get a sense president tells our t.v. security in the country is under control despite incessant violence and plans of nato that burst to pull out early from the costly war. syrian unrest parts 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 bombings. the latest installment of julian assange and his new show almost to air this time focusing on the innocent casualties of the u.s. war on terror including the man who was released from guantanamo bay.

six pm in moscow i might try as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the latest outbreak of violence in afghanistan has claimed ninety lives as an explosion in iraq the market in the north of the country the attack came ahead of the next transition phase which will control will see control of three quarters of the country pass hands from nato to the afghan security forces this is the alliance support for the war has hit a new low as artie's tesser cilia reports. afghanistan tuber two thousand and one i made to lead 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. one thing that's not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the population want our troops

and the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty two percent last. 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 done simply ship. 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 were already in over their heads with debt the afghan war after ten years is having a disastrous effect on all the countries connected to it but the clearest way to bring that to. the clearest way to stop the war spilling over the borders into other countries and the occupation out of 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 tests are still here r.t. . despite ongoing violence in afghanistan its president says he has the country's security under control as they gave an interview to r.t.

you can see it fall in the next hour here's a peek. constantly in a in a strong good equated it to do with with pakistan and with our other neighbors but at the same time this it's the complicated relationship between the united states and islam about as well because after pack for a reason is they do have an impact on us 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 a lot of nations with pakistan from an american perspective we don't see a little issues with iran from an american perspective we do children issues with a child with china from an american perspective of canister has been able in spite of all our needs if i could put it in short words in spite of all our

dependence on the united states and nato we have developed an independent foreign policy. stay with us here on r t coming up later this hour more on another state where nato stepped in a human rights group wants the alliance to be brought to justice over claims dozens of civilians in libya were killed after the military campaign there. and coalition talks in greece dragged on despite total deadlock as you establish miniscule voice to a future eurozone without the greeks aboard. but first at least five were killed during three days of sectarian violence in lebanon clashes are linked to an arrest in neighboring syria pitting president assad's supporters against his opponents there are policy reports. the clashes broke out between those who support the syrian presidency of bashar assad and those who are opposed to it 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 rest of the region lebannon 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 shadowy 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 a 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 this syria and what we're hearing from the syrian regime is that it is being targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaeda and other elements that are backed by regional powers but as my colleague sara firth reports there's also a growing sense that a third player is involved let's take a look. it was a little known terror group the l. ners for a front that 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 for so long had been through and they sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country as in recent months found. the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation

that it's caused. but at the scene angry crowds at the quite them terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is playing that many analysts saying these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. stopped supporting of united states of america. supporting. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to be in the region treading amongst the rubble as people show us the ruins. and what is one of damascus is poorest neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control syria's uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that has splintered into

a confusing mix of various groups political a nonpolitical. and the continued instability here left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a problem it's. that they're. very she provided the chance for everyone to in the world to interfere and this you know. either by providing arms of providing funds oh providing fighters and soldiers. as people are left to bury that day and with the hospitals full syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes. and they think it's his once again the only piece. of the day a wall is now in place around the blast site stuck with mind it terror daily as you

know that the area to. an arab countries where revolution did happen there is no questions about how much they're actually following a democratic path egypt tunisia and libya recently barred anyone involved in their toppled regimes from taking part in current elections so here in about twenty minutes arab media commentator sharif nashashibi says the move could open the way for further conflict. with these electoral laws are doing in a way just the same as what those regimes that was barring candidates from running and that is inherently on to democratic. you should give people the choice. you should be able to gauge the level of support that the officials from the former is you know. if they don't have any support then let them fail electoral rather than make them political motives and this could create the kind of instability. and extremism. an

exposé of the choreo idea 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 and during it doing us are speaks to people who have had first hand experience of the effects of the war on terror one of them is us incorrectly who is used to be a corporate lawyer but now campaigns for detainees of the war on terror through an organization called k. to prison is the second interview he's a man called beg he himself spent two 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 legs with a hood placed over my head being punched kicked listing 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 though he and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of

detention without trial are simply arrested during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight scene guantanamo. charge of the. tradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused. and for very specific purposes and all of them i'm convinced needs to be involved something because of these these policies and prison is this important voice almost in the same power they also talk about the future both have about what's happened in the middle east and what the u.s. is achieved in its war on terror they say that they don't think that al qaida was powerful or as organized all the nature of the organization that is being made out to be by western powers but they say terra is very much still thriving today that the united states didn't just tackle some bin laden didn't just go off trip they

went to nations and they killed tens of thousands of people in the process so bin laden may have come and gone it's relevant because those symptoms that bin laden was addressing the still the that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on our. day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it well stay with us here on r.g.p. still to come this hour a team of the astronauts prepare to head toward the stars on a russian rocket water families face anxious countdown to lift all. but first after a disheartening failure yesterday greece's president has called for a new round of coalition talks in athens later today but the forecast looks bleak with this second largest anti austerity faction refusing to even attend the meeting its leader alexis tsipras says the pro bailout parties are perpetuating a crime that he doesn't want any part in but the crisis in greece is being viewed very differently in europe with more and more speculating on its exit from the euro

zone the e.u. also said to be considering cutting bellowed payments to beleaguered greece as punishment for its bad behavior greek journalist and a lecture upon it got a satirical says a default is guaranteed on the country's massive loans and debts. i think the only way to solve the problem is to highlight radical change in time this is all still you cannot continue if you know it is a choice between a steady democracy the people have rejected the terms of the bailout agreements they have rejected that there is a little oh no agreements want a radically different policy how worse yet willing to face the era of the recession we have unemployment over twenty one twenty two percent there's no. exit strategy and people are in despair and this is what's happened in the last election this most was expressed this social divest dasent took

a political side of the question is not whether or when greece is going to exit but how i think that that's different and an exit from the euro zone are now practically inevitable remember to check out our web site for more news videos and photos here's what's a click away right now spies or spy find out how u.s. drones are recording surveillance images of u.s. citizens and could store them and analyze them for up to ninety days plus. the prince and the oligarch a new scandal for the british royal family over revelations the queen's cousin accepted huge sums of money from a fugitive russian tycoon all that online. as nato member states get ready for their summit in chicago this week a report surfaced blaming the alliance for dozens of civilian killings during its

military campaign in libya new york based human rights watch has called for a thorough investigation while nato refused to comment in some a policy from the human rights watch office in berlin says the alliance is trying to hide from its responsibilities. my colleagues went to eight sites and louis they knew that civilian deaths have occurred people died and there were no signs of any military presence so this of course lots of questions asked to nato we found there 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 need to send us to the states the state sent us back to nato so we are kind of trapped in a bureaucratic thing machinery there and they to really is obliged they need to investigate those killings they have to ask the transitional government in libya to

get some people on the ground to do that so it can't be that difficult. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the process of that era living up to its hundred thousand south sudanese from neighboring sudan has begun ahead of the may twentieth deadline the international organization for migration is chartered planes with around one hundred sixty people flown out earlier today they've been ordered to leave after losing their sudanese nationality this comes after the south gained independence last july. a gas pipeline in eastern yemen has been blown up by suspected islamic militants no one yet has claimed responsibility but authorities are pointing the finger at al qaida which is carried out to previous attacks on the pipeline latest explosion may have been a retaliation for sunday's fighting between yemeni government forces and insurgents in which at least thirty militants were killed. the indonesian search team has discovered the tail of the russian sukhoi superjet where they expected to find the

plane's flight recorders bad weather conditions and tough terrain are hampering the team's efforts russian forensic experts have also started the identification process of victims the aircraft crash wednesday during a demonstration flight killing all forty five people aboard. a team of international astronauts making their final preparations before setting off on a trip to the stars above aboard a russian soyuz rocket the u.s. has relied on its space craft since nasa's shuttle fleet was retired last year or met up with the men who spend their years training for a trip of a lifetime. it's a well rehearsed routine for people working at the baikonur cosmodrome top level security precisely worked out procedures and imposing looking rockets prepared for takeoff for two crewmembers who will head towards the us on tuesday this will not be their first trip towards the stars but their family members who are left behind

on terra firma still cannot help but get butterflies every time their loved ones take off for american it's blastoff number two but his relatives are no less anxious reassured by the looks of that rocket behind the manner in which they appear to be. reassuring that there are pros in the war taking care of myself commander is a man with a lot of experience under his belt eight spacewalks and five missions go a long way towards taking an i assess trip in your stride. the rookie to use a run to the ferry but i'm really grateful to everyone who did in excellent job. so what's involved in becoming so calm and collected before space mission training of course but also a whole lot of patience generally cosmonauts have to bide their time for years

before getting the chance of a date with the stars. always nine years that i've been waiting it's been training and learning it's all you think about tests and learning like eternal students. perhaps that's why those who do this regarded as a truly stellar experience. first starting from kazakhstan training in russia different sized crew for a different mission a long time on space station so the whole thing is is a completely different experience other than of course of course being in space and seeing the earth from up there and working in a way also in baikonur go r t. let's go to the business desk katie is standing by hello hello so u.s. markets have just opened are they feeling the pressure from europe they all their food in the house man and it's all because of you know they're really feeling the sentiment from that is also the j.p. morgan situation as well a cubit in dollar trading loss thoughts jos taking a big

a big role in the sentiment today the whole debacle and how it will affect the global credit markets let's have a look at the figures right now there in the first hour train as we can see the dow jones over a percent down on the nasdaq edging towards that direction if we look at the at the center of it all the european markets will see that they are really setting the tone of all straight as we put it because he went down to both the city and the docks now it's greece that is taking center stage will they exit the euro zone that is the question on the lips of every investor in the region today the situation remains unclear and that solved notices to form a coalition which means i might need to do another election which will take place in june you are talking of politics also angela merkel her party took a hit in local elections the worst performance for the party since the end of the world will tell you that it's going to work. coming up next so too is out really in

the forefront of investors' minds to die and moving all will have a look at how the markets are getting on with the euro zone right there and it's no surprise that we've got a red color palette for the try to start a power one twenty eight thirty seven the ruble though for those globetrotters is. performing make certain it is indeed. a surprise that losing i don't see our job at this hour moving on we'll take a look at how the oil is performing and all the sentiment i just spoke about is really feeling the pressure in the prices today with the light switch on the brant a down so a sigh of relief perhaps for global leaders been sigh of disappointment here in a rush hour let's have a look at the markets are going to be closing up in about ten minutes time much you can see the third to close on the back to the right there but we are just on the my side over thirteen percent in the red zone so let's have a look at the store and see who are the main. food. certain

a continent down around a quarter of a percent that's off to deciding not to pay a dividend i would also go to the great holding. down i've confirmed rumors of a merger with another state and it just for a second here in russia has let us out so. we got our roster up down over six percent and that's a real supplies considering they posted. posted a fifty three percent increase in the first quarter of this year is a disappointment but they're still spot. ok there we go so next i have a cousin because for the russian markets not all right thanks very much kate looking forward to that so still to come fighting the facts amid chaos in the arab world more after a recap of our top stories stay with us. to

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