the war in afghanistan began as a counter strike for the nine eleven atrocities masterminded from the country by some of enlargement retired army general stanley mcchrystal said the u.s. began the occupation with a frighteningly simplistic view and still had no idea how do end the conflict successfully meantime in the war zone of american bases are still expanding with an ongoing program of infrastructure building just visited by a growing base 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 taliban 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 that's helped over twenty five thousand full time personnel fleets of military and cargo aircraft with enough equals to cause traffic jams it expansion is now with the way it is 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 a bit less will even 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 sides 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 videos of your voice leading up to the last minute they 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 walls become ever rockets a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel consolidated 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 month log in barbara for our team. general john allen one of the trees told said u.s. troops will still be in the country in advisory roles even after the twenty fourteen pullout deadline that had been announced by nato in 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 as we've been reporting to you civilian casualties in the country are also on the rise brodbeck is director of the absent coalition he told us about what the real meaning of the stay in the country is. 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 self determining governments free of foreign interference or foreign occupation that's what would happen they would have one of 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 firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american spear of influence i 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 or credibility for his people. and who are activists brought back to speak just a bit earlier on their own. american . target. should feel the full u.s. . mission to bring peace and stability to. the only have to change. libyan fighters have launched a final attack on colonel gadhafi is hometown of sirte reports say the interim government's troops have now largely taken the city but they're still meeting pockets of heavy resistance hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts is the city's pounded with heavy shelling both thousands of civilians have left many more are thought to have remained the sole comes after can get their fill in all

the a message urged libyans to resist the interim leaders the civil war which has claimed thousands of lives so far was joined by nato under a u.n. mandate to protect civilians has not disappeared chandan is an activist and journalist who told me he doesn't believe the western powers will leave the country any time soon. well it would have done but it seems that we don't have that clip ready for the bomb there's a slight technical problem let's move on showing. present a very of his 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 the country should follow at his eager post can offer a pause. president very different spring that russia strongly criticizes the ongoing violence in syria it supports the idea that the country is in desperate need of democratic reform it also thinks that if the current of the cities 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 would 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 that it is a loose resolutions alters didn't take our concerns into account worse they declined to simply proposal to station there would be no external military interference in the conflict this means only one thing our partners in the un security council do not rule out a replay of the libyan scenario although they said more than once that they clearly understood syria is very different to libya russia will continue resisting attempts to legitimize unilateral sanctions through the u.n. security council that aimed to overthrow political regimes the us 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. this is our team still ahead for you the u.k. may be facing its worst economic crisis in history the bank of england's warning comes as the country feels the bite of recession with banks downgraded the government implementing desperate measures try to boost growth. and russian prosecutors prepare to bring new charges for the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya who was shot dead here in moscow exactly five years ago. echoes from the occupy wall street protests reached the american capital now be chanting the movement's message crowds march through downtown washington d.c. the demonstration started as a simple sit in front of the new york stock exchange to quickly gain support all

over the country more rallies followed in chicago boston san francisco los angeles i didn't say they're fed up with breaking about their work while bonuses flow into the pockets of already wealthy wall street bankers on wednesday police used pepper spray a baton to disperse tens of thousands of people walking from lower manhattan to wall street early we spoke to occupy wall street activist you'll turn marabou give us his experience of being beaten by the police he also told us that a lack of definite demands of the movement is in fact its strength. i think actually there's an interesting contrast in the police response. because. it's it's intense. all. along. i think here there's an incredible strength

from not having a career was the right answer. this moment is a little bit different i don't really think this has to come up with its own demands this occupation we are a foundation which flows through the grassroots organizations and movements. the wrist service added when you think that. harleston time we have enormous potential to really build a movement for both create more alternative structure for able to carve out the space for that's the. cross the atlantic the u.k. finances have been dealt another blow ratings john moody's has downgraded twelve of britain's financial firms and banks it comes off the bank of england chief said the country's economy is at its lowest point since the nine hundred thirty did not ever pretty sure pay godfrey bloom's spoke to a c says the chance of the exchequer is policy of printing more cash will end 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 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 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 a terrible effect of it degrades the currency currency pound notes a medium of exchange you know flooding the market with them isn't going to actually help the economy a tool and of course it depresses truly interest rates which means old people's pensions people on fixed income old suffer from this quantitative easing and of course further down the road it must end in inflation the equivalent of what the child is actually doing imagine a man will stop on a shore on a deserted island. in their own leg because there's nothing else to it nothing else

to eat all that's happening is it creating money to buy their own debts it's actually in any other walk of life it would be illegal and you'd go to prison for it. british europe a god for bloom there with his assessment of the state of britain's finances. 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 now in her apartment block in moscow but while the case has drawn worldwide attention no one's yet been convicted for the murder of his country which over met politkovskaya as family who still want to see justice done. for police who worked on this day five years ago it was a model of a woman huff way through their shift at around four pm for a very political it was hard way through her pregnancy when she got a call her mother had been shot dead outside 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 they say if something happens to me documents are the monies 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 the political scale when she investigated 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 but your eyes would be were there 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 that in the situation was active five years ago as it is now by this time i would have had more evidence on your. order of twenty eleven has indeed been a turning point in may prosecutors named a man who is believed to have pulled the trigger. mood of was arrested in chechnya after years on the run and belgium and shortly afterwards investigators announced they were closed just solving one of the most high profile slayings in with some russian memory. a former high ranking police official dimitri publishing co was a middleman for money agreed to organize a criminal mob consisting of four people it's a cardioid the assassination he kept. 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. not with. no virgos yet aware on the political worked up until her death has been carrying out its own investigation into the journalists month or 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. before we still believe that the four people my brothers and their friend who were in court is in two thousand and nine with no or in some way linked to this murder but you cannot really mcchord security for the record it was a lack of solid evidence presented in court and always happened because there was a public pressure on the prosecution to rush to judgment we think that even their races were too premature to dominate. the russians supreme court. verdict of two thousand and nine and ordered a reopening of the investigation it's

a significant part of the joining but it's certainly not 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 the political square herself her family and colleagues will never give up as they strive to find the truth it takes very little to describe someone's death in case of on the political just a dozen words on a piece of stone but these journalists life and her legacy could never fit in a forty by forty marble plane. it's in the actual r t. and we've got more on the ongoing investigation into the murder of anna politkovskaya if you want to furnish yourself with a fresh start to go on my website to these stories might interest you as well quit what else we got in store for you just a click away at the u.s. threatens to leave us go without american funding is the world's education heritage

group a step closer to allowing palestine to become a member of the pack that would yes they. don't want. i don't know the usual proposal to solve greece's financial woes coming from the mayor of lists u.a.b. as capital while he's suggesting businessman from his country should apply one of the greek islands to provide that stricken nation with cash good old dear old bad what do you know about what you get reading it out save your home. twenty three seventy world news and brief developing news tonight italy and spain have been given a big thumbs down by the ratings giant fixes it down grades the euro zone's third and fourth largest economies it cited slow growth and high debt levels in both nations but also stressing rome's political instability saying the country has a bumpy road ahead to win back investors' trust you may recall choose day the ratings agency moody's also graded its lead by three notches this comes as euro's and leaders are hammering out a comprehensive plan to try to pull the region out of the crisis through this

year's nobel peace prize will be awarded jointly to three women's rights activists from yemen and liberia among them indeed the liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf the laureates were praised for their normal violent struggle for women's rights and participation in peace processes nobel committee wants to send a message that all bring an end to women suppression around the world. a pakistani doctor could be charged with high treason for allegedly assisting the cia in its operation to kill osama bin ladden state investigators claim shall kill three of the operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where the al qaeda. the head was killed pakistan claims the us violated its sovereignty by carrying out the sanction mission to take out but not on may the second to chile their chilling police are brutally lashed out at protesters demanding education reform police in riot gear surrounded students in the capital city i'll go using water cannons and tear gas to try to push the

demonstrators back chanting the slogan united and stronger the clash left several injured student groups to eventually force to disperse this is the latest escalation between protesters and police in a confrontation that's lasted several months. time now for russia closer series we take in some more fascinating place is this the world's largest country. you. always do with a series focusing right in there we go to derrick's gratian reaches the pedants a region six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the capital also called pens it was founded in the seventeenth century lies on the seven hills on the banks of the river. there is an increasingly high tech hub of the hiding and middle of its rich heritage pens is home to a unique and lifesaving heart factory that supplies vital products both to russia and abroad but his ego groggily of when to see it in action his report does include

pictures of surgery. both inside and outside of russia the health of ordinary russians and also the state of the russian medical profession are often seen as something of a mixture between a joke and a horror story but there are facts that challenge that stereotype here just outside of pens a producing artificial heart valves elect company that started out just over fifteen years ago and its products have been so successful exported over twenty five countries. life saving surgery the doctors are so new in an artificial valve that will allow this man's heart to function again the construction of the deceptively simple mechanism will determine how he lives the rest of his life and if he survives at all twenty years ago all these valves had to be imported until this company opened in penza originally this was meant to be a huge producing this was soviet made p.c. but then when the u.s.s.r.

collapsed of course there was no them on the russian made computers so they took the empty shell of a building and turned it into something else by four russia's biggest producer of artificial heart. started by a single russian physicist meddings sprang up without government support none of the small team of inventors that worked with the medical equipment manufacturer before now seven and ten involves implanted in russia come from here it may look like an over expanded workshop but the quality of its products has allowed this company to supply them to over twenty countries though here they know that success can be fleeting you know so is that and we say we know we've had our successful invention but technology moves on we are small compared to our international rivals and so we know we have to keep making new models just to survive. and usually for russia every new model was developed together with pens as local heart center but

doctors here admit that at first there was skepticism about the russian made piece of medical equipment which is so what doctors are very conservative by nature and at first they and their patients were very mistrustful of devolves to make people try something new on themselves was difficult but i'll tell you this twenty years ago up to one in five used to die during the surgery now to figures around one percent. to get the surgery was successful said again. a retired army officer will be discharged in a week which i look forward to the rest of my life i can feel the cuts but i feel my heart working better as to the valve i researched everywhere in the internet about it and it's fine i trust evolved that is inside my heart. pens. although i see how for an hour of topical debate looking at what's

next for the arab world unpaid lavelle's late edition across talk but let's get this business news to dmitri before that. welcome to the program 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 in 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 other industries in particular the manufacturing sector or into competitive forces 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 for a second we think that russia might want to continue emphasizing the stronger 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 if you. russia's burbank is considering buying the turkish unit of troubled french belgian group dexia now it's struggling to cope with its exposure to greek debt and is considering an asset sale also that burbank say the deciding factor will be the price of the asset but the acquisition would be consistent with the bank's well publicized plan to expand into central and eastern europe. and other news russia's top diamond producer al gore also plans to hold an i.p.o. at the end of twenty twelve or soon after vice president of. the state plans to

privatized seven to ten percent of the company with the also says all grocers restructuring and preparation for listing. in europe we're going to know in these pre-crisis volatile time we are in the ideal situation we are sitting on a big stack of money capitalization is better than before the two thousand and eight crisis and all sales volumes should champions' performance in the coming days we will publish all two thousand and eleven first half report and we will post such figures as the company has never seen in its history its good because. now a quick look at the stock markets in russia the r t s m i six continued the bounce back on friday gaining three and two and a half percent respectively but overall the week was negative so look at some individual share moves on the my sex metal stocks were on the rise with that show adding almost six percent attach produce so wild card is among the main again isn't the session that's up more than six percent on news of a two and

a half billion dollars buyback is also good in a company plans to invest almost twenty billion dollars in refinery upgrades in ten years and its other if didn't add i have seen that trickle wraps up the straight. we are closing a little bit above the open end of the week while. the last three days was significant let's say let's try to call the trolley we see on. three percent growth every day and. it seems that the market sentiment remains cautious we see the wall that he would soon place which you could see school probably be in place for the next two weeks while still markets reacting quite well to consolidate its. efforts over received the bank of england and other european authorities to get through the crisis everybody is thinking about. and that's all the business for now coming up next i'll see the headlines.

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no idea how to. become a. country. civilians flee in panic saying conditions are desperate for those inside the colonel's last remaining strongholds. and growing street protests at the u.s. capitol as thousands expressed fury of the tax dollars being used to bolster the big business activist saying they're fed up with breaking their backs of work bonus and flow into the pockets of already wealthy bankers. with the arab world.