live from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital our top story the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed a decade of failure with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban the human cost though keeps on rising both among the soldiers and afghan civilians who demand an end to the endless war and violence that brings down on them jason mug reports. another day on afghanistan southern battlefront and more casualties despite official claims that the war is 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 teens are 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 got into 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 min park says he's 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 mesh that will restore his appearance so i started to look. at. whatever was going on. also gratifying to make a difference especially this. well that was very likely not even more serious regards to these initial. in the recovery ward well his father at home and says that while he's sure it was a u.s. marine will admit his son he's grateful for the first class treatment he has received but shot at what's out there comes just happy that he's ok this shooting. mystique so that he's forgiven accident or not the enduring insurgency suggests that no amount of good will can compensate for civilian casualties that continue to climb each month in a war the grown zone chasing workload. for. afghan drug production has increased dramatically since the foreign intervention began and

the country remains the world's largest source of opium a former chief of staff to the u.s. secretary of state says american forces are turning a blind eye to the problem because they fear more resistance who benefits from this is who benefits from it in mexico and colombia and other places it's people who are heavily invested in the drug trade and i don't just necessarily mean those who are taking it there is a connection and that connection is very simple it is that the troops don't want to attack those people who are raising drugs not any blatant overwhelming comprehensive way because that just adds to the enemy list that they have to fight they are fighting all manner of taliban now different groups of taliban they're fighting people who are just pashtun and want them out of the country who may identify as taliban they don't want to add to that enemies list all the people who are raising drugs in afghanistan and making a profit from that. we are always eager to know your opinion on the stories we're

covering and today we're asking you what legacy ten years of american troops has left on afghan soil and around the world let's take a look at what people think just over half of you are sort of the war has brought the us nothing but one shot and bankruptcy paula third think those years have just made afghanistan the world's biggest heroin just under a fifth of the believe the occupation has cleared the way for an american invasion on pakistan and only three percent think the war has made the world a safer place dot com drop us a line and have your say. well the u.k. has the second largest number of troops deployed in afghanistan anti-war activists celebrities and politicians are gathering in london protesting over a decade of war and it is there for us and joins us live live protest since the war began over the past ten years live decade milestone making a difference to the numbers this time around. they're getting. help

from ups and more. support. this is the lowest. number of years here in london the same as people who lost their houses when you lose some what is middle of the public is real and what is really we're in this is a really nice war and this not going to end. the way today on this anniversary of realized this is the full cost. of the u.s. and the economy spent almost five hundred lives on the war two and a half thousand important troops have died and they're stuck in this is even. behind me here in central. only one to two thousand gathered. getting all we've done on the stage one of the opening one was just recently given by. afghan war veteran on the british army whose house actually leave prison.

so. i want to stop the war coalition. being. good one of the main issues always behind the house is if you have a joint boy you have to talk more about. the speaking. let's face it. the house really. was not telling us is how their brains. think we have an. intelligence this is the pull the war. called for the purchase of the american spike at the accounts they talk about he was. on the

line is just going to tell phrase i am time. traveling good friend. and somehow it was come see you know the time is not well very negative and yet there is. going to join you there is no one has been seen on t.v. this close that i mean you know you couldn't you just go find the business on the way bigger than it was a decade ago. and i predicted. that not just me you heard this many people predicting these things is a stable terrorism place that much money was that it was the final decision of the administration all improve the data was. anywhere in the balance. going there was not something there was a moment it was never wrong it's a topic. now which is the government saying this is going to believe that troops

out of a combat role they. think they're going to go. through and now the reason i put to get home is now known as the arab emirates a moment which i'm enjoying my dominions away down to about my evenings in the ad i know the threat for the rays because there is not some resistance business. in this town and. this takes time i think very low and they were all american all supposed to love nothing else most of the individual but american government was also in the business are you. going to run low on this. i'm a. business owner so you believe it for example agree that it's finally cold now what's next was result in a war coalition. and examples of yourselves the war scene afghanistan iran libya is

always going from bad to worse holiday no time to learn the lessons from all the things the good liaison government is stop for a decision by about just a problem wolf that the cost of all of the way out could make. life we can finally gets later here we can. now drop guns on iraq because we will continue to use our. criminal everywhere until he actually is exerting every germany. thank you very much for those who are saying. so as i say a lot of things are in full swing here more gold prices are offering us a ring about one thousand two thousand they are expected to arrive and carry on until food becomes the bring you updates nicely off think the press is going to you just avoid are banned at live from london covering protests the world marks the tenth anniversary of the war in afghanistan. do it touch america going to target comes to

a nation the food the food from spoke to us moon mission from god a mission to bring peace and stability to the room going to ten years known as a dumb enough to move dangerous move. in other news the occupy wall street movement has spread to dozens of american cities including the capital washington d.c. that's anti-corporate protest in new york and for their fourth week well the city's mayor has recently lashed out at demonstrators saying their actions are hurting the economy the protesters however insists it's the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population that's driven the country into financial chaos in the first place and despite being branded as anarchist by many those camping out in lower manhattan are well organized and have a clear agenda as are the teacher cannot discover. these are and these are the

people you know. accused of being anarchist and disorganized the occupy wall street encounter is far from chaotic it is set up like a small village folk are not into themed sections way 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 guy. every part seems to be handled by someone in the medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the spot assistance or comfort area supply sweaters and boy gets to keep demonstrators warm as the season gets chilly or while the donated sleeping bags pile up as the number of protesters grows bigger we just took the chinatown bus appeared from richmond virginia. the kitchen providing a traditional american breakfast bread bagels and peanut butter and jelly plant fruits are used to filter water here we have breakfast at seven thirty in the

morning people don't know breakfast foods bread cereals we have lunch around but we have snacks considering it could be really throughout the day your dinner at seven thirty a media center has been broadcasting a live stream from day one of the protests for already three weeks videos film during clashes with police are posted online from. laptop's you got people company running in here i mean panicky you know adrenaline rush with cameras i got footage i got footage you know process included getting it on line and simultaneously having people tweet you know in facebook when i was social media using social media and to get it out get the message out of what's happening as quick as possible like feeds of the protests are being followed by supporters across the u.s. and the world the viewership really goes up as you keep a steady content you know provision information is also spread in more traditional ways the status board helps protesters keep up to date with occupation developments

it's day twenty one of occupy wall street zero chance of rain the number of arrests to date at over eight hundred and thirty four. a library area let's protesters relax and educate themselves what literature fitting most tastes fiction nonfiction magazines we got a kid section we got c.d.'s we had d.v.d.'s a guy documentaries occupy wall street prides itself in being a peaceful grassroots democratic movement without leaders there are just different decisions made by different groups if there's a if there is to be some decision that's going to supposedly speak on bart on behalf of everyone here that now we need to have been at the evening general assembly and we need to be consensus on by everyone here all of the many cooks in this kitchen are here to cook up one thing a revolution of change in america to say sutured party. well our correspondents are also reporting on the latest developments from the occupy wall street protests on twitter. has been at the very heart of the demonstrations from

day one and one of her latest tweets she says the number of people taking to the boat streets of lower manhattan has doubled if not tripled in a day i had to underscore calm in our underscore america to find out more and don't forget you can also watch our footage of the protest on our. if you. well across the atlantic things are not looking too good for the economy either the u.k. banking system has been rocked as the credit ratings and twelve financial institutions

have been downgraded leading a ratings agency moody's said the downgrades were due to doubts over the u.k.'s government's future support the move is likely to drive up borrowing costs and make it more difficult for businesses to get loans but a leading british economy has told r.t. the downgrade is a reality check that the u.k. did wrong. 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 especially the bank of england's central carry tossed 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 growth strategies one that i think they lack of 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 every single bank is copper bottomed because if they get into trouble the tracks pile won't buy all the amount and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow our prime to go for the want to fail without actually to score in the wider economy and i think that these these downgrades of. actually reflect the fact we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically everybody knew that if you crash then the time when the government would come to the right so is a grim warning put in the sun why if you would wish to have an almost no shoes from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome. well also ahead for you this hour a new show on our team as robert foster delves into the murkier depths of the debt second global economy here's a quick look at what to expect of his unique style with this rendition of

a recession wrap the liberals like seen as a u.s. crash seems imminent smash the debt ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in the streets the i.m.f. imposed structurally unjust programs in greece which is actually the term economy into the language from the greek economy of meaning household management. theories abound but in practice today anyone actually know what the hell is even happening. well you can see robert rhyme and reason his way through the global economic crisis in about five minutes here on r.t. . well time now to discover more of the world's biggest country in our close up series. well they were traveling to the pens a region southeast of moscow grant a safe there have inspired some of russia's greatest writers as he explains. a

tale of two states out of harmony a modest country see that i'm sorry it's time survived on farming and small scale manufacturing it happened to be the childhood home one of russia's most legendary figures mikhail detriment of the child prodigy a fiery tempered soldier womanizer and finally a greater amounts of 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 that it's buried in the family more so they and. now two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but honey has become the main employer of her jason villages. the storage descendants of the serbs who worked there dressed up as sissies but a 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. although let alone the family home maybe 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 funding. one of russia's grand palaces well not anymore in its heyday in the nineteenth century crack and 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 the hope for dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair a need of the government nor any private investors who put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now to stay on the one hand you can turn all of these the states 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 have to have the villages of crack america decided to fire then

never going from house to house to collect donations and relying entirely in volunteers they have to restore the state building by building starting with a cemetery chapel but. we're not professional restorers we've got little money for materials we only do what we can but we don't want to be thought of as savages who do not understand where we live we want a woman ancestors. they face a daunting task the day don't for build it no one else will. bend the region. going to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories but here's a walk at our new program. if

. found a flaw in the model god perceived is the critical functioning structure of the farm's all the world. ladies and gentlemen you'll shoot into the juice you said to get with your example in the status of the human experiment is it succeeding or will it have to be aborted we pursue a prognosis in this rap news or would it just knows the globe is allegedly trying to make sense about global economy and its arcane trains us financial temple siege

of the research is scrambling to maintain our confidence in markets and banking off to rivet it's going to be easing trade imbalances recession low key nations close to collapsing in sub prime loans foreclosed homes and people taxes going to bail out to fail aaa banks again feel levels pricing is a us crash seems imminent coming smashed the debt ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in athens street the i.m.f. imposed structurally unjust programs in greece when in fact the total economy and saddam language from the greek economy of meaning household management well how are we managing theories abound but in practice does anyone actually know what the hell is even happening to regain some sanity we take a step across to texas with our first guest welcome to rap music to pull the economy what's your diagnosis of it all well we've dropped the ball i'm a physician politician. this is pathological c. the global economy is chronically ailing believe me because we've plowed it is terminally fatal we're headed towards credit cardiac arrest with deep depression

and trauma across the way is there a cure for more capitalism plans and the market will take care of the brand but first we need a maneuver see bankers god proclaimed free. our economy was inflated totally we got guernsey's and off the gold standard the body is a worthless commodity is the biggest fraud in the history of humanity this must be dealt i'm a capitalist system is it just is not the deep theory like communism all you see this is a capitalist because the free market is a bad smits religion has been hurt by this believe that we now have just the cabal of corporations with state business lucratively most just sixty five of the system of the central server we don't need to hold more to pay their debt campaigning to. think wrong now for another fine mind on the line frequencies the director behind some guys down the line live documentary filmmaker peter joseph thank you robert for allowing me to speak this moment but before i to liver might be prognosis we

need a sweet. one to keep a spoke. so as to these fetters that if you will in a system that sickly inherently flawed the whole monetary paradigm is the single cause the economy isn't broken it doesn't need fixing this is exactly it's to a new condition money does an interest in. all economy has been set up to see you so you don't agree with congressman wrong that we need a fiscal solution to a good along for the illusion that these debts can be served by using money which creates more debt is frankly absurd it's a way of maintaining divisions we could retain abundance of all the scarcity we need to create jobs live within our means cut wasteful health care and welfare schemes it seems this is just another. socialist vision. is to such persons socialism. is it just rhetoric. that's

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it's four thirty pm in moscow you're watching our. top stories a war dragging on for decades the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten year mark yet the taliban defeat seems nowhere in sight of the human cost is rising faster than ever this year set to become the deadliest one for u.s. troops. in the u.k. enough is enough say protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal as they gather in london to protest the afghan war activists at the rally are being joined by musicians actors and politicians. plus anti-corporate a corporate sentiment spreads fast across the u.s. with protests against inequality and unemployment taking place in dozens of cities the occupy wall street.