go 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 jason has visited for r.t. . if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why is its largest base getting bigger when u.s. led forces overran the teleport of late two thousand and one bug a mere field is little more than a flight tower in a cracked roadway since then the former soviet base in the plains north of the afghan capital has grown into a small city itself over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military and 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 and storage facilities to make room for even more many more hardware 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 leave than planned bases like this one are going to shrink anytime soon. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough year 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 at these years. but you know you can always leave the planet or have a case that the right. mobile 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 most become everyone gets a close call when you're this congested 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 at times this is still a war zone jason muckluck in bagram for our team. well general john allen one of the military's top brass says the 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 civilian casualties are also on the

rise and we can now cross live 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 stanley 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 first of all we have to understand the timeline of this war this war against afghanistan did not start ten years ago it started thirty two years ago in ninety seventy nine it was a u.s. led. to the sea directed against the secular governments and this country has been subjected to a war over all those three to kids. the statement by general mcchrystal

is a cynical statement that it it to suggest somehow that the united states is a humanitarian that this is a humanitarian operation to come to the rescue of the people of afghanistan when all the evidence demonstrates that the sun economy has been the straw it's the tuition. the absence of public health mass unemployment so this is the legacy of a war which from the very outset in on the october seventh two thousand and one was an illegal. aggression by the united states and nato invoking article five of the washington treaty but in effect presenting that war as as a response to nine eleven as if i'm going to stand how to act the united states of america on september eleventh two thousand and one which which is absolutely goes

against any meaningful understanding of of ohio are you know first of all of the nine eleven attacks on the sun as a country was not behind the nine eleven attacks and recent evidence suggests that condit wasn't behind them but nine eleven attacks there now there are also reports that just a few days before nine eleven the taliban offered to give up some of bin ladin and continued to do so after the campaign began why didn't the u.s. take them up on that. well i recall very clearly the taliban government through diplomatic channels actually said if there's some proof that it is behind these attacks we'd be happy to hand them over and then george w. bush said no we don't negotiate with terrorists and that's you know that the bat an issue to me twice through diplomatic channels in the course of the month of

september. but i should mention this something very disturbing on the nato commission through the united states state department reports which was submitted to the atlantic council to confirm the decision that plan to council to take it on september twelfth that state was governing body and that was a report by a us state department official named frank taylor who actually presented his report to counsel i think it was on the top of the search and this report was then released to the press it was never made public it was a consultant's report and it was on the basis of this frank to the report that that that they too actually could and declared one of gonna start i believe it was on october the four not i should also mention another thing which is very important you do not

a large scale war several thousand miles away in central asia in four weeks. war on afghanistan was on the drawing board at the pentagon it was then that bob stages of planning for nine eleven and whatever one's view was 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 and then polish country insult in in a sense. asia using a pretext of fabricating a pretext and then twisting the interpretation of the washington treaty article by by saying in effect that the attack came from abroad ok directed against the atlantic region which which constitutes the collective security agreement let's say of nato and then they said an attack on one member is an attack on all the members

and consequently then the way they use this twisted interpretation of all i love to go by the failed war on up all the stuff we have to remember that and we have to remember that this war still stands out as a violation of international war crimes against humanity. just off the 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. during that actually last i. talked. to. the full u.s. mission. the mission to bring peace and stability to. take you to delhi after.

echoes from the occupy wall street protests have reached the american capital chanting the movement's message crowds march through downtown washington d.c. demonstrations started as a simple sit in in front of the new york stock exchange but quickly gained 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 wealthy wall street bankers and when state police used pepper spray of the tongs to disperse tens of thousands of people walking through lower manhattan to wall street and independent reporter who's been covering the unfolding events since police action went far beyond just walking the crowds. 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 where 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 aren't of 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. with the movement has gained support from labor unions celebrities that has now been heard on capitol hill president obama said the wall street protest expresses the frustration of the american people a 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 with their agenda. one thing that protesters that i've interviewed here at san francisco as you mentioned this is a nationwide movement have mentioned is that police over response is. actually very

good for their 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 resolve 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 may be 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 if the police arrest me tonight because i've got no place else to feed you. 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 twelve of britain's financial firms and banks and that comes after the bank of england's chief sent the country's economy is at its lowest point since the one nine hundred thirty s. if not ever british godfrey bloom says the chancellor of the exchequer has a policy of printing more cast in disaster. he's inventing money electronically out of absolutely nowhere it's called quantity of 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 it props up

the banks for a little bit longer but it doesn't do much else old many people don't get it and what it actually has a terrible effect of it degrades the current c. currency pound a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with them isn't going to actually help the economy a toll on a cool depression is 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 in inflation 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 it nothing else to eat all that's happening is that they are creating money to buy their own debts it's actually in any other walk of life it would be illegal if you go to prison for it still ahead for you this hour here in r t a battle for libya and thank you back

in fighters the major assault on the colonel's hometown of nato of humanitarian bombing campaign in the country raises concerns for the billion lines to be attacking. the first russian prosecutors are set to hand out fresh charges to key suspects in the murder of a prominent journalist and not but of course five years ago she was gunned down in her apartment block here in moscow while the case has drawn worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted for the murder parties are met but of course because family who still wait to see justice. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder 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 shot dead 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 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 chechnya and take up quite a journalistic work. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on a political scale with 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 both busy went in 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 than your. twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger it was the mahmood of was arrested in chechnya after years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close just solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. really a former high ranking police official dmitri publishing co was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal mob consisting of four people to cardio the assassination he kept tabs and holocaust 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. i'm not very good as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist's murder 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 more with your friends period before we still believe. for people my brothers and their friends who were in courses in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot simply mcchord security 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 the moment. the russians supreme court unknown to the verdict of two thousand and nine and reopening of the investigation it's

a significant part of the joy but it's certainly not dnd 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 on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could never fit in a forty by forty marble play. it's in the direction of our team. libyan fighters are launching a final attack on colonel gadhafi as hometown of sirte hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts of the city is pounded with heavy shelling so powerful you have left many more awful to have remained here saul comes after curfew that we

in the audio message earth will be able to resist the infirm leaders the civil war which is thousands of lives joined by nato under a u.n. mandate to protect civilians but as the arab lawyers association president told our chain the mounting death toll proves nato is intentions were not peaceful. you have to remember that the resolution of the u.n. was in fact 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 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 now 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 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 u. n. 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 president zedillo has again stated that russia will not support any un resolution to impose sanctions on syria he said it's not up to the un or nato to decide the political course a country should follow but if you cannot has more. president you do the fixed wing that rush hour 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 the thirty's will not be able to create this change then we will have to go but we need 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 healthy in vans are unfolding probably in libya and since it be you on draft resolution on syria backed by the west did not exclude the chances of foreign military intervention russia had to block it of that it is the resolutions alters didn't take our concerns into account worse they declined the simple 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 un 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 movie ticket to crime russia considers jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotics calumny our team reports online. and lost in translation our russian flash mob on twitter celebrating prime minister birthday has thrown the online community into a state of confusion but you want to be in the end. find out what it's all about.

up next is the latest from the world of business with gimme three a with r t. thanks and he said 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 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 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 are. move down to the markets we start with commodities were oil is up third session of gains of brant is that just below one hundred six dollars per barrel light sweet is up 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 nine 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 are still cautious right now resources stocks however are banking stocks are sharply lower after moody's downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms including lloyd's pullback in scotland and sometime during the day . and is the picture in russia of the twenty minutes to go before the end of the session both the r.t.s. and the my stocks are up two point eight percent and this hour we look at some of the main movers the metal stocks on the rise machel is up five percent on higher metals prices producer kali's among the main again as 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 circus 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. 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 you get a call you chip says the company plans to privatise seven to ten percent of the company he also says ross is restructuring now in preparation for listing and promises to show fantastic results. that are going to be a ticket now in his pre-crisis volatile time we are in the ideal situation we are sitting on a big stack of money our 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 critic of coming up next on r.t. headlights is that.

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my from moscow and north are to the have minds america's former top commander in afghanistan says they're only house way to reaching their goals and have no idea how to end their mission successfully. exactly ten years after washington lost 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 breaking their back their work bonuses flow into the pockets of already wealthy banker. and russian prosecutors prepared to hand out more charges for the murder of a journalist on the.