans we are tough for them 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 not challenge or time workers who are working full time or and they also don't count long term unemployed people people who've been unemployed for over six months maybe they've lost some they were not consistently looking for back in time 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 if 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

a more telling but often ignored statistic if they were included then you know the government would have to acknowledge that they truly have a major crisis on and on they have you so you know this is part of their problem ganda campaign that it allows them to continue the status quo and society starts completely breaking 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 legs and opiate jeffries say the real figure is close to fifty how do you describe it. i think it's. indicative of what's going on in the. so the country in the end just 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 is really going to get higher and rather than trying to pretend that the situation isn't as bad as it is we need to accept how bad it is because then we have a better chance of recognizing the mistakes that were made and that the policy is at fault 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 to help were set to take america's workforce but just like any life saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when the police said it's fully understand her an up or down r t v r. r t has analysis of the fury and fallout of the financial crisis online keep an eye on our coverage at r.t. dot com and check out what else is on our web site. and likely new target for

a notorious kansas bad his church the funeral of tech icon steve jobs may be picketed by the westboro baptist congregation that's infamous for demonstrations at the burials ball and u.s. servicemen or explain why. at addicted to crimes russia considers a trailing drug users to curb the number of narcotics related felonies party reports online. the key suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya will be charged with her murder on friday this is exactly five years as politkovskaya was gunned down near her moscow apartment high profile case to international attention but still no convictions as our he's

a catarina gretsch over reports her family hopes to see justice finally served. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a model of a woman huff way through their shift at around four pm for a very political it was hard way through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shelled out side her apartment it was a watershed moment and there is life before and after. when you might leave i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle they say if something happens to me documents are here the money is 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 chechnya and take up quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale with best to 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 both busy winton 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 as active five years ago as it is now by this time we would have had more evidence. or the twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger. mood of was arrested in chechnya after years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced

they were close just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent brush in memory. a former high ranking police official dimitri publishing co was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal mob consisting of four people to carry out the assassination he kept. 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. not with the. not very good as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists monta the newspapers deputy editor says it's good that interest in the case is so high both in russia and abroad but it's bad when it turns into pressure on prosecutors but it's much more with your friends group before we still believe that the four people that my brothers and their friends who were injured and were acquitted in two thousand and nine would know or in some way linked to this murder

but you cannot blame the chords jury for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happened because there was public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think that even their arrests were too premature dominico. the russians supreme court unknown to the acquittal verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered every opening of the investigation it's a significant part of the johnny but it's certainly not be end one of the biggest challenges for investigators at this point is to find other suspects who are now on the run outside the country but just like on the political square herself her 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 of on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could never feet in

a forty by forty marble plane. if you look at our children our teen moms. well stay with us still to come pumping progress in russia's rural heartland get close up the pens a region where a unique part factory is keeping the beat for patients around the world. but first libya's foreign leader moammar gadhafi has apparently released a new audio message calling for people to rise and resist the country's interim leaders the colonel's whereabouts have been unknown since the capital was taken over by the opposition in august transmission came as fighting between remaining a loyalist and former rebels aided by the airstrikes intensified into dockings hometown sirt the libyan civil war was joined by nato in march with an objective to protect civilians under a un resolution but the president of the arab lawyers association tells r t he thinks the overwhelming death toll proves that nato may not have had peaceful

intentions from the start. you have to remember that the resolution of the un was only come find to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was to protect civilians at the end of the day we end up with nato actually going to a lot against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevailed there is no reason to declare war on the people of the libya by nato i think the usa britain france and the western powers i doing now 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 them cool it that they have

not had any targeting against civilians i think nato is continuing its war against the libyan people albeit that they got rid of the dictatorship. we seem to be heading to the same exercise they have done in iraq and i think russia was right in taking the position is that he syria because we don't want a repeat performance whereby the un took the position in iraq and then took the position in the u. n. is not there to change or a genes it may protect 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 their covert operation could be charged with high treason state investigators claim shockey fredy operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where osama bin ladin that's killed and they pakistan is

furious for being kept in the dark over the u.s. mission to wipe out bin laden saying it violated the country's sovereignty. u.n. officials estimate of those killed in syria's anti-government protests now reaches twenty nine hundred countries escalated after the failure to pass a u.n. resolution against president assad's regime the embattled leader blames them out of months of on arrest on terrorists and armed gangs he refuses to quit but has been pledging reforms which are yet to materialize. here as clashes broke out between police and students in the chilean capital a day after education reform talks collapsed at least thirty were injured including police who used tear gas and water cannons to break up the demonstration of several thousand activists one student leader said the violence was unprecedented in the five months of confrontations since demand for education changes emerged. yemen's army chief accuses western countries and opposition activists of conspiring against democracy there this

follows a new wave of violence in the capital overnight and in the southern city of tire government troops opened fire on protesters who are being the uprising against president sali started in february others thought to have killed an estimated seventeen hundred people. it's time now for russia closeup team to take you deeper into the culture of the world's biggest country. when you were in our travels in the panzer region six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital also called pennzoil was founded as a small fortress in the seventeenth century on the banks of the river sora but there is also a high tech hub within its rich heritage and there is home to a unique heart valve factory saving people's lives around the world every day artie's you are on the road now it has been. both inside and outside of russia the health of old me russians and also the state of the russian medical profession

often seen as something of a mixture between a joke and a horror story but there are all facts that challenge that's. just outside of pens producing all its official holiday elves in a company that started out just over fifteen years ago and the brothers have been so successful. that the over twenty five countries. life saving surgery that doctors are so in an artificial valve that will allow this man's heart to function again the construction of the deceptively simple mechanism will determine how he lives the rest of his life and if he survives at all twenty years ago all these valves have to be imported until this company opened in penza originally this was meant to be a huge producing this was soviet made p.c.'s but then when the u.s.s.r. collapsed of course those who are from a computer to the empty shell of a building into something else for russia's biggest producer the facial heart.

started by a single russian physicist meddings sprung up without government support none of the small team of inventors that worked with the medical equipment manufacturer before now seven in ten the valves implanted in russia come from here it may look like an overexpanded workshop but the quality of its products has allowed this company to supply them to over twenty countries though here they know that success can be fleeting. and we say that 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 making new models just to survive. unusually for russia every new model was developed together with pens as local heart center but doctors here admit that at first there was skepticism about the russian made piece of medical equipment so doctors are very conservative by nature and of version they

and their patients were very mistrustful of devolves to make people try something new on themselves it was difficult but i'll tell you this twenty years ago up to one in five used to die during the surgery it's now to figure is around one percent of. the surgery was successful said. a retired army officer will be discharged within a week. i look forward to the rest of my life i can feel the cuts but i feel my heart working better as to the i researched everywhere in the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolved that is inside my heart. either party. and if you minutes the must see moscow venue that has the treasures from the dawn of society to present day but first the business news with kareena.

power welcome so fast as here in russia central bank is calling on the government and show it maintains a balanced budget deputy chairman alex says here up sovereign debt crisis is pushing up borrowing costs even for countries like russia which is running a virtually zero deficit. those who are really. very careful about. what of course is very much should be gentle fiscal situation if we remove her from budget deficits in that case we have to some call for an answer and the only way one is the budget deficit to come to the markets. is so if we're really on the go into through so did the. zero budget office. turning to the market now prices have erased any gains brant is trading at one hundred five dollars per barrel while china is that eighty two dollars eighty stocks post strong gains and

fresh indications that europe is ramping up efforts to shore up its financial system and prevent another global banking crisis banks are notably again is h.s.b.c. holdings rallied four percent and bank of china climbed over five and a half percent in hong kong commodity related for i was right as well after a surge for oil futures in new york on thursday and russia's markets rally at the start of the trading session on friday the odds us is up one and a third of a percent them isaacs is one point seven percent in the black and bouncing for the second day on thursday both of course has ended up more than four percent in the book. there's another nod towards the endgame for greece and other countries survival in the eurozone saxo bank chief told r.t. that there are no sovereign debt solutions which members are prepared to stop. we need to deal with the root problem which is that these guys do not have the ability to pay back that they do not seem to have you know that we're sure of the ability to try to clear the way to balance the economy so how do you how do you solve these

issues when you also lose competitiveness if you have internal before you should be reading that people have to go down twenty thirty forty percent and so rich that's a very difficult for any politician or you to external devaluation which means you have to leave yourself all sort of you think greece will have to leave you or some of potentially other countries later on. russian energy holding hands around has agreed to build five hydro power plants in ecuador the deal is estimated to be worth one and a half billion dollars with the money to be loaned by russian banks as a second interrupt project in the south american country alice expect more to come next year. and french energy major tautologous is increasing its presence in russia with a twenty percent stake in a liquefied natural gas project in the country's north. subsidiary of russia's biggest product gas produced another attack is worth between fifteen to twenty

billion dollars this is the second joint russian project developed by toto not. as a business at this hour but stay with us for headline news coming up next. under attack american. targets comes to. a ship the field the food the u.s.

machine. the mission to bring peace and stability to the war. but ten years old was a dumb enough to ignore the danger. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of. the future covered. even the role of. the sacred. is the life. whether it is a buddhist prayer. or a shamanistic ritual. on the crossroads of to religion. say so strong in spirit.

ten thirty am in moscow these here are the headlines pushing the purpose instead of pulling out quickly america's cloudy afghan exit strategy overshadowing the mission's tenth anniversary with a deadline expected to be broken the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan says the war may drag on beyond two thousand and fourteen. anti wall street protests that have grown in new york over the past few weeks spreading to other major cities including washington thousands of americans joining demonstrations against poverty and corporate greed in the country struggles to deal with its ongoing economic crisis. he suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago are to be charged with her murder investigators say they've also found new accomplices her family is hopeful.