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worldwide news live. with me. russia is demanding a probe into civilian casualties in libya caused by nato bombings the reaction to a report by human rights groups which claimed that dozens were killed in strikes 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 is dead atrocities against his loyalists continue may find some of the images and report. this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran good office hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers

a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seems that certain about what's coming next. seems like these play now is a costly be 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. and the militias from the neighboring town of misrata are terrorizing the people of to where they accuse them of having fought for qaddafi of having committed atrocities. in his name this is one of the liberated tripoli's new landmarks a prison where moammar gadhafi was set to hold his political opponents with no access to lawyers and no chance for

a fair trial. but while the prisons new guards have a very elaborate in their rating gadhafi is ferocity his fear and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area inside and tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also lend his name to the tourists present a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area 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 mohammed to form peace and your earlier this year it investigated the fate of those who disappeared in good office prisons he is now primarily dealing with people who went missing under libya's new

leadership it's usually mothers who come here and at first they are scared to tell me that this son or husband was with the khadafi 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 lee bear 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 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 it's still alive even if many people aren't going to wake up artsy tripoli

. it's now fear that syria could also face foreign intervention with unpredictable consequences the country's opposition is split over whether they need a military help from outside in their fight against the government the division came as the country witnesses some of the fiercest battles in its nine month old crisis almost two hundred 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 allow in an observer mission which it's hoped might help to end the conflict sara further of course from damascus. that is key for the arab leaders expect. to arrive in the country that's the head of the observer mission that's expected to hit at the end of the month and the cools the mission concomitant moment the scene really has both sides of the conflict that counts as the death toll rising all the time though in this it comes the other day that the

main opposition city where we see seeing much of the fighting precis out was he with that session parts of the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel today suppose it was the key dangerous but even the cars we were visiting would take the struggling on and you could hear the sounds of heavy gunfire breaking out across the city the government of calls and still maintaining the fighting and militant movement and the opposition saying that the government had been operating a crackdown policy on the protest is that i spoke to the foreign ministry spokesman the other day that he was saying that what's needed now from dallas like countries is that no one should be adding fuel to this fire and again he moved the dialogue to be pushed in the situation if the outside or neighboring country. was to the ward wants to help so they get out of the crisis what we need is to help and provide the good offices to push the opposition who seeing north of the you know to

say yes to come out on one thing but to discuss everything there are not there was a lot of. discussion we had on the freedom of democracy now here in the capital damascus the cities remain largely felt safe from the conflict but here at the moment you can see signs that the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league not last month you had taken a. day to. have around to see. these are kicking out and then he should just think that he today sanctions. how it was around the city with a big one called and the for. sanctions would put in place but not the kind of small free and last. longer is live. reporting right meantime a u.s. based intelligence intelligence gathering has found that most of the claims by the syrian opposition about the seriousness of the country's crisis are true become

pretty cold struck for so as protestors are exaggerating to win outside support from powers like the u.s. dr paul craig roberts a former reagan administration official told us here about t. that he believes washington is not just backing the rebels in a diplomatic. the united states is involved in stirring up there are positions and in arming yet they use the color of the arab spring arab protests as they do and look so these are not spontaneous protest and certainly authoritarian state like they are syria you wouldn't find people in 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 or those who got saved and lived do is the russians problem then we

place 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 and iran is in the target sights and and lebanon. so there will be knocking off these countries one by one and while they stand there and don't unite in fact they can't unite and that's why we're so vulnerable. you're watching r t live from moscow still ahead for you this hour the u.k. getting increasingly unhappy with the e.u. meddling in its affairs. it's simply outrageous on elected officials in brussels can prevent profit from bringing about the reforms that we said we were going to do when you have a tinting office we look into the controversy surrounding the e.u.'s attempts to make britain reconsider its welfare fund nonresidents. we

started the countdown to two thousand and twelve with a special series of reports on a landmark event sat in trends that shape the possible. this is. to history. in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . it's good to have you with us today. the first session of six state duma the lower house of parliament is underway after a heated debate sort of a member from the controlling united russia party was chosen as the new speaker it comes more than two weeks after elections that sparked mass protests over alleged fraud that you couldn't get a job and i join us live from the public building with more caterina so we know the name of the new speaker now but tell us how was he elected we hear there might have been some fiery debate in the process as you've just said indeed heated debates

raised voices cheering the first in the session we were standing here outside the main room and we could still hear those debates in the duma side actually that these new composition of forces in the lower house of the russian parliament changed things significantly and has indeed made too much field of debates again and two hundred eighty five voices for and eighty eight against the year her new speaker of the state duma is knowing that you're not going to rush his candidacy again not. always should mention a government shuffle advanced last week up to kremlin chief of staff said gay marriage can step down for state duma seat immediately united russia put him forward as a candidate for the duma speaker opposition meanwhile had a deeper and take on that they had their own preferences and they put forward their candidates to the speakers of the state duma but as united russia has a majority they managed to. to put forward their candidates again that all apart

from that opposition will of course have a louder voice in the new duma united russia is no longer control of all the committees as it was agreed is a must and of course acts for it say that will change their approach towards law making meanwhile. as you've said there been protests taking place ever since the votes have been counted both authorize protests would remind on december the temp from twenty five to thirty thousand people went out into the streets of moscow for a demonstration are being that the results of the vote was not fair or not fair and they said that the vote should be counseled that you know so we legal rallies taking place followed by mass arrests up to test is disrupted traffic some of the activists called for violence like blogger i like seeing the violent has been recently released after spending fifteen days in a detention center but as analyst admit it but you kind of says i would say not

violent he has has a good reputation as a blogger as an effective blogger but he has still to prove people that he could be just as effective as a politician. i think by this popularity so far as most with the internet community and that was yes man this to raise interest to his version of to recentre as much will depend on his behavior in the future because one thing leads to the more people into that hero and the other thing is to become a politician so far as look you have showed that he is ready to again take responsibility to take the challenge and to become political. in response to the claims that the election has been wreaked diminishment order to the investigation fifteen criminal cases have been filed or alleged. elections fraud election violations also the results of twenty one polling stations have been counseled but of course twenty one polling stations are out to ninety thousand to cross the whole

country is not enough to cancel the results of the vote and this is why the first duma session took place today or i thought you said you couldn't reach over the line from the parliament building in central moscow thank you. we are. if you live from the heart of the russian capital the new year just ten days away and we are starting our very own countdown with ten special reports on events that shaped two thousand and eleven looking back at major stories through the eyes of our artsy correspondents who witness them and we start with an area that sorts a fair share of breakthroughs and failures space projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not put all of our reports. one of the biggest landmarks the resort this year was the fiftieth anniversary of

your first spaceflight 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 the first month set foot on the moon. almost five hundred projects came to an end it was really something quite exciting it was great to be able to go 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 the spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean doing them a bit of a disservice saying that they're in a show in a shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such

a long time. currently simulating never. however it will be. months before this can be opened and they can step back to 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. trying to send people to the. well looking back. one of the things that really is the crash of that progress now it wasn't just the module itself they've been using since the late seventy's it

was the fact that this was. 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 food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my report look these guys go through extensive training they know what they're doing they'll be fine. who was actually the mission commander who was up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried that. they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that in the beginning of twenty twelve. people put themselves through evidence thankfully

that. seen this year. result in. any major problems on. the. perseverance of these people who risk their lives going into space. as a job they do it without a choice. this was just the first reporter mallon special series of two thousand and eleven make sure you don't miss the rest will be bringing you a new story. the new year plus you can always find them on our web site. where you can also check out. can see what's waiting for you there right now called. made. team of scientists.

terrorists through a. protest of proof protection and you said to be introduced in the united states occupy demonstrators. breathing more. power twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow. 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 new spirit of cooperation might not be so easy to impose. 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 to discount it will 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 or priorities 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 here 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 ukase force to sweeten the deal either bennett r.t. london. and before we get to the business news with katie first let's do the world update here on r.t. some other international headlines for you this hour the number killed in last week's massive flooding in the philippines as now topped a thousand people that number is expected to grow with the authorities continuing

to find bodies most of the dead are women and children who drowned last friday when water gushed into their homes while they were sleeping a state of national calamity has been declared. thousands of checks have joined the family. and the procession to pay respects to the late former president havel's body was taken to prague castle where it will be on display until friday state you know. his country's first elected president after the nonviolent revolution that ended four decades of communism the government has declared three days of national mourning to honor the former leader who died on sunday aged seventy five. a look at this an amazing video of a miraculous escape a driver trying to overtake a truck on a wintery russian road pulling out to the side here but ahead of him jack knifing truck coming his way seems like certain death is on the cards but the common driver

managed to stop and stall his car and then maneuver around the side of the truck he comes out footage again talk about a miraculous escape oncoming jackknifing truck more details on that at all it's called more than two million hits already on that video. ok let's get back to the business news now the beginning of the business news that is with casey. hello a warm welcome to the business program today house for a quick end to the long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have vanished the countries fell to reach agreement during high price all overnight talks however they say this will not affect the transit 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 give didn't even manage to pay november's bill itself or topham it in a bid rather dollars from russia's gazprom bag constantine semen all from russia's

national energy security fund says another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seventy is. the general south and i was the one our last guest was we have no quantity in general sales of mine it was the main reason for that and you guess what now we have gone to look at music according to the law we were. awarded serious quantity that is why we can spend without any problems. those have a look at the market spoilers dining for the day on signs that the u.s. economy will be spared a recession and amid growing pressure on iran to tell its nuclear program lies weight is currently trading at even ninety eight dollars per hour while the brant is above one hundred and seven dollars european so it's a carrying on from. all the dots is enjoying days of just under one percent the second the stocks i mean the speculation of the e.c.b.

has supported us banks and funding helping them whether the fallout from the sovereign debt crisis and here in the markets all makes this hour the r.t.s. is gaining a sense while my sex is down around a quarter of a sentence does have a look at some individual moves that on the my sags blue chips. our b two b. s. slipped into negative territory only. positive on top micah. flounce the company plans to increase its cells by nine percent next year rubenstein i have seen much of paul expects no significant movement in the stocks this way. market that has underperformed global markets significant over the past three weeks. by a large margin will probably continue to observe there's a political risk premium present in the afternoon creation 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. wait and see approach. i don't expect there are significant moves in the russian market before the end of the week. russia's gas monopoly gas from has decided to more than double the issues dividends the company shareholders will get six point two billion dollars if the payouts are approved at next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticized for low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however analysts say the move could lead them unlawfully to miss balance budgets due to planned gas discounts for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. and other news of russia and has it stan have set up a new nanotechnology fund it will consist of one hundred million dollars in state funding and it's hoped that figure will be matched by private investors the fanta

will invest it in sectors such as alternative energy biotechnology and telecommunications more details have emerged about the possible sale of russia's largest airport the more the most newspaper reports the owners want forty five billion dollars for one hundred percent shares for the. unnamed sources kind the financial consortium alpha group investment group and seema holdings all the most likely potential acquirers however they are possible buyers are not ready to stump up the full amounts being else it was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. from a my colleague dmitri medvedev will be taking you through the business news next hour good bye for now. if.

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