the shareholder still in terms of russian nicole just not is nicole has become even more public hated a mysterious to me it's twenty minutes for more details in the business but it. is not out of the russian cavil you're 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 as a 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 at the man in the way of western style democracy dead atrocities against his loyalists continue and you may find some of the images in ex 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 get off his hometown of sirte there was behind a 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 beer as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been 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 in hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margot duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also and his name to the tour is 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 all the beer with families of a legit good office supporters can turn to for how my comment form piece and your

earlier this year it investigated the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he's now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new leadership it's usually mothers who come here and. tell me that this son or husband was with the gadhafi forces they usually say he was a civilian courts 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 leadbetter in recent months this naturists are 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 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 hold dies less and leave

it still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy tripoli. well it's fear of syria could also face foreign intervention with unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is split over whether the 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 as a result the testers are reported to have been killed in the latest series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to allow in observers mission which helped might help to end the conflict sara 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 opened the doors for those observers to then into the country now that decisions receive a mixed response from the opposition they say 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 they called it a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that very very widely with what the opposition within 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 that they do not want to see happening we went to the city of homs the other day that's one of the main conflict areas 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 almost a situation here in homes it's very difficult not things which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with the city receiving fuel on. my feet and certainly the situation there in the civilians who are still living within that city or in a very very extreme situation and there's calls from all the people living there to resolve that as soon as possible. so at first reporting there now a u.s. space 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 the opposition and in arming it they use the cover of the arab strain in the arab protests as they do in libya so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly in a authoritarian state like their syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to readily supply themselves with arms with military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan on course 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 they will presence in the mediterranean just as in libya or the problem

was the chinese all investment syria goes around and is in the target sites and lemon aren't and so there will be knocking all of these countries one by one while they stand there and don't unite in fact it can't unite and that's why they're so vulnerable. well so i had for you this hour here in our t.v. u.k.'s getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling and its affairs. it's simply outrageous that an elected officials in brussels can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when you have voted into office will look into the controversy surrounding that use attempts to make britain reconsider its welfare rolls for nonresidents. an r.t. starts a countdown to twenty twelve with a special series of first hand reports on landmark demands trends that shape the

passing year. witnesses. to history in the making of. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. wealthy british style. that's not on my list for. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. welcome to the future new year's wishes on technology update next generation placings made from super

strong cultural lightweight building materials to help with the help of nuclear isotopes a cleaner planet thanks to the revolutionary ways to get rid of our growing landfills and along with the russian innovators. leave the country. watching r t a 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 are just to 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 frolics work. well in the new lower house of the russian parliament the state duma opposition will have much 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 votes but we are expecting some heated debates including on choosing the new speaker of the state duma which we will be updating you on throughout the day now fifteen year committees out of twenty nine will be headed by the parliamentary majority the united russia party six by the country's communist party and the liberal democrats and a fair russia will gets two had sure to meet each now since the elections and december the fourth has been a number of debates about the outcome of this parliamentary election and opposition rallies to place in mosco long some twenty thousand people gathered for

a peaceful demonstration against the outcome of their parliamentary elections claiming a number of violations to place during the electoral process following which president david have 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 too small of a number to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections so the lower house of the russian parliament the state duma ways going to stay in the way it was shaved on december the fourth. her entire very much indeed for the subbasement telling on core reporting there from central moscow. now a new year is just ten days away and 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 tea 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 headlines but there was much more that didn't speak all over the reveals. one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of eureka guarin first space flight and 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 garant 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 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 well this is six guys in a shed and then when i actually went to where the the mocked up 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 show in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in for such a long time worn year into their voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door 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 haven'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. in 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 now 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 now the 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 morse and from the guys on the space station who that those food supplies had been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training that they know what they're

doing they'll be fine. volkov who is actually the mission commander who is 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 ran out in the beginning of twenty twelve pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully that these failures that we've seen today seen this year these failures that we've seen this year didn't result in . any major problems on months spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has shown the perseverance of these people who do risk their lives going into space on a well as a job they do it without a choice. now this was just the first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty eleven so don't miss the rest and we'll

be bringing you this story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our web site r.t.e. dot com where you can also check out plenty 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 engineered a deadly virus that predicts and struck to build bio weapon and terrorist threat also. protest or approve protection and new rides shield said to be introduced in the u.s. can stop by demonstrators from breathing more at all. 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. 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 because only if it needs you and you work for it you can treat 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 of dorothy's 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 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 alter. 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 it's the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very original welfare state back in the one thousand forces 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 binet 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 they also carry banners demanding the withdrawal of alliance forces from afghanistan after last month's attack pakistan retaliated immediately by closing its afghan border crossings to regular 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 importance space and places on ties with north korea meanwhile the news of came stass puts the north's neighbors on high alert fearing instability in

the region japan called the special security meeting while south korea said its military is on standby. now and our guests will be assessing what's next for north korea under 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 the 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 so used to when the king died in the prince wasn't quite ready there would be the regent to sort of god 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. now remind of our top stories coming your way shortly before that though we'll see what's happening in business with kate. i. 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 traffic 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 bankers suggest half of gore's stake 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 trader do not show any significant financial profit over the previously known transactions speculation aside the destination of notice nicole's miss shows is. let's have

a look at the markets then all is climbing for a 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 per barrel brant is not one hundred and seven dollars. asian markets all posting strong guy used as reviewed all of them is about the health of the global economy boosted risk appetite called makers and technology firms are among the main game is in japan with honda to the whole percent and so only just under three percent in the black commodity like stocks on the rise in hong kong off the chinese call and liquefied natural gas imports hit record levels in november. that's the one hour ahead of the opening bell in moscow the russian markets ended tuesday's trading session in the flat where the indices were almost two percent opposed by positive news from abroad the sense it was

supported by reports german business confidence improved a bottomless expectations also spending managed to sell short term debt as a follower yield and in the prime and so has been local investors are still concerns about political risk in russia while the burdens. find out why and see how the. russian market has underperformed global markets a significant of the past three weeks. by by a large margin will probably continue to observe this political risk premium present and perhaps even increasing as we get closer to the weekend. and we have another manifestation scheduled to take place in moscow so i think many investors will want to take. a wait and see approach anticipate or know that so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. cross'

gas monopoly gas problem has decided to moment double places dividends the company's shall hold as we get six point two billion dollars if the pilots approves 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 the middle made to miss balance budgets of plans gas discounts to neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas expos so you're out. all the businesses for now i'll be back in fifty five minutes from will.

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culture is that so much good music maybe even a lot of people you're usually looking one came to the names the passage of north korea's dear leader again highlights the acute insecurity on the korean peninsula and beyond. the back you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya response to a human rights group report which claims dozens were killed in air strikes that as locals say atrocities are still being committed in the concrete was former gadhafi loyalists the target of. russia's nearly like the parliament embarks on its work two weeks south of the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount in central.