we're in the process of pulling gays in the u.s. and asia oh well details for you in the business put it in twenty minutes time. it's eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me were in a joshing russia is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings and that's a reaction to are poor by human rights groups which claims dozens were killed in air strikes the spy 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 continuing to find some of the images in ex on a bogus 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. and the captives themselves. 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 i've been lodgings about he said to stick tendencies growing 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 at 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 but 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 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 has its name in a tourist prison a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain valid from this area are still disappearing without a trace of their families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place in libya with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mamma to form peace and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off his

reasons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new leadership it's usually mothers who come here and they're 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. mohammad and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across libya 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's still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy tripoli because it's fear it's syria could also face foreign intervention with 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 the fiercest battles in its nine month crisis dozens of troops and whole regime protestors 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 it's hoped might help to and the conflict artists are furthur ports 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 received

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 called it a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that varies 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 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 areas now we weren't allowed to enter any of the hotspots where the conflict with continuing we were allowed to see some other 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 not things which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with the city receiving. certainly the situation there and the civilians who are still living within that city are in a very very extreme situation and there's calls from all the people living there to resolve that as soon as possible. so our first report and their well i 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 on true a company called force as 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 the opposition and in arming yet they use the color of the arab spring arab protests as they do and libya so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like syria syria you wouldn't find people an opposition able to readily supply themselves with arms military weapons it makes no sense for the syrians to themselves opportunity for the country to be destroyed like libya or iraq or afghanistan course who got saved in libya which involved you is the russians apparently and then with mace in syria. and the americans the russian naval presence in the middle ground just as in libya or the problem was the chinese all investments in syria 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 they're so vulnerable. still have through this hour here in our team the u.k. is getting increasingly on happy where the e.u. meddling in its affairs. 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. we looked into the controversy surrounding the e.u. is a chance to make britain reconsider its welfare rolls for nonresidents. and starts the countdown to twenty twelve with a special series of first hand reports on landmark advance in france that shape the passing year. with this is.

just history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. wealthy british style sun. that's the time to. go. to. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser 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 clear plan it seems to be a revolutionary way to get rid of our growing landfills and along with the russian leaders. the central. russia six state duma the lower house of parliament begins its first session on wednesday and it comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud and all the joins us now live from parliament willing. now to tell you this duma is different from the previous one obviously so tell us how the seeds are spread and what can we expect from its work. well in the news before and lower house of the russian parliament the country state duma opposition parties will have more of presentation more seats says the country's ruling party united russia did not get the constitutional majority it used to have securing only

two hundred and thirty eight seats as opposed to a three hundred and fifteen seats it used to have so we are expecting some heated debates of various each is starting with appointing a new speaker of the state duma and our fifteen out of twenty nine committees will be headed by the parliamentary majority by the united russia party six will be led by the currency's communist party ends a fair russia and liberal democrats will get to had four committees each now after the elections a on december the fourth there's been a number of speculations over elections being force of fights and unfair and violations taking place in most goes on twenty thousand people took it to the streets gathered for a peaceful demonstration one of central squares of moscow saying that the results of elections were falsified following the us president video ordered a story investigation into the case and has some fifty permanent cases were filed

voting results of twenty one polling stations were a council overview take a look at the bigger picture of course out of tens of thousands of polling stations throughout the country twenty one is a relatively slow small number so the results over the elections are valid to say doom is going to stay in the shape it was formed on the fourth of december the current i thank so much indeed for bringing us to something final to recording from central moscow. well new year is just ten days away and we're are starting our own countdown with special reports on events that shaped twenty eleven and we're looking back at major stories through the eyes of already 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 speed it all over now 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 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 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 wow 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 one 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 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 mars 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 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 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 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 evidence 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 month spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has showed me the perseverance of these people who who do risk their lives going into space well as a job they do it for do it out of choice. there and this was just the first report in our special series on events that shaped twenty seven 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 r t dot com where you can also try running more news stories comments and analysis so let's now take a look at some what else is available there today a man made

a dutch team of scientists have engineered a deadly virus that critics and destructible bioweapon and terrorist threats also. pastor approved protection a new ride she said to be reduced and the u.s. can stop occupy demonstrators from braving find out more at r.t. dot com. britain may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds and welfare benefits to non-citizens and that's if the european 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 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 we're not 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 pot 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 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. 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 announcing the u.s. and nato also carried banners demanding that withdrawal of alliance forces from afghanistan after all last month's attack pakistan retail he admitted lead by closing its afghan border crossings to nato supply. the body of north korea's late better leader kim yarnell who died of a heart attack on saturday has been put on display in pyongyang several top chinese officials have travelled to the region to pay their respects as side up the importance beijing places on ties with north korea meanwhile the news of kim's death puts the north neighbors on high alert fearing instability in the region japan called a special security meeting while south korea said its military is on standby. now a little later this hour peter will balance his guests will be assessing what's next for north korea under kim 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 god and mentor him but there itself raises certain questions will there be tension between john the regent and the young kim what will or will the military take going forward i. time now for the visit date with katie. i. welcome to the business program well details have emerged about the possible sale

of russia's largest. the vet may see news paper reports yet as one full to five billion dollars for one hundred percent of the says of the moscow on name sources kind of financial consortium alpha great investment great. holdings all the most likely potential acquirers however they out the possible buys are not already says stump up the fun amount they all said it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. let's have a look at the markets oil is gaining for a day as investors are optimistic that shrinking stockpiles in the u.s. combined with signs of an economic recovery will lead to march the fuel will increase by its weight is currently trading at ninety eight dollars bread is about one hundred and seven dollars. asian markets are posting strong guidance as investors appetite for risk is also being fueled by the new york to ms m i the state of the global economy i want to call mike is on technology that are among the

main game is in japan and it is up over two percent and sony isn't doing to no two in three quarters of a percent gangs meanwhile causes even stops on the rise in hong kong selling music sony's call and liquefied natural gas in polls hit record levels in november. on the russian market gays in the u.s. and asia by the l.c.s. on the my sex up to no point six percent but is check out those individuals on the my sex marriage chips all mixes all my divorce that is a third of you said down all the teabag is whole five percent on top mike is also gaining the company plans to increase in sales by nine percent next gen however investors are still concerned about political risk in russia but where the sign a i have seen metropole explains. russian market that has underperformed global markets significant of the past three weeks. by

a large margin will probably continue to observe there's a political issue remember present and we have to increase and as we get closer to the weekend. we have another one just patience 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. brushes gasman operate gas from has decided to moment double the issues dividends the company's shareholders will get six point two billion dollars if the pales approved at next year's a.g.m. that's promised been criticized the low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however i list say the move could leave them in a later missed balance budget due to plans gas discounts for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. the shareholder starts of russian

juggernaut east nichol has become even more complicated a mysterious the privately owned trading company child figure has revealed it now possesses only zero point nine percent of the company it previously had eight percent of the forty billion dollars mine up bank has suggested gore is stake could have been sold but no risk in its recent buyback program this would have resulted in a large profit for truck of all however the accounts for the trade of do not show any significant financial profit of the previous transactions speculation aside the destination of the miss shares is online. and that's the business use to now be back in fifty five minutes in the meantime there's lots more stories on the website dot com forward slash business.

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i'll go back to watching r t a reminder of the top stories russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from the nato bombings and only be a response to cuba by its river board which claims dozens were killed in airstrikes that's as local say atrocities are still being committed in the country but former gadhafi loyalists the target of. russia's newly elected parliament embarks on its work to lead south after the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount.