around the clock around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us the u.s. says 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 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 laughlin from the institute for war 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. paul ingram from the british american security information council says the

withdrawal is not before time he believes the u.s. presence in the country has done more harm than good i think it's a mission in a way that they never did have the capacity to bring stability to iraq they unseated saddam hussein relatively quickly and easily but of course bringing stability and security to the country was a much much bigger deal and i think there is there are many even within the u.s. government itself those who have come to recognize that american troops in combat formation in the country actually create more trouble. than not having them and that the best chance there is for iraq for democracy and freedom is for the americans to exit because their presence. is itself a very clear source of insecurity and reaction by many within iraq

while terror means a threat in iraq it's also at the forefront of other trouble spots in the world political scientist says the danger is widespread. and. there was an assumption that terrorism is more or less localized in afghanistan and they were looking for causes of terrorism in iraq what it looks like it is more widespread we can find the terrorist training. in some countries of asia. are also quite active in central asia in the former soviet union so it is spreading. financing and weapons are there. courses for terrorism or created. almost daily.

and you can hear more of what vicious had to say in the full interview in about twenty minutes from now here on. well coming up later in the program also bullet points find out why people in the u.s. state of louisiana saying give us our guns back five years after they had them taken away. and russia's high tech mall makers who are exchanging tweets in the workplace get a ticking off from the president. desperate times in one indian village or prompted residents to take desperate measures a severe two year drought has left three hundred families on the edge of starvation they're threatening to commit mass suicide if there's no aid from the government but despite the stark warning so far no help has arrived karen singh has a story. one of the here in the british 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 reined in over twenty other farmers in the small village of about three hundred families have threatened to commit mass suicide. to mutely we will have to die 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 have 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 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 you know homes were thinking what is the point of living. the 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 going to 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 steps to prevent this from snowballing into a major crisis got in saying r.t. from the village of. people in the u.s. have just been marking five years since the deadly hurrican katrina in the wake of that storm many people in the state of louisiana had their guns confiscated in an attempt to stem looting and violence but especially to report some are still 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 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. part and have a right to sue for ask questions later. 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 know. 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 say anywhere from six inches to a foot of water in the house. but it was still if 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 and i don't have any right to take in 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 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 i say or three smith and wesson club action shotgun a twelve gauge semi automatic joe in 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 them 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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. and that was american radio host alex jones sharing his thoughts from texas by the way you can check out our website for more stories that's at r.t. dot com here's some of what's there right now for you russian police passed a gang of hackers who swindled trusting internet users of over thirty million dollars in just one month. and the industry like expanse of space has its own smell you can find out what it is at r.t. dot com. the ban on gambling in russia has seen casinos forced to move to four designated regions so far though the remoteness of those places means many casinos have struggled prompting investors in the country south to spin the wheel again by considering switching locations in this blog looks at what's at stake for

the russian sin city. this is a gambler spera 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 other swell willing to build gambling spots here in the area it still looks like most in the in the street 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 like you know shutting down the facilities moving them abroad or going on the ground even the most successful the sudden 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 in 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 . 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 us. fine by decades of experience essentially 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 if huge of russia's biggest still looks dim leaving more questions than answers for its supporters and skeptics why. are crossing the region. it's a big day for germans who are marking twenty years since they were formally reunited into a single nation the capital in the country was split in half after world war two but the fall of the burning will pave the way for a united germany when the thirty first of august one thousand nine hundred treaties sealed east germany's integration with the west but some analysts say the unification process wasn't fair and equal for both parts. the.

german democratic republic was bankrupt they didn't have any money anymore and what they were expecting was a fifteen billion marks loan from western germany and western germany was not ready to extend it so there was a very clear cut question from one day to the next how could this part of a later unified germany survive and under these circumstances it was very clear that the political weight of the power was very clearly on the side of the westerners and no doubt many easterners must have felt. the next one thing is very clear the joblessness percentage is much higher in eastern germany that it is in the western part of these companies that went bankrupt after the very hasty unification process that is very very difficult to replace and build up again and the effect of that unification was for eastern germany also during. a currency.

arbors devastating and of course we have this. this minority feeling among many easterners that they feel that the majority of westerners is not doing what they would like to have done in their part of germany and that was political analysts christoph was still talking to us from germany to mania is sweeping russia's leading politicians so much so that some are even doing it right under the bosses nose one governor was caught tweeting away in the bill of an important meeting in the kremlin by president inventive himself and you get that you look at the euro vision boosting something on his twitter page right now during the student council session as if he has nothing else to do. but tweeting didn't end with the president's remark as more members of the council joined the online exchange the russian leader is known to be a big fan of gadgets and has a twitter account himself his friends include barack obama and the head of apple

steve jobs presented the president with a new i phone four on a recent trip to silicon valley this works. one hour before the business news with you let's have a quick look at some other international news this hour police in mexico the rest of the gang facing drug trafficking charges in the u.s. the group includes in the tourist alleged drug lord known as barbie who's been alone for a vicious turf war featuring shoot out some bodies being hung from bridges his real name is ed develop these and he could be extradited to america where he has a two million dollars bounty on his head the arrest comes just hours after the government said about ten percent of the federal police have been sacked as part of a campaign to root out corruption. nato says 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. chile now

and engineers there have begun drilling to rescue thirty three miners trapped underground in a collapse 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 when earlier the miners had their first telephone contact with their relatives and one of them even decided to marry his long term girlfriend. and tens of thousands of children in pakistan are bearing the brunt of water illnesses that are 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 one thousand six hundred lives with seventeen million affected in total i'll be back now to recap for you in less than two months from now the meantime business update is next with. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program to solve the world's biggest oil and we

need producer has posted a profit of one point twenty seven billion dollars for the first half of twenty ten off to making a loss in the same period last year the results were considerably better than forecast and the company's shares rallied in hong kong where the company listed in january results says it expects a strong performance for the rest of the year as demand and prices continue to outstrip rising costs. i would say with the hope that with its results for the first or second quarter to see the forecast from the first quarter the most was off for the first quarter with you i'm looking at us to meet what we've heard in the first what we think that i was to that's why i was so happy the margin reached twenty five percent each of them higher than the projected in the first quarter jus to our control and the cost of that is a model figure each from well three billion. and sol is also heavily involved in the shareholder dispute for control of russia's biggest my minerals

chemical but about porton is in the city of new roles to see the town and to all the plant he's met with the two main shareholders in the company chief i am pleased him at the time in the head over intervals the two billionaires each owned twenty five percent of minerals and want to buy the other out question has noted that the conflict is damaging the company and a solution is urgently needed it but the government insists it will not force the issue as long as normal continues to operate successfully. the dispute appears through boiled down to a difference of opinion about how merrill cyclical should be run and who should benefit the company's chief executive social cool ski describes the problem as he says it. ridgeley conflict is due to a difference in interests one side wants a gradual development of the company to improve environmental and social conditions while the other one wants to take everything there isn't

a company and even more i'm against taking the money out this may benefit shareholders right now but in the next years the company won't be able to develop. for sol a's adamant it will not sell up instead elected fosco says he will try to get minority shareholders to create a point independent professionals to vote but the chief executive of noriko left little doubt as to what shareholder he was favoring has here fetched for the twenty nine percent loss and rule such ship price since the beginning of the hat company led by david. said your search since the beginning of the nickel has been the only company to increase the share price twenty three percent of us have a negative dynamic the leader among them is the person you just interviewed with a twenty nine percent because the person who tells us how to work how to control our company he's the leader among losers now whatever he says we listen to through

the prism of a person who did not see in managing a company successful and why we have the world's highest dividends fifty percent seventy eight percent is the world's average and everyone is happy here for some people fifty percent is not enough and in other news from the city of new rolls the prime minister says the government is considering a new flexible tax formula for nickel and exports he suggests the system could be similar to fatten post on oil what about put an irish the metal producers to take part in the development of a fair formula. there's an idea to develop a flexible formula similar to the one we created for the oil industry in a very with the increase or decrease in global prices but where is such a 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. and the russian markets finished tuesday session in the red energy stocks made some gains

to watch the close process telecom continued its twenty three from monday the only blue chip came up with a three and a half percent. russia second largest oil producer has announced that income for the second quarter fell sixteen percent to two billion dollars despite a strong rise in revenues the company says it was hit by taxes sent to costs tros faster than the price of crude oil and separately the company says it doesn't intend to buy back the entire eleven point six percent of its shares from current owner conoco phillips and speaking exclusively to business r.t. vice president plenty of conflicts planes why should. we think that the purchase of almost eight percent of shares is enough to reduce the tension on the market and to assure that our shares show enough value on their own the company is interested in increasing its free flow the more shares on the market the more stable they are we

are also looking at listing on one of the asian markets in the future i think it's enough to ensure future stable and reliable company before. that's all the business news for now but you can always find more news on our website our two dot com slash business.

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we here live in moscow could have you with us this is our team top stories now the u.s. is poised to officially hand iraq security over to local forces as the last of america's combat troops of the fifth country about fifty thousand will remain to train local security forces. disappeared two year drills as the three hundred families in a village in eastern india desperate for help farmers found commit mass suicide pov and starve to death if government paid doesn't arrive soon. enough to russia limited gambling to four remote regions casinos that have failed to attract business that's prompted investors to stake the future of gambling on a popular tourist destination the black sea coast. while we talk to the political.