after the pull out a triple bombing in baghdad dozens are dead bringing doubts over whether iraqi forces can manage in the wake of the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops. instant karma is going to get the internet's rise in russia is a lot more people to highlight problems like crime and corruption in the past might have gone punished. 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 new jersey woods to find out what options are left for those who've lost everything in the crisis.

it's may day in moscow i met trends are good to have you with us here on r 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 in three blasts in separate parts of the city though fifty thousand american troops remain to assist local forces local people are afraid the insurgency and instability might only get worse. dark and dangerous and body armor that does little to protect against the fact that they're not welcome here they're doing it despite a patrol through one of the iraqi neighborhoods trying to prevent counterattack fire this is a bombs team has stayed 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 and 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 beat me i said the situation is really bad don't come but he said now i have to come. so far as certain husbands did as all 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 might candidates for the job a lot of them they have come from illiterate you know by ground zero or 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've given you can apply for the kinds of. people being the

effect point that this needs to be suffered here as the same months of training that appears stable to search vehicles for car bombs missing weapons and stones and i think. 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. r.t. baghdad. turning to our top story with blogging on the rise anyone these days can try their hand at investigative journalism publishing stories that might otherwise be ignored by the mainstream media these reports on the internet can quickly find

an audience and possibly go global artie's catarina as our reports on how russian bloggers are helping stop crime corruption and even bullying. oh. the parents and students said this man had bully children on more than one occasion because he was the head of the local administration people were afraid to speak out what desktops laptops phones and p.t.a.'s internet in 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 move has transformed russia. russia biddies and 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 halls of residence i have to study to be a builder. 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 he posted online to the president. with dry posted my letter 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 college called and told pasha to withdraw his application and basically get the hell out they were scared that the authorities got involved then the media picked up the story and the college was forced to stop its unlawful actions they now allow pasha to attend lectures misty refused to give in the room. when a bunch of kids vandalized a car in broad daylight in a remote part of central russia police couldn't find the culprits for days but the

information they provided allowed bloggers to find them in a matter of hours names. says and license plates included so why is russia's online community becoming suddenly so influential which of the. 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 is it's a community in a much faster one than any other and you presume that the by digits this spike in online use means it's not just journalists who can cover information so what does this say about russia's fourth estate at the. minister this doesn't mean that journalists of bad and bloggers a better that the only notion of free speech exists online it's simply a matter of choice you no longer want to watch someone else's rundown we want to make the internet allows us to choose what we want to know about at a speed print t.v.

media simply cannot compete. maybe this isn't the beginning of the end of newspapers and television but it's definitely competition of a global kind kasserine as are the r.t.e. nasca. stay with us here on our team got lots more headed your way including this proud to be sovereign nations and public of south side here which is marking twenty years since i declared independence from georgia. that is five u.s. soldiers are accused of killing afghan civilians as part of a sick game our military analyst says it's a propaganda coup for the taliban. first as the mortgage crisis cripples the u.s. some estimates say more than three hundred thousand people got warnings about foreclosure in august alone with a high unemployment rate continuing across the country an increasing number are at risk of losing their properties honest asio churkin their reports on how a cap outside new york has become a place that 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 talk 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 ring mosque has been a newspaper handler for most of her life while i work for the new york times and i wanted 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 reason 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 shift today looking job not chop a new kind job i look i have too many a position you know but no no i don't whine and moan. you know. very very difficult not applying job and those who are able to find work make less than the minimum wage i would have told they speak up. by bugs. 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 this 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 most suitable to be 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. and archie's you tube channel you can check out of stocks and check in his previous report on that homeless camp and of course check out all the other stories that we're covering here on r.t. . more news today violence is once again. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operations around. twenty three government troops have been killed in a shoot out after being ambushed by militants in the mountains of to ji constat the

country's defense ministry called it a terrorist act local journalist nargis khan the bio of our brings us the details. of my government troops have come under attack in the mountains the servicemen had been searching for prisoners who do recently escaped from a high security prison they were sentenced for their part in the tampa pool by the slimmest 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 the republic of south of celebrating two decades since it declared independence since one thousand nine hundred faced several military conflicts and made continuous attempts by georgia to

bring it back under control argues accidentally how much of it has more from the festive capital sin of all. 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 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 but georgia didn't want to allow it it cut the electricity difference the breakaway region and sent in troops against the ships and his friends day has been hearing loss and gunshots his french marines were mom and lost the georgian army

surrounded she involved at one point people in the city couldn't even bury their dead troops had blocked the road to the cemetery so they had to use the yard of a local school for about a mile and when i was little i used to come here i lived close by and saw this place and even eight of my window i remember how often people cried here with the word body another day talking about how do you. do escape don't go in violence response family had to flee to russia as did tens of thousands of the city and. 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 grandmother's fear he was worried about the most serious but by that you were sitting in the basement all the forms were really badly women and the managed to get through this said the city was attacked or killed by these storms 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 of aliens and peacekeepers led to russia recognize the independence of south the city as it several other countries attributed. i just want to see that people here are happy that's it. are two fronts involved. u.s. forces in afghanistan are at the center of a new scandal in which five soldiers were accused of killing civilians as part of a twisted game this comes as coalition forces battling the taliban are trying to win the support of the local population r.t. military analyst you have any krushchev says these kinds of stories involving u.s. troops provide another recruitment tool for insurgents one of the basic assumptions behind the u.s. strategy off 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 cupid on to general petraeus 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 experienced 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 got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up by to 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 an irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban

recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. we'll bring you even more perspective from afghanistan later on r.t. outspoken war critic matthew hoh says hunting down the taliban is a waste of u.s. military and financial resources you can watch the full interview with him in about fifteen minutes here's a preview. one of the larger problems i think with us foreign policy particular national security policies are not consistent if they're if we are in afghanistan because of al qaeda and if there are only fifty to one hundred members of al qaeda in afghanistan then why are we pulling out of iraq where there are one thousand to two thousand members why do we see and we need to keep. one hundred thousand troops in afghanistan when al qaeda operations come out of somalia and yemen so that consistency is not there in our in our foreign policy particularly in our now security policy and that's very worrisome to me because you don't have consistency

if you don't have good critical thought if you don't have a degree of intellectual honesty in your policymaking you are going to have bad policy and you're going to have things like iraq we're going to find yourself nine years into afghanistan and paying over the civil war spending one hundred billion dollars a year for a purpose that does not make the united states safer. turning out as some other stories making headlines across the globe at least thirteen people have been killed many injured in a train crash in india that happened when a goods train ran into a stationary passenger car in bad weather about three hundred kilometers from the central city bhopal the indian railway system carries more than eighteen million passengers a day and is plagued by accidents in july at least sixty people died after two trains collided at a station in west bengal. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has challenged the us to accept the role of his country and says the future belongs to iran these

comments were made in new york for you to attend a meeting of the un general assembly ahead of that session he discussed the current state of the middle east with secretary-general ban ki moon but during the trip crowds gathered to criticize the human rights situation in iraq. powerful typhoon has moved on from taiwan and brought to wrench will reign in the widespread flooding to eastern china more than two hundred thousand village. jurors have been evacuated from areas prone to devastating landslides taiwanese officials reported more than fifty injured in the storms in the eleventh to have hit china this week. thousands of armed troops have patrolled the desert the deserted streets in indian controlled kashmir as the curfew there continues for an eighth day the region has been rocked by widespread protests against indian rule since june with at least one hundred five people killed in clashes with security forces four more people died in street battles on sunday including a nineteen year old girl. and it may appear that

a raging fire has consumed the ancient colosseum in rome but the need to worry the flames on real it's an art installation that's part of a dramatic spectacle spectacle that will run over the next few nights in india talian capital the artists involved say the flame symbolized destruction and creation and the fragile state of european cultural heritage sites. coming up later on r t we take a look into the murky world of neo nazis and right wing extremists what's it like to be a victim of violence perpetrated by those kinds of people find out our special report next hour. are. going. back all right. we'll have a rally we'll sell lots of beer will. they will wear uniforms that little damage is

the black thing but very little damming the white. and they are the key to our problem our own writing. you know bokova joins us next with all the latest from the world of business stay with us on r.t. . hello and a very warm welcome to the business news sources winter olympics committee has signed contracts worth one billion dollars at the international investment form in sochi which finished at the weekend decisions administration secured even more investment the channel but of course visit the future olympic host to see where the money is coming. millions of dollars continue to flow into a store cheer as they see it is hurrying to get ready for the two thousand and

fourteen winter olympics our total commitment to their development of their highly big games projects will be not toys to be here become sure the possibility to invest. for additional be vulnerable. according to our business plan the total investment is about forty billion rubles. there is a lot of money being pumped into such as always with such huge sums of cash some of it as last to frivol that say and adds little prominence value but the renovation of this beautiful old port and the plant more than extensions promised a lasting legacy of this is how such a seaport will look like by the beginning of the games marianna and fool star hotel shops and office buildings the four developers sounds it's one of those projects that will benefit the city long after the olympic games the fourth will be ok. this

is not quite an olympic site that's a that's just that's not a stadium that's not a sports facility this is a project for the future that's for sure i mean for the pros in business for the marina business that's very very nice to talk about the part where the american values and so on that's a totally different story i mean in a way have been bad geno auriemma greece in athens there are some stadium switch are being probably used in such a lot some things has to be thought a lot of deep and even and even at this particular stage russia's deputy prime minister dmitry cause a cold the world's largest construction site with sixty thousand builders expected to be busy next year three hundred company is already working on the project but develop a say if it wasn't. for the olympics good roads hotels and functional pools would have taken decades to build and it does raise the question how many other russian

cities my lai underdeveloped just because they never made it into the international spotlight the gentle political business r.t. . the italian industrial group finmeccanica is to open a joint helicopter plant in russia the company's representative has exclusively told r.t. about the planned venture. plant itself will be around thirty million so the thirty million euros to be a realize that but then they tell us to grow it's fourteen already a double eagle the plant to the market for the helicopters we have been bringing all the technology so so it would be assembly line of the helicopter search and it would be a gradual technology transfer at the very beginning would be just the assembling going to go up test and then they may be more and more parts of the helicopter itself would be built in russia. plus have a look at the markets now asian stock markets slightly lower weakness in the street

on friday for for the chin fell more than half a cent and rio tinto the world's biggest mining company lost one point one percent . thanks a lot to negative and the nikkei is closed for holiday on monday and now let's have a look at the russian market some of the r.t.s. and the mice it's a flat the stock how were the most of the major flu chips i gave him careful and then to pass up both bucking the trend and down about one percent. in europe attacks on the footsie out into positive territory in early trading b.p.'s giving one and a half percent on the footsie off to its macondo oil well in the gulf of mexico was officially declared sealed on sunday. germany conglomerated b.s.f. isn't talks to join the south three natural gas pipeline that's according to sources close to the project went to show will see or oil and gas subsidies or if the company is reportedly discussing with gazprom possible participation in pipelines construction across the black sea b.s.f.

is a resit cooperating with russia and china to develop their sell through oil and gas fields as well as the north stream pipeline gas from this bunch of shell have not made out in fishel statement while the talks. that's the business for now get more news for website archies out called slash business.

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