business leaders to buy the brass power. hello entertainer nandan the top stories on our jazeera 7 day would auction of violence agreement between the u.s. and the taliban has come into effect in afghanistan is seen as a significant step towards lasting peace for the war torn country if it's successful both sides say they are signed an accord paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups more than 12000 american soldiers are still in afghanistan joined by thousands more from nato allies and partner countries also in jordan has more on the markers of success for the temp reports. we don't know what is the standard for nuff of a reduction in violence and that is the rub because that essentially gives the

united states the ability to say well there won't be a signing ceremony on february 29th because the taliban have not held up their end of the deal multiple u.s. officials have been else this question both within the state department and at the pentagon and no one wants to put a figure on how much violence is enough for the deal to go forward and for the signing ceremony to go forward between the u.s. and the taliban there's also the question of how much of offensive strikes does the united states military have to stop carrying out how much does the afghan military have to stop carrying out this isn't just breasting on the taliban soldiers all 3 components have to actually stop or reduce significantly the amount of sense of strikes against enemy targets in order for next saturday's signing ceremony to go forward iranians have been acting and new parliament that set to become more

conservative the result is expected to change the face of the country's legislature as thousands of moderate and reformist candidates were barred from running voting hours have been extended several times because of known lines at polling stations. attacks on civilians into confessor to speccing more than 4000 people a day that's according to the un's refugee agency which says i am groups are carrying out raids with increasing frequency many of escaped have reported marriages rapes and pillaging of villages 700000 people have fled their homes in 12 months in a quarter of those have left in just the past 3 weeks. italy has ordered the closure of public spaces in 10 towns after the number of corona virus cases quadrupled in just one day 14 new infections are being reported in the wealthy northern lombardi region with another 2 in next overliteral it's not known if the 2 clusters of cases are connected many of them represent italy's 1st cases of

secondary infection meaning they caught the virus locally without travelling to china by the outbreak began. we are working to identify all the people that entered in direct contact with the confirmed cases the swabs that we tested in the last hours have suddenly shown 3 further cases so we've reached 6 cases of positive tests for the coronavirus being all the south korean city of daegu is in a state of lockdown after a spike in the number of corona virus cases there millions of people have been urged to stay indoors schools are being closed and some mass gatherings banned the church is thought to be at the center of the outbreak 204 cases have now been confirmed in the country and 2 people have died south sudan's president salva kiir has dissolved his cabinet in preparation for a new unity government here's also appointed the rebel leader react much hour as 1st vice president to former rivals will lead the new government from saturday in

an attempt to end years of conflict which has left more than $400000.00 people dead the suit is prime minister has failed to show up at court where he was going to be charged with the murder of his a strange wife thomas to barney was due to appear over the death of his 2nd wife leigh polo who was shot dead 2 days before he took office per 2nd time 2 and a half years ago his personal secretary said he traveled to south africa to see a doctor to bonnie's current wife by sia has also been charged with ordering the killing both deny any role in the murder. there's a top stories do stay with us child soldiers reloaded is next for him a trail of children from africa to iraq and afghanistan more news for you after that thanks for watching.

we will maintain the finest fighting force that the world has ever known the world has ever known the world has ever known world has ever known so i would not it personally the only people who would most spirit i just don't like the image that it conjures up in most people's money. just like any other thing in the global finance it's just the military trade. contractors don't like hard time around. my dad to go to. the missing young government perspective the iraqi troop and was considered a good deal. not be the article you were on the. 30 years. we have a mismatch between the way we magine war to be and the reality of the 21st century

can we do a little more could we find someone and we do it for boardroom don't mean you get what you pay for. b.b.c. world service and us troops have left iraq america continues to maintain a high passes in the country with knowledge of the u.s. embassy in the world the situation in afghanistan has ensured crucial for the international troops to go under control over to the afghan forces the security situation really critical to the country. sees throughout america today we are now stuck by my side in iraq.

this is a cat as it will come out as it will. so yeah i know but if i was this other funds or even friends most of these guys some of em day out we're going to have advanced. then afghanistan right now down there tonight yeah. how many of the persons that you're sending out. you should be your child soldiers in the nikon 7 i can i can tell you that when you think i can't. i can tell you dealing with the many people i'm going to say i this and it is this and this. president inspecting. the sense.

of what. it will be the look. cool enough to look at you. in a body then you'll fall in love and i will too. it's all too different if you don't know for it with a stick from the spear with already. that's the tradition if you are trying to simulate this many disorients of them say well and good i'm sure but that isn't the case some may be critical of people who used to be fighting when they were very young that they all go to war you do think that's a problem not that's not her problem was not her from. yes that must have shown the particles not phone boxes yes it must have. and even if they had started when they would fulfill or live in the thirty's but that's not a problem wasn't

a problem just as the job as they are here is carried out yeah. when you send guidance well yes with passive print and they got the school fees his friend. i mean never gotten a summit on resorted to using a gun and because of the ideas being that people who come isn't what you tell me they would be too andy and as an english. gun to shoot those who want to find a new gun one. that

it. will give companies risk on common on tract as we sometime on onto them. or example have been maybe it is for some good time. the private military industry is a part of how the country is in fight wars today. u.s.

government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan we know it's a lot we don't really know exactly how many. i spent several years working within the industry i have a military background and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractor is that when you work for the u.s. military or any military you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country and necessary die to protect a way of life one that you believe in i am an american soldier i'm a warrior and a member of a team. that will never accept defeat. at least i will never win i'll never leave a fine comrade it's the complete opposite in a private military world you look at the budget 1st the loyalty of these companies

and these businessmen's change depending on market forces. we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging markets the middle east is absolutely cool for other business today. the sooner we can are in palin we perform in to the right. this industry is not just what you see is what you get. when you see a company you don't know exactly who's working for them they hire and they sometimes create what we call subs sub contractors. there's been commanders in afghanistan who just simply say we don't know who the

subs of the subs subs are. so you have all these like layers of a contract. a level of quality control starts to fade quickly the deeper you go from the top to the bottom. united states army and the military in general is so reliant on the private sector i would call the dependency but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas we just don't know.

crazy or not surely it's really crazy in iraq. because since the fed i stepped my fits in iraq every did that was a bomb in the bomb division that there is a rockets. every day we have rockets fired. every day how to gunshots every day a bomb in income in income in only good it bomb once you know let's use damage for all of our guts for all of the civilian and guys well trained guys. as soon as i originally rock i called my mom i said mom i'm in iraq she said oh. i said i'm in iraq no no you're kidding i said no moment i'm in iraq i said mom just watch the number what's the number and she watched the number. she was she was just she was yelling oh daddy. i said no mom there is no problem here we are saved

we are not using weapons we are you here is does our convince my mom i said we are doing just domestic walk in iraq she told all the neighbors around so my son he's in iraq you know he's doing in cooking joe not in the in that we were born. just after the war and surveil you know i couldn't make it up because there was no job i didn't. and my friend calls me it's told me that a and. very civic and c they were recruiting guys so-called so it's also iraq if you just use weapons and who are well trained in it come. comply on.

the 1st time i arrive to to this training camp come plan i have together with it to see white men found from the security company. went driving out in this small track and what's towards the camp through this forest a landscape not so far away from from the airports and when we enter the camp and get out of the car the 1st thing we see is this a gun an instructor was and shouts of the training out there making the recruits they're lined up in order to receive these guys from the past security company. their work marking for iraq. with marking from iraq you said that he

needed. he was a shallow fighter who supposed to go to iraq not on ice you know more basic weapon this is only people that you can't be fighting between iraq. from a shell young government perspective the iraqi crude and was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take you know good troublemakers something away to back for a couple of years. and then returning them after 2 years with money and from that overseas deployment this could surf to stabilize you curates and ca on. in the beginning of the training course the one other real weapons presence so

they're using these wooden sticks. it was fast after a couple of days and so the training that the weapons and arrived there while being lined up at these wooden tables within in the middle of the big camp. it was this tension and excitement those attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real ok me. for many have to be true this is the 1st time holding a weapon since the ending of the civil war. many

were starting to shake and some were even starting to cry when the when the sioux got the weapons not being able to to handle and. that day any day i'll look back at compliance batting for iraq revamp what i know what. memories come back from the past as though that we've sort of to know when i'm seeing this when i'm talking. most notable for now it's. my device. so they're supposed to have one again i said. i do quite get what. i survive and i live where point.

this young in what has been what mainly by young converts. looking for young men to perform military jobs the chance of a quite good that they have also been since. i was attached to teens. so you never can mean. it took my fight to them with any putting under the rug. as i would grant.

me. they fatuous. what's he talking about. to keep. going on. no. need to. show you. if not every day remember. return to our human father q my word that we next i get i would keep.

this it's little i'm going to. go. i said no i don't want a tree so i asked that's how good it is that's a used in this stuff you put it in my boat. my boat is that bond in my body it's in order and drop it isn't yours to cry for water you got a gun makes you forget about you're there mortar so i start says. call my house. when i was young. at a lot of things that i've been scindia. a lot of. which is not good for human being . or because. of the job

you have your command on ministry go the people you have to go to bed then you don't go dutch you're to have been killed. when we think of war and the warrior who fights we have this image that our mind of a man and uniform. and uniform means they're fighting as part of a military serving a nation because if they fight for their force political patriotism. and yet when you look at the wars of the 21st century they don't match those assumptions anymore now we have outsourced

a lot of our war fare to private military companies. the background of this changing nature of war and fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself isn't. until the early ninety's the private security industry is a doctor murky industry. outright mercenaries who were bringing down governments for the cash can you explain what exactly sound fine internationally is and what you do and. it is a company that provides military consultancy services for governments. for asians. at the time the idea was to get very posh english officers on top of these private

military companies and tim spicer was an officer in the military the british military. got out and was asked to come help with a company called sandline. to spices a rival gave an almost instant sense of respectability to what had previously been a must in the world and i don't personally have any difficulty would mostly i just don't like the image that comes out in most people's mind the 1st time it seems feisty i was interviewing him for a newspaper he's charming public school educated god self so and that meeting wasn't massively a feature they construe before and it changed the agenda of the global agenda almost a problem that your company was. tim spicer was considered a respectable head of a mercenary organization but at 1st his business affairs didn't go too well

he was dogged by failure for example he got a phone call from a fellow indian with a thai passport who was under house arrest for a financial scandal and he contacted tim spicer and wanted him to restore the president of sierra leone. once the president sherrilyn was back in power this guy would then get his contracts for diamonds and be able to make money . but it didn't work out that way the companies run by chip spicer's vote on a couple 150 patients by customs and excise that he's accused of smuggling weapons illegally. when a private firm gets involved in foreign politics for the benefit of a criminal you have to stop and ask ok this really happened or is this a fictitious you know james bond type story but as it was

a true story. these things tended to happen very often at times but he'd always somehow managed to get a signed the recently retired british gonna do that a band of ministers is safely back in this country so has this put him up his new career as a high gun going to continue with this new new business of heroes sandline international well i think we go to a number of lessons to learn from this particular. episode i think that we will continue trying to build a business as long as we can do it in a. sandline eventually collapsed on the way to bed. was that a failure in the short term you could say that was also a successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to its shareholders and so forth. it notes to spice on a career where he was able to found what would then become one of the most

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a rally for hope on al-jazeera. hello norm taylor in london the top stories on which is there a 7 day reduction of violence agreement between the u.s. and the taliban has come into effect in afghanistan it's seen as a significant step towards lasting peace for the water own country if it's successful both sides say they'll sign an accord paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups or than 12000 american soldiers are still in afghanistan person jordan has more we don't know what is the standard for nuff of a reduction in violence and that is the rub because that essentially gives the united states the ability to say well there won't be a signing ceremony on february 29th because the taliban have not held up their end

of the deal multiple u.s. officials have been else this question both within the state department and at the pentagon and no one wants to put a figure on how much violence is enough for the deal to go forward and for the signing ceremony to go forward between the u.s. and the taliban iranians have been electing a new parliament that said become more conservative the result is expected to change the face of the country's legislature as thousands of moderates and reformist candidates were barred from running voting hours have been extended several times because of long lines at polling stations. attacks on civilians invoking a fast so displacing more than $4000.00 people a day that's according to the un's refugee agency but says armed groups are carrying out raids with increasing frequency many who've escaped to reported murders rapes and pillaging of villages. italy has ordered the closure of

public spaces in 10 towns after the number of corona virus cases quadrupled in just one day 14 year infections are being reported in the wealthy northern number the region with another tune in next door beneteau it's not known if the 2 clusters of cases are connected. meanwhile the south korean city of daegu is in a state of lockdown with millions of people edge to stay indoors schools closed and some mass gatherings banned a church is thought to be at the center of the outbreak 204 cases have now been confirmed in the country and 2 people have died there's a top stories do stay with us child soldiers reloaded continues next on the back with the news straight out about drama that if you can buy for now.

when 911 occurred everything changed. the contractor content of the armed forces went up astronomically at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq. ideologically republicans my party wanted every single public function to be scrutinized analyzed evaluated and if possible privatized general shinseki the head of the us army at the time testified to congress and said if we're going to do iraq it's going to take several 100000 u.s. troops and very quickly the rest of the bush administration reacted negatively he's absurd that's crazy it's not going to require those amount of troops and they actually simply dropped him out of the military it turned out he was right we did

deploy several 100000 forces it was just through private military. so in the early days of iraq it was a gold rush you had companies coming out of nowhere including blackwater who was really like a cowboy but nobody had any control anybody doing anything with firearms in this country to say they're private military company. was an a.t.m. for these companies the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting. training in supporting military vets is that there is room hiring a prostitute or getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an ex cost of a year now being

a contractor and is being paid $8.00 times 10. well what has happened is that america has basically married a prostitute and has been active in them for a very long period of time is almost sure to be a. good example of. it's not invade a country can it be that you think that. putting on a few things in iraq is a stretch run ok i'm working. on this now we will get a real movies where it's very. contractors offer some gray area benefits to politicians everybody's concerned like we have a 1000 boots the ground nobody ever asks how many contractors there is don't like our goods on the ground. so if the us military wanted to put 1000 boots on the ground and there's 4000 contractors it's a way of you know having

a force of 5000 but without politically risk. that we. should do mean. you're shooting at you know it just you yes yeah it was not. intended bang bang so you did did you get a skirt shoot 1st of it shines from you know you can reduce shade his car. and that's exactly. right this is only right. if. the security companies had the sensitivity of something as civilians would often if not always. get caught in the crossfire.

what governments have always done is they would do 2 things at once. you fight and you win hawks and mines. private and she took it didn't do that. on the ground opening fire they were very very noticeable they would play rock music that in this was not there was no subtlety 6 this was not a even the military would most discreet in the private security companies so they were as they were very very public slap in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis. the. a real problem for the military so we sell the contractor presence in iraq in particular but afghanistan too was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces there for their presence was

more danger than it was help. knowing. who. the police turn around in traffic circles. they're probably trying to get. the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we outsourced too quickly and they weren't coordinated both in contract terms but also in on the ground operational terms so what is your answer to a problem of outsourcing. outsource more we outsourced it to a private military company to coordinate. diseases contracts in iraq and was to oversee the communication and coordination

for all of the privacy of your companies on the ground. in effect it make the play work the general in charge of all of the private contractors. now that point the us military was the largest mature presence in iraq but if you added together all of the private military contractors spies was effectively in charge of the 2nd largest on force in iraq. the prisons in iraq was relatively stable for years one. video which was posted on you tube from the contract so who is. following that gun while playing rock music.

on its way. but no legal actions were taken. very rapidly each is such a machine huge company. and it made to spy certain extremely healthy man. a majority of americans now think it was a mistake to go to war in iraq public support for the war is falling war americans want the troops to come home. in a brief ceremony on a base on the edge of baghdad the united states took down the flag of its command here to mark the end of the military mission. the u.s. money was starting to be pulled out of the iraqi. field operations and the industry had to go through a very complicated reset. those companies had to realize that they weren't going to

get that level of money again and so they had to offer different. deals. that meant they would have to hire cheap the soldiers. and move move move. move move. move them along go to war. i was. going to evaluate. 'd jenny. i had to google google woman and don't want to go so mad.

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all work undertaken by egypt is carried out to high standards of fresh milk competence and integrity when we 1st started into theater we were briefed on peruvian and colombian guards and the natural question you ask is so what do you pay for these folks and you know at the time and i'm playing off memory cells but i'm pretty good at that that was about a $1000.00 to $1200.00 and them oh i don't know 6 months a year ago it became. god and guards at about $800.00 a month and we douse the question of security companies because of those lowest price technically acceptable rushed to the bottom that's what some call. white while gone it's now versus proving some columbia i'm sorry so we don't have a chance to get the award unless we use a garden because there are $2.00 to $400.00 less and now in this most recent trip the company that is winning all the awards that had this was 1st start heard of

well we've got a good strategy we're using sierra leonean so you ask the question so so what are we paying from just $250.00 a month. you know i guess rhetorically i don't expect to be answered you know to can we go lower could we find someone it's like we'll do it for boardroom you know . that is such a terrible country that maybe they'll just go out of the country and be a free security guard i mean that's pretty inexpensive if i say that it sounds facetious but it's real. you know who you get what you pay for. the original goal was not to bring soldiers or exogenous from the poorest countries

on earth but the u.s. system requires that you pick the lowest bidder so that became the status quo in iraq to have multiple layers of foreigners as long as you're in the army and you meet certain criteria and sometimes you don't have to be in there meet to meet this criteria. and. companies self interest is different than national self interest companies are profit maximizes what they do that's natural. born or made right now. what do you do if you know you have somebody from the philippines working for an american private military company in afghanistan who kills somebody what jurisdiction does that person fall under we don't know.

'd in about 15 countries i've been involved in programs to reintegrate children who have served in armed forces. it's a contradiction in terms of on the one hand western countries have pumped large sums of money into the reintegration of former child soldiers but now we have governments like us supporting these so-called security companies that recruit people and continue their exposure to violence and cement their identities as perpetrators of violence as soldiers but make it impossible to ever reintegrate into civilian life. at one

time when the markets came into account to kill a lot of. hours on top of the time. looking down we had to exploit. i think of doing when people are dying on the street. the explosion is sickening all over the city and off any time had a gunshot had a bomb or watch a very explosion i think about my going to what happens every 4. nights . when you brought you back. to the 1st team what. for force.

the. ship docks and i remember. school deceased's wall and beast what's happened instead and you see. you. really don't. know. if you're running into. the camp to. fight scene for what's out or lights out there are you fighting for your. illegal. i fear no one is that you don't use you know this is not good well to be close to one. justice you don't have to. it may seem like an act of free well it is not young people in sierra leone have no jobs they're desperate to feed themselves and their families and result is that it becomes harder and harder to ever find their way back into civilian life and they

may plant seeds of violence wherever they go. it is well known that young people who have extensive histories of violence and being fed drugs are manipulated over time to develop problems of impulsivity high levels of aggression. you know we pride ourselves on being a moral people trying to do the right thing what we're doing is we're exploiting people using young people who've been child soldiers deliberately sending them into the jaws of combat and further violence nothing could be worse for these young people nothing could be worse for security. there's a close connection between this this industry and policymakers. these

private military firms really poach a retired general officer as an admiral as from the armed forces. because they have connections patient. and i know. i say that it sounds facetious but it's real. no will you get what you pay for.

the private security industry will continue to act for governments and you're going to see private companies the neutrino gaging in warfare. people care a lot a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and we start asking ourselves why did they die why do what were they fighting for nobody bothers to ask

about that contractors. every american who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes i am awed by their sacrifice. when in good time and not allowing i'm going and i have not i'm not i'm not a fool if i do any kind of good our men have family coming into town unical meaning keep behind on who t.v. got it on to me what the media got. there's no one going to go out and protest in the streets of a contractor's kill. country

still exercises its foreign policy the use of force and violence in these 4 regions but is using proxies contractors 3rd country nationals and in obscuring their role. you say how did you get into that in the open rack i did some missions here when that left instead it's really your money and your tax money. doing it but make sure that politicians don't get in trouble. private military contractors makes a decision to go to war a lot easier. as part of ending

a war responsibly is standing by those who fought it.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across the northern part of australia we are watching the gulf of carpentaria very carefully notice all the clouds right there in the next few days we do expect to see a developing sight clone and it's going to move very slowly but it is going to intensify a lot of coastal rain a lot of coastal storm surge are going to be a big problem here across much of the north but notice over here towards queensland an area of rain we're going to be watching this area of rain potentially is going to be bringing flooding in the 3 day forecast we do expect to see well over $425.00 millimeters of rain and so the flooding will continue maybe even towards parts of the northern area of new south wales down towards the south though the temperatures

are on the way up for melbourne take a 3 day forecast start here on saturday a 22 degrees sunday a very warm day at 31 and on monday coming back down to about 26 degrees there well here across another part of japan we are going to watch one storm and that is coming out of china across the sea of japan and with that we are going to be seeing a lot of snow over the next few days here on saturday not too bad we are going to see some rain towards the south but as we go towards sunday that storm pushes up here a little bit more towards the northeast and it's really going to be here across the western part of japan we see the highest levels of snow but tokyo not a bad day for you with attempted there of 16. but. frank assessments the one good thing about these bush bars is it's really what the. climate should informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on the street don't even know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize inc in-depth

analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on out. al-jazeera. and taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up a countdown to peace the u.s. and taliban inch closer towards ending 18 years of war with a final agreement just 8 days away. iran elects a new parliament and a vote where hardliners could cement their grip on power. forced to flee the u.n. says a surge in violence in booking a fast so it's displacing more than 4000 people a day. and it's me shut down public spaces in 10 towns.