a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow with me rory soon shane. is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings that's the reaction to a report by human rights groups which claimed 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 now dead atrocities against his loyalists continue be warned you may find some of the images and acts on a boy his report disturbing. this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of man the young and old captured after the needier propped rebels over iran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind a camera delivers

a verdict you committed you worked for gadhafi did you. and the captives didn't sound seems dacs certain about what's coming next. and it seems like these where you know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been lodgings 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 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 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 flame the district also has its name to the tourists present 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 all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mammoth formed 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're scared to tell me that this son or husband was with the khadafi 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. for how many of his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lead 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 his brother disappeared on the front lines of banter about. i hope he's in tunisia maybe he's in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they see hope dies last and leave it's still alive even if many people aren't. artsy tripoli.

and his fear that syria could also face foreign intervention with unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is a split over whether they need military help from outside in their fight against the government the division came as the country's witnesses some of the fiercest battles in his nine month old crisis almost two hundred troops in the anti regime protesters are reporters who are being killed in the latest series of clashes across the country the syrian authorities have agreed to allow in observers and observers mission which it's hoped might help to end the conflict. reports from damascus and the air. the 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 days outside the country the syrian national council that's the main body outside of syria said that they don't think that that decision is going to be as efficient as the syrian government is trying to make out if they could at a ploy and have still called the international intervention now that varies very widely with what the opposition group 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 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 whilst 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 the situation here in homes it's very difficult. things which make us feel intimidated because of the situation there have also been problems with the city receiving. 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. sarah furthur putting the meantime a u.s. based intelligence gathering has found that most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are true the company called strapped for says protestors are exaggerating to wait outside support from palace like the united states dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told us here at r.t.

that he believes washington is not just backing the rebels in a diplomatic. but the united states is involved in stirring up the opposition and in arming it they use the cover of the arab spring arab protests as they do look so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly an authoritarian state like through syria you wouldn't find people in opposition able to really supply 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 those who got saved and lived do is the russians now the name of 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 of us to syria

goes iran is in the target sites and in lebanon and so there will be knocking off 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. it's good to have you with us you're watching. this hour the u.k. is getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling in 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 it into office we look into the controversy surrounding the e.u. is attempts to make britain reconsider its own welfare rules. the countdown to two thousand and twelve with a special series of reports on landmark event certain trends that shaped the

passing year. this is. history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven. about ten minutes past the hour here in moscow the first session of russia's six state duma the lower house of parliament is under way it comes of more than two weeks after elections that spog mass protests over alleged fraud that you could only get a job and i joins us live from the parliament building for details on this to read others do it is different from the previous one tell us how the seats are spread and what can we expect from it they still have ms and did different and opposition will obviously get a much louder voice in the new do much with united russia failing to secure a constitutional majority it's widely believed that the lower house of the russian parliament will again become a field of heated debates well united russia won the december fourth vote it got

the majority of the seats in the new duma but it perform worse than four years ago losing almost two hundred seats now that united russia doesn't dominate all the committees that is as it was in previous in previous dumas would change their approach towards lawmaking i would like to address this question to a political analyst to meet people who come in so a completely new doom a completely new format of debates raised voices heard during the first session is it how it's going to function is it becoming a real filled up debates from now on yes the nature of the debate is changing because now their position gets about half of the committees so they will control sort of commit itself to seventy nine and this is a significant victory for them at the same time a significant this because they will have to show that they're ready to share the responsibility for the fate of the country and that they're able to provide constructive criticism for the policy and provide your new ideas so we'll see how

these two mobile function and. where the opposition is ready to go for the stars to take up the chairman's prime minister vladimir putin has said many times in the country does not need a parliament which possible calls mechanically do you think that this new composition of the state duma will provide. country but such yes i assume that the the do it again become the place for the heated debate that the plenary sessions as well because while in the previous will it was easier to solve most of the questions within the committees nowadays. the composition of the committees has changed and more issues will be taken for debates to the to the plan the recession so all can true will be able to see the their produce to see how they discuss things and what they actually suggest this will be a kind of more open form of governance in russia but everybody knows that first session of the duma has been tarnished by mass protests. with people saying that

the elections were rigged the results were wreaked we know that there's been mass coverage of how illegal demonstrators were arrested and linked to released like blogger alex enough ali who pulled on protesters protestors for violence why do you think you see such a popular figure with the media i think the violence popularity is so far as most over the internet community and of course he has managed to raise interest because a person after the after the recent after the recent trailers much will depend on his behavior in the future because one thing is to be a popular internet hero and the other thing is to become a politician so far it's not yet shown that he is ready to again take responsibility to take the challenge and to become a political figure most importantly but those debates move from the street into the building of the lower house of the russian parliament thank you very much for that

me the bullet coming from the first state session of the state tomorrow. it's going to tour with live in central moscow thank you. for watching r.t. healthy new year is just ten days away and we are starting our very own countdown with ten special. reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven we're looking back at major stories through the eyes of our r.t. correspondents who witnessed them and we start with an area that saw its fair share of breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not as artie's peter oliver reveals. one of the biggest landmarks the resort 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 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 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 ship in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time 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 who that those food and 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 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. and this was just the first report in our special series on the events that shaped two thousand and eleven make sure you don't miss the rest will be bringing you a new story every day until the new year plus you can always find them on our website. you can also check out plenty more news stories analysis look and see what's there for you right now at r.t. dot com a major. dutch team of scientists of engineer a deadly virus critics dubbed indestructible bio terrorists threat also. protest a proof of protection

a new riot shield is said to be introduced in the united states can stop the occupy demonstrators from breathing find out more. in about five minutes time with the business but for now britain may be forced to pay out more than two billion pounds in welfare benefits to non-citizens if the european union has its way but with london's a new spirit of cooperation the decision might not be quite so easy to impose. reports. 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 when north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it's simply outrageous that an elected official from brussels can prevent us from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when we were voted into office the e.u. commission is refusing to speak to us but it hasn't been shy in issuing britain with an ultimatum. it says the right to reside test foreigners must pass to claim benefits is too tough and it's given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will suit britain's refusing to budge otherwise it

claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who work put anything back in the pot the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the original welfare state back in the one thousand forces which had contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible forty percent of 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 either bennett r.t. london. all right now let's get some other headlines from around the world for you this hour time for the r.t. world update or stop of the philippines the number killed in last week's massive flash flooding there is topped one thousand and that number is expected to grow with your thought he is continuing to find bodies most of the dead are women and

children he drowned at last friday when water gushed into their homes as they slept a state of national calamity has been declared. health officials in hong kong have slaughtered more than seventeen thousand chickens after a carcass infected with bird flu was found live poultry imports of water being banned for three weeks as a precaution till it's determined whether contaminated chicken came from bird flu occasionally infects people who have close contact with tainted poultry. and now have a look at this amazing video of a miraculous escape a driver try to overtake a truck on a wintry russian road though the cars are pulling out to the center here we go or you would have a whole row of that a giant truck coming the opposite way jackknives and so at the car admitted by a whisker look at this yeah i'm over the hair raising the amazing escapes already received true million views on you tube below to comment most of the viewers

including us amazed by the calm reaction of the driver. press a. recap of today's top stories after the latest business news katie is now. welcome to the business program hopes for a quick end to the long lasting gassed conflict between ukraine and russia has vanished the country's fell to reach agreement during high price all talks however they say this will not affect the chances of russian gas to europe ukraine is struggling to persuade russia to cut the price for its energy supplies saying the burden is too big for the country's troubled economy he had didn't even manage to pay november's bill itself by a tough a billion dollars from russia's gas pump bank doesn't seem to seem at all from russia's national energy security fund says another gas war is unlikely as existing

contract runs for another seven years. the general and i was the last guest swore we have no qualms in general sales of mine it was the main reason for the you guess what now we have gone to work according to the law. i think we can award serious quotes from that is why we can spend. unless he was happening on the markets today all is going for a day as investors are optimistic that shrinking stockpiles in the us combined with signs of an economic recovery only into monster fuel will increase when i say it is currently trading i have a ninety eight dollars per barrel while brant is above one hundred and seven dollars. european stocks are carrying on from tuesday's rally the sense is adding over half a percent meanwhile the dots is just on don't want to send in the black flag symbols all stocks are losing the guy. on the boston market some mix is out the

artist is gaining almost one percent on the my stakes is down around a course of her percent so. that's something that some individual semi's on the my side three chips on mixes our off the t.v. has slipped into negative territory all my divorce net is not so positive and try to make a come out flats the company because it increases by nine percent next year group a sign i have seen magical expects no significant movement in the stocks this week . russian market has underperformed global markets a significant of the past three weeks. by a large margin but will probably continue to observe there's a political risk remember present and perhaps are 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 of that so i don't expect significant moves in the russian market before

the end of the week. russia's gas monopoly gas problem has decided to more than double this year's dividends become a shareholders will get six point two billion dollars of the payouts approved at next year's a.g.m. promise been criticized for low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however analysts say the move could lead to monopoly to a missed balance budget due to plans gas to scout for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe more details have emerged about the possible solid russia's largest airport. but at the most the news paper reports the owners want forty five billion dollars for one hundred percent of the shares for the moscow at hub unnamed sources claim the financial consortium alpha group investment group. holdings all the most likely potential requires however they are the possible buyers are not ready to stump up the full amounts being asked it was

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