soon which bryson movements from sons to pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. america's former top commander in afghanistan says they're only half way to reaching their goals quite ten years of bloody war in the country. from wall street to washington and beyond the bank in fact fire spreads through the u.s. against tax dollars being used to bolster big business. and russian prosecutors prepared to hand out more charges for the murder of journalist on the part of course was shot dead in moscow exactly five years. russian sculpts and a week on the positive nerve with you know if there is a miser it's up for them to put said overall the week was negative more on this

latest business news than twenty rounds. seven pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live on nice and now with our top story this evening a 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 but 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 baldwin has visited bhangra for archie. if the united states is drawing its troops from afghanistan why

is its largest base getting bigger with us live forces overread to tell about a late two thousand and one dog amir field is little more than a flake telling 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 hardware craft and enough equals to cause traffic jams they did expansion is no way aided by scores of cloud trackers u.s. military engineers are constructing new housing and storage facilities to make room for even more men in work at 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 that less will even plant and bases like this ones are going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for a tough you know long deployments you can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino and grab some take out the new concern for interns and if you're tired

of working out in the gym you're free to go to the salon for a hair kind of such 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 streaming. realities leave you to leave us where you can have a taste of the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without by grumman a soldier's 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 the threat to those living inside multiplies no matter how high it's most become everyone it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all in the one tight spot to close it's going to destroy something or someone easy as it may be to forget the times this is still

a war zone jason not logged in blog for our team. general john allen one of the military's top brass says u.s. troops will still be on the contrary even after the twenty four thousand 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 but to discuss the situation in afghanistan i'm now joined live by the director of the cancer coalition brian bakker thanks for being with us the conflict has already become the longest war in u.s. history and the real end is still up in the air in your view how many more years will that take well i think it least another decade and i think the u.s. really intends to remain in afghanistan forever. i think it's true it's a war on like any other in the u.s. history it's ten years old now it's the longest war it's also a war that the u.s.

is not winning there is no such thing as military victory there but i think the calculation by the by the political administration and white in washington in the military is that they can endure this kind of fighting for a long time to come in their final intention is to incorporate afghanistan and the surrounding countries some of which were the former soviet republics in the south into americans fear of influence you said nato is not needed but president karzai said his own government as well as nato failed to provide afghans with security how will they really be able to win if they will they be able to cope without foreign aid. well i think it's very dubious but it's not really a think the karzai government really is an extension of american power which has a masquerade the fiction of a nato cover but really it's an american power cards i of course probably cannot

survive without outside support after all the outsiders the occupiers put him into power i don't think he has any real legitimacy and credibility for his people but nonetheless most of the country is not under the control of the karzai government it's under the control of the armed insurgents not just the television but the great vast majority of afghans who resented foreign occupation even before general allen predicted earlier this week the troops will stay beyond the announced pullout deadline it was hinted that out a few troop that a few troops i should say may remain in an advisory capacity what do you think is the actual truth about the future of u.s. involvement in afghanistan oh i think i think advisor is just a euphemism for what amounts to an american military occupation if the u.s. military were to leave afghanistan altogether or if it were to leave iraq altogether those governments would become independent determining governments free of foreign interference with foreign occupation that's what would happen they would

form their own natural alliances with their neighbors the united states does not want that this is the great prize this is a geo strategically and resource rich part of the world united states is there for the long term and i think that's the real goal is to put firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american spear of influence there's research that shows that some ninety percent of afghans have never even heard of nine eleven and their country's involvement in the attacks on the us what does that tell us about the way the u.s. military has conducted itself in the contrary. i mean it must be great very perplexing to the people that the survey you mentioned is i was among fighting age males in the southern part of afghanistan ninety two percent of them had never heard about the attacks on september eleventh they must wonder why is the united states why is nato occupying their country why is it finding their villages by is it killing their people and the only conclusion that they could draw not having

known about september eleventh not knowing about the so-called pretext for the war is that the foreign occupiers are there just to occupy their country to take it over as foreign occupiers have in the past so i think that's a great motivator for the armed resistance in fact that's why i think the resistance will only grow and grow and grow. back stateside president obama has a lot stocks against him at the moment the disastrous economy and at least two very unpopular wars if not three with libya we could say with an election coming up what could he do to make the afghan campaign look as though it's coming to an end when he came into office promising he would bring the troops back home yes i mean it's a great dilemma for the obama administration and you know that tens of thousands of workers are being laid off all across the united states because of budget shortfalls in state and local governments those aggregate number of a budget deficit is about one hundred million dollars two hundred billion dollars the cost of the afghanistan war will be one hundred twenty billion this year so the

american people have turned against the war and to the extent that the obama administration has staked its administration's identity with the expansion of the war the american people are holding him responsible in there are demonstrations taking place all over the united states today they would have been taking place against bush but now they're against obama because it's obama's war right live from washington director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you very much for your thoughts on the u.s. and of all men in afghanistan. during the american. target. store. to see the food you were exploring. the vision to bring peace and stability to the. ten years not to believe they have to change. in other news echoes from the occupy wall street protests to reach the american

capital chanting the movement's message crowds march through downtown washington d.c. the demonstrations started as a simple thing 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 that were a bonus flow into the pockets of already well known street bankers on wednesday police used pepper spray and baton to disperse tens of thousands of people walking from lower manhattan to wall street we can now talk to an occupy wall street activists your tama row who's joining us via broadband from new york thanks for being with us if you were one of those seven hundred arrested on the brooklyn bridge last weekend tell us about your experience how have you seen and what have you seen in terms of police and how they're reacting to these protests. i actually just did it just to clarify i wasn't arrested on the brooklyn bridge i was

a restaurant before the mass arrests downtown. and i think actually it's an it was an interesting contrast there in the police response to the first mass arrests where they arrested certain people their hearts i think that was just an act of desperation and confusion or they just know how to end the march because this is for the first time in a long time a group of people who are really not willing to march you know metal corrals really now with us for reza really understand the sidewalks which is i think really inspiring and important for the progress of the movement i think the rest of the bridge were actually quite different i think that was certain to take care of the rest were nervous around people who parents are aware that you look at them there are groups from congress in there and the movement. if you just tell us more about in terms of the violence we've been seeing these pictures amateur video coming out of new york of police really being quite heavy handed what did you see. i've been. seeing i've had friends. with over the head with over. a three sort of puts.

it's it's intense. it's a marker is i have a standing like this. old but i have sort of this along. with sports i think it reflects a lot of fear frankly but also a stupid approach and it's surprising i suspect getting bigger and gaining more support every day across the country occupy wall street has been enormously criticized for not having any definite demands how strong is the movement and can make get together and gather focus. i think the question of the mask there really is that one i actually generally am a proponent of iran because i think it clarifies this for a while i think it's easier to reach out to people and bring them in a unified message i think that's an important process that being said i think there's an incredible strength from not having a career it was there prevents here this movement is

a little bit different and i also think ultimately this really isn't bad behavior on wall street or the reason i think the critics are trying to be honest with you i think a lot on wall street because all street is the financial capital of the world and we are holding the press and the. responsible for you know anything our own are really broad with the issues from order to wikinomics prizes to rest potential they're all still there are issues of content here and sexuality and race and partly really a lot of the whole fabric but it's not so unclear why on wall street i think that i think that is a really unifying thing the simplicity of that is important. ultimately that there are plenty of groups and to have been around since in the hearing groups and a lot of the sort because the name is pretty concrete demands are people starting around third there is a movement seem to fly around and i don't really think it i don't really think this occupation has to come up with its own good as this occupation and he our

foundation on top of we're exposed to the grassroots organizations and movements inside with sort of this added wind in their cells i think that's an incredible strength and i think that we have an enormous potential to really build a movement he can prove both creating an alternative structure and writing to carve out a space for us that about the whole world is certainly watching you know tom morrow activists from the occupy wall street movement thanks pier attacked her. now across the atlantic the u.k. has become the latest nation to feel the pinch of the global financial crisis ratings tight moody's has downgraded twelve of britain's financial firms and banks and that comes after the bank of england chief said the country's economy is that its lowest point since the one nine hundred thirty s. if not ever but if euro entry got free bloom says the chancellor of the exchequer us policy of printing more cash will end in disaster he's inventing money electronically out about. 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 it 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 currency currency pound notes really a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with them isn't going to actually help the economy atoll and of course it depresses actually interest rates which means old people pensions people on fixed income all suffer from this quantitative easing and of course further down the road it must end inflation the equivalent of what the child is actually doing a badger demand will stop on a sure on a deserted island an eighty in their own leg because there's nothing else to it

nothing else to eat all that's happening is that 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 on r.t.e. a battle for libya and likely to happen fine or a major assault on the colonel's hometown of spirit of 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 suspects in the murder of prominent journalist but of course five years ago she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow while the case has drawn worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted for the murder or do you think opening a great show of america but of course family who still wait to see justice. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a moment of

a woman hunt point through their shift at around four pm for vienna police it was hopefully through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shelled 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 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 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 wonders. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on a political scale with should best to get it corrupt security officials and exposed to human rights violations she help people when there are cases in the highest

courts in russia and in strasburg but the irony is that five years later your own murder still remains and punished with it has there been different periods in the process busy winton people were arrested almost simultaneously into thousand and seven 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 where this time would have had more evidence on you tube or. 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 and belgian and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close to solving one of the most high profile slayings in recent russian memory. a former high ranking

police official dmitri poverty and cool was a middle man for money agreeing to organize a criminal mob consisting of four people to cardio be a source in addition he kept tabs and. 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. but i wouldn't be doing you know berg as yet aware are not political works up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalist samantha the newspaper's 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 or of your friends period before we still believe. before people get my brothers i'm their friend or in. two thousand and nine or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot blame the courts jury 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 sing to you from terrorists we're too premature. because. the russian supreme court the knowledge of two thousand and nine and funding of the investigation it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not be end one of the biggest challenges for investigators at these point is to find other suspects who are now on the run outside the country but just like on the political scale herself her family and colleagues will never give up as they strive to find the truth it takes very little to describe someone's just in case of on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could not have a feat and a forty by forty marble plates if you look at our children our team. libyan

fighters have launched a final attack on colonel gadhafi is hometown of spirit reports say the interim government's troops have now largely taken the city but are still meeting pockets of heavy resistance hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts as the city is pounded with heavy shelling of thousands of civilians left here many more are thought to have remained calm after colonel gadhafi in an audio message personally begins to rethink the entire leader's civil war which is claimed pounds of lives was joined by nato under a u.n. mandate to protect civilians but as our boys association president told r.t. the mounting death toll proves nato is unconscionable we're not. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only come find to no fly zones to imposing a no fly zones it was there to protect civilians i 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 if i need to i think the usa britain france and the western powers are hiding now behind nato so that no one can point a finger at what the figures of the casualties caused by nato bombing is really mounting i think nato is continuing its war against the libyan people that they got rid of the dictatorship we seem to be heading to the same exercise they have done in iraq and i think russia was right in taking the position he said he syria because we got on better people form and swear by the u.n. took the position in iraq and then took the position in the u.k. and is not there to change regimes it's made protect humanitarian purposes my protect civilians it might stop wars but it is definitely not to change regimes.

meanwhile 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 over of inventive said that if the current regime was unable to bring the country under control soon it would need to step down but much more on all our stories for you online at our team dot com ticker it's a crime prosecute sitters jailing drug users to curb the number of narcotics given bellamy's reports online. and lost in translation a russian flash mob on twitter celebrating prime minister clinton's birthday has thrown the online community into a state of confusion worldwide see for yourself on our web site. up next is a live business update to me three. years

a 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 its wonder a bill to use to diversify away from that which. 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 whole 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 gradients necessary to relaunch so many factories sectors like all other advanced economies so that it would be a first for a second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing a stronger public finances the government has set the target of four point seven

percent oil deficit that is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient in our view. fine let's move to the markets now we start with commodities oil at this hour is mixed a brant is trading at thirty five cents lower light sweet thirty cents higher this is on the back of jobs and employment report that's just come out in the united states a crucial report figures for september out shown that the u.s. economy added one hundred three thousand new jobs way above expectations yet the unemployment rate still stands bad nine point one percent so this. has actually been lost most of the steam is gone the dow jones is up just point one percent nasdaq down point eight. in europe another thirty five minutes to go before the end of the session still of flat so positive the picture over the investors are on the

sidelines at the moment resources stocks are higher but banks. after moody's downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms including royal bank of scotland and sometimes every day. this is the closing picture for russia and it's much rosier than anywhere else the us has a three point one percent my thanks to and a half percent this is on the back of oil mostly showing gains by the end of the session and therefore luke oil is up one point two five percent well carli the protests produces among the biggest gainers of the day seven point eight percent on news of me two hundred billion dollars buyback and measure it was up five percent on high and that was crisis alexander given that i have seen measurable wraps up the day's trade. we are close and a little minutes before the opening of the week while. for last three days we see a significant let's say let's try to call the trolley we see like three percent

growth of the day and still it seems that sort of market sentiment from me is cautious we see the world who is still in place we see if it's a school probably be in place for the next two weeks while still markets require the world to consolidate its. efforts or we should be going to finland and other european authorities to get through the course of about this into the world and it's our that if can there from i have seen metropole with his comments russia's burbank is considering buying the turkish unit of troubled french belgian group betsy and struggling to cope with its exposure to greek debt and is considering an asset sales that sources at burbank say it a sign in fact there will be the price of the set 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 al rosser plans to hold

i.p.o. at the end of twenty twelve or soon after weiss president of are also good says the state plans to privatized seven to ten percent of the company and also says our ross is restructuring now in preparation for listing promises to show fantastic results. doesn't appear to know when his pre-crisis volatile time we are in the only deal 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 should champions performance in the coming days we will publish your two thousand and eleven first report and we will post such figures and the company has never seen in its history if a bit of has over the business team for now it kind of acts the headlines.

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