twelve noon here in the russian capital and this is r.t. it seems the impact to war on us troops is far greater than the american government could ever have imagined a long figures show that the suicide rate among veterans who have served in iraq and afghanistan is at a record high ati's girl a teacher karen it takes a look at why so many u.s. soldiers for the band and 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. before he was even took him over to my home is mentally.

and here and it happens that when i post torture. i 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 and 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 online. 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 seaview is questioning the motive of the war is now reflected among many young american dance whose only down to drive them even closer to the brink looking at the plight of veterans in the u.s. 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. coming up in a few minutes the freedom of speech forming under a time in the states. we felt as journalists that we didn't have protection have freedom of the press we did have a first amendment rights. jailed to me a protest outside the americas and that's scooter son since after being released on

bail we have first found their experience of some media freedom. denmark's defense ministry wants to give its troops of prisoners in iraq the media wiki leaks have published some evidence but they won't give military chiefs all the data base it puts their sources in danger then most nato allies are also staying tight lipped as a regular 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 we are asking wiki leaks 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 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 could get the documents from their work and because the americans a close ally of then mark in these documents are american former military intelligence officer frank 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 want to know whatever counterpart missionary or 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 denmark. coming up soon restoring a john dead lake back to the aquatic oasis it once was. 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 effect in the air all 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 landlocked bodies of water. journalists who writes in the united states on the question author of the news team spent around thirty two hours locked up 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 a correspondent for described by police was brutal. while we were filming we were asked to step aside we were asked to step on to 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 the there 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 prophet 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 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 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 and he rights activist david swansong says the arrests highlights how increasing numbers of journalists unable to exercise their rights 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 in 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 two most u.s. media outlets not they are not risking arrest complying with the desires of those eight power or successfully intimidated of course you can get more news on that and other stories on out by looking on to our website that's our team dot com it's a look at what's there like breaking in our bits of russian lawmakers lead by example the fight for no smoking sings. pasta home alone how to make the internet a safer place your children all that and more talk. about decades ago an agricultural bid to boost the soviet economy any destroyed central

asia is great i'll see now there's an even more ambitious plan on the way to reverse one of the world's worst manmade environmental disasters. lindsay frons reports from kazakhstan on attempts to bring this dying day 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 wanting 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 on and 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. one of whom or the soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the r.a.c. all decisions are made a mess go 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 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 kazakhstan and his back a step the work was 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 to is 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 erroll sea 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 boats lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. and that was the biggest reported of our series focusing on one of the world's worst environmental disasters stay with us for more on the region to more. now audience coalition government is collapsing under the weight of protests of having to accept nearly ninety billion euros of aid to bail out its stricken economy the country's prime minister is promising an election in the year once the

budgets the budget has been approved the e.u. and the i.m.f. are financially propping up into the second urgent eurozone rescue after greece was thrown your lifeline a few months ago ireland's debt is estimated to be ten times the size of its economy and the financial chaos in dublin again putting the survival of the single currency under threat overseas markets are focusing on the next weakest eurozone economies which will spain italy british m.p. douglas carr's wealth and the country's new 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 the back currency union in the column. has actually damaged economies who don't get the interest rate or 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. well some of today's other top stories in brief now for you south korea firm firing dozens of artillery shells in retaliation against an attack by north korea the action follows early reports that the red korea had fired over two hundred rounds across its western maritime border when this is say the shells hit one of south korea's islands in the yellow sea well over sixty houses are blase. one south korean marine has been killed at least fourteen people injured seoul has since placed the country on its highest known

what on alert. at least three hundred seventy five people have been killed in a stampede during a concert in a couple of come boga huge crowds have gathered on a small island for the final day of the water festival one of the country's and biologist public events most of the victims were crushed while others drowned trying to league an overcrowded ridge. and prime minister called it an infant's biggest tragedy since the mass killings in the seventy's. well 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 and the target for vincent petersburg teased in his but also he 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 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 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 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 of a piece that allowed us to. ration 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 worth of. population in the level of four or five hundred animals in many countries these animals are on the brink of extinction the current summit on the issue and saying peter's group 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. that is. the region. coming up next on the latest of business news with korea.

it's twenty one past known here in moscow welcome to our business program and we start with an exclusive to our t.v. energy commissioner 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 round with gazprom raised fears of a repeat of two thousand and nine when a similar spat cut the supply to thousands of european homes but after the meeting gasp romanov the gas ukraine bosses turned to gas has this time they already. passed. on the price is. never really. believe the only mechanism and we have to trust them more and more transparent in those dialogue and so i. cannot avoid saying anybody can rise this impasse between one thing and you. meanwhile there's

a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. and it should minister sergei shmuck or 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 an interview for r.t. should not call 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 done in good faith and intensive dialogue with the energy commission today and will continue to try mutually beneficial outcome. will rule charlotte foreign companies use is just pipeline system as the e.u. demands on your program to this point is not up for discussion we have strict national completely gordon 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 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 trade those improvements not government as happens in some other countries. now let's take a look at how the markets are doing asian stocks drop on tuesday i mean speculation that a bailout for allen will fail to stem europe's debt crisis to pound markets the calls for a public holiday period market is had by broad based selling led by materials energy out of financial stocks hong kong and shanghai stocks retreat with banks and housing related claims shop in lower ranks as trading two and a half percent in the red well stocks in europe dropped to the lowest in more than three weeks after north korea fired dozens of artillery shells at south korean

islands islands but our political turmoil is also weighing on the markets of course is losing point seven percent while the dax down half of the sand bagging stocks are weighing on the forty barclays down over two percent this hour. here in russia the r.t.s. the markets down and they are in the afternoon following the editorial. ration of the global stock markets energy stocks are the biggest drag at this point trading on the back of drop in oil prices. losing over a percent so it's bearable. the average return on russia's talks over the last year has been five point six dollars the highest level in the last seven years and thirty percent above list forecasts but despite the good returns and one six index has the lowest value of fifty nine world stock indices when measured on price earnings multiples pull 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 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 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 of us off the market will show substantially different returns over the next year or. so we prefer some of the exporter and i think i would like banking like a concept 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 easily be seen as a string 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 metal mic pull business or t.v. and tell a story has decided to buy ten percent of after a pause a japanese newspaper after the purchase they were no alliance will own thirty five percent of the carmaker earlier reports said the two hundred ninety million dollars deal is expected to be signed next spring the nikkei yes paper also adds that reno his son plans to start a joint production of small size cars with up to two thousand and twelve. that's all the update i have for you for this hour but join me and about thirty minutes from now for walk us aren't.

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what are you watching ought to be the main stories we're covering this hour suicide rates among u.s. veterans returning conflict zones broken record levels of homelessness post-traumatic stress and government negligence and private desperation. denmark's defense ministry turns to whistle blows to establish its own troops abusing prisoners in iraq before intelligence officers worry it's found out. the title switch for once one of the world's mightiest predators last day fighting for their very existence is running into the pensions to save the extinction. meets a man whose views on the events surrounding nine eleven cost him his job. was fired from the french military college in paris allegedly as a result of a book introduction where he questions the official version of the.