in the u.k. it must be as eligible for handouts as britons themselves. also three future i assess crew members are in orbit on the way to the space station after their soyuz spacecraft launches successfully from the baikonur cosmodrome. no news is bad news on the russian stock market the. decline around one percent in wednesday's session despite being high for a day. worldwide news twenty four hours a day this is r.t. live from moscow with me. russia's 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 thousand of us airstrikes not 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 oksana boy because reports disturbing. this road it's like to look down in the face a group of men the young and old captured after the media propped over iran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind a camera delivers a verdict did you work for gadhafi did you. and the captives then sound seems that certain is 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 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 but no access to lawyers and no chance for a fair trial. but while the prisons new guards have a very elaborate in their rating good actors ferocity here and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support prior to . 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 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 to investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off its presence 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 that this son or husband was with the 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. mohamed 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 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 his in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they see hope dies last only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy tripoli. meantime activists in syria say the country has seen some of its fiercest fighting since on rest began and we're now over two hundred people killed just since monday the biggest number of casualties was reported in the syrian in northwestern province of idlib by government forces allegedly used heavy i mean ition against anti 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 it's artie's basara furthur of course there are hopes the observers can present a clear picture of what's really going on inside syria. for the six. but to ride in the country that's the head of the observer mission that's expected here at the end of the month and of course that mission concomitant moment to see really as both sides of the cold think that counts as the death toll rising all the time in the city of homs the other day that's the main opposition city where we see so much of the fighting bravely out wall street with that says in parts of the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel to days pass' that is the key dangerous but even the pas we were visiting with daily life the struggling on 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 and the opposition saying that the government had

been up waiting a crackdown policy on the protesters that i speak to the foreign ministry spokesman the other day he was saying that what's needed now from outside countries is no one to be adding fuel to this fire and again he called that dialogue to be pushed in the situation if the outside warrant a neighboring country but he. wants to help sort of get out of the crisis what we need to do is to help and provide the good offices to push the opposition who are seeing north to say yes to come out on one table to discuss everything that are not there was a lot of. discussion we are afraid of democracy now here in the capital of damascus the cities are made largely felt safe from the conflict in the middle east side of the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league last

month and taking it back now dating. iran that this is. the zone and kicking out there is that that she today sanctions and power cuts around the city they would complement the. reporting. live from moscow just ahead in just a few minutes here. start renewed 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 hand out policies saying the u.k. is obliged to dole out billions to non-citizens something london believes will only encourage them. not to work.

history in the making. 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 the speaker it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging. have been following the events. it was a very intense first session of the state to my heated debates and raised voices for sit at 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 sigyn not a skin of government shuffle advanced 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 believe 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 but. it is the same as all the other deputies except with a high of back will still it was very inconvenient to sit in today but i asked them

i also nicely to re-install it so i hope i'll sit in the next session in comfort and nobles deal. but in the tabio 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 newly 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 i let you know while he was 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 peaceful demonstrations including one in most go over twenty thousand people gathered on one of the city's main squares to do months in

a no man's or the results of the parliamentary elections claiming there the results were falsified the polling that's russian president dmitry medvedev 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 however and that does not change the outcome over the parliamentary election this they do 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 party's entirely another court reporting right now we are russian 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 now i was lucky enough to witness the launch. why is rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in

a complex stand 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 less than ninety minutes from blast off that we just saw onboard our three space men including russian cosmonauts are they going in young go along with an american astronaut and 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 our 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 sort of 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 i assess 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. as. although this is the last mission to the i assessed 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 the basement say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome way for r t. o two thousand of them and has been a year of. the space exploration industry daring projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that did not i thought he's put all of us 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 well 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 for such a long time one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never journey to earth however it will be another five months before this store can be opened and they can step back into normality it was nice on the

day i remember the day when they came out. the look on their faces when the door opened the look on the very very pale faces of course you have to realize these guys hadn't seen sunlight for such a long time. they were ecstatic to have come out of there. and it really was i mean whether scientifically it ends up being the building block or the the first step towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to mars and trying to send people to the red planet for real. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out is the crash of that progress module now it wasn't just the module itself they've been using those since the late seventy's it was the fact that this was carried on a soyuz rocket now the soyuz rocket is the only way we have now getting people into space. the progress module that was launched at the end of august was carrying

valuable food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing from and from the guys on the space station those food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying in my reports look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training 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 well as a job they do it for do it out of choice. so that was just the first report of our special series awaiting you every day until the chimes twelve on december thirty first super sure not to miss the rest otherwise you can always catch up on our web site c dot com also waiting for you online the alleged provider of top secret information to the whistleblower web site of wiki leaks faces life in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around mastermind julian assange. and scary footage here 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 are often 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 hand outs to anyone who asks for them but it's obvious either bennett reports britain's new spirit of non-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 that this country would be my home but they 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 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 forty's 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 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 reside test what 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 the britons refusing to budge otherwise it claims it will have to pay out two and a half billion pounds to those who work but anything back in the part 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 to 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 their deal either bennett r.t. london. it's time for the business news with dimitri the iraqi prime minister has told. to kind of 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 off to the last u.s. troops in the country the vice president said the charges 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 over the country not something political analyst to talk to honey mahmoud believes would be disastrous. democracy in iraq the whole the whole narrative of the war was built on the.

destruction and magically it was shifted to eliminating a tyrant and then to bring in the microstate the region by simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world now in military intervention or in bringing democracy by wars does not seem to be the best way to do that we 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. leadership and the inability of the leadership to get the country back on track. now it 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 being 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 and that's 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 nationalist there. measures they demand their hired colleagues be hired back the country is struggling to escape with a tightening noose of debt which threatens to push it into default greece is trying to convince private creditor banks to write off half the debt that it. ok like i said at a retreat in el for the business. thanks rory russia will become one of the world's five biggest economies of the government's objectives are achieved prime minister vladimir putin has 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 economy 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 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 gascón for 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 given even managed to pain of embers bill itself and borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank because i can see one off from russia's national energy security funds as another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the general and i was the last i

will last guess what we have no confidence in general sales of mine it was the main reason for that and you guess what now. means that according to the law. i think we can award serious quantity that is why we spent. probably. fairly marcus's our siding with commodities and oil is gaining for first day on signs that us economy could be spared a recession and them a growing pressure on iran to commercial its nuclear program light sweet and brant adding around half a dollar per barrel place out. u.s. stocks opened down hours 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 status struggled to close deals . european stocks are down a banks and miners are 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 the r.t.s. down almost two percent my sex one percent and three quarters secular going to main movers on b m i six blue chips and banks notably we're down to burbank declining three percent one of the biggest losers as is head gammon have said the privatization of the assets could go ahead only after the presidential elections and twenty twelve truck maker 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 ask.

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if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our live from moscow on. you had. twenty six thousand strikes and no civilian casualties greets nato is claims of a flawless libya intervention. just as a bloody campaign unfolds against former supporters. crushers a freshly elected parliament has chosen its speaker the new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its election mass protests.