ever have imagined alarming figures show that the suicide rate among veterans who served in iraq and afghanistan these are two record high he's got a chicken it takes a look at why so many u.s. soldiers for the bounden 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 great months before. he was even took him over to my home is mentally. and a year and a half and can swipe was torture. and

told him he was number twenty six. when. 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 laid a lot 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 suits are great among vets in the us is now the highest since the vietnam war there was no similar surge after world war two seaview is 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 take clinton maryland. coming up in a few minutes. we thought as a journalist that we didn't have protection of freedom of the press we didn't have first amendment right. to use crew jailed for filming a protest outside america's alleged skloot assassins after 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 military chiefs all the data in case it puts their sources in danger denmark's nato allies are also staying tight lipped and so into the school reports other 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 their own own information and then compare but the whistleblower web site was not the first place denmark went to in its supposed quest for the truth a damaged newspaper had the documents in its possession for quite some time and not

from the same source as we kill eeks 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 to 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 a close ally often mark in these documents are american former military intelligence officer for a gravel thinks there is a different agenda at work where we don't have a very fair amount of. viewpoints regarding freedom of speech. so as to suit itself if it's embarrassing or leaked they will do whatever

counterpart machinery or messenger reveal 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. brands don't like what they discovered this time it might just be once again it will be a website which tells the danish people with their soldiers were really doing in iraq. copenhagen denmark. soon the restoring a giant's dead leg back to the aquatic oasis it once was. metal monsters like this fishing vessel stayed here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of kazakstan with international rehabilitation after taking a factory erroll three 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 body of

water. rights in the united states are on the question of the news team spent around thirty two hours locked up for covering a protest rally through me outside a military base when heavy handed police accused him of taking pot and then threw them behind bars a correspondent for describe the hanging by police i was 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 by senders 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 their 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 prince minutes and hear what the police officers were saying against as or permitted to respond it was sort of the judge chose to not only. press charges against us and decide even though it was an arraignment but also sentences and were also facing state

charges for unlawful assembly which as journalists we you know obviously are not part of an unlawful assembly where they're covering it under our first amendment rights. the american constitution first amendment guarantees free speech but human rights activist david swansong says the r.t.o. arrests highlights how more journalists are unable to exercise that right. do you know we have a little ray of tactics used by the u.s. government and the military we have media outlets bombed in the course of our wars we have journalists shot at we have pentagon spokespeople secretly paid to say what they supposedly think on television we have faith news reports generated by the government and we have a campaign of intimidation that is very very successful and it's you know there are two disgraceful things that happened here one on the rest of journalists and activists and to most us media outlets not they're not risking arrest complying

with the desires of those our or successfully intimidated and of course you can get more news stories from r.t. by logging on to our website at r.t. dot com has a look at what's just a click away breaking habits russian lawmakers lead by example in the fight for no smoking. and home alone how to make the internet a safer place for your children. dot com. decades ago an agricultural bid to boost the soviet economy really destroyed central asia is great i'll see there's an even more ambitious plan on the way to reverse one of the world's worst manmade environmental disasters azziz lindsey france reports from kazakhstan on attempts to bring this dying day back from the

brink. there are people living at this harbor who have never seen the water which once lapped at 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 they have any hope and i came here to see was close to the city my husband and i have 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 so i don't 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 it was a cargo of promoted soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the r.a.c. all decisions are made a moscow which took no account 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.t.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

a coke. and eighty seven million dollar 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 stand 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 is extending the boundaries and the boundaries of the lesser era will be 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 nine s.

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 this 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. that was the latest report in our series focusing on one of the world's worst environmental disasters stay with us for more on the scene and to more. now that the government is collapsing under the weight of. yes i mean to accept ninety billion euros of its aid to bailed out stricken economy countries prime minister is promising that election in the area once the emergency budget has been approved the e.u. and the i.m.f. are financially propping up the second euro zone rescue after greece was thrown

a lifeline a few months ago alan's debt is estimated to be ten times the size of its economy chaos and can survive in a single currency threat and never smart it's a focusing on the next test. influential economics policy group that adam smith institute major mediterranean economies is no life no fool. policy i think the euro zone's days are numbered i can't see the euro survive in this decade certainly not the next ten years probably not the next one or two years in fact. will kick the can down the road maybe our it will bring down the euro but probably portugal spain or even if you will the exposure for example the french economy to charlie and banks is absolutely massive twenty percent of the entire french economy is. to france by banks by italian bond holders so if it really goes france economy will collapse the entire eurozone will collapse if one of the larger

mediterranean countries goes and i think that really what island and what the u.k. needs to realize is that it's not a matter of bailing out the euro because that's what this bailout is aiming to do the bailout is trying to sustain the euro currency but that actually won't work really the question is do we do it now in an orderly way to wind down the euro and help ireland out of the poor or do we try and wait for one of the massive european economies like spain or italy to collapse and they will really be in trouble because there's no way we can afford to bear that out and we really really will be in difficult situations and what we need to do is to help out of the euro zone help them restart their own currency which can float so that they can devalue and be competitive on the world markets moving again and it would be good for the british taxpayer because britain will prosper when all of prosperous as well. it's a race against time as international organization is trying to save the tiger from extinction russia is helping worldwide effort spy raising forty five million dollars for the tiger for an instant petersburg ati's that is but also reports on

russia's other efforts to save the species. the used to be one of the most dangerous species on earth that is until humans nearly destroyed their population currently there are just over three thousand tigers slept in the wild saving them is a tough task this quarry park in southern russia is home to eleven tigers and contrary to popular belief they breed very well here since this place is not really is a star adult is an animal shelter. tigers first appeared here just a few years ago they were taken away by a court order from st photographers who 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 cleopatra were born you can see them here they feel very well now. here in the given the 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 type activities that allowed us to bring in the russian far east from about. as low as fifty animals in the middle of the last century about three hundred by the eighty's now for the last twenty years work of more or less stable population in the level of four to five hundred. in many countries these animals are on the brink of extinction the current summit on the issue and seeing petersburg is looking at turning the old it round the world 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. region. some of today's other top stories now in brief at least three hundred forty five people have been killed in a stampede during a concert in the capital of colombo the huge crowds have gathered in a small on and on the water festival the country's largest public events most of the victims were crushed while others drowns trying to flee an overcrowded bridge become burden prime minister called the nation's biggest tragedy since the mass killings of nineteen seventies. 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 damaged by it on its way into the mine started a rescue operation has already been delayed as tests continue to show a build up of toxic gases and attempt to create

a ventilation shaft ended through its own. rescue efforts now into their fourth day of protests at mit preparing for the last. and today's developing stories south korea has fired over thirty artillery shells in retaliation against an attack by north korea the action of followed earlier reports that north korea had fired shells across its western diet on what witnesses say the rounds hit one of south korea's islands in the union sea disputed the instant comes days after north korea revealed it had a modern uranium enrichment facility only the u.s. would more didn't arise ation talks continue to work on the facility. coming up soon it's the business news with kareena stay with us.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations throughout the day. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers. who are welcome to our business program good to have you with us we'll start with

an exclusive to our t.v. news energy czar says europe will avoid another freeze out this winter ukraine which transits most of russia's gas to the e.u. has started a fresh pricing role with gas from that's raised fears of a peat of two thousand and nine when a similar spat cut the supply to thousands of european homes but after meeting between gazprom enough the gas ukraine bosses gives us in gas says this time they already are. i mean there are some positives if some surprises steve lives on the night live and really examining believe only make innocent lives and we have to trust them more and more plus gifts in those dialogues and so i'm sure if we can avoid seeing any part of the rises in kids between life and youth. 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 energy pipelines until foreign firms can do the same in russia but in an interview to are to rule that out. these sore points in our relations guess proem has already made some investments in europe and we should protect those investments more carefully is they were in good faith trade intensive dialogue with the e.u. energy commission today and will continue to look for mutually beneficial outcome. will rule charlotte foreign companies use its gas pipeline system as the e.u. demands when you're suspended for this point is not up for discussion we have strict national los completely gordon monopoly control of the gas transport network was 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 who 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. now let's take a look at the markets asian stocks drop on tuesday amid speculation that a bailout for ireland will fail to step in europe's debt crisis the m.s.c.i. is a pacific index lost one point four percent that's excluding japan when markets are closed for public holidays the australian market is hit by a broad base selling led by materials energy and financial stocks is trading in the red as well down almost. here in russia the r.t.s. start of the day lower all the butchers are in the red energy stocks are the biggest drag on gas from are losing just under a percent in the first hour of trading bucking the trend though as is apparent that

. 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 thirty percent above forecasts but despite the good returns and that has the power you are fifty nine world stock and this is when measured on price earnings multiples find 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 not stupid and this is the reason why the russian market has not gone up thirty forty fifty percent 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 oil 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 i actually expensive a lot of the consumer stocks traded very high multiples a lot of the electric utilities traded very high multiples russians to make careers 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 different type us off the market will show substantially different times over the next year or. so we prefer like us with exporter and i think you'll like banking like a comms 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 strength in an environment where inflation expectations are rising and the u.s. central bank is printing more money demand for resources is predicted to remain strong and prices high as more dollars chase the same amount of oil gas will metal nick pull business r.t. . but i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes so hope you join me at.

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