so that the suicide rate among veterans who have served in iraq and afghanistan is at a record high well it's he's going to a church a town that takes a look at why so many u.s. soldiers who 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 for eight months before. he was even took him over to my home is mentally. and here and it happens when i post torture. 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 returned 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 little would 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. him otherwise are 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 push the countries that are ins 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 agreed 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 year 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 arctic clinton maryland. well coming up in a few minutes on the program. we felt as journalist that we didn't have protection i freedom of the press we did have a first amendment right the news crew jailed for filming a protest outside america's alleged school of assassins after being released on bail we have first hand of the experience of so-called media freedom. and mocks defense ministry wants to know if its troops abused prisoners in iraq the

media and wiki leaks have published some evidence but they will give military chiefs all the data in case it puts this sources in danger denmark's nato allies are also staying tight lipped into the school reports other whistleblowers 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 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 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 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 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 could get the documents from their work and because the americans of a close ally often mark and 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 formal. viewpoint regarding freedom of speech. so as to suit itself if it's embarrassing and leaked they will do whatever

counterpressure your 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 military top brass 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. restoring a giant dead lake to the aquatic oasis it once was. metal monsters like this fishing vessel fed here abandon waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of kazakstan but international rehabilitation after taking a back to the arrow through proves it may once again return time when the friends join me in central asia to explore what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked body of water. journalists writes in the united states on the

question often news teams spent around thirty two hours locked up for covering the protest they were filming outside a military base when heavy handed police accuse them of taking pot and then threw them behind bars well correspondent for described 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 the 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 it 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 primitive here 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 we're 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. well the american constitution's first amendment guarantees free speech he would run sorts of his stated lindorff says the u.s. is not tightening control of the media sometimes breaching even the basic right so generous. there is an it more aggressive attitude towards interfering with their free it raided 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 your or your journalists as demonstrators which is ludicrous that will intimidate you presumably from sending them to other events because you know 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 that

the first amendment is really at their. you know at their whim not something that we are guaranteed you're the only ones who are taking evena 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. 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 the three right now breaking rather it's russian lawmakers lead by example in the fight for no smoking. and home alone to make the internet a safer place for your children all that and what all to dot com. for. decades ago an agricultural

bid to boost the soviet economy destroyed central asia is great aral sea there's an even more ambitious plan on the way to reverse one of the wells worst one made environmental disasters. from reports from kazakhstan attempts to bring this dying lake back from the brink but. 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. when i came in she was close to the city my husband and i have by 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 started on 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. more the soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the aral sea all decisions were made in 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.e.c. region defines 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 have split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into the lesser erroll see from this river by building the cocoa. 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 kazakhstan and his back to stand the work is 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 boundaries of the lesser air all sea back to the city of r l. when the sea left us my husband did not want to leave this place is to say our children would grow to see with our own nice even before he died you believe that this you would come back . now as the excess water flows through this loses it disappears out into the nearly empty greater l c no grand scheme for saving that this yet for the one million people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only come when the shores once again fill with boats lindsey france r.t. kazakstan that was the latest report in our series focusing on of the world's worst environmental disasters stay with us for more on the mission to more. islands coalition government is collapsing under the weight of protests of having

to accept having ninety billion euros of aid to bailout its stricken economy the country's prime minister is promising an election in the new year once the emergency budget has been approved the i.m.f. are financially propping up and with the second rescue of the greece was a few months ago arlen's or debtors estimated to be ten times the size of its economy and financial chaos in dublin again putting the survival of the single currency on the threat of a small cuts are focusing on the next weakest euro zone columns for school spain and italy with douglas cause world countries reeling conservative party told r.t. that the euro zone is like sharing a bank account with a neighbor who can't stop spending. and 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 . turns out the back currency union in the common monkey policy has actually damaged economies you don't get the interest rate in the monetary policy they need . 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. well some of the international stories spew in brief now at least three hundred forty people have been killed in a stampede during a concert in the capital of cambodia huge crowds have gathered in a small of that into the final day of a water festival one of the country's largest public events most of the victims were crushed while others drowned trying to flee in rage. prime minister the

nation's constructible says a common rouge mass killings in the seventy's. rescuers hoping to the twenty nine men trapped in the coal mine apparent to send down a second robot to take them the first machine was damaged by water its way into the mine started rescue operation has already been delayed as tests continue to show a buildup of toxic gases an attempt to create a ventilation shaft ended when the drill hit really hard rock rescue efforts now it's the fourth day of reporters at mit. just. days developing story south korea has confirmed firing dozens of lose shells tell the asian against an attack by north korea's actions or the early reports. by the two hundred rounds of causes west and on board that when this is say the shells hit one

of these items in the sea of the sixty houses are. saying one south korean ferry has been killed and at least fourteen people have been injured so. since placed the country on its highest. but it's a race against time as international organizations try to save the tiger from extinction russia is helping worldwide effort spy raising forty five million dollars a tiger for peace but he's 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 supportive park in southern russia is home to a beloved tigers 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 photographers who often mistreat at the animals. 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 park the animals are provided with medical treatment fresh food and lots of living space the place is also home to a tiger celebrity marshall 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 the race in the russian far east from about. as low as fifty animals in the middle of the last

century. three hundred by the eighty's now for the last twenty years of. population 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 peter's group 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. that is. the region. coming up next it's the business news with korea. how one welcome to the business program thanks for joining me we start with an exclusive to our t e use energy star 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 route 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 but after meeting between gas from and not the gas ukraine's bosses going to get it this time they already. know something positive if the surprises me in two thousand and seven really good timing believe warning mechanism and we have to trust them more and more plus we have to in those dialogue and so i'm going to be you cannot avoid seeing any part of the rises in gas between russia and you. meanwhile there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. energy minister sergei shmuck also says it boils down to brussels gas problem cause it forbids the gas giant from buying into e.u. energy pipelines until foreign firms can do the same in russia but in an interview

for r.t. should not call rule 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 were in good faith trade intensive dialogue with the energy commission today and will continue to true mutually beneficial outcome. will real short lived foreign companies use is 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 cordoned monopoly control of the gas transport network muscles 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 the energy efficiency today is a work key priority who waste four times more energy than to your approach apparent 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 lot when 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. stuff drop on tuesday amid speculation that a bailout for ireland will fail to stem europe's debt crisis japan's markets are closed for a public holiday this training market is headed by broad based selling led volunteer wheels and energy out of financial stocks hong kong and shanghai stocks in fleetwood banks and housing related play shop in lower ranks and it's trading in two and a half percent in the red. they were rough for both the r.t.s. and my six down in the first hour for trading following the deterioration of the global stock and commodity markets and of the stocks of the biggest drag on the block on the indices. back on the back of a drop in oil price of gas oh my look or i'm losing over percent in the first hour of trading so is. the average return in russia 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 forecasts but despite the good returns index has the lowest value of fifty nine world stock indices when measured on price earnings multiples like paul has won. 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 that low it's there are a number of reasons why well 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 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 different sectors of the market will show substantially different times over the next year or. so we prefer the cycles of the exporter and i think both like banking like other columns like consumer while mining circus. oil. well of my quite 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. . the sun has decided to buy ten percent of after boss reports a japanese newspaper after the purchase there were

a known his son alliance along thirty five percent of the russian carmaker earlier reports said that two hundred ninety million dollars deal is to be reached next spring the nikkei newspaper also known as son plans to start a joint production of small sized cars with up to mass in two thousand and twelve. and that's all the update i have for you for this hour but you can always find most stories if you log on to our website at r.t. dot com slash tests.

you're watching r t let's take a look at the headlines now suicide rates among u.s. veterans returning from conflict zones to record levels homelessness supposed to mattick stress and government negligence are being blamed for driving them to desperation. deadlocks defense ministry tends to establish its own troops abused prisoners in iraq the former intelligence officers worry it's found that informants. and the reuters which are once one of the world's mightiest predators to date fighting for their very existence. as nations to save them from extinction. does his bit to punish greedy bankers now and all it takes is the price of a small piece of silver because the reporters next turned out.