but its original goals of crushing al qaeda and bringing the taliban to its knees seem no closer to completion amid an escalating nationwide insurgency this year is already shaping up to be the deadliest in the conflict not only for coalition troops but afghan civilians as well as jason malard reports from afghanistan. another day on afghanistan's southern battlefront and more casualties despite official claims that the war's being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts survive these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath him it took less than half an hour for a medivac crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you tease or flown to germany for treatment all right you guys

with. this facility was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines but doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the war's crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wally was shot in the head by a stray bullet earlier this year when u.s. marines going to a firefight with the taliban his village in helmand province the bullet shattered part of his skull and would have killed him if not for emergency surgery in six months dr main park says he was treated more than a fair share of afghan bystanders mostly gunshot and bomb blast victims in this follow up operation he and his team are reconstructing the boy's forehead with a titanium miche that will restore his appearance so i started to work. for the future but that was going on. also gratifying to make a difference but this. held it very likely not evil. you're sure you

regard stories to show. in the recovery ward well he's going to says the world he sure it was a u.s. marine who does his group for the first class. which are the i'm just happy that he's a key the shooting was mystique so he's forgiven. the enduring insurgency suggests that no amount of good will can compensate for civilian casualties that continue clooney each month in a world with grown zone to use and will close the door for. despite promises to wind down the war and withdraw from afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen r.t. has been hearing how the strategic benefits of the resource rich region mean the u.s. is likely to keep a significant military presence there if the us 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 or foreign occupation that's what would happen they would form their own natural alliances

with their neighbors and 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 sphere 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 about ten minutes artie's military analyst explores why the us despite its tremendous military superiority is struggling to contain the insurgency. american. target. still. should.

see the u.s. . mission to bring peace and stability to the world. you. don't need to have to change. his presence on patrol in new york is the occupy wall street movement gains against a bank greed enters its fourth week and gets a deeper foothold across the country sentiments already spread to america's other major cities including boston chicago los angeles and washington new york's mayor has strongly criticized the swelling on arrest against the power of wall street saying if the banks fail more people will lose their jobs protests have already cost the city an estimated two million dollars while most brushed off the demonstrators as an artist parties anastasio churkin and discovered it's a far more organized set up. these are anarchists these are the people that you

know. accused of being anarchist and disorganized the occupy wall street didn't count meant it's far from chaotic it is set up like a small village broken up into themed sections better organized than i thought it would be. they really have it set up so that there isn't a clear leader in the organization and the way that it's being done but at the same time. every part seems to be handled by someone in the medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the spot assistance to comfort areas supply sweaters and blankets to keep demonstrators warm as the. all right apologize for that we'll get back to that later here on r t but coming up it's a little more than just a citizen standoff going on against the big banks some of the wall street campaigners are accusing news outlets they're of peddling a view that the u.s. that bears little resemblance to the reality live by millions of americans. people

are standing up against corporations that actually run the media i mean it just goes to show we don't live in a democracy i mean the fact is if you have no freedom of press you know i mean there is no democracy there and i was i was so you know the bring you know benito mussolini a defined fascism is a collaboration of corporation and government welcome to america guys the difference is is that you know they they allow people to acquire material possessions therefore they don't believe that they're slaves to a system i think in regard to what's going on right now i mean people and dead people losing homes the mortgage crisis whatever you want to call it it's all just corruption it's just you know a big media teacher particularly in this old political corruption there are not corruption like economic travesty or whatever but the fact is it's about greed it goes no further than that and people need to just kind of see it enough is enough. our correspondents in new york are keeping across the ongoing protests in lower manhattan you can follow what they say as it happens following our twitter streams

there at r t underscore r.t. underscore america one of reporter lucy kavanagh is tweets she says protesters are concerned that major political groups are trying to co-opt uncapitalized movement you can also watch our footage of what's going on our you tube channel and there's more coming up in a few minutes. i mean thirty five percent of our while the down by one percent of the population if you're going to be that wealthy you should have to pay a tax to be that wealthy as voices of discontent grow louder on wall street r.t. tries to get to the bottom of what that movement is actually fighting for plus. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on hold street they have. a decent canceling.

to get the status of the human experiment. with. lizzie trying. to kill me and it's on. to me to put into the markets and you don't want to be seen trade imbalances risk. close to collapse again so close. to fail. sealevel i think is a us crash. the i.m.f. . program seems. to an economist. rapping on the economy coming your way on r t eight twenty am g.m.t. . libya's interim government forces claim they've taken control of most of sirte one of the final strongholds of the deposed colonel moammar gadhafi this after hour

a new assault on the town with heavy tank and a rocket fire but there is still heavy resistance on the streets from those loyal to the ousted leader despite reports claiming thousands have left the city and many more remain meaning there is a high risk of civilian casualties and a recorded audio message allegedly from gadhafi himself it was a call for libyans to rise and resist the interim leaders british base activist and journalists who can't shandon things we shouldn't expect western powers to leave the country any time soon. from the part of the global south africa in particular this has been absolutely civilians are clearly targeted and i think when 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 one libya i'm not going to be fooled again

there's no sign whatsoever that nato is going to leave nato it will intervene even . if the faction amongst the rebels continues to this that the relationship continues to watch them and it's very clear that for the west and then man on the ground is people like jabril and so the battle is far from over. the clock is ticking for a decision on palestine spade for u.n. membership and president abbas is using it to rally what support he can currently lobbying international groups and friends back home time is already running out for palestinians who say they're being squeezed out of their cities by jewish settlers as r.t. reports in about fifteen minutes. we hear it because our country our. time is that this is the land belongs to our.

will if there are still going to be thinking. going chosen people will believe that he was taking. the stand this is a disguise this is. the north you know this is or this is my. british banks have been dealt another body blow twelve have had their credit scores cut by moody's rating agency leading firms including lloyds and r.b.s. were downgraded after indications the british government is now less likely to bail them out if they get into trouble because confidence in financial is to slump and

those with large savings were being encouraged to move their cash elsewhere in case of collapse bank of england also sees more trouble to come its point seventy five billion pounds into britain's teetering economy one leading british economist tells r.t. that putting more money into the system could cause more harm. we already have inflation of around about five percent in the united kingdom which compared to recent is this is holly putting more money into the economy actually increasing that inflation is supposed to be the bank of england's central key toss to actually keep inflation under control two and a half percent or less my concern is that quantitative easing throwing in of a sudden billion pounds into the economy is actually a distraction from the u.k. government needs which is a very aggressive and radical growth strategies one that i think you 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 all we do that every single bank is

culpable because if they get into trouble look times although my own i'm one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow it buying to go through the wall when to fail without actually describing the wider economy and i think that these. sort of by actually reflect the fact that we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically every bank you that if you crash in the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning but in the same lie as you would wish to have only statoil doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. there was seen to be a few countries a scaping public radio the prospect of more pain to pay for national debts let's return to new york to find out whether the occupy wall street campaigners think they'll win their battle against the bankers.

i'm here at. this week let's talk about bet i think what we're really protesting is you know the failure of the system to respond to you know a kind of higher calling for you know our country you know we can be subjected to. you know one percent of the one percent those are the real bad guys you know who make over five million ten million dollars a year for doing that well i do feel that the country is in a very serious serious situation but it just the united states or is it a global issue it's a global issue but the united states says that the center of all of the most important issues right now that we're going to hear from spain to repeat to spain where we have people for life. and one of the he's a values all of us are doing. i mean thirty five percent of our wealth by one percent of the population if you're going to be that wealthy you should have to pay

a tax to be that wealthy it's only fair do you think that's going to happen through movements like this you know who now it's bad leaders were out here trying during the sixty's there were riots in newark and l.a. because of poverty inequality racism etc but i mean people riot and burn their old cities down as soon as that happened within a year there were all kinds of government programs to help people out because they got people really afraid that was going to spread all over the country we're trying to make sure that doesn't happen by having a peaceful revolution some justice and some some enforcement of the regulations we already have on the books that would be a good start keeping that's going to happen. i have to believe so yeah i have to be i believe so how is this going to achieve that. this is just like the genesis of a bigger movements it's been going on for a couple weeks and every day gets larger and larger so. i think eventually it'll bring results but i think i think there's a large amount of discontent with what's going on in this country and i think that

this is it's make it so people can identify me like no other people are feeling this way as well so i mean it and this in the point i think that this is this is going to draw attention is also going to draw people in whether or not you agree with their methods and the bottom line is these people are getting the word. and it's not only the u.s. where there's fist shaking at the financial fallout thousands of students have marched to the u.s. capitol protesting against education cuts they threw paint and flares had banks and tried to block railway lines but were eventually dispersed by police demonstrators say the event marks the new wave of what's being called hot autumn which last year saw several thousand people clash with police italy recently signed off forty five billion euros of cuts to tackle its debt. in other world news a speeding bus and a car collided in china leaving at least thirty five dead nineteen injured most of

the victims thought to be college students returning after national holidays many were thrown from the vehicle as it flipped over after the crash it's one of three major road accidents in china on the last day of the week long holiday. hundreds of radical muslims have protested across pakistan against a death sentence being handed to the killer of a job governor one of the officials only guards had shot him dead earlier this year because of his remarks on pakistan's of blasphemy law the assassins lawyer is appealing the sevens emphasizing that death penalties have rarely been carried out in pakistan in recent years. pakistan's role in securing a coalition victory in afghanistan has been overlooked for many years although today it's getting part of that today and the part it's played is getting more recognition yet washington and islamabad rarely see eye to eye with political jostein pushing relations to a new low artie's military alister explores what it might take to guarantee pakistan's support. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view

was the area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me of the reason bad three weeks ago was twenty hours see by the ha going to network right after nine eleven the united states government made it fateful decision to authorize their military invasion into afghanistan their mission was called operation enduring freedom ten years later it still goes on we've no end in sight let's take a closer look at what went wrong we had the global war on terror first after al qaeda central re deployed to the pashtun tribal belt along the afghan pakistani border the state department filed a request with that pakistan for cooperation against osama bin ladden going to slim about brazenly ignored the diplomatic request from washington d.c.

with the middle finger a behind their back the cia could and should have saved the day by activating their formidable human intelligence network in afghanistan to conduct a clown dan stein body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice they just blew it looking back at operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission the question is what's preventing that w. bush administration to step back and look at all other available options at their disposal and for starters to make sure that pakistan. will be treated. as a reliable ally of the united states not after but before the nine eleven struck the united states. it's time to tell the deeper now into the

world's biggest country and take in more of russia. we're in pens around six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow or a relatively small region but one that punches above its weight culturally the markets stand on the area with the grandest states that have inspired some of russia's greatest writers including mikhail lermontov but as he explains some places that have roused writers passions in the past face a shaky future. a tale of two states that how many a modest country see that and. survived on farming and small scale manufacturing that happened to be the childhood home one of russia's most legendary figures mikhail element of a child prodigy a fiery tempered soldier womanizer and finally

a great romantic poet the novelist he died in a jewel at the age of twenty seven while little of his work was composed here they're meant of it's buried in the family more psyllium. the government has recognised the historical significance of this place where just so lucky for the past few years we have been allowed to flourish. but now two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but honey has become the main employer for jason villages. direct descendants of the serbs who worked here dressed up as ounces for the job. some get to play the heiress across for the benefit of tourists as the numbers are growing there's no need for this state to turn a profit. and as good a state as one the poet himself was living here all the ground houses in the area

which are just as important architecturally but which are not getting the same care and funding. one of russia's grand palaces well not anymore in its heyday in the nineteenth century reckon it was a self-sufficient cultural center for the benefit of the diamond prince alexander correction in soviet times it served as a warehouse and a home for dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair a need of the government nor any private investors will put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now whether to stay on the one hand you can turn all of these estates into museums and the lifestyle they supported has gone on the other if the situation continues as it is they will simply disappear and that is a fact i think you know if you have the villages of cracking or have decided to fire then never trouble going from house to house to collect donations underlying entirely in volunteers they have vowed to restore the state building by building

starting with a cemetery chapel but. we are not professional restorers we have little money for materials we only do what we can but we do not want to be thought of savages who do not understand where we live we want to honor our ancestors going to. they face a daunting task but the data entry builder no one else will. you girls know fartsy and the region. you're back with the recap of our top stories shortly stay with us here on r.t. . a

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headlines the afghan war marathon runs into its second decade with an escalating insurgency and spiraling civilian casualties leaving the coalition struggling for a winning strategy there the occupy wall street movement builds nationwide and despite being dismissed as proving to be organized and in for the long haul. and doesn't the leading british. government says don't get into trouble again. next palestinians tell us how they're being how they say they're being violently pushed out of their own cities by settlers stay with us.