it's. a war dragging on for a decade the us led invasion of afghanistan houses with a ten year mark with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight and human cost that's rising faster than ever and. meanwhile in the u.k. and enough is enough to save protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal they gather in london to mark the afghan force tenth anniversary. and the corporate sentiment spreads fast across the you asked the occupy wall street movement was criticized for lacking organization but prove it's far from chaotic and is in it for the long haul. was artie's close the team to the pub landing once rich with branches dates were prominent russian poets and princes

made their homes and meets people from now struggling to preserve what made about bygone splendor. you're watching our live from moscow where it's six pm on nice now with our top story this evening the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed the 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 are demanding an end to their aimless war and the violence that brings down on them jason lot like reports. and the other day on the stupid stupid stupid but more casualties displayed official claims that the war is being one to those who live it is living up to be the deadliest year for us. 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 when the road side bomb exploded beneath him it took less than half an hour for many of the crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward of kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest their injuries are bad but not extreme meaning we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as it continues or flown to germany for treatment 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 have 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 on 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 part 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 miche that will restore his appearance so i started work i think when i. was a grad if i make a difference at this. very likely not for serious starts. to show. in the recovery ward well his father at home says that while he sure it was a u.s. marine would visit his son he's grateful for the first class treatment yes ricin which i don't know what i'm just happy that he's ok this shooting was a mistake so he's forgiven the 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 jason muckluck in kandahar afghanistan for are today.

afghan drug production has increased dramatically since the foreign intervention began in the classroom it's 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 nati the 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 whom they 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 their. well arches military analyst is in afghanistan he's asking why america is struggling to contain the insurgency despite its huge military superiority that's coming up for you in about fifteen minutes and on our website we're asking you what legacy the ten year afghan occupation has had let's take a look at some of the posts so far just over half of you say the war has brought the u.s. nothing but one shed and bankruptcy a third think those years have just made afghanistan the world's biggest heroin hub just under a fifth of you believe the occupation has cleared the way for an american invasion of pakistan but only three percent think the war has made the world a safer place we want to know what you think from the line log on to our t. dot com and have yourself. a good return american. target. to. defeat the u.s.

. mission to bring peace and stability to the war. you don't have to. anger about the war in afghanistan is mounting in britain which has the second largest number of troops deployed in the country hundreds of soldiers have been killed in the conflicts and the war activists celebrities and politicians are now gathering in london protesting over a decade of war art is over but it is there and also it's us live with the latest i were talking you tell us about the death of anti-war sentiment in britain as it marks ten years of involvement in the afghan conflict. and today here in central is a pretty good turnout come to really over. the long gallop three hours voicing their opposition to the operation in afghanistan this really does show you that.

she was a sentiment is a little from the imagination of the british public i don't use here today as a real section of. society taking to the stage early this often. just was a pensioner a hundred four years old male swearing in the school various other. movements only many of them seemed so you can see your position really does the streets around the british public in one of the he had painted. this afternoon how do you mean the last decade has been tony benn he's the president. of the openness of today's event he's also a cabinet minister the pentagon thanks very much for speaking to us he said tell me how do you measure the subtle event on the day. meeting in. many countries. opposed to the rule detailed

a strong we may come up with that merchant should draw from the guns trying to. leave many thousands of people. in the world because we. will they. this whole thing going on the ten years you're retiring the campaign are against this how do you say you come to protest. against. campaigning for public opinion and britain. to oppose the iraq war going to. be looking back on it now those responses to your uncle rob who are all snarling a lot of themselves and i think the same will happen with. that it's on the search team for the cuts being made by the government how would justify the thumping so much money so by eighteen billion pounds into the more i think in afghanistan the

key question we're making with no we didn't get our economy for for the money save the guy so he's begun to kill a lot of people who listen. the saving american campaign in the last ten years that we're seeing afghanistan we've seen or rather now leave here has turned this is definitely looks like it's going to end thank you very humiliating way to go mostly with the with if i was a simple has the government showed me ation a. real problem for the human race just survival there's a family in a nice here people are dying of hunger all over the net where you're spending money on killing people and then use you if you are recessionary to keep me from tony bennett thank you very much americans go and see you soon. speeches in carry on going for another couple of hours or so that was the real key figures in the anti war and racism when i think julian assange was behind we just keep going to see the issues really it's

a bit too raw so frustrating lazy day it is unfair and bring out a stable this eventuality often it isn't all right that sounds great you go and try and track down. wife and none of them are. in our london bureau is keeping you updated on the outcry after protests. all the latest on our trigger feet r t underscore the cop column for the latest three from them quotes one activist who says where enjoy your money while you can there is not enough water to last for blood pounds don't forget you can also keep talking with footage from the protest at our ease into into china

. 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 the city's mayor recently watched out at demonstrators saying their actions are hurting the economy the protesters however insist it's the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population that drove the country into financial crisis chaos in the first place and just by being granted as an artist by many also camping out in lower manhattan are well organized and have a clear agenda as are to use on the sea of trucks. these are everywhere people with you know. accused of being anarchists and disorganized the occupy wall street encounter and it's far from chaotic it is sort of like a small village broken 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 comfort area supplies sweaters and blankets to keep demonstrators warm as the season gets chilly or while the door needed sleeping bags pile up as the number of protesters grows bigger we just heard the chinese or most of you from richmond virginia and 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 great cereals we have lunch. we have snacks contribute continually 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. these laptops you got people company running in here i mean panicky 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 on facebook when our social media using social media and to. give a message out of what's happening as quick as possible why fans 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 sat is what helps protesters keep up to date with occupation developments it's been twenty one of occupy wall street zero chance of rain the number of arrests to teach at over eight hundred thirty for. a library area let's protesters relax and educate themselves with literature fitting most tastes fiction nonfiction

magazines we have a kid section we got c.d.'s we had d.v.d.'s i dropped out once 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 part on behalf of everyone here but now we need to happen at 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. party in new york. we got more reaction from the streets of new york in this week's edition of the residence or harness asked anthony 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 that i think what 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't be subjected to . you know one percent of the one percent those the real bad guys you know who make over five 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. be the spain we have people for life i just want to he said well you. guys are doing. i mean thirty five heard that i was 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. fair do you think that's going to happen through movements like this you know who now is bad these were 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 i 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 eating up going to happen. i have to believe so yeah i have to be i believe so how is this going to bat. well 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 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 in the sense of a rallying point i think that this is this is going to draw attention to us are going to draw people in whether or not you agree with their math but the bottom line is these people are getting the word out. across the atlantic things aren't 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 said the downgrades were due to doubts over the government's future support the move is likely to drive off borrowing costs and make it more difficult for businesses to get loans but a leading british economist mark littlewood told r.t. the downgrade is a reality check that the u.k. needed one. we already have inflation of around about five percent in the united kingdom which compared to recent years is these highly 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 course could be easing throwing another seventy billion pounds into the economy is actually a distraction from what the u.k. government needs which is a very aggressive and radical 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 a very single bank is culpable because if they get into trouble look taxpayer will play all the banks and one of the key things that the u.k. government is struggling with is how do we allow it to go through towards a fail without actually describing the wider economy and i think that these these downgrades. 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 really crashed

in the time when the government would come to their rights it was a grim warning put in the sun by which you would wish to have an almost a toy notice from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning. but coming out later today and new cell on r.t. as robert frost delves into the murkier depths of the debt stricken global economy here's a quick look at what to expect of his unique style this rendition of a recession. well seems to come to us global financial to you but it's an interesting question we invest so much in a sense of pride with mr bush might say we did my real economy is something much more to its g.d.p. measured not by our ability to hoard but our capacity to read learn to do not please me just a little bit nuts remain on this planet ark pandora. to

other news libyan in term government forces claim they've taken control of most or syria one of the last strongholds of the deposed colonel gadhafi it's after renewed assault on the town with heavy tank and rocket fire but this somehow the resistance on the streets for those loyal to the ousted leader despite reports claiming thousands of people have left here many more remain meaning there's a high risk of civilian casualties that he has in term leaders say syria's fall it's crucial to formally declare that ration and scheduling of life but british race activists and journalists who can't chandan says many are ignoring the high. quality procedures they give too much credit for nate so this is this is outright states to conduct domination and more monopolization more for libya's wealth actually now it's really clear to the world an unfortunate again the western mainstream press is now reporting this but civilians are clearly talking to their family and it's very clear that misunderstood this is this is a town which is basically empty of civilians so much so has the nato bombing and

the offensive by the rebels taken such a toll on the civilians there nevertheless still resisting i'm also in the media talking about when it will lead basically you know the pruning to rebels in libya have given up and taken over ben you will leave 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 it is for it's far from over. but turning to our top story washington is trying to mend times with one with one of its allies in the afghan war pakistan relations have recently been hit by mutual accusations and political differences artie's military analyst reports from afghanistan. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view was the area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me the reason that three weeks ago i was under the twenty hour with siege by the hagana network let's take

a closer look at what went wrong with the global war on terror first after al qaeda central radio boy told a pashtun tribal belt along the afghan pakistani border the state department filed a request we have 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 excavating their formidable human intelligence network you know again it stand to conduct their clone best time body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice but 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 the 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 at some world news in brief this hour a speeding bus and car collided in china leaving at least thirty five seven injured most of the victims are thought to be college students returning after a national holiday many were thrown from the vehicle as it flipped over after the crash it's one of three major road accidents in china which claimed fifty six lives on the last day of the week one. hundred. radical muslims have protested across pakistan against a death sentence being given to the killer of a punjabi governor one of the officials on guard shot him dead earlier this year because of his remarks on pakistan's once from iraq is half the story or is appealing the sentence emphasizing that death penalties has virtually been carried

out in pakistan in recent years. thousands of students have marched through the italy's capital protesting against as education cuts through paint and flares that banks and try to block railway lines but eventually were dispersed by police demonstrators say the event marks a new wave of what's called hot dog on it's last year saw several thousand people clash with police italy recently signed off forty five billion euros of cuts to tackle its debt now it's time to discover more of the world's biggest country in our close series on russia. today we're traveling to the pens a region around six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the grand states there have inspired some of russia's greatest writers including mikhail government us that is you have explained some of the places which have browsed blinders passions

in the past face an uncertain future. a tale of two states for a family a modest country see that and so it's times so for me and small scale manufacturing it happened to be the childhood home one of russia's most legendary figures mikhail there are many of the child prodigy before eat them food soldier. and finally a great romantic poet a novelist he died in a jewel at the age of twenty seven while little of his work was composed there and it's varied in the family mausoleum. no two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century it has become the main employer for adjacent villages. the direct descendants of the serfs who work here dress up as ounce of sense for the job some get to play the heiress across for the benefit of tourists as the

numbers are growing there is no need for the state to turn a profit. probably as good as one was living. there ground in the area just as important are. 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 one man the diamond prince alexander could reckon and soviet times and served as a warehouse and a home for dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair need of the government nor any private investors who put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now so 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

people simply disappear and that is a fact. the villages of cracklin are decided to fight in never trouble going from house to house to collect donations and relying entirely on volunteers they have vowed to restore the state building by building starting with a cemetery chapel. we are not professional restorers with a little money for materials we only do what we can do we don't want to be thought of the savages who do not understand where we live we want to enter our ancestors. they face a daunting task. they did for bill but no one else will. either are old enough thought see that's a reach and short break here in our tea and i'll be back with the headlines.

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