dubbed is a decade of failure with nato troops now close to victory over the taliban the human cost though keeps rising both among the soldiers and the afghan civilians who demand an end to the aimless war and the violence it's bringing on with them jason reports. another day on afghanistan's southern 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 medevac crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest 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 right you get. 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 going to a firefight with the taliban his village in helmand province the bullet shattered part of his skull and would have killed him if not for emergency surgery in six months dr miller park says he's treated more than a fair share of afghan bystanders mostly gunshot bomb blast victims in this follow up operation he and his team are reconstructing the boy's forehead with a titanium mesh that will restore his appearance so i started what i. was i was surprised by difference i was very likely.

it's. an issue. in the recovery ward well the squad they are with says that while he's sure it was a u.s. marine well that is he's grateful for the first class treatment he has recently which i 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 that grinds on chasing work like canned or canister for r.t. . this is afghan drug production is increased dramatically since the foreign intervention began in the country remains the world's largest source of opium indeed a former chief of staff to the u.s. secretary of state says american forces a turning a blind eye to that 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 have been a five 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 sure you got your views on it we'll talk with them just a second but let you know in about fifteen minutes time will bring you more expert opinion on this top story artie's military analyst he said in afghanistan he's there reporting for us now he's asking why america's struggling to contain the insurgency despite its military superiority it's a very good question still trying to put some flesh on the bones announced for you in about fifteen minutes time we're also asking what you think the legacy of the ten year after an occupation is left is what you're telling us online tonight just

over half of you again it's not really changed much throughout the night think that the wars brought the u.s. nothing but bloodshed bankruptcy but a third of you think those years have just afghanistan it's the world's biggest heroin how about a fifth of you believe the occupations cleared the way for american invasion of pakistan in just a couple of percent of you three actually. to say the world is a safer place because of the war you can log onto our t. dot com to have your say. do it america. target. is to. seal the food you will spoil. the mission to bring peace and stability to the world. for you. no i did only have to change. anger about the afghan wars mounting in the u.k. to 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 gathered in london protesting over a decade of war bennett reports from the capital. this huge protest in the center in the center of london has shown the jewel sentiment in the public imagination here in britain is the forefront people are very angry very that we're there in the first place obviously the period of time of deep cuts people sterling has risen through all this money in n.z. million rounds being pumped into a seemingly unwinnable war in a not too little light hundred million as a major development in the ngos and saying well no is no reaching is the right people is not going to sit you know and go really having much of an effect on the sound crews that are being killed in. a us university brown university with a thirty thousand other people i mean you know in the in this case. civilians insurgents. i'll talk more about this is a high profile activist lauren booth is journalist act with thanks very much to for

speaking to r.t. so why is the government still in britain still in this unwinnable war eve we've committed ten years of troops and political narrative to a pressing some of the poorest people on the planet it would be like rewriting a whole novel this government cannot go down an avenue and then take us out by saying actually we were wrong we've had three hundred eighty soldiers die and tens of thousands of afghanis die by the troops led by america it's impossible for the government to extract themselves easily from this unfortunate apart from the course of human life and obviously the massive financial cost what has this done for britain's image on the international stage to say well let's not skip over the financial cost because eighteen billion eight hundred billion pounds sterling in the last ten years is what's been spent on the cup which government is asking people here to take pay cuts to the test say if you work in civic life you won't

have any pensions and so that's unacceptable but as for britain's world view the government's consecutive lake of consecutive government still refuse to accept that their actions in afghanistan and in iraq and around the will. affect how people see us and yet seven seven the bombings here in london. say it was a direct response to the murders in afghanistan now is known as a terrorist state and frankly our government should be no. people rallied in the center of london today demanding an end not only to the afghan war but also to the ongoing intervention in libya we 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 libya is that there are only two superpowers in the world worth speaking why one goes all the united states and europe. together to take over the country the regional

justification for a no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective rule of no not in nations it's going to be a lesson to us every time a small mandate is given. military and intelligence. it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries understand. we want to live here are self revolutionary forces launch one of the biggest assaults yet to moammar gadhafi he's home town of sirte they've already seized a major highway there that opens the way to attacking a key base of the colonel's loyalists the interim government claims now to control most of the city but he's still facing face resistance from fighters loyal to the ousted leader interim administration say serves for is crucial to formally declaring liberation and shed using elections but the german from the stop the war coalition told us the shelling of that reason and to demonstrates a very selective approach to protecting civilians. the whole idea of the bombing

was that it was meant to protect the civilians in banco saying quote how why does he want anybody inside up to the idea that you have main killing civilians in another city or town in there and that's exactly what's happening nato is very selective about walks millions it supports it doesn't support those civilians who might apply those in that way does support me all along and of course we know you want this war was about it was about regime change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could press to stop this helping civilians in libya so they would if not. today. i don't care about. so little bit terrible killings and so i'm sure you aren't really this is a response well this is the people now run live. and later the program to give you a taste of the life of the russian nobility in czarist russia in

a completely different as you can tell. a closer team take it to the pens a region rich with older restore procedures states not all of them getting equal care will tell you why. it's in the middle east so much of europe is now the usa as well street protests could be seen as a running theme in world affairs the occupy wall street movement spread to dozens of american cities including the capital washington d.c. that is anti corporate protest in new york and to their fourth week the city's mayor recently lashed out at demonstrators say their actions are hurting the economy the protesters reverend sisters the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population that drove the country in the financial crisis in the first place and despite being branded as an accused by many as camping out in manhattan a well organized and they say they've got a clear agenda. a situation and found that. these are. the

people that 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 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 . every part seems to be handled by someone a medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the spot assistance or comfort area supply sweaters and blankets to keep demonstrators warm as the season gets chilly or why. 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 roots are used to filter water here we have breakfast at seven thirty in the

morning people don't breakfast food grade cereal we have lunch. we have snacks came to 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 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 to. 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 the 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 with literature fitting most tastes fiction nonfiction. section. 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 happen 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 as they see a church party new york. we've got more reaction from the streets of new york to in this week's edition of the resident or healthiness asante wall street campaign is that they think they will win their fight against corporate power.

i'm here at occupy wall street this week let's talk about pat i think will 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 where he just the united states or is it a global issue it's a global issue but the united states adds at the center. of all of the most important issues right now that we're going to hear from spain bunch that piece of spain where we have people for life other cultures got. there one of the he's it really is they say all of you guys are doing. i mean thirty five percent of our

while they down 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 now it's bad leaders 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 riot 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 keeping that's going to happen. i have to believe so you 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 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 and this into a rallying point i think that this is this is going to draw attention it's also going to draw people in whether or not you agree with their methods and the bottom line is these people are getting the word out. just let you know as well you can head to our twitter feed to get more of the ongoing protests in new york our correspondents there across the lake of course what they see right now are his new sycophant often one of the latest tweets says several hundred people have already appeared in washington square park in new york you can follow us on twitter said r t underscore com to get all the updates on this ongoing story. now back to our top story more common and that is a promise the tenth anniversary of the afghan war being marked this weekend

washington is trying to mend ties right now with one of its main allies in the war pakistan relations have recently been hit by mutual accusations and political differences artie's military analyst is going to khrushchev reports from afghanistan about. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view was the area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me of the reason that three weeks ago was under the twenty are received by the ha going to network let's take a closer look at what went wrong so we have the global war on terror first after al qaeda central re deployed to the pashtun tribal belt along the afghan pakistani border the state department filed a request with pakistan for cooperation against osama bin ladden grand slam about brazenly ignored the diplomatic request from washington d.c. with their middle finger a behind their back. could and should have saved the day by activating their

formidable human intelligence network in afghanistan to conduct a clone dance time body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice they just blew it looking back operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission the question is what's preventing that w. bush administration to look at all other options and for starters to make sure that pakistan real be treated as a reliable ally not after but before the nine eleven struck the united states. well that was our military analysts who going to khrushchev with his assessment from afghanistan that he served in afghanistan that knows what he's talking about come a top world news stories and said early sunday morning it's not exactly twenty minutes past one moscow time a bus has crashed into

a cliff into the easiest job of our island four people were killed dozens were injured three dutch tourists are among the dead and investigations underway but early reports suggest paul road conditions and over crowd. being on the bus was significant fact is it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen. thousands of students have marched through its nice capitol protesting against education cuts they threw paint and flares and banks may try to block railway lines but were eventually dispersed by police demonstrators say the event marks a new wave of what's been called hot autumn which last year saw several thousand people clash with police italy recently signed off forty five billion euros of cuts to tackle its debt. in a speech on state television the president of yemen and see to step down in the coming days antigovernment protesters have been demanding an end to earlier dollars to laze thirty three year rule for nine months the unrest has paralyzed the country led to over a thousand people being killed according to official estimates balance and yemen's

escalated since sellers recently returned from saudi arabia where he was treated after assassination attempt in june. of a travel for a few minutes now discovered more of russia in our latest close up series. and today we travel to the pens a region about six hundred kilometers southeast of moscow the grander states there of inspired some of russia's greatest writers including mikko love on top but never explains next some of the places which once wrote was poetic passion and now facing a very uncertain future. a tale of two states not a family a modest country see that in cyrus times 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 letterman is buried in the family more psyllium. now two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but it has become the main employer for adjacent villages. the direct descendants of the serbs who worked here dress up as their ancestors for their job. some get to play the heiress across for the benefit of tourists as the numbers are growing there's no need for this state to turn a profit. as good a state as when the poet himself was living. in the area which are just as important architecturally but which are not getting the same care. one of russia's

grand palaces well not anymore in its heyday in the nineteenth century reckon it was the self-sufficient cultural center for the benefit of the diamond prince alexander correction in soviet times it served as a warehouse in the hope of dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair needed the government nor any private investors put in the millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now where the so on the one hand you can turn all of these estates into museums and the lifestyle they supported has gone on the other if the situation continues as it is they will simply disappear and that is a fact oh yeah the villages of crack america have decided to fight them never going from house to house to collect donations underlying entirely in volunteers they have to restore the state building by building starting with a cemetery chapel but i mean 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 women around and says. they face a daunting task but if they don't for build it no one else will. grow there are. the region. heck of a job ahead of them to take a minute out of brand new show on this channel as robert foster delves into the depths of the debt stricken global economy with his recession wrap. the levels rising as the u.s. crash seems imminent smash the debt ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in athens the i.m.f. imposed structurally unjust programs in greece that to an economy that are 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. you're loving it thanks for telling us that you're enjoying if you call it already goes on for about ten minutes that you can see it again on this channel around

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