twenty six thousand strikes and no civilian casualties outrage greets nato his claims of a flawless libya intervention all as a new and just as bloody campaign unfolds against gadhafi still will support. the elected parliament has chosen its speak over the new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its election sparked mass protests and calls for recounts. between britain and the. london to relax stringent benefit will saying newly arrived immigrants and u.k. mosby is that legible for handouts as britons themselves. and three future

i.s.a.'s can when they saw him near beers on the way to the space station after their soyuz spacecraft launches successfully from the i can all possible to write. a very warm welcome to this is our line from moscow russia nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is seven months long bombing campaign while the claims of filed by rights groups contradict his assertion that twenty six thousand strikes did not cause any civilian casualties and the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is dead and gone for rebels continue to take that supporters all of the toppled regime now you may find some of the images in the exam a boy his report just. this is what it's like to look death in the face

a group of men 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. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seemed that certain about what's coming next. seems like these plano that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi are going longines about he said district tendency has grown 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 taliban 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 had very elaborate in their rating his ferocity his fear and hatred still reside in this neighborhood. obviously is a poor area in southern tripoli where more margot had strong support base prior to . the district also has its name in a tourist prison 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 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 mohammad form peace and your

earlier this year it's investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off his prisons 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 khadafi forces they usually say he was a civilian court in the crossfire and 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 for. mohamed and his friends have been taking photos of the name john to find bodies that have been popping up across lee bear 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 bangor la. i hope he's in tunisia maybe he's in

hospital or maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last believe it's still alive even if many people aren't going to boycott artsy tripoli most. of us in syria say the country has seen some of its fiercest fighting since all the rest began with a the two hundred people killed since monday the biggest number of casualties was reported in the syrian northwestern province of the government forces allegedly used heavy omniscient against anti regime fighters about the head of the arrival of an arab team which is going to prepare for a monitoring mission in the country and also her first reports iraq hopes the observers can present a clear because of what's really going on and so i was watching and i did love came from the arab league is expected to arrive in the country. that's the head of the observer mission that's expected here at the end of the month and the cools that

mission concomitant moment to see really as both sides of the conflict accounts at the death toll rising all the time in the city of homs the other day that the main opposition city where we see say much of the fighting place yeah well see 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 dangers but even the cars we were visiting with 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 that there's fighting and militant movement the opposition saying that the government had been operating a crackdown policy on the protesters 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 world neighboring country. wants to help so they get out of the crisis what we need is to help and provide the good offices to push the opposition seeing north two billion move to say yes to come out on one thing but to discuss everything there are not there was a lot of. discussion we had on the freedom of democracy now here in the capital damascus the cities are a largely felt safe from the conflict here in the main the east side of the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league last month taking it. day to monkey around this to see the deeds of the kicking out there is that that g today sanctions and how it cuts around the city today and they would complement the full citations would put in place had now become much more frequent and love for a fair bit longer as well. just ahead for you in

a few moments here on. new sectarian violence threatens iraq. and vie for power following america's withdrawal from the war torn country. get tough policies saying the u.k. is obliged to. london police. turn stories. six state house of parliament has held its first session after heated debates for the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker as protests continue. to go

by allegations of vote rigging my colleague. spoke to you get that in there. who've been following events for us. it was a very intense first session of the state duma heated debates and raised voices for receipt of the voting the voting for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight voices for and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate to give not a skin government shot full advance last week when a serbian i wish can until recently kremlin chief of staff stepped down for a duma seat apart from that opposition will have a louder voice in the new duma with united russia failing to secure a constitutional majority is believe that the lower house of the russian parliament will again become a field of heated debates and now that united russia does not have a majority of the committees fourteen out of twenty nine committees are will be

controlled by the three opposition parties it's also believed that the whole approach to lawmaking in russia will change now today's choky in the corridors of power is that one of united russia's deputies who has been told left without a seat in the new duma we caught up with the boxer to find out why the first duma session was so uncomfortable for him. is the same as all the other deputies being sent with a higher will still it was very inconvenient to sit in today but i asked them. to re-install it one who posts in the next session. still. 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 poll during the first plenary session of the news the elected lower house of the russian parliament members of the opposition gathered for an unsanctioned protest outside the stadium when according to opposition bloggers over twenty people were arrested i let's see now i

use well known phrase harsh criticism of the russian government was released from custody where he found 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 a no means 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 shaped on the fourth of december

and their own going investigation is not going to change that. russian soyuz spacecraft carrying a three future international space station crew members has blasted into space and . the soyuz stuffed full of new need to than a digital equipment is expected to reach the i s s on friday aussies and he said now it was unlucky witness from the once. why is rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome again in conflicts and let's take a look at this site.

absolutely incredible there will reach the top speed of one point five kilometers per second and i will have the rocket in orbit and 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 a new european astronaut from holland and they will be onboard the international space station for some six months of course that means they will be spending christmas and new year's there for some of them it's not the first time they'll be spending the holidays there we had a chance to speak to them just before takeoff and what they said word was yes we'll have some kind of celebration of their commander will certainly have the christmas hats ready and we will take part in some kind of celebration of we really do have a lot of work to do what they'll be doing there is conducting several of some thirty six or so experiments there and also be doing engineering research one of the experiments which is considered the most important in terms of research that's going on at the international space station is actually trying to find life forms

on the outer surface of the 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 even. 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 space may say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome. for r.t. or two thousand and eleven hundred. pounds for the space exploration and destry daring products consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more all that different reveals.

one of the biggest landmarks that we saw this year was the fiftieth anniversary of your first space flight just one of the nasa astronauts went up there i was having to chat with him about what it actually meant. that first flight by you daryn fifty years ago and he was saying really it changed us as a species we stopped being limited to our own planet we were able to go out and explore further of course a few years after the first month set foot on the moon. for the most 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 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 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.

it wasn't just the module itself. it was the fact. is the only way we have. the progress module. is carrying. supply for the international space station at the time we were hearing . from the guys on the space station food and supplies have been for saying no this is fine it's ok i'm. doing fine. the mission commander who was up there when he. he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely worried that. they were going to run out of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be. before in the

beginning 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 all month spaceflight that's always the big. show in the the perseverance of these people who who do risk their lives going into space well as a job they do it for do it out of choice. that was just the first report of our special series that we see you every day until the chinese are in twelve on december thirty first and be sure not to miss the rest otherwise you can of course always catch up on our web site www dot com also on my new day the alleged provider of top secret information to the whistleblower site we hear leaks faces life in prison as the u.s. tightens the net around mastermind julian assange.

underwrite killisnoo skate pro russian driving his attempt to win a couple of seconds on the road always const him his life. now a new conflicts erupted between britain and this time a treatment of so-called benefit tourists brussels has given london ultimatum to relax benefit all saying the country must hold out handouts to anyone who asks for them but reports britain's new spirit of non-cooperation a complicated. 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 blow to me 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 forties they are here to work and support themselves but the e.u. is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it

wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain where north able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it's simply outrageous that an elected 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 alter. it says the right to reside test 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 see 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 pockets the

british welfare state exists to benefit british people. this was very clear in the regional welfare state back in the one nine hundred forty s. which had contributed principle 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 eligible for welfare already some are trying their luck and no doubt more will the u.k.'s forced to sweeten the deal on to bennett's r.t. london. now they rocky prime minister has told kurdish authorities to hand to his rival the country's sydney vice president who is wanted in the allegations that he's been running a hit squad it all began just a day after the last us troops left the country and the v.p. said the challenges are complicated and dicky's the pm of cracking down on competition in order to tighten his grip on power contentious starts to a free iraq has already raised concern u.s.

senator john mccain even call for the return of american forces to iraq and that's something physical and less mahmoud believes would be disastrous. the marker seen in iraq the whole the whole narrative of the war was built on there was a lot of mass destruction and magically it was shifted to eliminating a tyrant and then bringing the mark received to that region however by a simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world now in military intervention or in bringing democracy by fours does not seem to be the best way to do that we should look at the error of the. i learned from it democracy in iraq i don't think it's actually happening i mean there is more signs of it looking at the political bickering among the leadership and the inability. of the leadership to get the country back on track. now that's going to what else is happening around the while they sour and at least twenty five people died in southeast turkey when

the 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 roadworks were taking place did you call accidents are frequent occurrence in the mountainous areas of turkey the infamous for a minimal respect for traffic. steelworkers in greece a group protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs in two months as part of national austerity measures leave them on their fired colleagues hired by the country's struggling to escape the tightening news the debt which threatens to push it into default greece is trying to convince private creditors that banks don't want to talk. about twenty minutes time here on our new racism scandal erupts in the english football premier league find. all about it in the sports update right now that is good business update but to me.

that you know warm welcome to business on so you russia will become one of the world's five biggest economies if the government's objectives are sheep prime minister vladimir putin the sort of solitude 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 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 failed to reach an agreement during high profile overnight talks

however they say this will not affect the transit of russian gas to europe their grain 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 here didn't even manage to pain of members bill itself borrowed half a billion dollars from russia's gazprom bank doesn't seem an 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 say i was and i was the last i will last the gears of war we have no qualms about 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 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 pessimism over from europe and the united states with the r.t.s. declining almost a percent at the end of wednesday's session in my six down one percent and three

quarters take a look at the main movers on the my six blue chips were all down to burbank declining three percent as its head and graph announced that the assets would be privatized after the presidential elections in twenty twelve rolls nafta was down despite high oil prices and truck make it come as 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 miss 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 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 apple unnamed sources claim the financial consortium alpha group investment group or nova and so much capital are the most likely potential buyers however they add 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. i have that. out seeing the headlights to stay with us.

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