it's five pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live i mean east and now with 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 nine eleven mastermind osama bin ladin retired army general stanley mcchrystal says 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 mattera have visited by far. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan what is its largest base getting bigger with us live forces over in the taliban of late two thousand and one bugbear field is little more than a flight to 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 cargo aircraft in the theaters to cause traffic jams that expansion is no way it is by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more babies work after sending an extra thirty thousand troops to afghanistan last year president obama started bringing them home this summer with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will leave than 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 tough deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino to grab some take out the new pizza hut franchise and if they're tired of working out of the gym they're free to go to the salon for hair kind of. although some officials have tried to limit such melodies calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have. these are extremely.

useful if enough to do this relax and have it take you right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside. without agreement of soldiers my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees deadly taliban rocket attacks are on the. it is the base becomes more and more crowded the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high its walls become everyone gets a close call when you're this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all into one tight spot close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget the times this is still worth. chasing. well general john allen one of the military style brass says u.s. troops will still be in the country even after the twenty fourteen pullout outlined that had been announced by nato and the white house insurgent attacks have been

increasing in recent months with several high profile assassinations and shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul civilian casualties are also on the rise the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan's failed to meet most of its original goals because according to our to use military contributor there are shifting as the war drags on . 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 bad it has diggin aerated into their mission creep be that 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 undermined. their efforts in the pakistani afghan. tribal battle otherwise. today we would have celebrated the tenth anniversary of the mission accomplished. military contributor there colonel ugandan herself with his assessment of the war's progress from the afghan capital. american. target. patients feel free to humorless machine. the mission to bring peace and stability to the. ten years old as a dumb enough to teach. the echo of

occupy wall street protests have reached the american capital attending the movement's message crowds march through downtown washington d.c. demonstrations started as a simple sit in front of the new york stock exchange but quickly gained support all over the country for rallies in chicago boston san francisco and los angeles activists say their fat out with breaking their backs at work while bonuses flow into the pockets of already wealthy vul street bankers on wednesday police used pepper spray and tongs to disperse tens of thousands of people walking through lower manhattan wall street but as the editor of a financial online magazine told us from san francisco not even the heavy police response will stop those people from pushing forward with their agenda. one thing that protesters that i've interviewed here at occupy san francisco as you mentioned is a nationwide movement have 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 movement so ironically it does it does perhaps advance the protesters go 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 protests i think that there is a hard core group of very dedicated activists who are seeing this as a long term movement that they're 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 maybe maybe less and less strong but the protesters i've 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 of the police arrest me tonight. well across the atlantic there are global financial troubles in the u.k. as it becomes the latest nation to feel the pinch ratings giant moody's has downgraded twelve of britain's financial firms and banks including the royal bank of scotland and lloyds t.s.b. that comes after the bank of england's chief said the country's economy is at its lowest point since the one nine hundred thirty s. if not ever let's get some more on this development from british your m.p. godfrey bloom who joins us live thanks for being with us banks and even countries like the us italy have suffered. these credit down rates recent downgrades i say recently but people are always quick to deny there's anything to worry about what are these downgrades actually mean how do they have a real impact. well the problem that we have of course these buying these are

called them is a broke and it's the problem of. politicians and central banks spending alter officially depressing interest rates creating a credit boom and that always creates a bust whenever you have a boom you always end up with a bust. of course the problem that we have now is that the chickens are coming home to roost you cannot continue in the government or a bank or anybody else spend more money than they raise in taxation and this is why it's all going wrong and we haven't seen anything yet this is going to get significantly worse and we're hearing this put into the context of optimism britain's chancellor of the exchequer george osborne believes british banks are strong enough and the government is just taking steps to avoid taxpayers having to bail them out again do you think that's the real case. well no what he's doing is also officially creating money he's inventing money electronically out of

absolutely nowhere it's called quantitative easing but actually it's counterfeiting money it's doomed to failure it always fails it's failed in the policy it's never been successful if it was successful why doesn't he give money printing machines to every family in the united kingdom that they could put in their attic and print money whenever they want to go and buy something i've never heard of i think. only politicians and academics could possibly come up with something something quite so ludicrous. let's turn to the bank of england and their latest statement if i may its chief believes the economy is slowing down much faster than previously thought what exactly is stifling prince growth. well we have still fall too much public spending the chunks are the talks about cuts but of course he hasn't made any cuts in the last twelve months the public boring requirement for the united kingdom is actually gone up not down so whatever you'll seeing on your high street

or your local council doesn't actually reflect what's really happening so government borrowing is actually going up and there are too many people still in the public sector the wealth creating sector is the private sector and we still have far too many people in the public sector who aren't creating wealth we have to get back to sound money and we have to get back to sound money very soon the equivalent of what the child was actually doing imagine a man will stop on a shawl in a deserted island. in their own leg because there's nothing else to tell the olds to eat all that's happening is that they are creating money to buy their own debt it's actually in any other will cover life it would be illegal if you go to prison for it right you said you called quantitative easing counterfeiting money but on thursday the bank of england announced a cason jackson of a hundred billion dollars into the british economy who benefits from that who

actually sees that cast. props up the banks for a little bit longer but it doesn't do much else ordinary people don't get it. and what it actually has the terrible effect of it degrades the current c. currency power a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with a vision going to actually help the economy of toll and of course it depresses truly interest rates which means old people's pensions people on fixed income old suffer from this quantitative easing and of course further down the road it must end inflation you call the suddenly money factor in the last two years which these people have done to a halt two hundred fifty billion pounds without it ending in inflation down the road it's bound to do on this is exactly what happened in the republic in germany in that i g twenty is right godfrey bloom british your m.p. thanks for being on the line with us live from the u.k.

. it's thirteen minutes past the hour still ahead a battle for libya and i could find a launch a major assault on the colonel's hometown of syria nato humanitarian bombing campaign in the country raises concerns for the civilians it claims to be protecting. russian prosecutors are set to hand out fresh charges to key suspects in the murder of a prominent journalist. five years ago she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow but while the case has drawn worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted for the murder party's account that is not going to put it off because family who still wait to see justice done. 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 seem to you that 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 and 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 quiet situational istic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale with 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 mother still remains unpunished. there have been different periods in the

process both busy went in people were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passive when nothing was happening however the vents 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 in belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent brushed. mammary. 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 up some. 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. you know virgie as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist's 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 my scruples we still believe that the four people my brothers and their friends who were in. in two thousand and nine would know or in some way going to this murder but you cannot really mccord's sharif for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happened 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 verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered a reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the joining 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 and forty by forty marble plates it's in the direction of our team. libyan fighters are launching a final attack on colonel gadhafi his hometown of syria hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts of the city is pounded with heavy shelling so thousands

of civilians have left many more are thought to have remained comes after kind of put that in an audio message urging libyans to resist the interim leaders the civil war which has claimed thousands of lives was joined by nato under a u.n. mandate to protect civilians but as the arab lawyers association president told r.t. the mounting death toll proves nato is intentions were not peaceful you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to a no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones. to protect civilians and the end of the day we end up 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 off libya by nato 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 of 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 that he's serious because we don't want a repeat performance whereby the un took the position in iraq and then took the position in the u.k. and is not there to change regimes it may provide humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes. 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 of a country a country should follow before more on this latest statement we're now trying live

by heart you know your current you know your desk resume very different russian one of the action on syria very clear tell us more also things that. you are just in case he's near me president of course making that any reason to take minutes on russia's position on syria give us some more details. as i apologize for the technical difficulties the president has explained that to russia strongly is against the ongoing violence in syria it also supports the idea that the country is in desperate need of democratic reform and also thinks that if the current of tory's will not able to create this change then they would have to go but we did we did have stressed that this would have to be resolved all for the syrian people's choice and not the result of some foreign military intervention intervention similar to how the invalid's are unfolding currently in libya and

since the u.n. draft resolution on syria backed by the west did not exclude the chances of foreign military intervention russia had to walk it. of that it is those who do resolutions alters didn't take our concerns into account worse they declined to simply proposal to station there would be no external military interference in the conflict this means only one thing our partners in the un security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting attempts to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aimed to overthrow political regimes the u.n. was not created for that. just. meanwhile the violence in syria continues according to the way the latest figures coming out of the e.u. was released three thousand people have been killed throughout the call it was says that you will continue applying pressure on the cd and all stories while russia

hopes that the cards will be able to conduct peaceful democratic reforms on its own . right r.t.c. work is going on thank you very much for that update. but there's much more on all our stories at r.t. dot com for you including addicted to crime russia considers jailing drug users to curb the number of dark comic driven felonies r t reports online for you. and waltz in translation a russian flash mob on twitter celebrating prime minister putin's birthday have thrown the online community into a state of confusion see for yourself at our. look now at some world news in brief for you this hour this year's nobel peace prize will be awarded jointly to three women's rights activists from gehman and liberia among them is liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf the laureates were praised for their nonviolent struggle for women's rights and participation in peace

processes the nobel committee wants to send a message that will bring an end to the suppression of women worldwide and demonstrate the great potential that women represent for peace and democracy. to meet. a pakistani doctor could be charged with high treason for allegedly assisting in the cia operation to kill osama bin laden state investigators claim to kill a operated of fake back vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where al qaeda the al qaeda head was killed pakistan claims the us violated its sovereignty by carrying out the un sanction mission to take out bin laden on may second. so they and police have. brutally lashed out at protesters demanding educational reform police in riot gear surround of students in the plaza party at using water cannons and tear gas to push back demonstrators were chanting the slogan united and stronger the class left several injured and student groups

were eventually forced to disperse this is the latest escalation between protesters and police in a confrontation that has lasted several months. up next it's the business with dimitri stay with us. and welcome to the program euro zone sovereign debt crisis is causing problems far beyond the borders of the countries directly involved russia which has a balanced budget and healthy reserves has been hit hard in its latest report the international monetary fund says the best way to get rid of this money building 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 sectors so policy priority to emphasize all other industries in particular the manufacturing sector a return to competitiveness through exports 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 the first priority second we think that russia might want to continue for sizing stronger people public finances the government has set a target of four point seven percent. deficit that is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient if you. try let's move to markets and the situation has changed dramatically over the past our oil is now back up. eighty three dollars to twenty eight cents right now brant is up twenty two cents at almost one hundred six dollars per barrel now the reason for this is the good a jobless report that's just come out in the united states economy has added one hundred three thousand new jobs in september while just fifty five thousands were expected there for the footsie is now up almost zero percent so is the dax rio

tinto b.p. some of the biggest gain is in a rush the positive mood which has already been on friday has increased now the r.t.s. up. two point six percent if we look at some of the individual stock movers you'll see that is up three point six percent producer carly is among one of the biggest gainers eight point seven percent of this hour it's on news of a two and a half million dollar billion dollar buyback lukoil is also the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars on refinery upgrades in ten years. russia's burbank is considering buying the turkish unit of troubled french belgian group that dexia dax is struggling to cope with its exposure to greek debt has is considering an asset sale sources burbank's say the deciding factor will be the price of the surge but the acquisition would be consistent with the bank's well publicized plan to expand in central and eastern europe. and other news russia's

top diamond producer plans to hold an i.p.o. at the end of twenty twelve soon after vice president of are also eager to says the company plans to privatized the seven to ten percent of the company he also says are also restructuring now in preparation for listing and promises to show fantastic results. appear to get to know when news pre-crisis volatile time we are in the ideal situation we are sitting on a big stack of money capitalization is better than before the two thousand and eight crisis and all sales volumes show a champions performance in the coming days we will publish our two thousand and eleven first half report and we will post such figures as the company has never seen in its history its good because up next i'll see the headlines with a nice at this table so that.

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at five thirty pm on scout time these are the top stories on our team america's former top commander in afghanistan says there are only halfway to reaching their goals and have no idea how to end their lives and successfully the comments come exactly ten years after washington launched its bloody war in the country. growing anti wall street protests hit the u.s. capitol as thousands expressed fury over tax dollars being used to bolster big business activists say they're fed up with their breaking their backs out work while bonuses flow into the pockets of already wealthy bankers. and russian prosecutors prepared to hand out more charges for the murder of journalist on the point of who was shot dead in moscow five years ago no one.