in iraq and afghanistan is at a record high quality is gonna chicken takes a look at why so many u.s. soldiers feel abandoned by the country they served each day eighteen american veterans commit suicide in the last few years more u.s. military personnel have taken their own lives than have been killed in either iraq or afghanistan the numbers raise a question where is the battle really happening in the field or at home. he was only home parade months before. before he was even took him over to my home is going to. return. any year and it happens when i post torture. and told him he was number twenty six. these

parents share a similar tragedy one of losing their children who had gone to war in iraq strong and healthy man and came back deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares. thousands of american troops returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder but many refused to seek help from the government in fear it's going to show on their records and they won't be hired anywhere but even those who do seek help are often neglected i want to apply for a job. i applied for unemployment benefits. i went to the veterans administration for treatment a year after i was discharged because i was feeling suicidal and i was discharged i was refused treatment actually brian ledo who had served in iraq came to this charity event for homeless veterans because he too was homeless he and dozens of other young man and women here along with. not only do many come back from war

traumatized but are often left without a roof over their head according to the u.s. national coalition on homelessness forty percent of homeless man are veterans the staggering number of those who see no other option but to kill themselves pushed the country's veterans affairs department to start a suicide prevention hotline they claim they've talked to more than ten thousand veterans out of killing themselves iraq and afghan veterans feel the epidemic and i share your yours. you know. especially so often hear from callers they see no meaning behind the many killings they witnessed any war can be traumatizing for soldiers but the seuss i'd read among vets in the u.s. is now the highest since the vietnam war there was no similar surge after world war two civilians questioning the motive of the war is now reflected among many young american vance who's only down to drive them even closer to the brink looking at

the plight of veterans in the us one can't help asking what is the cost of war is it the one point eight trillion dollars the u.s. spent in iraq and afghanistan last here or is it the shattered lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who come back home to find out their battle for survival has just begun going to shut down our to clinton maryland well coming up in a few minutes. we felt as a journalist that we didn't have protection of freedom of the press we did have a first amendment right. not to use jails but really going to protest outside america's legislative assassins being released on bail we have first hand experience of some media freedom. denmark's defense ministry wants to know if its troops abused prisoners in iraq the media and wiki leaks have published some evidence but they won't give the military chiefs all the

data in case it puts their sources in danger denmark's nato allies are also staying tight lipped as ridiculous school reports are the whistle blows think there are more sinister motives. when the going gets tough the tough go to for help that's what denmark's military officials have apparently resorted to there after access to classified documents to try to establish whether danny's forces were involved in prisoner abuse in iraq if anything had happened in a wrong way of course we should be open about that but to be sure that there are no new information in the wiki leaks document we ask weekly to provide us the four hundred thousand documents so we can actually work them through together with our own own information and then compare but the whistleblower website was not the first place denmark went to in its suppose it quest for the truth a danish newspaper had the documents in its possession for quite some time and not from the same source as we can lease we're not going to give them to the defense

forces because this is the sort of protection thing for the newspaper with a paper keen to protect informants identities the ganesh military ran into another dead end after being refused access of information by nato and their american counterparts demi's defense officials have been forced to turn to wiki leaks ironically we got to see those documents before they did none of these logs have been seen by danish military chiefs something which journalists here find astonishing that they could get the documents from the americans because the americans and the close ally often mark in these documents are american former military intelligence officer gravel thinks there is a different agenda at work where we don't have a very formal. viewpoint regarding freedom of speech. so as to suit itself if it's embarrassing and leaked they will do whatever counterpunch messenger gribble himself was arrested and jailed six years ago for

leaking classified information which showed there were no weapons of mass destruction in iraq and if miller. branson don't like what they discovered this time it might just be once again it will be a website which tells the dish people with their soldiers were really doing in iraq . company denmark but up soon restoring a giant dead lake back to the aquatic the race once more. metal monsters like this fishing vessel said here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of kazakstan with international rehabilitation efforts taking a back to the errol theme proves it may once again return i'm one of the friends join me in central asia to explore what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked bodies of water. journalists writes in the united states on the

question often news teams spent around thirty two hours knocked up for covering a protest rally they were filming outside a military base when heavy handed police accuse them of taking part and then threw them behind bars or correspondents described the handling by police as brutal. while we were filming we were asked to step aside we were asked to step onto the sidewalk which we did this is documented in the footage that we shot we turned our backs and all of a sudden we were being arrested we were not told what we were being charged with we were taken to the county jail it took about four hours for us to be told what we were being charged with and we were processed through the system and we actually spent thirty two hours in the county jail there in georgia even though we were clearly credentialed press were accredited with the united states congress we presented our press credentials and they still arrested as we were charged just as all the either activists were all of us were found guilty of every single charge brought against us there was no distinction made between the press and between the

you know the activists that were there and the bystanders the innocent bystanders so really we we felt as journalists that we didn't have protection of freedom of the press we didn't have first amendment rights and it's interesting that this happened outside of the school of the america where they're training soldiers and police to do these kind of actions against populations of latin america and much of the same repression was seen on the streets of the united states the cases and over again we did appear before a judge in many ways it was the most undemocratic i would say process as you know sort of miscarriage of justice i mean a lot of us weren't even permitted to speak we weren't even permitted to hear what the police officers were saying against as or permitted to respond it was sort of the judge chose to not only you know press charges against us and decide even though it was an arraignment but also sentences and we're also facing state charges for unlawful assembly which as journalists we obviously are not part of an unlawful

assembly where they're covering it under our first amendment rights. there can constitutionally first amendment guarantees free speech but he wrote sort of us david lindorff says the u.s. becoming a police state. there is a bit more aggressive attitude towards interfering with their free reign to the free press as your reporters found out down in georgia in the us we're moving slowly toward glacially maybe sometimes faster towards more of a police state where the police run kind of rampant and nobody controls them they're able to charge you or your journalists as demonstrators which is ludicrous that will intimidate you presumably from sending them to other events because you don't want to keep paying these fines and things the only way to do to deal with this is to fight them in the court i think you're going to see more and more of it the attitude that the police have is that they can do whatever they want and their first amendment is really at the air. you know what they are we have not something

that we are guaranteed you're the only ones who are taking everything showing the guts to go and cover these things and now when you get confronted with it you should defend yourself and fight the police on it. and of course you can get more news stories from ati by looking on to our web site that's dot com has a look at what's there now breaking habits of russian lawmakers lead by example and smoking zones. and in the night how to make the internet a safer place feel children all that and more that autumn dot com. now decades ago an agricultural bed to boost the soviet economy and yet it destroyed central asia is great i will see now there's an eagle on the spot on the

way to reverse one of the wells west's one making environmental designs to. the front supports from kazakhstan on attempts to bring this dying lake back from the brink. there are people living. this harbor who have never seen the water which one slapped on its walls the former port city of a raskin kazakstan was once a bustling hub of business and human activity but beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. rivers feeding massive cotton fields for the soviet union diverted water away from the rivers that fed the erroll sea. when i came here to see was close to the city my husband and i had and would swim to the islands for picnics on the weekend we swam and lay in the sun nation the sea started moving away the waters became shallow and then just joined up my children saw it only in the pictures until the waters were so aggressively diverted the air all sea was the size of ireland the

disappearing sea took with it fishing jobs commerce and an entire way of life just a few decades ago where i'm standing now as far as the eye could see was bright blue water ships just like this bobbing up and down bringing in the day's catch now when you drive across the former seabed all you see is abandoned villages abandoned ships and camels now people here call it errol coom or errol desert. of whom or to soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the r.a.c. all decisions are made in moscow which took me a kind of the ecological balance of that region the consequences of that could be felt as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. the r.e.c. region the fines the terms pre-crisis crisis and disaster. it was after the collapse of the soviet union that people were faced with the seriousness of the disaster the sea had split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what

little water still flowed into the lesser erroll see from this year darya river by building the cocoa. and eighty seven million dollars project funded in part by the world bank the smaller body of water had become the great hope of the future. we had over two hundred people here from russia and his backers step the workers very hard and many of us lived here on site for two or three years but now we're happy to say the time has come to pack up the structure is working perfectly. welcome to news after years of failed dam projects and wasted water in just a few short years these small downs have turned parts of the cows like desert back into a seascape dotting it would be. the hope is that as the project progresses the dams will be built even higher keeping more water and extending the boundaries and the bounty is the answer errol back to the city. when the sea left us

my husband did not want to leave this place he used to say children would grow to see with their own eyes even before he died he believed that the sea would come back. now as the excess water flows through the sluices it disappears out into the nearly empty greater peril see no grand scheme for saving that exists yet for the one million people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only come when these shores once again fill with folks lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. ireland's coalition government is collapsing under the weight of protests of having to accept nearly nine hundred billion euros of aid to bail out its stricken economy country's prime minister is promising an election in the new year once the emergency budget has been approved the e.u. and the i.m.f. are financially propping up are the end of the second eurozone rescue after greece

was a lifeline a few months ago the debt of the estimated to be ten times the size of its economy the financial chaos in dublin again putting the survival of the single currency under threat and the us markets are focusing on the next weakest columns portugal spain italy british and dozens of cars well from their countries conservative party told r.t. that the euro zone is like sharing your bank account with a neighbor who can't stop spending. you cannot have a common fear currency and a common set of interest rates and a common monetary policy across disparate economies and if you try and do that you're putting political delusion ahead of economic reality and millions of europeans are paying the price we thought what we had was a currency union. and we thought it would be to economic advantage on the contrary it turns out that that currency union in the column. has actually damaged economies who don't get the interest rate in the monetary policy they need worse it creates

a debt union which in effect means that the twenty seven member states have a common bank account and i will probably happen if you shared your bank account with your twenty seven neighboring houses in the street where you live you would probably find that one of your members spent more than they should that's exactly what's happening in europe it's not sustainable. now some of the day's other top stories in brief at least three hundred forty four people have been killed in a stampede during a concert in the capital of colombo a huge crowd gathered in a small garden for the final water festival one of the country's largest public events most of the victims were crushed others drowned trying to flee an overcrowded bridge become billion prime minister called it the nation's biggest tragedy since the rouge mass killings in one thousand seventy's. rescuers hoping to locate twenty nine men trapped in a new zealand coal mine of apparent to send down a second robot to take them the first machine was already damaged by water on its

way into the mine the start of the rescue operation has already been to date as tests continue to show a buildup of toxic gases and an attempt to create a ventilation shaft ended when the drill hit normally hard rock with rescue efforts now into their fourth day forty's admit they are preparing for the worst. australian airline quantas says it's to resume flying some of its a three eighty super jumbos three weeks off from the engine explosion forced one of the planes into an emergency landing two super jumbos will initially fly from sydney to london singapore qantas grounded its a three eighty fleet off an engine blew up on a flight from singapore the start of the month that aircraft remains there and instigation. it's a race against time as international organizations try to save the tiger from

extinction russia is helping worldwide efforts by raising forty five million dollars at the tiger for an instant pieces but he's done his philosophy reports on russia's other efforts to save the species. used to be one of the moves dangerous species on earth that is until human steely destroyed their population currently there are just over a treat. thousand tigers left in the wild saving them is a tough task this park in southern russia is home to will have a tiger and contrary to popular belief they breed very well here since this place is not really is it started out as an animal shelter. tigers first appeared here just a few years ago they were taken away by a court order from st photographer as so often mistreated the animals or would you know after we nursed them they gave birth to the first litter the two male cubs and one year later cassandra and clear patrick were born you can see them here they feel very well now. here in the given park the animals are provided with medical

treatment fresh food and lots of living space the place is also home to a tiger celebrity marsha was given to put in as a birthday present in two thousand and eight and he later gave her up for adoption according to the world wildlife fund russia has developed a simple yet effective strategy of saving this endangered species besides setting aside protected areas it includes a ban on hunting and shooting activities that allowed us to operation the russian far east from about. as low as fifty animals in the middle of the last century about three hundred by the end of the eighty's now for the last twenty years worth of more or less stable population on the level of four to five hundred however in many countries these animals are on the brink of extinction the current summit on the issue in st petersburg is looking at turning the old it round the world's

thirteen tiger range nations are hoping to double the population of the species by twenty twenty two that would be a boon not just for tigers themselves but for the millions around the world who love them there is a. cross in the region. korean able to join us with a business stating. hungry for the food we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome

top business report now we start with an exclusive to our t.v. energy and sars says europe will avoid another freeze up this winter ukraine which translates more of most of russia's gas to the e.u. has stated has started a fresh pricing well with gas problems that's raised fears of a repeat of two thousand and nine when a similar spat cut the supply to thousands of european homes after a meeting between gas pipeline enough to gas ukraine boss is going to says this time they're ready you know something. some surprises in south and i. really. believe the only mechanism. they have to trust them more and more transparency in those dialogue and so i mean. you cannot avoid any part of the prices between one thing and you. meanwhile there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. energy minister sergei schwab course says it boils down to brussels gas problem

cause it forbids the gas giant from buying into e.u. energy pipelines until foreign for us can do the same in russia but in an interview for r.t. michael ruled that out. these sore point in our relations guess proem has already made some investments in europe and we should protect those investments more carefully is they would in good faith trade intensive dialogue with the energy commission today it will continue to true mutually beneficial outcome. let foreign companies use its just pipeline system as the e.u. demands on your system to this point is not up for discussion we have strict national los completely gordon monopoly control of the gas transport network is on the world's most inefficient uses of energy you'd go so far as to say saving energy is now your number one target and energy efficiency today is a work key priority we waste four times more energy than to europe or japan because

both homes and industry get power on the cheap it's affecting our competitiveness today they're changing energy is becoming a significant part of domestic and industrial costs or when you log in energy efficiency will maintain that we can make energy savings of forty percent by two thousand and twenty but private companies must raise those improvements not government as happens in some other countries. let's take a look at the markets now asian stocks drop on tuesday and with speculation that a bailout for our land will fail to stand europe's debt crisis the m.s.c.i. asian pacific index lost one point four percent that's excluding japan when markets are closed for a public holiday now this train market is hit by a broad based selling led by materials energy and financial stocks b.h.p. billiton off point eight percent woodside petroleum point point six percent while westpac bank lost one point eight percent saying it's trading in the red almost two percent. here in russia stocks close in the red on monday bringing the last week's

winning streak to a man energy producers gazprom local and ross who have led the climbs with a local down almost one percent. of the average return on russian stocks over the. last year has been five point six dollars that's the highest level in the last seven years and thirty percent above at all those forecasts but despite the good returns the wise it's index has the last lowest value of fifteen stock indices when measured price earnings multiples think pool finds out why. russia has the cheapest stocks among major developing countries taking the market as a whole it trades anything up to a sixty percent discount compared to some other emerging developing markets however investors rarely pass up a bargain for a loan so what's holding them back investors are that stupid and this is the reason why the russian market has not gone up thirty forty fifty percent in this year and

the reason for that is people understand that behind one number one the relatively low p. there is a much more complicated picture that complication is the lack of diversity the oil and gas industry accounts for more than half of the market and it's here that valuations are at their lowest there are a number of reasons why wall and gas stocks are cheap first is the heavy tax burden imposed on the industry by the government but there's also a lack of clear group prospects and in some cases poor corporate governance but if the oil and gas industry is stripped out the picture changes dramatically if you look at the rest of the market a lot of stocks are very fairly valued and in fact some of them are actually expensive a lot of the consumer stocks traded to very high multiples a lot of the electric utilities traded very high multiples russian steel makers trade more or less and live a day piers so where does that leave the potential investor not surprisingly

analysts suggest that research in good judgment is required russian companies have just enjoyed a record reporting season and that growth promises to continue next year with thinking that a difference like us off the market will show substantially different returns over the next year. this whole. cycle some of the exporter and i think both like banking like the coms like consumer while mining circus. oil. well michael white much quicker times than the rest of the weakness of the russian market its exposure to natural resources can also be seen as a string in an environment where inflation expectations are rising and the u.s. central bank is printing more money to moan for resources is predicted to remain strong and prices high as more dollars chase the same amount of oil gas or metal

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but are you watching r t let's take a look at the headlines now suicide rates among u.s. veterans returning from conflict zones rocket to record levels i missed this post traumatic stress and government negligence of the banks for driving them to desperation. denmark's defense ministry turns to whistle blows to establish its own troops and use christmas in iraq former intelligence officers were it sent informants. and the targets were told once one of the wealthy mightiest predators today fighting for their very existence. is valley and thirteen nations to save them from extinction. the next spotlights heads from inside the kremlin as one of president key aides who gives us his insight on studying the economic ship and its global impact.