after the pullout of triple bombing in baghdad dozens dead so far doubts over whether rock your forces in the wake of the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops. instant karma is going to get the internet's rise in russia is allowing more people to highlight problems like crime and corruption that might have gone on. many of the people living here and 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 the visits a homeless camp in the woods of new jersey to find out what options are left for those who lost everything in the crisis.

one pm in moscow i met treasurer 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 have been killed in the three blasts in separate parts of the city although fifty thousand u.s. troops remain to assist local forces local people are afraid the insurgency and instability might only get worse. doc and dangerous and body armor it does little to protect against the fact that they're not welcome here they're doing a dismount of patrol through one of the iraqi neighborhoods trying to prevent counteracts fire this is a bombs team he stayed behind the mission to finding 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 it for you brief and

we actually go on execute these type missions that we're on now but the u.s. . bishan to have a fully functioning iraqi security force do not protect safire it just means husband four years ago he disappeared without a trace and it's. 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 say the safire's certain husbands did and 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 these 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

stopped at a checkpoint like this it's funny stuff here a few months of training that appears to be so they're full of car bombs missing weapons and stone ideas. 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 rise to the challenge is still yet to be seen. r t baghdad. 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 even go global

catarina as our reports out of the russian bloggers are helping stop crime corruption and even bullying. oh. oh parents and students said this man could bully 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 entertainment 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 example of how the move has transformed russia. washington he's 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 a ninety specialist but this concept that if i want to study here and live in that hells of residence i have to study to be a builder. bush's case was taken off charity organization music and its founder gediman see what made a difference to their case was a message posted online to the president. with almost dry posted my letter is someone from the presidents of ministration corps 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 me to withdraw his allegation and basically get the hell out and with the authorities got rid of all the media picked up the story and the college was forced to stop its unlawful actions would they now allow pasha to attend lectures of him is to refuse to give in the road but in this 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 watching to see. first of all it's evidence of a technological progress the internet is becoming more and more available and because it's available from more and more people are using it for things other than where it's a community up by in a much faster one than any other president at 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. mr this doesn't mean that journalists and blogs isn't the only notion of free speech exists online it's simply a matter of choice among the want to watch someone else's rundown we want to make the internet allows us to choose what we want to know about the 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 kashering as are the r.t.e. . for more on the impact that blogging has on life in a rush i'm joined live by the founder of online newspaper chaska it was a source steve thank you for joining me so do you think that blogging is a challenge to the mainstream media or do you think that two things can complement each other and they co-exist what's your take on that. well i certainly don't think that it is a challenge but but not systematically i would say that they compliment each other perfectly and together they create the world of glass the world but transparency is complete and the world where you can't really hide your muse dates so how big is this network of bloggers and russia and how big do you think their audience is in russia how many people do you think actually get to see the work that they do and

get to react to it in order for it to have an effect. you know russian culture is an oral culture by mcluhan's the finnish and which means that we traditionally. we have a room or a room or is a way to orally spread information in such a way that it covers almost the whole country and spray as you know like a forest fire so what blogs have done they have created and network that feeds new information into this oral old system of horizontal communication which is the rumor and together they embrace almost the whole of the country so the media on one hand and blogs which connects you know with the room or with the oral network they cover the whole population almost completely now full disclosure here i admit that i have a blog myself and there is a perception that bloggers are sometimes more interested in promoting themselves or

i've been telling the truth if you think that's a fair assessment. well you see as we know from physics there is a particle and varies away and that particle can be a part of the way when you are a blogger and you are a bar to go but when there is a huge thing happening you are just one of the many many many particles together to create a wave so what we're seeing to today is that more and more waves are there in the blogosphere and the information the focus is on the on the crucial events so even if some of the bloggers want to promote themselves together as a whole the blogosphere acts as a as the public sphere. not not with not so much so much maybe a bias to the traditional rational discourse and maybe it looks more like the media spectacle or a t.v. series you know but but. it drives attention and you know it's

it gives results like so many there were so many old ready crimes and corruption issues raised by bloggers and they. i have because they have become. maybe a means maybe of viruses and you know people give more information on the issue and i don't think that it is far into the future that we will have even foster communication between and foster interaction between media and bloggers and even now media are becoming more and more interested in the stories the bloggers. popularize and i think that's the way it will be going in the near future one of the observations that people make though is that blogs tend to be from a first person perspective it's something that a person seems or a person believes to be the case but they don't always check their facts and that

is not a problem do you think that sometimes they just put information you know that's not about why not that is another problem that this is this is our job as media people we are here to verify the facts you know sometime before like in the twentieth century there are all of the media has been both to report to cover the events to give interpretation to the events and to verify the you know the facts and now are always switching. to a less traditional role we are more like ed it's ours bloggers are reporters but they don't they don't verify their facts and when they give interpretation to the events sometimes there is a kneejerk reaction like they don't really know what's happening but they already have an opinion on it so the role of media is still crucial in a sense that we have to verify what bloggers are saying and feed it back into the blogosphere and this is how the media system of the twenty first century works all right thanks for your perspective. founder of chaska dot rule on line.

stall a lot more here on our t.v. including this coming up proud to be solver it celebration is in the public of south the city which is marking twenty years since the declared independence from georgia. and 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 though 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 of people are at risk of losing their properties on a stasia churkin a reports on how a camp 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 twenty minute drive away from one another how did i end up here probably through my

own mistakes in life r t revisits tent city a homeless camp tough 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 work for the new york times nine one of the pentagon 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. chef today i'm looking job not only chef chop any kind job i look i have to many of the haitian you know but no no i don't find them all. you know they're very very difficult now find jobs and those who are able to find work make less than the minimum wage i would have been told they speak up. by bugs. reverend steve brigham set up a 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 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 so soon to be very soon. very soon 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

if they see churkin r.t. new jersey. the republic of south set is 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 it has more from the festive capital so involved. my grandson is very fussy and he loves homemade food for this family in south a 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 who is going to respond to just us this hospital so little ruslan coming into this world a new republic was born on the twentieth of september ninth in line to the low. polman 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 their look tricity difference the breakaway region and sent in troops that are brutal goes against the ship since his first day has been hearing loss and gunshots his french words were mom and lost the georgian army surrounded him vall 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 where the word body of the day for the holiday. to 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 grandmothers there he was worried about the most serious but by that you

were sitting in the basement all the phones were really badly when they managed to get through this said the city was attacked god were killed by these storms and burned the houses of our. grandmothers survived the five day war moscow sent forces to repel the georgian attack as many of those under fire were russian citizens civilians and peacekeepers led to russia recognize the independence of south a city as did several other countries before the truth is i just want to see that people here are happy that's it acts on a hunch of our are 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 as part of a sick game is comes as coalition forces fighting the taliban are trying to win the hearts and minds of the local population artie's military analysts 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 all of us 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 this 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 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 got it transferred 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 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. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe at least thirteen people have been killed and many injured in the train crash in india it happened when a good stranger ran into a stationary passenger carriage in bad weather about three hundred kilometers from the central city of 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 challenge the

us to accept the role of his country and says the future belongs to iran these comments were made in new york where he's due to attend a meeting of the un general assembly ahead of the session he discussed the current state of the middle east with u.n. secretary general ban ki moon but during the trip crowds gathered to criticize iran on human rights. powerful typhoon has moved on from taiwan and brought to rental rate and widespread floods to eastern china more than two hundred thousand villagers had to be evacuated from areas prone to devastating landslides taiwanese officials reported more than fifty people injured the storm is the eleventh to have hit china this year. and it appears that a raging fire may have consumed the ancient colosseum in rome but don't worry the flames are actually real the installation is part of a dramatic art spectacle that will run over the next few days in italy's capital the artists involved say the flames symbolized destruction in creation and the fragile state of europe's cultural heritage sites. yulia bokova joins us

next with all the latest from the world of business stay with us here on r.t. . this is more a region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity that will realize its full potential after the construction of the. park can tell ya he has completed the i t. park or has r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center furbished with cutting edge servers and communication equipment will be constructed at the core of the park the project has been personally approved by prime minister vladimir putin the federal government is planning to allocate sizable funding for the parks construction investors will be given benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences this is a motor region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite

investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. hello time to have a look at what's new in the world of business 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 plan to venture. the plant itself will be around thirty million so thirty million euros to be realized but then it has to grow it's fourteen already a doubling of the plant in the market for the helicopters we have been bringing all the technology surge with the assembly line of the helicopters and there will be a gradual technology transfer at the very beginning will be just assembling over

the top test and then they may be more and more parts of the helicopter itself will be built in russia. the construction of an interest city highway between moscow and st peter's back raised a significant social response the summit the road was initially planned to cut through a forest finally its realisation was postponed by president michel medvedev archies the general political were discussed the project with the vice president of fin to curb its development. we work in. cooperation with the government and our ocean authorities and we appreciate determination pragmatism efficiency of the governments because it is a first road in can say show so i can say we have proper european an international standard technique on violin for those that i see is always crying cease from doubt on read who are without these european standards and insist

project the brightest and lastly i say i join requests off. written on authorities that we are participating in a process of a supreme interior dialogue concept when all is a stakeholder and we can see that it's no more because in a big project the concept ations the explanation information into transparency it's a no model for us and no we are waiting for the decision of service in a free russia is 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 their all depends on the. environment when. it's less expensive than we have to do. in the mountains so i can see you're right the cost

of the road construction is higher in the name europe and because i think the us already should go through its acceptance in russia all for european standouts. for example when i speak about p p p p p p is a means to reduce. cost because into a culture of. improvement about race in russia. we devolve into hobbes the same stand out from your rocker the part of road through him queue for us you are preparing to build in russia will cost about forty million dollars per kilometer how come it's so expensive value so are all told. she needed work. to do or read your true note on the what do you have a country show to keep months in the new year of course to the she is always more expensive. i look at the stock markets now asian markets have mostly positive order

against the new job week by treated by holidays in japan and other major regional markets thanks to posture. and russia the r.t.s. and my six are losing the solve the most of the major blue chips again but else or twenty m.t.'s both bucking the trend and down one percent. european stocks are rising tide by oil firms banks and minus gold prices continue to climb up one point sixteen percent from its new low it's gaining at the center piece getting one of the help percent in london after its macondo oil well in the gulf of mexico was officially declared sealed on sunday. germany b.s.f. is in talks to join to solve stream natural gas pipeline that's according to sources close to the project went to shell is. gas subsidiary of the company and it is

reported discussing with gazprom possible participation in pipelines construction across the black sea b.s.f. is a rigid corporation with the russian accounts giant to develop this solved or oil and gas field as well as the north stream pipeline gazprom and went to school i have not made any official statement about the talks. that's all we have time for now join me next hour for more business news.

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