to teach creation why you should care about. this is why you should. only. kill seven in retaliation to barack obama's a surprise visit which saw him commit. least another ten years. during the protest against egypt. while neighboring israel puts itself. as a on its northern and southern border. plus the e.u. reaches for the red card as countries move to a boycott. all of this over the handling of his jailed former prime minister.

it is good to have you with us today this is live from moscow with me wrong. the taliban says it carried out a suicide car bombing that killed seven people in the afghan capital president barack obama wrapped up a brief visit to the country he signed a deal with president karzai cementing america's commitment to supporting afghan forces even after the nato combat mission ends in two thousand and fourteen obama also stressed the importance of peace talks with the taliban even though the latest attack was in direct retaliation for his visit and the pact with karzai the u.s. leader pledged to end the war. reports america intends to stay for at least another decade. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after

bin laden's killing to sign the strategic pact with ghana's then is seen as an attempt to put the nears of a success story on the decade long war in afghanistan but success in afghanistan is very or you will to say the least the afghans want american troops out we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night raids and other actions by u.s. troops the american people want their troops out so both governments are anxious to tell their people that this is over but the grievance that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. staying in afghanistan through twenty twenty four at least not in those numbers of course and the agreement by the way does not address specific troop levels or the size or location of u.s. bases and this is something that many afghans are worried about and that is that the u.s. warrants a permanent basis in afghanistan so amid all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as a great victory here is my report on how the law against killing could serve as

a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to make the ranks of al qaida and a year ago we were able to finally bring osama bin laden to justice. by now nobody doubts that bin laden's killing is going to be the highlight of obama's presidential campaign it's already featured in his ads. the harder. than the more on. the one. produced in my opinion the best route so. as hyped as bin laden's killing is some ask whether it's being used to mask the feeler of u.s. policies abroad during the last ten years the best thing i think makes things easier it sells well but again i don't think you can put that good

a face on ten years of combat in afghanistan and the afghan and the iraq invasion i think is to me question still yet to be asked about what the justification that was no matter how much killing bin laden means you can't take away ten years of failure it was going into afghanistan and especially into iraq ok that created more enemies you know and the recruits for. you know jadis this kind of salafist. you know than that then weakening them the pentagon's new strategy is to move away from ground wars bin laden's killing has become the face of the new war on terror obama style through targeted assassinations in different countries with the use of drones and special ops experts say that policy can also backfire the attacks end up killing many civilians and they steer and new wave of revenge extremism you know how many people are we going to have to kill before we can finally say ok that's it

objective achieved war over we can call this thing off and i look at the israeli experience with targeted assassination and that suggests to me that when you engage in that kind of a policy really what you're going to do is end up having an endless list of targets and i fear that's the past we have gone down bin laden's death. a success on the war on terror fight no doubt about that but there is an attempt to sell it as the success story of the whole war on terror and many fear that the largest killing could serve as a convenient cover for bad policies of the past as well as the future i'm going to check our reporting from washington. meantime a india based political analyst is through i'm charlie things said washington is simply repeating its notorious vietnam war errors meaning that the battle for afghanistan is already lost the taliban know very well they are playing the waiting game and i don't see them being defeated at all in fact rather for them be true

lies in outlasting the united states because as long as there are question military forces present these indigenous insurrection and on resistance will keep going you have several franchises and branches of a car that is too quite potent i think it is totally misguided to believe that the organisation has been any we needed or and i later did and what we're going to see then is you know the united states will call it to be eventually because of the economic crisis at home they want people to sustain these but the reserve section with interest of richmond that wants to believe that they can still achieve victory this is the mistake and we are doing johnson's time in the vietnam war and they repeated it all over again so it's a real tragedy because the facts on the ground is go away from the r one centers on the highways and it's all taliban learnt every patch of it and therefore what are we talking about in terms of victory is not control. of course you can always get much more from aarti online where we've lined up for you a host of news analysis for example of spoiling the surprise. power means even some

of the iraq obama's top level secrets don't stay hidden for long we explain why it ought to dot com. also online the old job thanks to a new top end fashion magazine which focuses on the trademark muslim scarves and you can check out the latest trends at odyssey dot com. in cairo at least eleven people were killed and up to one hundred injured when unknown gunmen attacked a protest against egypt's ruling military council the army has since been deployed to try and the violence the growing tensions ahead of egypt's presidential election of israel to strengthen its southern border as well as reinforcing the north because of syria's turmoil. well it certainly is a massive mobilization what we're hearing from the israeli army is that they've given the approval for the call up of twenty two reserve battalions many of these

are soldiers who've already completed their annual reserve duty what commanders are saying is that these troops are needed to deal with security threats that are coming from israel's borders with egypt and syria and also because of the growing instability in those countries now we're hearing from sources today wednesday also that the situation in the sinai desert which of borders israel is becoming a manageable meanwhile in a separate development in cairo several people have been killed and dozens have been injured as clashes turned violent in front of the country's defense ministry these clashes happening between armed police to protesters who've been demonstrating there and holding a sit in since friday there demonstrating against the disqualification of a candidate who is running in the country's presidential elections which are slated for the twenty third and twenty fourth of this month and these elections two are being closely monitored by television which is fearing that the regime will now

come to place in cairo will be one that will be a lot more hostile to the jewish state than that of course mubarak what the seeing is this week israel beginning to build a seventy so high concrete wall along its border with lebanon and this according to israeli sources is to stop firing from lebanon into northern israel we've been told that the war will take several weeks to finish until now there has been an electrified fence along the israeli lebanese border but it comes on the back of a nother security barrier war that israel is building in the south of the country along its border with egypt's sinai now here to israeli sources are saying that this is to stop security alerts and also to prevent smuggling into israel so certainly we are seeing a lot of activity happening on the ground israel taking security threats very seriously and fearing that they will be more tax. but at the same time this is having the effect of isolating israel from its neighbors and from the international community. party's policy of reporting there it's good to have you with us here on

out to you today still ahead for you this hour made a wish turn celebration to frustrate workers rallies across europe see fouls and vent over suffering deeply unpopular cuts but i boiled over in some cities towns are to report short. in the four days france chooses its next leader and the front runners will make their final big t.v. push to win voters on wednesday night nicolas sarkozy of france were all around trying to scoop up supporters of far right leader marine le pen who is refusing to endorse either of them but it is a hobson's choice for wary french voters as artie's tester australia reports so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas sarkozy the french say around one of the presidential race is about choosing the candidate you like the most round two is voting for the one you dislike the least unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with and this is where it gets tricky for

some especially for those who question what kind of power or if there really is one . yeah yeah yeah. maybe in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france's economic woes have left citizens skeptical from the onset. of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. you will see. this the most the next five years. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all those in this wall in this. especially when france's economic quagmire is already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is during ninety percent of g.d.p.

growth has all but ground to a halt thirty measures are likely to continue the problem could both candidates are in favor of euro bonds more intervention from the european central bank and to varying degrees both have put on a confrontational tone towards brussels and germany but there's doubt that there will be much room for maneuver at all but. whoever the elected president is sarkozy or he will subject himself very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union it will always require more sacrifices for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking group. then they work very small things that are out there if you recall that ok we're going to vote for immigrants in local elections or you know what we're going to lead and what actual couples adopt children those are important measures but they're not the biggest measure but tough choice to make for those who don't see one to begin with the.

tests are still here are to you paris. i doubt is coming to you live from moscow deepening european anger in ukraine couldn't come at a worse time of course the country is preparing to host football's prestigious euro twenty twelve finals countries are lining up though to possibly boy called the event because of ukraine's treatment of us and jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko here's our eastern europe correspondent. it certainly is getting darker and darker for key of in relation to the euro twenty two a football championship which starts in less than forty days from now and now the dutch government is the latest of the european officials to express their wish to boy call it the tournament here in ukraine the list which already consists of the german and the czech republic presidents at the head of the euro commission and the german chancellor angela merkel who even said that the german national football side should boycott their participation in the upcoming summer storm here in

ukraine and poland angle merkel says that unless tymoshenko is released she would not come to ukraine for the euro twenty two well football championship the dutch government and the czech presidents are a bit softer in their statement saying that they just want to see and prove in the treatment of political prisoners in ukraine but all in all definitely this creates a very great deal of pressure on key of last friday's terrorist attacks and you put it all skoal radio created serious concerns about the security during the summer storm in but now the euro twenty two off to become a victim of political pressure from the european union on ukraine the ukrainian leadership reacted to all these statements coming from the european union but saying that this kind of rhetoric puts the countries back in the cold war and in fact there may be right in some sense because the one of the villa vivid examples of a political boy called during a sporting championship sporting event was in one thousand nine hundred eighty when sixty countries refused to come to moscow for the olympic games there and then the soviet union four years later replied by not sending fourteen countries fourteen

republics of the soviet union to the olympic games in los angeles but you know the political boycotts during the sporting events happen even nowadays four years ago during the beijing olympics some countries also wanted to abstain from coming to china for the olympic games but then they managed to negotiate it somehow with the authorities in china but certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and for keven particular now. alex yourself your reporting there when we talk about the sports presenter kate partridge but she says the football community wants to keep its are on the ball and it's reluctant though to get involved in the row. housing here in the situation there is a divide between the political side and the football side the football side is very much to do with the seams taking part of c. coaches players and also the fans the other side of politics so this situation is the reason why it was to michigan care you have these teams coming in but in terms of the fans themselves there isn't really a great deal of reaction from the fans that there is there hasn't been any sort of

blogging or responses on the political sense the fans are much more concerned with the logistics of getting a hotel getting flights getting tickets but sport in football in particular it's not it's not never been their place to be politically involved it's more a case of taking the game taking the game to the wider world to the wide to the fans to the wider global football community and by helping regeneration and by definition just by being there helping to highlight some of these issues. we'll get to the anti world update in a few minutes but for now on the way will be looking at a family torn apart by indian police who think they are above the law taking justice into their own hands a grieving mother tells r.t. how corrupt murderous police killed her innocent daughter. may day marchers were out in force across europe with thousands getting the chance to vent their anger at the austerity they're enduring but violence marred the demonstrations in certain cities for example in italy riot police beat protesters

with turin seeing the fifty's clashes italians are angry over the punitive cuts being carried out of the country's three main unions denounced the reforms being pushed through by unelected technocrat prime minister mario monti rallies also turned violent in germany left wing demonstrators clashed with police in. injuries reported on both sides an estimated four hundred thousand walked across the country to demand a growth strategy rather than cuts and in spain which is battling a double dip recession trade unionists focused on the record eurozone unemployment rate of twenty five percent nearly half of all young people are out of work one message though was clear throughout that the economy of the future needs centering around citizens and not around bailing out banks. italy is where the violence come from. establishment with political

theory t. when you have a cut in your. court. when you cut social security when you. meant when you see that. people are confronted with very violent process in their life lose their middle to survive and. it's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population we have to have an economy with the with the people first the people and not the profit and we have an economy with solidarity and corporation and not always fighting and competition between countries and people and so on so we have to re new economy in total business that's one one thing but directly for the moment we are to take measures that the rich people are paying for

the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people. just are turning twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital america's chief diplomats on a charm offensive in china right now hillary clinton's high level talks come amid concerns in beijing over washington beefing up its military presence near chinese territory last sunday clinton promised military assistance to the philippines with which beijing has a territorial dispute relations between china and the u.s. are also tainted by a diplomatic tussle over china one chain or the blind activist who's been on house arrest for the past four years foreign affairs analyst to richard darien says the two nations are too codependent on each other to be enemies. as far as the human rights issue is concerned i'm sure that the obama administration will try to be some sort of lip service to it because they will know that the republicans will

hamare them buckle if bill bonde i mean threesome seems to be you know not pushing the democratic nation issue for a chinese concern but i do not see that america much of the leverage over china the fact that china and united states are very economically codependent but this dependence goes to will for china is also dependent on america perfect on the gene pouring oil for or for its exports and for investment of course there are two dimensions to america's so-called people at the show the first they mention is the economic damage done but the second they mention of these people which makes it more controversial even increase in american military presence in the region in the philippines in fingal for and of course of american troops in northern australia so this is the second dimension which is making female american relations very tense and that's why i feel that hillary clinton is going to try and rape out to do some sort of damage control so i think because one of the impetus for miller keep his

visit be generate. but we always enjoy it when you can involve us in our stories here at r.t. we love you to tell us where you think the u.s. and china relationship may be heading and what might get in the way here's how you are voting right now for this hour from r.t. dot com. almost half of you see a major proxy war ahead over africa's natural resources but less than a third thing in nothing can get in the way because they need each other too much just under sixteen percent believing that america throwing up trade barriers could put a spanner in the works and the remaining few say unearthing a gross breach of human rights in china could be the death knell still a chance for you to get involved with our worldwide poll just log on to r.t. dot com and have your vote. by dmitri soon with the business for now syria starts the r.t. world update and a rebel bushite in syria's letter province was apparently killed fifteen government soldiers choose the u.n. observers reported on multiple cease fire violations from both sides during

a gun battle near the turkish border the u.n. warns the attacks threaten the peace plan that helped to broker and it wants to super difficultly increase the number of monitors in the country by the end of may serious conflict has taken thousands of lives since it began over a year ago. it is the heralding of a new era for me and with opposition leader aung sun suu chee making it into parliament after twenty five years the nobel peace prize winner was sworn in along with other opposition m.p.'s marking an historic chapter in the country's slow moves towards democracy the party still has too few seats to challenge the military dominated parliament but the reforms have seen other countries soften their attitudes towards me and. a rare ratings chink of light to for greece standard and poor's has elevated the country's status out of default it's on the back of the world's biggest ever debt restructuring which let greece stop cash

from. but i meant that investors lost billions greece is not rated triple c. meaning it's vulnerable and dependent following two belts from the e.u. and the i.m.f. a total in two hundred forty billion euros. now corrupt police in india bypassing the courts luring criminal suspects to their deaths but claiming the murders are in self defense what's worse is that innocent civilians are being subjected to the extradition deducible killings as well as of this report from marty's previous reader comes from move by. sure mima is a widow with six children desperately trying to make ends meet doing embroidery work for local shops her family has been at the center of the media storm after her daughter ish roth was shot and killed by police at the age of nineteen as an iraqi woman in my world fell apart and my house felt empty without her she was the only

one bringing light into my life and she is the one who supported the whole family i totally depended on her if there were no maybe when you got me it sure it was part of a fake encounter where police kill usually an armed suspect and claim the killing was in self-defense she was accused of working with pakistani militants and planning to assassinate a key regional politician a later investigation concluded she was murdered by police hoping for financial gain for killing suspected terrorists is just story is unfortunately not uncommon here according to indian civil rights groups police everyman and that is that they have been trained encouraged to carry them out for money it's a reality that sheds light on india's lawless society where rampant corruption and bribery has led to a broken law enforcement and judicial system those who have served on the front line say it's a tough job with little pay police here have to cover three times as many people

per officer compared to many parts of the world who do support is a part of the business and this is. the border and some of the problems. i think of the. living god nations what can go for sure they need to see change new committees have been set up to monitor police complaints while an extra two hundred thousand officers will be hired in the next two years but for those like shamima who have to live every day without her beloved daughter the government's reforms are simply too little too late when. the well i have totally lost my faith in the police we were just living our life quietly even though we did not have enough money we didn't do anything wrong so why did they kill my daughter it just makes me so angry though. still trying to make sense of her family's tragedy preassure either r.t. mumbai india. crossing over to dimitri he's standing by the r.t.

business to bring us up to day for this hour good to see you again investors yet again in. bad jobs data incoming from the u.s. that is absolutely true a d.p. has reported that the private sector has increased one hundred nineteen thousand has added one hundred nineteen thousand jobs and this is the slowest pace of growth since the month of september and therefore we are seeing that out of the nasdaq down around half a percent but we will get the final figures from the labor department on friday is of course the crucial monthly report that we are expecting over in europe we are seeing the latest data showing that the unemployment rate in italy is reached the twelve year high in march in germany the jobless rate rose point one percent for the same period which was slightly higher than expected and of course in spain the highest unemployment rate in the european union twenty four point four percent the number of job seekers has hit five point six million people. and europe

is therefore also reacting and negatively we did see the dax up one point in positive territory but now both london and frankfurt are down more than one percent with pharmaceuticals among the biggest losers in russia around fifteen minutes left on the clock for trading after this long weekend we are also seeing the markets coming under selling pressure with the obvious in my six down one half percent despite the fact that manufacturing has been improving a nature's b.c.s. purchasing managers index has shown fifty three points which means there's an expansion since the readings about fifty we take a look at the main movers on the m i six rosneft is doing slightly better the market one of the few stocks in positive territory still held by just a notch as you can see there as a shareholder is going to correct the record dividend payout of more than a billion dollars which is an increase of twenty five percent year on year. gazprom

is down after the introduction of new tax increases for natural resource extraction and bank is better than the market down just a quarter of a percent among financials as one of the first stops. and finally cyclical what's going on the currencies markets and the euro is now a low to the dollar because of the selling pressure investors are cashing out notably into the greenback whereas the russian ruble is up against the euro by around one percent and slightly losing versus the dollar. and of course we'll have the closing figures for you at the top of the hour rory. thanks very much indeed. so they come here on our special look back at the thirty years have passed since the fault on the walls between britain and argentina will be coming up after a recap of the headlines.

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