service no longer required us smatterings returning from combat find themselves homeless and neglected by the very country they fought for. just felt just some cake that i don't think all of the pain itself will never ever leave me as a number of female genital mutilation cases in the u.k. gross women's rights advocates sound the alarm over the authorities failure to stop the illegal also. 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 that well look into how all russian warships could save the unique underwater world the black sea.

it's five pm in moscow and this is our to you coming to you live with me and isa now away first this hour 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 while his words raised eyebrows however among those who believe the whole campaign was a failure many veterans say the u.s. administration is simply trying to put on a brave face to cover up a lost cause they feel that although their praises the country's heroes they've been abandoned and forgotten parties ramon going over. by the government but still more treason you know and that's me i don't think they show enough respect to the local about this brian little is that us now. a 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 know i was. 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 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 who are dealing with extended and frequent the finance. 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 in you know wherever you know high society you know this bunch of people who still want to pay tax anymore. and that's going to happen again in san diego ramon galindo r t. the us federal government violates the constitution on such a regular basis that states have to work for themselves top hold the rule of law so says arizona sheriff richard mack he's spoken to r.t. of the full interview is coming your way in an hour's time but here is a preview. when i look up i made

a huge mistake i actually read the constitution and specifically the bill of rights and i saw. one hand what the constitution says saw on the other hand what the government is actually doing 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. in the u.k. medical officials say the number of women being subjected to genital mutilation is on the rise although the practice is illegal in the country no one's ever been convicted of the crime and thousands are considered to be at risk each year and you may find some of the images and more and that support disturbing. school holidays for some golden afternoons in the park but for others

a horrific ordeal aged fifteen u.k. born jay kumar is mother took her home to sierra leone for an initiation ceremony j had fake ideas of evenings around the fire cooking and gossiping with a female relatives she had no idea that during the celebration of her womanhood the tail would be cut i was laid down the flaw lots of hands lots of like celebration chairs etc and then my mouth with cough it so thinks i'm awful and then my legs were spread and then 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 but 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 been sorn women's rights organization forward estimates. 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's 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 better marriage 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 when dirty instruments used midwife comfort more. effective which include cysts on the vagina and sterility the

removed everything. for the past. law. and so on and. the will remain to have sex. at g.m. is thought to be so prevalent in the u.k. local authorities have set up task forces to identify when children are risk but this is a practice that's gone on for centuries in some african and arabic countries and it's entrenched in families. in some communities. and. some females the. procedure done to them but. the procedure is done to their own daughters and this is a. matter of education. as well. that legal

despite being an illegal act there's never been a single conviction against someone who's arranged all performed female genital mutilation in the u.k. victim j. 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 cut. and i think that. it's very very negative and i think it just causes a lot of survivors to go underground because no once walked down the street with the term of the 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 r.t. london. we've got plenty more ahead this hour for you stay with r.t. for religious disbelief passing out sound in the wind guidance to be drug addiction are accused of posing a bigger threat than drugs themselves. but ukraine

wants to sink russia's black sea fleet but all in the name of conservation a request been made for decommissioned ships to reschedule to create artificial reefs in the crimea alexa yourself ski has the details. 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 peak season brings launch pollution too young to play 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 please ecosystem is in grave danger. she 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 not a good use. we will ask the russian black sea fleet stationed here to give us their

old ships we will sink them and create an artificial reef which will greatly improve the base ecosystem this is nothing new many countries do the same. zordon says the idea came to him after what was seen as a major policy shift in 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 hike 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 rectification of the pact russian needed me 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 massive investment for

the city's infrastructure and calls for a fitting of the ships may create jobs for the locals do you suppose that we have an excellent shipyard in a 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 the country just several decades ago april spark 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 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. reporting from ukraine's crimea. just to remind you we've got more on our website that's r t dot

com welcome to check out our galleries political cartoons or simply follow us on twitter a look now at some of the stories that might catch your eye on the line the miracle of life infertile couples flock to siberia to seek the wisdom of a goddess was a patron so mothers read how many women then become pregnant. and the hunt in britain for the campaigning pensioner who threw a kitty into a bin but while the four year old tabby was found there so far no sign of the woman . an alleged russian arms dealer dubbed by the west the merchant of death may be extradited to the u.s. within hours the lawyer says a special plane has arrived in bangkok where he's currently being held it comes

after washington asked thailand to discharge fresh charges brought against him his extradition to america for alleged arms dealing was approved last week but before the decision was announced the u.s. brought new charges of money laundering and fraud against him the law now requires him to stay in thailand until the fresh proceedings are over who was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by you ask for search and has been in prison ever since now for more story we can now talk to author and investigative journalist daniel is still in who's extensively interviewed victor boot in the past you know joins us live from madrid then you know is the u.s. jumping the gun by sending a plane for when according to thai law he must stay in the country while the new charges are investigated or i don't think. he may with a little bit of time unfortunately get so for groups or is going to start the united states. so you think that that plane will take him back to the u.s.

within the next couple of hours is that correct i hope not i hope you know another plane will come from russia with you know with a russian star on take him back to moscow unfortunately doesn't doesn't seem logical if the united states spent two enough years trying to extradite victor would now with a new charge is just simply to make sure that of the if the court actually agreed with victor boot and sided with the defense that the new charges will keep him in jail but now that the actually lost the case the americans have the right to withdraw the charges just a matter of i think you're a critic procedure of what and how quickly they can do that so you don't think the fact that washington has dropped these new charges kind of implies that their case might be weak here no because in the end it was just you know an insurance on top of the publication cell just in case the kid the appeals court sided with victor boot then he would have to stay in prison until the new charges are sort of out and they were serious charges because they were filed if i remember correctly on the twentieth of february two thousand and. ten and i read the charges that are put

together by the a team unfortunately the first charges which were brought against the troubled in two thousand and eight there were put together by. inadequate members of the of the just as a part of which is why because it was very close to winning the first case the then think that victimhood has any kind of chance of winning the case in the states. i think his chance of winning the case in the states is zero point zero zero united states states have spent fifteen years trying to allegedly trying to catch an alleged gun runner whether it was it true they spent two and a half years trying to win the extradition case and the victim was actually said to the united states to think that he can win in the united states against america on their home turf when everything is against them so that in the end if you walks and goes home america will all become a laughing stock of the entire world not to mention that whatever little credibility they have as a nation will definitely be ruined you know i i would like to think you can win but i'm fortunate because my brain works well i always got ten in school logic you know it's tells me otherwise do you think that thailand is benefiting at all from this

extradition do you think that maybe some kind of deal was struck and why in that case would thailand get out of that well i you know in the end i think i've known for over a year the victor boot unfortunately i've known for every other picture of what was going to lose this case when. the court of first instance ruled against americans on political grounds of far were in fact not considered terrorist altitude in thailand i knew immediately that a victory would not told him that i told all of that i told the defense team that if the fall of the political line they would lose that appeals because in the appeals court the appeals court of thailand would correct that mistake as victor was not being. judged. in thailand but rather united states doesn't matter whether thailand agrees that mark is a terrorist or not terrorist the fact that the united states considers fark to be a terrorist target is enough unfortunately enough for him to be sent to the united states and that's something i just could not get through the trouble now you

mention is a bit earlier briefly of course the thai court admitted the extradition the first time around was unjustified and denied it why such a change of opinion now. well you know there are many points of view about because i spent quite a bit of time in thailand researching the entire troubled story and interviewing big stance of the sixty time for hundreds of hours in prison kong i also had access to. intelligence and time to organise officers a very high level told me that in fact the whole thing was already done before it started in the sense that you know the court of course instance was going to rule in favor who would look back to the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boots against the world so that nobody could say that it was askew decision that nobody could say that the americans paid the thais everybody would say it was one for blood one would for the americans except that the appeals court decision was the final decision because unfortunately in thailand

there was no appeals to the supreme court as far as the ford as a conservative i knew this over a year and a half ago beginning of august of two thousand and nine just a political one. the first judgment one in his favor i will stall this that this was going to happen unfortunately these people are very right ari daniel you said it yourself you know victor boot very well is he guilty yes sir now no he's not guilty at all unfortunately is. another patsy like lee harvey oswald and the war against board is basically a war against russia if you can destroy board and you can prove that he's a virtual death and obviously he has to get his arms from somewhere and that someone has to be rational so you destroy russia's credibility in the international community all right thank you daniel a still and live from madrid for us thank you. and russia's anti drugs agency is planning to increase the number of state controlled rehab centers and says currently most drug addicts get help from non-governmental facilities and while some centers do help battle addiction others only land their patients in deeper

trouble artsy stacie business reports. how do you define street the drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly into. kate says twenty nine year old on a collision course with crime and death diagnosed with hepatitis b. and c. making out says god saved and changed his life. when i came near a large share 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 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 for the prayer is a fellowship and we are more likely to become like with if someone talks to fishermen he is likely to become one too when someone talks to god 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 or another. we're losing people now not because of drugs but because of destructive cults chemical addictions or drugs or alcohol is substituted by group psychological

addiction instead this kind of addiction is stronger and much more serious some experts claim recovering addicts become unable to function outside of the church and sequester the. now later elected to spread the message to others in new centers answer me can now he doesn't believe he's part of a cult of one of those to the contrary i realized i had been brainwashed all my previous life and people around me had a consumer attitude but here you were feeling and then you version and the desire to run a clinic of his own. r.t. . business with daniel bushell daniel looks like there's no your for the stock market balloon yes companies around the world are releasing some pretty sickly results and that's pushing shares we'll have the details in the program but first post may be transformed into a joint stock company at the beginning of twenty twelve is to be the first step in turning the service into a public preliminary estimates put its value one to one point six billion dollars

but if the company goes public the capital is ations projected to grow to more than eight billion by twenty twenty russian post owns forty two thousand branches around russia and three point one billion dollars last year. russian energy giant gazprom may build a gas pipeline from russia to china as early as twenty fifteen russia first agreed to build the pipeline to china in two thousand and two but failed to agree gas prices with beijing so we expect however the new pipeline will be a priority for china as it's already investing heavily in the two biggest energy supplies in central asia turkmenistan and kazakstan. back to russia now on corporate profits sold sixty three percent in the first half of twenty ten year on year combined pretax profits of big and mid sized enterprises reached ninety billion dollars the biggest growth was reported by property companies miners were not far behind up fifty six percent the number of fish is reporting so just.

in time to have a look at the stock markets now here in russia the falling further in the last few hours of trade top oil producer rose enough has now shed another two percent today as the price of light sweet snips near a seventy two dollars a barrel. selloff in construction and mining is chipping away at european stocks in the fog and rio tinto it's not some three percent as we trading figures on settle invested. russia second largest food retailer magnates has reported in eleven point three increase percent increase in first off profit to one hundred thirty one million dollars the company adds that capital spending for this year may reach one point three billion as it opens thirty hypermarkets and some six hundred fifty convenience stores. poland's biggest vodka producer stock spirits is looking to buy a seventy five percent stake in ukrainian distil in the mirror off according to common sense daily the polish company is going to be good right to acquire the

shares and will make a final decision in a month the mirror positioned mated to be worth three hundred seventy million dollars there is another possible buy for the stake russian standard which previously expressed an interest in the asset saying it's still considering a bid. russia's biggest mine and their us nickel is currently the subject of a fierce fight for control tycoons all of their past going to dimia patani and both own blocking shares in the group each wants to buy the other routes although not the ones to sell but what's at stake in this battle of the billionaires our correspondent such a conflict of visits the town of norilsk. the waltz richest nickel called the last set of months of positive hair and. the production facilities of nickel stretch out the mountains dominating the town and providing a much of the local employment like many other commodity produces more rose was hit by the financial crisis how about this region suffered few cuts for all of the degrees of the punters overcome the crisis quite successfully it 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 fortunate last year the company reported to twenty seven percent drop in revenue to top 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 copper was. that it take my mouth shut my mouth was my. the c.e.o. of neurochemical is keen to modernize and just promising to spend nearly half

a billion dollars next year on cleaning up operations but. worried about how the shareholder battle for control of the company impact capital expenditure on their profit on the situation is quite difficult as you know there are several ways shareholders and managers view it as something that you should take well you can now without thinking of the company's future other shareholders who are in for the long term think that such a polish he would slow down the company's development and would have pushed the negative impact in the future i believe. we may also face a negative impact if even money spent i suppose the idea of adequate actions the dividends should be paid but in adequate volumes and not impede the company's further development allegations of mismanagement of the company 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 wants the company to focus on what he calls investment into the mount however unlikely to happen until the conflict between is resolved. business r.t. . wall street futures a sharply down the head of the opening bell join us for starting figures in fifteen minutes time.

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