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 its promises to take care who here is. growing barbarity female genital mutilation is on the rise and take the spot of forces efforts to stop the illegal practice. as religious drug rehab centers are on the rise and. investigates fears that these facilities are simply facades of dangerous sects. turn to sink to save ukrainian activists calling for out to be ships from russia's black sea fleet to be submerged creating artificial reefs to sea in the ecosystem.

you're watching r.t. we're broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital welcome to the program the mission is complete and 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 those who could be paid media and veterans say u.s. administration is simply a great place to cover up a lost cause they feel that this raises the country's heroes they've been abandoned and forgotten to move in the past. f. by the government but still more trees you know and that's me i don't think they show enough respect to the local brian little was that 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. because. 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 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 more than that and free ones. still in this crowd patriotism is. very much alive you know what 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 you know wherever you know high society you know it was a bunch of people still want to pay tax anymore. and that's going to happen again in san diego ramon galindo r t biden's optimistic remarks about troop withdrawal are ridiculous according to radio host an iraq war veteran i don't call class he believes the american public is starting to see through the vice president's words as a number of us private contractors in iraq is not its highest level when joe biden does this kind of ridiculous cheerleading well

a 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 then there were troops here people see through that it's kind of it's getting kind of ridiculous the presidential commission on fiscal responsibility which is currently convening is actually considering cutting veterans' benefits 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 they can kind of go keeping the money going to our political sponsors on the other hand that can't be questioned. to you carrie where medical officials say the number of women being subjected to genital mutilation is on the rise there although the practice is in the legal in the country thousands are considered to be risky and no one has ever been convicted of the crime in this report disturbing. school holidays for some golden afternoons in the park but for others a horrific ordeal aged fifteen u.k. born j.

kumar is mother took her home to sierra leone for an initiation ceremony jay had fake ideas of evenings around the fire cooking and gossiping with female relatives she had no idea that during the celebration of her womanhood her genitalia would be cut i was laid down the floor lots of hands lots of like celebration chairs etc and then my mouth was covet something to muffle and then my legs were spread and i just felt just some pain that i don't think all of the pain itself will never ever leave me because i had to but it's like i mean i can understand how people feel when they lose an arm or a leg they have that found some kind of pain all the time and that's the kind of pain which i personally have to live with on a day to day basis i've heard that some people is this really quick but i felt like it was being sought and women's rights organization forward estimates that six and a half thousand girls in the u.k.

are actually risk of female genital mutilation every year the most common age for girls to have the procedure is between six and eight the summer holidays are a prime time because there's an opportunity for a long visit back to the family's country of origin and although it's illegal in the u.k. there is evidence that it is being done in this country female genital mutilation is performed for cultural reasons and justified as a religious requirement or rights of passage to womanhood much like male circumcision it's supposed to ensure cleanliness and back to mary. prospects however it often has serious and long lasting physical complications and sometimes its hospital in london is one of the senses that deals with. some girls die they bleed to death or develop techniques infections where dirty instruments are used midwife comfort momo sees the lasting effects of which include cysts on the vagina

and sterility the removed everything. referring to. for the past the. law. and so on and expects the will remain to have sexual intercourse from this morning. g.m. is thought to be so prevalent in the u.k. local authorities have set up tossed forces to identify when children are at risk but this is a practice that's gone on for centuries in some african and arabic countries and it's entrenched in families. some communities and this has been some protests. and. some female sort of procedure done to them but you will consider it's appropriate procedure is done to their own daughters and this is why it's an important matter of education as well. that in the legal despite being an illegal act there's never been

a single conviction against someone who's arranged or performed female genital mutilation in the u.k. victim kumara says that's got a lot to do with the terminology used for me personally i hate even the term mutilation because i don't i'm not mutilated i've been caught. and i think the whole mutilation term is very very negative and i think it just causes a lot of survivors to go underground because no one wants walk down the street with the term over head with legislation proving ineffective it's a culture that the british authorities have so far. failed to eradicate leaving thousands of its citizens at risk every year and it landed. here with our t.v. there's much more coming your way late 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. russia's anti 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. through them my spirit 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 i'm eighty 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 a 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 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. some experts claim recovering addicts become able to function outside of the church and sequester themselves later elected to spread the message to others in new centers answer me now he doesn't believe he's part of a cult or. the contrary i realized i had been brainwashed all my previous life and people around me had a consumer attitude but here you were feelings i mean your version and the desire to run a clinic of his own someday. r.t. . american states must fend for themselves even if this means bypassing federal government rulings according to former arizona sheriff richard mack he says it's

the only way the u.s. can be kept intact as a constitution abiding country shared some of his views with which the full interview next hour. 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 it here it's 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. the us is seeking to retract new charges it has brought against the russian

businessmen think to boot washington is seeking his extradition from thailand for alleged arms dating while failing would be clear at least brought new charges of money if you were brought against him in the very things extradition is a week for the law and the requirement to stay in time rendered to the first proceedings or experts rushing to this close to expire before this happens the country's criminal court will hear the case not telling the truth and was arrested in bangkok to me years ago in a sting operation by the us in one poll says there's been a prison ever since. ukrainian activists are asking russia to allow out of use black sea fleet ships to be so to create artificial reefs in the crimea they say this will help protect the region's ecosystems and minimize the effects of pollution if they come on this considering the suggestion which has been approved by the. 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 a 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 will 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 so a lot of good news 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 and many countries do the same and for the russian fleet it 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 zordon says the idea came to him after what was seen as a major policy shift in key have 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 it 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 do you suppose the focus is that 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 sark 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 they 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. 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 polls

and besides nepalese passengers and crew there were four americans one british and one japanese tourist on board an eyewitness said there were no survivors no issue of reports of casualties the crew was thought to have been trying to turn back to cap and heavy rain. a man in northern california has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for sending hoax anthrax letters to or about sixty three year old timothy curry built into the president and several social security officers in the letters which contained a white powder cloud called a bomb a dying politician claim social security had stolen his money clout had also been convicted of a sex offense in texas for him to get just a sex offender. thirty three miners trapped underground in chile have had some reassurance as they've spoken via a microphone company's top man. animistic says more help will be provided with the

rescue operation continues the men have been trapped at a depth of some seven hundred. two weeks started receiving food water and oxygen it's clear the rescue operation could take months. to spanish aid workers kidnapped by a grant of right and nine months ago have been released now returned to boss women were seized by militants when their convoy was attacked. they were then held in mali spain is formed to have paid a ransom over most really rooms. and japan's self-defense forces staged a new military games at the foot of mount fuji more than two thousand soldiers and light on the nation and explosives in front of us military officials and international media japanese officials say the exercise is all response to china's recent. elections in the two countries still to take on disputes.

what are the economic austerity measures in greece really about and who they actually helping all analysts max keiser and stacy herbert share some revelations on the true nature of the financial cuts the food costs report is coming up later in our program but here's a preview. tensions are rising in greece as austerity measures a backfire unemployment is up to seventy percent in some regions and in athens up to seventeen percent of all shops i've closed so this is the result of the economic death spiral so austerity therefore it was not a good idea andres it's not a good idea probably anywhere in the world in this type of environment which has been victimized by a banking fraud and predatory bankers who ripped the guts out stole the money so in response they're going to impose austerity on the people actually just to pay for the banker bonuses not to help the people.

in the. business news is next and we saw that. hello welcome to the business program with me show that i was folly russia's biggest line and arrows nickel is currently the subject of a fierce fight for control tycoons all you. need to turn in both twenty five percent of the group each wants to buy the other two though neither wants to sell but what's a stake in the battle of the billionaires correspondent and tasha have clover visits the town of numerals. the wald's richest nickel comparable last set of months deposited here and the area the production facilities of nor can they call stretch out the mountains dominating the town and provide 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 australia south africa and federal and like many other commodity produces more roeske was hit by the financial crisis however this region suffered few cuts the role 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 fully move production juvie the hard times not all nor nichols factories was so fortunate 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 hoth a billion dollars next year on cleaning up operations but drug costs keys worried about how the shareholder battle for control of the company will impact capital expenditure whether it's our legacy to pasco old lots of it but that in the home ultimately comes out on top drug costs he says should not. be used as a cash cow the bar for your product our situation is quite difficult as you know there are several ways shareholders and managers view it was something that you should take well 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 money spent on dividends i support the idea of adequate actions the dividends should be paid but in adequate volume and not impede the companies for the development allocations 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 it's 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 mountain however that some likely to happen until the conflict between the owners is resolved. business r.t. . now in other news russian corporate profits sold sixty three percent in the first half of two thousand and ten year on year the combined pretax profit of big

enterprises reached ninety billion dollars the biggest growth was reported by companies in the states that profited faces in the mining industry were not far behind up fifty six percent meanwhile the number of businesses reporting a loss so the first. time traveller going to stop its wild hair in russia the fourth of falling down more than one percent as all the measures that they're calling don't concern the two u.s. housing report put out the evidence that global growth is slowing all the main players are in the red in the bank shutting one point five percent. over in europe with a similar picture of the foot seen that so now both well into their way as investors . after a string of poorly received trailing off days and fears over the strength of the u.s. recovery. asian stocks are being dragged down by a loss of the wall street overnight as well as those concerns over the pace of global economic growth in japan the nikkei slumped to

a fifteen month low explore two stocks look forward by the year end strength. and finally russian retailer is in talks with wal-mart and russia's x five over a potential sale of the business if the talks fail the company will press ahead with an initial public offering the final decision will be made in october could pay a price hovers at about one point six billion dollars that's according to the company's own calculations and last year the retailers net debt version of three hundred twenty nine billion dollars so far wal-mart has no presence in the russian markets a vast contrast to compare which operates six hundred shops in nearly two hundred towns across the country. that's the latest this hour but you can always buy more on our website r.t. dot com slash business. see

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