the suicide rate among veterans who've served in iraq and afghanistan is at a record high all t's going to church of canada 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 for eight months before. he was even took him over to my home is mentally. and a year and a half and 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 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. some of their close 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 u.s. is now the highest since the vietnam war there was no similar surge after world war two civilians questioning the motives 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 or thousands of soldiers who come back home to find out their battle for survival has just begun going to shake an article in maryland. coming up in a few minutes the freedom of speech calling under attack in the united states. thank. god. jailed for filming a protest outside america legs of the censors after being released on bail and the experiencers. 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 base it puts their sources in danger marks nato allies are also staying tight lipped and there's a reason for 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 the year after access to classified documents to to try. establish whether dennis 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 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 danish newspaper have 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 source protection thing for the newspaper with the people are 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 the americans because the americans of a close ally of denmark and these documents are american former military intelligence officer for a gravel thinks there is a different agenda at work or we don't have a very thorough in my. view point regarding freedom of speech. so as to suit itself if it's embarrassing and leaked they will do whatever

counterpart national messenger griddle 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 that once again it will be a website which tells the danish people what their soldiers were really doing in iraq in a court t copenhagen denmark well coming up soon restore. john lake to be of course he once was. a metal monsters like this fishing vessel stayed here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the desert to the cabin down with international rehabilitation after taking us back to the arrowfield proves it may once again return i'm one of the friends to join me in central asia to explore what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked body of water.

journalists rights in the united states on the question after an all news team spent around thirty two thousand jail coverage to protest about it. on the crew before marching them to police. thank you thank you very. much for good and you will describe to us on the one to. first hand experience will you know rest. 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 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 case isn't 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 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. press charges against us and decided 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 is first amendment guarantees free speech but human rights activists david lindorff says the u.s. is not tightening control of the media sometimes of preaching even the basic rights of journalists there isn't it more aggressive attitude towards interfering with their free raided a 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 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 that the first amendment is really at the air. you know at their whim 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 they get more news stories were bought by looking on to our web site that's that article called has taken the cuts out once that if you right now in writing habits russian lawmakers lead by example fight in those mountains. on the way to make the internet a safer place for your children well not similar thoughts of the.

a fairer world order and finally moving away from using the dollar in their bilateral trade are the main focus of talks car the under way between russia and china in some places but is the fifteenth time the premier in a political when job held jointly dacia asians are also looking at closer economic relations and energy cooperation prime ministers are going to give a media everything in about an hour's time naughty will bring that to about. decades ago an agricultural bid to boost the soviet economy that destroyed central asia is great are all seen now there's even more ambitious plans on the way to reverse one of the world's worst manmade environmental disasters ortiz lindsey

france reports from kazakhstan on 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 here to see was close to the city my husband and i had by and we would swim to the islands for picnics on the way can't we swam and lay in the sun later the sea started moving away the watches 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 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 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 dam an 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 kazakstan 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 and extending the boundaries and the boundaries of the lesser erroll see 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 and 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. that was latest report in our series focusing on one of the world's worst environmental disasters stay with us for more on that i'll see regions where . now islands coalition government is collapsing under the weight of protests of having to accept the 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 for the e.u. and i.m.f. are financially propping up on into the second rescue after greece was third

lifeline a few months ago alan'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 and then for small cuts are focusing on next week is to use their economies portugal spain and italy british m.p. douglas collins well from the country's ruling conservative party told r.t. that the eurozone is like sharing a 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 you don't get the interest rate in the monetary policy they need worse it creates

a debt you know which in effect means that the twenty seven member states have a common bank account and ours will probably happen if you shared your bank account with your twenty seven neighboring houses in the street where you live you'll probably find one or two members spent more than they should that's exactly what's happening in europe it's not sustainable but more of today's other top stories in brief now north korea says that south korea was the first to do shells it follows the south reporting that it did in retaliation after rockets hit one of its islands it was initially reported that with korea fired two hundred rounds of course its western maritime border leaving dozens of houses a blaze the south says two of its marines have been killed and at least fourteen people wounded. at least three hundred seventy five people have been killed in a stampede during a concert in the capital of colombo the huge crowds have gathered on a small island for the final day of the water festival in the country's largest

public events most of the victims were crushed or others drowned trying to flee in a cloud of bridge building a prime minister called it rationing because tragedy is a last innings in the seventy's. 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 billion dollars and the tiger for. parties that has been reports on russia's other efforts to save the species. they 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 left 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 a zoo 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 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 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 shooting activities that allowed us to bring our population 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 and now for the last twenty years work of more or less stable population at the level of four to five hundred animals in many countries these animals are on the brink of extinction the current summit and the issue in sync peter's group is looking at turning the old it around the world thirteen tiger range nations are hoping to double the population of the species by twenty twenty two that will be a boon not just for tigers themselves but for the millions around the world who love them. this is. the region. of grenada it's head on with all the business news and it seems as a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. what's happening there well kerry according to russia's energy minister it boils down to brussels sort of gas prom cause not more what that is that what is called the in just a moment but we start with an exclusive to our t.v.

. use energy commissioner says europe will avoid another freeze out this winter ukraine which transit most of russia's gas to the e.u. has started a fresh pricing route with gazprom that 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 gus palma enough to gas ukrainian bosses going to altogether says this time europe is ready. you know something positive. come surprises me in two thousand and nine we haven't really. believe the only mechanism and we have to trust them more and more transparency in those dialogue and so i mean if we cannot avoid any part of the rises in gas between one thing and you. now there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the new energy minister sergei shmuck or says it boils down to brussels gas prom clause which means it forbids the gas giant from buying into e.u.

energy pipelines until foreign firms can do the same here in russia but in an interview to r.t. court overruled 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 energy commission today and will continue to try mutually beneficial outcome. will russia look foreign companies use is just pipeline system as the e.u. demands when you're responding to this point is not up for discussion we have strict national los completely gordon monopoly control of the gas transport network this 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 keeper you're eighty four times more energy than you are approach a parent because both homes and industry get power on the cheap it's affecting our competitiveness today the changing energy is becoming

a significant part of domestic and industrial costs where 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. stocks in europe drop to the lowest and more than three weeks after north korea shelled shells of sovereign korean island islands financial political turmoil are also weighing on the markets the fourth is losing point six percent of the dax is down a quarter of a percent this hour banking stocks are weighing on the footsie with barclays down over two percent here in russia both the r.t.s. and markets down in the afternoon trading following the deterioration of the global stock and commodity markets energy stocks are the biggest drag on the back of the drop in oil prices crossing after fretting over the side on the r.t.s. d.d.b. is losing one point three percent on my six and bucking the trend is a little spider that's twenty one. the average return on russell stocks over the

last year has been five point six dollars that's the highest level and the last seventy years and thirty percent above forecasts but despite the good returns my six index has the lowest value of fifty nine world stock indices when measured on price earnings multiples like paul 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 really 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 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 growth 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 russians to me 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 returns over the next year or. so we prefer some of the exporter and i don't like thinking like a comms like consumer while mining surplus. oil. well michael white much quicker returns 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 or metal nick pull business r.t. . and that's all the latest from the world of business but there's still more to come in the next hour so be sure to talk.

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this is our to recap of our top stories now. suicide rates among u.s. veterans returning from conflict zones to record levels homelessness post-traumatic stress and government negligence are being blamed for driving them to desperation. defense ministry turns to whistle blows to establish its own troops and used prisoners in iraq before intelligence officers were it sent to pound out informants . and the tigers but for once one of the world's mightiest predators to date fighting for their very existence russia is running for thirteen nations to save them from extinction. and next we return to the tiny yet largely forgotten pacific island of tara what is the resting place for hundreds of u.s. marines who is what time sacrifice is slipping from memory.