out of sight out of mind u.s. veterans say they've been abandoned by the country they fought for as they claim the government is failing its promises to take care of one heroes. as he just drug rehab centers are on the rise in russia investigates fears that these facilities are simply facades dangerous sects. sink to save ukraine activists are calling out to the ships from russia's black sea fleet to be submerged creating artificial reefs to save the ecosystem. also coming up in the business of day we'll be looking at what's at stake is two russian tycoons go head to head for control of mining giant join us in twenty minutes time.

i go there you're watching on t.v. we're broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program the mission is complete victory is in sight that was the message from u.s. vice president joe biden as he addressed american troops withdrawing from iraq his words raised eyebrows however one of those who could be the whole campaign was a failure. and save us of ministration trying great place to cover up a lost cause they feel that prays that the country's heroes have been abandoned and forgotten. parts. by the government but still more trees you know that's me i don't think. they show enough respect to the local ground. yes brian little is a u.s.

navy veteran who has been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome since his discharge he 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. i'm not all. right. 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 no 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 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 who are dealing with extended and frequent. 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 back and buy for the country that has led 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 high society you know it was bunch of people it's new 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 according to radio host an iraq war veteran. he believes the american public is starting to see through the vice president's words as in the us private contractors in iraq is now

at its highest level. 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 are still depending on whose numbers you trust a little over fifty thousand troops there and there are more private contractors now than there have ever been 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 act of resources in the v.a. system in the people who work at the v.a. take a pay cut to work there they do a very good job 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 centers before cutting the cost of our foreign empire cutting the cost of these wars and 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 question. you're with r.t. there's 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. and backing al qaida an american media reports suggest pakistanis using u.s. intelligence for its own interest details just a few minutes. russia's drugs agency is planning to increase the

number of rehab centers in the country as the government works to combat dependency critics say some facilities for recovering addicts could be as dangerous as drug abuse itself. how do you through the my spread of drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly a decade these twenty nine year old was on a collision course with crime and with death diagnosed with 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 the 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 me. 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 the official 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 is stronger and much more so. arius some experts claim recovering sex become able to function outside of the church and sequestered in felt later electing to spread the message to others in new centers answer me he doesn't believe he's part of a cult. contrary i realized i had been brainwashed all my previous life and people around me had a consumer attitude but here we were feelings and a new version and the desire to run a clinic of his own something stupid arty. american states must fend for themselves even if this means bypassing federal government rulings according to former arizona sheriff which would knock he says it's the only way the us can be

kept intact as a constitution abiding country shared some of his views and you can watch the full interview in about twenty minutes from the. 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 any 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. ukrainian activists are asking russia to allow how to use

a black 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 on the fleet commander is considering the suggestion which has been approved by the call for a tease. professional diver alexei has been exploring the depths 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 during the peat sewer season brings launch pollution to yalta bay when the water fails to clean itself every year we see fewer fish caught in this part of the black sea i believe yield to blaze ecosystem is in grave danger alexei has considered many different solutions to the problem but his friend a deputy in the yalta city council came up with a simple yet hopefully highly effective idea. 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 and many countries do the same and for the russian fleet to miss would be good from a financial point of view instead of paying for the use of old officials it would simply hand them over to ours. as 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 hype 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 sevastopol as 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 he said was the focus that we have an excellent shipyard in the crimea which has been abandoned for almost two decades if moscow decides to repair its fleet we're ready to offer our facilities and specialists this would be much cheaper for the russians and we revive a factory which was one of the best in a country just several decades ago april spark of agreement sparked mass opposition protests and they described it as a sellout of the country in crimea the mood is very much the opposite the russian black sea fleet command is yet 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 r.t. reporting from ukraine's crimea. pakistani intelligence is backing the taliban and al qaeda militants using the u.s. for its own interests that's according to a new york times report the authors quote a pakistani official who says taliban leaders enjoying support from some powers in bad years also says pakistan used the cia to help him. number two in january he was thought to be bypassing is not about by conducting secret talks with the afghan government. jim hansen says despite these claims u.s. has no option but to work with the stand. 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 you can tell us what's going on so we rely on the pakistanis to go ahead 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 they told us so we can pinpoint it and help them scarf amuck. but i mean they run all those taliban leaders they always have they hope for the taliban they've always been their support so occasionally you know we handed satchels of cash to be our friends and then occasionally they'll throw us a 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 alibi 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 i mean because the pakistanis don't even have one policy you've got i.s.i. they're 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 and the american public really has no clue you know what that actually means to that. when our special report next looks at the cost of the soviet victory in the bloodiest tank battle in history following its disastrous world war two defeat at starting grad nazi germany launched another eastern offensive operation citadel which led to the famous battle of course. division. new army. four months of preparation. for years to launch their mind. the last effort to keep the lead on the eastern front. lead citadel of some. long. long. lease are still he'll.

be. the most heavily reinforced. battle. lasted forty nine. one of the bloodiest battles of the turning point of. the burning. washington is asking thailand to discard fresh u.s. charges brought against a russian businessman to boot america seeking his extradition from bangkok for alleged arms dealing fearing it would be cleared and u.s. brought new charges of money for the defense to prove that the traditions of truth last week nor now requires him to stay in thailand in the first proceedings in the country. it occurs to me who it was arrested in bangkok to the health visitor in

a sting operation like this has been in prison ever since. but now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world fourteen people are feared dead after a small passenger plane heading for the everest region crashed south of the poles capital katmandu besides the nepalese crew and passengers there were five americans and one japanese tourist on. more than an eyewitness said there were no survivors although there have been no official reports of casualties the crew was thought to have been trying to turn back to katmandu in heavy rain. and. a man in northern california has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for sending hoax anthrax letters to barack obama sixty three year old timothy crowd has pleaded guilty to threatening the president on certain social supports or opposes letters which contain the white powder cloud called obama a politician and claimed social security had stolen his money planted also been

convicted of a sex offense in texas failed to register as a sex offender in california. thirty three miners trapped underground in chile have had some reassurance has them spoken via a microphone with the country's top mining official the minister says more help would be provided with a list of operation continues then being trapped at a depth of some. two weeks they're just starting to see water oxygen it's feed the rescue operation take months. to standish aid we're. going to african branch of al qaida nine months ago have been released turned to blossom and are playing overseas by little spring breakers a time when they wouldn't help them mentally spend restraint to prevent. new rooms . japan's self-defense forces staged

gangs that put on three g. over two thousand soldiers and used live ammunition and explosives in front of us but for patients and international media japanese officials say the exercises are response to some making expansion relations between the two countries have been tense due to territorial disputes. latest disease with all that if you know it's. great for the. we've got. the biggest issues get voice ceased to face with the news makers.

and i welcome to the business program with me. russia's biggest monorails nickel is currently the subject of a fierce fight for control but. volume a proton in both twenty five percent of the group each wants to buy out although neither wants to sell but what's at stake in this battle of the billionaires all correspondent visits the town. the waltz richest nickel called the last set of months deposited here and the. the production facilities of nickel stretch out the mountains dominating the town and provides a much of the local employment this may be the birthplace of neuros but the

conglomerate has spread from its era roots with interests across the world and countries such as a strauss south africa and federal and like many other commodity producers morales was hit by the financial crisis however at this region suffered few cuts rolled through a partial sluggers of one of the punters they've become the crisis quite successfully there was a constant demand for oil production in the global market that's why we didn't decrease volume of production juvie the hard times not all nor nickels factories was so fault that 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 that the c.e.o. of neurochemical is keen to modernize and just promising to spend nearly hoth a billion dollars next year on cleaning up operations but drug costs keys are worried about how the shareholder battle for control of the company will impact capital expenditure whether it's our legs at a pos all that's in the putting in the home ultimately comes out on top drug costs he says should not. be used as a cash cow the bar for your prosperous situation is quite difficult as you know there are several ways shareholders and managers view it 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 negative impact

in the future i believe the phrase the negative impact of the money spent on dividends i support the idea of actions the dividends should be paid but in that it would not impede the company's through the development of allegations of mismanagement of the company are somewhat hard to substantiate as production costs and profitability are comparable with international competitors but it does face a challenging future its resource base is shrinking and the price of extraction rising the chief of the rules wants the company to focus on what he calls investment into the mt however that some likely to happen until the conflict between the owners is resolved. business r.t. . profits or sixty three percent in the first half of two thousand and ten year on year the combined pretax profit of big mid-sized enterprises reached ninety billion dollars the biggest growth was reported by

companies in the real estate sector profit increases the mining industry we're not far behind that this is the fact we involve a number of businesses reporting along thirty four percent. have a local stock markets now here in russia the fourth is a four way down around one percent that's on oil and metals that is they have declined i'm concerned that the u.s. housing report to evidence that global growth if all the main players are in the red and they are. shedding five percent. of the heavily. because of your punch you say after a string of poorly received trading updates and his fears over the strength of u.s. recovery continue to insult the investors but more than one percent of. it is the same story to asia stocks are being dragged down by losses on wall street overnight as well as those concerns over the pace of the global economic forum in japan the

nikkei slumped to a fifteen month low of exporters software clobbered by the yen strad. and finally russian retailer is in talks with russia's x. five over potential sale of the business if the talks fail the company will press ahead with an initial public offering the final decision we made you know to pay the price hovers at about one point six billion dollars that's according to the company's own calculations and last year the retail his net debt to three hundred twenty nine million dollars so far wal-mart's is no presence in the russian markets . which operates six hundred shops nearly two hundred towns across the country. and that's the latest this hour we can always find more on our website our business .

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