which struck. me knowing 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 a baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were reported dead including two reuters news staff also two children were wounded the incident was investigated and 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 u.s. military is ok with causing some quiet old 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 eason mccord

a soldier with the unit that's shown in the video said it hadn't been a one time experience he went s. words 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. chastity bers served in the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because of as he said this threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows but the secret video of how they come to killings seemed nothing unusual to him but from my experiences what was shown in that video was. uncommon and like that 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 the more intense on going is because i went down to the market where all the children were or were been shot or i was shoddy and i began to chop josh and a group of other former soldiers are now touring the u.s. 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 all the people. i really started to imagine how i feel if people were doing to me what i was doing telling people on regular basis of storerooms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of the night i think isn't and children's faces. some blame 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 but nine populous from the insurgents who wanted to kill them that were absolutely indistinguishable from regular civilians. seven roger. eason mccord and josh sieberg signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged to change from the inside out again is chick on our team washington d.c. . well america's military chiefs are bracing themselves for water come the wiki leaks website is promising that further revelations are on the way the online that whistleblower is now checking to reports do with american conduct in iraq it's thought they could expose similar findings to thousands of documents already posted on the web they include details of civilian casualties of the hands of u.s.

troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency the white house described it as a breach of federal law and a threat to american military personnel robert fisk middle east correspondent for the 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 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 get 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've managed to do it on a map spoke 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 and we can leak founder julian assange says he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the documents released on his website r.t. washington produce a far off before she says he regards exposing human rights abuses as part of his mission. many governments would be really frustrated when there is 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 his 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 can weeks and it didn't didn't waste any time with that and so the web site and this entire new i

guess a rino of journalism really rests on him and being able to evade governments that are after him in a few minutes the authorities in russia who are almost literally on a witch hunt. the law is aimed as an article printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is literally chock full of people who claim to begin to heal or tell the future using mystical abilities. reports on rusher is predicting the end of the line the freak. the global recession is forcing travelers and not fear to step in and provide the basic provisions for the struggling population it's a far cry from the initial optimism that group the country when it joined the european union six years ago but there's a tone bottom reports that there is no 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 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. but if brussels sneezed we 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 peer 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 there more schools 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 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 and we really are the donors are often not the richest sort of people but 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 we've got condensed milk we've got flour we've got stock cubes faster 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. reader up here. coming up in just twenty minutes time kaiser gets irreverent over america's growing unemployment problems. a shift all their jobs overseas jobs left therefore they have no savings no capital to get out of capitalism without capital that's why it's kind of debasing and degrading in.

pop consumer state. let's head over now to some pictures from the international space station where the crew have begun a six hour long space walk. you know these two integrated three introduction segments on the station flight engineers. to wire up a few connections aboard the new isis more do they also replace a broken camera which films there is using shots of the earth from orbit cosmonauts are also testing new smart spacesuits which for computer systems and digital screens integrated into the. rest of the crew inside and keeping a close watch on their colleagues. are safe and that you think you're going to play . well that where online here on earth twenty four hours a day on t.v. dot com where we have plenty of other stories for you to discover here's

a little of what's lined up at the moment the russian post service is on the bar after a check reveals all right to. live with late. books for unwanted babies czech republic says the facility hopes a long lives some claim it encourages mothers to abandon their babies for more you can go to. people who have been fascinated by fortune tellers centuries unfortunately there are also plenty of self-styled psychics ready to turn people's curiosity into cash but the russian authorities definitely know what the future holds a clamp down on fakes reports. the allure of the

unknown and 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 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 as are taxes that are good there's a but they'd her about six hundred thousand roubles a year for three years but that's not because we're rich but for the sake of your childs how can 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 you from being conned mausam didn't rebutting 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 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 it viz of mystical abilities but those who are actually in the

business say. 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 the provide a valuable service and that a ban on advertising could actually be helpful. i help people in their family relationships and i do fortune telling depending on their needs most psychics do the same thing for ever those who don't know what they're doing and trying to gain eternity through and sent 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 but i don't call the store they could get a diploma or a medical certificate undergo a medical commission it's good each region of russia is used to have particular diplomas which means each dealer 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 dog at all or in other words making the magical and mystical majority more mainstream sean thomas moscow. moscow bites are struggling in the west 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 elsewhere in smoke across the city as emergency teams try and bring the flames under control twenty five raging. south easterly winds are blowing the smoke through the cap or even difficulties. a small percent possibility of roads there's no good news on the horizon pass to say moscow's sweltering record breaking temperatures will stay until at least one break. that's another international making the headlines.

d.c. boss tony hayward will step down off the company posted losses of eleven billion pounds in a second quarter to give ruth a shoulder most of the length of the company in the rules or in the gulf of mexico it's thought will now be nominated for an executive director bench of the. defectives from north korea have sent propaganda leaflets to the room to about sixty some of the super committee know the least flaws in the. human rights record . cynthia south african something was certain it is have been held across the south to remember the outbreak of the korean conflict which. is between one hundred fifty a month and the from the. severe flooding and landslides old but eventually rain continues to sweep of cool southern china over seven hundred people have died

as a result of extreme weather conditions in the country's hundred still missing water levels along the upper parts of the country's largest river again. since one thousand and seven will cross to say heavy rains are expected to speak. the european union has adopted tougher sanctions against iran's energy sector in an effort to block its nuclear program to include a ban on the setting of a quinten to one of the new measures will come into force in the next few weeks. hundreds of decision also in place sections against iran iran and. reconciliation denied by terrorism. 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 halt styron's atomic ambitions and support tougher international sanctions where u.s. academic norman finkelstein. as washington's harsh rhetoric indicates that we 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 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'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. full interview with norman finkelstein is coming up in just over an hour's time head out to charlotte to the business news and it looks like there could be a big boost tourism in russia in the future hello that's right the government wants to attract seven times more foreign tourists the country is ready to invest eleven billion dollars to do say we have the details later in the program but moving to our top story the latest developments be pay the company has now confirmed its top decision c.e.o. tony hayward will be stepping down in october the very place by american robert dudley hayward is reported to be joining the b.p.'s russian joint venture. actively

swapping roles with dudley he was head of pay until two years ago besides this management reshuffle the oil giant is also revealed its second quarter results. will record quarterly losses around seventeen billion dollars i think mr dudley is one of the best persons to the head of b.p. at the moment he had a history of a successful manager. of a huge company i mean to be in extremely tough conditions in russia there probably would be pea needs right now also mr dudley made from team can be pretty old style salvi a tall kompany and he may do to one of the best in the knobs for man 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 b.p. a retail stations probably one of the most popular in moscow so the share over the

retail market. is actually more than a quarter so it says something. time now to have a look at how the market for the four million here most guys markets are mixed in early trade with delta yes gave me a quarter of the start of all those big gains on monday and still higher than expected earnings from the world from the left and improved investor confidence following the results of the european bank stress tests and also promising start asia start long gets the tundra mixed as investors react cautiously to rebound in u.s. new home sales amid lingering what worries over the strength of the global economic recovery good news for japanese automakers though they reported shop increases in global production for the first contemplates year which we're used to seeing a sixteen point two percent. and the european bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy a ten percent stake in the russian on c.s.

stock market is by mistake from kit finance which has i was an earlier victim of the financial crisis the b.r.d. plans to make the purchased an undisclosed russian state lend the stakes at a school worth eighty million dollars it beyond days says it aims to improve standards on russia's stock market. rising oil prices have received russia's budget revenues the state budget taking one hundred twenty two billion dollars from the first home of the year up thirty percent from the same period of two thousand and nine the lion's share of the sense tax payments on oil and gas production. russia's biggest oil producer overall sneath absolved its second quarter profit by sixty percent on the back of high oil prices and oil put its net income jumped more than two point five billion dollars from 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 off the water to new want to fix just one of them the bank will feel it is capable of providing the equivalent of five percent of russia's current output. and with time. i could gas the shortest factory nizhny novgorod for a fortnight claiming the record heat the bogo produces sending fouls and of workers on paid leave after a month of temperatures topping thirty degrees celsius. in other news russian a billionaire all the dairy pascoe is in talks to buy discount air carrier sky express as according to com the sun newspaper the daily says the airline is now negotiating the terms of the deal with very passive basic element holding company pays or may merge sky express for this own company cuban airlines in turn sky express will get the chance to avoid getting its license revoked because of its financial problems carried more than 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 from 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 non-governmental sources in funds for every one rouble that comes from the state two point two will come from independent investment the plan is to bring in seven times more foreign tourists to russia. and that's the update for now we can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. wealthy

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military hunts for who's behind exposing us hard cover ups in afghanistan to the proceedings website whistleblowers promising further revelations exomes and rules of the sea the passions. here is still feeling the impact of a global recession six years off the country don't need any moment continues to grow more and more families often chances for dinner. russian legislators are preparing a countdown on something takes thousands of dollars off and on. forty's on running through down the advertising as well as demanding that we in the cities and so to call. her back with a news update in half an hour's time the first max keiser and stacy wants to blame for more americans losing their jobs because reporters here in a few months.