russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings and media while locals say atrocities are still being committed in the country with former gadhafi loyalists the target. brushes a newly elected parliament and barks on its work two weeks after the polls that sparked mass protests against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount. and disagreements between the u.k. and the e.u. grow with val's brand now being welfare rules the walking says that britain pays billions to non-citizens something that london says will spawn benefit tourism.

it's the russian capital you're watching r t josh welcome to the program russia's demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombing stats their reaction to a report by human rights groups which claims dozens were killed in airstrikes despite the alliance saying its operation was almost flawless while the conflict is over and the man who stood in the way of western style democracy dead atrocities against his loyalists continue you might find some of the images in exxon a bogus report disturbing. this is what it's like to look death in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran good office hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts

about what's coming next. scenes like these play now with a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi are going lodgings about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his perceived loyalists in some places the violence is quite bad the town we looked out in was called where god and the militias from the neighboring town of misrata are terrorizing the people of to where they accuse them of having fought for qaddafi of having committed atrocities. in his name this is one of the liberated tripoli's new landmarks a prison where moammar gadhafi was set to hold his political opponents with no access to lawyers and no chance for a fair trial. but while the

prisons new guards have a very elaborate in their rating gadhafi is ferocity is here and hatred still resides in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also had his name in a tourist prison a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area still disappearing without a trace where families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mohammed to form peace and your earlier this year it investigated the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new leadership it's usually mothers who come here and at first they are scared to tell

me that this son or husband was with pick a daffy forces they usually say he was a civilian court in the crossfire but i tell them that i don't care which side he was on all i need is accurate information so that we can start searching. mohammad and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lee beer in recent months this snapshot it's probably the relatives most realistic hope of finding closure but even after sifting through them many managed to retain hope like this man whose brother disappeared on the front lines of banjo vod. i hope he's in tunisia maybe his in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't. artsy tripoli. syria's another country which its security will face foreign intervention was

unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is split over whether they need military help from outside in their fight against the government the division came as a country witness of some of the battles in its nine month old crisis dozens of troops and anti regime protesters are reported to have been killed in a way to series of clashes across the country syrian authorities have agreed to a while in observers mission we're told might help to and the conference are to sarah first reports from damascus. and the arab league council is expected to send an advance team hit to syria in the next couple of days ahead of the observers mission that will that be entering now that was agreed upon on monday when the syrian government signed the proposal that you can the tools for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive a mixed response from the opposition days outside the country the syrian national council that's the main body outside of syria said that they don't think that that

decision is going to be as efficient as the syrian government is trying to make out if they could it a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that very very widely with the opposition we have in syria is saying the national coordinator council here within the country said that they welcomed me they hoped that it would be implemented properly but they said that absolutely their stance is still very much against international intervention in their words they said that that could lead to the destruction of the country is something big they do not want to see happening we went to the city of homs the other day that's one of the main conflict there is now we weren't allowed to enter any of the hotspots where the conflict with continuing we were allowed to see some of the parts of the city speak to some of the people that this is the city this being described as being on the brink of civil war. to be honest the situation here in homes is very difficult

being kidnappings which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with the city limits even fuel and gas. so simply the situation there and the civilians who are still living within that sit here in a very very extraordinary situation and those calls from all the people living that result that is soon as possible so for us reporting there now a u.s. based intelligence gathering firm has found most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are untrue a company called stress force says protesters are exaggerating to went outside support from powers like the us dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told r.t. he believes washington is not just backing the rebels diplomatically but the united states is involved in stirring up there are position and an arm and yet they use

the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do in libya so. these are not. spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like they are syria you wouldn't find people in opposition they want to really themselves with arms with military weapons that makes no sense for the syrians to themselves stir up opportunity for the country to be destroyed or right it's like libya or iraq or or afghanistan tourists who got saved in libya what's involved here is the russians have a naval base in syria and the americans don't want a russian naval presence in the mediterranean. and just as in living your the problem was the chinese all in syria goes around and is in the torrent

sites and lebanon. so there will be knocking all these countries one by one while they stand there and don't unite in fact it can't unite and that's why we're so want to. still have free will sour here on our t.v. u.k.'s getting increasingly i'm happy it was the e.u. meddling and it's unfair. it's simply outrageous that an elected official from brothels can prevent us from bringing about the performance but we said we were going to have a kid into office well ok until the controversy surrounding that these attempts to make britain reconsider its welfare rules for nonresidents. and our team starts the countdown to twenty eight twelve for the special series of first hand reports on the landmark advance in france that shaped the past year.

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pressure in some. stone totty don't come. this is our russia six state duma the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday it comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud the central action commission looked into the claims and cancelled the voting results of twenty one polling stations but it still didn't affect the overall outcome isn't tell you and all we could joins us now live from the parliament building. going to tell you well tell us more about how this parliament was elected. well it's been over two weeks since the election day and other day was full odes by the heated debates and

a number of opposition rallies in moscow alone over twenty thousand people took it to the streets expressing their disagreements with the outcome of the parliamentary elections in the country claiming if you cation took place and all. already. voting results at twenty one polling stations have been counseled present with video from a thorough investigation into the case of force of a cation. alleged force of patients that's too place however twenty one polling stations out told for tens of thousands throughout the country of course is not enough to cancel the outcome of the parliamentary election in the country still the new lower house of the country's parliament has been formed. well this duma is different from the previous one obviously so tell us how the seats are spread and what can we expect from its work. well the main difference of course is the fact that the country's leading political party united russia did not get the

constitutional majority it's used to have securing only two hundred thirty eight seats in comparison to three hundred fifty and it's nice to have still getting the majority of the votes however followed by the country's communist party which if you were slightly over nineteen percent over the votes and serdar show getting slightly over thirty tea and liberal democrats securing eleven point sixty seven percent over the votes over the major difference from the previous post. the previous lower house of the russian parliament is the sites that opposition parties have much more a presentation in the new states do right now so we're expecting some heated debates throughout the day especially on the topic of choosing a new speaker of the state duma which is going to take place today ok in the time

thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update and talking over the reporting there outside the state duma. how new year's jazz standard is away and we are starting our own countdown with ten special reports on. events that shaped twenty eleven and we're looking back at major stories through the eyes of our correspondents who witnessed them and we start with an area that saw a fair share of both breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that didn't espied all over now reveals . one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of your first spaceflight just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant to have that first flight by

you daryn fifty years ago and he was saying really it changed us as a species we stopped being limited to our own planet we were able to go out and explore further of course a few years after guarin first month set foot on the moon. of the most five hundred project which came to an end this year was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to go in and have a look at it where they were when i'd seen it on television i was thinking wow this is six guys in a shed and then when i actually went to where the spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean doing them a bit of a disservice saying that there is a ship in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time worn year into their. five hundred team currently simulating never. however it will be another five months before this can be opened and they can step

back to normality it was nice on the day i remember the day when they came out. the look on their faces when the door opened the look on the very very pale faces of course you have to realize these guys hadn't seen sunlight for such a long time. they were ecstatic to have come out of there. and it really was i mean whether scientifically it ends up being the building block or the the first step towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to. trying to send people to the. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out is the crash of that progress no it wasn't just the module itself they've been using those since the late seventy's it was the fact that this was carried on. is the only way we have now getting people into space. the progress module that was launched at the

end of august was carrying valuable food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing from and from the guys on the space station those food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive training they know what they're doing they'll be fine. who was actually the mission commander who was up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried they were generally scared at times they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that in the beginning of twenty twelve. pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully these failures that we've seen today seen this year that we've seen this result in. any major problems on.

the big. show in the perseverance of these people who risk their lives going into space. as a job they do it out of choice. while this was just the first report in our special series on advanced shaped twenty eleven so don't miss the rest will be bringing you new story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our web site www dot com where you can also check out plenty more. stories comments and analysis of let's take a look at what's there right now. and man made man is a dutch team of scientists have engineered a deadly virus that critics dubbed an indestructible bio weapon and terrorist threat also. protester approved protection and new riot shields set to be introduced in the u.s. can stop occupy demonstrators from breathing to find out more at r.t.

dot com. alberich may be forced to pay more than two billion pounds and welfare benefits to non citizens that's if the european union has its way but whether london's new spirit of non-cooperation the decision might not be so easy to impose our design or ban it has more. homeless and jobless this man's too embarrassed to be identified he came to britain from poland five years ago hoping to live a dream but the realities been a nightmare he claims the u.k.'s welfare state hasn't been fair on him.

i'm a citizen of the european union five years ago i decided that this country would be my home but didn't come here to claim benefits i came here to work. david's what the government fears is a benefit tourist here to take and not to give back english is still a struggle and the state says he doesn't qualify for its handouts a serious accident eighteen months ago put him out of work and he soon went bankrupt he's been living on the street ever since but still won't go back to poland. i thought this was a friendly country because only if it needs you and you work for it the country could give me something but it doesn't need me i never thought it would be like this this is not a paradise. foreign nationals are eligible for welfare once they've lived here for over three months but they must convince the your priorities they're here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it

wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain when north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it's simply outrageous that an elected official from brussels can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when we were voted into office the e.u. commission is refusing to speak to us but it hasn't been shy in issuing britain with an ultimatum. it says the right to reside test foreigners must pass to claim benefits is too tough and has given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will see that britain's refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who won't put anything back in the pool it's the

british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the original welfare state back in the one thousand forces which had contributed principal you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible for forty percent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those on eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k. is forced to sweeten the deal on the bennett london. at about ten minutes we'll speak to a french political analyst who believes it will take many years for the european union to become a solid player in international relations. ruby's not yet. single unified decision maker specially for foreign policy i think it will take a few decades before europe is able to as you say with

a single voice in international affairs. well a brief look now at other stories making news around the world female supporters on the pro muslim party to stand up held an anti nato rally in response to a recent airstrike that killed twenty four people hundreds of women chanting slogans denouncing the u.s. and nato and the also carried batter is demanding the withdrawal of alliance forces from afghanistan after last month's a tap pakistan retaliated immediately by closing its afghan border crossings to nato supplies. the body of north korea's laid veteran leader kim jong il who died of a heart attack. on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang several top chinese officials have traveled to the region to pay their respects a sign of importance beijing places on ties with north korea meanwhile the news of kim's death put the north's neighbors on high alert fearing instability in the

region japan called the special security meeting in south korea said its military is on standby. brings us up to date here in our team let's now take a look at what's happening the world of business kate is here. and welcome to the business program michelle to start to of russia nickel johnson of a snake all has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately and trading company traffic gora has revealed it now possesses an enormous weight nine percent of the company it previously has eight percent of the forty billion dollars mine. thank you suggest i could have been sold but it's enormous and it's recent five at ground this is it would have resulted in lost profit this tropical however the annual accounts for the try to do not show any significant financial profit of them prove

a tsunami transaction speculation aside the destination of ne ne kosha is no. let's have a look at the market for this kind of for us. as investors bet the signs of an economic recovery on shrinking still in the u.s. the world's biggest crude consuming nation indicate fueled amman's may increase its leaders carty trading at almost ninety eight dollars a barrel while brant is up one hundred seven dollars. asian markets posting strong guy as mutal mizzen about the health of the global economy but size call make us on technology stocks are among the main gain is in japan but homes are up two percent the sony over three percent in the black and commodity big stocks are on the rise in hong kong off the chinese called the buy gas imports hit the record levels in the november. less than two hours ahead of their mean valid the russian markets ended tuesday's trading session in the black by the indices were optimists here the

sun's tell us why positive news from the rules the sentiment was supported by reports thanks john and his confidence in turns up bob honest expectations also spend a modest social out of the following deal than in the prior amongst. us from local faxes investors also concerns about political risk in russia not for this sign up i asked to see much of paul explain. the russian market as i am to perform global markets should risk you know the past three weeks. by a large margin will probably continue george or of there's sort of political risk remember president you have to increase and as we get closer to the weekend. so we have another major station scheduled to take place in moscow so i think many investors will want to take. a wait and see approach anticipate all of that so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week.

russia's gas monopoly gazprom has decided to move and double bass is dividends the company said hollis will get six point two billion dollars if the payouts approved next is a g.m. gazprom it's been criticized in light of his and payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however an aside the move could made them enough made to miss balance budget data plans gas discounts to neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas flexibles so you are at. the business news now join me at fifty five minutes for another dissent.

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