its combat mission in iraq will come to its official end within hours u.s. vice president joe biden is in baghdad overseeing it with all the american combat troops having already left the country washington says this means the end of the seven year long war that killed over four thousand u.s. troops however about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces u.s. troops will no longer be allowed to go on combat missions unless requested and accompanied by iraqi forces but many analysts say baghdad doesn't control the country which remains split and plagued by insurgent violence last week alone dozens of iraqi citizens died in a wave of terror attacks john walker lindh from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the war in iraq is far from over. there's no real withdrawal at all on the contrary fifty thousand troops are going to remain in iraq so what we're dealing with here is a political package it's an administrative change the troops who are already in

iraq will stay there the name of the mission changes but they will still be combat troops they will still be engaged in combat operations after all an american soldier died again only on sunday so this is indeed all about presenting or rather creating a reality which in fact does not exist the collapse of state power in iraq and the fact that it is effectively an occupied country means that it doesn't have self-determination. i think that people who argue in favor of this war say that the achievement of democracy at least on paper made it worth it i'm not sure of course whether the many hundreds of thousands of people who've been killed would agree with that but even if one can say that the situation has in some respects improved to the extent that there is no longer a dictatorship my own view is that the human cost in terms of deaths is much too high. now despite the pullout of u.s.

combat troops from iraq more americans are still being sent to replace those remaining this is spa fresh antiwar protests in the united states iraq war veteran a mathis she ruined told of 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 on for all that said please don't make the same mistake we did resist and now in the other that said occupation is a crime this 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 work rhymes 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 . iraq veteran and he will activist the math is talking well a while to remains a threat in iraq it's also at the forefront of all the trouble spots in the world political scientists of nicolo says the danger is widespread. 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. they are also quite active in central asia in the former

soviet union so it is spreading as financing. weapons are there. and courses for terrorism are created. almost daily. and you can hear more of what a vicious law had to say in the full interview that's coming our way in about twenty minutes time right here on r.t. . well three russian pilots abducted in sudan have now been freed both the sudanese and russian officials have confirmed the release the pilots were kidnapped by 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 line and the incident is the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners in the country. well coming up for you

a little bit later in the program bullet point find out why people in the u.s. state of louisiana are saying give us all guns back it's five years after they had them taken away. from stupid. stunts on t.v. . news

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. live from the russian capital this is. now a desperate times in one indian village have prompted residents to take desperate measures and a severe two year drought has left three hundred families on the edge of starvation threatening to commit mass suicide if there's no aid from the government but despite the stock warning so far no help has arrived charan singh reports. 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 so reigned over twenty other farmers in this small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide. to mutely we will have to do it some time so when he suffer like this every day it's better to die now we're so helpless that we've come to the conclusion that committing suicide is the best option would like to do nearly two 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 work i they say they'll commit suicide. he says because we requested immediate food aid from the governor and 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 would have been full of crops at this time of year but lies bad and instead. not abused or seeds but for 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. the suicide request has george to 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 religious 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 in saying r.t. from the village of. now people in the u.s. have been marking five years since the deadly hurricane katrina in the wake of the storm many people in the state of louisiana had their guns confiscated in an attempt to stem the looting and violence but i was pretty sure to report some fighting for the right to defend themselves. 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 i'm forty percent 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 and have the right to sue for ask questions later. been robbed at gunpoint before i know what it's like i believe that. living in america may say we should be able to carry a handgun but that wasn't always the case so what do you know. so we've taken your weapons. richard styrene and his friend wayne shoom were on lake pontchartrain about a week after hurricane katrina made landfall and i had almost the same way of 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. from your order on manage your private property . don't have any right taken your wrong. 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 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 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 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 shocked we don't protect 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 the scent from saw me with my shotgun. you know they pulled about a dozen and sixteen's on this but everybody against the wall check their buys 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 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 while american radio host alex jones says the actions of the government five years ago did 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 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 shut 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 trained 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. and that was american radio host alex jones sharing his thoughts from texas now bear in mind you can always check out our website for more stories that's all at r.t. dot com and here are some of what streaming there right now russian police bust a gang of hackers who swindled trusting internet users of over thirty million dollars in just one month. and the endless black expanse of space has its own smell find out what it's like at r.t. dot com. or the ban on gambling in russia has seen casinos forced to move for designated regions so far the remoteness

of those places means many casinos have struggled prompting investors in the country's south to spin the wheel again by considering switching locations then he said what's at stake for the russian sin city. 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 the end of her nurse. 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 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 of dorothy's have come up with a new plan to make the rules work they want to relocate the whole southern 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 as a fine. by decades of experience essentially we've come up with a new concept in the resort so 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's biggest still looks dim leaving more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics why. our team crossing the region. is now just nearing the twenty minute mark of the hour here in moscow you are with and in just a few moments of i will be here with the latest from the world of business but for the meantime let's go to some other news now making headlines around the world and the police in mexico have arrested

a gang facing drug trafficking charges in the united states the group includes a notorious alleged drug lord known as bobby who's been blamed for a vicious turf war featuring shootouts and bodies being hung from bridges his real name is ed. and he could be extradited to america has a two million dollars bounty on his head the arrest comes just hours after the government about ten percent of the federal police have been sacked as part of a campaign to root out corruption. and they said it says that a roadside bomb blast has killed four american troops in eastern afghanistan a fifth u.s. soldier died in an insurgent attack in the south it comes after a similar violence on monday which killed eight nato soldiers in the same area nineteen american troops have been killed in the country since saturday. and it is in chile have begun drilling to rescue thirty three miners trapped underground in a collapsed shaft operations at the mine could take up to four months rescue

workers say they plan to send down food over the next few days and more beds. telephone contact with their relatives one of them even deciding at the time to marry his will. longtime girlfriend. tens of thousands of children in pakistan are bearing the brunt of the water illness that's spreading due to severe flooding in the country officials say they were affected by a rise of cases of malaria from stagnant water more than one hundred thousand pregnant women are also facing the risk of infection and disease the worst ever flooding in the country has claimed over sixteen hundred lives with seventeen million affected in total. the u.s. has an alice to new sanctions against north korea aimed at tackling illicit financial activities as well as the arms trade some companies and organizations suspected of financing pyongyang's government have had their assets frozen and it

follows growing tensions between the two countries over north korea's nuclear ambitions and the sinking of a south korean warship in march. ok now let's get the latest business news with stay with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program and we solve the world's biggest aluminum producer house postage a profit of one point twenty seven billion dollars for the first. twenty ten making a loss in the same period last year and the results were considerably better than four konstam the company's shares rallied in hong kong where the company listed in january says it expects a strong performance for the rest of the here demand and prices continue to outstrip rising costs. until sol is also heavily involved in the shareholder dispute for control of russia's biggest mine that the rules committee called but it

met hootenannies in the city of new rules to see the town and tour the plant he will also be meeting the two main shareholders in the company chief alegria pasta and let him up a time in the head of interest to each twenty five percent of new roles and want to buy the other out bush and has noted that the conflict is damaging the company and that a solution is urgently needed it. is for more on the story i'm joined by our correspondent but in a question about who is outside all cells headquarters in moscow hello to you medina what does the salt have to say of biology at stake in north me cold. unfortunately the general director of fruit seller to be pasco couldn't take part in the meeting with the media that took place here in moscow as he is right now in the russian city of a neuro scam where he is a tunji a meeting with the prime minister vladimir putin who's a visiting the city a right in the middle of the shareholders six just to remind of the june

shareholders meeting roussel unexpectedly came up with only three says the board compared with the norilsk poor and that caused the start of the shareholders conflict in trials that also god three says at the board said that the vote was conducted in accordance with all the rules but roussel claims a was unfairly manipulated while back in two thousand eight hundred sell an inch was twenty five percent in nora's a nickel agreed that all of the decisions would be made jointly and that they both will have equal rip presentation of the board brucella has asked the along been court of international arbitration to force him to rise to fulfill the terms of the agreement as still of the balance of the nor else nicole de borde is reese the or it will. return of the board norris clinical hasa the twenty

first of october this year to be the date for its extraordinary general meeting where shareholders will a vote on whether the current board should be removed and leave so soon will the makeup of the new board be tapi general director flew south would just love for us to love you for a tool does a dr who sell doesn't plan to sell its twenty five percent stake in norilsk nickel . for. its strategic stake crosses a strategic investment. benefits from the to the downstream. rising. the stakes why we. meanwhile there are some speculation in some states that the russian government will not be and how to stop even to the shareholders conflict if the existing shareholders fail to resolve it in the near future prime minister vladimir putin

already mentioned that he says some progress in the conflict and i'm sure we'll receive more information as of the negotiations and are taking place. thank you very much for this indeed. oh and also from the city of new the prime minister says the government is considering a new flexible tax formula for nickel and exports he suggests their system could be similar to that imposed on orwell but about fortune urged the metal producers to take part of the development of a fast formula. there's an idea to develop a flexible formula similar to the one we created for the oil industry. may vary with the increase or decrease in global prices but where is your formula if it is not agreed soon we will come up with a solution of our own one of the norilsk nickel shareholders may not like. let's

turn now to the equity markets european stocks have fallen sharply on tuesday echoing the downward trend in clover markets risk it sounds as if stocks are losing the falls but banks aren't commodities seeing the sharpest losses a global outlook a gloomy global outlook for global demand is damaging investor sentiment. and russian markets are suffering here in moscow and if it stops affording us commodity prices weaken gas from the stone one to help send on the might sets banks are also amongst the worst performers there burbank has said more than one percent so far but for a start economists continuing its winning streak the only blue chip gain up more than two percent to sour. look or oil 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 and costs which rose faster than the price of crude oil separately the company says it doesn't intend to

buyback the entire eleven point six percent of its shares from current owner conoco phillips. it's all we have time for now but you can always get more news small website r.t. dot com slash business. there

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