it's ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing the joshua welcome to the program now russia is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings that's 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 loyalist continue we'll find some of the images in ex on a boy his report 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 the jews. and the captives themselves seem doubts

about what's coming next and it seems like these where you know the cost levy as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi are going magine it's about he said to stick 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 to 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 go back is fair also g.'s here in hatred's in the neighborhood. obviously is a poor area and solved in tripoli where more and more good offer had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also has his name in the tourist prisons a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain manna from this area are still disappearing without a trace their families are too scared to talk about that. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how my comment form piece and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing on daily beast 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 the gadhafi 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. mohamed and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lee beer 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 front lines 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 and leave it still alive even if many people aren't. artsy tripoli hospitals because it's feared syria could also 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 witnesses some of their peers in month old crisis dozens of troops and anti regime protesters are reported to have been killed in the latest series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to wow. this mission which it's hoped might help to an end the conflict i do service reports from damascus. the arab league council is expected to send an advance team here. 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 days outside the country the syrian national council that's the main body outside of syria have 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 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 and intervention in their words they said that that could lead to the destruction of the country something 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 has been described as being on the brink of civil war. to be almost a situation here in homes it's very difficult. things which make us feel

intimidated because of the situation the problems with the city. 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 first reporting there now a u.s. base 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 strath force has protesters are exaggerating to with outside support from powers like the u.s. well dr paul craig roberts and former reagan administration official told us are told our team here believes washington is not just backing the rebels diplomatically but the united states is involved in stirring up the opposition and in arming yet they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do

look so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state i like syria syria you wouldn't find people an opposition able to regularly themselves with arms military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves or opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan or just to get saved in libya which do is the russians are going to and they make base in syria. and the americans the russian naval presence in the mediterranean just as in libya are the problem was the chinese all investments in syria and iran is in the target sites and and lemon arms and so there will be knocking all of these countries one by one and while they

stand there and don't unite in fact it can't unite and that's why we're so vulnerable. so had for us our here in our u.k. is getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling in its affairs. it's simply outrageous that an elected officials and brothel can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when you have entered into office they will look into the controversy surrounding that use attempts to make britain are going to its welfare rolls for non presidents. and starts that town down to twenty with a special series of first hand reports on landmark events at trans the shape the passing year. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. wealthy british style. that's

not on. the money. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max culture for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our. welcome to the future new year's wishes on technology updates next generation playthings made from super strong cultural lightweight building materials to help with the help of nuclear isotopes a cleaner planet seems to be a revolutionary way to get rid of our growing landfills and a long list of russian innovators. the central.

russia six a dumas the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud charges and telling all because it has a laos from the parliament building. 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 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 fair russia will gets to have surely 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 rallies to place in mosco long some two hundred thousand people gathered for a peaceful demonstration against the outcome of their parliamentary election claiming a number of violations to place during the electorate 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 this they do weighs going to stay in the way it was shaved on december the fourth until you know with her reporting there and as natalia mentioned we'll be bringing you updates on how the first day of the new russian parliament develops. the year is just ten days away and we are starting our own countdown with ten special reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven we are looking back at major stories through the eyes of our correspondents who witnessed them and we start with an area that saw fair share of both breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more the didn't appear all over reveals. well 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 . that first flight by you get 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 mars five hundred project which came to an end this year was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to 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 just 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 such a long time one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team

a currently simulating their return 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 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. 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 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 cosmos 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 reports look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training 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 manned space flight that's always the big concern but. it has shown me 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. this was just a first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty eleven so don't miss the rest and we'll be bringing you a new story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our website at our dot com where you can also check out plenty more news stories commons and analysis now let's take a look at what's available there today. a man made then this a dutch team of scientists have engineered a deadly virus that critics dog and indestructible by a weapon and terrorist threat also. prove protection and

new riot shields said to be introduced in the u.s. can't stop the occupy demonstrators from breathing find out more. and britain may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds and 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 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 this country will be my home 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 in 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 becomes he could give me something but he 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 officials in 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 is giving the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will see the britons refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and

a half billion pounds to those who work but anything back in the pockets the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very original 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 aren't eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k. is forced to sweeten the deal on her than it landed a brief look now at other stories making news around the world now female supporters of the pro muslim party in pakistan of held an antenatal rally in response to a recent airstrike that killed twenty four people hundreds of women chanted slogans denouncing the us and nato also carried banners demanding the withdrawal of alliance forces from afghanistan after last month's attack pakistan retaliated

immediately by closing its afghan border crossings to supply. how the body of north korea's slate's a veteran a leader kim yarnell who die of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang several top chinese officials have traveled to the region and to pay their respects aside out of importance beijing places on ties was north korea meanwhile the news of kim's death but the north stranger is on high alert fearing instability in the region japan called a special security meeting while south korea said its military is on standby. next hour peter all of the al and his guests will be assessing what's next for north korea under the third. i don't 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. 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 guard and mentor him but there are jobs raised in certain questions will there be tension between the regent and the young kim what will roll with the military take going for my. body cavities top stories after the latest business news with kate. i. hello and welcome to the business program more details have emerged about the possible sell of russia's largest. the fed the most news paper of policy and is one forty five billion dollars to one hundred percent of the show as of the most. on name sources kind of find out to

a consortium investment group when i see my holdings of the most likely potential acquirers however they at the most possible buys are not ready to stump up the full amount they all asked it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. so let's have a look at the markets oh it is climbing for a third day as investors bet the signs of an economic recovery and shrinking stockpiles in the u.s. the world's knowledge is crude consuming nation indicate field amount may increase one's weight is currently trading at just under ninety nine dollars per barrel while the brant is that one hundred and seven dollars asian markets are posting strong bangs renewed optimism about the health of the global economy boosted. call micah's and technology firms are among the main game is in japan with honda up two percent in sony ninety three percent in the black community is healing stocks are on the rise in hong kong after chinese call and liquefied natural gas in balls hit

record levels in november. how the russian markets i've been so high are falling days in the u.s. and asia however investors are still concerned about the risk in russia rubenstein i have to say much of paul explains russian market that has underperformed global markets to significant of the past three weeks. by a large margin will probably continue to observe there's a political race remember president and perhaps are increasing as we get closer to the weekend. when 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 of that so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. russia's gas monopoly gas from has decided to more than double this is dividends the company's shareholders will get

six point two billion dollars if the payouts approved in next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticized for low diffident payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however others say the move could lead the monopoly to a missed balance budget due to planned gas discounts to neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. the shareholder struts of russian nicole giant nickel has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately owned trading company traffic gora has revealed it now possesses only zero point nine percent of the company previously it has eight percent of the forty billion dollars. bank is suggest traffic or a stake could have been sold back to norris and its recent buyback program this would have resulted in a large profit for traffic however the annual accounts for the try to do not show any significant financial profit of the previous transactions speculation aside the

destination of nicole's shares. and that's all the business used and i'll be back in fifty five minutes for another edition. wealthy british style it's america has moved on to the right.

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welcome back you are tonight live from moscow these are the top stories russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya in 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 country for record off in the oil was the target of. russia's newly elected parliament embarks on its work two weeks south of the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount of the central.