in iraq has reached its august thirty first expiry date operation iraqi freedom officially ends and come back troops are heading home washington says this means the end of the second war in the country that killed four u.s. troops around fifty thousand american service personnel. to train support around the forces are going to say but that doesn't control the nation which remains split played by insurgent violence last week of the dozens of iraqis died in the wake of terrorist attacks across the country and the war activist says the war is far from over but americans to die in iraq we see a rebranding you know the occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest high tech aircraft of course all the naval destroyers the submarines the aircraft carriers that are all throughout the region that have cruise missiles and all sorts of means by which to

intervene in iraq we see now the end of an occupation but a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but a rebranding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it rise of the troops they still have guns they still shoot those guns when they're shot at in their head they die it won't be sufficient to tell iraqis on september first or second or american families who have g.i.'s and loved ones there who may perish after the so-called end of the war that their loved ones indeed are not dead because the war has been officially ended i believe the occupation of iraq will go on for many years thousands of soldiers who are now back home having a hard time coping with what they experienced on the battlefield in iraq war veteran activist tim webster says the strain the fighting troops are bound to make mistakes. i did that situation. reacted like. that

situation there's a lot of things when some soldiers work. with the job. so. yeah i expect there was a lot of fiction. and i. was approached by stress soldiers how soldiers cope when they come back with realization of. one in my opinion the wolves or the eagle how do you cope with that when you come back and. you've got a medal for war that is now we look more like a stain on the countries. or something that many people are proud to say that they have. that was iraq war veteran activists webster well while the prospect of terrorism still remains high in iraq it's also at the forefront of other conflicts in the world we speak to a political scientists. on how widespread the threat of terror.

there was an assumption that terrorism is more a less localized you know again and then they were looking for causes of terrorism in iraq what it looks looks like it is more widespread now we can fly and the terrorist training grounds in some countries of southeast asia. there are also quite active in central asia in the former soviet union so it is spreading as financing. weapons are there. courses for terrorism or created. almost daily. and you can hear more of what which is love making off has to say the full interview in around twenty minutes time. now it's a big day for germans who are marking twenty years since they were formally

reenacted into a single nation the grand celebration will be held in berlin on tuesday chancellor angela merkel who hails from oh g.-d. will make a speech to mark the anniversary the capital and the country was split in half after world war two of the four. paved the way for my to. the first of august one thousand nine hundred treaty sealed easter break up the integration into your first twenty years on many germans in the east who are second class citizens forming twice as high as the west of wages almost a third higher local said east germans hardly reached the standards of living promised twenty years ago. now russia's ban on gambling excepting for designated areas has only seen underground betting flourish uni's and that's operational is in the country's south and it's failing to break in money when other regions of storage is want to relocate it nearer to the black sea resorts to

attract more punters and there are the stakes for investors. looks at what could be on the cards. this is a gambler spare a dice the oracle offers all kinds of games from the army of one armed bandits to poker and roulette. however most of the time the place is deserted. this is the only legal casino in russia a private company invested ten million dollars into its construction and even though there are a few willing to build gambling spots here in the area it still looks like most in the industry see it as making bats in a burning house last year russian lawmakers banned all casinos and gambling clubs across the country to be replaced by force specially designated and developed serves in siberia western russia the south and east the industry reacted immediately but you know shutting down the facilities moving them abroad or going on the ground even the most successful. zone is mostly being ignored by the

enterprise nurse. most investors are passive mainly because as the city is far away from other major transportation hubs the local airports underdeveloped in the roads and look like it only to you and the other factor is that the gambling ban in russia is really how it was sort of out there in cities just a few hundred kilometers away from us police discover illegal gambling down every week. of course it's officially prohibited but in our neighborhood everyone knows where to find the underground gambling den you can have a good time there if you play your cards right in the regions authorities have come up with a new plan to make the rules work they want to relocate the whole seldom gambling zone closer to popular tourist destinations like the black sea coast resort the phenomena and inspired by les vegas they wanted to be about more than just gambling . and so we said why can't we try and do something like that in russia shipping it

without making the same mistake we can use the best that las vegas has to offer was a. fine by decades of experience essentially we've come up with a new concept in the resort so again plea will be just one of the highlights of the idea we'll have to get support from the russian state duma possibly together with other amendments to help reverse the yacht's of getting to you get the news to work so can you know if you're sure of russia's coolest bagus still looks did more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics why. our team crossed their reach. well coming up later in the program in the u.s. state of louisiana guns confiscated. bummer about the government. and discover why these people threatened to commit suicide and could change their minds stories coming your way a little later. which

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restaurants all over louisiana are fighting for their right to the fend themselves off they were disowned by police when hurricane katrina struck five years ago officers confiscated guns in what was explained as an attempt to keep order but. has been finding out many in the state are still angry with what they believe was a violation of the constitution. it's a sunday afternoon in louisiana i just came out here to shoot practice. thanks and guns are a blazing at this shooting range. thanks so our forty percent thank you i believe everybody should have the right to defend themselves at any cost in this part of the united states the right to bear arms is part of every day life i believe person has a right to shoot for ask questions later. i've been robbed at gun point before and

i know what it's like i believe that. living in america maybe so we should be able to carry a handgun but that wasn't always the case so what do you know so we take any weapons. richard stiring and his friend wayne shoom were on lake ponchartrain about a week after hurricane katrina made landfall and i had almost say anywhere from six inches to a foot of water in the house. but it was still there they went to styron's house to get his things we heard of the. stuff that was going on in the wall and all the shooting and the people that were getting heard some killed from what i've been told. while heading back across the lake the pair was stopped by law enforcement and asked to give up their weapons. from your order your private property. taken here. as the hurricane took the city by storm residents felt their

constitutional rights were being blown away the armed populace keeps a government in check the government should not be in charge of the populace the populace should run the government at whatever the government has the guns and the populace doesn't have the guns the government does what it was in the aftermath of katrina new orleans was in complete chaos law enforcement couldn't handle all the problems and on streets like this one every single building with looted except for one occasion spot as they are three smith and wesson club action shotgun twelve gauge semiautomatic joined guido's is the owner of cajun's pub she decided to take things into her own hands there was vans with. them and they were breaking into any businesses where they are see no sign of anyone around and that they didn't mess with us here because i stood out front. with my shocked we dosed

protected her patrons when law enforcement was nowhere in sight after guarding her pub for about a week we decided to evacuate u.s. marshals came across this in front saw me with my shotgun you know they pulled about a dozen m. sixteen sourness put her body against the wall. took all my weapons and then left she couldn't believe this was happening in the united states i was furious i had no way of protecting myself beyond the physical distress. action they saw their city and even their country transforming before their eyes look at the communist countries look at cuba look at nicaragua look at any country you want to take where the government has the guns and the populace is not are and look at how they live and how they're treated it's a story they want remembered so it never happens again preassure either party new orleans louisiana but american radio host alex jones says the actions of the government five years ago did the breach people's right to defend themselves what's

scary here is the first time the federal government was able to take control of a u.s. city during an emergency they wouldn't bring food and water to the people of the superdome in fact they blockade in many cases their main mission was set the precedent to get the american people's guns five years later we still see the continued anti second amendment mission of the federal government we are now a total third world police state total terror in a setting in and the system doesn't know what to do because they haven't been able to get our guns yet and they tried to use katrina as a case point to set the precedent and a trend of illegal nationwide under federal and f.b.i. control to go into high and dry areas and take people's right to defend themselves and leave them by themselves to be right robbed and killed by the looters many of which were the government themselves. i was american radio host alex jones sharing his thoughts from texas well the last story as we gaze and blogs online any time

you like it on t. dot com let's have a quick look at what's there right now. and one what space smell is not going to have to guess anymore because we have the answer on our web site. well certainly a russian empire is most goals maybe bambi don't look like the water search expedition he's trying to find the treasure that you ceased to listen to the most a century ago. in eastern india a crop failure due to a severe it two year drought is pushing one british to take extreme measures we have been so threatening to commit mass suicide saying it's a better option than to continue suffering because of the lack of food on the

counseling reports they've asked the government for eight claim that so far little has been done. here in the village of you know remote part of eastern india. molly spends time with his family including his little grandson this may look like one happy picture but the reality is quite the opposite with no food to eat. and over twenty other farmers in the small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide. to be clear we will have to die sometime so horny suffer like this every day it's better to die now we're so hopeless that we've come to the conclusion that committing suicide is the best option would like to die early without food to eat how many days per person when. the region has had elocute drought for two years now this has driven villagers from just write a letter to the president of india and the state government asking for rations and

it a geisha in facilities if help. they say they'll commit suicide a column of them look he says because we requested immediate aid from the governor and for the long term development that could provide us with employment such as digging a new well and improving the route to a village which isn't a bad story and the families are desperate as the state of charge could grapples with a forty two percent rainfall deficit this year. as field which would have been full of crops at this time of year but lies baton instead. not in used up all receipts but over the last three years there hasn't been enough water i want to grow seeing the desperate situation you know homes where thinking what is the point of living. this suicide request has georget the local administration into action promises of food and development have been made but little has actually reached the

village official that the district headquarters didn't respond to our request for an interview meanwhile enjoy going to just wait for the promised. the senior officials have visited us from the local administration along with our elected member of parliament they've given us assurances but i do know when to expect action it may take five days fifteen days or even a month. and clearly not so important to the government. this crisis has been in the making for two years now and this letter has just brought it out into the open with an entire village driven to despair the government will have to take urgent steps to prevent this from snowballing into a major crisis. r.t. from the village of. now to some other news making headlines around the world this hour the u.s. has announced plans to use sanctions on north korea that tackling illicit. as well as the arms of some individuals companies and romanization suspected of. government

have had their assets frozen tension a song or so since the sinking of a south korean warship in march and also six crew members national best potions to the north was to blame for the attack which denies. mexican police have captured along a sought after drug traffickers and then this bobby valdez has been blamed for vicious turf war thing with shootouts central mexico. faces charges in the west bank is accused of distributing thousands of killers a case brought from mexico. could be extradited to the american city two million dollars bounty on his head for drug related violence has risen in mexico with twenty eight thousand lives lost since a government crackdown in six. drilling has begun in chile to rescue thirty three trapped miners the shaft collapsed earlier this month the hole

will be seven hundred meters deep deep enough to one man to time but the operation could take up to three months the miners their first telephone contact with loved ones on sunday. and the u.s. has issued warnings there may be catastrophic damage caused by being storm that's gaining strength it's been upgraded to a category four hurricane is expected to hit america's east coast like it's week earl has already left a trail of destruction on some target audience property damage the trees are rooted . a little later we take a closer look at how russia is dealing with terrorism in north caucuses that's in around ten minutes time now there's the joneses for a business news update and it's second quarter reporting season well he took a so fast it is carry lots of russian companies are announcing their results all through this week and it's a bit of a mixed bag so far but i'll have more details for you in just a few minutes but fast. russia is planning to increase the import tariffs on

foreign cars the tax is currently at thirty percent one of the highest in the world to help stimulate. the decision will encourage foreign carmakers to invest in russia the prime minister made the statement while testing a new road linking russia's west but the decision. to join the e.u. which said it expects russia to decrease the tariff to fifteen percent within seven years of recession. russia has finished building its first cross country road connecting moscow to got a bus stuck it's been a vast undertaking and has taken decades to complete to celebrate the event promise of putin growth two and a half thousand kilometers through the country this also gave him the opportunity to see what more needs to be done to improve the quality of the roads public over has the story. he may look like a movie star with a beautiful reporter by his side driving a lot of the cartridge in there take

a road trip. this is what a real star saw in russia on his job and the long way around. the country network is not torah patchett developed going to say the country needs to build about thirty percent more roads and reconstruct the old ones. are at least the speed of cargo transport drives one and a half times if the port tools are fixed if you drive. along you could not apparent three percent to russia's g.d.p. the government is setting up a road trial and which will define it by raising the duty on petrol. we've made a decision in principle to make construction a priority part of the budget spending the volume of the federal. dollars next year

which is three billion dollars more. what no screening on construction this year and the amount of money around continue to grow each industry analysts say russia all right to allocates monny for roads the problem is that it's not spam sufficiently which makes the cost of construction in russia one of the highest. just part of the off. off the driving surface that's jennifer you. know let's have a quick look at how the other two markets are shaping up asian stocks tumbling on tuesday wall street overnight worries about the pace of recovery prompted by than expected economic data out of the u.s. is keeping a many investors on the sidelines in tokyo streets full on a strong yen dragging on the market and the nikkei is headed for its biggest fall in weeks even though the bank of japan tried to halt the japanese cars use rise on monday as the yeah it's once again advancing against the dollar and not damaging

exports has. and here in moscow the o.t.s. has just started trading and it's already shed more than one percent my six will open in just a few minutes a third of a percent on monday products outperform one percent and you may just also made significant gains. and russia second largest oil producer has just announced its net income for the second quarter of two thousand and ten so sixteen percent to two billion dollars ripe with the same period last year meanwhile because revenues rose almost a third to twenty five billion dollars and net income of russian mobile phone operator megafauna raised thirty six percent in the second quarter to four hundred million dollars the company boosted the number of its subscribers eighteen point seven percent reaching fifty four million by the end of june it's now overtaken rival be learning to become the second largest operator in russia. russian billionaire alexei more to show it is looking to take

a block. minority stake in europe's leading travel group too we agee two we sure as raise six percent on the news on monday motor shops company and screw the first invested into the three years ago with eighteen percent of the company it's now one of the major shareholders another of the company shareholders no region investor fredrickson has reduced his book from nineteen to just over fifteen percent though he said he does not intend to sell fish as. fredrickson has disagreed with to his management of the strategy and corporate governance european gas giants and suez have started negotiations with gazprom a new gas price formulas they are looking to adopt the conditions of gas deliveries to the current situation some of us forms clients want to transfer up to forty percent of gas deliveries to spot prices which are now lower than prices fixed in traditional long term contracts analysts say gas form will have to react to the new demands of the market but so far. it is not reconsidering already existing

contracts. and not so businesses for now but i'll be back with more for you in about an hour's time and of course you can find more stories on our website that's on t. dot com slash business. there

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