u.s. vice president joe biden is in baghdad overseeing the official august thirty first end of the american combat mission in iraq operation iraqi freedom is now over but all combat troops have left the country washington says this means the end of the seven year long war that killed over four thousand u.s. troops and whether around fifty thousand american service personnel will stay to train and support iraqi forces they will be able to take part in combat than the iraqis asked them to but i list say baghdad doesn't control the country which remains split played by insurgent violence last week alone dozens of iraqis died in the wave of terror attacks of anti war activist brian becker says the war is far from over and americans will continue to die in iraq. we see a rebranding of the occupation if you leave fifty thousand heavily armed soldiers backed by all sorts of aircraft the latest high tech aircraft of course all of 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 by a certain diminishing of the occupation in terms of some of the troop numbers but are we branding of the occupation so that instead of calling it combat troops they call it advisory 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. three men have broken into the building of the mosque regions prosecutor general's office and cracked twenty five safes containing information on how to cases where that's no cost a lot of who's outside of the office that was targeted the tell you do we know what

they actually stole. what would you do for a fact like you just said that they broke into eighteen offices and managed to open twenty five saves but for now there are two versions. position of their watches prosecutor's office as set by its official representative general market is that no valuable documents were stolen out of the building and if that in fact the robbers were only after material goods. or possible for me is the person the examination of the crime scene showed that a t.v. set and a video camera had been stolen materials from criminal cases and evidence remained untouched believe investigators. the robbers looked for valuable goods the same night another crime was committed in the building of the c. moscow scientific production association which is located near the investigative service the criminals use similar tactics the investigators have every reason to

believe that the same group is responsible for both crimes against. the world meanwhile the fact that their robbers spend several hours inside the building have has allowed some advocates to believe that they were indeed after some very valuable documents and they claim that so many important documents are right now missing from the building including some who don't cases and say that russia's prosecutor's office doesn't want to relieve reveal that information simply including cases such of the one of an editor in chief of a minor moscow newspaper who was heavily beaten up because of his professional exceeded his and another case of a general shot mana who is over a quite a well known criminal in moscow no major cases but their advocates seem to believe that said they could have been for the reason for their upper in the first place but the tell you this must have been

a high security building so how on earth did they manage to enter it and get as far as they did in the first place. where the cells are according to russian news agencies it sounds like here the barber has managed to get inside the building quite easily at one o'clock this morning three on monday and identified men. broke into this building that you can see behind me they basically pulled off the fences of the windows on the first floor on the of the building and medics to get in according to the new news agencies once again there was only one security guard in sight that building who happened to be a retired man with no weapons so obviously it would be quite difficult for him to give a proper rebuff to the robbers after that they spent several hours inside. the building and then there's the question right now is underway by the russia's prosecutor's office within the walls of one of the buildings or one of its departments ok thanks for the r.t.

and the telling of of reporting outside the prosecutor general office building which was robbed this morning. in eastern india crop failure due to a severe two year drought is pushing one british to take extreme measures inhabitants all threatening to mass suicide saying it's a better option than to continue suffering because of the lack of food and as artie's charan singh reports they've asked the government for aid but claim that so far little has been done. here in the village of you know remote part of eastern india so intricate mali 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 so reigned over twenty other farmers in the small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide. alternately we will have to do it some time so why 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 noone would like to do nearly little food to eat how many days can a person want to live. the region has had an acute drought for two years now this has driven villagers from gerard to write a letter to the president of india and the state governor asking for rations and in a geisha in facilities if help fails to work i they say they'll commit suicide. he says because we requested immediate food aid from the governor and for the long term some development work that could provide us with employment such as digging a new well and improving the route to a village which is in a bad state the farmers are desperate as the entire state of charge couldn't grapples with a forty two percent rainfall deficit this year julie mooned shows me his field which should have been full of crops at this time of year but lies buried and instead. not abused or receipts but where the last two years there hasn't been

enough water for crops to grow seeing the desperate situation no homes were thinking what is the point of living. this suicide request has george did the local administration into action promises of food and development have been made but little has actually reached the village officials at the district headquarters didn't respond to our request for an interview meanwhile enjoy the good it just wait for the promised. all 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 got and saying r.t. from the village of. well our stories appears and blogs are online any time you like at r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's there right now ever wondered what a space smells like have to guess anymore as we have the answer on our website. plus the russian empires lost gold maybe buried at the bottom of lake baikal an underwater research expedition is trying to find the treasure that was seized in the civil war almost a century ago. now russia's ban on gambling except in four designated areas has only seen underground

betting flourish the only zone that's operational is the country's south and it's failing to rake in money now the region's or thought is want to relocate it to the black sea resorts to attract more punters and lower the stakes for investors and he looks at what could be on the cards. this is a gamblers paradise 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 other swell 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 zooms

in siberia western russia the south and the east the industry reacted immediately like you know shutting down the facilities moving them abroad or going on the ground even the most successful the southern gambling zone is mostly being ignored by them to. most investors a passive many because as a city is far away from other major transportation hubs the local airports underdeveloped and the roads and not that good only to you and the other factor is that the gambling ban in russia is really hard to enforce. in cities just a few hundred kilometers away from us all police discover illegal gambling downs 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 . so we said like can't we try and do something like that in russia ship without making the same mistakes we can use the best that las vegas has to offer so. fine by decades of experience we've come up with a new concept in the resort for gambling will be just one of the highlights the idea will have to get support from the russians the duma possibly together with other amendments to help reverse the odds of getting the new gambling rules to work so for now the future of russia's biggest still looks dim leaving more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics why. our team crossed the region. some world news in brief for you now but police have captured a long sought after drug trafficker known as the barbie valdez has been blamed for

a vicious turf war that shootouts in central mexico he also faces charges in the u.s. where he's accused of distributing thousands of killers of cane brought from mexico how this could be extradited to america way two million dollars balance of. drug related violence has risen in mexico with more than twenty eight thousand lives lost since a government crackdown in two thousand and six. nato officials say four american soldiers have been killed in a hundred and style roadside bombing in eastern afghanistan raises the death toll among u.s. troops over the last four days eighteen eight nato soldiers were killed in a similar attack on monday make shift road side bombs are supposed to most of the deaths in afghanistan. drilling has begun in chile to rescue thirty three trapped miners after a shaft collapsed earlier this month the whole seven hundred meters deep if you

could put up one man at a time but the operation could take up to three months miners had first contact with loved ones on sunday. in pakistan floodwaters are finally receding after five weeks of the worst weather conditions the country has seen in decades the floods are heading for the arabian sea. after swimming two more towns in the south for its use of struggle to cope with a natural disaster calling on international assistance it's. hundreds of thousands of us. and the u.s. has announced a broader sunshines against north korea and tackling of the financial activities as well as the arms trade some individuals companies and organizations suspect the financing government assets frozen tension has sort of soul since the sinking of a south korean warship in march the loss of forty six crew members national investigation concluded the north was to blame for the attack which denies.

residents of louisiana are fighting for their right to defend themselves after they were disarmed by police when hurricane katrina struck five years ago officers confiscated guns in what was explained as an attempt to keep order but should it has been finding out and then in the u.s. state still angry over what they believe was a violation of the constitution. it's a sunday afternoon in louisiana i just came out here to shoot practice. and guns are a blazing at this shooting range. so our forty percent 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 everyday life i believe and have write this for courses later. been robbed before i know what it's like i

believe that. living in america means that we should be able to carry a handgun but that wasn't always the case so what do do you. so we've taken your weapons. richard stiring and his friend wayne shoom were on lake ponchartrain about a week after hurricane katrina made landfall and i had almost to 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 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. away from your order for a minute your private property. taken iraq. 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 and 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 is pa as they are three smith and wesson club action shotgun the twelve gauge semiautomatic joined guido's is the owner of cajun's pub she decided to take things into her own hands there was bands with. them and they were breaking into any businesses where there was no sign of anyone around and that they didn't mess with us here because i stood out front. with my shocked we don't

protected her patrons when law enforcement was nowhere in sight after guarding her pub for about a week 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 s on us put our body against the wall checked our bodies our d. 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 destruction 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 the government has the guns and the populace is 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 r. t. new orleans louisiana. when american radio host alex jones says the actions of the government five years ago did to 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 a blockade in many cases their main mission was shut the president 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 to train police 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. it was american radio host alex jones this thoughts from texas. going to go with this is

a. russian import tariffs on foreign currency going up stephanie that's right kyra the tax is already one of the highest in the wealth but it's being increased mainly to encourage foreign companies to invest in russia have lots more on that they turn the but i think just after a short break. this

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hello welcome to the business news resell the world's biggest aluminum producer has posted and that profit of one point two five billion dollars for the first half of two thousand and ten after making a loss in the same period. last year there was a considerably better than full cost in the show as a rallying strongly in hong kong where the company listed in january results says it expects a strong performance for the rest of the year as demand i'm prices continue to outstrip rising costs the company adds that it's not running a listing in russia by the end of the year. but a move putin has arrived in the city of no real skits the home of russia's biggest mine in a row cynical which is currently subject of a takeover battle between the pasta who runs roussel and the time in chief of an taxa only twenty five percent of the want to buy the other out richard recently noted that the conflict with damaging the company is meeting the bosses of the us

nickel during a visit. the second largest oil producer has announced net income for the second quarter fell sixteen percent to two billion dollars us despite a strong rise in revenues the company says it was hit by taxes and costs which rose faster than the price of crude oil. and let's have a look at the equity markets european stocks have fallen sharply on tuesday echoing the downward trend in global markets risk sensitive stocks are leading the fools with banks and commodities seeing the sharp christmass a gloomy outlook for global demand is down watching investor sentiment. russian markets are also suffering here in moscow energy stocks are falling as commodity prices weakened gas from is down one and a percent on the my sex banks are also amongst the worst performers there because shed more than one percent so far but russ telecom is continuing its winning streak the only blue chip gaining more than two percent

a sour. the central bank of russia has kept interest rates on hold at seven point seven five percent of its regular regular policy meeting earlier this week finance minister told the bank the bank that it did not need to respond to signs of food price inflation due to the drought as the situation would naturally come back into balance. russia is planning to increase the import tariffs on foreign cars the tax is currently up thirty percent one of the highest in the world to help stimulate local i think sion but in the putin said the decision will encourage foreign carmakers to invest in russia the prime minister made the statement while testing a new road linking russia's east and west but that decision could be another stumbling block in russia's bid to join the w t o which said it expects russia to decrease the tariff to fifteen percent within seven years of the session. russia has finished building its first cross country road connecting moscow to vladivostok

it's been a vast undertaking and has taken decades to complete to celebrate the event prime minister putin show five hundred kilometers through the country there's also gave him the opportunity to see what more needs to be done to improve the quality of the roads that are on your pollack over has the story. you may look like a movie star with a beautiful reporter by his side driving a lot of us through the cantrip in their pick a road trip. but this is what a real movie star saw in russia on his journey a long way around. the country's road network is not torrijos live patching and underdeveloped. country needs to build about thirty percent more roads and reconstruct the old ones. at least the speed of cargo transport would rise one and a half times if the park tools are fixed it would rise to the half times that alone

could not approve three percent to russia's g.d.p. the government is setting up a road trial and which will be financed by raising the duty on petrol. we've made a decision in principle to make road construction a priority part on budget spending the volume of the federal road trying to reach more than twelve billion dollars next year which is three billion dollars more than what we are spending. on road construction this year and the amount of money available will continue to grow it industry analysts say russia already allocates plan to offer money for roads the problem is that it's not spam to fish only which makes the cost of construction in russia one of the highest in the world despite the often poor quality of the driving sara face that's generally call of business our team and that's all the business you now but i'll be back with more of you in about an hour's time and of course you can find the stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business. come

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