eh i was in iraq since the u.s. officially ended its military campaign that raises doubts over whether local forces can ensure security. and justice online we look at how the internet in russia is becoming a new frontline in the fight for fairness by exposing crime corruption that mainstream media ignores. with high foreclosure on employment rights in the united states showing no signs of abating revisits a forest to find out what options are left for the us. well why news live from moscow this is welcome to the program. well violence

continues to rage in iraq after three car bombings killed at least thirty six people in baghdad and fallujah following the official and u.s. combat operations fifty thousand american troops remain in the country to train local security forces but as artie's paula slayer reports said barely helps to make locals feel any safer. dark and dangerous and body armor it does little to protect against the fact that they're not welcome here they're doing a dismount a patrol through one of the iraqi neighborhoods trying to prevent counterattack fire this is a bombs team he 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 supply 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 that here so far as certain husbands did as all the families of tens of thousands of iraqis who 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 mite 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 defense of these. people being stopped at the checkpoint that there needs to be some here a few months of training that appears stable to search vehicles for car bombs

missing. and so then i did. and it's a far cry from what is needed. they are not untrained but the training they receive is not enough for 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 mice to the challenge is too good to be seen. on t.v. baghdad. but u.s. claims it is fighting for freedom with its wars in the muslim world but has this made the people in these islamic countries see democracy as a greater good that's the topic of the latest discussion in cross talk that's coming up in around two hours' time. the motion of democracy i mean the united states is founded on the idea that democracy is the best political system for

ensuring the rights of both the majority and the minority in a country and so forth but that there can be many different translations the word democracy has actually become a dirty word in much of the arab world because they know it's there's america has wars on afghanistan on and support is a which is and are part of the democracy and democracy exclusively for the opera less of a community that all the lands of the palestinians. stonier has officially launched it's come down to entry into the eurozone on january the first next year that's despite the crisis the currency has been facing and the fact

that a stone you know would be the poorest. country in the eurozone now for more details on this i'm joined live by professor eve i.e. good professor of a talent university hello to you so the eurozone is still struggling with the financial crisis and yet another poor state is joining the system that was already on the brink of failure how wise is this move. and yes of course we have still a crisis but we have cut our expenses and we keep quite strong financial discipline and that's why. they have accepted our entrance into the areas around. the possibility really it's own has become a symbol of being part of the west do you think that the decision to join it is mainly political and economic interests are in the midst of being sacrificed. yes you're right. this is very much a political step we will shine the political union which

wants to be much bigger uni on and and still an estonian economy economy is right now sacrified. the crowes for joining the euro zone this means that it is more political project than economic project now do you think we will see estonia struggling as we saw greece portugal and ireland. not because they have a very high level of that's estonian public that is relatively low and even. private that is not very be but the problem isn't that we need to fulfill all these so-called mosty criteria we need to keep inflation low but this means also we need to keep our salaries

low and we cannot have. high growth we need and that's why according to my understanding the timing of joining there also is not. and so fine i'm running out of time here so but what do you foresee is the future of the eurozone is it a sketchy trouble future if you see this is a good question and very many people they think about about the future of aero zone and according to my understanding. european union is not any more. current there are two types of countries we are national to simply in strong financial discipline and this means that. might happen that. will collapse or will form two

different kind of arrow zones weak and strong financial discipline and now governments want to try and this strong. together with germany and some other countries in western europe. mr craig professor of tal and university thank you. but with blogs in russia now running into the millions the internet has become a major force by highlighting issues often ignored by the mainstream media people now get a global audience and results when they report cases of crime corruption and bullying artie's covering the us out of a reports on russia's new wave of internet justice. oh. oh 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 in 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 clear example of how the looting has transformed russia. but should it isn't 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 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. but officials bush's case was taken on by

a charity organization and its founder get a month see what made a difference to their case was a message you posted online to the president. of the of course but after i posted my letter someone from the president's administration called and asked for details of this case i know they got in touch with conscious college because almost immediately afterwards the coolidge called and told pasha to withdraw exactly the. and basically get the hell out they were scared they're involved and the media picked up the story and the college was forced to stop its unlawful actions being now allowed pasha to attend lectures and still refused to give him a room and when a bunch of kids vandalized a car in broad daylight in a remote part of central russia police couldn't find the culprit 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 beautiful orchards at the very.

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 work it's a community in a much faster one than any other. but the by doing this spike in online news means it's not just journalists who can cover information so what does this say about russia's fourth estate but the sheer mystery of this doesn't mean that journalists are bad and bloggers a better or 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 and can make our own the internet allows us to choose what we want to know about the speed print 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 kasserine as are the r.t.e. nasca. the founder of the online news website ru says the interaction

between bloggers and the mainstream is a healthy sign from modern media. there is a particle and varies away and the particle can be a part of the way when you are a blogger 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 before course is on the crusoe events so even if some of the bloggers want to promote themselves so gather as a whole the blogosphere acts as the public sphere it drives attention and you know it gives results there were so many already crimes and corruption issues raised by bloggers and they have become midhir means 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 you are watching on t.v. it's a good of you to join us today and still to come this hour the struggle for suffering . especially amongst twenty years since its declaration of independence from georgia we look back at what it took for the republic to be broken. well as the mortgage crisis cuts deep real estate say over a million americans may lose their homes to foreclosure this year in august alone some three hundred thousand to assert with foreclosure warnings as unemployment figures stubbornly of ten percent. and i reports on how a camp outside of new york has become a place for some people now that they now work luckily call it 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 work for the new york times and i wanted to pound a brain aneurysm into a 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 to be unemployment rate in the us holding steady at more than nine and a half percent for more than a year now over seventeen years experience shift today looking job. a new kind job i look i have too many a position you know but no no i don't find them out. you know. very very difficult not quite in job and those who are able to find work make less than the minimum wage and i would have told you this because. my. reverence steve brigham set up the camp for the homeless four years ago this is there are 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 been 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 but 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. now on our you tube channel you can check out on a stands years previous report on not homeless camp as well as many other news stories we're covering here on oxy. today. these are the. streets of. the republic of south in the caucuses celebrating twenty years since it declared independence from georgia since one nine hundred ninety get seen several military

conflicts as tbilisi tried to bring the republican back under its control. over reports from the capital. 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 just 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 but georgia didn't want to allow it it cut the electricity difference the breakaway region and sent in troops there broke us against the ships and his first

day has been hearing blasts and gunshots his french marines were mom and blas to the georgian army surrounded skin vaal 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 ate at my window i remember how often people cried here with the word body or dead of a heart and able. to escape don't go in violence response family had to flee to russia as did tens of thousands of a 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's can volatile was a response grandmothers there he was worried about the most serious book by the chief they were sitting in the basement of the phones were really badly when they managed to get through this said the city was attacked people were killed all the storms and ground 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 later russia recognized the independence of south the city as did several other countries treat it as a. i just want to see that people here are happy that's it. our two fronts involved. it's now are twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. and in just a few moments charlotte will be here with the business news in the meantime though some other global headlines and in sweden a center right ruling coalition has failed so when reelection after falling three seats short for a majority the far right party sweden democrats which urges limits on immigration will enter parliament for the first time their candidate said they had been attacked and denied freedom of speech before the general election took place on sunday experts say the centrists will try to negotiate and the mayans with the left

brain coalition. military has killed twenty two fark rebels in a raid near the country's border with ecuador operation just over a week after militants in the region killed eight police officers fark insurgents of killed several dozen police in clashes across colombia since one man well sometimes became president in the east. and in just a few moments charlotte is here with the latest business news for you. this is mara region is economically and socially one of russia's better developed provinces the region has a significant scientific and industrial capacity doesn't realise its full potential after the construction of the. park can tell you he has completed the i.g. parco has r. and d. projects in the spheres of automotive construction aerospace and oil chemistry high tech data center furbish 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 but it is this a more regional 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 welcome to the business program oil group kinkaid b.p. is aiming to further expand its operations beyond russia's border its head of alpha group mikhail friedman says the company is ready to buy fields in venezuela vietnam and other countries which b.p.

is selling to cover the coast of mexico oil spill over the weekend it was confirmed that b.p. was completely kill the leaking well it's looking to sell thirty billion dollars of oil and gas production the next eighteen months to pay for the cleanup k.b.p.s. both considered buying b.p. assets the end of the meeting will be the first to me tony hayward appointed to direct a tank a b.p. after he resigned as b b c o because of the u.s. . now russia's biggest carmaker after all of us is looking to expand exports speaking exclusively to business all t. the company's vice president admits that a lot of brand has an image quality problem in europe so after vials were targeting of unlock it. when you manage this you must know because we do understand that we suffer certain difficulties in european markets with the car series we have today so we're concentrating on three key markets to develop exports those are latin america north africa and the middle east our target is to export fifty thousand

cars this year and i hope we'll be able to sell fifty to fifty five thousand vehicles right say the country next year you know it's now in other news the building of an intercity highway between moscow and same pages but i've raised a significant social response this summer and initially it was the road cut through a forest there is realize a she was postponed for present to mention referred to. a covert discuss the project the vice president a venture group. we work in cross cooperation with the government and the russian authorities and we appreciate the determination pragmatism efficiency of the governments because it is the first road in concession so i can say we have proper european an international standard technique on violin for course the i.c.

is always crying cease on read below poor without these european standards and insists project the brightest and last place i say i join requests. written on authorities. 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 the concept ations 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 rushes 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 dig. into

a mountain so i can see you're right the cost of road construction is in there was shot by new iraq and because i think the us already should go through acceptance in all for you up to and stand out. for example when i speak about p p p p p p is a means to reduce as a cost because. that. improvement. in russia. if you go to hobbs the same stuff you're rocking the part of road through him to forests you are preparing to build in russia will cost about forty million dollars per kilometer how come with so expensive very saw a lot of. greed your true no other wouldn't. keep months i'm in need of. these are way more expensive.

time now to see how the markets are performing in the rush of the os yes in my sec the mixed with the mindset is hovering in the. air for all to m.t.s. that down about two point five percent oil is one of the only main players bucking the trend up more than one cent and over in europe stocks are higher fines to gains by oil firms banks and minus gold prices are continuing to climb rio tinto was up one point one percent and b.p. is gaining one in the hall percent in london after its all the world of the gulf of mexico was officially declared sealed on sunday. now german conglomerate b.s.f. is in talks to join the south stream natural gas pipeline according to sources close to the project went to shell the oil and gas subsidiary of the company is reportedly discussing its possible participation in the pipelines construction with gas problem b.s.f. has already cooperating with the russian gas giant to develop the south risk oil

oil and gas fields as well as ignored stream pipeline problem when to shell have not made any official statement about the talks. and i should update for this hour we can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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