the killing of innocent citizens. has been hearing from soldiers involved in the last major wiki leaks 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 which looks like indiscriminate fire in a 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 then 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 corporal 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 a decent record 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 brewers 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 with the secret video of how the coptic killings seemed nothing unusual to him from our experiences what was shown in that video was uncommon and like that

happened on a fairly regular basis just as the training they'd gone through did not ingrate much sensitivity either he remembers one of the sons soldiers were made to sing more intense on going as far as i went down to the market where all the children were all women shop or i was shoddy 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 shoes of of other people and. and really start to imagine how i feel as if people were doing to me what i was doing telling people on a regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of the night i think lives and and children's faces. some believe that 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 but nine populous from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seven roger. eason mccord and josh the bush 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 if we can leaks website is promising that further revelations are on the way the online whistleblower is now changing into reports to the american. so they could expose some of the forty thousand just like they include details of civilian casualties of

u.s. troops as well as concerns that the stony tensions helps the taliban insurgency the white house described the release as a breach of federal law and the threats to american military personnel some honest and real danger to troops is within. the obama administration's pronouncement is like an alice in wonderland turning reality upside down they are the ones who are putting american soldiers and afghans lives at risk and in fact taking those lives every day in a war that they know can't be won and yet when wiki leaks and people who are whistleblowers tell the truth then this sort of explanation from the white house is that these people who are telling the truth exposing the lies are the ones putting the people's lives in danger i mean that is so ludicrous such nonsense but because of the character of the the propaganda nature of the us corporate media that line

will be promulgated time and time again today and tomorrow and in the coming days but i don't think the american people will believe that they want to know the truth . robert fisk middle east correspondent for the british newspaper the independent says stories like this highlight the power of the web and is a harsh lesson for traditional journalism we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching the 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 that in many ways newspaper journalism is retreating and going along with authority please can i be embedded i mean i'm not a baby but please can i be embedded can i go with the tenth mountain division can i be with the british army and these reporters are not getting the story and these people this week leaks organization which i have some serious concerns they have 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. not a few minutes the authorities in russia who are almost literally on a witch hunt. the law is aimed at as an article printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is literally chock full of people who claim that they can heal or tell the future using views of mystical abilities. in the end of the break for. now though let's head into orbit for some live pictures from the international space station with six. integrated three. station. floating around that's. been. going up a few connections. plates. that's the one. you always get from. space to switch.

to. crew inside keeping a close to what they call an extraordinary everything that's going to. well there are also online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com hair on earth where we have plenty of other stories few to discover here's a little bit of what's online right now the russian post service is under fire after a check reveals four out of ten letters all delivered late. and the books only wanted babies the czech republic says the facility helps save no lives while some ten thousand courage is mothers to abandon their babies for more you can add to water to.

the global recession is forcing charities in latvia to step in and provide basic provisions for the struggling population it's a far cry from the initial optimism that the group to the country when it join the european union six years ago but tom bottom reports one day that fear is now a place of raging unemployment an international one doubts. 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 they could have never foreseen a crisis of this magnitude they had jobs they were well to do and 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 on international markets leaving this so-called baltic tiger vulnerable when the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money if the rest of 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 disappear 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 as the government is failing to support those in need is the most it all came too soon and created a sort of traffic jam the social services are not prepared for an influx of people who needed aid all at once. unable to rely on their leaders latvians have dipped into their own pockets and cupboards to help each other out and it's not always the rich who give the most leverage you know 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 tinned pork and fish we've got some 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 cut in

latvia and until the families affected get more work this food will only be a temporary comfort not a cure tom barton r.t. reka. coming up next on kaiser gets irreverent over america's growing unemployment problems. a shift all their jobs overseas they have no jobs left therefore they have no savings no capital and again a capitalism without capital that's why it's kind of debasing and degrading in a. pop consumer state. now people have been fascinated by fortune tellers for centuries and fortunately there are also plenty of self-styled psychics ready to turn people's curiosity into cash but russian authorities definitely know what the future holds

a clampdown on fakes sean thomas reports. via lure of the unknown end 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 get massive national seem hopeless that six years ago trouble came to our family my son was lured into a relationship by a woman who use some witchcraft as a mother i couldn't help seeing that his health was impaired and was getting worse his mind was suppressed he changed completely. 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 is that that is that it would be as if i paid her about six hundred thousand roubles a year for three years that's not because we're rich but for the sake of your

child's health 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 quasar 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 from being conned mausam give them an advertisement 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 are called service rules the law is aimed at ads and articles 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 effect them really at all. 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 and 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 see they provide a valuable service and that a ban on advertising could actually be helpful there's nothing wrong i help people in their family relationships and i do fortune telling depending on their need. most psychics do the same thing carver those who don't know what they're doing and trying to get an attorney to you through ads and other means i believe there should be a set of documents to prove their abilities a point that the duma is trying to push through as well by them for the system or they could get a diploma or a medical certificate or undergo

a medical commission each region of russia is to use their particular diplomas which means each healer can work only in that region in the same way they can be deprived of their claim if their treatment doesn't work just like any other doctor or in other words making the magical and mystical majority more mainstream sean thomas r t moscow. muscovites struggling in the worst heatwave for more than a hundred years with temperatures approaching forty degrees celsius what's making it worse is that forest fires and burning peat are spreading fast smelling smoke across the city as emergency teams try to get things under control twenty four hours a rage of the mustard agent larry south east winds are blowing smoke through the purple haze and breathing difficulties. the smoke is also reduced visibility from the records is. rising. costs of cinema schools sweltering record breaking temperatures will stay until at least the end of the week. now to some other

international news making the headlines this hour. at least twenty five people have been killed and more than fifty wounded fell into kabul last in the wrong city of kabul the explosions occurred on the road regularly used by shiite pilgrims targeted were traveling to a festival to take part in an interest on the day in a separate incident six people died and more than a dozen wounded in the news channel. severe flooding and landslides caused by terentia rains continue to sweep across southern china of the seven hundred people have died as a result of weather conditions in the country to see and hundred students and water levels alone the parts of the country's largest for the ganci the highest since one thousand to seventy four costa say more heavy rains are expected this week.

and the european union has adopted tougher sanctions against iran's energy sector in an effort to block its nuclear program it would include a ban on the sale of equipment and technology new measures will come into force in the next few weeks in these move coincides with a ton of this decision to also impose sanctions against iran. on has long been suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons. accusation tonight. 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 hold atomic ambitions and support tougher international sanctions u.s. i could then make norman finkelstein says washington's harsh rhetoric indicates that talk of change was short lived. kept promising there's going to be a change there's going to be a change but in fact as several commentators wrote the iraq 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 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 the 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 is no real difference between the so-called diplomatic approach of barack obama and the. mill touristic approach as it's sometimes claimed or a belligerent approach of the bush administration.

full interview with norman finkelstein is coming out in just ten minutes here announcing. it's not what the business needs and what it's not just. from the heat wave as we've been reporting but this is across russia feeling the heat that's right cathal to make i mean five billion out on a day a shot. his offices nizhny novgorod for a fortnight because of the soaring temperatures we have details that later in the program but our top story today is of course the latest developments of b.p. we've just heard that the company has a mills tony hayward will be stepping down in october truth be replaced by american robert dudley as speculation hayward could be given a directorship of the company's russian joint venture this would mean he would effectively swap roles that dudley who was head of to pay until two years ago hayward being widely criticized over the gulf of mexico spill which has cost the company forty percent of its market capitalization but his replacement is no

stranger to conflict robert dudley left russia two years ago after a dispute with the local shareholders of tin k. b.p. . i think mr dudley is one of the best persons to had a 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 there probably would be p. needs right now also mr dudley made from team key pretty old style salvi a tall company he made one of the best in ross in a few knobs from him down the street just look at the marketing success of b.p. brand at a retail market in the largest retail region of russia in moscow. probably one of the most popular in moscow saw the share all over the retail market. is actually

more than a quarter so it says something. the finance ministry is planning russia's biggest asset sale since the early ninety's the government aims to raise 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 rolls left power generator was hydro and told lenders vitti be in spare bank the government could keep fifty percent plus one share of these partially listed companies and related sell stakes in a list of companies like russia's rail really come out having looked at the markets and here in moscow the r.t.s. exchanges opened in the black gaining a quarter of a percent with what it follows big gains on monday thanks to higher than expected earnings from rolls left and improved investor confidence following results the european bank stress tests and the g. phones are going to go moving two and a half percent as the price of light sweet holds the seven to nine dollars

a barrel not a promising start asian stock markets are heading lower as investors react cautiously to rebound in u.s. new home sales amid lingering worries that the strength of the global economic recovery plan to make a slipping into the red this hour auto stocks the mix with toyota giving back some previous gains to trade down more than one percent. and the european bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy ten percent stake in the russian aasia stock market is buying the stake from kit finance the bank which was an early a victim of the financial crisis. plans to make the purchase of an undisclosed russian state lender stakes as may speed worth eighty million dollars. to improve standards on russia's stock market. rising oil prices have 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 same period of two thousand and nine the lion share represents tax

payments and oil and gas production. and russia's biggest oil producer of all snacks advanced its second quarter profit by sixty percent on the back of high oil prices in output its net income jumped more than two point five billion dollars one point six billion in the same period a year before crude production rose eight point eight percent two point three two million barrels a day in the interim to only just one of the van caulfield's it's capable providing the equivalent of five percent of russia's current output. and or to make a gas to shut this factory in the dark for a fortnight claiming the record heat of all the producers sending photos of workers on paid leave off to a month of temperatures talking thirty degrees celsius. russia's first low cost air carrier sky express may be sold to the baseball investment company owned by billionaire businessman dairy pasta the commerce of newspaper reports the airlines

now negotiating the terms of the deal bezel may merge sky express with its own company cuban airways in the interne sky express will get the chance to avoid getting its license revoked because of its financial problems. morgan a million passengers last year but failed to recover after 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 two thousand and sixteen will come from the federal budget the rest of financing will come from local sons as well as normal governmental sources in fact for everyone were able to come from the states two point two will come from independent investment plans to bring in seven times most foreign tourists to russia. and that update for now we can always find most or is on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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military hunts for who's behind exposing classified cover ups in afghanistan and we can fix website this is promising further revelations to come. admit to civilian casualties. that we are still feeling the impact of the global recession sixty years of the country joined in view only on that continues to grow more and more families all turning to charities for the daily bills. and russian that just went to repairing a clamp down on some psychics who call in the thousands of dollars out to vulnerable clients ortiz up running to down the other ties and as well as demanding that they prove inabilities a certified. when next. speaks to us off the academic and outspoken palestinian supporter norman finkelstein i see it.