including the killing of innocent citizens. karen has been hearing from soldiers involved in the last exposing which struck at civilians not insurgents. something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon saw one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening with looks like indiscriminate fire in baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were recruited dan including two reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated in the u.s. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement so while the us military is ok with causing some collateral damage it's when civilians die in the course of action a number of soldiers who were involved in those killings now speak out and say this

shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in the ethan mccord a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience he went as far as to say soldiers in his unit were ordered to kill civilians in certain circumstances mccord said the message they got from their commander was if someone in your line gets hit with an improvised explosive device three sixty rotational fire you kill everyone on the street. josh the bers served in the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because of as he said the threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows but the secret video of how the coptic killings seemed nothing unusual to him from my experience as what was shown in that video was no uncommon and happened

on a fairly regular basis josh says the training they'd gone through did not angry much sensitivity either he remembers one of the songs soldiers were made to sing one of the more intense on going is as i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop where i was shabby and i began to chop josh and a group of other former soldiers are now touring the us and telling people of their experiences and their regret for me it was when i was finally able to kind of put myself in the in the shoes of of other people. really start to imagine how our. people were down to me what i was doing on regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of the night. and children's faces. some blamed the type of war the us was finding for the

psychological trauma so many american soldiers are now going through it was a very disorienting and destabilizing condition of warfare for most american soldiers to try to separate the benign populace from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seven roger. eason recording josh stieber signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged to change from the inside out. our team washington d.c. . america's military chiefs are bracing themselves for more to come be with the league's web site is promising that further revelations are on the way the online whistle though is a. story of american. rock it's thought they could expose similar findings to the

thousands of documents already posted on the web they include details of civilian casualties and the rest of allied troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency but the white house described the release as a breach of federal law and the threat to american military personnel robert fisk the middle east correspondent british newspaper the independent says stories like this highlight the power of the web is a harsh lesson for traditional journalists. we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching this new york times in london in france and yet we didn't get this story it was the internet that got it this is the most important proof so far. but in many ways newspaper journalism is retreating and going along with authority please come on be embedded i mean please can i be embedded can i get it was the tenth mountain division cannot be with the british army and these reporters are not getting the story these people this week the leaks

organization which i have some serious concerns they've managed to do it on a mass bulk scale we've never seen recently in modern newspaper journalism or television journalism this i think it's one of the lessons for us journalists. we found a sign that says he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the documents released on his website to you washington producer found off his meds before she says he was god's exposing rights abuses and part of his mission many governments would be really frustrated when there's an organization that can't be traced to any one country that publishes information that governments don't want seen and of course this is part of julian's mission that's you know there's an entire quest in life is to eliminate bad governance and hold corporations and governments accountable for violations of human rights and other so-called human rights abuses he essentially runs this entire website from his backpack he's always on the move when we had him here in our studios a few months ago when the collateral murder video came out he went straight into

the green room and started doing all of the work on you know we could weeks and didn't waste any time with that and so the web site and this entire new i guess i read of journalism really rests on him and being able to evade governments that are after him. if you mix the authorities in russia who are almost literally. the law is aimed at ads and articles printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is a literally chock full of people who claim that they can feel the future using mystical abilities. reports on how russia is predicting the end of the night. the global recession is forcing charities in that fear to step in and provide basic provisions for the struggling population it's a far cry from the initial optimism that gripped the country when join the european union six years ago but it's artie's time bottom reports that he is now

a place of raging unemployment and international handouts. diana gives out food to people in need for months she's made sure families can get a square meal but this isn't a developing country it's the modern economy of latvia and recently joined the. when we brought the first food bags to those families many parents wept there could have never foreseen a crisis of this magnitude they had jobs they were well to do are respected and all of a sudden they find themselves in a situation where they have to plead for help to feed their children latvia speculated aggressively international markets leading the so-called baltic tiger vulnerable crisis hit those with loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money basically good but i said that if brussels sneezed we in latvia already had a bad case of angina. a very small and very open economy felt the world's problems

more painfully than the others and we were experiencing our own mistakes much more painfully two. years unemployment soared to over twenty percent middle class families with houses and cars couldn't afford to put food on the table and almost eight percent of the population registered below the poverty line this pier to go we could never imagine if giving food to people in this country would ever be needed the situation showed that it is needed so we decided to start it the food bank relies on donations of money and food to supplement the diets of hard up families the charity raise half a million dollars in two thousand and nine money vitally needed the government is failing to support. them or suppose that it all came too soon and created a sort of traffic jam the social services were not prepared for an influx of people who needed aid or at one point unable to rely on their leaders not the answer dipped into their own pockets and cupboards to help each other out and it's not

always the rich to give the most weirdness the donors are often not the richest sort of people more often than not we notice their women with. and quite often it's children who say let's leave some charity money here in this food plant we've got to pork and fish we've got sugar got condensed milk we've got flour we've got stock cubes past cooking oil and much more but it's this food that shows how deep the financial crisis has caught a lot of your until the families affected get more work this food will only be a temporary comfort not a cure tom barton r.t. reka. but coming up later mexico gets worked up over america's growing unemployment problem. a shift all their jobs overseas their jobs left therefore they have no savings no capital they get out of

capitalism without capital that's why it's kind of debasing integrating into the kind of. consumer state. people have been fascinated by fortune tellers who centuries unfortunately there are also plenty of self-styled psychics ready to turn people's curiosity into cash or russian authorities definitely know what the future holds their own fakes and sean thomas reports. the allure of the unknown and of the showcasing of psychic abilities have become big business in russia while simple entertainment for some others turned to these self-proclaimed mystics for healing and the promise of answers to the problems of everyday life just did not serve national seem hopeless lad six years ago trouble came to our family through my son was lured into

a relationship by a woman who use some witchcraft as a mother i couldn't help seeing by his house was impaired and was getting worse but his mind was suppressed he changed completely yes she put her trust in a psychic who claimed to have a special insight into the situation but as time passed it became clear that all the psychic was after was more of lewis's money but isn't that is that a good there's a but they'd her about six hundred thousand rubles a year for three years but that's not because we're rich but for the sake of your childs how dare you do anything sell possessions take loans anything experts say the nature of this industry provides a prime opportunity for people to take advantage of those desperate for a belief system. in some ways i say manic things in the worst meaning of this word are all too close to a hoax but people want to keep believing so they trust them and when they finally turn for help to real doctors they find out it's too late too hard and that

a patient is in need of critical measures now there is a movement in the state duma to protect people like yourself from being conned mausam give them a riveting of divertissement for services which are not backed by professional commercial experience we believe these people practice tax evasion and swindling moreover their deceiving potential consumers with these occult services the law is a at ads an article printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is all literally chock full of people who claim that they can heal or tell the future using these of mystical abilities but those who are. actually in the business say that this bad what affect them really at all you can go to medical on night see that today the internet brings the most clients into this business rather than printers resources or t.v. the only ad that really works is the green line you help someone and they in turn bring their family and friends and while it may seem counter intuitive some who

claim to have such powers say they provide a valuable service and that a ban on advertising could actually be helpful here's my feeling i help people in their family relationships and i do fortune telling depending on their needs most psychics do the same thing kora those who don't know what they're doing and trying to get an attorney to you through and sent other means i believe there should be a set of documents to prove their ability is a point that the duma is trying to push through as well by them for the store they could get a diploma or a medical certificate undergo a medical commission is each region of russia is used to have particular diplomas which means each healer can work only in that way in the same way they can be deployed for their claim if the treatment does not work just like any other don't at all or in other words making the magical and mystical majority more mainstream sean thomas r t moscow. while they're also online twenty four hours

a day at the time to call attention to the stories here to discover. what's online right now the russian post. under fire topic check it reveals four out of ten letters to the plate. in the box for unwanted babies check a comic says the facility help save lives some can't encourage its mother's topanga . to want to. fish. muscovites are struggling in the worst heatwave for more than one hundred years with temperatures approaching forty degrees celsius what's making it worse is that forest fires and burning peat are spreading foul smelling small group across the

city as measured sea to straggle trouble over twenty fires are raging in the moscow region are very southeast of the rivers are greatest right through the capital causing breathing difficulties for many people with small groups also reducing visibility of roads is very good news on horizon before costa saying most going sweltering record breaking temperatures and staying until at least. some other international news making the headlines this hour. at least thirty four people have been killed and more than fifty two car bomb blasts in the iraqi city. explosions occurred on a road regularly used by shiite pilgrims targeted who were traveling to a festival to take points and religious holiday in a separate incident six people died and movement does more injured in the attack on the bank than that. severe flooding and landslides called by the ventral rains

continue to sweep across southern china more than seven hundred people have been killed in the country's real hundred studious of water levels along the upper parts of the country's largest river the density highest since one thousand eight hundred seven the same all heavy rains are expected this week of. the european union has adopted tougher sanctions against iran's energy sector an effort to block its nuclear program if you include a ban on the setting of equipment and technology the new measures will come into force in the next few weeks. we've heard saudi predators decision to also impose sanctions against. iran has long been suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons accusations tonight by. israel's defense minister is visiting washington to talk to u.s. officials about iran's nuclear program america and israel are united in their drive to tehran's atomic operations and support tougher international sanctions well u.s.

academic woman finkelstein says washington's harsh rhetoric indicates that will talk of change was short lived. barack obama kept promising there's going to be a change there's going to be a change but in fact as several commentators wrote the barack obama administration is carrying on like all other administrations there was an offer made in october two thousand and nine by the u.s. administration to iran and how to resolve the nuclear issue around at that time rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because they didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the u.s. even russia but now except to go to offer and as the leading academic specialist on the topic american academic specialists trita parsi dr parsi wrote in the washington post he says that barack obama is refusing to take

yes for an answer and so there's no real difference between the so-called diplomatic approach of barack obama and the. mill touristic approach as it's sometimes claimed or belligerent approach of the bush administration. itself an interview with norman finkelstein is coming up next hour here. why that's heading to orbit now for some pictures from the international space station where the crew have begun a six hour long space walk the aim is to integrate the. the russian said the station flight engineers feared or you're taking corning. to wire up a few connections aboard the new ourselves module and also replace a broken camera one which films those amazing shots of the earth from orbit because we know it's also testing new smart spacesuits which have computer systems near

this digital screens integrated into them. while the rest of the crew inside a keeping a close watch on their colleagues to make sure they're safe everything is great. interest when talked to first and only russian that formula one driver that's in spotlight first the business needs which are. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our jeep.

welcome to the business program hey on arts a b.p. is expected to announce the replacement of c teddy hayward before its quarterly results on tuesday to the new tourist hayward could be given a directorship of the company's russian joint venture that means he would effectively swap roles with the american robert dudley who was head of b.p. until two years ago hayward is expected to leave his post as chief executive in october has been widely criticized as the gulf of mexico spill which is cost the company forty percent of its market capitalization but his replacement is no stranger to conflict deadly left russia two years ago all through dispute with local shareholders. i think mr dudley. one of the best persons to the head of b.p. at the moment. he had a history of successful manager. of

a huge company i mean to be in extremely tough conditions in russia that b.p. needs right now also. i'm a. pretty old style soviet all kompany and he made one of the best. street just look at the marketing success. at a retail market in the largest a retail regional frosch in more school. probably one of the most popular get more school so the share over the retail market. is actually more than a quarter. something the finance ministry is planning russia's biggest asset sale since the early ninety's the government trying to rise up to thirty billion dollars over three years to cut the budget deficit minority stakes in ten companies are up for grabs including russia's largest oil producer and that's how it generates

a hydro top blend is. the government could keep fifty percent plus we want to share of these partially listed companies in a later fell states in the list of companies like russia israel and they. come down to look at the market and promising start asian stock markets are heading lower as investors react slaves were bound in a new way to new home sales amid lingering worries over the strength of the global economic recovery is just hanging on the plant it's not a one quarter of stocks in the mix of two or three giving back from previous gains trade down a more than one percent. russian rocky's those are close on a monday in the flash leading over there was an explanation moving three percent on both levels this after forcing net profit of thirty seven percent in the first half of the year. so a good way to go to gain more than two and a host instead of the points of light sweet home today is seventy nine dollars the . near premium bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy

a ten percent stake in the russian market is following the state from kit finance a bank which is an early victim in the financial crisis. to make the purchase of an undisclosed russian state lender mistakes estimated to be worth eighty million dollars in the. aims to improve standards in russia stock markets rising oil prices of boosted russia's budget revenues the state budget took a one hundred twenty two billion dollars in the first half of the year up thirty percent from the same period a few thousand knowing the lion's share of a percent tax payments on oil and gas production. russia's biggest oil producer also met the balls to second quarter profit by sixty percent on the back of high oil prices but its net income jumps to move into point five billion dollars one point six billion in the same period a year before crude production rose eight point eight percent to two point three

two million barrels a day also will look to you both to just one of them a bank or service capable providing the equivalent of five percent of russia's current output. also record gas shocks this factory nation north korea for a few nights blaming the record heat the vocal produces sending thousands of workers on paid leave after a month of temperatures topping thirty degrees so. in other news russia's first low cost carrier express may be sold to the basal investment company owned by billionaire businessman derry pascoe the commissar newspaper reports the airline is no negotiating the terms of the deal but as all may merge sky express was only a company cuban airlines intel and sky express look at the chance to avoid getting its license revoked because of his spine no job problems cardinals and a million passengers last year stale to recover off the crisis and finally russia

is ready to spend three hundred thirty two billion rubles that's nearly eleven billion dollars to develop tourism in the country about a third of that money for the government's new program for two thousand and eleven to two thousand and sixteen will come from the federal budget the rest of the financing will come from local funds as well as no new government to sit in front of everyone river that comes from the state two point two will come from independent investment the palace to bring in seven times or more foreign tourists to russia. russia update for now we can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. the .

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you're watching on t.v. that take a look at the headlines the u.s. military hunts for who is behind exposing classified cover ups in afghanistan wiki leaks website whistleblowers promising further revelations to come watch x. soldiers of the rules for civilian casualties. that fear is still feeling the impact of the global recession sixty is off the country joining me on the phone that continues to grow more and more families are turning to charities for their daily meals. and russian legislators are having a clamp down on sham psychics who called thousands of dollars out to vulnerable clients is planning to ban them from the time i see as well as to improve their abilities on something from. the crown jewels of those who race in kind to come to russia.