twenty six thousand airstrikes and no civilian casualties and will rage a great nation whose claims of afterwards libya intervention as a new and just body campaign unfolds against gadhafi school bus upsets. russia's freshly elected parliament has chosen its speaker the new states to make it begins for the first time two weeks song to its election sponsor months riots in this one can. a fresh round between britain and the new brussels orders london to relax stringent benefit new saying newly arrived immigrants in the u.k. is eligible for handouts as britain's themselves. and three future i.s.a.'s crew

members are in near elite on the way to the space station after the soyuz spacecraft launches successfully from the baikonur cosmodrome. yet another dispute between russia and ukraine over gas prices is far from a quick resolution but experts tell business start to see a war is not coming up more on this into a. very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow russia is urging nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is a seven month long campaign while the claims are filed by rights groups contradict nato assertion that twenty six thousand of its as drives did not cause any civilian casualties and the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is dead and gone

former rebels continue to take their ranks out on supporters all the toppled regime and you may find some of the images an example of his report disturbing. 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 doubts about what's coming next. scenes like these play now with a costly be as the rebels assisted by western powers to liberate the country from gadhafi arbonne 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 go back with ferocity here 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 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 to form peace and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off its 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're scared to tell me that this son or husband was with the khadafi 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. 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 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 only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't going to wake up artsy tripoli. this in syria say the country has seen some of its fiercest fighting since on the west began with a with two hundred people killed since monday the biggest number of casualties was reported in the syria's northwest province of you do live by government forces and legibly use heavy ammunition dance and the regime find sense of up ahead of the arrival of the arab league advanced which is going to prepare for a monitor the country has long since the first of course through hopes the observers can present a clear picture of what's really going on in syria. and it came from the arab

league is expected to arrive in the country it's a boy that's the head of the observer mission that's expected to hit at the end of the month and the calls that mission concomitant made it to see really as both sides of the cold take the council as the death toll rising in the sky the in the city of homs the other day that the main opposition city where we see say much of the fighting bravely out was he with that says i'm close to the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel today supposes it is the key dangers but even the cars we were visiting what they are struggling on and you can hear the sounds of heavy gunfire breaking out across the city the government of course has still maintaining that there is fighting and militant movement in the opposition saying that the government has been up breaking it quite down the policy of the protests is that i speak to the foreign ministry spokesman the other day he

was saying that what's needed now 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 regional country was toward wants to help sort of get out of the crisis what we need is to help and to provide good offices to push the opposition was seeing north of the you know to say yesterday and we're going to come. i don't want to discuss everything north of. you know whatever discussion we had on the freedom of democracy now here in the capital damascus these are a lot of the shelter from the conflict in the middle east side of the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league last month. katie. this is. these are kicking out now that he should just be today's sanctions.

how it was around the city with a they would call it the full citations would put in place have now become much more frequent. for a bit longer as well just ahead for you in a few minutes time us story start where new terry in five seconds iraq as unshackled leaders throughout all the stops and vie for power following america's with all. championing of the rights of benefit tourists the e.u. targets britain's tough policies saying the ukase of. billions to non-citizens. in the cars the nazis were. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand eleven. russia is a sixth state to deal with the no house of parliament has held its first session

after heated debate said again that from the ruling it out of russia party was chosen as it speaker when it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago followed by allegations of vote rigging all my colleague. spoke to me they got jovana tight enough has been following the events but it was a very intense first session of the state duma heated debates and raised voices for a sit in the boat the boat ing for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight always says four and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate to give not a skin government shop full advance last week or so we're not wishing until recently kremlin chief of staff to step 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 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 duma session was so uncomfortable for him but it 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 asked them i also nicely to re-install it so i hope i'll sit in the next session in comfort. 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 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 aleksey now garley who is well known for his 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 mosco when over twenty thousand people gathered on one of the city's main squares to do months and in the lens of the results of the parliamentary elections claiming there the 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 shaved on the fourth of december and their own going investigation is not going to change that. when the russian soyuz spacecraft carrying three feet to the international space station crew members have blasted into space and is in. the soyuz the stuff of newly developed and quick mint is expected to reach the i s s on friday aussies and he's now a was unlucky witness at the launch. rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in the conflicts then let's take a look at this site. absolutely

credible there will reach that top speed of one point five meters 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 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 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 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 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. 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 spacemen say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome many so now way for our team. well twenty seven has been a year of shelf ops and downs for the space has gratian industry tearing projects consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more that didn't ask

each one of that reveals. one of the biggest landmarks the resort this year was the fiftieth anniversary of your first spaceflight just before one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant to have that first flight by you current 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 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 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. five hundred team 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 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 is the crash of that progress it wasn't just the module itself. 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 this is carrying food and supplies for the international space station at the time we were hearing from and from the guys on the space station food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i remember saying you. know what they're doing they'll be fine. who was actually the mission commander who was up there when he

returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried that. they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that in the beginning twenty twelve. people put themselves through evidence thankfully that. didn't result in. any major problems on. the. the perseverance of these people who risked their lives going into space well as a job they do it. that was just the first report of all special series awaiting you every day until the chimes are in twelve on december the thirty first you do be sure not to miss the rest otherwise you could have calls with catch up on our website r.t.

dot com and also on line q at the moment the alleged provider of top secret information to do with so blow aside wiki leaks faces life in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around mastermind julian assange. on the iraqi list of scape or russian driver his attempt to win a couple of seconds on the road almost cost him his life. now a new conflict surat to between britain and the e.u. this time over the you case treatment of so-called benefit tourists or brussels has given london ultimatum to relax benefit laws saying the country must hold out handles to anyone who asked for the bartons bennett 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 that this country would 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 priorities they are here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain where north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit 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 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 what 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 see that 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 for two percent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those on eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k. is forced to sweeten the deal either bennett r.t. london. now the iraqi prime minister has told kurdish authorities to hand over his rival the country's sunni vice president he was wont to do the allegations he's running hit squads where it all began just a day after the last us troops left the country the v.p.

looked at the charges are fabricated and accuse the pm of cracking down on that issue in order to tighten his grip on power that contentious start to a free iraq has already raised. us senator john mccain who are tired of american forces to iraq and that's something as well and there's a doctor who'd believe that would be disastrous. the mark received in iraq well the whole the whole narrative of the war was build there was a lot of mass destruction and magically it was shifted to eliminating a tyrant and then to bring in the marker so you through 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 division among the leadership and the inability. of the leadership to

get the country back on track. i can't check what else is happening around the world this hour with our twenty people died in the 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 while road works were taking place deadly car accidents are frequent occurrence in the mountainous areas of turkey is infamous for a minimal respect. to work is in greece have been protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs and see runs as part of nationals territory meshes they demand their colleagues be hired back the country is struggling to escape the tightening debt which threatens to push it into default he says trying to convince a private creditors about to write off off the debt if it's. ok that's the way the

news this is our do stay with us business sector to be. well as you know warm welcome to business until you russia will become one of the world's five biggest economies if the government's objectives are cheat prime minister vladimir putin a set of saga of boosting the country's g.d.p. growth to seven percent a year and significantly improve 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 in the next three years into the economy it roughly equals the country's g.d.p. to twenty to thirty in the. hopes for a quick and long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have vanished

their 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 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 he didn't even manage to pain of members bill itself borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank constantine semen oil from russia's national energy security fund says another gas war is unlikely as the existing contract runs for another seven years. the general to solve the now was the last our last year so what we have no confidence in general sales of man 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 serious quantity that is why we can spend new year without any problems. now to the stock markets and russia's markets took the past some ism over from europe and the united states with the r.t.s.

declining almost a percent at the end of wednesday's session myself down one percent and three quarters we take a look at the main movers on the my six blue chips a world down to burbank declining three percent as its head and graph announced that the as it would be privatized after the presidential elections in twenty twelve ross nafta was down despite high oil prices and truck make it come mars was down half a percent the company plans to increase its sales by nine percent next year. in russia's gas monopoly gazprom is decided to more than double this year's dividends the company's shareholders will get to six point two billion dollars if the payout is approved at the next year's a.g.m. gazprom has been criticized for low dividend payments despite rising profits from growing gas prices however analysts say the move could lead the monopoly to a missed balanced budget to two plans gas discounts for neighboring countries as well as a possible reduction in gas exports to europe. and more details have emerged about

the possible sale of russia's largest airport the body out of that mr newspaper reports the owners want a four to five billion dollars for one hundred percent of shares of the moscow app unnamed sources claim the financial consortium alpha group investment group or nova and so much capital are the most likely potential buyers however the ad 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. coming up next on out see the headlights to stay with us. you.

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