all of us here in moscow this is r.t. with me us of our thanks for joining it's ten years ago the u.s. began one of the longest wars in its history invading afghanistan in response to the nine eleven attacks masterminded by osama bin laden former commander of nato coalition forces a retired american general stanley mcchrystal says a frighteningly simplistic understanding of the country means the u.s. and its allies are only a round hard way towards reaching their military goals and jason that model our visit an air base north of kabul and reports that while america plans to leave afghanistan it's continuing to build up its forces where. 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 in late two thousand and one bug amir field is little more than a flight tower in a cracked runway 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 cargo aircraft and enough equals to cause traffic jams it's an expansion

is now underway 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 in time so. at least there are plenty of home comforts for soldiers staying on for tough you know long deployments they can shop for everything from flat screen t.v.'s to find jewelry enjoy a cappuccino or grab some take on the new pizza hut franchise and if they're tired of working out of the gym they're free to go to the salon for a haircut and massage 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 extremely. useful if even the latter would take.

the right. model 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 it's almost become every rock it's a close call when you this can just get this much equipment personnel it's all 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. almost two thousand eight hundred american and coalition soldiers have died trying to rid of ghana's son of the taliban but according to president karzai nato has failed to provide security for civilians ruthless insurgent attacks have increased in recent months that with several high profile assassinations and shootouts in the heart of the capital kabul

civilian casualties are also on the rise it all comes after the u.s. announcement of plans to withdraw combat troops by the end of twenty fourteen and. juking of estes muslim chaplain north carolina said it's hard to accept how this one hour has achieved in afghanistan after all the military resources and money spent. it is really horrible and depressing. it is really it was a little painful to witness the bleeding wound up on society as a result of one war and destruction after another and it is it is really unfortunate after all these efforts and all this money and all these struggles hollymead a little looser national community a lot of government has achieved i understand today after ten years of you has being there i think in many ways it is worse off not better off. doing the actual. target. is to.

see. a ship to bring peace and stability to. you don't be left in danger. libyan interim government forces have launched a renewed assault on colonel gadhafi as hometown of sirte with heavy tank and grad rocket fire despite reports claiming substantial progress and the efforts to take the city there are still facing stiff resistance from those loyal to the ousted leader while thousands of people are said to have left many more have yet to do so there is a real treat for civilian casualties and is in his most recent order your message he proposed libyans to keep fighting against if the rebels now in power the civil war fought under the count of nato following a u.n. mandate to protect civilians has already claimed thousands of lives and planned

chand activists and journalists we shouldn't expect western powers to leave anytime soon. from the part of the global south africa in particular this is being an absolute disaster and civilians are clearly targeted and i think. china in this last few days china and russia have vetoed the u.n. resolution which is a similar program by nato which they cannot from libya but they want to conduct now in syria i think china and russia have admitted that they were fooled over the resolution one thousand seventy three on on libya and they're not going to before the game there's no sign whatsoever that nato is going to leave nato as will intervene even for the if the faction were amongst the rebels continues to this is the relationship continues to worsen and it's very clear that for the west and for minutes so there are men on the ground is people like jabril and so the battle is far from over. russian president dmitry medvedev has once again stated he's found

that it's not up to the united nations or native to decide the political course of the country a country should follow and he says russia will not support any u.n. resolution to impose sanctions on syria r.t.c. group is going to explain that moscow doesn't want a repeat of the libya scenario. president to do the fix pulling 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 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 how the end vans are unfolding throw me 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 aim to overthrow political regimes the u.n. 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. still ahead for you this hour the u.k. may be tracing its words to konami crisis in pastry think of england leading counties that the country feels that bind to recession with banks downgraded and

the government implementing desperate measures to prevent. last russian prosecutors prepared to bring new charges for the murder of journalism and a political discussion of that in moscow exactly five years ago. in the u.s. occupy wall street protests again in momentum have spread to more than a dozen cities across the country including boston chicago los angeles and washington d.c. chanting the movement's message and waving placards rounds marched downtown through the american campus so active it's a way out but out worsening unemployment and the rule of the wall street bank is and blame them for causing the recession but some of the protesters have been at times by politicians rather accuse them of trying to divide the country and i know we spoke to occupy wall street activist. who believes that the simplicity of the campaign demands its greatest strength. i think actually it's an int there's an

interesting contrast there in the police response is that we're. sort of have friends pepper sprayed the water over the head with. a certain solar eclipse. it's it's intense. and so like this i was there like this. all. of this all of us are perfect i think it was lots of fear there's an incredible stress of not having a clear it was the right answer to this moment is a little bit different i don't really think this person has to come up with its own demands this articulation the need of some of the words those through the press roots organizations and movements the size of the forest service added one of the cells i think that's hurt the rebels for a time i think that we have an enormous potential to really build a movement capable of both creating an alternative structure that cycle to carve out the space for that stuff there. because that line to british banks have

suffered another body blow raising agency mages has downgraded a dozen leading u.k. or national companies including lloyds and draw bank of scotland believing the british government is now less inclined to bail out banks again if they get into trouble deepening concerns have prompted the bank of england to pump seventy five billion pounds into britain's faltering economy but mark little the director general of the u.k.'s institute of the canonic affairs says the cash injection why do the country know. we already have inflation of around about five percent in the united kingdom which compared to recent years this is hardly putting more money into the economy risks actually increasing that inflation is supposed to be the bank of england's central key task to actually keep inflation under control two and a half percent or less my concern is that quantitative easing throwing another seventy five billion pounds into the economy is actually a distraction from the u.k. government needs which is

a very aggressive and radical approach strachey's one that i think they lack at the moment what we've got to get away from in the united kingdom and actually right across the western world more generally is this idea that every single bank is copper bottomed because if they get into trouble the taxpayer will buy all them out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow our bye to go through the wall and to fail without very truly destroying the wider economy and i think that these these downgrades. actually reflect the fact that we are beginning to move a why promote was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically every bank you get if you crash in the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning put in the same way as you would wish to have an almost a toy from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. russian prosecutors are to file for us charges against kay suspects in the murder case of prominent journalist anna politkovskaya she was

gunned down five years ago at her apartment building in moscow investigators suspect. though kyra of masterminding the assassination human rights activist and painting journalist anna politkovskaya sought to expose corrupt security officials and human rights violations but while her murder has drawn worldwide attention no one has yet been convicted over the killing the slain journalist daughter says that the investigation is moving forward but valuable time may have been lost. video of that there have been different periods in the process both busy when two people were arrested almost simultaneously in two thousand and seven and passover 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 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 church now and take up quite a journalistic work. for more details on all our stories you can always log on to our website as r.t. dot com and here's a taste of what you can find out one life. maybe left short without american money find out how the u.s. is threatening to cut funding of the world's education and heritage group as the organization moves a step closer to granting palestine all membership. and a surprising proposal to solve greece's financial woes that's come from the mayo lithuania's capital it was a just a business but from his country should buy one of the greek islands to provide that debt stricken nation with cash find out more of that and plenty.

some more news international making international headlines around the world now three women two from liberia and one from yemen the one this year's nobel peace prize among them the liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf the laureates were praised for their peaceful promotional women's rights and gender equality in africa and the arab world so the woman will also share an award won one point five million u.s. dollars. a pakistani doctor could be charged with high treason for allegedly assisting the cia in their operation to kill osama bin laden state investigators claim chicago p.d. operated a fake vaccination program to gather d.n.a. samples in the city where they all kind a head was killed pakistan claims the u.s. violated its sovereignty by carrying out a sanctioned mission to take out bin laden on may the second. truly it student leaders have called for a total nationwide spend down shut down for

a day in response to thursday's police crackdown on peaceful protests labor unions are backing the move colley a general strike for the nineteenth of october two hundred fifty people were arrested and thirty injured after a change in police clashed violently with a turn of thousands trying student demonstration protesters are demanding sweeping changes to chile's education system which they say favors the rich but is beholden to what is taxes. as the news coming out next show follow martin douras on big cultural trip to or now to push the museum of fine arts in the heart of the russian capital right here on r.t. .

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hello i woke up to the must go out show on this big plays out i'm exploring the famous pushkin museum cases right in the heart of the russian capital that opened in one thousand twelve and next year will celebrate his one hundredth anniversary so join the market andres as we take a look at the something collection of all its on off representing centuries of creativity history and culture. cool in which you see here is a reproduction on. in florence spin the blockade has incredible examples of german medieval arts and sells the fifteenth century. sculpture. museum was founded by the professor it sounds for tires the main building was

constructed from eight hundred ninety eight by architect klein originally named after him products on the stand that it was late to change in the one hundred thirty s. in honor of the brush and power it gives hughes of the museum and breathtaking just like the thousands of exhibits on display located close to the kremlin and across the road from the christ save you can see the complex of building this is also known as museum village and mark has turned the whole area cripple to sky metro this was driving cultural currency. bills losing was the first of its kind in russia it was officially open this past the centennial celebration of the polish defeat boots on the second himself in attendance through the revolution the soviet times of the break about the u.s.s.r. . times of the last century during world war two for example the greater part of the museum resources to novosibirsk a city chomsky has major events and celebrations plans for the one hundredth

anniversary next year the museum can now look forward to the next one hundred years . when the museum was founded one of its main objectives was to become an educational institute for local students many of the exhibits on display inside the museum are exact copies of the pieces from around the world commissions and created specifically for that post. in this room for example you can see replicas of some of the most famous greek statues and sculpture is between the fourth and first century as they sit. in the middle of a sheet of grease here you can see that. boss relished models copies designed to introduce students and this has to them a stages in the history of ross dozens of team to pass the cost of on display in the room featuring heads or several great philosophers a friend a brilliant insight into the artistic creativity thousands of years ago.

because of ancient greece is why do you present it in the museum and the untitled the greek yard is one of its highlights it showcases examples of architecture from the fission first centuries b.c. when the arts and culture in new york at the time flourished. with so many schools and exhibits beautiful day to look around the museum but we are interested in sculpture post-impressionist art or egyptian artifacts you'll find wonderful examples here some are copies yes but the museum also holds many originals to. the museum has a substantial collection of a ritual vases featuring a greek culture a from the sixth to fifty centuries b.c. the black and red figure techniques to pick various images created to showcase rituals connected with feasts will fuel ceremonies. i think a little shabby to push the museum is

a considerably more peaceful place to contemplate great art the many of the heights in hex the big galleries in the west. i really. wanted to spend. really impressed. because there's so many different artists it's just. wonderful next door and then. you have. dutch. and just beautiful. other valuable objects from a greece or display or regional items that were found by the jews yes i actually. in the nineteenth century the amateur of geologist famously helped excavate the city of troy. here in a museum there are over two hundred fifty items those third century b.c. mainly jewelry.

the collection of ancient egypt in the bush museum is the largest of its cards in russia defeats these pieces apart and also objects used by the egyptians in the every day life span thousands of years but the oldest items come from the fourth millennium b.c. . one of the highlights in this room is the cosmetics bill as it's called daisy from the end of the fifteenth century b.c. made from on every it features a naked girl swimming with the sacred lotus flower for the most splendid examples of egyptian decorative art the gods of asia egypt were depicted as animals with features of an animal like birds heads for example. view death almost as a cult and here in the museum there are many items connected with us. some of the most interesting paintings in the museum represent the flemish art of the seventeenth century created many to decorate lavish interiors of palaces and cathedrals the features paintings are religious themes portraits and landscapes

large scale paintings by such artists rubens dyke and rembrandt are all featured in the collection. students from all actuality has come to study to museums various pieces many programs the lectures for lovers of all ages are also regularly organized. as an establishment at the forefront of moscow's art scene where one day you'll see lines of people queued up outside every day so why is the museum so popular the cost of fights and forests. have to i'm in love with the museum jyotish picture it's like a look back to the days of all the places a temple to be auction sharing a rest from everyday life from the worries of a. museum is my favorite as it gives a great fear not to stray depending on your interest you can explore various ages or schools that are. just speaking russian without. getting in moscow without going to the push especially the impressionists parks that are so beautiful the paintings

are very well cared for. so the tree can see the whole thing. through the. place which gives the public a chance to see this collection. tempi exhibitions which. grew twenty five. commonly on display here into the middle of november. works being demonstrated in. this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see his paintings. on display at sea of the dalai fifty museum space putting together such exhibitions great addition compassion to the collections and. the. look at ways to improve this just experience. the history present and future of the museum to meet this week's guest well it's lovely to meet you. but tell me why is the.

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asked so much it cost them to the. rooms the but it was never planned temporally exhibition i mean it's not just the odd but it is stunning a breathtaking here but in the actual building a whole. season one of the most dramatic. and. kill. of it thank you very much welcome. to news it. finally with regard to this building that houses streaming assortment of impressionist poster precious and. many experts agree that the museum is great she's trying to be found in its collection of painters. the works from display here we saw just to screw over your piece and it's. a fascinating work spike in surprise . when you walk in the museum

a second was by me to use them not only on display. through such beauty is quite as well made especially amongst famous pieces that cost millions of dollars to push the museum is definitely one of the world's great cultural institutions widening similar museums in paris london. visits is something. she gets. wow absolutely breathtaking to deal with you know all along the combis white more families painted by an a.t.m. you know i used. to the time we have on this beach part of i'll see you again at the same time next week until then for me and the rest of the crew of the state push the museum a fine. bye for now. monterey

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