it was a big issue. afghanistan's president tells r t security in the country is under control despite incessant violence and plans of key nato members to pull out early from the costly war. syrian authoress marks 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 julia saunders show almost here this time it focuses on the innocent casualties of the u.s. war on terror including a man who managed to get out of one ton of obey. and in business the boston market and also the internet is trading session as a whole price is built on the great that song continues join me in twenty minutes on the face of it was.

seven pm in moscow i'm mad as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story the latest outbreak of deadly violence in afghanistan has claimed in lives as an explosion in iraq to market in the north of the country the attack came ahead of the next transition phase which will see control of three quarters of the country pass from nato hands to those with the afghan security forces this is the alliance support for the war has hit a new low southeast us are silly 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. be quick norreys. one thing that's

not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the population want our troops or the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty two 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 anti nato 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 the start 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 are 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 an end and the clearest way to stop the war spilling over the borders into other countries is to end the occupation know 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 one. revises tests are

still here r t. despite ongoing violence in afghanistan its president says he has the country's security well under control cars i gave an interview with r.t. you can see it in full later this hour here's a preview. i'm constantly in a strong did it created effort to do with 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 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 illusions with pakistan from an american perspective we don't see old releases with iran from an american perspective we don't see old relations with russia had with china from an american perspective afghanistan 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 still to come more on another state where nato has stepped in and human rights group wants the alliance to be brought to account over claims that dozens of civilians in libya were killed after the military campaign. and coalition talks in greece dragged on despite a total deadlock is e.u. establishment spew a voice to a future euro zone without the greek support. but first even foreign ministers have slot tighter economic sanctions on the syrian regime for the fifteenth time since the uprising started they're urging damascus to implement a un back peace plan which has so far failed to provide any stability meanwhile violence in syria has been spilling across the border to lebanon as artie's 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 a 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 qaida 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 at 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 the so long had been through and then sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the

country has in recent months found. the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion can fit the largest one you can just see the devastation that it's caused. at the scene angry crowds at a 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 years but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region trading amongst the rubble its 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 is splintered into a confusing mix in 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 for the syrians that their policy a very easy provided the chance for everyone to win the world to interfere and this you know. i there 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 the fake his his once again to the

peace which is looking more on the day of a wall is now in place around the blast site stuck with mind that terror has only as yet know that the area to peace. and our countries were revolution did happen there is now 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 well here in the next hour arab media monitor sharif nashashibi saying that the moves 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 onto democrats. you should give people the choice. you should be able to gauge the level of support that the officials from the full reasons. 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. and exposé of a career already of life inside one tottenham obey tuesday we bring you the fifth installment of giuliana songes new program 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. speaks to people who have had first hand 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 prison as the second interviewee hears a man called begg he himself spent some 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 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 and 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 and are simply arrested during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. and challenging the u.k. tradition and all of these things calm and you will actually be abused. and for very specific purposes and all of them i'm convinced me that needs to be involved something was working against these these policy isn't going to prison this is an important voice for muslims is empowering voice and they also talk about the future both have visions 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 ever a powerful or as organized or 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 said that the united states didn't just attack or something like that they didn't just go off trip they went to nations and they killed tens of thousands of people in the process so bin ladin may have come and gone and 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. tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political. the source material for helps keep journalism on the we. we want to present. something else.

after disheartening failure yesterday greece's president called for a new round of coalition talks in athens later today but the forecast seems bleak with a second largest anti austerity faction refusing to even attend its leader alexis tsipras says the probe parties are perpetuating a crime that he says he wants no part in but the crisis in greece is being viewed very differently in the rest of europe with more and more speculating on its exit from the euro zone all to go. other e.u. is also said to be considering cutting bailout payments to greece as punishment for its bad behavior greek journalist of a lecture got a satirical says it said it says 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 turn this is austerity cannot continue if you know what it is it's always been doing austerity and democracy and 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 winners are going to get we're in this case the end of the recession we have unemployment over twenty one twenty two percent there's not really exists. exists tried to date and people are in despair and this is what's happened in the last election this was was expressed this social divest dasent 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 will stay with us here on r t still ahead a team of international law prepared toward the stars of a russian rocket while their families face an anxious countdown to blast off. first as nato member states it ready for the 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 while nato has refused to comment bin zelma policy from human rights watch says the alliance could be trying to hide from its responsibilities. well my colleagues went to eight sites and louis they knew the 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 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 need to send us to the states the states send us back to to nato so we have 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. we're going to check out our web site for more news video and analysis here is what's a click away right now. spies in the sky find out how u.s. drones are reporting surveillance images of american citizens and can store in allies them for up to ninety days plus. the prince and the oligarch a new scandal for british royalty over revelations of the queen's as it except to be huge cash from a fugitive russian tycoon and all that and more at our. team of international astronauts making the final preparations before setting off on a trip to the stars aboard a russian soyuz rocket the u.s. has relied on the space craft since nasa is shuttle fleet was retired last year.

met up with a man who spent years training for the trip of a lifetime. it's a well rehearsed routine for people working in the baikonur cosmodrome top level security precisely worked out procedures and imposing looking rock and preparing for takeoff for two crewmembers who will head towards the ice 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 everytime their loved ones take off for american jew acaba it's blastoff number two but his relatives are no less anxious a kind o. reassured by the looks of that rocket behind us in the manner in which they appear to be doing this it's reassuring that there are some pros do in the war that taking care of my son commander is a man with a lot of experience under his belt eight spacewalks and five missions go

a long way towards taking an assist trip in your stride. well it's all good the rookie to use a round of the fairing but i'm really grateful to everyone who did in the excellent job. so what's involved in becoming so calm and collected before space mission training of course but also a whole lot of patients generally cosmonauts have to bide their time for years before getting the chance of a date with the stars. all these nine years that i've been waiting it's been training and learning it's all you think about tests and learning we 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 of that of course of course being in space and the earth from up there and working in a way also in baikonur. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe the process of airlifting up to fifteen thousand south sudanese from neighboring sudan has started ahead of the may twentieth deadline the international organization for migration has chartered planes with around one hundred sixty people being flown out earlier today they've been ordered to leave after losing their sudanese nationality this after the south gained independence last july. a gas pipeline in eastern yemen has been blown up by suspected islamic militants no one so far claimed responsibility but authorities are blaming al qaida which had carried out two previous attacks on the pipeline latest explosion may have been in retaliation for sunday's fighting between yemeni government forces and insurgents in which at least thirty militants were killed. and the search team has discovered the tail section of the russian sukhoi superjet

where they expected to find the plane's flight recorders bad weather conditions and difficult terrain are hampering the team's efforts russian forensic experts have also started the identification process of victims of the aircraft crash wednesday during a demonstration flight killing all forty five people aboard. he joins us now with all the latest business news ok to you so talk us through how the markets are doing yeah i'm going to start with the u.s. markets because they recently opened the now trading in the second hour and they are pointing to the downside there really feeling the pressure coming from the euro region as we can see with the dow jones over a percent down the nasdaq edging towards that direction a tiny in bonds rise to a levels today also on the bulls t. the j.p. morgan trading loss is still. on the coo sun but the global credit market will suffer as a result of get on the european markets and see how old stocks is we've got the

foot on the doubt that if it has sent down now the greek situation it remains the biggest in the region and the great looking thing they like to not solve menaces to come to an agreement on a color they send the government there's also things you ation in germany with angela merkel over and see being challenged in a local level since with her party suffering the worst defeat since the end of this the end of wild wall bear in mind that there's another action going on in germany next year also worth mentioning that. and the new president of france oman will meet tomorrow i will be watching that one here let's have a look at the euro dollar and see how that is performing this hour we've got it trading no surprise it love one twenty eight thirty seven. we're looking at the closing biggest for the ruble right there on the screen and it lost its u.s. dollar a year and. move on and see how the oil is performing its now out of five. minutes

going on all of them that i've mentioned to do with the european sovereign debt crisis supply and demand a simple equation as well as that we've also got the problem solved you are saying that they want to see prices all side let's get on to the russian market is announced within say is no surprise that they finished up on the back but. down in the red we saw sharp losses. on the my section who lost the most is have a look at some of those movers and shakers as you can see studland continent their food retailer here. down after they decided not to give out dividends as well as that we got as tavi electrical company that oil into six percent edging towards that direction and is the biggest diamond company head so pretty much question. considering the fact that they posted fifty three percent rise in net

profit for the first quarter of this year that's according to russian accounting standards ok that's how the markets look for those hour mob fifty minutes with the latest updates right thanks very much coming up finding facts amid the chaos of the arab world after a recap of our top stories. to

what extent when i would call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be in your defense to protect your administration none your successors none none you're saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role absolutely obvious contradiction of this is one of the issues over which we had immense gentian but they will be here they will be they knocked as far as the afghan government's goes and no way no mercenary no way way no. my married mother did not like we're going to become. he was afraid. and she was

very cold. she filled. our lives frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem but every. effort is made. by the palestinian or in the european side to negotiate and to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war call the. song goes you have no. calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world. we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture happening and people get so upset

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