when hearing from soldiers involved in the last major exposé which struck civilians not surgeons. not 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 firing 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 u.s. 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 a eason mcu or 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. just the burgers served in the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because it as he said the threats and warnings that he'd received from his former army fellows with the secret video of helicopter killings seemed nothing unusual to hear from our experiences what was shown in their videos. on current and happened on a fairly regular basis just as the training they'd gone through did not angry much

sensitivity either he remembers one of the sons soldiers were made to sing more intense on going is because 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 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 i doubt your. would i was the. basis of storming into people's homes sometimes in the middle of an eye. and children's faces. some believe that type of war the us was spying 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. rather. eason recording josh stieber signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and pledged change from the inside out. our team washington d.c. . and america's military chiefs are bracing themselves for more to come the wiki leaks web site is promising that further revelations are on the way the online whistleblower is now checking into a ports to deal with american conduct in iraq it's thought they could expose similar findings to thousands of computers really posted on where they include details of civilian casualties at hundreds of u.s.

and allied troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency the white house scrubbed the release as a breach of federal norm and a threat to american military personnel robert fisk middle east correspondent for the british newspaper the independent says. the web 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 the. 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 organisation 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 wiki leaks founder julian assange says he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the documents released on his website are to washington d.c. a final hours before she says he regards exposing human rights abuses as 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 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 could weeks and you

know didn't 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. about a few minutes the authorities in russia almost literally on which. the law is an article printed in magazines like this one which is called oracle and it is that literally truck full of people. you were told the future using the mystical ability. report on how russia is predicting the end of the great. global recession that is forcing china to use and not fear to step in and provide 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 it was all too used to vote on reports that you know is not a place of reaching unemployment and international hundreds. 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 in international markets leaving this so-called baltic tiger vulnerable in the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages are suddenly seriously short of money if we get there is 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 disappears ago 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. 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 latvians have dipped into their own pockets and cupboards to help each other out and it's not always the rich you 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 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 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. . coming up later max keiser gets irreverent over america's growing unemployment problems. they 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 integrating into the . pop consumer state.

two of 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. and probably include. many connections. between their other job is to replace a broken camera one which means there is amazing shots of you know from orbit cosmonauts are also testing smart spacesuits which of computer systems and digital into them while the rest of the crew inside are keeping a close watch on their colleagues to make sure they're safe that everything stays according to par. or online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com while we have plenty of other stories he's discovered his selection of watson my website by the russian postal service is on the.

news for out of ten next so to move it late. one two babies the czech republic says the facility helps save one life some pretty courageous mothers to abandon their baby. to two don't. people have been fascinated by fortune tellers centuries well 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 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 get massive national simu police flood 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 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 do 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 that 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 what professional commercial experience we believe these people practice tax evasion and swindling moreover they are deceiving potential consumers with these occult service was 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 views of mystical abilities but those who actually are. we 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 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 we provide a valuable service and that a ban on advertising could actually be helpful here's my thing i help people in their family relationships and i do fortune telling depending on their needs most psychics do the same thing call ever 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 but i don't pour the store they could get a diploma or a medical certificate undergo a medical commission it's good each region of russia is used their particular diplomas which means each healer can work only in that way in the same way they can

be deployed if they are claiming 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 or teen moscow. bhaskar by it's a struggling in the west hit way for more than one hundred years but temperatures approaching forty degrees celsius making it worse is that forest fires are burning spreading file smelling smoke across the city as a measure to try and bring the flames under control more than twenty four hours of rage in the moscow region. south easterly winds are playing a smile through the capital causing grieving difficulties for many people smoke is also introducing visibility on the roads and there's no good news on the horizon either will cost the school sweltering record breaking temperatures stay until at least the end of the week. that some other international is making ahead. bt boss tony hayward will step down after the company posted

a seventeen billion dollars second quarter loss its first. he's shown much of the blame for hundred of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico the british company has already confirmed dudley one of its american executives will take over no. heywood's expects to be offered a new role in the joint venture to b.p. and the russian oil company t. and k. or not this is potential. effect from north korea have sent propaganda me fit to their former home to the sixtieth anniversary of the korean war the released flies and the deeds criticize pronouns human rights record and accused of sinking a south korean march denies ceremonies have been held across the south remember the outbreak of the korean conflict four million long lives between one hundred fifty and one thousand and three. and landslides caused by terentia will raged through

to sweep across southern china seven hundred people have died as a result of the extreme weather conditions in the country to see if hundred still missing water levels along the upper parts of the country's largest river the. highest since one thousand eight hundred seven full cost to say heavy rains are expected this week. and the european union has adopted tougher sanctions against iran's energy sector that effort to block its nuclear program which would include a ban on the sale of a technology measures will come into force in the next few weeks in the move coincides with kind of this decision to sanctions against iran. suspected of trying to develop nuclear weapons an accusation denied by terror. and 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 atomic ambitions and support tougher international sanctions u.s.

academic norman finkelstein says washington's harsh rhetoric indicates that we talk of change was short lived. barack obama kept promising there's going to be a change it's going to be a change but in fact there's 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 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 they got 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 and then sir 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 up in just over an hour's time hale and hearty well in ten minutes from now we take you to america's most notorious prison for those spending life behind bars for that latest business news that we shall. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. our top story this hour before 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 the b.p. russian joint venture ten k. b.p. trading places with us lee who is head of the company until two years ago the reshuffle comes as repays posts record losses for the second quarter setting aside thirty two billion dollars to clean up the worst oil spill in u.s. history robert dudley will accelerate a program of us at sales to pay the bill now for more on this story we can now across live to christine to score a know all of the analysts from standard and poor's in london welcome to you christi now robert dudley the new man in charge him with a second quarter losses and b.p.'s image damaged he's got a hard task ahead of him what makes dudley the right man for the job well he's an american to begin with so you know people might think that he will be more adept at walking through the corridors of the u.s. political system and he might be better able to communicate with the american

people and was the first task do you think that dudley has to do. well the first task to begin with this to plug the well that's still not done yet we're still two to three weeks away from that even though the spiel has now been contained it has not been plugged into it so the first order of things is to get the plug done second is to figure out how the investment side going to be done there is a person in place for the twenty billion fund escrow but it still has to be partitioned out to the different parties and then it's a question of reconstructing and winning back the trust of the american people has a very large operation under robert dudley for trade as mr nice guy in the media compared to hayward do you think this is true. i personally think tony hayward did a very good job and i think the reason why he was not like might have been

a cultural issue. industry people do not have not asked emotional maybe or maybe the gulf people would have liked him to be i think there was a question of cultural perception more than anything i've personally seen tony hayward did a good job. where the one least better than the other it's a question of what's better for the company at this point in time they both have done a good operations and i think tony still has a lot to keep going forward ok and staying with that point then what do you think is the new role likely to be for tony hayward well it has been said that he's going to be a non director for t.k. and b.p. the russian operation and he said very very good exploration and production guy so i think it will be a good asset for the rancher russian venture i was sort of moved you think is this symbolizes coming to take care of b.p. here is hardly viewed as an easy step to do you think this is

a consolation prize or perhaps we could say a slap on the wrist. well no need to talk because he's not going to be an operational job he's going to be a director or a non-executive director b.p. has a right to me maxine two or three directors in the board of he and pete so i think it will be and that will be to continue the line of communication that has already been established he seems to have a good rapport he's very knowledgeable on what would be the best operation so we've said question of continuing and going forward i don't think it's a price or a punishment it's just a question of continuing with good rapport with the russian operation which is also a very important joint venture for the company christine thank you very much all actually i left from standard and poor's. time now to have a look at how the markets the performing and here most of the markets are open

often in trade with the our chests up three quarters of a percent beating the gains or gold you have to be to be tanked up around one and two percent respectively those companies which are the russian government for code that is stage three. and they bring your shares are advancing the door to your bank u.b.s. gaining shelter in the banking sector. has edged up to the announcement of its new c.e.o. at the same time as opposed to the law if it sees trading up. near pm bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy a ten percent stake in the russian stock market it's buying the state from kit to finance a bank which was an early victims of financial crisis. plans to make the purchase with an undisclosed russian state lender the stakes estimated to be worth eighty million dollars a.b.l. days is the end to improve standards of russian stock markets like the low prices of boosted russia's budget revenue the state budget took in one hundred twenty two

billion dollars in the first half of the year up thirty percent from the same period of the night lion's share represents tax payments on oil and gas production . russia's biggest oil producer wolf enough food to second quarter profits by sixty percent by high or that's going to business income jumped more than two point five billion dollars while crew production gained eight point eight percent off the loan to two new oil fields just one of the divine cool fields paid for by the privileged five percent of russia's current. russian billionaire albeit very passkey is in talks to buy discount carrier sky express according to newspaper the daily says the airline is no negotiating pascoe's basic element holding company they may merge ties breast of its own company lines based in southern russia in turn sky express

will get the chance to keep its license by solving its fun to problems line carried more than a million passengers last year was hit hard by the crisis. and finally the government will spend almost eleven billion dollars to develop tourism in the country about a third will come from the federal budget private and non-governmental sources are expected to double the total figure will be invested in a plan to attract seven times more foreign tourists to russia. last update for now because it was far more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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