r t. do you think so thousand and strikes and no civilian casualties outrage greenson nato's claims of a flawless libya intervention all as a new and johnston as a bloody campaign unfolds against gadhafi as former supporters of. russia's a freshly elected parliament has chosen its new state to do make convenience for the first two weeks on its election mass protests and calls for a recount. and fresh round between britain and the e.u. brussels london to relax stringent benefit balls saying newly arrived immigrants in the u.k. must be legible for handouts as partners and selves. for the future i assess

crew members. albeit on the way to the space station after their soyuz spacecraft launches successfully from the i can all kinds. of i will welcome to you this is r.c. a live from moscow russia is to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is a seven month long bombing campaign where the claims of filed by rights groups contradict his assertion that twenty six thousand of its airstrikes did not cause any civilian casualties on the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is dead and gone the former rebels continue to take their angst out on supporters of the toppled regime now you may find some of the images of exam

a boy this report. this is what it's like to look death in the face a group of man the young and old captured after the nadir propped rebels overran get off his hometown of sirte there was behind the camera delivers a verdict would you work for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem death certain about what's coming next. scenes like these play now with a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi or bring 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 is ferocity is here and hatred still resides in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margo duffy had strong support base prior to his fleeing the district also has 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 still disappearing without a trace where 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 mohammad 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 lead beer in recent months this naturists are probably the relatives most realistic hope of finding closure but even after sifting through them many managed to retain hope like this man whose brother disappeared on the front lines of banjo. i hope he's in tunisia maybe his in hospital maybe he's lost

his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last and leave it still alive even if many people are in. artsy tripoli. in syria say the country has seen some of its the fiercest fighting since on the rest began with a hundred people killed since monday the biggest number of casualties was the forces in the syrian northwest importance of. the government functions and legit to be used heavy ammunition against anti regime feiss that's ahead of the arrival of an hour of me good volves team which is going to prepare for a monitoring mission in the country as often surface reports are often costly observe this can present a clear picture of what's really going on in somalia. look at it from the arab league is expected to arrive in the country it's lloyd that's the head of the

mission that's expected it at the end of the month and the cool mission comes with tcas both sides of the things the council and the death toll rising in the sky in the six months to the day that the main opposition city where we see so much of the fighting place yeah well see with that says i'm close to the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel today suppose this is the key danger is that even the cars we were visiting when they were 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 in the opposition saying that the government had been up making it quite down the policy of the protests is that i spoke to the foreign ministry spokesman the other day he was saying that what's needed now house 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 warrant neighboring country. was to award wants to help sort of get out of the crisis what we need is to help and provide good offices to push the opposition seeing north to say yes. come out on the one table to discuss everything . in our discussion we are on the freedom of democracy now here in the capital damascus the cities remain largely shelter from the conflict in the east side the economic sanctions are imposed on the country by the arab league law last month. this is. kicking out the shows just today sanctions. power cuts around the city with a big problem for the sanctions we put in place have now become much more frequent

is a lot. longer as well just ahead for you in a few moments sorry start renewed say ten million refugees around exam shock would leave this around all the stops and vie for power following america's withdrawal from the war torn country. and championing the rights of benefits who are esteemed targets britain's top how is our policies save the u.k. is apply if you don't billions to non-citizens something london believes will only encourage them not to one. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on. russia's six state team or the lower house of parliament has held its first session of the heated debate this saturday and not in from the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker

it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging by colleague spoke to yet that in the garage that had enough you've 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 boyce's four and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate to get not a second government shot full advance last week when a serbian i wish can until recently crowned in chief of style to step down for a duma seat that pup 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 chose to claim the corridors of power is that one of united russia's deputies nikolai valuev 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 this. 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 offer them i also nicely to re-install it so i hope i'll sit in the next session in comfort. well 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 lets you know why lee 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 a number of peaceful demonstrations including one in mosco 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 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 go over and that does not change the outcome over the parliamentary election

this they do 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. the russian soyuz spacecraft carrying three chance national space station crew members has blossomed into space sending. stuff from the new develop digital equipment is this bad histories the i.s.o.'s on friday and now i was unlucky witness out the dorms. why is rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in conflicts and let's take a look at this site. absolutely

credible there will reach the top speed of one point five kilometers per second and i will have the rocket in orbit in less than ninety minutes from blast off that we just saw onboard our three space men including russian cosmonaut 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 a some kind of celebration of their commander will certainly have the christmas hats ready and we will take part in some kind of celebration a really do you have a lot of work to do what they'll be doing there is conducting eyes 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 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 steve. 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 twenty twelve and now it's the only way to continue this very international what all spacemen say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome now away for r.t. . well twenty eleven has been a year of shell ops and downs for the spaces gratian industry daring projects consistently and made it into the headlines but there was much more that didn't all

of our avails. 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. 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 the 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 there is a ship in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in such a long time worn year. hundred currently simulating never. however it will be. months before this store 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 first step

towards the first step i think it was referred to by the organizers towards going to. and trying to send people to the. well looking back on twenty eleven one of the things that really stand out is the crash of that progress module no it wasn't just the module itself they've been using since the late seventy's it was the fact that this was carried on. 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 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 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 in the beginning of twenty twelve. pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully these failures that we've seen today seen this year that we've seen the result in. any major problems on. the big. show in the perseverance of these people who risked their lives going into space well as a job they do it out of choice. that was the very first report of all special series a way to every day until the time rings at twelve december. and of course always catch up on our website. also might be. alleged provider of

top secret information to the whistleblower side of wiki leaks spaces like in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around the mastermind julian assange. under oculus escape for russian drive use attempts to win a couple of seconds on the road almost cost him his life. a new conflicts are up to between britain and the this time of the case treatment of so-called benefits houris brussels has given london an ultimatum to relax benefit laws saying the country must dole out handouts to anyone who asks for them but as aussies either better reports britain's new spirit of non-cooperation may 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 i didn't come here to claim benefits i came here to work. david's what the government fears is a benefit tourist here to take and not to give back english is still a struggle and the state says he doesn't qualify for its handouts a serious accident eighteen months ago put him out of work and he soon went bankrupt he's been living on the street ever since but still won't go back to poland. i thought this was a friendly country but only if it needs you and you work for it becomes he could give me something but he doesn't need me i never thought it would be like this this is not a paradise. foreign nationals are eligible for welfare once they've lived here for

over three months but they must convince the or forty's they are here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain 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 is too tough and is 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 won't put anything back in the pot the british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the regional welfare state back in the one thousand forces which had contributed principal 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 aunt eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k. is forced to sweeten the deal either than it r.t. london. now the iraqi prime minister has told the kurdish authorities to hand over his rival the country's sunni vice president he's wanted a the allegations he's the running a hit squad where it all began just a day after the last us troops left the country the v.p.

said the challenges are fabricators and accuse the pm of cracking down on her to share 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 return of american forces to iraq and that something political analyst told the honey mahmoud believes it would be disastrous . the mark received in iraq the whole the whole narrative of the war was build there was a weapon of mass destruction and magically it was shifted to eliminating a tyrant and then to bring in the mark received to the region however by a simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world now. military intervention or in bringing democracy by fours 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 just looking at the political behavior among the leadership and the inability. of the leadership to

get the country back on track. ok let's get a quick check on what else is happening around the globe at this hour now and at least twenty five died in southeast turkey when a coach collided head on with a truck that was fully loaded with bricks the crash happened on a road that was reduced to one lane whilst road works were taking place actually car accidents are frequent occurrence in the mountainous areas of turkey to the infamous bro a minimal respect. to what is in greece has been the protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs in two months of national star measures freedom on five quaaludes big banks the country's struggling to escape the tightening debt which threatens to push it into default greece is trying to convince a private creditors about to write off the debts are going to. it's going to

business update now with dmitri. thank you russia will become one of the world's top five biggest economies if the government's objectives are achieved prime minister vladimir putin has set a target of boosting the country's gross domestic product growth to seven percent a year and significantly improved the labor capacity he hopes to reach this by changing the structure of russia's economy. bush 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'll 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 tent city in the hopes for a quick and long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have vanished and

countries failed to reach an agreement during high profile overnight talks however they say this will not affect the transit of russian gas here ukraine is struggling to persuade russia to cut the price for its energy supplies saying the burden is to big for the country's troubled economy here did not even manage the pain of embers builds on borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank and from russia's national energy security plan another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. but then to solve the now was the last our last guess what we have no confidence in general sales of mine it was the main reason for the new guess what now we have cornered it means that according to the law we think we can award it serious quantity that is why we can spend new year without any problems. hopefully no problem here or oil is gaining for a third day on size that the us economy could be spared

a recession and amid growing pressure on iran to close all its nuclear program light sweet is adding one dollar exactly to reach ninety eight dollars twenty four cents per barrel brant as our almost half of. u.s. stocks are down that's after european central bank said it would lend a record amount to a euro area banks tech shares are slumping more of a corporation coming down thirteen percent that's after the business. from a cassette and struggled close deals. european stocks are also in the red at the closing minutes of banks and miners however a bad bucking the trend the european central bank as we mentioned on wednesday offered loans to five hundred twenty three euro area bags as part of a three year funding operation designed to ease the cuisine. and from bad to worse i mean moving to the russian market c.r.t.'s is down one percent the my six one and three quarters of a percent second to what's moving the my sex at the close of wednesday session the

. blue chips legs burbank were losing no more than three percent the banks had to get them and could have announced that the privatisation of the us it could go ahead after the presidential elections in twenty twelve was losing despite high oil prices and chalk they could come out as it was also down half a percent better than the market that's after the company says it plans to increase its sales by nine percent next year. so i vote for you for now but i'll be back in fifty five minutes so i'm will not that. you.

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