in the u.k. mosby is eligible for handouts as britons themselves. and three future i.s.a.'s crew members are in near it on the way to the space station after their soyuz spacecraft launches successfully from the baikonur cosmodrome. a very warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow russia urging nato to look into reports of widespread civilian deaths in libya caused by the military alliance is a seven month long bombing campaign while the claims of filed by rights groups contradict his assertion that twenty six thousands of its airstrikes did not cause any civilian casualties and the killing hasn't ended just because gadhafi is dead and gone former rebels continue to take that anger out on supporters of the toppled regime and you may find some of the images in the exam

a boy his report to. the 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. for gadhafi. and the captives themselves seem doubts about what's coming next. and it seems like these where you know that possibly be as the rebels assisted by western powers so to liberate the country from gadhafi i've been longines about he said district tendencies grow more and more outlandish by the day and that seems to justify any sort of treatment for his perceived loyalists in some places the violence is quite bad the town we looked out in was called god 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 as ferocity is here in 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 to the tourists present a scene of torture and arbitrary killings but while gadhafi is gone the human rights abuses still remain valid from this area are still disappearing without a trace their families are too scared to talk about. this is probably the

only place in all the beer with families of a logic get out his supporters can turn to for how mama to form peace and your earlier this year to investigate the fate of those who disappeared and get off its 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 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. for how many of his friends have been taking photos of them i just find bodies that have been popping up across lee bear in recent months this is natural it's 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 he's in hospital or maybe he's

lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last. it's still alive even if many people aren't. artsy tripoli hospitals. 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 government forces allegedly used heavy i mean mission against anti regime fighters about ahead of the arrival of an arab team which is going to prepare for a monitoring mission in a country and also her first reports iraq hopes the observers can present a clear picture of what's really going on and so i was watching the news and it 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 he's seeing 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's 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 dangerous 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 still maintaining that there is fighting and militant movement 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 no one to be adding fuel to this fire and again he called for

a dialogue to be pushed in this situation if the outside or neighboring country but he. wants to help so to get out of the crisis what we need is to help and provide good offices to push the opposition was seeing north a 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 are not afraid of democracy now here in the capital damascus the cities are a lot of the shelters they fall from the conflict here in the main the east side of the economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by the arab league month last month and taking it. day to. the sea. diesel and the kicking out and then be sure that that she today sanctions and power cuts around the city they would complement the full citations would put in place have now become much more frequent and last for

a fair bit longer as well. just ahead for you in a few moments here on our story starts really new sectarian violence threatens iraq as the. stops and vie for power following america's withdrawal from the war torn country. company in the rights of benefits who are. britain's top policies saying the u.k. is obliged to dole out billions to normal citizens something in london believes will only encourage them not to work. with. history. testimony. turned stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. six the state duma the lower house of parliament has held its first session after heated debate set again for the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker it comes as protests continue against

the elections two weeks ago by allegations of vote rigging my colleague sushi ideas spoke to you get that in the garage. who've been following about this for us. it was a very intense first session of the state do my heated debates and raised voices for a sit at the voting the voting for a new duma speaker with two hundred thirty eight voices for and eighty eight against a new speaker has been chosen and that's ruling united russia's candidate sigyn not a skin of government shuffle 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 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 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 high of will still it was very inconvenient to sit in today but i asked them. to re-install it so i hope i'll sit in the next session. roubles deal. the tali 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 let's you know why he was well known for its harsh criticism of the russian government was released from custody where he spent the last fifteen days after he was arrested during opposition rallies which took place shortly after the parliamentary elections in the country which took place on the fourth of december there also been 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 there the results were falsified the polling that's russian president dmitry medvedev ordered an investigation into the case and already fifty criminal cases were filed in that respect and at twenty one polling stations the voting results were a no go over and that does not change the outcome over the parliamentary election

this may 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. us russian soyuz spacecraft carrying a three future international space station crew members has blasted into space and is in orbit as the soyuz stuffed full of new develop digital equipment is expected to reach the i asked us on friday aussies and he said now it was an unlucky witness from the launch. why is rocket just about to blast off here from baikonur cosmodrome in a conflict stand let's take a look at this site. absolutely

incredible there will reach the top speed of one point five kilometers per second and i will have the rocket in orbit and less than ninety minutes from blast off that we just saw on board are three spacemen including russian cosmonaut 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 were it 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 some sort of thirty six or so experiments there and also be doing engineering research one of the experiments which is considered the most important in terms of research that's

going on at the international space station is actually trying to find life forms on the outer surface of the i assess of course this is the only way now to reach to have crews reached i assess through the site space program because the u.s. nasa i should say of course grounded their shuttle missions to the i s s so it's 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. continue this very international what all space me say is a very important program for the international space community reporting from baikonur cosmodrome way for archie. two thousand and eleven husband a year of downs for the space exploration industry daring products consistently made it into the headlines but there was much more bit different 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 garant 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 the mocked up spacecraft was i realized it was six guys in a very very small shed for five hundred twenty days i mean doing them a bit of

a disservice saying that there is a show in the shed but when you see the pictures of the wood paneling and everything very small confined space that they were in for such a long time one year into their voyage the mars five hundred team currently simulating never journey to earth however it will be another five months before this 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 reports look these guys go through extensive cosmonaut training that they know what they're doing they'll be fine. volkov who is actually the mission commander who is up there when he returned from his time in space he was telling me that yeah they were genuinely a little bit worried they were generally scared at times they were going to run out

of food they didn't know if they were going to be able to be brought back down to earth before that ran out in the beginning of twenty twelve. pressures that these people put themselves through evident thankfully that these failures that we've seen today seen this year these failures that we've seen this year didn't result in . any major problems on months spaceflight that's always the big concern but. it has showed me 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 seen 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 side we hear leaks faces life in prison as the u.s.

tightens the net around mastermind julian assange. and a miraculous escape pro russian driving his attempt to win a couple of seconds on the road always const him his life. now a new conflicts a rupture between britain and this time a treatment of so-called benefit tourists brussels has given london ultimatum to relax benefit laws saying the country must all out handouts to anyone who asks for them but a better reports britain's new spirit of non-cooperation 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 that's only if it needs you and you work for it the country could give me something but it doesn't need me i never thought it would be like this this is not a paradise. foreign nationals are eligible for welfare once they've lived here for over three months but they must convince the or forty's they're here to work and support themselves but the e.u.

is ordering britain to relax those rules claiming they discriminate unfairly it wants to allow foreign nationals to get state handouts as soon as they arrive in the u.k. it's extraordinary for the european union to say that in britain when north are able to do an eligibility test before handing someone benefit you know first of all it's our money secondly it was in our manifesto that we were going to bring in these sorts of changes it'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 ultimatum. it says the right to reside test foreigners must pass to claim benefits is too tough and is giving 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 work but anything back in the pot the british welfare state exist benefit british people. this was very clear in the regional welfare state back in the one thousand forces which had contributed principle you contributed and you benefited if you didn't contribute you weren't eligible forty percent to migrants from eastern and central europe most of those 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 than it r.t. london now they are rocky prime minister has told kurdish authorities to hand over his rival the country's sunni vice president who is wanted over 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 peace of the challenges of fabricating around accuse the pm of cracking down on competition in order to tighten his grip on power they can tell starts 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's something physical and less done to hand mahmoud believes would be disastrous. the marker see there are a 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 mark received to the region however by a simple comparison with what's happening in the arab world about. military intervention or in bringing democracy by fours does not seem to be the best way to do it 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 looking at the political behavior 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

wall they sound and at least twenty five people died in southeast turkey when the page 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 did you call accidents are frequent occurrence in the mountainous areas of turkey the infamous for a minimal respect for traffic. steel workers in greece a group of protesting for fifty two days against fifty layoffs in two months as part of the national austerity measures they them on their fired colleagues hired by the country's struggling to escape the tightening nice of 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 hail on a new racism scandal erupts in the english football premier league find. all about it in the sports update right now that is going to business update which to me.

in a 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 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 say i was and i was the last our last gears of war we had no conflict in general sales of man it was the main reason for the new guess what now we have gone to work to means that according to the war 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 to pass some ism over from europe and the united states with the r.t.s.

declining almost a percent at the end of wednesday 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 asset would be privatized after the presidential elections in twenty twelve rolls nafta was down despite high oil prices and truck make it come 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 the monopoly to a missed balance budget to two planned 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 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. coming up next on out seeing the headlights do stay with us.

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. the big. now i hear in moscow this is all see twenty six thousand strikes and those civilian casualties outraged greeks and they taze claims of a flawless in libya intervention all as a new and just as bloody campaign unfolds against gadhafi is four months approaches . russia's freshly elected parliament has chosen its speaker the new state deem a convenience for the first time two weeks after its election spog mass protests and polls one to count.