this is r t and tonight american forces x. top commander in afghanistan says that after ten years of waging a deadly war in the country they still don't know how to bring the conflict to an end. to wall street to washington and beyond the planking back to large spreads some of us against tax dollars being used to bolster big business. and russian prosecutors prepared to bring new charges for the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya she said here in moscow exactly five years ago.

welcome it's eight pm here in moscow i'm kevin though in bringing you the top story from aarti tonight and the decade ago one october the seventh two thousand and one the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike for nine eleven atrocities masterminded from the country by a summer been. retired army general stanley mcchrystal said the u.s. began the occupation with a frighteningly simplistic view and still have no idea how to end the conflict successfully in time in the war zone american bases and expanding providing its full time personnel with all the comforts of home just not like visited by a grab for arty. 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 it late two thousand and one bug of airfield is little more than a flight telling 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 personnel fleets of military cargo aircraft with enough equals to cause traffic jams and an 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 maybe more hard work after sending an extra thirty thousand troops after the celestial year president obama started bringing them home this summer but with afghan forces struggling to stand alone it's likely that less will even planned and bases like this ones are going to shrink in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for a tough in a long deployments you can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to fine jewelry enjoy a cappuccino grab some take on the new concern for interns and if they're tired of working out in the gym they're free to go to the salon for a hair cut and such although some officials have tried to limit such amenities calling them a distraction from the war the troops are happy to have these years. later do you

know if leaving the line of thought they have a case that the right. local afghan merchants are also glad to have the extra business both inside and outside the wire without beggarman a soldier's 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 it smells because everyone it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel consolidate into one tight spot get close it's going to destroy something or someone is. really beautiful. this is still. going to. kill john allen one of the military's top brass if u.s. troops will still be in the country even after the twenty fourteen deadline that have been announced by nato and the white house ruthless insurgent attacks have

been increasing in recent months with several high profile assassination shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul itself civilian casualties in the country are also on the rise to discuss the outcome so far the ongoing military campaign let's talk now to michael prison he's a veteran of the iraq war and leader of untoward coalition march forward with a prisoner thanks ever so much for being on the program we really appreciate you taking the time and as i just said you are one of those people who opposed the war but surely i say to you the u.s. how to do something did after nine eleven. well you know that's the entire pretext for the war in afghanistan right it's the retaliation for the nine eleven attacks i think people should be very close attention to a poll that was done relative in relatively recently in afghanistan that found that among young afghan men ninety two percent had never even heard of the nine eleven and of course it's a big secret by the u.s. government that immediately after the nine eleven attacks the taliban government offered to arrest an extra day bin laden to face trial and even the pentagon itself

says there is roughly fifty our qaeda operatives operating in afghanistan which is you know the size of a football team which is actually ridiculous i think we need over one hundred thousand soldiers to. try and pick this apart let's talk first of all why more than ninety percent of young afghans don't know about the whole supposed cause of this in the first place why is that. as far as the u.s. is concerned. well it's because they had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks and of course that's something that the u.s. government of course does not want the people of the united states to know because they want to convince them that the people that are dying every single day the dozens of civilians that are killed the night raids and drone attacks and bombings every single day in afghanistan the tens of thousands who have been killed they want the american public to believe that these people are terrorists that are responsible for the nine eleven attacks were in fact just regular people living in afghanistan who just happened to live in a country that is strategically located in an oil rich resource rich region and want to clean importance to the wall street and to u.s.

military dollars ok well many people say the world there was a real opportunity for us to change the situation. back in two thousand and one to say washington's only real chance is in the well you know i think the resistance which has grown every single year and afghanistan two are now worth there's record casualties on there's record numbers of soldiers losing their legs being killed in combat and also record civilian casualties this is because year after year there has been growing widespread opposition among the afghan people to the foreign occupation and so the growing resistance isn't because you know the u.s. military screwed up if there were growing resistance because the u.s. military is occupying the country killing civilians every single day and making lives miserable for the afghan people so we're seeing as a widespread national rebellion against the occupation not just by the taliban but by the pentagon's own numbers the hundreds if not over over a thousand different armed resistance organizations that are fighting to expel the foreign occupation it's an important thing you raise the. miserable life of most

people i mean so much money has been poured into these billions of dollars in foreign aid but yet the law doesn't go but does it. no i mean life expectancy in afghanistan is forty two i mean they have the second highest infant mortality rate in the entire world and roughly fifty percent of the population is living in extreme poverty and suffering of dying of starvation but there are billions of dollars flowing into that country where that money is going to build u.s. bases u.s. administrate of center is because that's the only interest the u.s. government has in afghanistan it's not helping the afghan people it's not bringing democracy it's not protecting our friends and family here in the united states is having another outpost of u.s. military interest in what is the most important region of the world for the u.s. empire because of its resources and because its position next to so many other rising powers and oil rich country what's the prognosis.

you see in kabul what's the message that they're trying to send those insurgents going to go from here on in do you think. well the attacks that occurred on the anniversary of nine eleven and actually even many of the dramatic spectacular attacks that have happened you know in recent history i mean this is the resistance forces showing that they are the ones that are in control they're the ones that have the upper hand and even the generals and the politicians admit themselves that they cannot win militarily in afghanistan so while they're telling all of these soldiers that they must fight and die to defeat this evil enemy that we have to drive from political power they're lying because all they're doing is using these soldiers as bargaining chip because the white house itself admits that the only solution is a negotiated settlement with the taliban inviting them into political power in the government so all of the soldiers who are dying who are losing their legs are not dying for the reasons that they're told because they're trying to destroy terrorism or drive out the taliban they're dying so the politicians can get an upper hand at

the bargaining table so they can work out the different business and military deals that they hope to win which is only in the interests of the very rich in the united states at the expense of everyone else welcome president from we've got to leave it but so thank you so much for being on the program a veteran of the iraq war as you are the leader of the antiwar coalition march forward. to drill touch and they're actually marched out it's hard to see how it's just so. you should see the state you were a spokesperson. to be sure to bring peace and stability to the world. or to new zealand was it only enough to teach. let's look at another big news story today that continues echoes from the occupy wall street protests have breached the american capital chanting movement's message

crowds march through downtown washington d.c. the demonstration started as a simple sit in in front of the new york stock exchange really quickly getting support all over the country more rallies followed in chicago boston and san francisco in los angeles activists saying they are fed up with breaking about work well bonuses flowing to the pockets of already wealthy wall street bankers now wednesday police used pepper spray and bassam to disperse tens of thousands of people who were moving from the wall street early we spoke to occupy wall street activists yota mother who gave us his experience of being beaten by police he also told us that a lack of definite demands of the movement is in fact its strength. i think actually it's an interesting contrast. around. our friends. with. our free chris. it's things. like this.

i think. here there's an incredible strength. this movement is. the only thing this person has to come up with it's all because this is the place and we are the roots of those grassroots organizations and movements. this service added witnesses i think are hurdles for fighting for her rights for example to really build a movement both create an alternative structure. to carve out the space for the stuff. we term across the atlantic the u.k. has become the latest nation to feel the pinch the global financial crisis for ratings john moody's downgraded twelve of britain's financial firms and banks it comes after the bank of england chief said because his economies are just lowest point since the one hundred thirty s. if not ever. bloom says the chancellor of the exchequer policy of printing more cash will lead to disaster. he's inventing money electronically out of absolutely

nowhere it's called quantity of easing but actually it's counterfeiting money it's tombs of failure it always fails it's failed in the past 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 acting and print probably whatever they want to go and buy something 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 it's really a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with the business they do actually help the economy a troll and of course the press is truly 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 in inflation the equivalent of what the charts is actually doing a batch of them and washed up on

a sure deserted island and eating their own leg because there's nothing else to it nothing else to eat all that's happening is it creates economy to buy their own debts it's actually in any other walk of life they would be illegal if you go to prison for it. country bloom any piece this is our senior national live from moscow coming up this hour a battle for libya and if you thought there's no major so for the colonel's home town of sirte his humanitarian bombing come from three places concerns for the civilians he claims to be protecting. russian prosecutors are said to have their fresh charges to key suspects in the murder of prominent journalist anna politkovskaya five years ago she was gunned down in her apartment block in moscow but while the case is drawing worldwide attention now once you have been convicted for the ninety's a country could show them that politkovskaya family who still want to see justice done. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a murder of

a woman huff way through there shipped around four pm for a beautiful of course it was hard way through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shelled outside her apartment it was a watershed moment and there is life before and after it is national when you why we've seen you i was well aware what kind of journalism my mother was into she was ok janelle is say if something happens to me documents are the money's 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 here. but quiet journalistic work is not something you would associate on the political scale when 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 it has there been different periods in the process of busy when ten people were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passive when nothing was happening however at the events of recent months give us certain optimism for a successful and being 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 on your q border of twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger mahmoud of was arrested in chechnya after years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were close to solving one of the most high profile slayings in with some russian memory. 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 on 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 a truly is that information was. not berg as yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists martyr and use papers 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 who from your friends variables with we still believe. before people brothers and their friends were in. in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot we mcchord security for the record it was

a lack of solid evidence presented in court and all this happened because there was public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think their arrests were too premature dominical. the russian supreme court unknown to the acquittal grow dicks of two thousand and nine and ordered every opening up the investigation it's a significant part of the journey but it's certainly not the 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 a political scare 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 the dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could never feet in a forty by party marble plates if you can of the actual for our team.

libyan fighters have launched a final attack on colonel gadhafi hometown of sirte reports say the interim government troops have now largely taken the city but they're still meeting pockets of heavy resistance hundreds of vehicles pouring into the outskirts of the cities pounded with heavy shelling both thousands of civilians have left many more thought to remain this all comes after colonel gadhafi and all the message libyans to resist the interim leaders and civil war that claimed thousands of lives were joined by nato under u.n. mandate to protect civilians it is the out of lawyers association president told r.t. the mounting death toll proves nato is intentions but not useful. you have to remember the resolution of the u.n. was only confined to the no fly zones to imposing your 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 off libya by hito i think the usa britain france and the western powers are 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 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 if he said he syria because we've got wrong there are people foremen swear by the un took the position in iraq and then took a position in the u. n. is not there to change regimes it may provide humanitarian purposes it may protect civilians if my stop pause but it is definitely not to change regimes.

present when it was 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 the country should follow and he said go press can offer us more. president if explained 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 gordie's will not be able to create this change then we will have to go but meet the media 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 he in bands are unfolding from in libya and since it be you on draft resolution on syria backed by the west does not exclude the chances of foreign military intervention russia had to block it after that is the resolutions alters didn't change our concerns into a carriage and worse they declined distributed posing to station there would 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 that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya because you will continue resisting a chance to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council the danger 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. is almost always causing a website as well tonight addicted to crime and russia considers jailing drug users the core of the group if the reports about online friends also lost in translation

russian flashmob on twitter celebrating promise to put his birthday strongly on my community state of confusion. for yourself and our website to. take twenty two. moscow time world news in brief this year's nobel peace prize will be awarded jointly to three women's rights activists from gehman and liberia among them the liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf the laureates were praised for their nonviolent struggle for women's rights and to spray should increase process is the nobel committee wants to send a message that will bring an end to good and suppression around the world. a pakistani doctor could be charged with high treason for allegedly assisting the cia operation to kill osama bin laden state investigators claim shall kill after it be operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples of the city with the al qaeda head was killed like a star claims the us violated its sovereignty by carrying out the un sanctioned mission to take out bin laden on the second of may. chilean police

a brutally lashed out at protesters demanding education reform police in riot gear surrounded students in a sense central city square using a water cannon tear gas to push back demonstrators who were chanting the slogan united and stronger the clash left several injured and student groups from eventually forced to disperse it's the latest escalation in protesters and police and confrontation that's lasted several months. in the sport can be a little bit later this hour forced retire with just twenty five years old sad news for former world number one tennis star lebron are suffering the whole thing up for you tonight just over twenty minutes but catch up on the latest business this hour next. thank you carol and 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 its money or ability 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 it would be a first rate of second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing a stronger public finances the government has set a target of four point seven percent oil there should sit there it is a very valid target which would make the russian economy a lot more resilient you know if you. move through the markets now while is our

third session of gains a brand is twenty six cents higher thirty eight cents per barrel and this is on the back of an unemployment report which is out in the united states figures for september after the economy added one hundred three thousand new jobs that's way above expectations and our germs therefore are our five percent plus the unemployment rate still stands at nine point one percent in the world's largest economy these are the closing figures in europe most of the steam of the rally was lost by the end of the up just to point two percent the dax point five percent we have to remember that wednesday and thursday were very positive days bank stocks were low at the end of the session that's after moody's downgraded the credit rating of twelve u.k. financial firms including lloyds royal bank of scotland and sometime very. and this is the growing picture in russia much more positive the r.t.s.

is of the three percent my thanks to an artisan however the week overall was negative if we look at the main the move. the mets ols and energy stocks were higher measure up five percent bear producer carly is among the main gainers at the close up more than seven percent that's on news of a two and a half billion dollar buyback and alexander lifting that i've seen multiple wraps up a week straight. we are closing a little bit of both of the organ another week while. philosophy is significant let's say let's try the quarterly. single three percent growth over and still it seems that the market sentiment from a is cautious we see the wall as it was still in place we see if it's this will probably be in place for the next two weeks while still markets reacting quite well to consolidate its. for itself we should be

thankful that other european authorities to get through this the crisis over those who can afford it so for now but now we've got with them one more story russia's burbank is considering buying the turkish unit of troubled french belgian group dexia it's a struggling to cope with his exposure to greek debt and is considering an asset sale source as well and say you're deciding factor will be the price of the asset but the acquisition would be consistent with the bank's well publicized plan to expand in central and eastern europe and russia's top diamond producer al was planning to hold an i.p.o. at the end of twenty twelve all just soo not the most pleasant of all rosy good police chief says the state plans to privatized seven to ten percent of the company he also says now also this restructuring now in preparation for listing and promises to show fantastic results. that's in europe we are now in his pre-crisis volatile time we are in the ideal situation we are sitting on a big sack of money or capitalization is better than before the two thousand and

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