russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya while locals say atrocities are still being committed in the country with former khadafi loyalists the target. of russia's newly elected parliament and bars on its work two weeks after the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount. disagreements between the u.k. and the e.u. grow with a battlefront now being welfare rules the blocking system britain pays billions to non-citizen something london says will spawn a benefit tourism. shareholder stunt of russian nicole john noddy's nicole has become even more public aided

a mysterious join me in twenty minutes for more details in the business minutes and . it is not i am the person cavill you watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program russia is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings and that's the reaction to report of 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 and you may find some of the images next on a boy has reported disturbing. this is what it's like to look down 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 death certain about what's coming next. scenes like these play no the cost leave here as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been longines 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 told 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 his fear and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more mark gadhafi had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also and his name to the tourists present 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 libya with families of a logic get to 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 lead beer in recent months this naturists are probably their 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 frontlines of banter about. 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 going to wake up artsy tripoli. well spirit syria could also face foreign intervention with predictable 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 of witnesses some of the fiercest battles and its nine month old crisis dozens of troops and a regime testers are reported to have been killed in a way to series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to allow in and observers mission which it's hoped might how to and the conflict actually sarah first reports from damascus. 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 they've been the tools for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive

a mixed response from the opposition they 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 been syria is saying the national coordination council here within the country said that they welcomed me they hoped that it would be implemented properly but they said 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 is one of the main conflict areas now we once 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 bring. of civil war. to be honest the situation here in homes is very difficult to have been kidnappings which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with the c.t.c. being fuel and gas. says only the situation there in the civilians who are still living within that sit here in a very very extraordinary situation and those schools where most of the people living that result that is soon as possible so first reporting there now a u.s. base intelligence gathering for all has found most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are untrue the kompany called staff or sas protesters are exaggerating to with 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 their opposition and in armenia 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 syria syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to readily supply themselves with arms with military weapons that makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for their country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan of course who got saved in libya what's involved here is the russians have a naval base in syria. americans don't want a russian naval presence in the mediterranean just as in libya and the problem was the chinese all of us are syria and iran is in the torrent sites

and lebanon. so there will be knocking all these countries one by one while they stand. don't unite in fact it can't unite and that's one of the one of the wells that i have for you this hour here and are. getting increasingly unhappy with meddling and its affairs. it's simply outrageous that an elected officials and brothels can prevent from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when. we look into the controversy surrounding the attempts to make britain reconsider its welfare roles for non presidents. and r.t. starts the countdown to twenty twelve with a special series of first hand reports on landmarks and trends a passing year. to

history. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. wealthy british soil not. the time to write for. the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines and tune into cars a report on our. welcome to the future new year's wishes on technology update next generation playthings made from super strong older lightweight building materials good help with the help of nuclear

isotopes a cleaner planet seems to be a revolutionary way to get rid of our growing landfills and along with the russian invaders. we've got the center. watching r.t. of russia's six a duma the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protest over alleged fraud artists tell you all the joins us live from the parliament building. to an italian l. the stairway is different from the previous one so tell us how the seats are spread and what can we expect promise work. well in the new lower house of the russian parliament the state duma opposition will have large more representation than it used to have with the country's leading political party united russia not getting

the constitutional majority of the votes it used to have securing only two hundred and thirty eight seats in the country's parliament as opposed to three hundred and fifteen it's nice to have however still united russia got most of the. but we are expecting some heated debates including all in choosing the new speaker of the state duma which we will be updating you on throughout the day now fifteen committees out of twenty nine will be headed by the parliamentary majority the united russia party six by the country's communist party and liberal democrats and a fair russia will gets to have sure to meet each number since the election day on december the fourth there's been a number of debates about the outcome of this parliamentary election and opposition to all these two places most go alone some two hundred thousand people gathered for a peaceful demonstration against the outcome of the parliamentary election claiming

a number of violations to place during the electoral process following which president even if ordered a thorough investigation the air into the case and the voting results of twenty one polling stations have been counseled but of course out of tens of thousands of polling stations throughout the country twenty one is to smoke over a number to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections so the lower house of the russian parliament this they do weighs going to stay in the way it was shaved on december the fourth. our entire very much indeed for the something that's going on call reporting there from central moscow. now new year is just ten days away our we are starting our own countdown with ten special reports on events that shaped twenty eleven now we're looking back at major stories through the eyes of our t. 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 have lines but there was much more that didn't speak all over it now reveals. well one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of the first space flight 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 current 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 mars 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 they're in a show in a 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 voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never. however it will be another five months before this can be opened and they can step back into 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. and trying to send people to the red planet for real. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out is the crash of that progress module 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 a soyuz rocket. 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 evidence thankfully that these failures that we've seen today seen this year that we've seen this year didn't result in. any major problems on month spaceflight that's always the big. show in the perseverance of these people who risk their lives going into space well as a job they do it out of choice. and this was just the first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty eleven . will be bringing you this story every day telling you here you can always find

them on our website dot com. you can also check out when you. more news stories comments and analysis let's take a look have what's there right now. a manmade menace a dutch team of scientists have engineering deadly virus that critics and struck to build bio weapons and terrorist threat also. protest are approved protection and new ride shield set to be introduced in the u.s. can stop by demonstrators from breathing more at r.t. dot com. britain may be forced to pay more than two billion pounds of welfare benefits to non-citizens and that's if the european union has its way but with london's new

spirit of non-cooperation the decision might not be so easy to impose a 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 i 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 but that's only if it needs you and you work for it become tree 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 or forty's they are 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 where 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 were put anything back in the pool the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the regional welfare state back in the one nine hundred forty s. which contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible for she was sent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those 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 bennet london. and a brief look now at other stories making news around the world female supporters of the pro muslim party in pakistan have held an anti nato rally in response to a recent airstrike that killed twenty four people hundreds of women chanted slogans denouncing the u.s. and nato he also carried batterers demanding that was drawing alliance forces from afghanistan after last month's attack pakistan retaliated immediately by closing its afghan border crossings to nato supplies. the body of north korea's late 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 the important space and places on ties with north korea meanwhile the news of came staffs puts the north's neighbors on high alert hearing instability in the region japan called the special security meeting while south korea's at its

military is on standby. his guests will be assessing what's next for north korea under kim the third. i think anybody would be prepared to take over north korea at this point given the state of its economy given the general instability i would say in the country owing to that economic instability his brothers were not interested in the job i think it's tough for anybody to take that position much less someone in their late twenty's the young kim's uncle is going to act as regent you know in the medieval days or used to when the king died in the prince wasn't quite ready there would be the regent to sort of guide and mentor him but that itself raises certain questions will there be tension between the regent and the young kim what will role will the military take going forward i.

am remind of our top stories coming your way shortly before that they'll see what's happening in business with kate. hello and welcome to the business program the shareholder starts out of russia in the cold call has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately owned trading company truffle gorazde revealed it now possesses only zero point nine percent of the company a previous c. has eight percent of the forty billion dollars mine up bank is suggest traffic or estate could have been sold in its recent buyback program this is what if resulted in a large profit for traffic or up however the accounts for the trade to do not show any significant financial profits of the previously known transactions speculation aside the destination of notice nichol's says is. let's have

a look at the markets then all is climbing for the day as investors bet that the signs of an economic recovery and shrinking stockpiles in the u.s. the world's biggest crude consuming nation indicates fuel demand may increase lightwave is currently trading at night those books are all brant is not one hundred seven dollars. asian markets all posting strong guy used as the you don't assume is about the health of the global economy boosted risk appetite called makers and technology firms are among the main gate is in japan with home to the home for sons and sony just on the three percent in the black come over to make stops on the rise in hong kong off the chinese call it liquefied natural gas imports hit record levels in the event. that's the one hour ahead of the opening bell in moscow the russian markets ended tuesday's trading session in the plot indices were up almost two percent opposed by positive news from abroad the sense of it was supported by reports

a german business confidence improved abolished expectations also spent and managed to sell short term debt as a follower yield and in the prime months old house but local investors are still concerns about the risk in russia while the rubenstein. let's see. if. russian market has underperformed global markets to significantly over the past three weeks. by by a large margin will probably continue to observe there's a political risk from the president and perhaps even increasing as we get closer to the weekend. and we have another major stations scheduled to take place in moscow so i think many investors will want to take. a wait and see approach anticipate of that so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. crosses gasman off a gas problem has decided to move and double bass is dividends the company sasol

doesn't get six point two billion dollar as if the payouts approved it next is a g.m. that's probably been criticized on low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however let's say the move could made them an offer a to miss balance budget to supply and gas discounts to neighboring countries as well as a possible were datsun in gas expos so you're out. basel the business is when i'll be back in fifty five minutes from will.

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