whistle blowing web site wiki leaks published some ninety thousand classified documents exposing cover ups over the war in afghanistan reports include details of civilian casualties at the hands of american and allied troops as well as concerns that pakistani intelligence helped the taliban insurgency several files track osama bin ladin at this point for u.s. claims it had received no reliable information on him in years but the consumers admits it will take weeks to assess the damage caused by the revelations but is going to be hearing from soldiers involved in the last major wiki leaks. let me know when something that any military tries to keep under wraps civilians killed during an operation this april the pentagon says are one of its skeletons walk out of the closet a secret video of american soldiers opening which looks like indiscriminate fire in baghdad suburb three years ago more than a dozen people were recruited dan including to 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 a decent 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. josh the bear is

serving the same unit as ethan mccord he refused to talk about the order because 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 my experiences what was shown in that video was no uncommon and 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 than ten songs 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 and it was when i was finally able to kind of

put myself in the in the shoes of of other people. and really start to imagine how i feel through what i was the. basis of storms in people's homes sometimes in the middle of an eye. and children's faces. some believe 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. that are. even recording josh stieber signed a letter of apology to the mother of the children hurt during the operation and

pledged to change from the side to get his chicken r. t. washington d.c. . vice president of the washington sense of the national policy scott spates joins us now for perspective on the pentagon scandal thanks taking the time to be with our team tonight but as we just saw that the pentagon's investigation of the previous week a leak exposing american soldiers killing civilians in iraq concluded that their actions were lawful so really have these latest revelations on going to change anything either way are they the skeptics would say well that really depends because there will be more debate here in the united states amongst the public and this is a democracy and in a democracy you need the support of people and the voters to continue a course of war so i can tell you as of today there is much more attention on the war in afghanistan and our tactics there than there had been yesterday but the civilian deaths are nothing new and afghanistan that we really need these

revelations to know that the blood of innocent people is being spilled the daily isn't it just a sad reality of war. well this kind of war is the most difficult to fight i think some of your listeners tonight know that from bitter experience and people in russia know of their own afghan experience the enemy that we're fighting the taliban hide among civilians they fire at our troops from holy places they have no law of war and so on occasion there are accidents that happen due to lack of good intelligence or the chaos that is war so there's no doubt about that even that said the ninety two thousand pieces of raw intelligence raw data that came out in these wiki leaks really indicate that about one hundred ninety four civilian casualties had taken place that was the estimate that i saw regrettable that was over a five year course of time this is a major war and the level of casualties well terrible to the families involved and

and those that were injured or killed is one that i think shows that there is not a pattern of willful you know civilian targeting by any means by anybody in the u.s. armed forces how do you regard the source will source is behind that yes today's the threat to national security or an advocate for democracy. well i would say neither to be honest it seems to me that what has happened is raw reports coming from the field have been passed on without editing and so you really don't have a narrative the equivalent that's being drawn here is with the pentagon papers which thirty five years ago were released by the new york times and by a pentagon insider in that instance the nixon administration went to court to stop the release of those documents it was a narrative from the highest levels they were white house memos this is about the

opposite you're seeing raw data pushed out from the field and it's in the fog of war so there's really not a coherent story that's told here it's more as if you had a thousand pieces jigsaw puzzle tossed in the air and you can only see about fifty of the pieces it's partial information so it won't run if occasions missed it but if you think we're likely to see this all information leaks like this in subsequent independent investigations are they capable of pushing the u.s. towards ending its missions in iraq and afghanistan. i think what it does is get the public more engaged and i think that's a welcome development because the american people have one hundred thousand of their sons and daughters out there right now in afghanistan one of them is one of my family members and we need the whole country to really ask hard questions about that deployment about our goals and you know what we're doing there is not beyond scrutiny we need to be very sure about our strategy going forward in afghanistan

it's important to remember that this was not a war of choice for the united states there's a reason that we have troops there it's because our homeland was attacked from afghanistan after september eleventh two thousand and one so but it has been a long time in situations of change and we're going to have to look at a new and that's what these elections will be about partly coming up in the fall it's got bags from the sense of for national policy things joining us on the line from washington d.c. tonight's preceded thank you. if you go into the program last year was the is growing in economy now many people that have to rely on charities for the bad necessities we've got the stories coming up. first fresh e.u. sanctions against iran have come under fire from moscow russia's foreign ministry has said the move falls outside the scope of the latest u.n. restrictions and undermines collective efforts to resolve the iranian nuclear issue on monday the e.u. adopted toughest sanctions against energy sector in an attempt to prevent the

islamic republic from acquiring nuclear weapons the measures include a battle on the sale of equipment and technology around denies western phase it's trying to build an atomic bomb some around watchers say the new sanctions and not likely to make the country cooperate on its nuclear program. because as it is there really any need be unilateral sanctions like those adopted by the u.s. and the e.u. and they are already un restrictions russia has been warning against unilateral moves if these can only further alienate around and make the return to international troops over its nuclear program even more problematic there have been sanctions in place against iran since one nine hundred seventy nine people that are used to this and don't feel the fact it the only thing that later sanctions can bring is even deeper distrust between iran and the global community. it's all sort of lena's support of the moscow based. newspaper. for many latvians

drastic economic conditions mean they have to turn to charities for survival right now formally the fastest growing european economy these days the only thing for having is unemployment but as artist tom barton found a sustainable recovery is a promise that many believe the government is incapable of keeping. 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 in international markets leaving the so-called baltic tiger vulnerable when the crisis hit those with loans and mortgages were suddenly seriously short of money. 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 in your 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. it all came too soon and created sort of a 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 we read you know the donors are often not the richest sort of people more often than not we notice their women with children and quite often of 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 faster cooking oil and much more but it's this food that shows how deep the financial crisis has cut in love via until the families affected get more work this food will only be a temporary comfort not a cure tom barton r.t. now. coming up mysticism under question russian speakers get a reality check as authorities push for proof of their abilities before allowing

them to make any predictions. or news before that the u.k. courts blocked the extradition of former bosnian president say again h. to serbia where he's wanted on war crimes charges that again it is accused of ordering the deaths of more than forty yugoslav soldiers and seven gave at the start of the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred two he was seized at london's heathrow airport in march after serbia issued an international arrest warrant denies being responsible for the atrocities. of it shaped political expert in the balkans told me the former leader should stand trial in his own country it would be best if. a court tried mr garniture because this after all occurred on the territory of bosnia and herzegovina and in fact it should be of the responsibility of the bosnian government and the bosnian institutions to try mr garment or if not mr garnish to resolve this whole case it is a war crime it needs to be resolved in some way but it appears to me here with the

british position is to run away from it and possibly whitewash this whole thing. we should have delivered show political expert on the balkans with me earlier so world news a brief tonight b.p. boss tony hayward will step down after the company posted a seventeen billion dollars second quarter loss its first in eighteen years we shouldered much of the blame for the firm's poor handling of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico the british companies already confirmed bob dudley one of its american executives will take over looked over me while hayward is expected to be offered a new role in the joint venture between b.p. and the russian oil company t n k more on that if you're interested in our business bulletin coming up shortly. activists in south korea have sent propaganda leaflets to the north to mark the anniversary of the korean war armistice flyers and d.v.d.'s criticizing pyongyang's human rights record was released in the sky attached to balloons cross border tension remains high fifty seven years after the end of the war the u.s.

and south korea are currently conducting military exercises off the korean peninsula aimed it discouraging the north from any attack on the south a recent international inquiry into the sinking of a south korean warship in march concluded that young was responsible that's an accusation john yang deny these. serbia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved a resolution saying the country does not recognize kosovo's independence it comes after the hague's international court of justice ruled that the region's declaration of statehood was illegal the parliament's resolution said peaceful negotiations and needed to find an acceptable solution possible announced it was the scene from serbia two years ago following a bloody war in the ninety's. full of tons of cargo planes caught fire as it was trying to land it saudi arabia's riyadh airport the pilot and copilot were taken to hospital minor injuries officials say the plane burst into flames and split in two while landing but they haven't given any reason for the incident. it recently is

fortune tellers and psychics have become increasingly popular here in russia some turn to magic to give their love life a little boost others see queues for terminal diseases but authorities say the trans attracting con artists are not only swindle people out of money but also jeopardize their health r.t. shaun thomas reports now on the government's battle against fake magic. 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 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 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 is there that is that a good there's a bright they'd heard 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. even though it by some quasi should manage things in the worst meaning of this word are all too close to hopes 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 or 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 didn't we predicting 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 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 band of water affect them really at all. i would say that three the internet brings the most clients into this business rather than printed resources or at c.v. the only ad that really works is the grapevine you help someone in the certain 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 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 however those who don't know what they're doing or

traits can not write it 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 they could get a diploma or a medical certificate or undergo a medical commission if each region of russia is used their particular diplomas which means each healer can work only in that region at least in the same way they can be deprived of their claim if the treatment does not work just like any other don't put on or in other words making the magical and mystical majority more mainstream sean thomas r t moscow. just a little later on this hour at his financial analysts max kaiser along with stacey herbert discuss the labor market jobs and salaries in the united states as part of their unique take on the latest weekly financial headlines and get the video on that then in about ten minutes time at r.t. first though they've business unusual stuff.

hello welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t.c. it's two years since robert dudley then head of b.p. fled russia after a dispute with russian shareholders on tuesday he was declared the new boss of b.p. taking office in october and in a final twist tony hayward to may return to russia as a director of t.i.n.k. b.p. in a gym advised of reports. robert dudley has already earned his credit for handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill the gulf represents one third of the company's oil and gas was and refineries and his experience in russia where t.v. generates about a quarter of the bees revenues and she should be well prepared to take over the whole company where she's likely true mean central to be peace jirga e.g. with analysts dismissing media reports that the company could sell a stake in its cash generator team t v p possibly to gas room or ross nifty team

g.b. is a cash generator on an original investment of seven billion dollars in two thousand and three b.p. has already seen twelve billion dollars of dividends officially for the last year. reported for more than thirty five billion dollars of revenues and if they can stand alone. indeed is the largest piece of cedars in terms of revenues and probably in terms of maybe dark and profit and of course think u.b.s. one of the largest cash sources for b.p. so obviously cashing aeration now for b.p. is one of the promised target countries are lining up to pull that out also from b.p.'s flour the company has already confirmed it is looking to sell the assets with few details an ounce to exxon mobil and chevron now both in talks to take over the company but first things first to stop the leaking first pass to begin with to plug the well that's still not done yet we're still two to three weeks away from

that even though the spill has now been contained it has not been plugged so the first order of things is to get the plug done second is to figure out how the reinvestments like going to be done and then it's a question of reconstructing and winning back the trust of the american people who are dudley has shown his skills at getting a good price when he's sold up to masses of team keep b.p. their talent will come in handy now that b.p. needs to raise cash to people consequences of its oil spill in u.s. waters the question is how much he has to dilute the brand in the process than anybody will business r.t. . president dmitri medvedev wants to tap new sources of finance to diversify russia's economy is that investment along with business support services from law to accounting are the key to innovation our correspondent to tell you how clever has the details. maybe not the presidential commission on modernisation has shown

that when it comes to venture capital investment in russia it's easy to say what needs to be done that to make what has already be cheap since thought there at least forty three venture funds working in russia with a total capital of two billion dollars which of course absolutely not enough for the country building it over to economy now president it just says that there is a lot of help to mom told me that products on the market and criticize the companies which are reluctant to take the risk and investment in the patient to post so concrete measures that are designed to know how to make better capital investment work in russia so we know. we need to develop the services needed for business accounting information and. it's also necessary to increase to small enterprises you grandstand low on funds but we need not only to attract foreign investment. to develop our financial markets so that capital inflows stay in

russian companies regardless of the situation in foreign markets going. on i've had a quick look now at the moscow markets they finished tuesday's trading session in the black with the r.t.s. up over one percent g.d.p. was the top gain of that which shows gaining more than two percent must have come up before my socks off around five percent. so the star has taken a controlling stake in canada's crewe gold corp that previously held a forty percent losses money joined the shares on the also stock exchange. and russia's biggest oil producer was left to second quarter profits by sixty percent helped by higher oil output on prices it's not income job to more than two and a half a billion dollars while crude production gained eight point eight percent after the launch of two new oil fields this one of them the bank of fields is capable of providing the equivalent of five percent of russia's current. russia's my sex stock

exchange has confirmed to hold an i.p.o. after two thousand and eleven the share issue would cut the central bank's stake from thirty percent to around ten as part of the preparations the duma is considering a bill that would scrap rules preventing investors from owning more than twenty percent of myself us. loan rates in russia growing for the first time since the beginning of the year russia's central bank says rates reached eleven and a half percent in june experts say banks heights rates after that earnings on corporate lending began to dip banks had competed to cut rates in the first half of the year but in june the head of spare bank warned that rates were too low given the risks in the economy. and that's all the business use for now but of course you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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this is r t from moscow i'm kevin zero in with the top stories damage control in washington after u.s. military reports of the afghan war reveal civilian deaths former american soldiers

say the country should focus on questioning its questionable warfare methods knocks on trying to find out who exposed them some claim to have received orders to kill everyone in sight. now going bust latvians living off charity slam the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial meltdown leaving many to fend for themselves via used to be the fastest growing european economy but suffered more than other member states from the recession. a magical deception the russian authorities give clairvoyance a reading of the road to crack down on swindlers trying to force a ban on the ads from unprofessional psychics at leisure they say will reduce columns and tax evasion. thanks they will this night all of a full news update for you again in half an hour's time before that max kaiser and stacy herbert look at what's to blame for more americans losing their jobs.