while u.s. vice president joe biden is in baghdad he's overseeing the official august thirty first end of american combat missions in iraq operation iraqi freedom is now over and all combat troops have left the country washington says this means the end of a seven year long war that killed over four thousand u.s. troops however around fifty thousand american service personnel will stay to train unsupportive rocky forces and they will be able to take part in combat but only if the iraqis are sincere but analysts say the dad doesn't control the country which remains splish plagued by insurgent violence last week dozens of the russians died you know wave of terror attacks british m.p. one critic of the war paul flynn says operation iraqi freedom has barely lived up to its name and it's costing us dearly. its borders a government that's corrupt to the iraqis and so very fragile freedom because there's still huge divisions between the sunni's the shiites helped on by al qaeda

but if it's a freedom it's a board at a huge cost to cost seven hundred fifty billion dollars for the americans it's a loss for the whole thousand of their soldiers at least two hundred thousand iraqis are being killed three million iraqis are exiled from their homes it's an advantage to the iraqis but at a huge cost most of them want to get rid of saddam hussein but they've had seven bloody terrible years and into the cost to the reputation of the united states as a peace making nation. well despite the pullout of u.s. combat troops from iraq more americans are still being sent to replace those remaining spot fresh antiwar protests in the united states iraqi war veteran a mathis shared with r.t. his experience of one such demonstration. we still managed to be on site at the

exact moment the buses were pulling off base to go to the airport get in the streets get our banners unfurled that said please don't make the same mistake we did resist and now in the other that said occupation is a crime this is soldiers in these buses this is the last thing that they saw on american soil before they went to get on a plane to go to iraq and i tell you we're doing this because you know we were there we care we love these soldiers who are going to commit these war crimes however we are trying to wake them up they need to understand that you know we're we're their friends next time they get ambushed when they're in iraq it's not going to be nonviolent that people there are going to resist them and when it happens it will be just this war is not over because barack obama or joe biden says combat in iraq is over does not mean soldiers are going to stop dying it does not mean they're going to stop killing people the bloodshed will continue until we withdraw and that was iraq war veteran and i can best methods sure speaking that 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 political scientists have yet to slough nichol off on how widespread the threat of terror really is. there was an assumption the terrorism is more or less localized in afghanistan and they were looking for causes of terrorism in iraq what it looks looks like it is more widespread i know we can fly and the terrorist training grounds in some countries. are also quite active in central asia in the former soviet union so it is spreading. financing. weapons are there. courses for terrorism or created.

always daily. and you can hear more of what he has to say in the full interview that's around twenty minutes time right here on our. well three russian pilots abducted in sudan have now been freed both sudanese and russian officials have confirmed their release the pilots were kidnapped by armed men in the volatile darfur region last sunday it's unclear on what terms the three were released as previously there were reports the kidnappers wanted a ransom the russians were employees of a sudanese airline and the incident is the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners in the country. well coming up for you a little later in the program here when i see people in the u.s. state of louisiana who had their guns confiscated off the hurricane katrina are now firing back at the gulf.

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the world join technology update on our jeep in eastern india due to a severe two year drought is pushing one village to take extreme measures than happened and saw threatening to commit mass suicide saying it's a better option than continuing to suffer because of a lack of food and sing reports they've asked the government for aid but claims 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. into mutely we will have to die sometime 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 would like to die early without 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 jakarta 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 arrive 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 road to a village which is in a bad state the families are desperate as the entire state of charcoal grapples with a forty two percent rainfall deficit this year julie shows me his field which should have been full of crops at this time of year but lice bad and instead. of used up

all are seeds but for the last two years there hasn't been enough water for crops to grow seeing the desperate situation you know homes were thinking what is the point of living. the suicide request has george at 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 villagers wait for the promised. new of the senior officials to have visited us from the local administration along with our elected member of parliament they've given us this year and since but i do know when to expect action it may take five days fifteen days or even a month and we are. 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 seeing r.t. from the village of. residence in the u.s. state of louisiana fighting for their right to defend themselves police confiscated guns off the hurricane katrina struck five years ago it was an attempt to keep order amid the looting and violence which followed but as priya straight out has been finding out many in the state hostile 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. thanks and guns are a blazing at this shooting range. thanks so i have forty percent thanks 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 everyday life i believe

part and have a right to shoot for ask questions later. i've been robbed at gunpoint 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 do. 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 the same away 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 war on manage your private

property i just don't have any right 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 and whatever the government has the guns and the populace doesn't have the guns the government does what it wants 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 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 there was no sign of anyone around and that

they didn't mess with us here because i stood out front. with my. we don't protected her patrons when law enforcement was nowhere in sight after guarding her pub for about a week quito as 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 their bodies i do 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 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 r.t. new orleans louisiana. and american radio host alex jones says the actions of the

government five years ago did breach people's rights to defend themselves what's scary here is the first time the federal government was able to take control of a us city during an emergency they wouldn't bring food and water to the people at 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 choti cherami 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 train 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. and that was american radio host alex jones

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in the country. in the money now the region. of the black sea resort. the stakes for investors. looks at what could be on the. this is a gamblers paradise the oracle 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 four specially designated and developed zones 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 un to nurse. in the 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 like good only that 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 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 ship without making the same mistakes we can use the best that las vegas has to offer so. fine by decades of experience essentially we've come up with a new concept then the resort for gambling will be just one of the highlights the idea will have to get support from the russian state 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. still looks dim even more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics alike. are crossing the region. it's now just approaching the twenty minute mark of the hour here in moscow you are with r.t. and in just a few moments stephanie monday will be here with the latest from the world of business but for the meantime let's get to some other news making headlines all around the world mexican police have captured a long sought after

a drug trafficker known as the bobby valdez has been blamed for a vicious turf war that included shootouts in central mexico he also faces charges in the u.s. where he's accused of distributing thousands of kilos of cocaine from mexico valdez could be extradited to america where he has a two million dollars bounty on his head the 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 taliban style road tried bombing in eastern afghanistan raises the death toll among u.s. troops over the last four days to eighteen eight nato soldiers were killed in a similar attack on monday and one stone in subbasement was killed the same day in a separate incident. drilling has begun in chile to rescue thirty three trapped miners after

a shaft collapsed earlier this month the hole will be seven hundred meters deep and big enough to pull off one man at a time but the operation could take up to three months the miners had their first telephone contact with loved ones on sunday. and in pakistan floodwaters finally receding after five weeks of the worst weather conditions the country has seen in decades the floods heading for the arabian sea after swallowing two more towns in the south of the already have struggled to cope with a natural disaster calling on international assistance extreme weather claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands homeless. the u.s. has announced a broader sanctions against north korea. financial activity is there as well as the arms trade individuals companies and organizations suspected of financing pyongyang's government have now had their assets frozen tension has soared with seoul since the sinking of a south korean warship in march with them also forty six crew members an

international investigation concluded the north was to blame for the attack. well artie's exclusive interview with political scientists of the coffee is coming up in about ten minutes from now first though let's turn it over to stephanie with the latest business news. hello and welcome to the business bulletin resell the world's biggest producer has posted a profit of one point two seven billion dollars for the first half of two thousand and ten off to making a loss in the same period last year the results were considerably better than full cost and the company's shares were rallied in hong kong but the company listed in january says it expects a strong performance for the rest of the year as demand i'm prices continue to outstrip but growing calls. putin has arrived in the city of no risk

it's the home of russia's biggest mine that no real snicko just carney the subject of a takeover battle between. runs reso. tom and chief of interest but it's only twenty five percent of them want to buy the. recent you know to put the conflict was damaging the company he is making the bosses of neurosurgical the visit. has been talking to the media about its results on the shareholder situation with no real cynical at a conference in moscow who are opposed to medina coaching of a has just come from that and she joins me now. medina so how is it worse a car for its position on the shareholder dispute with the real cynical. well we managed to receive some information about the un going to speak with in the shareholders here in moscow off through the press conference that just taking place in this building this is beyond what are you surprised but unfortunately the general director for selig to get couldn't take part in the press conference as he

is right now in the russian city of no where else where he's attending him and saying what the prime minister would like even pretend like human. rights to see money turn into to crime and right in the middle of the shareholders so conflicts well we money street league money your money spent is not this all does not plan to sell. for straight up the steps of the strategic stake or also the strategic investment. we're going to keep protests benefitted from but to the dance from the rising. value of the stake that's why we got to keep that for. we also also there are some fears that there be

a russian government it will be and stop in to the shareholders conflict of the existing shareholders of payload to result the dispute in the nearest future by demand which in just mentioned that piece is some progress in the conflict but i'm sure we'll see more and we'll receive more information on this very topic i write so when the mexican norilsk is over. do you know now let's turn to russo's results with a whirl were saved. a meanwhile were cell indeed was just a review is twenty time for a cell for a cell it's and the company's top management told us that they're quite happy for the worth of the outcome of the companies and. not profit he had one point two million dollars in difference this year also the producer managed to complete commissioning a five year close medium small tour as well as a restart production. medium smelter and well let's listen to some of the common

stuff there were made so by the deputy general director of. the record with us results for the first second quarter our artists who would cost from the first quarter the most was also the first quarter. who could move us to meet what we had in the first what we think it was to be the. twenty first heart of the project to the first quarter. to our control because the this is a moment when three billion. meanwhile we sell also plans to list shares in russia at the end of this year after it went public in hong kong at the beginning of this year. medina thank you very much that was our t. correspondent medina courtroom by joining us live from the resort headquarters in

moscow and we'll be hearing more from her later on throughout the day. let's turn now to the equity markets here pm stocks have fallen sharply on tuesday echoing down with global markets risk sensitive stocks are leading the fools with francs and commodities seeing the shoppers through a gloomy outlook for global demand is damaging investor sentiment. in russian markets the suffering here in moscow energy stocks are falling outs commodity prices weaken gas form is down more than one percent in the my sex parent so also among the worst performance there. more than one percent so far telecom is continuing its winning streak the only breach of more than two percent this hour. luko russia second largest oil producer has announced that income for the second quarter fell sixteen percent to two billion dollars that's despite a strong rise in revenues the company says it was hit by taxes costs which raised funds to the price of crude oil. on the central bank of russia has cut interest

rates on hold at seven point seven five percent of its regular policy meeting finance minister told the bank this week that it did not need to respond to food price inflation due to the drought as the situation would not surely come back into balance. not so the business use for now but of course you can always find most stories on a website called flash business. there

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