eleven am in moscow by matt trezise good to have you with us here on r t our top story the war in afghanistan may stretch beyond thirteen years according to washington's top military commander there what began a decade ago as a mission to get the perpetrators of nine eleven has transformed into an open ended hunt for the elusive taliban as jason moloch reports the country's growing american bases indicate the military is barely thinking of pulling out soon. late two thousand was a bug a mere field was little more than a flight 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's helped over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft is enough equals to cause traffic jams in the expansion is now we do way it is by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room

for even more many more where. there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to find jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take out 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 hair cut in the side 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 keenly but if you have a fever the latter would take. 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 its walls become every rock it's

a close call when you're this can just get this much equipment personnel consolidated into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget at times this is still a war zone jason muckluck in bagram for. some former u.s. military officers are disillusioned with the afghan war lieutenant colonel karen quite koski thinks that frame 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. i have not been told what we came to afghanistan to do and that mission is to build a city which we have done and to man those spaces 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 this is not about the afghans 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. u.s. led campaign in afghanistan has failed to meet most of its original goals because they're shifting as the war drags on according to our teams 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 to keep brain simple keep it simple stupid advocated by the u.s. special operations command and undermined. their efforts in that pakistani afghan. tribal battle otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission accomplished. has the analysis of the fury and fallout of the financial crisis

online you can keep an eye on our coverage on that at r.t. dot com and here's what else we're covering right now. a new target for a notorious kansas bad taste church the funeral of tech icon steve jobs may be picketed by the westboro congregation that's infamous for demonstrations at the burials of fallen u.s. servicemen explained why. it had taken to crime russia considers a jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotic related felonies our team reports online check it out. the banker backlash in the u.s. is spreading with major rallies being held in washington los angeles and several other cities thousands joined expressing their anger at the economic inequalities

and high unemployment demonstrations began 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 filmed using batons and pepper spray to disperse the crowds yeah aftermath of years of financial strife are causing people's patience to run out and they're angry at the banks returning 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 manhattan 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 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 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 crews 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 never afforded any of the protection that the mainstream media would it would be given because ultimately we are there

documentary is something that is happening for americans enduring rising unemployment and falling standards of living you can see why capitol hill is speaking a different language rallying calls and optimism are a far cry from a once mighty city which is now all but closed with his people on the poverty line or he's very important explains from detroit these are difficult years for our country but we are america we are the times we live in the u.s. great recession began as a real estate crisis in two thousand and seven he gave it 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 count 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. 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 do something 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 an opiate jeffries say the real figure is close to fifty how do you describe it it sounds. i think it's. indicative of what's going on in the. yes there's a country in there 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 it 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 a 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 and u.s. president barack obama has proposed a four hundred forty seven billion dollars plan to help perceptive keep america's workforce but just like any life saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place when. you said it's fully understand her enough for now i am artsy new york. and still to come in this hour pumping progress in russia's rural heartland we get close up to the pens a region where unique hard factory is keeping the b. per patient around the world. but first thousands of libyan soldiers are launching the final strike on moammar gadhafi his hometown of sirte hundreds of vehicles of the fighters are spotted pouring in the outskirts of sirte from benghazi heavy

shelling is happening in the area with pillars of black smoke rising above the city center where the in civil war which has claimed more than thirty thousand lives was joined by nato in march with a un objective to protect civilians but the arab lawyers association president tells our t.v. high death toll proves that nato did not have peaceful intentions. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians and the end of the day we are now 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 off the libya by nato i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding now behind nato so that no one can point a 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 a report saying that they have discussed with nato but nato has confirmed to go call 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 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 he syria because we don't want a repeat performance whereby the u.n. took the position in iraq and then took the position in the u.n. and is not there to change regimes it may protect humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes.

if you suspect in the killing of a russian journalist anna politkovskaya will be charged with her murder friday this is exactly five years since politkovskaya was gunned down outside her moscow apartment the higher profile case true international attention but still no conviction as artie's a carrot approach over reports her family just wants to see justice finally done. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a moment 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 outside 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 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 who and my mother promised that after her first grandchild was born she would still go into chechnya and take up quite a generalistic work order. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale with best to get it 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 but your eyes would be if you were there 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 on your need for your order to. until eleven

has indeed been a turning point in maine prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger. mood of 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 wissam 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 cardio 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 which was not within the routine you know virgie as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists munter 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 the influence period before we still believe that the four people my brothers and their friends who were in were acquitted in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot agree mccord's jury 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 that even their races were too premature dominico. the russians supreme court unknown to the acquittal verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered a reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the joint 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 scare her self worth.

comics 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 a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and tour a legacy could not defeat in a forty by putting marble plates it's even though there are children r t. two militants believed to be plotting a major attack against police have been killed in a special operation in russia was covered in a ball carrier republic is was part of a planned police solve on the suspects after a tip off about their whereabouts the militants were cornered in a residential flat and given the chance to surrender but they were killed in a shootout with the police no officers were injured the incident happened in an area that remains arrested after years of fighting and terror attacks. turning now to other stories making headlines across the globe a pakistani doctor accused of helping the cia in their cold operation could be

charged with high treason state investigators say shut off three d. operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where osama bin laden was killed in may pakistan is furious for being kept in the dark over the u.s. mission to kill bin laden saying it violated the country's sovereignty. syrian troops have reportedly crossed into lebanon and attacked local farmers killing a syrian man about five thousand refugees fled to lebanon in the recent months of scaping anti-government crackdowns by security forces president assad refuses to step down blaming the unrest on terrorists and armed gangs at least twenty nine hundred have died in syria since the uprisings started in march. there have been fierce clashes between police and students in the chalet in 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 the

demonstration of several thousand activists the student leader a student leader said the violence was unprecedented in the five months of confrontations since demands for education reforms and mood. time now for russia close up to take you deeper into the culture of the world's biggest country. going through penza six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital of the region also called pan's it was founded as a small fortress in the seventeenth century on the banks of the sorra river but there's also a high tech hub within its rich heritage and it's home to a unique heart valve factory saving people's lives around the world artie's even know went to see. both inside and outside of russia 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 facts that challenge that's. just outside of pens producing all its official holiday 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 had to be imported until this company opened in penza originally this was meant to be a huge producing this the soviet made bases but then when the u.s.s.r. collapsed of course there was no them on the russian made computers so they took the empty shell of a building into something else by for russia's biggest producer official 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 and ten involves implanted in russia come from here it may look like an over expanded 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 now 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. and usually 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 the 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 now to figures around one percent of. the surgery was successful said again. 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 valve i researched everywhere in the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolve that is inside my heart. either party pens. and coming up a look at what's next for the arab world and cross talk but first business news with kareena stay with us here on r.t. .

hello and welcome to our business update russia's central bank is calling on the government to ensure it maintains a balanced budget deputy chairman says europe's sovereign debt crisis is pushing up borrowing costs even for countries like russia which is running a deficit. but there's some really true prizes for silver and so lucas and her to be very careful about. what of course the good is very much should be general for school situation for who far from budget deficits in this case refers to so called for and sort of the only way you can form is the budget deficit was come to the markets. was so relief really on the go into through so did that because you have two five zero budget deficit. and turning to the market numbers now oil prices have raised early again have brant is trading at one hundred five dollars a barrel is that eighty two dollars

a barrel asia stock suppose strong gains and fresh indications that europe is ramping up efforts to shore up its financial system and prevent another global banking crisis banks and other big gainers h.s.b.c. holdings rallied four percent and bank of china climbed over five and a half percent in hong kong commodity related firms right as well as search for oil futures and you called post. and european stock markets open flat to negative for the footsie is slightly down and the dax is losing just under a quarter of. the russian markets rally at the start of the trading session the r.t.s. is up one point seven percent of the isaacs is hitting one point eight percent in the black as well now there the both indices are advancing for the second day let's have a look at some individual shelves of them isaac's this hour metal stocks among the main gainers m.k. is up over four and a half percent by machel is adding almost six percent and energy major gas problem is also on the rise it is of tain a license to explode one of the largest underdeveloped gas deposits in russia.

russian energy holder in tehran 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 alone by russian banks it's the second interop project in south american. analysts expect more to come next year. there's another nod towards the end game for greece and other countries survival in the eurozone sex a bank's chief told r.t. that there are no sovereign debt solutions which members up at stop we need to deal with the root problem which is that these guys do not have the ability to pay back that and they do not seem to have the you know the will show the ability to try to generate a balanced economy so how do you produce all these issues when you also lose competitiveness you have internal deflation meaning that people have to go down twenty thirty forty percent and so rich that's a very difficult sell for any politician for you to extol devaluation which means

you have to leave the euro so i also do think that greece will have to leave the euro zone and potentially other countries later on. that's a business up at this hour for want stories check our website r.t. dot com slash business stay with us for headline news.

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eleven thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines pushing a purpose instead of pulling out quickly america's priority afghan exit strategy overshadowing the mission's tenth anniversary with a deadline expected to be broken the u.s. top military commander in afghanistan believes that the war will drag on yon twenty . 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 as the country struggles to deal with its ongoing by the national crisis. he suspects in the killing of russian journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago or to be formally charged with her murder investigators also say they found two accomplices and her family's hope for progress in the case bill.