number of u.s. troops in iraq comes from lowest since the start of the war and those who are ready were turned home they may have been left on the scrapheap by the very country base far more. than just fellow just some. that i don't think will at the pain itself will never ever meet. women's rights advocates in the u.k. sound the alarm over the authorities failure to stop a growing part of female circumcision also. according to the agreements between kiev and moscow the russian black sea fleet ships will stay in ukraine's crimea until twenty fourth due to what some in this black sea resort area are now willing to sink them we looked into how old russian warships could save the unique underwater world of the black sea.

it's seven pm in moscow and this is our to you coming to you live with me and you so now way first up this hour of the top u.s. general in iraq says there are no fewer than fifty thousand troops in the country the lowest number since the start of the war but once those troops are out of the conflict zone and back in the u.s. many are finding themselves in the midst of a deadly new struggle to window sent us this report. f. by the government but still more treason you know and yeah that's me i don't think they they they show enough respect to the local bad things bryan 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 britain 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 know we

can't help you for them to walk away and think that there's no hope for them. you know i get hooked on 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 that 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 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 a you know it was a bunch of politically correct people living 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. the u.s. federal government violates the constitution on such a regular basis that states have to work for themselves to up hold the rule of law so says i resign as sheriff richard mack he's spoken to r.t. and the full interview is coming your way in over an hour's time but here's a preview. when i was a rookie cop 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 i 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 standing fighting and he wrecked in the barriers against the encroachments of the national government the federal government. and alleged russian arms dealer dubbed by the west the merchant of death may be extradited to the u.s. within hours after boots lawyer says a special plane has arrived in bangkok where he's currently being held it comes after washington asked thailand to discard fresh charges brought against him his extradition to america for a let's 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 alone 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 us law enforcers and has been in prison ever since well daniel

estulin author and investigative journalist says the whole process has been orchestrated to disguise american involvement. i spend quite a bit of time in researching the story and intriguing bits of wood extensively over sixty five for hundreds of hours and in president quality i also had access to. intelligence and time children's officers a very high. lovell 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 so it looked actually the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boards against big trouble so that nobody could say that it was askew decision that nobody could say to the american spade the ties everybody could say it was one for blood what it 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 war against board is basically a war against russia if you could destroy the 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 i think is chance of winning the case the united states is zero point zero united states states have spent fifteen years trying to allegedly try to catch an alleged gun runner but that it was it true they spent two and half years trying to win the extradition case and it would actually serve 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. we're coming to you live from moscow have got plenty more ahead for you this hour stay with our team to find out just what the russell factor then and one of the world's biggest rock stars have in common plus.

religious disbelief russian rehab centers using divine guidance to beat drug addiction are accused of posing a bigger threat than drugs themselves. 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 you may find some of the images and more and that's right. school holidays for some golden afternoons in the park but for others a horrific ordeal aged fifteen u.k. born jay kumar as mother took her home to sierra leone for an initiation ceremony jay had big ideas of evenings around the fire cooking and gossiping with female relatives she had no idea that during the celebration of her womanhood her gentle tavia would be cut i was laid down lots of. like celebration

chairs etc and then my mouth was covered so thinks my four 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 have to fight 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 if we have on a day to day basis i heard that some people just 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's evidence that it is being done in this country female genital mutilation is performed for cultural reasons and justified as

a religious requirement all 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 that's an thomas' hospital in london is one of the senses that deals with those repercussions some girls die they bleed to death or develop techniques infections when do. the instruments they used midwife comfort momo sees the lasting effects of f g m which include cysts on the vagina and sterility the removed everything. leaving more for the passage of law. and so on and they expect the will remain to have sexual intercourse from this opening if g.m. is thought to be so prevalent in the u.k. local authorities have set up task 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 we. some communities and this has been some protests. and knowledge that some females that have had this procedure done to them but you will consider appropriate procedure is done to their own daughters and this is a war it's an important matter of education as well. 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 jay 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 a term over their 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. r.t. london. but just to remind you we've got a lot more on our website our team dot com my vantage check out our galleries political cartoons are simple follow us on twitter. well look now at some of the stories that might catch your eye on mine the miracle of life infertile couples flock to siberia to seek the wisdom of god this was a patron for mothers how many women then became pregnant. and the hands over in britain from the cat hating pensioner who threw a kidney into a bin but while before your old tabby is now safe it's the woman who is at risk after receiving death threats.

well president medvedev is renowned for his love of rock music so it's no surprise he found time to meet the front man of the bad you to talk about what else then music. you know i come here to cross great to buy between me led zeppelin for you to keep for. the little fellows up into. obama met me there medvedev ahead of a concert in a moscow on wednesday it will be due to his first ever performance in russia their three hundred sixty degree show is the world's most expensive to date and is expected to attract more than eighty thousand people. ukraine wants to sink russia's black sea fleet but all in the name of conservation a request been made for decommissioned ships to be scuttled to create artificial

reefs in the crimea alexy yourself 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 pete season brings launch pollution too young to play on the water feel sick leaning 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. 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. 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. as 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 state 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 a green when it 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 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 is administration says the russian naval press. it's here brings massive investment for the city's infrastructure and calls for a fitting of the ships may create jobs for the locals she said was the news that we

have an excellent shipyard in the crimea which has been abandoned for almost two decades if most school 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 our factory which was one of the best in the country just several decades ago april spark of agreement sparked a 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. let's take a look now at some world news for you this hour pakistani officials are trying to coordinate relief efforts as flood waters affecting millions continue to rise many

are fleeing their homes after the government is your new warnings making matters worse the millions that escaped before the flood swept in are at risk of waterborne diseases pakistan's president warns it will take at least three years and tons of billions of dollars to recover from the damage. at least thirty two people have been killed in an attack on a hotel when the somali capital mogadishu police say gunmen stormed the building opened fire and then blew themselves up six members of the country's parliament are reported to be among the dead a militant group with links to al qaida has claimed responsibility for the attack. at a u.s. police patrol cameras captured the moment as speeding car lost control and crashed the nineteen year old driver hit a barrier and was launched into a concrete pillar the driver survived but is in critical condition. the russians drugs agency is planning to increase the number of state controlled rehab centers

it 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 are facing provincial courts. how do you through the my spread of drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly a decade this twenty nine year old on a collision course with crime and 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 realize 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 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 with if someone talks to fishermen he's likely to become one too but 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 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 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 sex become able to function outside of the church and sequestered felt later electing to spread the message to others in new center answer me can now 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 i have people feelings and a new version and a desire to run a clinic of his own someday. r.t. and that's where the news looks this hour for marty business is up next daniel stay with us.

the business russia's post service may be transformed into a joint stock company at the beginning of twenty twelve this would be the first step in turning the service into a public plan and the rest must put its value at one to one point six billion dollars but if the company goes public the cup solicitation is projected to grow to more than eight billion by twenty twenty russian post owns forty two thousand branches across the country 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 on gas prices with beijing but some experts felt 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 kazakstan. back to russia now on corporate profits soared 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 reports of property companies miners were not far behind fifty six percent the number of business is reporting a loss filter just. tons of a look at the stock markets they ended in the red in the last hour of trade topo producer rose enough to shed some two percent as the price of light sweet slipped near a seventy two dollars a barrel. russia's second largest food retailer magnate reports an eleven point three percent increase in first off profit to one hundred thirty one million dollars the company as the capital spending for this year may reach one point three billion as it opens thirty hypermarkets and some six hundred fifty convenience stores. holden's biggest vodka producer stock spirits is looking to buy a seventy five percent stake in ukrainian distil in the mirror of according to common sense daily the polish company has gained exclusive rights to acquire the shares and will make a final decision in

a month's mirror for this to make it to be worth three hundred seventy million dollars meanwhile there is another possible buy for the stake russian standard which previously expressed an interest in the us saying it's still considering a bit. russia's biggest mana norilsk nickel is currently the subject of a fierce fight for control talkers only there are past couple of them a patrol in both going twenty five percent of the group. throughout all the nor the was to so but what's at stake in this both of the billion is our correspondent natalee clover visits the town of the reals. the world's richest nickel compound the latter set of months of positive here and the area the production facilities of chemicals 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 however this region suffered few cuts rolled partials 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 fully move production juvie to hard times not all nor nickels factories was so fortunate last year the company reported twenty seven percent drop in revenue to tap 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. my . the my that. was. 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 the drug he's worried

about how the shareholder battle for control of the company will impact capital expenditure that was the proper time the situation is. point 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 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 development allocations of mismanagement of the company somewhat hard to substantiate production costs and profitability are comparable with international competitors but does face a challenging future. space is shrinking and the price of extraction rising the

chief wants the company to focus on what he calls investment into the mound however that's unlikely to happen until the conflict between is resolved. business our team. is here in moscow you can always find more stories on our website dot com business.

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