let. me. twenty six thousand. civilian casualties. nato's claims of a flawless libya intervention all as just as bloody campaign unfolds former supporters. of freshly elected parliament has chosen. the new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its election sparked massive protests calls for a recount. in the e.u. . london to relax benefit laws saying a newly arrived immigrants in the u.k. must be as eligible for handouts themselves. also three future crew

members. on the way to the space station. spacecraft launches successfully from the . russian. line around one in. twenty four hours a day. with me. urging nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is seven month long bombing campaign the claims filed by rights groups contradict that twenty six

thousand. kill any civilian casualties and the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is now dead and gone former rebels continue to take their supporters off the toppled regime be warned you may find some of the images in a report. this is what it's like to look down in the face a group of man 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 seemed that certain about what's coming next. and scenes like these playing out a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi or bin landen it's about he said to stick tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his

perceived loyalists in some places the violence is quite bad the tell 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 go back with ferocity fear and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more and more and gadhafi had strong support prior to. the district also and as named to the tourists present a scene of torture an arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights

abuses still remain rather from this area still disappearing without a trace where families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the only place and only bear with families of the logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mohammad 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 at first they're scared to tell me their son or husband was with pick a daffy 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 beer in recent months this naturists are probably their

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 banjo. 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 say hope dies last only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't going to wake up artsy tripoli. meantime activists in syria said the country has seen some of its fiercest fighting since on rest began but we're now over two hundred people killed just since monday the biggest number of casualties was reported in the syrian northwestern province over. by government forces allegedly used against the regime fighters that's ahead of the arrival of an arab league advance team which is going to prepare for a monitoring mission in the country and saudi's sara first reports there are hopes

the observers can present a clear picture of what's really going on inside syria looking at the team from the arab league is expected to arrive in the country that's the head of the mission that expected at the end of the month and of course this is concomitant with the seemingly as. they count the death toll rising all the time it's on the other day that the main opposition city where we see think much of the fighting played. waltzing with that says in parts of the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel to these parts of the dangers but even the cars we were visiting with the struggling all you can hear the sounds of heavy gunfire breaking out across the city the government of course still maintaining that there is fighting and militant movement the opposition saying that the

government has been up making it quite some policy pretext that i speak to the foreign ministry spokesman the other day he was saying that what's needed now for house like countries is no one to be adding fuel to this fire and again he called the dialogue to be pushed in the situation if the outside warrant neighboring country. 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. to say years to come i don't want to discuss everything. you know whatever discussion we had democracy here in the capital damascus. the economic sanctions.

kicking out. place have not become much more frequent. reporting to you without see live from moscow just ahead in just a few minutes here. start a new day sectarian violence threatens iraq as unshackled leaders throw out all the . power following america's withdrawal from the war torn country. championing the rights of a benefit to the e.u. targets of britain's tough policies saying the u.k. is a bligh billionaires to noncitizens something london believes will only encourage them to come. to history.

testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. nearly ten minutes past the hour now here in moscow. state duma the lower house of parliament has now just held its first session after heated debate so to get from the ruling united russia party to speak up it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging. and the have been following the events. it was a very intense first session of the state duma heated debates and raised voices receipt of the voting the voting for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight voices for and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate to give not a skin government shot full advance last week when a serbian i wish can until recently kremlin chief of staff stepped down for

a duma seat 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 now today's choky in the corridors of power is that one of united russia's deputies who has been told left without a seat in the new duma we caught up with the boxer to find out why the first i'm a session was so uncomfortable for him. is the same as all the other day parties except with a high of back still it was very inconvenient to sit in today but i ask them nicely to re-install it so i hope i'll sit in the next session in comfort.

oh in the tabio. dumas first session it goes ahead against the backdrop of a lot of protests 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 stadium when according to opposition bloggers over twenty people were arrested also today is 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 a 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 a no means of the results of the parliamentary elections claiming their results

were falsified to polling that's russian president's meeting with ordered an investigation into the case and already fifty criminal cases were filed in that respect and at twenty one polling stations the voting results were a no over and that does not change the outcome over the parliamentary election this is going to stay in the way it was shaped on the fourth of december and the ongoing investigation is not going to change that. reporting right now we are watching the soyuz spacecraft carrying three future international space station crew members has just blasted off into space and is now in orbit of the soyuz stuffed full of newly developed digital equipment is expected to reach the i assessed on friday and he said no i was lucky enough to witness the launch. rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome again in conflicts and let's take

a look at this site. absolutely incredible there will reach the top speed of one point five kilometers per second and i will have the rocket in orbit and much the ninety minutes from blast off that we just saw onboard our three space men including russian cosmonauts and young go along with an american astronaut a 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 of their commander will certainly have the christmas hats ready and we will take part in some kind of celebration to really do have a lot of work to do what they'll be doing there is conducting several of some 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 to reach to have crews reached i assess through the site space program because the u.s. nasa i should say of course grounded their shuttle missions to the i s s so it's seen. although this is the last mission to the i assess for two thousand and eleven we're hearing that will be several more missions in two thousand and twelve and now

it's the only way to continue this very international what all say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome. for r.t. . two thousand and has been a year of. exploration industry daring projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not. one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of eureka 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 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 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 worn year. five hundred currently simulating never. however it will be another five 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 where the scientifically it ends up being the building block called 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 is the crash of that progress now it wasn't just the module itself. the late seventy's it was the fact that this . is the only way we have now getting people into space. the progress module that was launched at the end of carrying food and supplies for

the international space station at the time we were hearing. from the guys on the space station food and supplies for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying look these guys go through extensive training they doing fine. who is 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. results in. any major problems on. the.

people who risk their lives going into space well. they do it. so well that was the first report of our special series on. day. twelve on december thirty first not to miss the rest otherwise you can always catch up on our website dot com also waiting for you online provider of top seed. good information to the whistleblower web site if we can leaks faces life in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around mastermind julian assange. and scary footage a miraculous escape for a russian driver whose attempt to win a couple of seconds on the road almost cost him his life. and you conflicts erupted between britain and the this time over the u.k.'s treatment of so-called benefit tourists brussels has given london an ultimatum to

relax the benefit laws saying the country must dole out handouts to anyone who asks for them but it's obvious either bennett reports britain's new spirit of cooperation could stand 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 to discount it will be my home didn't come here to claim benefits i came here to work. david's what the government fears is a benefit tourist here to take and not to give back english is still a struggle 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 that's only if it needs you and you work for it the country 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 forty's they are here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain where north 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 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 foreigners must pass to claim benefits to self and it's given the government until the end of this month to change that otherwise it will see the britons refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who won't put anything back in the pool it's the british welfare states exist 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 contribute to it and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible for which it was sent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those eligible for well already some are trying

their luck and no doubt more will the u.k.'s falls to sweeten the deal on have been it's. nearly time for the business news with dmitri the iraqi prime minister has told. to hand over his rival the country's sunni vice president who's wanted of allegations he's been running a hit squad it'll be just a day after the last us troops in the country their us president said the charges are fabricated and accused the prime minister of cracking down on competition in order to tighten his grip on power the contentious start to a free iraq has already raised concern u.s. senator john mccain even called for the real occupation of the country not something political analyst to talk to honey mahmoud believes would be disastrous for the marker seen in iraq the whole the whole narrative of the war was built on there was a lot of mass destruction and magically it was shifted to eliminating

a tyrant and then bringing the microstate the reason by simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world now in military intervention or in bringing democracy by force does not seem to be the. the best way to do it should look at the arab revolt and learn from it democracy in iraq i don't think it's actually happening i mean there is no signs of it. the political. inability of the leadership to get the country back on track. now at twenty five minutes past the hour here at moscow time for the world update on some of the global headlines for you. five nato soldiers from poland have been killed by a roadside bomb the troops are on a convoy heading to danzy province in the east of the country and this is the biggest single loss of life in an attack for the polish military in the region poland is one of the major contributors to nato mission in afghanistan.

steelworkers in greece have been protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs in two months as part of the national sturdy metro's they demand their fired back the country is struggling to escape with a tightening new set of debt which threatens to push it into default greece is trying to convince private creditors banks to write off the debt. ok like i said it to me for the business. thanks rory will become one of the world's five biggest economies of the government's objectives are achieved prime minister vladimir putin that's set a target of boosting the country's g.d.p. growth to seven percent a year and significantly improving labor capacity he hopes to reach this by changing the structure of russia's. leadership. are 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 in the next three years into the economy it roughly equals the country's g.d.p. twenty city in the. hopes for a quick and to the long lasting gas come to between ukraine and russia vanished countries failed to reach an agreement during high profile 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 here didn't even manage to pain of embers bill itself and borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank because i didn't see one off from russia's national energy security funds another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the generals i was and i was the last our last guess what we have no quantity in general sales of mine it was the main reason

for that you guess what now we have cornered it means that according to the law. i think we can award serious quantity that is why we can spend without any problems. fairly modest as with commodities and oil is gaining for friday on signs that u.s. economy could be spared a recession and made growing pressure on iran to close all its nuclear program light sweet adding around top of the barrel base out. u.s. stocks opened. and european central bank said it would lend a record amount to your area banks tech shares are slumping with oracle corp thirteen percent after the business software maker said a struggle to close deals. european stocks all down the banks bucking the trend as we mentioned 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. russian markets finished down even more so down almost zero percent of my sex one percent and three quarters secular give them a move is on b m i six blue chips and banks notably downs burbank declining three percent one of the biggest losers as had said the privatisation of the assets could go ahead only after the presidential elections and twenty twelve truck make it come out as was slightly better than the market down just over a percent the company plans to increase its sales by nine percent next year. the headlines are next on the.

well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the few jerks covered.