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citizens. has been hearing from soldiers involved in the last major. 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 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
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shouldn't be a norm of warfare you can see in the eastern 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 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 but the secret video of how they come to killings seemed nothing unusual to him and from our experiences what was shown in that video was no uncommon and
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happened on a fairly regular basis just says the training they'd gone through did not ingrate much sensitivity either he remembers one of the son's 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 where 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 from here 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 i. mean what i was doing on regular basis of storms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of an eye. and children's faces. some blame the type of war the us was sliding for the
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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. that the latter. even according josh stieber signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged to change from the side of ganesh chicken art team washington d.c. . but america's military chiefs are bracing themselves for more to come the wiki leaks web site is promising that further of relations are on the way the online whistleblower is now checking to reports of american conduct in iraq it's thought they could expose similar findings to thousands of documents really posted on the
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web. details of civilian casualties at the hands of u.s. troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency in the white house described the release as a breach of federal law or the threat to american military personnel robert fisk the middle east correspondent for the british newspaper the independent says stories like this are not the power of the web and it's a harsh lesson for traditional journalism. we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching them play 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. but in many ways newspaper journalism is retreating and going along with authority please can i be embedded i mean please can i be embedded can i get with the tenth mountain division can be with the british army and these reporters are not getting the story these people this week leaks organization which i have some serious concerns they've managed to do it on
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a mass bulk scale that we've never seen recently in modern newspaper journalism or television journalism this i think it's one of the lessons for us journalists where we can be expounded to be in a son who says he believes there's evidence of war crimes in the documents released on his website or to the washington producer and the foreign office met their sons before he was god's exposing human rights abuses and 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 this entire quest in life is to eliminate bad governance and hold corporations and governments accountable for violations of human rights and their 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 you
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know 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. in a few minutes the authorities in russia who are almost literally on a witch hunt. the law is aimed at ads and articles printed in magazines like this one which is called the oracle and it is literally chock full of people who claim that they can heal or tell the future using the mystical. as we report on how russia is predicting the given line for fake fortune tellers. the global recession is forcing charities in that fear to step in and provide basic provisions for the struggling population is a far cry from the initial optimism that gripped the country when it joined the european union six years ago. bottom reports more than a lot fear is now a place of raging unemployment and international handouts. diana gives out food to
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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 in international markets leaving the so-called baltic tiger vulnerable on the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money yes but 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
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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 if the government is failing to support those years the most because 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 it was. 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 to give the most well read newspaper the donors are often not the richest sort of
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people more often than not we notice their women with children and quite often the children who say let's leave some charity money here in this food but we've got to end pork and fish we've got some sugar got condensed milk got flour. we've got stock cubes paster cooking oil and much more but it's this food that shows how deep the financial crisis has cut in love here until the families affected get more work this food will only be a temporary comfort not a cure tom barton r.t. riga latvia. coming up later in the program gets irreverent take over america's growing unemployment problem. a shift all their jobs overseas they have no jobs left therefore they have no savings no capital to get up capitalism without capital that's why it's kind of debasing and degrading and.
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pop consumers. to all the crew from the international space station carrying out a six hour long space walk is to complete the installation of a new the burra tree into the russian module of the i assess flight engineers in. wiring up the remaining connections to the space station proceeded to their other job is to replace a broken camera one which films those amazing shots of the earth from orbit because of the whole set of testing new smart space suits which a computer systems and digital screens integrated into the meanwhile the rest of the keeping a close watch on their colleagues. safe everything stays according to plan. but on line twenty four hours a day here on earth dot com where we have plenty of other stories from to discover
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there's a selection of what's. the rush to this is under fire off the field or out of ten it is livid late. books and want to believe. the public says the city hopes saved lives some pain it encourages mothers to abandon their babies but to want to don't. people have been fascinated by fortune tellers for centuries unfortunately 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 national thomas reports. the allure of the
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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 get massive 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 his or that is that a good there's a but they'd her about six hundred thousand rubles 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
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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 did a riveting of divertissement for services which are not backed by professional commercial experience we believe these people practice tax evasion and swindling moreover they deceiving potential consumers with these occult services the law is aimed at adds 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 views of mystical abilities but those who are. actually in the business say
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that this bad what effect that really had all. night see that today the internet brings the most clients into this business rather than printers resources or to beam 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. i help people in their family relationships and i do fortune telling depending on their needs most psychics do the same thing car ever 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 store they could get a diploma or a medical certificate or undergo a medical commission if each region of russia is to use their particular diplomas
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which means each healer can work only in that region at least in the same way they can be deprived of their claim if their 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. struggling in the worst heat wave for more than one hundred years with temperatures approaching forty degrees celsius making it worse is that forest fires and burning peat are spreading foul smelling smoke across the city as a diversion city's chandran the flames under control more than twenty four hours are raging in the moscow region of the southeast the winds are blowing the smoke through the capital causing breathing difficulties for many people and small is also reducing visibility on the roads there's no sort of horizon. across to saying most groups will record breaking temperatures stay until at least. now to some other international news making headlines this hour b.p.
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boss tony hayward will step down after the company post the seventeen billion dollars second quarter loss its first in eight years he shoulder much of the blame for the poor handling of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico a british company has already confirmed that dudley one of its american executives will take over. heywood's expected to be offered a new role in the joint venture between b.p. and the russian oil company t n k n is more in that business but it's a. severe flooding and landslides caused by tarantula rain continues to sweep across southern china more than seven hundred people have died as a result of the extreme weather conditions in the country this year with one hundred still missing water levels along the upper parts of the country's largest prevent see the highest since one thousand eight hundred seventy four costa say more heavy rains are expected this week. and the european union has adopted tougher
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sanctions against iran's energy sector in an effort to block its nuclear program include a ban on the center of a technology new measures will come into force in the next few weeks. inside canada's decision to pay sanctions against iran iran has long been to. spread to the trying to develop nuclear weapons an accusation denied by. i mean while 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 tehran's atomic ambitions and support tougher international sanctions u.s. academic norman finkelstein says washington's harsh rhetoric indicates that all the talk of change was short lived. obamacare 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
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thousand and nine by the us administration to around and how to resolve the nuclear issue around the time i rejected the offer for several reasons mostly because they didn't trust the main powers who were involved france the us even russia but now except to go off for and as the leading i could them expressionist on the topic american academic specialists true the 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.
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and our full interview with norman finkelstein is coming up in just ten minutes time here. charlotte joins us now with this disease and it's not just moscow sweltering from the heat wave as we've been reporting but this is across russia also feeling the heat charlotte hello that's right path also make a half shell itself this is an issue you know of course for a fortnight sending thousands of workers home on paid leave because of the soaring temperatures now the details of that later in the program but our top story is of course the latest developments in the oil giant's has confirmed its top swap decision c.e.o. tony hayward we stepping down in october to be replaced by american robert dudley hayward is said to be. joining with b.p. is russian and joint venture to b.p. trading places with dudley who was head of the company until two years ago the reshuffle comes as b.p. posts record losses with second quarter setting aside thirty two billion dollars to
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clean up the worst oil spill in u.s. history robert dudley will accelerate a program of asset sales to pay the bill. i think mr dudley is one of the best persons to had a v.p. at the moment he had a history of a successful manager. of a huge company. in extremely tough conditions in russia that probably would be needs right now also. made from the pretty old style soviet all kompany he may do to one of the best. street just look at the marketing success of v.p. brand at a retail market in the largest a retail region of russia and moscow. stations is probably one of the most popular you moscow saw the share all over the retail market. is actually more than
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a quarter. something. from nothing how the market performing in here in moscow the market like climbing with the r.c.s. up all the while feeding the gains are old enough to be to the bank one and two can speculate both the companies are the russian government proposed selling. and over in europe shares are advancing to dorothy franklin nubia gaining shell play in the banking fact that. the announcing us mint of its new c.e.o. the same time as placing a hefty loft placing is trading up top of. the european bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy a ten percent stake in the russian r.t.s. stock market it's buying the stay from kit finance the bank which is an early victim of the financial crisis a reality because to make the purchase of an undisclosed russian state lender stakes estimation were eighty million dollars days as the aim to improve standards
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of the russian stock market rising oil prices be stewed russians budget revenues the state budget took in one hundred twenty two billion dollars from the. first half of the year up thirty percent from the same period two thousand and nine the lion share represents tax payments on oil and gas production. figures to oprah do several from their advanced is second quarter profit by sixty percent on the back of high oil prices and 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 after the launch of two new oil fields just one of them the bank or field is capable of providing the equivalent of five percent of russia's current output and also make it gas a shot is factory in issue not good for a fortnight claiming the record heat of all the produce is sending fouls of workers
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on paid leave off to a month of temperatures tossing thirty degrees celsius. and in other news russian billionaire only a dairy pascoe is in talks to buy discount air carriers sky express has according to common newspaper the daily says the airline is no negotiating the terms of the deal with dairy pasch is a basic element holding company. may merge sky express with this own company cuban airlines in turn sky express will get the chance to avoid getting its license revoked because of its financial problems. more than a million passengers last year but stale to recover after the crisis. and finally russia is ready to spend three hundred thirty two billion rubles presently 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 the fund as well as non-governmental sources in fact for
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every one rouble that comes from state to point to will come from independent investment and it's to bring in seven times more foreign tourists to russia. and russia update for now we can always buy most of those on our website r.t. dot com flash business.
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an international headlines the u.s. military is on the hunt for those behind the classified cover. looking weeks whistleblower web site to tell some. u.s. and allied troops from some further revelations. session six countries join the ranks. twenty percent. chances for then. russia is set to crack down on fake psychics and penis to swindle thousands of dollars out of desperate planets the forty's according to the advertising as well as demanding they provide specific it in its. next artie's marina portnoy speaks to us all the academic and spoken palestinian supporter not.

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