get a stand president tells r.t. security in the country is under control despite incessant violence and the plans of key nato members to pull out early from the costly will be a syrian under arrest sparks three days of deadly clashes in neighboring lebanon while in syria itself terror groups try to drive the opposition's point home with a series of suicide bomb we the latest edition of julian assange just show almost on to air this time it focuses on the innocent casualties of u.s. war on terror including the man who was released from guantanamo bay.

five pm in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the latest outbreak of violence in afghanistan has claimed the lives of nine people as an explosion or rocks a market in the north of the country the attack comes ahead of the next transition phase which will see control of three quarters of the country pass from nato hands to those of afghan security forces this is the ally and support for the war is hitting a new low as artie's tests are cilia explains. afghanistan oktober two thousand one nato led international military offensive in response to the september eleventh attacks in the u.s. largely backed by international partners more than a decade ago. now after tens of thousands of casualties and hundreds of billions of dollars later. this will not be quick nor easy so one thing that's not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the population want more troops

are the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty three percent last week want to see an end to the war and this is what it's come down to nations breaking ranks with nato by deciding to pull out troops earlier than planned france the fourth largest contributor of troops to the war saw a rise in ante natal rhetoric in its presidential campaign season with most french in favor of early withdrawal will renegotiate the place of france in the integrated military command. expected from afghanistan and australia is the latest nation to make a surprise announcement raising the question of whether more will follow suit a potential sticking point at nato summit in chicago no not at all concerned should we stay or should we go that is a question several members of the alliance for france australia have been mulling over ten years into the war in afghanistan but for some of them the answer is already a foregone conclusion as it has become increasingly difficult to justify staying on

board what some have already dubbed the sinking ship. the security in afghanistan is worse now than it was ten years ago when when the invasion began not to mention justifying cost of war to skeptical europeans who are already in over their heads with debt the afghan war after ten years is having a disaster effect on all the countries connected to it but the clearest way to bring up. the clearest way to stop. the war spilling over the borders into other countries and the occupation no the advice that should be given to all the major powers that. work in afghanistan is to get out as some appear to be rushing for the exit nation when the us may find themselves wondering who's going to be the last man standing as the water rises tesser cilia r.t. . despite ongoing violence in afghanistan its president says he has the country's

security under control how many cars i gave an interview to our team you can see it at fifteen thirty g.m.t. here's a look. and klee in a strong did equated it to do well with pakistan and with our other neighbors but at the same time with this it's the complicated relationship between the united states and islam about as world we call it after back for a reason is they do have an impact and afghanistan is affected by it both ways. from the from approx thirty perspective and from an american perspective but we have issues we don't see older nations with pakistan from an american perspective we don't see or dilutions with iran from an american perspective we don't see the relations with russia which china from an american perspective afghanistan has been able in spite of all our needs if

i can put it in short words in spite of all our dependence on the united states and nato we have developed an independent foreign policy. so stay with us here on our to our team coming up later this hour more on another state where nato has a human rights group wants the alliance to be brought to justice over claims that dozens of civilians in libya were killed after the military campaign there. at least five people have been killed during three days of sectarian violence in lebanon clashes linked to the arrest in neighboring syria pitted president assad supporters against his opponents or his policy or has more the clashes broke out between those who support the syrian presidency of bashar assad and those who are opposed to it could have it comes in the light of observers in this region expressing concern for quite some time now that the violence and instability in syria will spill over into the race to the region living on is

a close neighbor and it shares political and sectarian ties as well as rivalries with syria now out of concern that the violence would spread further into lebanon the lebanese army has deployed three more units the violence started on saturday when an islamist by the name of malawi was a wristed he was accused of having links with terrorist organizations but his wrist did cause his numbers to go to the streets of the city of tripoli they close the entrances to the north and the south they also staged a sit in and they held up the syrian flag of independence for some time now damascus has been warning that arms as well as fighters are being smuggled into lebanon and being used to assist the rebels in syria fight and take on the syrian regime of bashar assad just on thursday we saw the deadliest string of suicide

bombings with some fifty five people killed in the syria and what we're hearing from the syrian regime is that it is being targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaida and other elements that are backed by regional powers. for more on lebanon and syria we're joined by middle east expert and political analyst joseph dohar from socialist revolutionary group counterfire dot org. thank you for joining us so what's happening in lebanon do you think it's just an isolated incident or is this the beginning of a spread of the syrian turmoil into other countries. who have not been the only one in the mix both european social issues. for the. world and what i mean development while by this event. and i actually. have been going on for a while it would be. pretty or the beginning of the area where you use now and maybe to. meet with the fifth leader. in both

groups has been through a grueling. but i don't think that the. syrian people's who read them the current regret in the long in. the syrian regime is group theory and regime is not in the interest of the syrian regime right. wrong. now if this violence spreads from syria to the surrounding countries do you think it could cause a stronger case for outside intervention in the conflict. i think we have to raise the case of lead on an area and it was mentioned i mean they're going on with our intervention and all. the from countries like the regions and the national in syria we've been hearing the beginning this fight from the killers and. you

can see one thing says even syrians who competed for the fence just have the election there's a new president the place but obama is going. next you need to have the civil one but they will not this is the russia is refusing any kind of intervention of who is trying to look for the vention of the military. military position and it was a bit of heat for the moment but those who are in the climb all of the followers giving signs of this will be announced lot of who try to get into the laments that despite this that you can see on the rock now back in syria it has a splintered factionalized opposition and most of the groups are reportedly refusing to negotiate or for a unified front do you think it would be possible for it to implement this peace plan under conditions with such different players with disparate top plans and agendas for the country. first of all generally the more the u.n.

. general has the local coordination committees and even the syrian army which is more a level. in korea have accepted the book and i'm done but the group cannot last this is the beginning has not been implemented by the syrian regime which should have withdrawn its troops from cooking the areas in cities which has not been the case i think. they. should have started out most of the opposition going from different feet from the position implied of there have accepted the law but the same regime has not been if the man has not implemented it this does not mean that you don't have foreign intervention for example close your aid and all the countries that don't want the kofi annan plan to be implemented for example that had been more and more. saudi arabia is financing

one particular group and not the whole position. that the whole opposition in syria which is what do they on in homs which have and all the armed groups and hold had condemned the behavior but they don't want this vision is not clear that the responsibility of. the fact that the kofi annan plan is not being implemented is first of all the responsibility of the syrian regime which i must beg to differ and it is all right thanks very much for your perspective political analyst joseph doctor from counterfire dot org thank you. syria itself claims or syria has endured a series of deadly recent suicide bombings with the worst claiming fifty five lives in damascus thursday the regime says it's been targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaida and regional opposition fighters. there's a growing sense that a third player could be creeping into the civil conflict with its own terrifying

plans. it was a little known terror threat front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive bombing in syria the blast carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which the so long had been through and then sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country as in recent months found out the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion can fit the largest one and you can just see the devastation that is. at the scene angry crowds today quite them in paris shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar it's plain that many analysts think these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. thought. of america.

everything will be finished within two. but if they want to continue supporting them they want to be in the region treading amongst the rubble as people show the ruins. and what is one of damascus is poorest neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that is splintered into a confusing mix in various groups political a non political. and the continued instability here left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a problem for the syrians that. provided the chance for everyone to in the world to interfere in this.

either by providing arms providing funds providing fighters and soldiers and terrorists as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once again turned to the on going peace question which is looking more and more by the day a wall is now in place around the blast site a stark reminder that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here surface. in arab countries where revolution did happen there's now questions about how much they're actually following the democratic path egypt tunisia and libya recently barred anyone involved in the previous regimes from taking part in current elections well here in the next hour arab media monitor sharif nashashibi who says the moves open the way to further conflict. with these electoral law is a doing in

a way just the same as what those regimes that was barring candidates from running and that is inherently to democrats. you should give people the choice. you should be able to gauge the level of support that the officials from the former easier. if they don't have any support then let them fail elect rather than make them political monsters and this could create the kind of instability. and extremism. an exposé on the reality of life inside guantanamo bay tuesday we bring you the fifth installment of giuliana songes new show featuring a former inmate from the controversial prison our london correspondent laura smith has more on the interview and what it reveals on the workings of the war on terror . it's the fifth episode of the world tomorrow due to an awesome speaks to people who have had firsthand experience of the effects of the war on terror one of them

is correct who is used to be a corporate lawyer but now campaigns for detainees of the war on terror through an organization called k. to prisoners and that organization was set up by the second interview here's a man called begg he himself spent three years in guantanamo bay before being released without charge during his detention actually signed a confession which said that he had been prepared to fight alongside al qaida he provided assistance to al qaida members knowing that they could commit terrorist attacks against the u.s. during the program he talks about how he came to sign that confession that's what brought me to the point where i would sign something like this was being tied up with my. place of my being punched and kicked and listening to the sound of a woman screaming next all i'm told is led to believe as my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me being asked by these interrogators when do you

think you're going to see them again what you think happened the night that we took you from the back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay the immense sense of injustice that he felt during his detention he was ultimately released without charge in two thousand and five he then when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial settlement with the government since then he set up this organization cage prisoners in haiti and. we're sorry for those technical video glitches that we were having there will try and fix that after a disheartening failure yesterday the greek president has called for a new round of coalition talks in athens later today before a cast is bleak though with the second largest anti austerity faction or. using to even attend the meeting its leader alex separate says the pro bellows parties are perpetuating a crime that he wants no part of but the crisis in greece is being viewed very

differently in europe with more and more people speculating on its exit from the euro zone the e.u. is also said to be considering cutting ballo payments to greece as punishment for its bad behavior greek journalist and a lecturer putting out a satiric says a default is guaranteed on the country's massive loans and debts. i think the only way to sort of the problem is to have a radical change in policy is austerity cannot continue if you know what it is that's always been doing austerity and democracy the people have rejected the terms of the bailout agreements they have rejected that there is a little oh no agreements they want a radically different policy how worse can it get we're in the face the era of the recession we have unemployment over twenty wanted the per cent there's no exit. exit started to date and people are in despair and this is what happened in the

last election this was was expressed this social divest patient took a political front the question is not whether or when greece is going to exit but how i think that was different and an exit from the euro zone are now practically inevitable. don't forget to check out our website for more news videos and photos here's a look at what's a click away right now at r t dot com spies in the sky find out how u.s. drones are recording surveillance images of u.s. citizens and can store and analyze them for up to ninety days plus. the prince and the oligarch a new scandal for the british royal family over revelations that the queen's cousin accepted huge sums of money from a fugitive russian tycoon all that on r t dot com. as

nato member states are getting ready for their summit in chicago this week a report surface blaming the alliance for dozens of civilian deaths during its military campaign in libya new york based human rights watch has called for a thorough investigation of the potential attacks which nato has refused to comment on let's talk now with vinson mccoskey from the human rights watch he joins us from below from berlin thank you very much for being with us so tell us more about the investigation and what facts does it have to support these accusations well my colleagues went to eight sites in libya they knew that the beginning death had occurred people died and there were no signs of any military presence so this is of course the that's a question to nato we found that at least seventy two civilians have died without any connection to any military activity on the ground so we are asking nato

to investigate those that nato has been found it yet and we've got a statement here from nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen he told r.t. in the wake of the he told r.t. this in the wake of the libyan campaign last year listen it. i would like to stress that we are not targeting individuals we hit legitimity military. targets we do all we can to avoid civilian casualties we are in libya to protect civilians against attacks and this is the reason why our commanders are very very careful in identifying legitimate military targets or according to your report at least seven of the eight sites featuring the investigation work completely civilian why do you think nato would launch air strikes against them was a bad intelligence or what would you or chalk it up to. whether this is the really big question should i answer this question and we don't understand why they refuse

to answer those because i mean nature did actually if you can say so a very good job in limiting civilian casualties they use precise smart guns and smart weapons that would target only really military sites but in this case in seven out of eight sites at least we found that this was not the case and we don't understand why they too is not doing any investigation it should be supplied to that. now nato officials are saying they can't investigate the killing as they have no mandate to operate in libya anymore but your organization claims the alliance never requested permission to do that or why is that well i can't answer that question we asked in a tutu investigated nature sent us to the states the states sent us back to to nato . so we had kind of. trapped in the bureaucratic.

machinery that data really is light they need to investigate those killings they have to us the transitional government in libya to get some people on the ground to do that so it can't be that difficult now how do you first see this all shaping go do you think nato will eventually conduct an investigation into this or how do you how do you see this playing out. well we hope so we hope that our report now and the media presence we have now will press nato just on press the member states to actually go forward they need to give an answer because according to the law of war they have to do that. human rights watch has said that the alliance was trying to minimize civilian casualties do you think that the price libyans paid for getting rid of the khadafi regime is justified. is the question is

too difficult to see because human rights watch never supported any yes strikes. that is not our mandate and was the political decision by the security council of the un security council and. but given the extent of bombing they did a good job in minimizing the civilian casualties and that's why we don't understand why they don't investigate these cases what's there what's behind it why did they actually hit those civilians also the gun camera as the pilots of interest cameras they should have seen that there was no military on the sides all right we'll see how the soldiers are going so mechanically asking for human rights watch thanks for a time it is. time now for katie pilbeam to join us at the business desk. that's been a bit of a gloomy day on the markets including a forecast from

a rather gloomy economist tell us more absolutely it's all doom and gloom at the moment but without further ado i'm going to get stuck into the markets as see how the european markets are performing that the real at the center of it all and as we can see the foot the other guys are indeed dropping at this hour over two percent in the red zone now the possibility of greece exiting the euro zone is that an even more and more likely at the moment the political situation were made on the land that's after ministers failed to form a coalition government as a ruling the day we've got investors selling off stocks as well worth mentioning that i'm going to merkel's party took a real hit in local elections their worst performance since the end of world war two also worth a mention that german bonds are near their lowest level at the moment that's because investors are ready edging towards say the havens that check out the european currency and see how the euro dollar is performing and indeed it is

dropping that's certainly no surprise right there one twenty eight forty five it's dropping against the dollar this hour we've also got a mixed performance for the russian ruble that it's losing gets us dollar and gaining again here again a predictable performance and moving on we'll take a look and see how the. prices are forming a bit. as you can see they are indeed dropping this so many sentiments a fact and that was pretty much what i said about the greeks elfman debt crisis really taking. saudi arabia as well saying that they want to see prices lowering ok moving on to the russian market. is not going to be a surprise that we've got. over two percent down the set to finish on the back foot moving i will take that i can see how the. of this our oneness with can see we've got the. seven continent that losing the fight a quarter of a percent down just ten years while they're going to imagine with another run and

that's cool company here in russia maybe five percent down on top next as well we saw in the commodity prices there is no surprise they are losing the battle and that is the markets for this obvious after about fifteen minutes with the united. thanks very much katie well coming up there kind heart and hospitality are known across russia we meet the idea gains of the country's south that's coming your way after a recap of our top stories stay with us. goldman

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