america's former top commander in afghanistan says they're only halfway to reaching their goals despite ten years of bloody war in the country. from wall street to washington and beyond the banking backwash spreads through the u.s. against tax dollars being used to bolster big business. pressure prosecutors prepared to hand out more charges for the murder of journalists on the court of course the girl who was shot dead in moscow exactly five years ago.

welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and us and now our top story a decade ago on october the seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began after the ruling taliban refused to hand over the nine eleven mastermind osama bin laden but retired army general stanley mcchrystal said the u.s. began the occupation with a frighteningly simplistic view and still have no idea how to end the conflict successfully meantime in the war zone american bases are still expanding providing it's full time personnel with all the comforts of home jason visited bhangra for r.t. . if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with us live forces over intel of late two thousand and one bug an airfield is little more than a flight to correct world war since then the former soviet base in the plains north

of the afghan capital has grown into a small city let's all do over twenty five thousand full time personal fleets of military hardware with enough fields to cause traffic jams in the expansion it's no way aided by scores of cloud factors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more building workers were after sending an extra thirty thousand troops to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will even planned and bases like this one aren't going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tell a few more deployments you can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some take out a new piece not franchise and if you're tired of working on a gym you're free to go to the salon for a haircut and such well have some officials have tried to limit such amenities

calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have it leaders finally. realize the not easy that's why they have a case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire all without argument a soldier's my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees to the taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded and the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high its most become 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 at times this is still a war zone jason mukluk important for our team. general john allen one of the military's top brass plated u.s. troops will still be in the country even after the twenty fourteen pullout that

mine that has had been announced by nato and the white house ruthless and thirteen attacks have been increasing in recent months with several high profile assassinations and shoot out in the heart of the capital kabul civilian casualties are also on the rise the u.s. like campaign in afghanistan fail to meet most of its original goals because according to our team's military contributor there are shifting as the want tracks on. the initial intent was crystal clear to catch or kill osama bin laden no strings attached period but from the outset of the operation has got to be the wrong turn and today ten years later it's painfully obvious that it has begin aerated into their mission creep be very 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 and somewhat dodged their efforts in their pakistani afghan. tribal belt. otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission accomplished. because he's a military contributor colonel you're going to her show with his assessment of the war's progress from the afghan capital. so i'm. going to attach america to the charges the mistook the ship the food the food spoke to us movement shook up the mission to bring peace and stability to the room going to ten years known as

a dumb enough to move change of subject. the echo of occupy wall street protest has reached the american capital chanting the movement's message crowds march through downtown washington d.c. demonstrations started as a simple sit out in front of the new york stock exchange but quickly gained support over the country rallies followed in chicago san francisco and los angeles activists say they're fed up with breaking their backs at work while bonuses flow into the pockets of. street bankers police used pepper spray and homes to disperse tens of thousands of people walking through manhattan to wall street to find a reporter who's been covering the unfolding events of police action went far beyond just the crowds. as an independent journalist i actually had my own sort of run in with a place i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend where seven hundred

other people as i was filming and so were our live stream critters 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 documented something that is happening. but the movement has getting support from labor unions celebrities and was even heard on capitol hill president obama said the wall street protest expressed the frustrations of the american people and as the editor of a financial online magazine told us from san francisco not even the heavy police response people from pushing forward their gender. one thing that protesters that

i've interviewed here at occupy san francisco as you mentioned is a nationwide movement had mentioned is that police over response is actually very good for their so-called public relations outreach you know when the police when these images of police pepper spraying women right in their faces or arresting hundreds of people on the brooklyn bridge i think that inspired a lot more people to go down and actually join the group and so ironically it does it does perhaps advance the protesters i've seen a lot of people with a great deal of results it's also important to understand that there's a lot of different kinds of people at these protest i think there's a hard core group of very dedicated activists who are seeing this as a long term. there that they're not going to give up there are certainly people who are coming in for a day or two i think that they're you know their dedication may be less and less

strong but the protesters i talked to are not going anywhere soon and some of them are extremely poor and have no other prospects i mean i've talked to people who say look it doesn't matter if the police arrest me tonight that got no place else. well the occupy wall street chance of no jobs reflect the reality of many american cities a little later we're in detroit once the absence of america's big cars and big profits today it couldn't be further from the glory. and libyan finder's launched a major assault on the copies hometown of syria while nato is humanitarian bombing campaign is the concert in the country is raising concerns for the civilians it claims to be protecting that's coming. but first russian prosecutors are set to hand out fast charges to key suspects in the murder of a prominent journalist on the put it cost five. years ago she was gunned down in

her apartment block in moscow while the case has drawn the worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted for the murder or to covering a grouch over a meth family who's still of is waiting to see justice done. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder of a woman huffily through their shift at around four pm for vienna police it was hard way through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shelled out so to her apartment it was a watershed moment and there is life before and up to. when you might leave soon you i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would ok janelle you see if something happens to me documents are the money's here and here are all the numbers to call but we never really took it seriously i was four months pregnant. and my mother promised that after her first grandchild was born she would still go into chechnya and take up quieter journalistic work orders from. but quiet

journalistic work is not something you would associate are not believe. she investigated corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she helped 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. there have been different periods in the process busy went in people were arrested or more simple teeniest into 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 even then the suggestion was active five years ago as it is now this time i would have had more evidence when you're. twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named the 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 close just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. believed to be a former high ranking police official dmitri probably a chunk of it was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal more consisting of four people to cardio pierce us a nation he. created 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. i'm not very good as yet aware are not fully costco worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists murder and use papers deputy editor says it's good that interest in the case is so high both in russia and have brought but it's bad when it turns into a pressure on prosecutors part of the offense period before we still believed. for

people. brothers on their friends who were in. two thousand and nine would you or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot remember 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 if you think there are racists were true for a mature woman in. the russian supreme court's been known to project a two thousand and nine reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the joint and it's. 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 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 on the political just the dozen words on

a piece of stone but these journalists life and sure a legacy but not a feat in a forty by forty marble plane. it's the democrats are team. but being fighters are a final attack on colonel gadhafi as hometown of sirte hundreds of vehicles hoary into the outskirts of the city is pounded with heavy shelling thousands of civilians have left syria many more are thought to have remained comes after one of the daphne in an audio message is earth libyans to resist the interim leaders and civil war which is claimed thousands of lives was joined by nato under a u.n. mandate to protect civilians but as the arab voices association president told r.t. the mounting death toll proves nato is intentions were not useful. we have to remember that the resolution of the u.n. was in fact only confined to no fly zones to impose

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 prevailed there is no reason to declare war on the people often to be inviting me to i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding behind nato so that no one can point a finger but the figures the casualties caused by nato bombing is really mounting 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 of this of the syria because we don't want a repeat performance whereby the un took the position in iraq and then took the position in the un is not there to change regimes it's made protect

humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes. we will president medvedev has again stated that russia will not support any u.n. resolution to impose sanctions on syria he said it's not up to the u.n. to decide the political course and the country overmedicated said that if the current regime was unable to bring the country under control soon it would need to step down a lot more details on those latest statements for you next hour. president obama is pushing his four hundred forty seven billion dollars jobs bill by taxing wealthy americans because he is wracked by soaring unemployment and people feel the government is going to the full extent of the pov problem we're going to travel to a once mighty industrial city which is now closed with many on poverty line.

these are difficult years for our country but we are america we are the top of the times we live in the us 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. 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 for time workers who are also in war and they also don't count term unemployed people who've been unemployed for over six months back in time those people would have been considered unemployed but the government constantly changes the definition of who's not employed and they do that so that the unemployment number looks no or and then it

otherwise would and then 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 so they were included and you know exactly what i feel now is that they truly have a major crisis on a hand and. you know this is part of the problem gambling campaign it'll als them to continue the status quo when society starts 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 it is. i think it's. indicative of what's going on in the rest of the country and they're 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. going to continue to get higher inflation is really going to get higher and rather than trying to stand out that the situation isn't as bad as it is we need to accept i'll bet it is i do use then we have a better chance of recognizing that of the states that were made us president barack obama has proposed a four hundred forty seven billion dollars plan for the public perception of tate america's workforce but just like any light saving procedure recovery can only begin to take place once the condition is fully understood or enough we're not artsy new york. was much more on all of our stories are to dot com addicted to

crime ross i consider selling drug users to curb the number of narcotic driven felonies artsy reports review online. and lost in translation a russian flash mob on twitter celebrating prime minister putin's birthday has thrown the online community into a state of confusion see for yourself at r.t. dot com. it's time now for our bus to a close up series where we take in some of the most fascinating places in the world's largest country. today our exploration reaches the pen's a region six hundred kilometers south east of moscow the capital also called pennzoil was founded in the seventeenth century in lines on seven hills on the banks of the river seraph but there's

a surprisingly high tech hub hiding in the middle of its heritage as is home to a unique and lifesaving heart valve factory that supplies are vital products both in russia and abroad road it has been to see it in action his report includes pictures of surgery. lifesaving surgery the doctors are sewed in an artificial valve that will allow this man's heart 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 pens that originally this was meant to be a huge reducing hole this was soviet made p.c. but then when the us saw of course there was no demand for russian made computers so the empty shell the building into something else by four russia's biggest

producer of all the special. started by a single russian physicist mading sprung up without government support and none of the small team of inventors that worked with the medical equipment manufacturer before now seven in ten above implant them 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 so here they know that success can be fleeting. and we say now we know we've had our successful invention but take knowledge kenya and so 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 changes like all the doctors here admit that the first it was skepticism about a russian made piece of medical equipment which is so doctors are very conservative

very nature in a version they ended patients were very mistrustful of the valves to meet people try something new on themselves it was difficult but i'll tell you this twenty years ago not to one in five used to die during the surgery and now the figure is around one percent of. the surgery was successful. so again naturally 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 the vaal that is inside my heart. no. but just a few minutes we show you around the best hitters in museums in the russian capital but first let's check a business meeting. banks

any solona warm welcome to the program euro zone's a sovereign debt crisis is causing problems far beyond the borders of the countries directly involved russia which has a balanced budget and healthy was a has been hit hard and its latest report the international monetary fund says the best way to get rid of this money ability is to diversify. we would recommend as we have always recommend that every effort be made to be less dependent on the oil and gas sector so policy priority to emphasize all other industries in particular the manufacture and such there is a return to competitiveness u.s. force and so forth russia has plenty of access to technology educated labor force all the ingredients necessary to relaunch its manufacturing sector like all other advanced economies so that that would be a first priority second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing stronger people public finances the government has set

a target of four point seven percent oil deficit that is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient you know if you. look at the markets now it's not where good come out of the. world is on a decline trimming its first weekly gain in three sessions brant is trading at one hundred and five dollars per barrel losing around sixty nine cents light sweet as the thirty eight cents per barrel this. gold has lived into negative territory investors wait for key jobs data from the u.s. and then just around five minutes gold is trading at over sixteen and a half the fowls in the dollar for troy ounce silver is a just under thirty two. point two the stock markets now european stocks are flat to negative at this hour on friday as investors headed for the sidelines out of the u.s. jobless data judy late today resources stocks are higher however on the footsie

with one percent return to get the one point three percent on a stronger metals prices however banking stocks fall sharply lower to moody's downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms including lloyds bank of scotland and santander you care. analyse you can look at what's happening in russia here it's all rosy because russia apparently was correcting earlier in the week while other markets were gaining the r.t.s. is up two hundred percent nice legs and more than three percent of this so if we look at some of the main individual movers on the my six you will see that metal stocks on the rise measure is that the more than three and a half percent hotels produce overall carly is among the main again as this hour it's up six point six percent that's on news of a two and a half million dollar buyback look boiled is also gaining the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars on refinery upgrades here in

a round ten years. but as well as inviting russia to jointly creates a new oil cartel president hugo chavez says the new organization could protect the interests of the world's biggest crude producers but it would not be rival to opec venezuela as grand ambitions for oil production in january said it had to throw in saudi arabia as the country with a large of proven oil reserves has been pushing foreign partners to increase investment into its a resource rich orinoco belt russia as part of the project's joint venture is expected to start production in mag. russian energy giant gazprom as obtained a license to explore one of the country's largest undeveloped gas fields the reserves of coal victoria field estimated that up to two trillion cubic metres enough to meet world gas demand for eight months earlier this year gazprom bought the siberian deposit from russian british joint ventures in k b p a nearly nine

hundred million dollars. all right i'll be back in around fifty five minutes time with an update the headlines are next with. on. a

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