video. r.t.s. mine broadcasts. are a sense feeds with the palm of your. on the dot com. afghanistan's president tells r t that security in the country is under control despite incessant violence in the plans of key nato members to pull out early from the costly war. syrian and rest 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 bombings. and the latest installment of julian assange the show is almost here on this channel this time it focuses on the innocent casualties of america's war on terror including one man who money is to get out of animal bay.

over good evening from moscow it's kevin know it here at r.t. tonight it's eleven pm now and our top story the latest outbreak of violence in afghanistan has claimed the lives of nine people but an explosion rocked a market in the north of the country that attack comes ahead of the next transition phase which will see control of three quarters of the country passed from nato to those of afghan security forces and all this is a lie and support for the war is hitting a new low as artie's tesser of siller explains. afghanistan to over 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 our 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 added 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 moving over ten years into the war and the staff but for some of them the answer's already

a foregone conclusion as it has become increasingly difficult to justify staying on board what some have already dubbed simply ship. security in afghanistan is worse now than it was ten years ago when when the invasion began not to mention justifying the cost of war discovered tickle europeans were 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 that to. the clearest way to stop the war spin. to go over the borders into other countries is to end 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 where the us may find themselves wondering who's going to be the last man standing as the water rises yes or sell your r.t. . and despite the ongoing violence in afghanistan this president says he's got the

country's security well over control amid cars i was given an interview to us and you can see it in full little bit later this hour. we're constantly in a strong did he created effort to do we'll 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 your delusions 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. the afghan president also confirmed that international forces american in particular will have a presence in afghanistan after the official troop withdrawal of twenty fourteen for at least another decade in the german for the stop the war coalition told me that's more proof that the u.s. strategy in afghanistan for failure. this is a war which they are trying to manage public opinion in the west they say it is the prout's of human rights and democracy and all this kind of thing but actually what you're finding is in the united states with more and more people opposed to what they are doing because i was recently had to do a deal with with obama which talks about keeping american troops in bases for another ten years after the supposed. withdrawal date right up to twenty twenty

four now this is knowledge that they haven't been able to do a deal with the taliban it's also an acknowledgement exactly how dangerous the country is for the for the karzai government and therefore what you're talking about is years and years open ended up the patient by the americans which it can't afford either politically or economically still to come on r.t. with me kevin no internet ball another state where nato has intervened a human rights group wants to alliance for justice over claims that dozens of civilians in libya were killed after the military campaign we got love coming about coming up which. also coalition troops in greece drag on despite a total deadlock now as e.u. establishment skee voice to a future eurozone without the greeks on board. the next two foreign ministers the new economic sanctions on the syrian regime for the fifteenth time since the uprising there began the road in damascus to implement

a un backed peace plan which has so far failed to provide it is debility meantime violence in syria is now been spilling across the border to lebanon as artie's policy. 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 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 with the l. ners for a 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 in 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 you can just see the devastation that it's caused. at the scene angry crowds at a quite them as 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 serious uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that is splintered into a confusing mix of 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 it's a dilemma for the syrians that their policy a very she provided the chance for everyone to in the world to interfere and this you know. either by providing arms or providing fire funds or providing fighters and saucers 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 is once again turned the on going peace. making more able to day all is now in place around the blast site stuck with mind that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here. well even if assad regime word award for its troops to lay down arms it still wouldn't be enough to bring stability to syria so says marco but he's visiting professor of international relations of bill cohen university in turkey and i spoke to him but. i think the tragic situation i was even president of our retired sorry a lot of his supporters will be brutal. very. equally a lot of people watch two going control of a proposed use we're now into a cycle of violence. and as we saw in libya. just because the regime is overthrown doesn't stop when you have this kind of civil war and also external commenting in.

a responsible way what people were doing was fine and. concerned about what happens after. you know countries were revolution did take place there are questions about how much they're actually following a democratic past egypt tunis here libya recently barred anyone from involved in the toppled regimes from taking part in elections and we'll be hearing next hour of media monitor sharif nashashibi says the moves open the way for further conflict. what 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 antidemocratic. you should give people the choice. you should be able to gauge the level of support that the officials from the four easynews have if they don't have any support then let them fail electoral rather than make them political martyr and this could create the kind of instability. and

extremism. the big story rumbling on as well the night after disheartening start yesterday greek political parties of again failed to agree to a coalition government on monday more talks than are on the cards but the forecast is bleak for the second largest faction refusing to even attend the meetings its leader alexis tips or assess the. party's perpetrating a crime as he puts it that no one wants to be in but the crisis in greece is being viewed very differently by the rest of europe with more and more speculating on its exit from the euro zone the was also said to be considering cutting payments now to greece as punishment for its bad behavior marcus kerber professor of political economy at the burnet institute of technology told me a possible greek exit will be enough to save the euro. the unconditional. euro savers as they are now prisoners of their own misjudgments their errors of

judgment turn out to be fatal because the crisis about the euro is on far more than just a currency it's about the future integration of europe and we have come to a point where we can no longer solve the euro crisis by simply urging or pushing or requesting greece to opt out and to leave the eurozone because the problems are far beyond that we could have so some two years ago when the crisis was the very beginning so. the discussion is no longer about greece the discussion is no longer about whether germany is profiting or benefiting last or more from the view from the eurozone the question is how we can get the problem solved as quickly as possible without damaging the european integration process it's a story we're following online at r.t. dot com on these as well tonight if you not called more ready the prince of the oligarchy the scandal for the british royal family as we mentioned last night the

program recorded over revelations of the queen's cousin accepted huge sums of money from a fugitive russian tycoon i want to play more with that there are more details online tonight and also talking about the spies in the sky you can find out from us how u.s. drones are recording surveillance images of americans and storing them analyzing them for up to ninety days. this is our. an exposé of the cruel reality of life inside guantanamo bay next on choose day we're bringing you the latest installment of julian assange his new show featuring a former inmate from the controversial prison a london correspondent or a smith now reveals some of what's to come in that interview. speaks to people who have had first hand experience of the effects of the war on terror one of them is

who is used to be a corporate lawyer but now campaigns for detainees of the war on terror through an organization called caged prisoners this second interview here is a man called begg he himself spent is 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 let's hear him. walk 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 door i'm told it's led to believe it's 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 and i. have been actively trying to end this practice of detention without trial caressa during the program talks about what drives him to carry on with his fight seeing guantanamo. charge of the. extradition and all of these things common and you will actually be abused for a specific purpose and. i mean convince me that i used to be involved something was

working against these things policies and cage prisons is this an important voice almost in the same power they also talk about the future both have their invasions 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 qaeda was ever as powerful or as all denies all the nature of the organization that is being made out to be by western powers but they say terror is very much still thriving today that the united states didn't just attack or something like in the interest of truth they went after nations and they killed tens of thousands of people in the process so bin laden may have come and gone it's irrelevant because those symptoms that bin laden was addressing are still there that's just a little bit of the program you can see the whole thing which is being broadcast for the first time on r.t. tomorrow cheese day at eleven thirty g.m.t. don't miss it. a lot more though coming up through the next twenty four hours than

on this channel now as nato member states are getting ready for this summit in chicago later this week a report first blaming the alliance for dozens of civilian killings during its military campaign in libya new york based human rights watch has called for a federal investigation while for its part nato is no denying those accusations let's talk more about this with v.j. profit he's director of international studies program at trinity college in the u.s. is joining us from the ones you see there even. without. they've been having me the majority of killings we're hearing about here in question involved women involved children but with nato occurring at almost ten thousand strikes in libya during the campaign is this level of civilian death just a very grim but unavoidable reality of war well it's an unavoidable reality of real bombardment and then has to be taken. you know no longer can we regard the killings. aerial bombardment as mistakes we nor they are going to happen and

yet he persisted in creating war through aerial bombardments you know other words no longer is it a mistake this is part of the process of fighting a war from about ten to thirty thousand feet above the ground if you're going to conduct a war to aerial bombardment you're going to kill people therefore it's not unavoidable you have made a choice to kill civilians by conducting warfare from the sky feature is there any doubt about the credibility of this report by human rights watch. no listen in on the march the second of this year the united nations human rights council released a very large very important report that got almost no publicity and in that report the human rights council of the united nations suggested that there was credible evidence of civilian casualties they could not however see that these were the result of deliberate targeting because nato refused to collaborate or to turn over

any mickey of to the investigators of the united nations well now we have human rights watch coming in and they have confirmed it was in the march report united nations nato saying isn't it nato official saying that they can't investigate the killings because i've got no mandate to operate there anymore is that a valid reason this is a specious reason need to have said that they can only offer to do any kind of evaluation if the libyan government calls for it but the libyan government that there is now there is beholden to nato and therefore is not willing to ask for an evaluation of makers actions on the other hand need to actually came to the war in libya under the aegis of the united nations resolution resolution one thousand nine hundred ninety three properly it is the u.n. security council which should have some juridical fower or would need to as action

you know they use the un security council to justify the intervention but it does need to who executed as it were the u.n. watered so the u.n. should have properly in evaluating role here and it does denying there need to this taking cover behind the fact the only party here that can call for an investigation is the libyan government and i think that's a very narrow way to frame the problem and it sets a dangerous precedent because countries that you are regimes that you have put in. will be last to ask for an investigation of their lies culture that's take this forward potentially if the allegations eventually did prove to be true what credible defense chiefs think could be all netas by half are attacking civilian targets. well need to will of course say that these are all accidents in fact in february need those legal advisor also ruled elected to the un saying that nor

investigation of need to should be permitted because need dog by its very nature again not to ever conduct prosody against civilians in other words need to should never be allowed to be investigated this is a very curious kind of argument given that most need to the states as you mean there should be civilian control over military action will need to is a military alliance but there is not civilian oversight over need to in other words need do is operating basically like a military dictatorship and that is very troubling for a final twenty seconds a thought for you so we are on the line it was nato airstrikes of course to help them stall new leadership in libya but do you see the country moving towards a better future that might make people think that all the bloodshed all the terrible bloodshed civilian death was indeed some are worth it well given right now as we speak the oil workers in an employed people have garrisoned the arab gulf oil company in benghazi there are protests in tripoli the airport was seized recently

in fact the prime minister's. cabinet meeting was disrupted when protesters are rushed inside the building in other words there is a great debate taking place in libya now people on the ground who shed their blood are saying why should these so-called neo liberal leadership that was installed by need to up big the fruits of libya when it was the people who shared their blood for it did big need to in libya's ongoing it is an unsettled question and we should see in time whether this was so-called worth it it certainly wasn't worth it for the thousands of people who are sitting in prisons right now without ever being brought to any kind of trial including sefl islam gadhafi video your ears there. it was created for human rights which is very being human rights now we're going to have to leave it to go to the prison provider pressure take care of yourself frank spoken out international director of the international studies program at trinity

college in the us as you are. coming up to twenty five minutes past. the business desk of normal good news the world with the noise investors reacting to the greece situation not good read read read. or yeah absolutely right kevin not much has changed to be completely honest with year is cause and it remains the day and so march rests on whether greek ministers can form this coalition government as it stands a greek exit from the euro zone is looking more and more likely investors will now turn their attentions to a crucial meeting between angela merkel our friends who are all and more than the french president to see if the future of the euro zone remains intact so as we can see this is how the european markets perform today maybe two percent down to both of. the dax we've also had some disappointing figures industrial production fell of course also seventeen of the eurozone countries which means officially all the coaches are indeed in the rest fashion as well as that chancellor angela merkel's

party was defeated in the most populous state in benet so that means the social democrats are now tightening their grip on the local stays in germany that's a concern when the elections take place next year moving on to the u.s. market is there now heading into the second part of the day but it was the european sentiment that really setting the tone for investors across the pond if we look at the exchange rates with you that the euro it's all over is performing better against the euro and as you can see we've got the ruble figures out there about how it finished up today it lost against both the bark and the common cars in today's trading session looking at the russian markets though they were indeed down today we saw shop last. they gave up the fire the art here thirty three point six percent down the most is three point five percent in negative territory i'm moving on to the oil prices we can see why they paying that much because of the greek sovereign

debt crisis is that they're really taking a hit from all of that going on if you look at the breadth of the study of over all minister said that he wants to see that price pulled even further to a hundred dollars per hour so investors here last so want to be doing that there is right now as i say that prices could be crawling ok this get on to the stocks to see how they've got seven confident that over percentage point down there you decided not to pay out dividends. m.r.s. toes well needed six percent down in the red and dave said to you could use another merger with another and let the company he in a rush to now every girl's best friend diamonds the biggest diamond company here in russia also have no friends on the stock market today with six percent down so that is the russian market today having to reach remembered and i will be back tomorrow morning in the early hours here moscow to show you what i think is that new bird to

morrow i am engaged to hear them and say this time same place things carry the big names of the big newsmakers talked to our channel just ahead tomorrow afghan president hamid karzai speaks to us about the challenges his country faces and what's ahead once the u.s. and nato leave straight after brought you up to date with the latest headlines of this quick break on our.

to what extent and i will call them paid mercenaries how much are they going to be at your defense to protect your administration tonight and your successors none none you're saying the mercenaries like blackwater will not play a major role absolutely obvious kind of tradition of this is one of the issues over which we have immense gentian but they will be here they will be knocked as far as the afghan government's goes and no way no mercenary no way way no .