it's five pm in moscow you're watching live with me and he said now 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 in afghan civilians and demand an end to the endless war and the violence it brings down on that. reports. another day on afghanistan's southern battle 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 thanks to improved medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving by these two soldiers one patrol in

a vehicle one road side bomb exploded beneath them it took less than half an hour for a medical crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for 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 can go this is still it 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 miller park says he's treated more than a fair share of afghan bystanders mostly gunshot and bomb blast victims in this follow up operation in his. reconstructing the boy's forehead with the titanium

mesh that were store his appearance so i started. to go in there are. also gratifying to make a difference but this is. very likely not. guards. in the recovery ward well the spawn they are going to says that well he sure it was a u.s. marine bullet that hit his son and he's grateful for the first class treatment in this recession which i know what's out there i'm just happy that he's ok the shooting was a mistake so 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 that grinds on to a single clogged canister for two. well afghan drug production has increased dramatically since the foreign intervention began and the controversy mainstay

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 in any blatant overwhelming comprehensive way because that just adds to the enemy list that they have to fight they're 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. about fifteen minutes our military analysts asked why america despite tremendous military superiority is struggling to contain an insurgency.

but the u.k. has the second largest number of troops deployed in afghanistan the war activists celebrities and politicians are gathering in london protesting over a decade of war artist ever but it is their problem now joins us live i heard you tell him about the death of anti-war sentiment in britain as it marks ten years of involvement in the afghan conflict. live in ca today this huge protest in the center in the center of london has. sentiment in the public imagination here in britain is. this a dispute somewhat from the serbs in the last few years as people realize that this woman just become part of the furniture of british foreign policy with this event definitely this ten year anniversary of the campaign afghanistan has poured it back to the surface people are very angry is that we're there in the first place obviously would be at

a time of deep cuts people stirred because you really didn't think that all this money eighteen billion being pumped into a seemingly unwinnable war in a not a little light hundred million is a major development n.g.o.s are saying is no reaching is the right people is not. really having much of an effect in the last hour or so that it froze here such as we take you know. she spoke saying we will even cost you some point of all of this now if we get to know thousand troops that are being killed according to u.s. university brown university thousand other people have been killed in this. civilians insurgents. so that's what the focus has been in the last hour on this protest that around two thousand people have attended i wanted to talk more about this season john hillery from the charity. is very much first to. let you know something. heman right situation going on in afghanistan what you say is better or worse than it was ten years ago but i think in the last five years in

particular we've seen a terrible problem in human rights just as the war is escalated it's failed to bring any extra stability to the scene many more children being deprived of their rights many more people being killed a great escalation of violence in pakistan as well as in afghanistan because there's another thirty thousand people have died in washington as well so it's not getting better in any way it's getting much much good and that's why we're here protesting today was the problem in n.g.o.s seventy one enjoys it comes to school the foreign aid process now that and asking the international community to address that was the problem was that i know getting for with the corruption thing will be part of the problem is with the nato forces themselves because they've said not look they want to see you naive because another part of their military arsenal they're using aid to win the hearts and minds and minds of people who they're fighting against a new let's a complete travesty of the city it shouldn't be a battle against the afghans you you know even for the job as the first program you

got to sort out when you present cause has also come forward and address the fact that there is rampant corruption in afghanistan in the process of getting aid to the people who are really needed but he's blaming it on the international community really said when they disappear the girls will go with the training and the legitimacy in selling corruption within the whole of the afghan government and the key thing here is about getting the foreign troops out all the people in afghanistan and in britain will now we know here seventy four percent of all people want our troops out and that's what we're saying to the government get the troops on the line you can start dealing with all of the problems in afghanistan you know the key part of your protest here today has been against these product companies profiting off the war in afghanistan this last decade tell us a bit about that it's one of the worse than adamant the war in from iraq to afghanistan to the increasing use of the. mercenaries these are private military companies that have come in alongside a lot of the soldiers that is written in particular is culpable here we have tens

the big companies all providing low series soldiers in afghanistan but they operate outside any legal bounds until they are guilty of terrible human rights violations and they're totally unaccountable so we're saying there must be a complete ban on the use of mercenaries in these combat situations and bring them home as well as the soldiers by john hillery from laura one thanks very much thinks will see so the pros just move in he's still going on a still in full swing speeches or do you surround the afternoon before the thousand or so people here march down to downing street to see prime minister david cameron i will bring you more from that later this afternoon and indeed will be joining you throughout the day ivor bennett live from london as people gather to protest on this tenth anniversary of the war in afghanistan thanks for that. well we're always eager to know your opinion on the stories we're covering today we're asking you what legacy ten years of american troops has left afghan soil and around the world

let's take a look at some of the numbers just over a half of you are sort of the war has brought the us nothing but bloodshed and bankruptcy a third think those years have just made afghanistan the world's biggest horror when paul was under a fifth believe the occupation has cleared the way for an american invasion of pakistan only three percent think the war has made the world a safer place lockouts argued dot com vote i have your say on the issue. do it touch american. target. is to. be shipped to the food u.s. mission. the mission to bring peace and stability to the world. for ten years known as you don't need to have to change. 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 the city's mayor has recently lashed out at demonstrators saying their actions are hurting the economy protesters however insists if the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population lives driven the country into financial chaos in the first place well despite being branded as an artist by many of those camping out in lower manhattan are well organized and have a clear agenda as artists and the stasi of turkana discover. these are and you know 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 on up 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 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 if you're from richmond virginia. the kitchen providing a traditional american breakfast bread bagels and peanut butter and jelly plant groups are used to filter water here we have breakfast at seven thirty in the morning people going to breakfast foods bread cereals we have lunch around but we have snacks going to the community really throughout the day your dinner at seven thirty the 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 you know adrenaline rush with cameras i got footage i got

footage you know processing footage getting it online and simultaneously having people tweet you know in facebook when i was social media using social media 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 that 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 today is day twenty one of occupy wall street zero chance of rain the number of arrests to date at over eight hundred thirty four. a library area let's protesters relax and educate themselves with the literature getting most tastes fiction nonfiction magazines we got a kid section we got cd d.v.d. is a guy documentaries i'll keep my 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 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. our team. well our correspondents are also reporting on the latest developments from the occupy wall street protest on twitter. on often has been after a very heart of the demonstrations and one of her latest tweets she says the number of people taking to the streets of lower manhattan as doubled if not tripled in just a day i have to underscore problem and our key underscore america to find out more . we've got more reaction from the streets of new york in this week's edition of the resident laurie harmfulness asked and see wall street campaigners if they think they'll win their fight against corporate power.

i'm here at occupy wall street 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 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 of all of the most important issues right now that we're going to hear from spain to bonds would be to spain we have people from other colleges. and one of the he's a values they say all of you guys are doing. i mean thirty five percent of

our wealth they found 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 we're now as badly as we're out here trying during the sixty's there were riots in newark and l.a. because of poverty inequality racism etc i mean people rioting 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 of 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. with 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 makes it so people can identify and be like oh other people are feeling this way as well so i mean and this into a rallying point i think that this is this is going to draw attention it's also going to draw people in whether or not you agree with their math or the bottom line is these people are getting the word out. across the atlantic things are looking too good for the economy either the u.k. banking system has been rocked as the credit ratings of twelve financial institutions have been downgraded leading ratings agency moody's downgrades were due to doubts over the u.k. government future support what was likely to drive up borrowing costs and make it more difficult for businesses to get loans but a leading british economist has told r.t. the downgrade is a reality check the u.k.

needed long ago. we already have inflation of around about five percent in the united kingdom which compared to recent years is hardly putting more money into the economy actually increasing that inflation especially the bank of england central 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 approach strachey's one that i think that 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 every single bank is culpable because if they get into trouble the times by i will call them out and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow a bank to go for the one to fail without actually destroying the wider economy and

i think that these these damn. truly reflect the fact we are beginning to move away from what was a hopeless and helpless situation in which basically every good if. then the time i would like government would come to the right so is a grim warning put in the sun while you as you would wish to have an almost from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. well coming up later today a new show here on r t as robert foster delves into the murkier depths of the debt stricken global economy here's a quick look at what to expect of his unique style with this rendition of a recession rap. the liberals like saying is the u.s. crisis is imminent smash the debt ceiling fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in the streets the i.m.f. the book structurally unjust programs in greece when the two economy intrude on language from the greek economy of meaning household management will be managing theories abound but in practice today anyone actually know what the hell is even

happening. it's twenty minutes past the hour a look at some other news libyan interim government forces claim they've taken control of most of syria one of the last strongholds of the pows colonel gadhafi it's after renewed assault on the town with heavy tank and rocket fire but there's still heavy resistance on the streets from those loyal to the ousted leader despite reports claiming thousands of people have left syria many more remain meaning there is a high risk of civilian casualties libya's interim leaders say syria's fall is crucial to formally declaring liberation and scheduling elections but british based activists and journalists. says many are ignoring the high human cost. to call it hypocrisy is to give too much credit to nate so this is this is outright state terror through conduct domination and monopolization of. wealth but actually now it's really clear to the world and unfortunate again the western mainstream press

is now reporting this but civilians are clearly targeted and it's it's very clear that this is this is a town which is basically empty of civilians somewhat so has the nato bombing and the offensive by the rebels taken such a toll on the civilians that nevertheless they're still resisting and also the media is still talking about it will lead basically the rebels in libya have given up and taking over ben you will eat and also just about sixty four which is. east of tripoli i think there's another town that's going over to gadhafi side so the battle is far from over but returning to our top story washington is trying to mend ties with one of its allies in the afghan war pakistan relations have recently been hit by mutual accusations and political differences are g.'s military analyst reports from kabul. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view was the. afghan capital. right behind me is the

reason that three weeks ago was the twenty hour siege by the ha going to network 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 pakistan for cooperation against osama bin ladden going to slam about brazenly ignored the diplomatic request from washington d.c. with their middle finger behind their back to see if they could and should have saved the day by activating their formidable human intelligence network in afghanistan to conduct a clone dan stein body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice they just blew it looking back at the operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission the question is what's preventing that w.

bush administration to look at all other options and for starters to make sure that pakistan real be treated as a reliable ally not after before the nine eleven struck the united states. look now at some world news briefing in this hour a speeding car collided in china leaving at least thirty five people dead and eighteen injured most of the victims are thought to be college students returning after national holidays many were thrown from the vehicle as it flipped over after the crafts it's one of three major road accidents in china which claimed fifty six lives on the last day of the week long holiday. hundreds of radical muslims have protested across pakistan against a death sentence being given to the killer of a point job governor one of the officials own guard shot him dead earlier this year

because of his remarks on pakistan's blasphemy law the assassin's lawyer is appealing the sentence emphasizing that death penalties have rarely been carried out in pakistan in recent years. thousands of students have marched through italy's capital protesting against education cuts they threw paint and flayers at banks and trying to block well way lines but were eventually dispersed by police demonstrators say the event marks a new wave of what's been called 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. now trying to discover more of the world's biggest country in our close up serious on russia. today we're traveling to the pens

a region around six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow grand to say it's there have inspired some of russia's greatest writers including me their month of. explain some of the places which have roused writers passions in the past face an uncertain future. a tale of two states. a modest country see the stone one of them forming small scale manufacturing that happened to be the childhood home one of russia's most legendary figures retail development of a child prodigy a fiery tempered soldier. and finally a greater amounts of both the novelist he died in a jew at the age of twenty seven while little of his work was composed little of that is buried in the family most of them. now two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but a family has become the main employer for jason villages. direct

descendants of the serbs who worked here dress up 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. as good a state as when the poet himself was living. there grabbing houses in the area which are just as important architecturally but which are not getting the. 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 the need of the government nor any private investors will put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now to stay on the one hand you can turn all of these 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 oh yeah the villages of crack america have decided to fight then never to be going from house to house to collect donations and relying entirely in volunteers they have vowed 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 to to answer. they face a daunting task but the they don't for bill that no one else will. fall to the region. we're going to take a short break here on our team and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us.

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they're watching r t live from moscow i mean it's now way with our top stories a war dragging on for a decade the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten year mark yet the taliban defeat seems nowhere in sight and the human cost is rising faster than ever with this year is set to become the deadliest one for u.s. troops. meanwhile in the u.k. and it isn't enough to say protesters are calling for a speedy troop withdrawal as they gather in london to protest the afghan war activists have to rally are being joined by musicians actors and politicians. and corporate sentiment spreads fast across the you asked with protest against inequality and unemployment taking place in dozens of cities the occupy wall street movement.