finally here to build a story from somerset gradually so the sweet unknowing. coleslaw going to turn your ability to share some silly goal mitchell interprets the world hotels like gold in the movie leaves very little in the resort and spa. america's former top commander in afghanistan says they're only halfway to reaching their goals despite the ten years of bloody war in the country. from wall street to washington and beyond the banking backlash spreads to the u.s. against dollars being used to bolster big business. and russian prosecutors prepare to hand out more charges for the murder of a journalist on the plane. was shot dead in moscow exactly five years.

but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now it's six pm here in the russian capital our top story i decade ago on october the seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike for the nine eleven atrocities masterminded from the country by osama bin laden 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 its full time personnel with all the comforts of home base and not luck has visited bob graham for our team. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger with u.s. led forces over intel about late two thousand and one bugbear field is little more than deflates the correct runway since then the former soviet base in the plains

north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself to over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft with enough equals to cause traffic jams in the expansion is no way aided by scores of contractors u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing in storage facilities to make room for even more bedding work hard work 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 a bit less will even planned and bases like this one are going to shrink in time so . at least 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 fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino and 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 haircut inside which 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 it's timely you saw it leave the line there that would take. the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without the agreement of soldiers my business would be nothing we like having them here but not everyone agrees diddly taliban rocket attacks are on the rise and as the base becomes more and more crowded and threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high it's almost become every rock it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel can solve it into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget it times this is still a war zone jason not logged in barbara for a team. well general john allen one of the military's top brass says u.s. troops will still be in the country even after the twenty fourteen pullout deadline

that had been announced by nato and the white house ruthless insurgent attacks have been increasing in recent months with several high profile assassinations and shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul so the and casualties are also on the rise and we can now cross slide to michele just evolve from the center of research on globalization to discuss the outcome of the ongoing war so far they serve being with us so family mcchrystal says america is only halfway to reaching its goals ten years after launching the invasion what if ever happened would a successful and actually look like. well i think i was already have to understand the timeline of this war this war against afghanistan did not start ten years ago it started thirty two years ago nine hundred seventy nine it was the us led. to the sea directed against the secular governments

and this country has been subjected to a war over all those three to create. the statement by general mcchrystal is is a cynical statement it is. to suggest some hollow bets but united states is a humanitarian that this is a humanitarian operation to come to the rescue of the people of afghanistan when all that is what has been straight. on the sun economy has been destroyed it's the peugeot. absence of public health mass unemployment so this is the legacy of a war which from the very outset in on october seventh two thousand and one was an illegal. aggression by the united states and nato invoking article five of the washington treaty put into effect. presenting that

war as as a response to nine eleven as they are going to stand how to act the united states of america on september eleventh two thousand and one which which is absolute goes against any meaningful understanding of of of you know most of all of the nine eleven attacks afghanistan as a country was not behind the nine eleven attacks and recent evidence suggests that it wasn't behind the eleven attacks there don't harass our reports i just a few days before nine eleven the taliban offered to give up our son about martin and continued to do so after the campaign began why didn't the u.s. take him up on that. well i recall very clearly the taliban government through diplomatic channels actually said if there's some proof but not it is

behind these attacks we'd be happy to hand it over and then george w. bush said no we don't negotiate with terrorists and that's you know that the bat initiative was made twice through diplomatic channels in the course of the month of september and but i should mention this something very disturbing. the nato commission through the united states state department reports which was submitted so that lengthy consul to confirm the decision but plan to cancel it take it on september twelfth that state was helping polity and that was a report by a us state department official named frank taylor who actually presented his report to council i think it was on the top of the perch and this report was never released to the press it was there to be public it was a consultants report and it was on the basis of this ranked team

a report that they need to actually could put and declared one up on the start i believe it was and on top of the four i should also mention the know the thing which is very important you do not a large scale theater war several thousand miles away in central asia in four weeks. war on afghanistan was on the drawing board at the pentagon it was an advanced stages of planning for nine eleven and whatever one's views on nine eleven that war was planned before nine eleven and nine eleven provided the pretext the justification for waging a war on sovereign country in an impoverished country insult in a sense. asia using a pretext of fabricating a pretext and then twisting the interpretation of the washington treaty article by

saying in effect that but time came from abroad ok directed against the atlantic region which which constitutes the collective security agreement let's say of the bait and then they say an attack on one boat is an attack on all the members and consequently then. they use this twisted interpretation of all the people by the failed war on up all the stuff we have to remember that and we have to remember that this war still stands. as a violation of international war crimes against humanity. bosky from the center for research on globalization thank you very much for your thoughts this hour on the u.s. and nato war in afghanistan thank you very much. to attack america lashed out. target. star. ship the food to

a small machine. the mission to bring peace and stability to. take. a lead after. echoes from the occupy wall street protests have reached the american capital chanting the movement's message crowds march through john town washington d.c. demonstrations started as a simple sit in in front of the new york stock exchange but quickly growing support all over the country more rallies followed in chicago boston san francisco and los angeles activists say they're fed up with breaking their backs at work or bonuses flowing to the pockets of already the wall street bankers when state police used pepper spray baton to disperse tens of thousands of people walking through lower manhattan to street and internet reporter who's been covering the unfolding events as police action went far beyond just walking the crowds as an independent

journalist i actually had my own sort of run in with various i was arrested on the brooklyn bridge last week guns for 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 documented something that is happening. with the movement has gained support from labor unions celebrities that have now been heard on capitol hill president obama said the wall street protest expresses the frustration of the american people of san francisco journalist spoke to demonstrators in his city and told us that not even the heavy

police response will stop those people from pushing forward. one thing that protesters that i've interviewed here at occupy san francisco as you mentioned this 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 them and so ironically it does it does perhaps advance the protesters go i've seen a lot of people with a great deal of result and it's also important to understand that there's a lot of different kinds of people at these protests i think there's a hard core group of very dedicated activists who are seeing this as a long term movement that they're 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 maybe 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 because i've got no place else to be. across the atlantic the u.k. has become the latest nation to feel the pinch of the global financial crisis ratings giant moody's has downgraded trial of britain's financial firms and banks and that comes after the bank of england's chief sent the country's economy is that its lowest point since the one nine hundred thirty s. if not ever british coffee bloom says the chancellor of the exchequer has a policy of printing more cask disaster. he's inventing money electronically out of absolutely nowhere it's called called sort of easy but actually it's counterfeiting money it's tombs of failure it always fails it's failed in the

process 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 whatever they want to go and buy something props up the banks for a little bit longer but it doesn't do much else to have many people don't get it and what it actually has a terrible effect of it degrades the current c. currency pound notes ready of a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with them isn't going to actually help the economy a troll and of course the press is truly interest rates which means old people pensions people on fixed income whole suffer from this quantitative easing and of course further down the road it must end in inflation the equivalent of what the charts is actually doing imagine a man washed up on a sure on a deserted island. eating their own leg because there's nothing else about the else

to eat all that's happening is the created money to buy their own debts it's actually in any other will cover life would be illegal and you'd go to prison for it still have for you this hour here in our t. of battle for libya and thank you major assault on the colonel's hometown of fear all nato military and from a campaign in the country raises concerns of billions trying to beat protecting. but first russian prosecutors are second hand out fresh targets to keep prospects in the murder of prominent journalist i'm not but of course five years ago she was gunned down in her apartment here in moscow while the case has drawn worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted for the murder artie's accompanying a grouch of a man but of course can't family still wait to see justice. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder of a woman halfway through their shift around four pm for vieira political scare it

was hard way through her pregnancy and she got a call her mother had been shelled out her apartment it was a watershed moment and there is life before and after. when you might leave here you but i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she would the occasional is see 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 church now and take up quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate are not political scale way to get corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she help people when there are cases in the highest courts in russia and in strasbourg but the irony is that five years later your own

murder still remains unpunished will get us there have been different periods in the process busy went in people were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passing where nothing was happening however the events of recent months give a 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 this time would have had more evidence of. twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger the stomach to move was arrested in chechnya after years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close to. one of the most high profile slayings in recent memory. a former high ranking police official dmitri pavlyuchenko was

a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal more consisting of four people to cardio the assassination you care tubs and all the costs 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. and other guys yet aware are not political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist's murder a newspaper as 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. from this group before we still believed. four people in my brother's under friend who were in federal courts is in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot screen the courts 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 same defense even their rates were too premature dominico. the russian supreme court. verdicts of two thousand and nine and reopening of the investigation it's a significant part of the joy but it's certainly not be and 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 of on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy but not a feat and a forty by forty marble plates it seems like our children are teen.

maybe in private or as our own showing off i know attack on colonel gadhafi home town of spirit hundreds of vehicles are pouring in the outskirts of the city is counted with heavy shelling so powerful the you hear many more room eight years old contractor colonel perhaps in a corner you know massive earth libya is this the interim leaders this is a war which is thousands of lives destroyed 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's intentions were not peaceful. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to no fly zones to impose a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians at the end of the day we end up with nato actually going to war against the people of libya obviously the dictatorship which prevails there is no reason to declare war on the people often

libya buying it so i think the u.s. 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 ought to be 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 every so he syria because we don't want there are people thoughtless whereby the u.n. took the position in iraq and then took the position in libya the u. n. is not there to change regimes it's may provide humanitarian purposes it might protect civilians it might stop pause but it is definitely not to change regimes. president of xavier 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.

or nato to decide the political course a country should follow but if you cannot have more. president video for explaining that russia strongly criticizes the ongoing violence in syria it supports the idea that the country is in desperate need of democratic reform but also thinks that if the current of cody's will not be able to create this change then we will have to go but we're going to be there for stress that this will have to be the choice of the syrian people and not a result of some foreign military intervention similar to how the vents are unfolding from in libya and since you are in draft resolution on syria backed by the west did not exclude the chances of foreign military intervention russia had to block it after that is to reza lucian's alters didn't take our concerns into account worse they declined the civil proposal to stage there will be no external military interference in the conflict and this means only one thing our partners in

the u.n. security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting a chance to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that age overthrow political regimes the u.s. was not created for that meanwhile the violence in syria continues according to the leaders figures coming out of the year one nearly three thousand people have lost their lives throughout the entire conflict the west says that it will continue applying pressure on syrian authorities while russia hopes that the country will be able to conduct peaceful democratic reforms on its own. there's much more on all of our stories available at r.t. dot com thirty six the crime of russia considers jailing drug users a carbon number of narco palen e r t reports online. and one in translation a russian flashmob on twitter celebrating prime minister birthday has thrown me on

line community interest rate you said you want to be in the. find out what is. up next is the latest from the world of business there with r.t. . thanks and he said the euro zone's the 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 and its latest report the international monetary fund says the best way to get rid of this vulnerability is to diversify away from energy we would recommend as we have always recommend that every effort be made to be less dependent on the oil and gas sectors so the policy priority to emphasize all other industries in particular the manufacturing sector

a return to competitiveness to 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 it would be a first priority second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing stronger public finances the government has set the targets of four point seven percent oil deficits that is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient you know if you are. move down to the markets we start with commodities were oil is our third session of gains of brant is that just below one hundred six dollars per barrel lights we desire eighty five cents and this is on the back of the latest unemployment figures for september which came out in the u.s. the economy added one hundred three thousand new jobs that's way above expectations

yet the unemployment rate still stands at my point one percent the dow jones is positive this hour. if we move to europe the situation over there is also looking positive but not to the same extent as in the u.s. or russia will look at russia in just a second and put these up as point two percent the dax point three percent investors still cautious right now resources stocks however are higher banking stocks are sharply lower after moody's downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms with leading lloyd's the world bank of scotland and sometimes the u.k. . is the picture in russia of the twenty minutes to go before the end of the session we are ts and the my stocks are up two point eight percent this hour we'll look at some of the main movers metal stocks on the rise machel is up five percent on higher metals prices producer kali's among the main again as of this hour it's up eight percent on news of a two and a half

a billion dollar buyback and loop oil is also gaining the company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars in finery upgrades in ten years. russia's burbank is considering buying the second unit of the troubled french belgian group dexia that is struggling to cope with its exposure to greek debt and is considering an asset sale sources as burbank say their side in fact there will be the price of the of the acquisition would be consistent with the bank's well publicized plan to expand into central and eastern europe. thank in other news russia's top diamond producer al roth plans to hold an i.p.o. at the end of twenty twelve or soon after vice president of also europe will chip says the company plans to privatise seventh example cent of the country he also says is restructuring now in preparation for listing and promises to show fantastic results that are going to be etiquette of knowing his pre-crisis volatile time we

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