for handouts is britain's themselves. and future i.s.a.'s crew members are a near bit on the way to the space station after the soyuz spacecraft norcia 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 out see a war is not coming up more on this into a. very warm welcome to this is live from moscow russia 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's assertion that twenty six thousand of its asteroids 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 angst out on supporters all of the toppled regime and you may find some of the images on the board this report disturbing. 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 get off his hometown of sirte there was behind a camera delivers a verdict you remember. the jews. and the captives themselves seemed dad certain about what's coming next. scenes like these when you know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been 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 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 for all cities here in hatred still reside in the neighborhood. obviously is a poor area installed in tripoli where more margot duffy had strong support base prior to his flame 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 rather from this area are still disappearing without

a trace their families are too scared to talk about that. this is probably the only place in all the beer with families of a legit good office supporters can turn to for how mama to form peace and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off his presence 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 gadhafi 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 bear in recent months this naturists are probably the relatives the 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 frontlines of banjo. and 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 aren't. artsy tripoli hospital. 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 syrian northwestern province of it live by government forces and legibly use heavy ammunition against and regime fighters but the head of the arrival of the arab league advanced what is going to prepare for a monetary. loss instead of course there are hopes the observers can present

a clear picture of what's really going on in syria. from the arab league is expected to arrive in the country by. that's the head of the observer mission that's expected to hit at the end of the month and that cools that mission concomitant moment he's seeing really as both sides of the conflict that counts as the death toll rising all the time in this new policy of the day that the main opposition city where we see say much of the fighting place yeah we'll see with that session plus of the city where the fighting is much more concentrated and we went to travel today supposes it is the tea dangerous but even the cars we were visiting what daily life the struggling on you could hear the sounds of heavy gunfire breaking out across the city the government of calls and still maintaining the fighting and minutes in the opposition saying that the government had been operating a crackdown policy on the protest is that i spoke to the foreign ministry spokesman

the other day he was saying that what's needed now from outside countries is that no one should be adding fuel to this fire and again he moved the dialogue to be pushed in the situation if the outside or neighboring country come through to the ward wants to help so they get out of the crisis what we need to do is to help and provide the good offices to push the opposition was seeing north of the you know to say yes to the you know we're going to come out on one thing but to discuss everything that are not there. you know what a discussion we had on the freedom of democracy now here in the camp think about this if these are a lot of these shells it's a fall from the conflict here in the middle east signs that the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by they are not the last month taking a. day to. have around this is. diesel and kicking out

there be sure that that she today sanctions. how it was around the city with a they would come home and the full the sanctions would put in place have now become much more frequent and last a fair bit longer as well. just ahead for you in a few minutes time a story start where new terror threat. as unshackled leaders throughout all the stops and vie for power following americans with dual form a new form called. championing the rights of benefit tourists the e.u. targets britain's top policies saying the u.k. is obliged to dole out billions to non-citizens a lot of them believe in new cars the not so good. witnesses. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on. russia's six state

duma the lower house of parliament has held its first session after heated debate and said again that from the ruling it out of russia party was chosen as its speaker well it comes as protests continue against the elections two weeks ago sponsored by allegations of vote rigging by my colleague. earlier spoke to yesterday and i got sure. he's been following the events. it was a very intense first session of the state duma 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 for this ruling united russia's candidate to get not a second government shot full advance last week when mr b. and i wish can until recently probably in 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 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 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. is the same as all the other day parties 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 the next session in comfort is deal. but nataly over to you know this numerous 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 gothard for at un sanctions protest outside the stadium when according to opposition bloggers over twenty people were arrested let's you know are you 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 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 the null mins of the results of the parliamentary elections claiming there the results were falsified polling doubts 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 announced however that does not change the outcome over the parliamentary election the state do is going to stay in the way it was shaved on the fourth over december and their own going investigation is not going to change that. when the russian soyuz spacecraft carrying three feet to international space station crew members have blasted into space and is in a near. the soyuz stuffed full of newly developed digital equipment is expected to reach the i s s on friday aussies and he's now a was unlucky witness at the orange. rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in the conflicts there let's take a look at this site. absolutely

credible there will reach you know one point five meters per second and i'm the rock in orbit and much of the ninety minutes from blast off that we just saw on. board are three space men including russian cosmonauts and young go along with an american astronaut and a 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 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 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 reach the highest says 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. 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 now way for r t. well twenty left it has been a year of the shuttle homes 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 that reveals. one of the biggest landmarks that we saw 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 most of

the six guys in the 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 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 for such a long time one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never to journey to earth however it will be another five months before this door 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 report 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 evidence 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 on a well as a job they do it without a choice. that was just the first report of all special series awaiting you every day until the chimes ring 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 online to you at the moment the alleged provider of top secret information to do with the blower side wiki leaks faces life in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around mastermind julian assange. and the rack ulysses' 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 dole out handouts 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 because 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 thirty'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 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 and brothels 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 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 work but 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 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 then it r.t. london now the iraqi prime minister has told kurdish authorities to hand over his rival the country's sunni vice president his won't today the allegations he's been running hit squads where it all began just a day after the last us troops left the country that the charges are fabricated and

accuse the pm of cracking down on that issue in order to tighten his grip on power that contention is a start to a free iraq has already raised concern u.s. senator john mccain who are tired of american forces to arrive at something as well and there's a doctor who would believe that would be disastrous. the mark received and there are a 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 bringing the marker so you to that region however by a simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world. 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 now and it's twenty people 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 while road works were taking place deadly car accidents are frequent occurrence in the mountainous areas of turkey as the infamous or a minimal respect. to work is in greece have been protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs in two months as part of nationals territory meshes they demand their colleagues be hired back in the country is struggling to escape the tightening debt which threatens to push it into default he says trying to convince 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 r.t. new russia will become one of the world's five biggest economies if the government's objectives are achieved prime minister vladimir putin a set of targets 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. slowing with. 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 even though 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 ten city in the. hopes for

a quick end to the long lasting gas conflict between ukraine and russia have vanished their 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 and 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 all 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 nie was the last our last war we have no confidence in general sales of mine it was the main reason for the new guess what now we have cornered means that according to the law we or i think we can award it 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 take a look at the main movers on the my six blue chips world down to burbank declining three percent as it's had him and graph announced that the asset would be privatized after the presidential elections in twenty twelve rolls nafta was down despite high oil prices and truck make it was down half a percent the company plans to increase its sales by nine percent next year. and russia's gas monopoly gazprom has 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 to monopoly to mis balanced budgets 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 to my dad about that mr newspaper reports the owners want a four to five billion dollars for one hundred percent of shares of the moscow arab unnamed sources claim the financial consortium alpha group investment group and over and so much capital are the most likely potential buyers however the at these companies are not ready to stump up the full amount being asked earlier was reported that goldman sachs was retained to seal the deal. coming up next on out see the headlines to stay with us. if.

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. if. hey welcome back it's hop on from now we're here in moscow twenty six thousand airstrikes and no civilian casualties outrage greets a nato as it claims of a flawless libyan intervention all as a new and just body campaign unfolds against gadhafi is for what supports its. russia's freshly elected parliament has chosen its new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its elections mass protests and calls for recounts.