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a failure with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban the human cost though does keep rising among the soldiers and the afghan civilians who demand an end to the aimless war the violence it brings down on them jason malt live reports for. another day in afghanistan so the battle more casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts 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 metal bit 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
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guys can go right this facility was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines but doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the war's crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wally was shot in the head by a stray bullet earlier this year when u.s. marines are going into a firefight with the taliban his village in helmand province the bullet shattered part of his skull and would have killed him if not for emergency surgery in six months dr miller park says he was treated more than a fair share of f. king bystanders mostly gun showed a 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 i started i . was i was surprised by the difference i wish i was very likely. guards. initially.
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in the recovery ward well his father you are with his will is sure it was a u.s. marine would visit his son he's grateful for the first class treatment he's receiving which either i'm just happy that he's ok the shooting was a mistake so it is 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 tears and workload in kandahar afghanistan for to. just let you know about a quarter of an hour's time we're bringing you an expert opinion on our top story artie's military analysts is in afghanistan is asking why america is struggling to contain the insurgency despite its huge military superiority on a website asking what you think about this long running huge story ten years of afghan occupation what's it left you tell us is what you're telling us about half of you say the wars abroad the us nothing but bloodshed and bankruptcy a third of you think those years have just turned afghanistan and the world's
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biggest heroin just under a fifth of you believe the occupation to clear the way for an american invasion of pakistan and three percent of you just a couple percent say the world is a safer place because of a ten year long war go to r.t. dot com you can have yourself. a direct target america lashed out target. list. you should feel the full us war machine. on a mission to bring peace and stability to the world. for ten years as it only left dangerous. well anger about the afghan wars mounting in the u.k. which is 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
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a decade of war parties are banned it reports from the capital. this huge protest in the center in the center of london has shown the sentiment here in the public imagination here in britain is in the forefront people very angry pay their way there in the first place obviously would be at a time of deep cuts people sturgeon has risen through all this money and eighty million are being pumped into a seemingly unwinnable war and that's where the five hundred million is a major development the ngos are saying well no it's no reaching it's the right people is not going to sit you know we're going to really having much of an effect in the. thousand troops that are being killed in. a us university brown university thousand other people having to go in in this case. civilians insurgents to. jeremy call with an m.p. with the latest policy and he joins me now jeremy thanks very much for speaking. to you one of the few enemies in all those years we thank holiday because they go to
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vote against military action and generally on ourselves a shame to do that last eight months on end around a lot of my colleagues regret they didn't join me in voting against the war in afghanistan but i've seen the results of that was all the loss of british soldiers that the americans in terms of the size. and the corruption in afghanistan and the whole regime and the country there are many who just feel they did the wrong thing ten years ago. when as you say the rampant corruption millions in. this campaign is extreme poverty and you're saying there's an age crisis now can this in any way a victory in the stuff they always thought of any rate so whenever i've raised this question of how would they define victory in afghanistan they say well it would be no always drawl in an orderly way by the west to accept sure they can control or not mr they be exempted they can win this war and. it's just a matter of time before they're all withdrawn and there has to be a development of
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a political process in afghanistan which has actually been suppressed by the western intervention. that was westminster a picture of the cauldron talking to our planet on a london bureaus k.v.'s up today with more views following the protest in culture within our twitter feed com one of the recent tweets quotes an activist saying blair enjoy your money while you can there's not enough water to wash the blood off your hands that's one of the latest tweets we've got through tonight from our team there you can also catch the latest footage as well our cameras were rolling there and find out of our teams you tube channel. people rallied in the center of london today demanded an end not only to the afghan war but also to the ongoing intervention in libya r.t. spoke to one of the high profile speakers there wiki leaks founder julian assange about the military interventions and also the libyan conflict in particular. the lesson for me being is that there are only two superpowers in the world speaking
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why one of the united states. together to take over a country regional justification in war and no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective. as far as you know i don't nations it should be a listen to us every toy that small data is given. military and intelligence but. it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries all understand. another country that suffered months of civil unrest as yemen and its president announced on saturday that he is to step down in the coming days it follows nine months of violent protests with the opposition demanding an end to ali abdullah saleh is thirty three year rule but president of the arab lawyers association told me he believes sellers assurance that he will step down is nothing but an empty promise.
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he must have made a hundred. speeches and in every single one of them he said he is going to leave in every single one of them he promised that he doesn't want to run as a president and every single one after he finished he stayed in power this is absolutely no different from anything before i think no one believes what he is saying he had the. time to in his life when he went to saudi arabia and exist policy. organized with the gulf states so that he stays away and then somehow he can leave but now they have to go it is very clear they intend to keep and it will take probably it's going to be. similar to the one we have in yemen where as we continue to. and people continue to be killed and indeed the figures in yemen i'm increasing dramatically and i think. for all this time he's not.
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even if he's forced to then it's going to be he's going to be the man behind the crown he's going to put one of his. or one of the generals that he has been working with. so it's in the middle east has had much of europe and now the u.s. as well street protests could be seen as a running theme in world affairs these days the occupy wall street movement spread now to dozens of american cities including the capital washington d.c. that's anti corporate protests in new york city and to their fourth win to the city's mayor recently lashed out at demonstrators saying their actions are hurting the economy the protesters though insist it's the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population has driven the country into the financial chaos in the first place and despite being branded as anarchist by many those camping out in lower manhattan seem to be well organized and they say they've got a clear agenda. these are. the people.
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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 the way that it's being done but at the same guy . every part seems to be handled by someone a medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the spot assistance a comfort area supply 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 or beer from richmond virginia. the kitchen providing a traditional american breakfast bread bagels and peanut butter and jelly plant roots are used to filter water here we have breakfast at seven thirty in the
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morning people don't work for food grade cereals we have lunch around but we have snacks continually 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 filmed during clashes with police are posted online from these laptops you've got people coming in 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 on 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 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 the occupation developments it's day twenty one of occupy. wall street zero chance of rain the
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number of arrests to date at over eight hundred thirty four. a library area lets protesters relax and educate themselves with literature fitting most tastes fiction nonfiction magazines without a kid section we got c.d.'s we had d.v.d. is a guy drug documentary 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. we've got more reaction from the streets of new york in this week's edition of resident two hofner sauce on the wall street campaign this of they think they'll win their fight against corporate power.
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i'm here. this week let's talk about bad i think well 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 bonds would be that spain here we have people for life i just saw in one of the he's at rallies they say all of you guys are doing. i mean thirty five right that by well they
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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 but i mean people rioting and burn their old cities down as soon as that happens 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 the thing 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
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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 so people can identify me like no other people are feeling this way as well so i mean. i think that this is this is going to draw attention to draw people and whether or not you agree with their math or the bottom line is these people are getting the word out. more thoughts about what to do with the world. here on r.t. just a couple of minutes a brand new show few robert foster delves into the depths of the debt stricken global economy is a quick preview of what's to expect from his unique style and his recession wrap. thing is the u.s. crash is imminent the debt ceiling fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in the i.m.f. and structurally unjust programs in greece the turtle economy and language from the
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greek economy of meaning household management. managing theories abound but in practice if anyone actually know what the hell's even happening. and at least to the gloomy news more that coming up in about ten minutes now returning to our top story the tenth anniversary of the afghan war this week washington is trying to mend ties with one of its main allies in the war pakistan relations have recently been hit by mutual accusations and political differences parties military analysts are going to reports next 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 bad three weeks ago was under 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
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border the state department filed a request with pakistan for cooperation against osama bin ladden going to slim 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 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 but before the nine eleven
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struck the united states. he said there is time as we talk about our military and i said with his assessment from afghanistan three hundred eight was news in brief this sunday morning couple of the top stories bus crashed into a cliff one in the knees. killed forty injured dozens of others three dutch tourists are among the dead there and investigations underway but early reports suggest paul road conditions and overcrowding on the bus was significant factors it comes just a month. suffer a similar crash on the island killed ninety. thousand the 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 they were eventually dispersed by the police demonstrators say the event marks a new wave of what's being called hot all which last year saw several thousand people clash with police italy recently signed off forty five billion euros of cuts
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i found a flaw in the model god perceived is the critical function structure of the farm's otherworld church. ladies and gentlemen you're shooting into the juice you said to get we're examining the status of the human experiment is it succeeding or will it have to be a what if we pursue a prognosis in this rap news or would it just knows the globe is allegedly trying to make sense about global economy and its arcane joins us financial temple scenes of the priesthood is scrambling to maintain our confidence in markets and banking off to derivatives wants to be easing trade imbalances recession looks to be the nation's close to collapsing of subprime loans foreclosed homes and people's taxes spent to bailout to fail aaa banks again feel levels pricing is a u.s. crash seems imminent coming smashed the debt ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in athens greece the i.m.f. imposed structurally on just programs in greece when in fact the total economy and saddam language from the greek economy of meaning household management well all we managing theories abound but in practice anyone actually know what the hell is even
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happening to be taking some sanity we take a step across to texas with our first guest welcome to rap music to hold the economy what's your diagnosis of it all well we've dropped the ball. i'm a physician politician this is pathological c. the global economy is chronically ailing believe me the course we plodded is terminally fading we're headed towards creating cardiac arrest with deep depression and trauma across the way is there a cure for capitalism not plants and the market will take care of the brand but first we need to think maneuvers seabag raghad proclaimed freedom with our economy was inflated totally but we got currencies and. ronnie is a worthless commodity is the biggest fraud in the history of humanity this must be dealt on the capitalist system is it just is not the p.c. theory like communism all you see this is a capitalist of the gods but the free market is a bad smits religion has been murdered by fiscal we now have just the cabal of
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corporations with state business lucrative the most just exemplified by the system of the same truth there we don't need to hold more to pay their debts because campaigning to live. thanks to wrong now for another fine mind a long line frequency is the director behind such guys on the line live documentary filmmaker peter joseph thank you robert for allowing me to speak this moment but before i to liver might be prognosis we need a sweet open mind to keep us focused. now as to these fetters that are if you will in a system that sickly inherently flawed the whole monetary paradigm is the single cause the economy isn't broken it doesn't need fixing this is exactly its intended conclusion money is an interest in. our whole economy has been set up to see you say you don't agree with congressman wrong that we need a fiscal solution to it but the long for the illusion that these debts can be
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served by using money which creates more debt is frankly absurd it's a way of maintaining divisions leverage when we could attain abundance of all the scarcity we need to create jobs live within our means cut wasteful health care and welfare schemes. it seems this is just another socialist vision this is true such systems socialism. is it just rhetoric would you really send the fed. the fed that's not quite the opposite. is true is just there we believe. scripture is the real bible for some kind of. trick to the invisible hand ok thank you for your seats contributions and brief attempts to alleviate all confusion blind you both inspired and led. revealing hidden truths. did lightening fuse but time's running out you have
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a demonstration of my love for a living she told his mom love yes it is ron paul and i approve these messages to you is that should bias a bit of time to share a thought before we end for the night on the local economy it does seem and will. be it's a moral uncertainty is the only stock the so we've been rising and now we're losing confidence but is it surprising as it goes from the first seed we planted to margin calls a big piece of the footsie one hundred well seems to come to us global or to sing off financially if it's an interesting quote we invested too much in this enterprise would miss the solution might be demise for our real economy is something much broader its g.d.p. measured not by our ability to hoard but our capacity to read learn to no no place in nature that would have been us remain on this planet ark pandora.
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is our team all sco our top stories tonight a war dragged on for a decade the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten. not yet to tell about the feat seems nowhere in sight and the human cost is rising faster than ever with this year's set to become the deadliest for u.s. troops. one of the u.k. enough is enough say protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal as they gather in london to protest the aska afghan war activists of the rally have been joined by musicians actors and politicians. to corporate sentiment spreads fast across the us with protests against inequality unemployment taking place in dozens of cities by wall street movement is criticized for lacking organization but say it's far from chaotic and is in for the long haul as we report on the program a bit later again. it's not exactly midnight thirty one moscow time.
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