at least thirty are hurt as a car bomb rocks a bustling city center in southern russia hours after a suicide bomber kills one and injures three policemen in the republic of north the . former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton says that if israel is to attack iran's nuclear plant it's got just three days left to do it because any military strike after the facility goes live later this week would risk a radioactive catastrophe. taking matters into their own hands afghanistan's president wants to stop private security companies operating in the country prompting fears that nato troops will struggle to cope without them. and dropping visas for football fans and new state of the art studio built from scratch the key selling points to a visiting the fifo delegation in russia's bid to host of the soccer world cup in eight or twelve years time. that's

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to tied up palestinian prisoners she says that it's harmless but some are saying that this could be israel's great will host a debate to figure it out that the f.d.a. has dropped an endorsement on a breast cancer treatment that has been proven to be ineffective but some members of the public are outraged aligning this move with the creation of death panels in america so i'll get miss middle america's opinion on the issue and with the overcrowding problems in jail some people are offering up another solution a prison without any walls when we save money and prevent overcrowding by letting some people wear ankle bracelets instead of sitting behind bars i'll get to u.c.l.a. professors take on the topic and also there are some very interesting stories making headlines today rupert murdoch gave a hefty donation to the g.o.p. and a new study shows that men who make less money than their significant other are more likely to cheat so we're going to talk it all out with the radio host sarah bennett casa to get her perspective on those but now let's move on today's top story. today

afghan president hamid karzai issued a decree ordering the disbanding of private security forces by the end of the year thanks to news reports and u.s. congressional investigations asserting that private guards often act recklessly and even bribe the taliban political pressure has come to the bridge to bring private security companies under control now there are about one hundred ten thousand private contractors working just for the d.o.d. alone in afghanistan not including those employed by the state department or u.s. aid but it's the twenty four thousand armed guards who come under the most scrutiny but this is the first time that karzai has made this threat leaving many to believe that it could just be an empty one no explanation for how the order would be enforced zero or who would take over have been offered and a wide exception has been made for firms working inside of compounds used by international groups embassies businesses and so anyone actually be forced to leave

or is this all just a political plot or earlier i caught up with nathan parth a contractor for good night security services and the author of the blog knights of afghanistan so i first asked him how wide this umbrella of exception really is. all of them all and went to a certain degree in the sense that everybody's got people working inside those compounds. and what they're trying to think what the good government is trying to do here is to keep gunmen off the streets they don't like pickup trucks full of men with guns driving around kandahar. and i think that's probably a good approach to take so they're not concerned about people who are working inside the walls or inside the wire or n.g.o.s or or or whoever they are concerned about people who are driving around streets of major cities unlicensed especially with pickup truck full of guys with guns that causes a lot of problems with the locals it raises a lot of issues. now are those people necessarily foreigners because you know

there's a lot of people that are very skeptical right now of cars eyes entire order to kick all private security firms out some even speculate that he just uses the fact that the local afghan population doesn't think fondly of foreign contractors and blames any civilian casualties on them he's using that to actually go after those afghan security firms that you know that they don't cooperate with the afghan government is that true that's certainly true there are fifty to life and security companies here in afghanistan right now roughly half are local owned and half are international there are probably another two hundred that are online there are simply local out there that operate in a particular problems for a particular district generally providing logistic security and i think those are the people that he's very concerned about that the government is very concerned about because they are the ones who operate without supervision by and large the

license companies were under scrutiny every day from the emmeline's ministry of interior and it's pretty tight scrutiny we follow the rules we comply with their regulations. but the unlicensed companies that operate in places like kandahar helmand. those people don't operate in the same structures and i think that's what president karzai is mostly concerned about now he also said that he wants to ban all the security forces by the end of the year that's only four months away is that realistic by any means. now that that's a pipe dream it's not going to happen if he could actually manage do that which i think is unlikely he would find that the entire infrastructure of this campaign would collapse around it i said depends on contractors not just security contractors but just to contractors to deliver supplies fuel food that sort of

thing to their bases most n.g.o.s rely on private security to provide them security in the provinces. if he were to actually make that happen it would shut things down overnight but i don't really think that's what he wants to have happen he's using this to. reinforce his position as the president and to provide a bargaining chip with ice and with western powers to come to some sort of more suitable arrangement probably in the next couple of months it's not the first time he's outlawed private security companies he's done this twice before since i've been here so it's hardly news as definitely not the first time that he's spoken about this but does it work i mean we can't necessarily say that it worked as a bargaining chip in the past so this time around i mean what's he going to do you know who are going to do who's like you mentioned who's going to do the work that these private security firms do right now is definitely not the nato troops is definitely not i sat there stretched to say and i mean is there any way that this

war could possibly go on and continue to function if any if you can even say that it functions at the moment without them. well i can tell you that the hope within some elements of the ministry of interior is that all the local private security companies will be brought under the m a y m bella and made police or auxiliary police or something like that. that's first of all a bad idea tactically and operationally but the reason they want to do that is because they see the money dick gets paid to private security companies and they would like a cut of that. imo is full of people who are looking to line their pockets and they see this is an easy way to do that whether or not that's practical or operational is another question i think it's neither of those things at this point and i think president karzai for all of his. somewhat from western viewpoint erratic behavior is smart enough to realize that he cannot do this on his own he needs the support

of ice after support of western governments and frankly he needs the support of western cities to manage this conflict for him and i don't think he's foolish enough to actually follow this through now hypothetically speaking let's say that all these people are then absorbed into the interior ministry you said that they want to cut of that money but will they continue to pay the workers the people who actually work for the security firms the same amount that they get now i mean how would they keep acbl from then turning on them and we can look at the afghan security forces as a perfect example of how that doesn't work and how they can keep the population you know on task. well most most private security companies here. we pay generally as well as the police if not better not quite as well as the army generally speaking. but pretty well by afghan standards. and if you were to take

those jobs away a certain percentage of those people. ten fifteen twenty percent i can't say how many would find other sources of informants now some of those might be with the d.n.a. some of them would be with the bad guys and i think that's something that president karzai really need to keep in mind if he simply decides to disband these companies he's going to be dumping an awful lot of trained and unpleasant people back on the market right now they are employed they're happy and they're doing a good job but if you if you cut them off there's no predicting how they might react we we had the same problem in iraq when we disbanded the iraqi army sort of overnight. hundred thousand iraqis with weapons training and no income back on the market that stimulated the insurgency there i think they might have the same sort of problem here our naval thanks so much for giving us that your perspective on

this of course we'll see if anything comes out of this order to get all private security firms out in four months but it does sound like it might not be the best idea i think would be a horrible idea. we're taking a break but still to come on tonight's show john bolton former u.s. envoy to the united nations goes off on another rant about iran's nuclear program and how israel must respond so you can stay tuned for my unplugged moment on bolton and pictures posted online by a former israeli soldier showing her posing with palestinian prisoners has sparked a heated debate so i'll dive into the topic and hear from both sides on the issue coming up. here is the same of the area but i believe that there's nothing less than events after forty years the so-called war on drugs has achieved precious little numberless governments around the world.

tonight i have to speak my mind on a figure in america that just seems to make it on t.v. screens little too often so i figured that too many people actually listened to a man who you would think is a raving lunatic that nobody would take seriously but unfortunately he used to be a u.s. envoy to the united nations now the man in question is john bolton who's he since leaving his diplomatic post he has done nothing but warmonger and spread fear and try to convince people the war between israel and iran is imminent and i'm not kidding he's used the word imminent at least a few hundred times in the past four years and yet it's two thousand and ten and well we're all still here it's not something anyway this time john has decided to

place a deadline on his threats. raney and once those fuel rods are very close to the reactor certainly once they're in their reactors you say attacking it means a release of radiation no question about it so if israel's got to do anything against here it has to move in the next eight days if they don't hate to haze see what mr bolton is referring to is a shipment of nuclear fuel that will arrive in iran next week courtesy of russia and the will allow the country to bring its first nuclear reactor of now i'm not commenting on iran's nuclear ambitions and whether their plans are for peaceful purposes or not but i will go ahead and say that i really hope nobody listens to this madman you think bombing iran is going to make this world a safer place and you're putting an eight day deadline on it's do you realize the damage and the destruction that would cause you're just asking for nuclear war to break out so i just wish somebody would pull this man off the air and stop allowing

him to spread fear and asked for war and he takers you guys can let me know and e-mail me feedback at the low to show dot com or respond to me on twitter about that. now a debate has broken out over it in aberdeen a former israeli soldier old soldier who posed for pictures with palestinian prisoners and then posted them on her facebook account now the album on her facebook wasn't titled i.d.f. best time of my life and comments from aboriginals friends included things like your super sexy with average joe applying ha ha what a day that was may have less to say palestinians are outraged but average will continue to defend herself claiming that she did nothing wrong israeli army has called this shameful and repulsive behavior that does not represent the i.d.f. as a whole but is this really a one off incident breaking the silence of human rights group has stated that this in fact is no anomaly and rather a widespread phenomenon one of the rest of the world now knows about so is this

israel's of a grade joining me to discuss it is richard hellman president at the middle east research center and yourself money here the executive director at the jerusalem fine and the palestine center jeremy thanks so much for being here. you know some people have called this israel's grave do you agree with that or not you know. extreme first the facts aren't all known yet this is may just be a one off thing and it remains to be seen i think the interesting part is that israel is really the only pretty representative democracy that meets for example the conditions that are not on sharansky said in his book on defense of democracy where someone can stand up and say whatever they want in the town square without being shot or imprisoned i think they're going to investigate this the army's going to investigate this and i mean she has already been criticized by a number of people in the nation and in the army and she may even be prosecuted

this is the facts are going to play out but i think it's interesting everybody has a facebook page and a lot of stuff that maybe shouldn't be there inappropriate things show up there so i think we still have you. to see the whole picture but it's good that it's going to be investigated and i don't think many nations and not many armies investigate their own situations i've never seen a russian investigation of what happened in chechnya or in georgia and i don't expect to see once but tell me this does everybody have a fate have a facebook page where they are in the defense forces in the army of their country and they're posing next to a prisoner who is bound and gagged and they're acting like this is you know i can't be all right. and i couldn't i couldn't disagree more with. the gentleman here i think that you know whether or not this is real is up to grab or not is yet to be seen depending on how many more of these photos come out but as we've seen already from the episode that followed from this initial disturbing image a number of other disturbing images also came out with israeli soldiers posing with

palestinians that they were shot and killed in so-called trophy shots smiling at smirking over dead bodies humiliating prisoners who have been bound by their hands and blindfolded you know this is bigger than just a few incidents and it's and it's obviously within the israeli defense forces in the state of israel's interest to claim that these are one off incidents but we've seen incident after incident after incident after incident that prove that this is really part of an underlying foundation of inequality which is what the israeli occupation but to rise up have they ever investigated anyone before because like i said there is this group that claims that this is not a one off incident there have been other photos that have surfaced you know very similar very similar photographs here so why were those peter's not all that israel normally investigates any questionable behavior by its armed services and by its military for example. in the lebanon war israel had an

investigation by a commission and the reports were everything was laid out on the table now all the others the other side never investigates. it's wrong i don't think it's a tit for tat famous. all i worry about is clearly what i think why it was wrong why does the media pick on israel and start looking at my m r or china or russia or i personally i pick on everyone and everything and i think you realize we're not about. human rights abuses occur in some places doesn't excuse them occurring in other no it's course not so obviously than just a distraction but israel will investigate in israel too little problem with israeli investigations is that israel never investigates properly independently or impartially and if they do never follow through with the decisions of independent investigations when they do occur just one prominent example in the early one nine hundred eighty s. when israel invaded lebanon and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of palestinian civilians in the camps of sabra and shatila they did hold

an independent commission that tried and found then defense minister ariel sharon responsible at the time he was never supposed to hold he was never supposed to hold another cabinet level position again not only did he hold a cabinet level position again but he became prime minister and presided over the single largest period of settlement expansion says the menachem begin there so we're going to actually have something that by the way that's on true and the supreme court of new york and israel supreme court each decided that what my colleague here on the panel. just said was liable so let me tell you that because i argue there really commission was called combination was declared libel in both courts and israel an american gentleman investigation or not i want to get back to the story that we're talking about here because what bothers me is not whether you know she's going to be later punished not whether there's going to be an investigation done but the fact that this is happening at the attitude is that people are posting this on facebook that they're writing jokes like they're sexy

that they're laughing about it i mean this woman is defending ourselves saying that she feels she did nothing wrong and that in these photos she is not humiliating the person who is bound. and sitting next to her which is i mean this doesn't have to so dehumanizing this is that you can have our day that was not a problem this is an eighteen year old who was drafted into the israeli army i'm not excusing her behavior but we don't know all the facts yet i'm so this is the best time of her life i'm just talking about adam and we have how he stopped her and let us know as a young teen along the way that they have problems and we are not like we have not seen all of the things that she and others have posted from their military experience not only here but in other armies of the world i don't necessarily and sadly too much stuff goes on to facebook but i said a picture is worth ten thousand words but you need some balance and context for the picture not to excuse this but it will be investigated and we'll find out if i want to investigate whether or not what adds up to the israeli defense forces if they choose to do that but the attitude of young people in israel in palestine means

that this is except well i don't i really have an idea of how it's general. my local area because i don't want to look at this picture and i see a number of human beings the problem is that the person who posted it doesn't see that the same way they obviously if they don't see these people as equals they would not be posting pictures that are so humiliating and dehumanizing and then going on to defend them and claim boldly i don't see that there's anything wrong with this you have to understand that this culture of occupation has bred a form of of basically racism and dehumanization in people that they can no longer see the other as an equal and unless that foundation of occupation is broken is shattered you're going to continue seeing things like this you're going to continue seeing t. shirts made like the ones we saw after the gaza war that had. a palestinian woman's womb in the middle of cross-hairs with the with the caption one shot to kills i

mean these are the kind of disturbing images that are going to continue to be bred because of a system of occupation but the reason i brought up a great beginning of the conversation here is because that was another example is we don't treat people like human beings and if we can. have people that are bound up sitting next to them that are prisoners and take pictures not like this is a funny and light situation that to me that clearly shows that something is wrong or unfortunately there are a lot of things that are wrong but as sherman said wars helen but today everything's on facebook and it's all over the news although we were talking about it because you know it's all over in our eyes and online and we don't have the whole picture and i was there know for example where. it was still in years later and not even a picture of him or any explanation of when he'll be really well we'll see his facebook accounts he pops up on next right out of it thank you very much for being here all right still to come on tonight's show that d.a. says that a certain cancer drug is not effective but some lawmakers are accusing the federal

agency of deciding how long some terminal patients for to live in the words death panel are already being tossed around so discuss that in just a moment. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join your knowledge and update on our jeep hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. death panels are back in the news and wrongly so avastin is the world's best selling cancer drug one primarily used to treat colon cancer but in two thousand and eight the f.d.a. approved its use on women with breast cancer that was spread now it was said to extend the amount of time until the disease worsened by more than five months but

two new studies have shown that that isn't the case so the f.d.a. advisory panel is now voted twelve to one to drop the endorsement for breast cancer treatment on the grounds of activists but a lot of makers have been quick to jump on the vote and refer to it as a government panel assigning a value to the days of a person's life so what's better selling a drug that doesn't work just to give people a choice or controlling what's out there and keeping the facts straight well joining me to discuss it is miss middle america jenny churchill jenny thanks so much for being here now tell me why why people are so outraged over this vote you know the f.d.a. there was a vote twelve to one they voted that down and yet everyone's arms are raised and again we hear hysteria about death panels when in fact they've just said that this drug is ineffective. well basically the problem that we're seeing and erupting in the news today is that this panel has decided that this drug is not effective and while it is the f.d.a. put parentheses around it because

a lot of people are curious and a lot of people are accusing that it's based more on cost effectiveness this but i have to say actually it's not the job it's not the f.d.a. . cost if you know that only look at the health risks and benefits right so of course you can point fingers and accuse all you want this is like people saying i'm accusing people of having terror babies although i have no proof well the thing is they're saying that it's not beneficial anough that this drug does not do enough to be worth it and that's the problem is that you know i don't know that a panel of people are able to say that a month or more of life in the final days of your life when that could mean going to your child's wedding or graduation if that's worth it or not but the problem here is you know they're not taking the drug off the market i mean they're still allowing it to be used for not only colon cancer i believe there's also lung cancer kidney cancer brain cancer they're just saying that this isn't the best option out

there that can prolong a woman's life if she's already in the farther stages of breast cancer so why would it you rather have the you know research and find a new drug that actually works then sell a lot because there are a ton of women out there who are using this drug with success there's one woman who says that she attributes eight months that she's had so far to this drug there are people who are having success with this drug and the problem is but no there are not enough then let me the federal and let me finish my thought there are people who are having success and the issue here is that they're taking it the relabeling it and what that means is that doctors will still be able to prescribe this but insurers most definitely are going to say no we're not going to approve this because it's not labeled for breast cancer therefore women with more money will be able to. pay for this drug wall others who need insurance coverage will not have i mean this is part of the process in finding new drugs as you have to rule something if for the majority of people it's ineffective why would you keep it out there just

for a few people it's like let me sell you every option out there in the world even though that really defies logic because it may or may not work so i could be lying to you but just so you have the choice because it's not up to a panel of ten people to make those decisions these warehouses and i mean because lou what they're saying is that the benefits that i receive from the strug do not outweigh the risks i'm sorry i don't think it's up to the board to decide that i think that the doctor and the patient should decide whether or not the the side effects which are great for the drug are worth it but do you think the f.d.a. then should just be disbanded i mean this is the f.d.a. is the food and drug administration and they make a lot of decisions on what medicines what foods out there are you can eat what you can actually consume and imbibe because it will poison you they're the ones that are looking into what ingredients what chemicals make up these food this food and this drug so i mean if you don't think it's their job to decide then why do you think that they should be disbanded entirely i'm not saying that they should be

disbanded entirely that's insane they decide how do you know kind of thing the way you want them to may decide if things are safe or not they decide if things are you know which doctor medicines if they don't do anything this drug does do something and i think it should be up to the patients you know there are women out there who are the patient doesn't get a good a good response or a man are they going to go back and sue somebody who are they going to blame it was obviously was sold to them as a drug that was going to prolong their life and let's say that they'd sold us an option like all all cancer drugs like this are there is no guarantee in cancer medicine and there are only options and when you only have this little time and this many options i think that you should have every option available to you on the table i don't think it should be up to a small hand of small you know hands group of people to the side up for you know i mean i study for looking it into research that's been done by more than just these five individuals but you know unfortunately there just isn't all the money in the world to produce.