twenty six thousand strikes and no civilian casualties creates nato's claims of a flawless a libya intervention as a new un just as a bloody campaign unfolds against former supporters. russia is a freshly elected parliament has chosen its speaker the new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its election mass protests and calls for a recount. and a fresh raul between britain and the e.u. brussels all is in london to relax benefit laws saying the newly arrived immigrants in the u.k. must be as eligible for handouts as britons themselves. a

very warm welcome to you this is r.t. and live from moscow worse now or just after six pm i'm. russia's urging nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is a seven month long bombing campaign the claims filed by rights groups contradict nato's assertion that twenty six thousands of its airstrikes did not cause any civilian casualties and the killing as an end just because gadhafi is now dead and gone former rebels continue to take their own supporters of the toppled regime you may find some of the images and boy has report disturbing. this is what it's like to look death in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the nadir proft rebels overran get

off his hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers a verdict. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves in the death sentence about what's coming next and it seems like these i know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been longines 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 in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also and his name to the tourists presents a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain rather from this area still disappearing without a trace the 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 formed and your earlier this year it's investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off its

prisons he's 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 their 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. for how many of his friends had been taking photos of the other night and 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 his brother disappeared on the front lines of banter. i hope he's in tunisia maybe his in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. these guys last believe it's still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy

tripoli. meantime activists in syria so the country has seen some of his fiercest fighting since under-estimate with over two hundred killed since monday the biggest number of casualties was reported in the syrian northwestern province of elite that's where government forces are allegedly used by heavy ammunition against the regime fighters that's ahead of the arrival of an arab league advance team which is going to prepare a monitoring mission in the country and as artists are further of course there are hopes the observers can present a clear picture of what's really going on inside syria. but for the arab league is expected. to ride in the country tomorrow that's the head of the observer mission that's expected to hit at the end of the month and the cools that mission concomitant moment to see really as both sides of the conflict accounts at the

death toll rising all the time in the city of homs the other day that the main opposition city where we see so much of the fighting bravely out was he with that says in parts of the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to love to travel to days pass' that is the key dangers but even the pas we were visiting with daily life the struggling on 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 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 he was saying that what's needed now from outside countries is that no one should be adding fuel to this fire and again he called it a dialogue to be pushed in the situation if the outside warrant neighboring country but he. wants to help so they get out of the crisis what we need to do is to help

and provide the good offices to push the opposition who seeing north to say yes to come out on one thing but to discuss everything there are not there was a lot of. discussion we are not afraid of democracy now here in the capital damascus the cities remain largely sheltered safe from the conflict in the main east side of the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league last last month and taking it. day to. the ground and this is the deeds of the kicking out there be sure you see that g. today sanctions. how it was around the city all day and they would complement the full citations would put in place had now become much more frequent and long for a fair bit longer as well. just a few minutes. after.

the international space station. saying the u.k. is. something will only encourage them to work. just held its first session after a heated debate. from the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago.

following. it was a very intense first session of the state to my heated debates and raised voices rescinded the voting the voting for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight voices four and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate so given that each can a government shot full advance last week when mr b. and i wish can until recently kremlin chief of staff stepped down for a duma seat in the eyes of russia put forward his candidacy as the new speaker but opposition parties disagreed and they have their own preferences for their mandates however were not an opcode way to unite and russia in the voting apart from that opposition will have a louder voice in the new duma with united russia failing to secure a constitutional majority is believe that the lower house of the russian parliament will again become a field of heated debates and now that united russia does not have

a majority of the committees fourteen out of twenty nine committees so far that will be controlled by the three opposition parties it's also believed that the whole approach to lawmaking in russia will change however political analysts stress that for the opposition parties that not only means a victory but also is a serious test of their readiness to take upon responsibility for crucial laws in the country the nature of the debate this shit you with us now the opposition gets about half of the way it is so they will control so what you're going to dissolve to and this is a significant victory for them at the same time a significant yes because they will have to show that they're ready to share the responsibility for the fate of the go free and that they're able to provide constructive criticism of the policy and provide new ideas so we'll see how these two mobile function whether or position is ready to go before the start. on the telly over to you know this dumas first session it goes ahead against the backdrop

of a lot of protest so what can you tell us about well during the first plenary session of the news the elected lower house of the russian parliament members of the opposition gathered for an unsanctioned protest outside the state duma and according to opposition bloggers over twenty people were arrested during its also today a. well known for its harsh criticism of the russian government was released from custody where he spent the last fifteen days after he was arrested during opposition rallies which took place shortly after the parliamentary elections in the country which took place on the fourth of december there also been number of demonstrations including one in moscow when over twenty thousand people gathered on one of the city's main squares to do months in the knowledge of the results of the parliamentary elections claiming their results were falsified and number of violations took place during the electoral process following doubts russian

president. ordered an investigation into the case and fifty criminal cases were filed in that respect and at twenty one polling stations the voting results. however that does not change the outcome of the parliamentary election the state is going to stay in the way it was shades on the fourth of december and the ongoing investigation is not going to change that. reporting. live from the heart of moscow the iraqi prime minister has told kurdish authorities to hand over his rifle the country's sunni vice president the allegations of running a hit squad the last of the charges as fabricated and accuse a prime minister of cracking down on competition in order to type music grip on power following america's withdrawal experts fear is likely to ignite fresh air. intentionally green shia and sunni muslims to discuss this now i'm joined live from

gaza by dr honey must move to a political analyst and thank you for coming on the program today so do you think the prime minister's charges against vice president are political basis. you can hear us very well dr i don't know how many. of the question is with the prime minister's charges against the vice president of the v.p. running a hit squad against officials and against police do you think the charges could be politically based. i think there is a problem with the with the voice here i hardly hear you and i. talk so much more than a political analyst i'm sorry sorry will try and get back with you when we have a more solid connection thank you for joining us so briefly. we apologize for those technical difficulties that some of them might be a mouse chewing on the cable so it's now a nearly quarter past the hour here in moscow

a russian soyuz spacecraft carrying three future international space station crew members has blasted into space and is in orbit the soyuz are stuffed full of newly developed a digital equipment is expected to reach the i assessed on friday off season he said now it was a lucky witness at the launch. rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in that context and let's take a look at this site. absolutely incredible there will reach the top speed of one point five kilometers her head and

the rock in orbit in the ninety minutes from blast that we just saw onboard are three spacemen including russian cosmonauts going in young go along with an american astronaut new european astronaut from holland and they will be onboard the international space station for some six months of course that means they will be spending christmas and new year's there for some of them it's not the first time they'll be spending the holidays there we had a chance to speak to them just before takeoff and what they said word was yes we'll have some kind of celebration up there our commander will certainly have the christmas have. it's ready and we will take part in some kind of celebration but we really do have a lot of work to do what they'll be doing there is conducting several of the thirty six or so experiments there and also be doing engineering research one of the experiments which is considered the most important in terms of research that's going on at the international space station is actually trying to find life forms

on the outer surface of the eye s.s. of course this is the only way now it's reach to have crews reach diocese through the space program because the u.s. nasa i should say of course grounded their shuttle missions to the i s s so. although this is the last mission to the i assess for two thousand and eleven we're hearing that they'll be several more missions in two thousand and twelve and now it's the only way to continue this very international what all the basement say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome. for r.t. . two thousand and eleven has been a year of a sharp ups and downs for the space exploration industry daring projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more the did not. reveals.

one of the biggest landmarks that we saw 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 guarin first month set foot on the moon. of the most 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 spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean i'm 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. hundred 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 haven't seen sunlight for such a long time. they were ecstatic to have come out of there. and it really was i mean whether scientifically it ends up being the building block or the the first step towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to. people too. well looking back. one of the things that really.

it wasn't just the module itself. it was the. only way we have. the. supply. at the time we were hearing. from the guys on the space station. know this is fine i'm. doing fine. he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely. scared they run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be. in the beginning twenty

twelve. pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully 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 monday that's always the big concern. the perseverance of these people who do risk their lives going into space. as a job they do it. so that was just the first report of our special series awaiting you every day until the chimes ring twelve on december thirty first to do make sure not to miss the rest of them. if they are otherwise you can always catch them on our web site of course that is. dot com. and you conflict has erupted between britain and the this time over the treatment of so-called benefit tourists brussels has

given london an ultimatum to relax benefit laws saying the country must dole out handouts to anyone who asks for them because r.t. is either bennett reports britain's new spirit of non-cooperation may help to complicate the matter. 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. 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 they're here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain when north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in

these sorts of changes it'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 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 resign might 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 see britain's refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who won't put anything back in the pockets the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the original welfare state back in the one nine hundred forty s. which had contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible forty percent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those aunt eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck

and no doubt more will the ukase force to sweeten their deal either bennett r.t. london. let's turn over to dimitri he joins us next now with the business news. banks rory russia will become one of the world's five biggest economies if the government's objectives are achieved the problem is the target of boosting the country's gross domestic product to seven percent growth a year and significantly improving labor capacity he hopes to reach this by changing the structure of russia's economy. our ambitious goals can only be achieved within the framework of a new model of economic growth instead of raw materials we should count on high tech production to change the structure of the economy we're going to create up to twenty five million high tech jobs we will have to invest almost forty three

trillion rubles the next three years into the economy that roughly equals the country's g.d.p. twenty to thirty in the. house for a quick and to the long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have attached the countries fail to reach an agreement during high profile overnight talks however they say this will not affect the transit of russian gas to europe ukraine are struggling to persuade russians or cut the price for its energy supply saying the burden is too big for the country's troubled economy give didn't even manage the pain of members bills itself and borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank doesn't seem an all from russia's national energy security fund says another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the generals i was and i was the last hour lost what we call no quarter in general sales of mine it was the main reason for the you guess what now we have quarter means that according to the law. i think we can award serious calls and that is why would. any problems. so go to

the markets this. is back to gains a third day of games actually in science the u.s. economy could be spared a recession and the growing pressure on iran to kushal its a nuclear program for light sweet and brant are up around half a dollar per barrel this summer. european stocks are down point four percent in london and a quarter of a percent in germany the european central bank on wednesday offered loans to five hundred twenty three euro area banks as part of a three year funding operation designed to ease liquidity by. thanks and mine is a bucking the trend. and another twenty minutes to go until the end of the session in russia it's all looking red the c.s. is half a percent down in my sixes one point two percent in the negative territory blue chips mostly down this banks also in the biggest losers burbank is down more than

two percent after it's head to get i'm going to have said that the privatization of the bank would go ahead off to the presidential elections of twenty twelve ross nafta is also declining point seven percent and trying to make it is down one percent the company plans to increase in sales by nine percent next year. russia is a gas monopoly gazprom has decided to more than double this year's dividends the company shareholders will get six point two billion dollars if the payout is approved at the next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticised for a low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however analysts say the move could lead to monopoly to a mis balanced budget due to planned gas discounts for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. and news russian kazakhstan sets up a new nanotechnology fund it will consist of one hundred million dollars in state funding and that figure will be matched by private versus the fund will invest in

sectors such as terms of energy biotechnologies and telecommunications. and more details have emerged about the possible sale of russia's largest airport the much better mr newspaper reports the owners want from four to five a billion dollars for one hundred percent of the shares from moscow unnamed sources claim the financial consortium alpha group investment group or novell holding the most likely potential buyers however they add these companies are not ready to stump up the full amount being asked earlier was reported by goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal so all the business news for now we will be back in fifty five minutes time. without they don't see them joining them. you.

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