i. i. out of sight out of mind us veterans say they've been abandoned by the country they fought for as they claim the government is failing in its promises to take care of war heroes. religious drug rehab centers on the rise in russia teen besta gates fears that these facilities are simply facades for dangerous sex. think to say ukrainian activists are calling people out of nice ships from russia's black sea fleet to be submerged creating artificial reefs to save the local ecosystem.

we're watching r t twenty four hour news and much more welcome to the war is over the mission is complete this was the message from u.s. vice president joe biden as he addressed american troops withdrawing from iraq his words raised eyebrows however long those who could be the whole campaign is a failure many veterans say the u.s. administration is trying to put on a brave face to cover up a lost cause. praised as the country's heroes they feel abandoned and forgotten teams a month and then reports. left by the government but still more trees are you know one that's made i don't think. they show enough respect to the local brian little was a u.s. navy veteran who has been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome since his discharge she was unable to find work after leaving the military and hasn't been able to get the proper treatment for his condition. little has been suicidal at

times his pleas for help have been ignored it's a common theme at stand down an annual nonprofit event that helps homeless vets get off the streets volunteers are helping these veterans become better adjusted to civilian life something the military isn't doing enough of a lot of people really don't know exactly what to expect or where to go to get the help that they need pamela brisson served in afghanistan and has been homeless for two years the largest growing population of homeless women in san diego is veterans returning from current combat according to catholic charities which operate shelters around the city while on the street prison has been taking care of her nine year old son chris he's been able to maintain straight a's even while they bounced around from shelter to shelter or slept on a sidewalk. many veterans want help but prison admits it's easy to get discouraged when the government doesn't want to help it only takes one or two people to say i don't know or know we

can't help you for them to walk away and think that there's no hope for them. you know drugs alcohol. and they just they're not aware to take advantage of the programs that are made available to them the last couple years i think the number of persian gulf veterans has increased greatly outnumbering the vietnam veterans dr john not just in is very familiar with san diego's homeless population he started stand down twenty three years ago because he saw a huge number of homeless veterans that no one was talking about the problem will likely get worse for current service members. than this and for. still in this crowd patriotism is very much alive you know what i actually i really would go back despite her troubles pamela brisson says she would still go bad. and

by for the country that has let her down a sentiment echoed by many of these veterans who still have an undying loyalty to the military and country when america was great as a whole who started it you know it was a bunch of politically correct people living in you know wherever you know how i high society know this bunch of people who still want to pay tax anymore. and that's going to happen again in san diego ramon the lindo r t well biden's optimistic remarks about troop withdrawal are ridiculous as a number of us probably contractors in iraq is the highest ever that's according to a radio host and iraq war veteran i think ok he believes the u.s. public is starting to see through the words. there's two big problems with what he said and about the violence going down because this withdrawal first of all wasn't a real withdrawal it was the one last brigade that had not been labeled

a non combat brigade and there is still the pentagon whose numbers you trust a little over fifty thousand troops there and there are more private contractors now than there have ever been and the violence in terms of what you will see on the headlines in the united states media about how many soldiers have died every day yes that will go down generally when there are less troops less of them get killed but what you're not going to see is the number of contractors that are killed that are still performing the basic tasks of oppression and exploitation that are the basis of our presence in iraq remember the first time the government told us the war was over was may first two thousand and three with the so-called mission accomplished speech on the aircraft carrier by president bush and that was the only real war there wasn't at that point turned into an occupation even when i was there in two thousand and four inclusion where there was intense fighting it was not a force on force battle it was an occupation there was

a resistance to the occupation we see continued today and what sad is that the true nature of the presence there really has not changed too dramatically in six years the basic premise is the same we are pissing incredible amount of money into the sand that is coming out of the american economy and people here i think are starting to wake up to that and it's very exciting to see that when joe biden does this kind of ridiculous cheerleading well i the success is because the troops have done so well oh and that's why we have to replace them with more state department officials and private contractors than there were troops here people see through that it's kind of it's getting kind of ridiculous what veterans are facing today is a simple lack of resources in the v.a. system in the people who work at the v.a. take a pay cut to worry. there they do a very good job and they bust their butts to help veterans and a lot of them you know the american people are still have those yellow ribbons on their cars and there's still that attitude but there's also the assumption that all

the government is taking care of everything in the presidential commission on fiscal responsibility which is currently convening is actually considering cutting veterans' benefits to meet fiscal responsibility standards before cutting the cost of our foreign empire cutting the cost of these wars in these occupations and that's really sad but that's sort of the attitude of those in power well you know taking care of the vets is something that can kind of go keeping the money going to our political sponsors on the other hand that can't be questioned and that kind of spending is kind of a say oh we're seeing it fall now but it's exciting to see that people are challenging that. american states must spend for themselves even if this means by pos in federal government rulings former arizona sheriff richard knox says this is the way the u.s. can be kept intact as the constitution of biting country we share some of these. you can watch the full interview not twenty minutes from now. state sovereignty the only solution that we have left is state sovereignty local control the sheriff of

this country getting together with county commissioners county attorneys and stand in fighting and he wrecked in the barriers against the encroachments of the national government the federal government it will lead to lawful consideration and lawful adherence to the constitution if we follow the constitution we're going to be fine we're destroying the constitution and our own federal government is the greatest threat to our god given constitutional american republic if we make sure they stay within their parameters and their limitations then we're going to survive this. without much more coming your way later in the program including. according to the agreements between kiev and moscow the russian black sea fleet ships will stay in ukraine's crimea until twenty forty two but some in this black sea resort area are now willing to sink them alexi russia after reports from ukraine's crimea.

and backing al-qaeda and american media report suggests pakistanis using u.s. intelligence for its own interests details in just a few minutes. russia's drugs agency is coming to increase the number of rehab centers in the country as the government works to combat dependency critics say some facilities for covering could be as dangerous as drug abuse itself. how do you through the my spirit of drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly a decade these twenty nine year olds on a collision course with crime and with death diagnosed with psoriasis and liver and hepatitis b. and c. we can now says god saved and changed his life. when i came here last year for the first time in eight years i realized their grass was green birds were singing and

everything was beautiful i used to take drugs and alcohol at the same time i was literally a vegetable understanding of what was going on around. here is a rehab center run by cornerstone church days include group chores me to teach responsibility and bible and prayer sessions. prayer is a fellowship and we are more likely to become like those we communicate with if someone talks to fishermen he is likely to become one too when someone talks to god and that's what a prayer is he becomes a believer and his life changes and not on the schedule here is time with a trained professional the belief is that the spirit is what needs mending and that this only comes through god drug use is on the rise in russia numbers indicate that there are six hundred thousand addicts but the federal agency charged with combat in this problem puts it at millions more but there is also an increase in the

number of religious rehab centers like this one that are offering nontraditional treatments but some are referring to them as little more than recruiting centers for religious sex the pentecostal community in russia is small but run several of the nation's growing number of religious rehabs critics insist those who seek treatment through these are simply trading one crutch for another. we're losing people now not because of drugs but because of destructive cults chemical addiction to drugs or alcohol is substituted by group psychological addiction instead this kind of addiction. it's stronger and much more serious some experts claim recovering sex become able to function outside the church and sequester themselves later elected to spread the message to others in new centers answer me he doesn't believe he's part of a cult. contrary i realize it had been brainwashed all my previous life and people around me had

a consumer attitude but here you were feeling in your vision and a desire to run a clinic and he's known some stupid arty. pakistanis warning the town about not to start any peace negotiations which excludes them about that's according to a new york times reports which suggests the country's intelligence is backing the militants the authors claim pakistan even used the cia to capture bin. laden number two in january he was conducting secret talks between the militants and the afghan government in new york times quotes a pakistani official who says taliban leaders have been enjoying support from some powers in the years. jim hansen says despite these claims u.s. has no option but to work together with. you know the problem we have and it's the cia's biggest weak spot is they don't do human intelligence very well so we don't have agents we don't have people on the ground who can tell us what's going on so

we rely on the pakistanis to go ahead and give us the human intelligence that we use our electronic intelligence capabilities which is our strength you know we can track anybody cell phone which they did in this case the pakistanis found out that he was coming back to town they found out his cell phone number and they told us so we go ahead and pinpoint it and help them scarf him up but i mean they run all those taliban leaders they always have the hope for the taliban they've always been their support so occasionally you know we have that sat with the cash to be our friends and then occasionally they'll throw some bone by pretending you know that it was to our advantage when in most cases it's their. internal power plays more than an actual. activity for us i think the problem is there's very little ability to see through what's happening on the surface you know because there are so many plays in motion because there are so many because the pakistanis don't even have one policy you've got i.s.i. their intel who are the ones who are involved with this you've got their military and you've got their government those guys aren't acting in concert so there's no

one pakistani policy there are a collection of different plays going in different directions and we've got to kind of ride the wave of the american public really has no clue you know what that actually means to that ukrainian activists are asking russia to allow out of the east that sea fleet ships to be sunk to create artificial reefs in the crimea they say this will help protect the region's ecosystems and minimize the effects of pollution the fleet command is considering the suggestion which has been approved by local authorities. professional diver alexei has been exploring the deaths of the black sea in ukraine's crimea for more than three decades he says the underwater world here is absolutely unique from a scientific point of view but he is concerned about the danger that every year is getting worse the peace who are season brings launched pollution too young to bay on the water fails to clean itself every year we see fewer fish caught in this part

of the black sea i believe you all to blaze ecosystem is in grave danger alexey has considered many different solutions to the problem but his friend a deputy in the city council came up with a simple yet hopefully highly effective idea. that we will ask the russian black sea fleet stations here to give us several of the rule ships we will sink them and create an artificial reef which will greatly improve your toby's ecosystem this is nothing new many countries do the same and for the russian fleet to this would be good from a financial point of view instead of paying for the use of old vessels it would simply hand them over to ours zordon says the idea came to him after what was seen as a major policy shift in kiev the presidents of russia and ukraine signed an agreement to prolong the stay of the russian black sea fleet in the crimea until twenty forty two where the previous administration and key of these ships of the russian black sea fleet were unwanted guests in ukraine's crimea and were to leave the area by

the year twenty seventeen but after the height of agreement was signed local authorities here are saying they're trying to do everything they can so that these ships remain here for years to come straight after the route if you get a shot of the back to the russian leader the need to remediate have said the fleet needed serious modernization and now the crimea is ready to help more school with that the head of several stoppers administration says the russian naval presence here brings in massive investment for the city's infrastructure. and calls for a fitting of the ships may create jobs for the locals yes that was the reason we have an excellent shipyard in the crimea which has been abandoned for almost two decades if moscow decides to repair its fleet here we're ready to offer our facilities and specialists this would be much cheaper for the russians and we revive our factory which was one of the best in a country just several decades ago april's hark of agreement sparked mass opposition protests in kiev they described it as

a sellout of the country in crimea the mood is very much the opposite the russian black sea fleet command easier to respond to the divers and officials proposals for an artificial reef but there will be glad to see few here can imagine life without these ships anchored on the surface in several stoppers docks. ski on sea reporting from ukraine's crimea. following the disastrous defeat at stone grad in the second world war nazi germany other eastern offensive it led to the bloodiest tank battle in history altie looks at the cost of the soviet victory in the battle of course in a special report later today. plain and says division. four months of preparation. a monster minus. the last effort to keep the lead on the eastern front. lead citadel of funds

to pay for a. bomb at a great sacrifice of blood. and looms are still. some advantage of the platoon part of. the most heavily reinforced area. of the battle of course. it lasted forty nine days one of the muddiest battles and the turning point. to push. it. that it set out to look at some stories making headlines around the world. the hostage crisis in the philippines is not over the hijacked bus was stormed by police officials say eight of the hostages plus the gunman held competitive on the

head of the eight kept his. cage taken was a former police officer to model and stated for the second two thousand and eight children were among the hostages and most of tourists held in a. triple suicide bomb attacks in pakistan's volatile tribal belt on the afghan only to killed at least thirty six people deadliest was at a mosque which the twenty sixth and yet a bomb exploded on to another meeting with one of the elders killing seven and a third bomb blast killed a reader of an intended on the show. any doubts that it's official they want to screen responsibility for the attacks but rain is pointing to them since one of them. in. amman in northern california has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for sending hoax anthrax letters to barack

obama sixty three year old timothy khalid has pleaded guilty to threaten the president and suffer from france approaching offices in the next is which contain a white powder cloud called barack obama a nine politician and claimed social security and still missing money clara had also been convicted of a sex offense in texas but failed to register as a sex offender in coming. forth. and thirty three miners trapped underground in chile have had some reassurance as they spoke on the podium the country's top commanding official minister said to me help that we provided is the best the operation is underway the men have been trapped at a depth of seven hundred meters more than two weeks just stunted receding. exigent that's where the rescue operations take months. you know that so far that they just business needs we shot.

hello welcome to the business program with me charlayne was folly russia's biggest minor roles nickel is currently the subject of a fierce fight for control of tycoons all their dairy past turn in both own twenty five percent of the group each wants to buy the other two though neither wants to sell but what's at stake in this battle of the billionaires our correspondent visits the town. the world's richest nickel called the last set of months deposited here and then. the production facilities of neurons comical stretch out the mountains dominating the town and provides a much of the local employment this may be the birthplace of norilsk but the conglomerate has spread from its era roots with interests across the world in countries such as australia south africa and federal and like many other commodity

producers morales quotes hit by the financial crisis how about this region suffered few cuts the role of a partial sluggers of the punters overcome the crisis quite successfully there was a constant demand for oil production in the global market that's why we didn't decrease when we moved production juvie the hard times not all nor nickels factories was self alternate last year the company reported to twenty seven percent drop in revenue to ten point two billion dollars still the group retains its leadership on the world market accounting for more than twenty percent of global nickel output more than ten percent of cobalt production at three percent of call part of my

life that my. the c.e.o. of neurochemical is keen to modernize and just promising to spend nearly ha five billion dollars next year on cleaning up operations but the drug costs he's worried about how the shareholder battle for control of the company will impact capital expenditure whether it's. all that's a myth but that in the whole ultimately comes out on top drug called ski says should not. be used as a cash cow that often your profit by the situation is quite difficult as you know there are several ways shareholders and managers view it as something that you should take all you can now without thinking of the company's future the shareholders who are in for the long term think that such a policy would slow down the company's development and would have postponed a negative impact in the future i believe face a negative impact of the money spent on dividends i support the idea of adequate

actions the dividends should be paid but in adequate volumes and not impede the company's further development allocations of mismanagement of the company are somewhat hard to substantiate as production costs and profitability are comparable with international competitors but does face a challenging future its resource base is shrinking and the price of extraction rising the chief of neural wants the company to focus on what he calls investment into the mountain however that's unlikely to happen until the conflict between the owners is resolved. business r.t. . now russian corporate profits or sixty three percent in the first half of two thousand and ten year on year the combined pretax profit of big mid-size enterprises reached nineteen billion dollars the biggest growth as reported by companies in the real estate sector profits of creases in the mining industry were

not far behind fifty six percent meanwhile a number of businesses reporting a loss fell thirty four percent. but it's not the same picture russia's agricultural sector has lost around want to billion dollars due to the drought the ministry about co-chairs says more than a quarter of our bill rand is damaged but sixteen thousand farms reports he will face and it will be followers themselves all the government who apparently better vos majority of the cost of the drought the insurance industry will be making sound payouts russia's largest insurer ingle struck currently estimates liabilities at twenty eight million dollars and says these are likely to cause. the. premium income often goes through or would be in two thousand. in the segment to go to insurance was to enter million so it's already percent loss ratio. and is not. there and so by the end of this year

probably three share would be much more than one hundred percent and that is that means that it is a loss to the business. that's a lot of stock markets now and over in asian markets and lower this tuesday wave by losses a real storms overnight as well as concerns over the pace of global economic growth in japan the nikkei slumped to a fifteen month low exporter stocks of a fire began last friday and here in russia stock market ended monday practically unchanged but many investors are taking a break in the last week of the holiday season the russia's largest oil company leaked two thirds would stand for my sex as the price of life we have a stake in. our certainty about the global economy and how it's going to develop is being felt in equalities markets simon dunn home from london capital group so sentiment is turning bearish. prospects for these these products due to

a certain extent rely on the far east we know what europe and america to a great extent we know what their demand is china can continue to grow quickly the prospects for the price of steel should be good the problem is is that everybody knows that and so we're worried now cross why is it still going higher at the moment to start meeting and looking for a job and so again we run here into the wall both what do people think about growth where is it going and unfortunately people are just starting to worry and so so metals are again looking weak. and as late as this we can always find more on our website r.t. dot com slash business. the book.

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