you're watching our live from moscow worth six pm on the set 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 then to the endless war and the violence that brings down on them jason lot like reports. another day in afghanistan's southern battlefront 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 when a roadside 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 with. this missile 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 the 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. started.

going on. also try to make a difference but this is. very likely not even sure if the guards. in the recovery ward will respond 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'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 chasing workload can endure for two. 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. 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 vote so far just over half of you say the war has brought the us nothing but bloodshed 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 and only three percent think the war has made the world a safer place we want to know what you think drop us a line log on to our t. dot com and how do yourself. do it they're actually. targeting. to. see. your way. to be sure to bring peace and stability to the. music you don't leave 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 parties ever been 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 the ten years of involvement in the afghan conflict. and today here in central london listen you're pretty good turnout come to really over the protests here. i was voicing their opposition to the operation in afghanistan this really does show you that the sentiment from the imagination of the british public is here today is a real section of the society taken to this age. just was a pensioner one hundred full eighty years old nelse where you know various other.

movements many of them. and so your position really does stretch throughout the british public in one of the campaign is. this often and how do you have the last decade in fact has been tony benn who's the president. of the organizers of today's event he's also a cabinet minister to any. tell me how do you measure the subtle event on which it's a. little bit. stronger . than drawing from. its own on with many thousands of people. in the war because.

they. this whole thing going on for ten years your rigged american campaigner against each candidate protests. against. a campaign for public opinion and britain. to oppose the iraq war going to a new place looking back on it now there's this promise was your uncle rod or all snarly or a lot of them and i think the same will happen with the afghan people at a time as such to cut spending by the government how can i justify the thumping so much money so by eighteen billion pounds into the more i think in afghanistan that is the key question making with the old we didn't get our economy and therefore the money saved. so. as a saving american campaign in the last ten years they were saying afghanistan we've

seen or rather now live here and this is definitely looks like it's going to endanger very humiliating way to go mostly with a power sharing deal with the taliban suppose has the government shown any humiliation any. real problems for the human race just survival there's a family in a nice theory people are dying of hunger all over the net for years spending money on killing people and that is used to it. can you please talk to any event thank you very much americans go and see you soon. so the speeches will carry on going for another couple of hours or so was some real key figures in the antiwar protests when i think julian our songs in fact said we're behind we just keep the guy he was really too big to write so try speaking later today it's all care and bring you out a staple this adventure of the opportunity to write that sounds great you go and try and track down. why from london our team ivor bennett. in our london bureau is keeping you updated on the outcry after protests. you can follow

the latest on our twitter feed our team underscore. the latest tweet from quotes one activist who says blair enjoy your money while you can there is not enough water to wash the blood off the pounds don't forget you can also keep up with footage from the protests at our teens. 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 lashed 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 crime chaos in the first place and despite being branded as anarchist by many also camping out in lower manhattan are well organized and have a clear agenda as are to use anastasio discovered. these are entering the people with you know. accused of being anarchist and disorganized the occupy wall street encampment is far from chaotic it is set up 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 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 supplies sweaters and blankets 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 don't with breakfast foods bread cereal we have lunch around but we have snacks considering it could be 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. these laptops you've got people coming in running in here i mean panicky you know adrenaline rush with cameras i got footage i got footage you know so processing footage getting it online 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 why feeds of the protests are being followed by supporters across the u.s. and the world of 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 have a kid section we got cd d.v.d. is 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 but 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 with the situation a party new york. we got more reaction from the streets of new york in this week's edition of the resident or hans in us asked anti wall street campaigners if they think they'll win their fight against corporate power. i'm here. this week let's talk about pat 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 at the center of all of the most important issues right now that we're going to hear from spain to funds would be that spain we have people for life. in one of the he's at rallies all of those 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 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 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 of some justice and some some enforcement of the regulations we already have on the books that would be a good start you think 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 though 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 me like no other people are feeling this way as well so i mean it and the sense of a rallying 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 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 a ratings agency moody's said the downgrades were due to doubts over the u.k. 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 economist mark littlewood has told r.t. the downgrade is a reality check that 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 risks actually increasing that inflation is supposed to be the bank of england's central key task to actually keep inflation under control two and a half percent or less my concern is that quantitative easing throwing another seventy five billion pounds into the economy is actually a distraction from the u.k.

government needs which is a very aggressive and radical growth strategy one that i think they lack at the moment what we've got to get away from in the united kingdom and actually right across the western world more generally is this idea that every single bank is copper bottomed because if they get into trouble the tax will kill 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 through the wall and to fail without actually destroying 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 which basically every bank you could if you crash in the time when the government would come to the right so it's a grim warning but in the same way as you would wish to have an almost a toy from your doctor about your state of health i think it is a welcome warning but coming up later today and new show on our team 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 this rendition of a recession. will come to us global financial to you it's an interesting quote we invest so much in this enterprise would make this. very demise for a real economy is something much more to its g.d.p. measured not by our ability to hold but it's easy to read learn to do not please me just a little bit nuts remain on this planet on. to other news live even in term government forces claim they've taken control of most of seared 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 there's some 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's a high risk of civilian casualties libya's interim leaders say syria's fall it's crucial to formally declare liberation and actually elections but british race activists and journalists who can't chandan says many are ignoring the high cost. of the call it hypocrisy is to give too much credit to nato this is this is outright state to conduct domination and monopolization of libya's 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 you know it's very clear that mr this that 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 that nevertheless they're still resisting and also the media are still talking about when they will leave basically you know the proving to 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 gone over to gadhafi side so the battle is far from over. returning to our top story washington is trying to mend ties with one with one of its allies in the afghan war pakistan relations have recently been hit by mutual accusations and political differences argues military analyst reports from afghanistan. this is the commanding heights that dominates this sweeping view was the area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me of the reason that three weeks ago was twenty are received 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 we have that pakistan for cooperation against osama bin ladden going to

slam about brazenly ignored the diplomatic requests from washington d.c. we have the middle finger behind their back 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 but they just blew it looking back at operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission to 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 at some world news in brief this hour

a speeding car collided in china leaving at least thirty five ten injured most of the victims i 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 which claimed fifty six lives on the last day of the week long holiday. hundreds. radical muslims have protested across pakistan against a death sentence being given to the killer of a punjab governor one of the officials own guards shot him dead earlier this year because of his remarks on pakistan's wants from me with your staff and spoiler is appealing that sentence emphasizing that death penalties have rarely been carried out in pakistan in recent years. thousands of students have marched through the italy's capital protesting against as it education cuts through paint and flares that banks and trying to block railway lines but eventually were dispersed by

police demonstrators say the event marks a new wave of what's been called all of them 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 series on russia. today we're traveling to the pens a region around six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow granted to states there have been spired some of russia's greatest writers including me. but as you have explained some of the places which have browsed blinders passions in the past face an uncertain future. a tale of two states that hammy a modest country see that and sorry stein's survived on farming and small scale manufacturing it 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 is buried in the family more psyllium. now two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but a family has become the main employer for adjacent villages. or direct descendants of the serbs who work here dress up as their ancestors for their job. some get to play the heiress across for the benefit of tourists well because the numbers are growing there is no need for this state to turn a profit. while the level of the family home may be as good a state as one the poet himself was living here there are other 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 crack and it was a self-sufficient cultural center for the benefit of the diamond prince alexander could walk in and 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 who put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now whether to stay on the one hand you can't 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 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 and relying entirely on 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 one or our ancestors. they face a daunting task. but if they don't for a bill that no one else will. either of their own faults he bends the region. a short break here on r.t. and i'll be back with the headlines.

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to watch an artsy line from moscow our top stories a war dragged on for a decade to do has led invasion of afghanistan the ten year mark yet to tell me about defeat seems nowhere in sight and the human cost is rising faster than ever with this year said to become the deadliest one for u.s. troops. meanwhile in the u.k. and nothing is enough to 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 i would. tend to corporate sentiments read fast across the u.s. protests against inequality and unemployment taking place in dozens of cities the occupy wall street movement is.