tv [untitled] October 8, 2011 7:00pm-7:30pm EDT
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u.s. led invasion of afghanistan the ten year anniversary with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight meanwhile the human cost of the fighting faster than ever with the number of civilians killed these yellow to protrude total coalition losses in a decade of fighting. while in london and demands on the streets for the country's troops to leave afghanistan and such a rally reflecting the and popularity in the u.k. of the war which has claimed almost six hundred british military lives. and occupy wall street protests against trying to cause that you are spreading to dozens of american cities from richmond to los angeles and hitting become so washington d.c. .
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international news live from moscow this is an see with me thanks for joining as the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting a figure moved by the number of a good lives lost case not a lot of reports. 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 deduced yet for u.s. forces fighting to change a decade long taliban insurgency but thanks to improved medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when
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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 he tends or flown to germany for treatment yes. and this was still it was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines the doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wiley 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 a bullet shattered 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 african bystanders mostly gunshot blast victims in this follow up operation he and his team are reconstructing the boy's forehead with
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a titanium mesh that will restore his appearance. i. want to i. think the difference is that i have very likely. guards. michelle. in the recovery ward well his father says that while he's sure it was a u.s. marine well it is so he's grateful for the first class treatment he has rescinded which had it what's that and i'm just happy that he's ok this shooting. so he's forgiven. 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 grounds on which is somewhat flawed in kandahar afghanistan for. after ten years of international efforts this iteration afghanistan is worse now than when it all began and that's the view of abdullah and temple it was going chaplain
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at north carolina's jeep university. it is really horrible and depressing. it was lookin full to witness the bleeding wound up on society as a result of one war and destruction as there another and it is it is a little unfortunate as all these efforts all this money and all these struggles khalid a little the international community a lot of government has achieved afghanistan today after ten years of being there i think in many ways it is worse off not better off. the u.s. plans to withdraw combat troops by the end of twenty four seen by a direct audience and he will coalition rhinebeck it says that washington has no intention of leaving afghanistan and use its presence or influence because i haven't. if the u.s. military were to leave afghanistan all together or if it were to leave iraq all together those governments would become independent determining governments free of
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foreign interference or foreign occupation that's what would happen they would form their own natural alliances with their neighbors the united states does not want that this is the great prize this is a geo strategically and resource rich part of the world united states is there for the long term and i think that's the real goal is to put firmly afghanistan and the surrounding countries into an american spirit of influence i think the karzai government really is an extension of american power which has a masquerade the fiction of a nato cover but really it's an american power cards i of course probably cannot survive without outside a support after all the outsiders the occupiers put him into power i don't think he has any real legitimacy and credibility for his people. and in about fifteen minutes we'll be bringing you more expert opinion on the ongoing story with our military analyst who is in kabul giving his view on why america is struggling to contain the insurgency meanwhile on our website we're asking what legacy you
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playing the ten year are going to a creation has looked and add a moment more than say the war has brought the us nothing but bloodshed and bankruptcy just over a quarter of you believe that years of occupation have turned up that it's turned into the world's biggest heroin hub over the six thing the occupation it was a stepping stone to an invasion of pakistan while only three percent reckon the world is a safer place because of the war so little totty dot com to have your say on the issue. its. target. is to. see it see you it's me. to bring peace and stability to the world. you. don't have to be. the decade long war in afghanistan is tearing up more and more discontent in britain with the country's
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military contingent second only to the us and the country become for it has already brought sorrow to many british families claiming the lives of almost four hundred members of the armed services reflecting the unpopularity of the war in the u.k. actually it's have been joined by celebrities and politicians in a march in london calling for british troops to be brought home archie's other bennett was at the rally. this year's protests in the center and the center of london has shown the sentiment in the public imagination here in britain is namely the forefront people are very angry hey that we're there in the first place obviously the period of time of the cuts people sturgeon has risen through all this money she really thinks pointing to a seemingly unwinnable war in another five hundred million is a nation in development aid to the ngos a say is no reaching it's the right people is it all going is it all going to really have a harshman effect on sounds interesting to. us universities brown
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university heard the thousand other people i mean you go in in this case. civilians insurgents. soon jeremy corbin m.p. the labor policy he joins me now jeremy thanks very much for speaking to us a homeowner you want to view and i think all those years we have bank holiday because they go to vote against military action in afghanistan ours is something changed in that last hour and a lot of my colleagues in regret they did enjoy being sworn in to get mr fixing this office was was the last british soldiers that the americans. and the corruption in afghanistan and the whole country there are many who just feel like the wrong thing ten years ago. as you see there's rampant corruption leads in. this campaign is extreme poverty and you're saying there's an age crisis of this in any legal victory stuff you know you start
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a victory and then whenever i've raised this question of how would you define victory in afghanistan but it would be no withdrawal in an orderly way but the worst of it senator they can control or not mr move in the sense that 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 a political process in afghanistan which has actually been suppressed by the western intervention. people on the streets of london have been demanding and then not only to the afghan conflict but also to nato is present and among the high profile faces of the protest was we can leaks founder julian assange we're told also that libyan intervention was only simply about the u.s. and europe taking over the country. the lesson for me is it. only. shows in the world speaking why one day's all the united states and europe. get to take over the country the regional justification for
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a no fly zone over libya has been completely abused it shows that there is no effective. nations or. listen to us every time a small mandate is given. military and intelligence powers. it is a slippery slope that leads to the takeover of countries. meanwhile the revolutionary forces have launched one of the biggest association mamak office hometown of sunt they have already seized a major highway highway that opens the way to attacking a key base or because i was a loyalist the interim government claims to control most of the city now this still facing fierce resistance from fighters loyal to the ousted leader leave his interim administration say so that's always crucial to form a declaring liberation and changing connections but names of germany from the stop the war coalition stand by shelling so much for that reason nato demonstrates
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a very selective approach to protect civilians. the whole idea of the bombing was that it was meant to protect the civilians of banco thank god how was it was anybody inside up to the idea that they were making killing civilians in another city or town in there and that's exactly what's happening so many times very selective about the civilians it supports it doesn't support those civilians who mark hosenball it's a great cause simple number one and of course we know you want this hollow was about it was about regime change i wanted to get rid of gadhafi if i could press to stop this how can civilians in libya. if not. they don't care about civilians and that's what's actually happening it's a little bit terrible killings and so i'm sure and really this is a response on this is a key doing. in france of the middle east have become an inspiration overseas and
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in the u.s. the occupy wall street campaigners say they're using arab spring revolutionary tactic to achieve their goals and to call for protests in new york and for the fourth week that have already spread to dozens of cities in the capital washington d.c. organizers claim they'll be in a thousand american citizens by the end of the month according to a post on their website as the movement picks up steam the slogan occupy wall street has been trying to occupy together protesters say the greed of just one percent of the u.s. population curve the country into financial chaos in the past place while sakis goes compared to camping out in a couple months. improve his highly organized he's in to see if you're going to describe it. these were. accused of being anarchist and disorganized the occupy wall street is far from chaotic it is set up like a small village broken up into the in sections way better organized than i thought
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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 but at the same guy. every part seems to be handled by someone in the medical area staffed by volunteers provides on the start the cisterns comfort area supply sweaters embroidering kits to keep demonstrators warm as the season gets chilly or while the door needed sleeping bags pile up as the number of protesters grows bigger we just took the charge it's our buzzer beater 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 for seven thirty in the morning. breakfast foods bread cereals we have lunch around but we have snacks going to continually throughout the day richard. dinner at seven thirty
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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 company running in here i mean panicky you know adrenaline rush with cameras i got footage i got footage you know processing footage getting it online and simultaneously having people tweet you know on facebook when our social media using social media and to 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 the viewership really goes up as you keep a steady constant you know provision information is also spread in more traditional ways the status board helps protesters keep up to date with occupation developments as they try to run up 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 reading those tastes fiction
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nonfiction magazines section we got c.d.'s we had d.v.d.'s the 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 is that 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 this evening general assembly and need to be consensus on by everyone here all of the many cooks in the kitchen are here to cook up one thing a revolution of change in america. archie new york and our resident reporter in the station your whole thing is to has been asking our trade campaign is also try and it was driving that land how they believe they can change the world and still the rule of the rich.
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i'm here. this week let's talk about i think what really protesting is you know the failure of the system to respond to you know a kind of higher calling for you know our country you know we can be subjected to. you know one percent of one percent of those the real bad guys you know who make over five million dollars a year for doing that well i do feel that the country is in a very serious serious situation where he just the united states or is it a global issue it's a global issue but the united states says that the center of the of all of the most important issues right now that we're getting peterson here from spain wants to be to spain where we have people for life. and one of the hes it really is all of those are doing. i mean thirty five percent of our while they're 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 if only fair do you think that's going to happen through
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movements like this you know now it's bad we're out here trying during the sixty's there were riots in newark and l.a. because a 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 i was going to spread all over the country we're trying to make sure that doesn't happen by having a peaceful revolution some justice and some some enforcement of the regulations we already have on the books that would be a good start to happen. to believe so yeah have to be i believe so how is this going to bat. well this is just like the genesis of a bigger movements it's been going on for a couple weeks and every day gets larger and larger so. i think eventually it'll bring results i think there's a large amount of discontent with what's going on in this country and i think this
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is it's bigger so people can identify if you like a lot of 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 birds the bottom line is these people are getting the word out. and you can head to our twitter feed to get more on the ongoing corporate protests around the u.s. and our correspondents are across the latest and share based see she's losing confidence as one of her in one of her tweets says washington d.c. and space museum has been closed after angry protesters tried to enter with class cards. to get all the updates on this story. and let's now return to our top story of the turns one of us here of the hour going to. hand 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
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differences of his military and its again a crush of reporters after afghanistan. this is the commanding height that dominates this sweeping view both. area of kabul the afghan capital. right behind me the reason that three weeks ago was under the twenty hour siege by the hagana network let's take a closer look at what went wrong with a global war on terror first after al qaeda central radio boito that 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 the middle finger a behind their back the cia could and should have saved the day by activating their
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formidable human intelligence network you know again it stands to conduct a clandestine body snatching mission and to bring osama bin laden to justice but they just blew it looking back at operation enduring freedom the question is not what went wrong with this mission the question is what's preventing the w. bush administration to look at all other options and for starters to make sure that pakistan real be treated as a reliable ally not after but before the nine eleven struck the united states. and that was all his military on the beginning to show with his assessment from afghanistan and world news and this hour of brass has overturned and crashed into a cliff in the west java in indonesia killing all foreign tourists and injuring eleven the bus was carrying visitors from the netherlands belgium and india as the
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brakes failed when it was going downhill it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen people. in a speech on state television the president of yemen has announced it is to step down in the coming days and to government protesters have been demanding and then stated earlier dollars. thirty three year rules and nine months now and then rights has paralyzed the country and led to over a thousand people being killed according to official estimates violence in yemen has escalated since starlet's recently turned from saudi arabia where he was treated after and i stress nation attempting to ring. six people have had a lucky escape surviving a plane crash in australia a small aircraft with five skydivers and a pilot on board crashed into a creek surrounded by trees it was preparing to land near melbourne the pilot suffered broken legs and had to become free to work which to safety by helicopter
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on passenger was also injured but the number were remarkably and heard after the accident. up next it's time for this month's rush of close up series. and this time because the region is the destination just a bit more than six hundred kilometers away from moscow to the southeast the area lying between the russian capital and the mighty of all the river is known for its grander state that have inspired some of russia's most prominent right including we hail and that is a good other idea by explaining some of the region's sights which have roused the passions of russia's marietta's in the past days and. a tale of two states for a family a modest country see that and sorry stein's survived in farming and small scale
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manufacturing it happened to be the childhood home one of russia's most legendary figures mikhail element of a child prodigy a fiery complete soldier womanizer and finally a greater amounts of both a novelist he died and it to an age of twenty seven while little of his work was composed here there meant that it's varied in the family more psyllium. no two hundred people look after the estate as in the nineteenth century but a family has become the main employer for jason phillips is. direct descendants of the serbs who worked here dress up as the council says for the job. some get to play the heiress across for the benefit of tourists as the numbers are growing there's no need for the state to turn a profit. of family as good a state as when the poured himself was living here other ground in the area which
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are just as important. and funding. one of russia's grand palaces well not anymore in its heyday in the nineteenth century crack in all the self-sufficient cultural center for the benefit of the diamond prince alexander . and so obvious. times and so does a warehouse and a home for dementia sufferers before falling into disrepair and needed a government nor any private investors millions of dollars needed to rebuild it. now on the one hand you can turn all of these the states into museums and the lifestyle they supported has gone on the other if the situation continues as it is it will simply disappear and that is a fact. of the villages of could have decided to fight there never the ball going from house to house to collect donations and rely entirely on volunteers they have
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vowed to restore a 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 women our ancestors. they face a daunting task but if they don't for build it no one else will. you know fartsy the region. and coming up in your next hour a brand new show on this channel robert robert costa let's read part how to take the global economy to the level slicing is the u.s. crisis is imminent and smashed that ceiling of fourteen trillion despite protests and clashes in athens greece the i.m.f. in the book structurally unjust programs in greece will actually turn the economy into the language from the greek economy i mean in household management we manage and there is a bounty but in practice if anyone actually know what the hell's even happening.
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