storytelling around the biggest issues but had to do the usual do it again. what you all deserve means the whole robin these are all top news stories these spread of the corona virus is growing outside of china with its only seeing the worst outbreak so far in europe almost 80 people are confirmed to have been infected 2 people have died from the virus catherine stand so while. the lombardy region of northern italy is in lockdown as more cases of the covert 19 coronavirus are confirmed could join you is effectively a ghost town after at least 3 people there tested positive for the virus the sudden spread has led local authorities to take swift action urging businesses schools and churches in several towns to close their doors several train stations are closed

and tens of thousands of italians have been told to stay home as a precaution if. there is a high level of panic now where in a mosque is the right thing to do but i think there is too much paranoia plays now on the streets going too far that's an attack at that on a woman that of course there is a lot of panic the situation mariza us all we can do is wait and see what happens doctors suspect a hospital near cafe have helped spread the virus and they're trying to limit the outbreak. in the avian to meet this. we are working to identify the people who came into direct contact with those who are confirmed to have the virus these tests we've done so far appear to show 3 more cases of the coronavirus. the corona virus has spread to 8 countries in europe including germany france and the u.k. catherine stansell al-jazeera. meanwhile china has reported an increase in new krona virus infections at the epicenter of the outbreak in hoop

a province 630 more cases were confirmed on saturday from almost 370 the previous day 96 more deaths were also reporters now the race to decide which democrat will take on president trump in november selection has resumed in nevada the state's diverse population will test which candidate appeals to voters amongst minority communities in africa right where sharks been sworn in as south sudan's vice president as he forms a new coalition government with former rival president salva kiir there trying to end years of conflict ahead of elections to be held within the next 3 years the world's youngest nation descended into war in 20132 years after winning independence from sudan millions have been displaced by the fighting but president here insists that peace is here to stay. we saw manfully so i'm only sure where that we will work together to

preserve their lives of our people but as. their unity it will be our responsibility toward people's lives and. while it again will believe in there are probably. rating conservatives appear to be on calls to win a majority in parliament 3 elections partial results indicate a strong showing by hardliners in the capital tehran although turnout figures are yet to be released voters had limited options with thousands of mostly moderate candidates disqualified from friday's election. and thousands of people have rallied in algiers capital large areas capital pardon me in the 1st anniversary of protests that forced the longtime president of the lizzie's beautifully to step down but demonstrators also want as are lies removed from power and the entire political system to be overhauled. dozens of opposition parties supporters have been detained in kazakhstan during

a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations protesters gathered in the capital new soledad and in the country's largest city of el monte there's anger regarding restrictions over the creation of political parties opposition leader the man may has been detained for organizing the rally. for the chief executive of europe's largest airline ryanair is facing a backlash over comments he made about muslim travelers michael o'leary told a british newspaper that he thought muslim men should be profiled at polls because of the quote that is where the threat is coming from he since apologized for any offense caused course those are the headlines here on al-jazeera back with more news in half an hour to stay with us. through all. oh. oh.

we will maintain the finest fighting force that the world has ever known the world has ever known the world has ever known never never thought it personally having to defend people who would most of it i just don't like the image that it conjures up in most people's money. it's like any other thing in the global finance it's just the military trade. contractors don't like her time around. why did i do to go to. the missing young government expects the iraqi troop and was considered a good deal. not be our coyer on the. 30 years. we have a mismatch between the way we imagine 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 you get what you pay for. b.b.c. world service and u.s. troops have left iraq america continues to maintain a high passes in the country because knowledge of u.s. embassy in the world the situation in afghanistan as ensure crucial for 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 own stuff and you rob. 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 it is gay some of them they are worried after i'm danced. they now father and son right now down there tonight yeah. how many of the persons that you're sending out. you should be your child soldiers an icon 7 i can't tell i can tell you that when you think i can't. i can tell you deal with many people i'm going to say i this and it is this and this. president inspecting small. groups.

are the ones. they will be the real hook up. enough for the good. in a bathing tool for evil and i will too. this is a traditional if you don't know fight with a stick from the spear with arrows that's the tradition if you are trying to simulate miss me disoriented them say well it could 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 our problem under from is yes that must have shown before take it's not from an abscess yes it must have. and even if they had started when

they would fulfilled or they're not 13 but that's not a problem wasn't a problem just as the job as they are here is carrying. the sand guides us with facets and they got the school fees training. the army never gotten a summit on resorted to using a gun on because of the ideas being that people who come isn't what you're telling them it would be to andy and as an english. gun to shoot those who qualified need gun one.

that it. will get companies respond comment on fact as we suck my money on to them . or example i didn't remember it was for someone i'm. the private military industry is a part of how the country is in fights 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 quit i'll never leave

a fallen 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 into the right thing off. 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 and they bombed a village there is a rockets. every day we have rockets fired. every day how to gunshots every day a bomb in income in income in all my good it bomb once you know what's you damage. 4 of our guards 4 of the civil union guys well trained guys assume i say original 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 i convinced 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 in syria 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's a. very civic and see they were recruiting guys so-called so it's also iraq if you just use weapons and rui are well trained in it come from comply on.

the 1st time i arrive to to this training camp can plan i have together with that to see white men found from the security company. went driving out in this small track and what's so was 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 my care for iraq was. written i came from iraq you said that he needed. it what a shallow fighter who supposed to go to iraq not on ice you know who those who know basic weapon uses 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 crazy in ca on. live.

in the beginning of the training course the one of the real weapons presence so they're using the set i wouldn't sticks. it was fast after a couple of days and so the training that the weapons and riped and their well being lined up with and sables within in the middle of the big camp. i don't. know it was this tension and excitement also the tension 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.

when they were starting to shake and some were even starting to cry when that when the su got the weapons and not being able to to handle them. that day any day i will provide a compliant backing for iraq and a vampire no war and the money is gone but from the past i thought that we supposed to know when i'm seeing this when i'm talking. the most notable for now. what i did last. so supposed to have born again i said. i did. 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. i was it's at 13. but you never can mean i think that actually. it took my fight i remember when putting on this rough.

to leave. me. give us they fight with us you know i don't know what's right what's he talking about. to keep. right. not. gonna. need to. show you that you have in mind. if not about every day remember. returned our few my father to my without next idea that i would keep.

this it's little i'm going to be sad oh. 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. and my boat is that bond and i bony it in order and drop. this in yes to cry for water but the gun makes you forget about your 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 there which is not good for human

beings. or when they do so because. of the job you have your command on when does it go the people you have to go to by denny don't order you to have been killed. when we think of war and the war you're right we have this image and our mind of a man in 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 as. it was until the early ninety's the private security industry is a dull commercial 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. sunline. 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 he got out and was asked to come help with a company called sandline. to splices arrival gave an almost instant sense of respectability to what had previously been a mess in the world and i don't personally have any difficulty would mostly i just don't like the image that it 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 medievals it must be 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 the 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 tip spicer's focus on a couple 150 patients by customs and excise and 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 it was a true story. these things tended to happen says tim spicer a couple of times that he'd always somehow managed to get signed the recently retired british got into that a band of ministers is safely back in this country so has this put him up his new career as a hired gun going to continue with this new new business of heroes sandline international well i think we've got a number of lessons to learn from this particular. episode i think that we will continue to try and develop business as long as we can do it in a. so that's what. the. sandline eventually collapsed under the weight of bad publicity the ones that have idea in the short term you can say that was also a successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to its channels and so forth to firstly it launched to spice on

a career where he was able to found what would then become one of the most significant problem if your company in the world. each is. good. thanks to making loans to some friends because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those tax payers never go away is a new one born every single day and it is an urgent national mississippi that we officially request the education of the support mechanism we created together but because i happen to live in creeks somehow i'm a sinner i'm

a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. the nature's news as it breaks the syrian army seems determined to defeat the rebels and continue its advance was the city of idlib that's a red line for turkey with detailed coverage of the national policy and some wild elephants is yet to be fully implemented 14 years after it was introduced from around the world will this fight will be completely transformed over the next fix yes this will be the northern terminus for phase one of the project. motor sport is big news in libya but staging current bike rallies here comes with its own particular risks our club could take part in the 26th rally because we were fighting a more concise answer al jazeera world travels to the libyan desert to see how schools on 4 wheels can be a unifying force you know war chill country video

a rally for hope on al-jazeera. to meet. your child is there with me so robyn in doha these are all top news stories u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders has taken an early lead in the nevada caucuses the state's diverse population is seen as a test of which candidate appeals to voters amongst minorities so far sanders has more than half of the votes nevada has the state to choose who run against president trump in november. italy is seeing a surge in corona virus cases in the country's north almost 80 people are confirmed to be infected to have died from the virus and several towns are in lockdown in the lombardy and the neato provinces meanwhile china has reported an increase in new infections at the epicenter of the outbreak in who before vince 630 more cases were

confirmed on saturday up from almost 370 the previous day 96 more deaths have also been reported to africa now a rife with shar has been sworn in a south sudan's vice president as he forms a new coalition government with 4 will rival president salva kiir trying to end years of conflict ahead of elections to be held within 3 years. we saw mentally so i'm only sure where that we would work together. but as they lie of our people and. their unity it will be our responsibility toward people's lives and. when it again will believe. iranian conservatives appear to be on calls to win a majority in parliament to elections partial results indicate

a strong showing by hardliners in the capital tehran although turnout figures are yet to be released voters had limited options with thousands of mostly moderate candidates disqualified from friday's election. thousands of people have rallied in the algeria's capital and it's the 1st anniversary of the start of protests that forced the long time president of the lizzie's beautifully to step down but demonstrators also want his allies removed from power and the entire political system to be over hold the chief executive of europe's largest airline ryanair is facing a backlash over comments that he made about muslim travelers like to be told a british newspaper he thought muslim men should be profiled at airports there's the headlines more news in half an hour to stay with us.

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 x. cost of a year now being

a contractor who's 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 as long as you do the least. you can see with you it's nothing but a country and it is beautiful. but none of the russians are searching around ok i'm looking to see. if this hour we will get a room of leisure it's very. contractors offer some grey 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. and be done without trying to meet. your shoe to get you picked you yes yeah yeah but other. than that bang bang so did did you get a skirt shoot 1st of a bad shot in front of 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 when she didn't do that. when 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 will most discreet in the private security companies so they would as they were very very public slap in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis. to 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 them. 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. is uses contracts in iraq and was to oversee the communication and coordination for

all of the private security companies on the ground. been affected meant that they were the general in charge of all of the private contractors. now that point the us military was the largest machine 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 scandal free as one. video which was posted on youtube from the contract so who is. following that gun while playing rock music. being.

released. 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. let me do more. work. for no one will not go to war. i was. going to evaluate. then i. had to google goog moment on what. 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 don't ask the question of security companies because of those lowest price technically acceptable rushed to the bottom of this what some call it. 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 god and 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 started heard of

well we've got a good strategy we're using sierra leonean it's so you ask the question so so what are we paying from just about $250.00 a month. you know i guess rhetorically i don't expect to be answered you know to come and go lower can 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 the army to meet this criteria. 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 all try company in afghanistan to kill 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 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 orchids came into account to kill a lot of. these. hours on top of the time. looking down we had to explain. i think when people are dying on the street. the explosion is sickening all over the city and off anytime had a gunshot had a bomb or watch a very explosion i think about my going to what happens. when you brought you back. to the 1st team for. for for us.

the. should and i remember. school deceased wall i miss what's happened instead you see. you. really don't. know. if you're running into calm and. fighting for what's out or lights out there are you fighting for you got. ill. feeling or 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 from being fed drugs and manipulated over time they 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 these 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. 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 governs and you're going to see private companies 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 their 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 you. know who to be got in on to me what they need to guide. 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 does your candidate in them and iraq how does some missions here when the left can stand 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. for. banging the bank the bank the bank.

hello again it's good to have you back well here across united states we are watching of course the south very carefully we have a lot of flooding that's going on across much of the southeast and that is all due to the very heavy rain that we have seen and we really don't need any more across the area unfortunately though sunday looks like it's a good day across much of the areas are some light rain showers here it's really as we get towards monday more developing rain across much of this area slowly making its way towards the east so all of those rivers that are already flooded will probably stay flooded over the next few days over here towards new york though it is going to be a nice start of the week with a temperature of about 11 degrees here across central america though we've been watching some very heavy rain pushing from mexico down here across parts of

guatemala and now into hunter s. it will start to weaken as we go towards monday but over here towards kingston expect to see an afternoon shower with a temperature of $29.00 degrees and the heat is on here across parts of argentina we have really cleared out the frontal boundary has pushed up here towards the north what is left to the south is a lot of sunshine over the next few days if we are going to be seeing those temperatures rising as we go towards the beginning of the week here on sunday plenty of sun at about $28.00 degrees monday another day at 30 by the time we get to tuesday 30 degrees and some clouds. the quick outgrows of togo. defenseless against the wind 7 different international marketplace. and political activist on a mission to establish

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