as the number of u.s. troops in iraq becomes the lowest since the summer the pool table already returned home claimed they had left on the scrapheap by the very country for. just fell just some. that i don't think all of the pain itself will never ever leave me women's rights advocates in the u.k. sound the amount of local authorities failure to stop reading. this and 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 them when you look and see how all russian warships could save the unique underwater world.

very warm welcome to you this is from moscow with me alice head of the top u.s. general in iraq says there are loud fewer than fifty thousand troops in the country that's the lowest number since the start the war but once a string around the conflict zone and back in the u.s. many are finding themselves in the midst of a deadly new struggle. 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 their local bad things 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 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 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 i was talking about the problem will likely get worse for current service members who are dealing with extended and frequent deployments. 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 you know wherever you know high society you know it was bunch of people who say want to pay tax anymore. and that's going to happen again in san diego lindo r t. the us federal government violates the constitutional insults regular basis states to work for themselves to uphold the rule of law also says ours own a share for mag he's speaking to r.t. in the full interview coming up in about fifteen minutes time but here's a quick 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 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. now an alleged russian arms dealer dubbed by the west the merchant of death may be extradited to the us within hours. lawyer says a special plane has arrived to bangkok where he's currently being held when it comes all to washington off thailand to discard fresh challenges brought against him his extradition to america for alleged dealings approved last week but before that decision was the nels the us brought new challenges of money laundering and for together the rule now requires him to stay in thailand until the fresh proceedings a raid was arrested in bangkok two and a half years ago in a sting operation by us law enforcers and housebreaking prison at the sit down no

less to no with an investigative journalist says the whole process has been orchestrated to disguise the american involved but. i spend quite a bit of time in thailand researching are being targeted story and interesting bits of wood extensively over sixty times for hundreds of hours in the inquisition called i also had access to talk and told. sometimes teligent 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 so it looked actually the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boots against the trouble so that nobody could say that there was a skew decision or that nobody could say that the americans paid the ties everybody could say it was one for blood one would for the americans except that the the appeals court decision was the final decision because unfortunately in thailand there was no appeals to the supreme court as far as the for the concert but war

against borders 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 i think his chance of winning the case the united states is zero point zero united states states have spent fifteen years to try allegedly trying to catch an alleged gun runner but it was it true they spent two and half years trying to win the extradition case and it looked a bit 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. but we've got plenty more ahead for you this hour so stay with us here to find out the russian president one of the world's biggest wrong stalls and coma lasts. religious disbelief

russian recounts and disease divine right to be drug addiction are accused of posing a bigger threat than drugs. and when the u.k. medical officials say the number of women being subjected to genital mutilation is on the rise now 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 you know you may find some of the images and more and it's report just. 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 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 gentle tavia would be cut i was laid down the floor lots of her and like celebration

chairs etc and then my mouth was covered so thinks i'm awful 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 found some kind of pain all the time and that's the kind of pain which i personally have to live on a day to day basis i heard that some people just really quickly i felt like it was being sore and women's rights organization forward estimates that six and a half thousand girls in the u.k. are at 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 and sometimes it's 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 dirty instruments are used. midwife comfort momo sees the lasting effects of f g m which includes cysts on the vagina and sterility the removed everything deja referring to give or leave in the morning for the passage of law. and so on and they expect the will remain to have sexual intercourse from this more openly 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 knowledge in some communities and this has been some protests. and knowledge that some females that have had this procedure done to them by you will consider it's appropriate procedure is done to their own daughters and this is a war it's an important matter of education as well or. that it's an illegal act 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 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 are 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 to 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 nor am it r.t. london. or just to remind you we've got a lot more on our website for you r.t. dot com do log on to check out our gallery example of school cortines all you can simply follow us on twitter. a look now at some of the stories that might catch royal line of the minute the miracle of life in fashion all cop pulls flock to siberia to seek the wisdom of a god s. he's a patron for mothers read how many women then became pregnant. on the hunt saverin britain for the cat hating pensioner who strictly teens who have been while the four year old top is now safe it's the woman who's at risk after receiving death threats.

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 irish band you see to talk about music you know i come here to cross the great divide between me. and you for. the little fellows up into. the roulettes. ball i bet to get the bed of a head of a concert in moscow well wednesday it will be seen as first as a performance in russia that's three hundred sixty degrees so it was the world's most expensive to date and is expected to attract more than eighty thousand people

. and ukraine wants to sink russia's black sea fleet split all in the name of conservation a request has been made for decommissioned ships to be scuttled to create also official release in the crimea. 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 a danger that every year is getting worse to peak to or season brings large scale 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'll to braise 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 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. zordon says the idea came to him after what was seen as a major policy shift in kiev the presidents of russia and ukraine signed an agreement to prolong the stay of the russian black sea fleet in the crimea until twenty forty two where the previous administration and key of these ships of the russian black sea fleet were unwanted guests in ukraine's crimea and were to leave the area by the year twenty seventeen but after the 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 rectification of the pact of russian leaders need to remediate have said the fleet needed serious modernization and now the crimea is ready to help more school with that the head of several stoppers administration says the russian naval presence here brings massive

investment for the city's infrastructure and calls for a fitting of the ships may create jobs for the locals suppose that we have an excellent shipyard in the crimea which has been abandoned for all. 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. ski r.t. reporting from ukraine's crimea. so more news in brief e.u.

now under forty three people have been killed when an airliner crash landed in northeast china ninety one the passengers and crew all said to be on board the had an airline's flight the plane overshot the runway during a night landing and burst into flames over fifty people have been taken to hospital but the majority are in a stable condition. pakistani officials are trying to coordinate relief efforts as floodwaters affecting millions continue to rise many are fleeing their homes after the government issued new warnings making matters worse the millions to the state of call the floods swept in are a risk of water borne diseases but it's not the president that will take at least three years and tens of billions of dollars to recover from the damage. more than thirty people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the somali capital mogadishu police say a gunman stormed the building opened fire and then one of them blew himself up six

members of the country's parliamentary committee to be among the dead a militant group with linked to al qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attack . russia's anti drugs agency is play. to increase the number of state controlled rehab centers it currently says that most drug addicts get help from non-governmental the felicity some do help battle addiction others only land their patients in deeper trouble. how do you through the vice grip of drug and alcohol addiction took me nearly a decade these twenty nine year olds on a collision course with crime and with death diagnosed with 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 pills 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 with 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 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 going to do. 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 serious some experts claim recovering addicts become able to function outside of the church and sequester themselves later electing to spread the message to others in new centers and he doesn't believe he's part of a cult or. the contrary i realize it had been brainwashed all my previous life people around me had a consumer attitude but here i have pure feelings i mean your vision and

a desire to run a clinic of his own someday stacy didn't r.t. . the us president and federal government violate the constitutional a regular basis so says. richard mack he's the state sovereignty is the way to keep calls to change the biding america end times our interview with him is up next. hard to you sitting down with a retired sheriff from arizona who made national headlines in one thousand nine

hundred four when he filed a lawsuit against the federal government since then he's been encouraging state law enforcement officials to rise up against federal agents thank you very much for sitting down to speak with me today sheriff mack well thanks for having me it's great to be in new york doing law enforcement for twenty years and you were a sheriff in arizona for eight years and you argue that the sheriff is the most powerful law enforcement official in the united states more powerful than the president yes explain it well first of all it might be apples and oranges because the sheriff has a different assignment than the president but the bottom line is the president of the united states cannot tell your sheriff what to do the president is not the boss of your elected sheriff and the reason the sheriff has such a powerful position is because he is the only law enforcement officer in the united states or in the county that's elected by foreign of the people and all power in

america comes from the source and we the people. because other tyrants have stolen power and it's not how the run but it's supposed to be how they're run and james madison said we can safely rely on the disposition of state legislatures to erect barriers against the end. so the federal government so the last line of defense in making sure that happens is your county sheriff you sit on the board of a group called oath keepers that is a group of law enforcement officials and military servicemen and women that you say are now committed to upholding the oath that they have taken to defend the constitution that a novel idea we actually keep our word with out there isn't that amazing but why why why do you believe that the constitution is being violated well

because it is every day i mean if you read the constitution 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 i mean you actually said it yourself when you say the things aren't run this way anymore that isn't how things are done in government because we don't follow the constitution yet we have everybody stand up there the president on january twentieth will take an oath when he first takes office that he will uphold indy's a and preserve the united states constitution and the very next day he commits perjury because he doesn't do it and he's not alone i mean nancy pelosi doesn't keep her rose she doesn't care about the constitution harry reid doesn't care about the constitution why is this all of this uprising being seen

when president barack obama and the white house well we're americans and your fellow tea parties and the sheriff's way george w. bush was sitting in the white house for eight years i've been saying this about bush and clinton i've been saying this last twenty years but what happened the rest of the americans that are turning out are all these tea party ok but this is a valid question. and it's a good question and it's a real. phenomenon that exists and the uprising did start big time with brock obama there's no question that this uprising though was happening during clinton and bush but not on the level that it was not at the very least you know no question about it no question about it i did speaking tours before this but not at the pace i'm doing it now i mean i'm speaking two or three times a week all across america and i never have been to that we have a black president no i i'm not arsene that i have never seen now i've i've been

there and i'm sure there are some races racism here in america i have never seen it at any of the fifty or some odd sixty events i've been to the reason and i want you and everybody listening in america to know and understand it's because of barack obama's policies he took the abuse of the bush administration he took the abuse of the clinton administration to the tenth power i'm going to tell you right now for the record i will never take nationalize socialistic brok obamacare ever and if he wants to come and arrest me tell him to come on i'll give you my address because i'm not taken i don't think i want to be speaking to him any time soon that is watching our scene he should get your eyes to his this is one of the best news agencies around this rising tension that is taking place right now between local law enforcement officials and federal officials do you think it's going to get worse no i think it's actually going to get better i think the states

just as arizona is doing now with the immigration issue is going to put the federal government in its place the federal government has overplayed their hand they have made it very clear they're not going to do their jobs to protect our borders don't you find it the appear to me of hypocrisy that the federal government claims that we need to risk lives. in afghanistan and iraq because we have a war on terror but they refuse to secure our borders 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 that's the to. know 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 not in trouble marina because we're

following the constitution too closely far from 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 if if the federal government doesn't stay within their prescribe limitations in the constitution then this is going to be then this is only the beginning thank you very much for sitting down with me maria thanks for having me. and say this division. new armaments. for months of preparation. for years to launch their mine. the last effort to keep the

lead on the eastern front. leads and elephants. long and increasing. are still. managing military part of. the most heavily reinforced area. of the battle of course. it lasted forty nine day one of the luckiest battles and the turning point. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.