i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. well again piece it over here in doha with the top stories from al-jazeera china is partly lifting quarantine restrictions at the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic allowing some people to leave the city of who under certain conditions earlier for chinese provinces lowered their emergency response level to the outbreak it follows a reported slowdown in the rate of infection to train and you has more from beijing just a few hours ago we've been told that one city is now allowing healthy nonresidents of hans leave the city and also people who are in government operations medical workers people delivering supplies post walk work as except they're also allowed to leave the city and 100 and was stuck outside the city during the lockdown and now

loud to end an important caveat though as it seems that normal one residence if you don't have a specific reason for having to leave the city you're not going to be allowed to leave still so it's not like we're going to see a massive exodus but this is a significant significant change and it does signal some positive movements meanwhile south korea is still on high alert over the outbreak it's announced another big jump in new coronavirus cases the number of deaths from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday the israeli military has carried out strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian group islamic jihad fired $21.00 rockets into southern israel to the group's members were killed in the strikes the group said it launched its attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members forces in west jerusalem he says the israeli airstrikes came as no surprise. well certainly the strikes inside gaza

are relatively standard for this kind of escalation the kind of which we've seen many times in the last couple of years certainly of rocket fire such as this is typically met with an israeli round of airstrikes inside gaza the israeli military saying dozens of targets belonging to palestinian islamic jihad have been hit also saying that they struck what they said was a rocket team in preparation potentially for a launch of the palace in health ministry inside gaza saying that a group of 4 people were injured by a drone strike and that among the injured were among the group were a man and his wife less typical though is the strikes that these women she is also rarely admitting to having carried out inside syria it did however in november at a time when it assassinated a a rocket team commander inside gaza as well as trying to carry out

a strike against a senior islamic jihad figure in damascus it said at that point there would be further strikes against islamic jihad leadership in in the syrian capital if rocket fire continued so the immediate thought for many was is this a sign that they were doing just that in response to this latest round of rocket fire so far the israeli military is just saying that it struck a site which it's calling a hub for islamic jihad activity south of the syrian capital one used for weapons research. long serving president for it nothing big has won a 4th term in office according to initial results is taken 72 percent of the vote far ahead of his main rival the opposition says there were acts of fraud during the election. an earthquake has killed at least 9 people in turkey the 5.7 magnitude tremor struck just across the border in the northwest of iran dozens of people were injured in both countries after more than

a 1000 buildings collapsed off duty police officers in haiti have exchanged gunfire with members of the armed forces in the capital port au prince the confrontation started during a demonstration by law enforcement officers demanding better wages at least 3 of the protesting policeman wounded a sandstorm blowing off the sahara has caused transport chaos in the spanish canary islands thousands of tourists were stranded after all flights were suspended to and from gran canaria because of bad visibility flights leaving tannery for also stopped the regional government has declared a state of alerts and people have been advised to stay indoors those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after child soldiers reloaded i will see you very soon.

we will maintain the finest fighting force of the world has ever known the world has ever known the world has ever known never ever united personally having to defend people who would most it just are not 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 totally turn to tom the ground. why did i do to go to. the missing young government perspective the iraqi troop and was considered a good deal. in 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 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 with knowledge of u.s. embassy in the world the situation in afghanistan has ensured crucial for international troops to go under control over to the afghan forces the security situation really critical to the country.

sees throughout america. we are now stuck by my own stuff 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 it is gary samore and day out we're going to have advanced. 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 got 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 here. for a while and i will too. this is a traditional if you don't know fight with sticks in the spear with arrows that's the tradition if you're trying to simulate this many disorients 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'd 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 before take it's not phone boxes yes it must have. and even if they had started

when they would fulfilled or they're not 13 but that's not a program was much of a problem just as the job as they are here is carry on. when you send guidance well yes we fasted and they got the school fees training. the army never got in the summit and resorted to using a gun on because of the ideas being that people who isn't what you're telling them it would be to andy and as an english. gun to shoot those who want to fight need gun one.

not. that it. will give companies risk on common on tract as we sometime on onto them. are example i didn't remember it was for someone time. 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 calif 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 was a bomb and they bombed the village there is a rockets. every day we have rockets fired. every day how to gunshots every day a bomb in income an income in only 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 what 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 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 who 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 2 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 sure we could say lined up in order to receive these guys from the past security company.

their work my care for iraq was. written back in from iraq you said that he needed. it what a shallow fighter who supposed to go to iraq not on ice you know more basic weapon issues 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.

in the beginning of the training course that one looked real weapons presence so they were 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 think. 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 souped up the weapons and not being able to to handle and. that day any day i will provide a compliant backing for iraq event. and memories come. from the past i thought that we were 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 this is not my idea. what. i survive and i live where point.

this young on what has been forth 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 foot a time when you put it under the rug. as you know i would grant.

me. give you a they said with us you know i don't know what's right what's he talking about. to keep. going on. no. need to. show you that you have the money to fund the fishing if not 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. 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 and i burn it in order and drop. this in the us 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

being. or because. of the job you have your command on this you go the people you have to do it 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. 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 mess 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 i met to spice 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 as 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 gonna do 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. 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 launched him spice on

a career where he was able to found what would then become one of the most significant problem if you talk to me in the world. it is. that america is a region of wonder of joy tragedy and b.s. of violence but it doesn't matter where you are you have to be able to relate to the human condition. i was in that isn't trying to bring their way into the national assembly i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and

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are. if you leave out a viewer in the final episode poll he'll be algorithm on just 0. and richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has arrived in india on his 1st state visit to the country is are live pictures right now i have where i am trump has landed and has a meeting with prime minister narendra modi his trip is designed to boost. trade ties at least an attempt to but also his reelection chances by doing 4 and a half 1000000 indian american voters we will stay on that throughout the day china's partly locked in quarantine restrictions at the epicenter of the krona virus outbreak allowing some people to leave the city of under certain conditions earlier for chinese provinces lowered their emergency response level to the

outbreak at followed a reported slowdown in the rate of infection i am breaking news to bring to malaysia's prime minister has resigned prime minister mctear mohamed said his letter of resignation to the king his party has left the ruling coalition we will get you more information on that as well south korea still on high alert or the outbreak and now it's another jump in new coronavirus cases the number of deaths from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more people 2 more rather were announced on monday the israeli military has carried out air strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the palestinian armed group islamic jihad fired 21 rockets into southern israel 2 members of the group for killed in the strikes the group said it launched its attack after israeli soldiers fired on a group of palestinians. togo's president ford the same day has won a 4th term in office according to political area results it took 72 percent of the vote far ahead of his main rival the opposition says there were acts of fraud

during the election president in the same days family has ruled that west african nation for 53 years. an earthquake has killed at least 9 people in turkey the magnitude $5.00 quake struck just across the border in northwestern iran that is that people were injured in both countries after more than a 1000 buildings collapsed. the police officers in haiti have exchanged gunfire with members of the armed forces in the capital port au prince the confrontation started during a demonstration by law enforcement officers demanding better wages at least 3 of the protesting policemen were willing to take him to the hospital or the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera child soldiers reloaded continues.

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 is almost sure to be. good example of. it's nothing but a country is going to be a good thing. but none of the russians are searching around ok i'm looking. at this hour we will get a room full of these words 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 u.s. 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 meaning. 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 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 all of. the 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 hearts and minds. private lynch a complete didn't do that. try this comes 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 therefore their presence was

more danger than it was help. knowing. who. the police turn around and traffic circle. they're probably trying to get going. and. 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. and been effective 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 stable for years one. video which was posted on you tube 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. were moved to move. work. no woman will not go to war. 'd then i. am.

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all work undertaken by the judge 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 the slowest 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 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 so you ask the question so so what are we paying informants but $250.00 a month. you know i guess rhetorically i don't expect to be answered you know can we go lower could we find someone it's like we'll do it for boardroom you know that has 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 i say that it sounds facetious but it's real. no will 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. bidding system requires that you pick the lowest bidder so that became the status quo in iraq to have multiple layers of foreigner 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 maximizers what they do that's not troll. told me i get from a few miles. what do you do if you know you have somebody from the philippines working for an american private military company in afghanistan who can tell 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 their identities as perpetrators of violence and as soldiers that make it impossible to ever reintegrate into civilian life. at one time

when they came into account to kill a lot of. hours on top of the time. looking down we had to explain. i think when people are dying on the street. the explosion is all over the city and off any time had a gunshot had a bomb or watch a very explosion i think about my colleagues who was happens every 4. well you brought with you that. you faced him for. it actually. intended to be. full force.

and i remember. still dish the wall and the squats happened and she did you she. was. going off was. if you run a con you can't get. that fighting for what i want to have of you fighting for you that. i feel is that you don't use it you know it's not good well to be close to one. justice you don't have. 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 and 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 have been child soldiers deliberately sending them into the jaws of combat and for. other 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 from the armed forces. because they have connections. i say that it sounds facetious but it's real. know what will you get what you pay for.

the security industry will continue to act for. you're going to see private companies neutrino gaging in warfare. people care a lot when and if a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and we start asking ourselves why did they die why did 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. men in good time and no allowance and i'm going to lie i'm going to i'm not i'm not you when you bag you in kind of would our men have family coming in the family unit. who to be got in on only what they needed 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 obscurity their role. you see i do that you get into that in the record i do some missions here we'll end up in afghanistan 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.

how the snow stopped falling in turkey now but the residual rain is spreading across the levant it'll head slowly south that satellite shows circulation the strongest winds are region that's where the showers going to go down to london you'll notice something developing in northern saudi and also of course the eastern edge of the higher ground as we enter into iran now it's going to keep going and enhanced the showers i think in saudi arabia even as far south as mecca i guess you kuwait to the south there that is remarkably warm a lot suddenly greens been 30 degrees in doha and but average around 33 in riyadh that's really quite a big climb and as the rate is slowly coming north by you know by surprise to see big white top plant there in d.r. congo and there in angola forecast wise they'll tend to stay in that and that area got to gabble as well and if you go further south you see not only northern but southern parts of milan receive some fairly heavy rain in fact that street runs all the way down through zimbabwe towards botswana on the eastern side of south africa

so forecast wise pretty widespread right and it still includes libya not discuss in coast but inland including wind took $24.00 degrees and thunderstorms pretty good for february. but. gives you an feel dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances it is very free money for you could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me maddi hot sun as i put it up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. in 2009 a torture victim of the brutal arjen time bedelia regime confronted his interrogator who tortured no no no no not the older daughter until i was in target

has justice now been served for the atrocious crimes committed decades earlier the idea of the true lord telling lies and investigation into the dark history of argentina why didn't they told me in the end rewind interrogating a torture on al-jazeera. this is a domicile a man's 4th trip to boozy in 2 days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as many people as he can was stranded in the flood hit area of the psycho to die struck mozambique i was up when i 1st saw women with babies on their backs crying for help saying they were dying i knew i had to do something i was late and from the dark a faint was still in the distance alerts us to people calling for help women children and the elderly are brought on board 1st hungry and thirsty it hasn't taken much time to pull the boat about 200 people have been rescued and more want to get on but this simply no space.

luke. prime minister marks there mohamed and his allies announce their resigning in a shocking political people. i'm richelle carey this is out there live from doha also coming up as president donald trump arrives at india his 1st state visit to that country. china says it will allow some people to leave the town of will han the at the center of the growing a virus outbreak but fears of a global pandemic remain. israel's military fires rockets into gaza and syria in response to strikes and blames on the palestinian armed group.