tv [untitled] October 8, 2011 1:00pm-1:30pm EDT
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great. comfort to. some friends of the. moscow. tonight on our team of war dragging on for a decade the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten year mark but the taliban did think no were inside any human cost that's rising faster than ever. meanwhile in the u.k. enough's enough say protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal they gather in london to mark the afghan wars tenth anniversary. and i think oprah sentiment spreads fast across the u.s. the occupy wall street movement criticized for lacking organization but says it's far from chaotic and is in for the long haul.
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welcomes his r.t. from moscow it's nine pm no saturday evening i'm kevin zero in first the u.s. led war in afghanistan is now past the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed the decade of failure with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban and human cost though keeps on rising both among the soldiers and the afghan civilians who demanded an end to the aimless war in the violence it brings on them jason what like reports. and the other day on afghans to civil. war casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand living is lighting up to be deduced yet for u.s. forces according to t.v. to keep an eye on taliban insurgents for things to improve with a quick trip abilities casualty some would have perished in previous conflicts or survivors but these two soldiers one patrolled the vehicle one route so bomb exploded beneath it took less than half an hour for
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a medical crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward of cantorian field one of the country's busiest your injuries are not extreme we will most likely still be sent to live recovered more severe cases such as if beauty's or fluids. werman for treatment right yes. 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 worst 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 aboard shared part of his school and would have killed him if not for emergency surgery and six months document part says he's treated more than a fair share of afghan bystanders mostly gun show last week. in this follow up operation in his team reconstructing the boy's forehead with a titanium mesh that were stories of periods i decided
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i. want i also gratifying i think the difference i miss i. very likely. i michelle. in the recovery ward well he's called the editor of the it says that while he's sure it was a u.s. marine well it is he's grateful for the first class treatment of his recent which i don't know what 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 the growing zone chasing workload can or could understand for our team. afghan drug production decreased dramatically since the foreign intervention began in the country remains the world's largest source of opium from my chief of staff
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to the u.s. secretary of state says american forces are telling a blind eye to the problem because they fear more resistance. who benefits from this is the 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 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 made the enterprise taliban they don't want to add to their enemies list all the people who are raising drugs in afghanistan and making a profit from their. just like you know in about fifty minutes time to bring you an expert opinion on that top story our military analysts is in afghanistan for us and asking why america's struggling to contain the insurgency despite its huge military
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superiority and also on our website we're asking what legacy you think the ten year afghanistan patients left for this is what determines tonight the half of you there saying you think the war has brought the us nothing but bloodshed and bankruptcy fifty two percent the third of you think those years of just turn afghanistan into the world's biggest heroin hub just under a fifth of you think the occupations cleared the way for the american invasion of pakistan a mere three percent of you that have voted at least save the world is a safer place because of that ten year war log onto our team dot com still plenty a chance for you to have your say. or do a touch of american. targets. should feel the food the u.s. movies should. be sure to bring peace and stability to the world.
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but news that only enough to. well the afghan was mounting in the u.k. which has the second largest number of troops deployed in the country hundreds of british soldiers have been killed since the conflict began and the war activists celebrities and politicians have gathered in london protesting over a decade of war and i think out of planet report from the capital this huge protests in the center in the center of london and the magic wall sentiment in the public imagination here in britain is full frontal very angry pay their way there in the first place obviously the period of time of the cuts people sturgeon has written all this money eighteen million being pumped into a seemingly unwinnable war and the five hundred million as a nation in development aid the ngos are saying is no reaching it's the right people is it all going is it really having much of an effect. thousand troops that are being killed. us universities around you to see thousand other people i mean
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you go in in this case. civilians insurgents too. soon jeremy corbyn m.p. manipulated policy and he joins me now jeremy thanks very much for speaking to us the home that you want to. all those years we've done a decade ago to vote against the actually and enemy of ours the sudden change that last eight months on end the little my colleagues in regret they didn't draw again but you could say we're not going to start fixing this house was the last british soldiers that the americans. are going to go down and the corruption in afghanistan and the whole region into your country there are many you just feel they did the wrong thing ten years ago. you know as this is rampant corruption millions of the launching of this campaign is extreme policy and using it as an age trying to slow down this in any legal victory out of ignorance and i'm going to
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raise this great problem of how we define victory in afghanistan is it what it would be no withdraw in an orderly way but the worst of it senator they can control is not going to start moving it seems like they can't win this war. it's just a matter of time before they're all withdrawn and there has to be a development of the political process in afghanistan which is actually been suppressed by the western intervention. because we're talking about things i have a bennett in our london bureau is keeping a very fit on the protests you can follow the latest on our twitter feed and a score card recent tweet says stop the war coalition rally ends with a march to downing street led by a one hundred six year old only war campaigner. keep up with the latest on twitter from us don't forget you can also catch latest footage as well our cameras are there taking the shots of those protests that are teaching. people to rally to
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a central london today demanded an end not only to the afghan war but also to the ongoing intervention in libya to r.t. spoke to one of the high profile speakers there wiki leaks founder julian assange about the military interventions and the libyan conflict in particular. the lesson for me is it. only. those in the world speak why one goes all the united states and europe. together to take over the country regional justification for a no fly zone over libya has been completely of use it shows that there is no effective. nations it should be a lesson to us every time a small mandate is given. military intelligence. that it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries understand. in libya revolutionary forces have launched one of the biggest assaults yeah i don't
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know how gadhafi is hometown of sirte they've already seized a major highway that opens the way now to attacking a key base of oil lists the interim government claims to control most of the city now but it's still facing fierce resistance from fighters loyal to the asad leader libya's interim administration say surface full is crucial to formally declaring liberation in chad huling elections lindsey german from the coalition told us that by shelling search for bad reason nato demonstrates a very selective approach to protecting civilians. but the whole idea of the domain it was meant to protect civilians in banco think about how why does anybody side up to the idea that you're making killing civilians in another city or town in the area and that's exactly what's happening. very selective about what civilians it supports it doesn't support those civilians who markopolos it really it's a great cause simple melody on and of course we know you want this hollow was
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a crowd she was about regime change like wants to get rid of gadhafi if they could press to stop this how can civilians in libya so they would if not they. they don't care about. us was actually happening so terrible killings in so i'm sure aren't really this is a response well this is the be doing them on libya. through rough times cover all parts of the globe these days in the u.s. the occupy wall street movement spread to dozens of american cities including the capital washington d.c. that's anti corporate protests in new york and for the fourth week the city's mayor recently lashed out of demonstrators saying their actions are hurting the economy the protesters though insists it's the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population that drove the country into financial chaos in the first place and despite being branded design a care spy of many of those companies out of the well organized they say they've got a clear agenda as a teaser to see churkin i found. these are. people with you know.
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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 better organized than i thought it would be. they really have it set up so that there isn't a clear leader. organization the way that it's being but at the same guy. every part seems to be handled by someone a medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the spike assistance a comfort area supply sweaters and blankets to keep demonstrators warm as the season gets chilly or while they don't need it sleeping bags pile up as the number of protesters grows bigger resistor to charge are most of your from richmond virginia. 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
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morning people going to breakfast foods bread cereals we have lunch. we have snacks to continually throughout the day dinner. 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'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 processing footage getting it online and simultaneously having people tweet you know on facebook when our social media using social media and to get it out get the message out of what's happening sport 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 of information is also spread in more traditional ways the status board helps protesters keep up to date with the
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population developments the state twenty one o'clock by 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 about literature fighting most tastes fiction nonfiction magazines related section we got c.d.'s we had viewed years ago documentaries on people i was street prides itself on 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 i'm happy everyone here but now we need to happen in. 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 as they see if you're going to party in new york . and get more reaction from the streets of new york at this week's edition of resident to lower half of the wall street campaigners of they think they'll win
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their fight against corporate power. i'm here. this week let's talk about that i think will really protesting is you know the failure of this ins or 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 who is 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 where he tests the united states or is it a global issue it's a global issue but the united states says at the center of the of all of the most important issues right now that we're getting pieces that you're from spain to put money on is a piece of spain where we have people for life because i just saw in one of the he's at rallies he's all of those are doing. i mean thirty five bridge that
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up i well 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 a town the fair thing that's going to happen through movements like this you know now it's bad leave we're out here trying during the sixty's there were riots in newark and l.a. because of poverty inequality racism is said person i mean people riot and burn their own 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. this is just like the genesis of a bigger movements it's been going on for
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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 me like no other people are feeling this way as well so i mean it in a sense of a rallying point i think that this is this is going to draw attention to draw people in whether or not you agree with their math then the bottom line is these people are getting the word. out or top story the tenth anniversary of the afghan war being mark this weekend of washington's trying to mend ties with one of its main allies in the war pakistan relations of recently been hit by mutual accusations of political differences listen to reports next from afghanistan. this is the commanding height that dominates the sweeping view. area of kabul the afghan capital.
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right behind me of the reason yes amber see there three weeks ago was under the twenty hour siege by the high going to network let's take a closer look at what went wrong with the global war on terror first after al qaeda central radio told a pashtun tribal belt along the afghan pakistani border the state department filed a request with pakistan for cooperation against osama bin laden is slim about brazenly ignored diplomatic requests from washington d.c. with their middle finger a behind their back to see if they could and should have saved the day by activating their formidable human intelligence network you know again a stamp to conduct their clone dance time body snatching mission and to bring to justice but they just blew it looking back operation enduring freedom the question
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is not what went wrong with this mission is to prevent and 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 and not after but before the nine eleven did strike the united states. these military analysts have been fair with his assessment from afghanistan so we have to just a little bit after ninety minutes past nine at night moscow autonomy takes to school news and brief in a speech on state television the president of yemen has announced he's to step down in the coming days for nine months now and the government test is very demanding and truly a dualists at least thirty two year rule the rest is paralyzed the country lived with a thousand people killed according to official last. violence in yemen escalated since allays recent return from saudi arabia where he was treated for injuries are from sustentation attempting to you. a bus crashed into
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a cliff on indonesia's java island is killed four people injured dozens of others three dutch to restore among the dead and investigations underway but only reports suggest that they were poor road conditions and the bus was overloaded it comes of months after a similar crash on the island nineteen. thousands of students of march through italy's capital protesting against education cuts they threw paint and flares at banks and tried to block railway lines but revenge they dispersed by police seven straight to say the event marks a new wave of what's being called hot autumn which last year saw several thousand people clash with police it's the recently signed off forty five billion euros of debts of cuts rather to tackle its debts. coming up at twenty hundred g.m.t. brand new show for you on this channel is robert foster delves into the depths of the debt stricken global economy is a quick preview of what to expect from his unique style and his recession wrap.
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the levels rising as the u.s. crushed them and smashed the debt ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in the streets behind the book structurally unjust programs in greece that's what an economy is about language from the greek economy of meaning household management. managing theories abound but in practice if anyone actually know what the hell's even happening. is clever stuff is on air again time now next time discover more the world's biggest country russia close up siri. and on about let's see where we had a world today we're traveling to the pens the region around six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow grander states they're inspired some of russia's greatest writers including nicole love amount of but as we go to our grognard explains some
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of the places which have roused writers passions in the past face an uncertain future these days. a tale of two states the family a modest country see that in summer it's times survived on farming and small scale manufacturing it happened to be the childhood home one of britain's most legendary figures mikhail a child prodigy a firey complete soldier womanizer and finally a great romantic poet the novelist he died energy at the age of twenty seven while little of his work was composed them and of his varied in the family mostly and. no two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but a family has become the main employer for adjacent billet is. direct descendants of the serbs who work here dress up as the answer since for the job. some get to play the heiress across for the better. but of tourists as the numbers
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are growing there is no need for the state to turn a profit. while the level of probably as good a state as one the poor and so was living other ground how those in the area which are just as important. but which are not getting. funding. one of russia's grand palaces well not anymore in its heyday in the nineteenth century crack in a wall the self-sufficient cultural center for the benefit of the garment prince alexander. and soviet times to the warehouse and the home for dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair needed a government nor any private investors put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. on the one hand you can just turn all of these the states into museums and the lifestyle they supported has gone on the other if the situation continues
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as it is people simply disappear and that is a fact. of the villages of crack and decided to fight the inevitable 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're not professional restorers we could little money for materials we only do what we can do we don't want to be thought of as savages who do not understand where we live we want women around centers. they face a daunting task but if they don't rebuild it no one else will. either out no thought see the region. political program tonight looking ahead but for i was tired of trying to hear what andrew shows the wonders of the push good music latest massacre that was put in place before.
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