stunts on t.v. don't come. after the pull out of a triple bombing in baghdad and dozens dead bring doubts over whether all rocky forces can manage in the wake of the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops. instant karma internet's rising to russia allowing more people to highlight problems like crime and corruption that in the light of dawn unpunished. many of the people living here have been here for months if not years and the question that many of them ask themselves over and over again is why are we still here r t visits a homeless camp in the woods of jersey to find out what options are left for those who lost everything but a crisis. and in business the italian industrial group. open a joint helical to plant and russia companies representatives think exclusively to

our land. in moscow good to have you with us here on our t. . our top story a triple car bombing in baghdad has provoked fresh doubts over whether iraqi security forces are able to cope following the official end of u.s. combat operations there at least thirty six people were killed by three blasts in separate parts of the city although fifty thousand u.s. troops remain to assist local forces local people are afraid insurgency and instability will get worse. doc and dangerous and it does little to protect against the fact that they are not welcome here they're doing a dismount of control through one of the iraqi neighborhoods trying to prevent counteracts fire. the bombs team his state behind the mission providing training

support and backup to the iraqi police when they get to our level we go over our operations order and planning for the actual missions we're going to do then we do a pretty brief then we actually go and execute these type missions that we're on now but the u.s. invasion to have a fully functioning iraqi security force did not protect safire ismail's husband four years ago he disappeared without a trace. he called me and said he was coming to pick me up i said the situation is really bad don't come but he said now i have to come. safire's certain husbands did as are the families of tens of thousands of iraqis who've also disappeared since two thousand and three human rights organizations put some of the blame with the local security forces whose trainees are not always the white candidates for the job a lot of them they have come from illiterate you know by ground zero some of them they are just the from the tribes and clans some of them just because they are part

of the political parties militias and so on and the problem is compounded by the limited training they given you can apply for the kinds of these. people being the effect by fact. that he suffered here he was training effort to save the search vehicles for car bombs missing weapons in stone and i did. and it's a far cry from what is needed. they are not untrained but the training they receive is not enough the americans only thought to create an iraqi army in two thousand and four by then it was too late because the terrorists had already infiltrated the . but with the increase of violence in iraq in recent weeks the need for a competent domestic security force has never been greater but whether or not the u.s. and iraq can wise to the challenge is still yet to be seen police the r.t. baghdad. with by. on the rise anyone these days can try their hand as an

investigative journalist publishing stories that might be otherwise ignored by the mainstream media these reports can not on the internet can quickly find a global audience as artie's catarina as our reports on how russian bloggers are helping stop crime corruption and bullying. parents and students said this man had children on more than one occasion because he was the head of the local administration people were afraid to speak out desktops laptops phones and p.t.a.'s internet and russia is becoming much more available and much more than just meant for many it has become a virtual speaker's corner where their voice will not only be heard but is guaranteed to echo across the country within hours this particular video which brought about his dismissal is a clear example of how the internet has transformed russia. russia biddies in

there's an orphan a master chess player a math genius and guaranteed state benefits he's missing the start of the academic here due to the demands of a construction company that helps fund the school. i want to be an i.t. specialist but the school said that if i want to study here and live in that holes of residence i have to study to be a builder. but if bush's case was taken off charity organization music and its founder get him on see what made a difference to their case was a message you posted online to the president. with almost dry posted my letter is someone from the president's administration cool and asked for details of this case i know they go in touch with fascist college because almost immediately afterwards the coolidge called and told her to withdraw his application and basically get the hell out they were scared that the authorities got involved then the media picked up this story and the college was forced to stop its in a lawful actions. they now allow pasha to attend lectures misty refused to give him

a room. when a bunch of kids vandalized a car in broad daylight in a remote part of central russia police couldn't find a cop or its for days but the information they provided allowed bloggers to find them in a matter of hours names addresses and license plates included so why is russia's online community becoming suddenly so influential here what egypt is. first of all it's evidence of a technological progress the internet is becoming more and more available and because it's available more and more people are using it for things other than where it's a community in a much faster one than any other. of the by dershowitz this spike in online news means it's not just journalists who can uncover information so what does this say about russia's fourth estate. mr this doesn't mean that journalists of bad and bloggers a better or that the only notion of free speech exists online it's simply a matter of choice we no longer want to watch someone else's run down we want to

and can make our own the internet allows us to choose what we want to know about it at a speed print or t.v. media simply cannot compete with maybe this isn't the beginning of the end of newspapers and television but it's definitely competition of a global kind. cashew nuts are about r t. stay with us here on r t lots more headed your way including proud to be sovereign. celebrations in the republic of south of setia which is marking twenty years since it declared independence from georgia plus. as five u.s. soldiers are used of killing afghan civilians as part of a twisted game our military analyst says it's a propaganda coup for the taliban. first though as the mortgage crisis continues to cripple the u.s. some estimates say more than three hundred thousand people got warnings about foreclosure in august alone with the high unemployment rate sweeping across the country an increasing number of people are at risk of losing their properties

artie's anastasio churkin a reports on how a camp outside new york has become a place some people now call home. america the prosperous america the traditional and america the broke the picture perfect homes and these homes are a twenty minute drive away from one another how did i end up here probably through my own mistakes in life r.t.e. revisits tent city a homeless camp talked to wait in the woods of new jersey there are at least forty people whose tragic destinies have led them to call this place home. since we were here last time in the winter things have changed more tense have appeared some people have come and gone but many of the people living here have been here for months if not years and the question that many of them ask themselves over and over again is why are we still here are there really no other options left for us no remarks has been

a newspaper handler for most of her life while i worked in new york times and i won the power in a brain aneurysm in two stroke so i was almost dead. i was in a coma for two months it. was an awful three months since then no rain has given up hope of finding a job for those still trying to find work the task is close to impossible would be unemployment rate in the u.s. holding steady at more than nine and a half percent for more than a year now over seventeen years experience chef looking job not only chef job any kind job i look i have to be a position you know but no no i don't whine and moan. you know. very difficult and i find job and those who are able to find work make less than the minimum wage and i would have told you this because. my. reverend steve brigham set up the camp for the homeless four years ago this is

their our church bell on sunday about twelve o'clock we ring those to let the whole camp know there were about ready to have. our service. the reverend runs the place keeping it in order. setting up a shower. and helping with whatever donations he can get local authorities have been disturbed by this camp's existence and have tried to shut the place down people think of the homeless as people that are sometimes questionable in their character but we've had there's more problems outside of the homeless camp than inside of the camp the only option offered by local officials has been beds at a local psychiatric institution among the mentally unstable and the community didn't go for it it's more than they can handle already living a tough enough life it's it's just not a place to live everyone here tells us

a better place for them is just around the corner but soon to be a lot of very soon. very soon and so far no luck with not much help from the outside world all they can do is hope a better life is awaiting them somewhere. and r.t. new jersey. on our you tube channel you can check out on a stasi check in his previous report on that homeless camp and of course all the other stories that we're covering here on r t. more news today. these are the images. from the street. operation.

twenty three government troops have been killed in a shootout with fugitives of the mountains of ted take us down the country's defense minister ministry says they died as they were trying to apprehend a group of militants who made a mass jailbreak one local journalist brings us the details. government troops have come under attack in the mountains the service men had been searching for prisoners who'd recently escaped from the high security prison they were sentenced for their part in the time to cool. opposition movement that fought against the central government in the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. the country's defense ministry officially confirmed the death of twenty three soldiers though a source in the law enforcement agency earlier told us that forty servicemen had been killed the terror attack is believed to have been carried out by gunmen linked with international terror groups from pakistan afghanistan and russia's republic of chechnya so far no other ministry has made any comment on the republic of south.

celebrating twenty years since it declared independence since one nine hundred ninety s. faced several military conflicts amid continuous attempts by georgia to bring it back under control artie's excitedly how much of a has more from the festive capital so involved. my grandson is very fussy and he loves all homemade food for this family in south the satyr independence day always starts with hustle and bustle but it's not just a national holiday they celebrate they also have their own independence child. to respond to just us this hospital so little ruslan coming into this world a new republic was born on the twentieth of september nineteen lying to the local palm and declare itself as it independent from georgia at the time the soviet union was falling apart and independence declarations in the region followed one after the other by georgia didn't want to allow it it cut the electricity difference the

breakaway region and sent in troops liberal guard against it since the first day has been hearing blasts and gunshots his friends were mom and lost the georgian army surrounded skin vaal at one point people in the city couldn't even burry their dead troops had blocked the road to the cemetery so they had to use the yard of a local school or about the money when i was little i used to come here i lived close by and saw this place and even ate at my window i remember him often people cried here with the word body in the dead of night. to escape don't go in violence response family had to flee to russia as did tens of thousands of us a.t.m. is. the conflict remain frozen until in august two thousand and eight when georgia once again resorted to violence to take control over the republic. when georgia tech taken volage was a response grandmothers there he was worried about the most beautiful boy that you were sitting in the basement the phones were really badly when they managed to get

through this said the city was attacked people were killed this stormed and burned the houses. grandmother survived the five day war moscow sent forces to repel the georgian attack as many of those under fire were russian citizens so every. peacekeepers led to russia recognize the independence of south the city as did several other countries. i just want to see that people here are happy and that's it. r t from to involve u.s. forces in afghanistan are at the center of a new scandal in which five soldiers were accused of killing civilians civilians as part of a game this comes as coalition forces fighting the taliban are trying to win the support of the local population artie's military analyst you have any khrushchev says these kinds of stories involving u.s. troops will provide another recruitment boost for the insurgents. one of the basic assumptions behind the u.s. strategy of u.s.

forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the surge in iraq under the previous administration and in effect the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates is the only hand over from the previous administration to replicate the same type of search which was exit q did on the general betray us in iraq and to make a remake of this strategy in afghanistan while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative furious experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they go to transfer to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation

for killing afghan civilians just for sports as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. democracy and islamics that's the question host asks his guests in the latest edition of cross talk you can catch the show in full in the next hour but here's a quick look. the word democracy has actually become a dirty word in much of the arab world because the united states of america has waged wars on afghanistan on and supports is a witches and democracy and democracy exclusively for the oppressive community that stole the lands of the palestinians and because of this

when this is done in the name of democracy and when israel is hailed as the only democracy in that when it is a war criminal then the word democracy becomes a dirty wood and not many people now think much of democracy although as a matter of principle democracy as this is the most governance is a good system. and. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the far right sweetie democratic party has won twenty seats in the country's parliamentary elections taking nearly six percent of the vote however it might be difficult for the hard to affect policy both major coalitions vowed not to work with what they call racist organization the current center right government is expected to stay in power although it didn't win an outright majority. hurricane igor as

a last bermuda threatening to cause severe coastal flooding islanders are seeking shelter boarding up windows and stocking up on food and water supplies the storm has seen wind speeds of up to one hundred twenty kilometers an hour and left nearly half the island without power. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has said the future belongs to iran the head of the u.n. general assembly meeting in new york he also challenged us to accept his role as intercept the role of his country and head of the sec and he discussed the future of the middle east with. moon secretary general of the u.n. meanwhile a crowd gathered to criticize the human rights situation in iraq. u.s. officials have formally declared an end to the worst oil spill in the country's history a pressure test confirm that b.p. has permanently put a cement plug on the leaking well it's been sealed by a temporary cap since mid july this brings to an end almost five months of chaos

after the april after april's rig explosion that killed eleven workers. well it appears that a raging fire has consumed the ancient colosseum in rome but there is no need to worry the flames are a real installation is part of a dramatic art spectacle that will run over the next few nights in the talian capital the artists involved say the flame symbolized the structure then creation and the fragile state of europe's cultural heritage sites. both of joins us next with all the latest from the world of business stay with us here on r.t. . that's right time to delve into the world of business all the italian industrial groups in becoming is to open a joint helicopter plant in russia the company's representative has exclusively told r.t. about the plan. to plant itself with the thirty million so that's a million euros to be

a realize that but then they has to grow wheat sports you know radiate double eagle that land to the market for the helicopters so we have been bringing all the technology so it would be assembly line of the helicopters and it would be a gradual technology transfer at the very beginning it would be just an assembly nobody go up to us and then they may be more and more parts of the helicopter itself would be built in russia. the construction of an intercity highway between moscow and st petersburg raised a significant social response the summer on the road was initially planned to cut through a forest finally its realisation was postponed by to make sure it r.t. such an appellate court discussed the project with the vice president a venture group its developer. we have worked in close cooperation with the government and the russian authorities and we appreciate determination pragmatism efficiency of their governments because it is

a for us in consideration so i can say we have your opinion on international standard techniques on viral input because what i see is always a crying cease from dallas and read bhutto who are without these european standards and insists project pride just one last place i say i do we quest. written on authorities that we have participate in a process of a supplementary dialogue concept when all is a stakeholder and we can see that it's no more because in a big project. concept the explanation information into transparency it's a no model for us and no we are waiting for the issues or an assertion of free russia has criticized for an extremely high cost of road construction how much cheaper it is in europe it is difficult to compare because the cost of there all

depends on. the environment. it's less expensive than we have to do. in the mountains so i can see you're right the cost of road construction is higher in there are shots on europe and because i think the solution go through acceptance in all for european standouts. for example when i speak about p p p p p p is a means to reduce as a cost because to control the. improvement. in russia. we do love to have the same stuff in europe and the part of road through him care for us you are preparing to build in russia will cost about forty million dollars per kilometer how come with so expensive. she would

work. to breed your true. we could keep months in the near of. she is always more expensive. a look at the markets now asia stock markets have recovered so low it trades in and on monday with investors who were just ahead of the us federal reserve policy she. fell more than half a percent of the world's biggest mining company in last one point one percent. a tenth of a percent the japanese markets close to monday. and and russia the r.t.s. is slightly up in the trade for my six figures that you see on the screen is closing figures it starts trading in a few minutes. markets could be pulled two ways this week us some investors take profits from recent gains while others takes out

the bets on emerging markets i've seen metropole see the analyst told us how he thinks it will be a result. the dominant trends in the market are going to be there rising investors up the tide for risk on one hand and investors taking out profits from the market on the other hand because the market did put in quite a strong performance since the last week of august i think the net result of that is going to be markets moving higher this week but i think it's going to be a small move up this week is quite poor for market comic data on the other hand this week we have a federal reserve meeting their problem the expectation in the market that the rating is not going to be changed but on the other hand we are going to hear a statement from the fed following the meeting and that could you know in fact there is a sentiment one way or the other ok more business news in our next bulletin and you can get more news from a web site r.t.

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