this is the main issue but even still in time i think there will be a bit before overcapacity a little bit so i'll see you to be competing newport don't tell us live maybe sure enough right now the ability to cut you short there i do apologize we really appreciate your perspective thank you very much better neeraj rescue from your capital. and that's all the business for now we'll have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us now.

welcome back if you're just joining us you're watching r.t. these are the top stories. today and dozens injured in a bloody urges day of rage as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets of those calling for president saakashvili his resignation. from the world's wealthiest nations marginal wartime battlegrounds to thrash out today's conflicts as the g. eight summit gets ready to kick off in france. to us judges are convicted of dishing out jaci just one making millions by throwing teenagers into private prisons for only very minor offenses. and they have a lot of steps toward winning journalist sebastian younger tells us about the fate faced by war reporters and who really needs them.

r.t.d. is sitting down with sebastian younger and american author journalist and documentary and his two thousand and ten film struggle was nominated for an oscar and his most recent book war illustrates the human bonds that are formed between us soldiers even amid a climate of conflict and killing sebastian thank you very much for sitting down with our team today with pleasure so your book war does illustrate. the realities of war why did you decide to focus on the character of characters and the humanity of the u.s. soldiers were was a very political thing i mean it has to be it has to be ordered about. and there are dozens and dozens of great books that have come out in the past ten years that have gone over the more ality the politics the strategy of the two wars that we've been in i didn't really want to add to that i felt that the one thing that was dropping out of the of the national conversation we were having about these wars

was the experience of the soldiers themselves i mean newspaper reporting you get a little bit of you know so and so from just out of illinois his father's does this and you know a little mini bios of soldiers but you don't really get into what i came to think of as the emotional terrain of combat and what i realized in the five was that i spent this little outpost was crippled in the korengal valley of eastern afghanistan huge about a combat very isolated place what i realize is that the guys were not fighting for flag and country and they were not you know they would have joined up for reasons those sorts of reasons well once they were there they were fighting for each other and it was a completely kind of paternal arrangement that had very very little broad kind of like conceptual like motivations behind it you were asked about the death of a son with a lot of these assassinations of the son of man and what you thought that may mean to the heater of afghanistan and to the u.s.

soldiers there and according to what i've read you say the men and women who are fighting are worse right now are starting to have a distant relationship with the event that triggered it meaning september eleventh and that you thought the more immediate concern and what's going to happen on the ground and afghanistan because you say that most of the soldiers i mean those that you were embedded but were maybe nine or ten years old when september eleventh occurred and i think that's good a lot and whether he's alive or dead now that he's that matters to them i don't i think it does matter to them but but it's using increasingly i mean you know i'm. right you know others are here but for ease of nine eleven was through the night on nine eleven remembering a very very painful memory you know someone who is nine years old or nine eleven. towards the army you know i don't have an emotional. that the that attack might not have a real emotional content like you would already know but i think they understand the importance of coming here and they understand the consequences of killing them

killing him for themselves which is conceivably that they are in the stranger do you think so i don't know but this i'm sure this is a debate they're having a out of these small outposts like are they going to be revenge attacks or are we in less danger because he was this sort of kingpin and now it's all coming on going for al qaeda i mean i don't know no one knows what they're probably discussing that when you were on and that is that these are the soldiers your wrath of our good friend of ours and a partner and i want to express my condolences to you because i know that you did this find a problem and have one thing he was in libya right and how did that shift your focus on what you do and how involved you will be moving forward in these wars that are taking place in conflicts i was i've been covering wars is ninety ninety three and i've taken for about a risks in those twenty almost twenty years and kim's death really prevented

knocked me flat and. i think it made me realize i mean he's been dead a month today it's been a month and it's was an awful month and i mean maybe realize like if i get killed. i'm going to be doing that what i feel right now to the people i'm closest to my wife my family my friends and i've never quite thought about it that way and i think. well to believe that the decision i came to was that there is going to continue working on going to continue covering countries that are in transition in conflict but i'm not going to continue to shout out like that distance according to what's being reported and actually very well known is that most journalists have retrenched many overseas players how close then this is this is in the decisions that are being made are you know i networks cable stations what do you think is going to happen when it comes to foreign news correspondents in the future if

a lot of that works are pulling back their arms here it's actually a great opportunity for freelancers you know back in the ninety's the eighty's the ninety's when the networks had tons of money in the newspapers and euro's all over the world you had to be like certified you know like stamps you know past. reporter corresponded to have a job overseas and the scraps that fell from the table went to the freelancers or down those jobs going out the you know the agencies can't fund them so now that workload is being undertaken by freelancers and so you know you go to libya you know this c.n.n. and whatever but. b.b.c. but probably eighty percent of the correspondents on the ground are freelancers who are working for news agencies they can't afford to pay such a salary to a person who's there can afford to pay the insurance and so you know young very courageous young and sometimes inexperienced reporters step in and that's how they were and that's all there extenuation to reporters is what do you think the media

itself u.s. media is. concerned with more and conflict as it used to be because we see so many of these salacious stories. so you know i think those stories of always going around i get most of my news from the newspaper but i really don't when you're from television and so if you're referring to t.v. yeah the sort you know this sort of celebrity scandal kind of stories that i think we've always been there is that the reality is that nato intervened in libya because of the. just i believe it's a horrible images and information that was coming out of eastern libya as khadafi is forces assaulted the rebel positions in benghazi you know stuff. without the press there nothing would have happened and so somebody is paying attention to the trajectory of airstrikes so. yeah i mean it's working it doesn't i don't think every person in the country has to watch those images for them to have an effect

and you say that war is not going to go well that's you know one of the reasons might decide to write a report that you put the war from the point of view of the u.s. soldiers prat. i mean is that is enough to say war is not going to help our right i mean maybe the u.s. or other countries that our creating wars launching wars or or for whatever reason justified. quite different approach because these wars are not going away but some would argue that they're not making circumstances any better afghanistan many experts call it you know a quagmire you know afghanistan is at the lowest level as the villian violence really in death in thirty years the highest rate of economic growth and that whole part of asia is in afghanistan. five times the number of children are being schooled compared to ten years ago with under the taliban and one third of them are

girls according to you i'm sorry is there an option for according to unicef afghanistan is the worst place in the world war and oh no it absolutely can you measure would be like without international assistance yeah it's bad it's the poorest country in the world but it's actually so much better than it was and i think people really realize that is we're going to go away it's been with us since the stone age so no it's not going to go away and it is illness you describe like these are afflictions of human society but we fight you know this we fight crime. should we fight against wanting the wars well you know you know they were i mean they were wars i mean were some could argue well we're to rwanda we probably should have fought a war to end that war you know there was no military intervention in rwanda and a million people died so if someone goes to me and says are you against war i'm like yeah i'm against war do something rwanda sent a force in there to stop bosnia like area sierra leone yeah of course everyone's

against war so what do you do when there's a war you know what do you do when there's a war in liberia and you sit here in the united states and watch it unfold and hundred thousand people die or you send in. no the mill is a country's military and stop it and that's what happened and it ended the war so it's like yeah we did war has to be dealt with but sometimes you have to deal with war with war based on what you saw in your experience do you think any of these guys ever questioned why are we here. the soldiers didn't talk much about why we're in afghanistan i mean they are in afghanistan because they join the army like they don't want to go to afghanistan that's when the drugs. they were quite psyched to be in combat like they joined the army most of them. they joined the army and they got into the once every thirty or warrior really kind of hard core unit precisely because they wanted to understand what combat was like. and so they didn't debate why are we in afghanistan very much it's

like i'm old i live and you know us and they took three thousand americans were killed by attacks coming out of afghanistan. and we had to we had to go to that country and fix it and find the people who killed american or american brothers and sisters and that's about the extent of their analysis fashion and i thank you very much for your time and if you. only really. really.

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you just won't be in charge of the national team any longer that announcement has just been made in the last few minutes more on that in my. hello there thanks for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. next russia part company with national ice hockey coach we just love big. plus i'm innocent faeces potential new leader being home and hits back at bribery claims. that winning feeling joke of it rocks his forty first victory in a row is the big names make round three rolling gary. but first because of peak of has been dropped as the coach of russia's national ice hockey team the fifty year old will not have his contract renewed after a disappointing fourth place finish finish at the world championships in slovakia

the countries i saw the federation voted to axe him and his assistant with the morning bringing to an end because five year reign in charge during that time he led russia back to back world championship titles however the low point was the quarter final of the canada the winter olympics in vancouver russia did respond with the runners up spot at the following world championships but the recent poor showing in slovakia has prompted ice hockey chiefs to make a change of though they've yet to name a replacement. another nice the man hoping to unseat sepp blatter as fee for president has hit back after being accused of corruption thought balls governing bodies investigating claims of bribery against mohammed bin hammam just days before the presidential election he along with a vice president jack warner accused of offering cash in return for a vote for the elections on june the first free for executive committee member plays in making allegations saying bribes are offered during a meeting with caribbean football leaders to lobby support other pair deny

wrongdoing and believe their claims are an attempt to derail bin hammam speed to be feet this new president both will appear before the thief ethics committee on sunday that is just two days before the presidential vote but current man in charge said blatter here is running for a fourth term. in russia to skim off the new leaders of the premier league their three nil when i would get off lifting them above locking my teeth on goal difference until i had a great start big game after just seven minutes to see the founder killed in this great free kick. and the japanese midfielder double to scar's advantage on the stroke of half time to make it saying in here on a dreadful mistake in the sonora defense before firing past the cape. thought and toss stage then struck another super free kick five minutes from time to make it three nil and not see his skull leap frog locomotive at the summit of korea prop up

the table after their third successive i think. australian football past alone to have arrived in london a day earlier than planned for saturday's champions league final against manchester united potential disruption from the volcanic ash cloud from iceland prompting them to reach a jewel their life i despite united's home advantage so the catalans are still the favorites and beating this champions in the final two years ago in rome past a playmaker a little messy played then and will be central to attack on saturday but that isn't we're encouraged to alex ferguson saying much he doesn't have any major injury concerns and says there's always a way of stopping stars from play. rules a solution to. the solution. we also. have over the rebel group is. such

a. because. of all the. move because. now today at roland garros the wrists. and fellow russian they cannot have a junker or an action boat. face unseeded opposition is they need to make the hope to emulate yesterday's trouble free day for the top sea world number two novak djokovic recorded his forty third swing in a row albeit after. i call them rain remaining was two sets down when he got injured and the winnings joke of it will be the new number one if he makes the final but before that will face i'm not in the pub in the third round. we're going to be a great match. he. has always had the quality to be at the top of the man's game and he is playing equally well on the

surface. of great ground strokes for his for his height he's moving through world and. he's just. a top layer. is the three seed here roger federer a straight sets victory for him against maxime to get a roll call for just under an hour and a half six three six six two the final score federer will next place the sound of each. home favorite joel free to song go knocked out russian eagle and a straightforward win for the french when you see these seventy two six three seven six six three the school. getting used over russia's top ranked player in the men's draw me cohesion he can be seeded twelfth roughing up a straight sets win as expands make up a push. and the women's number one caroline wozniacki is also through to around three thinking canadian alexander was in the x. six three seven six wozniacki aiming to at least get past the quarter final stage

at the french open for the first time career. just one match of the time we have to see how it's going to happen. you know i think our time great result on clay so far this year. i'm feeling comfortable confident mcclary. next match will be another tough one. and joining her in the next round is the defending champion francesca schiavone she breeds past russian investment or wants dropping only three games along the way. but overall it was a good day for russia a former french open champion. demolishing the remaining bigs to their six one six one criticism of the oval also once coming back in a set down against teams to be the sneaky and see a public chant about one player encounter against german notable of a bit

a few venus was sent packing in straight sets by serbia's even getting. the n.b.a. salaries have reached the finals for a second time after beating oklahoma full one in their best of seven series one hundred one point two ninety six the school last night. and shawn marion combining for fifty two points dallas will face the the miami heat or chicago in the finals. well the russian hockey season is over however not all the league's plays were able to take their summer holidays straight away a few select few attended the league's award ceremony this week to decide who are the best performance we're going to daniel as more. mistakes have been consigned to the locker room and no it's time to party became a true third season's over with the ice cooling plus differences behind them however there is still one score left to settle who will be crowned the best of the

best but he's very intense and. physical sport sometimes you just don't survive to get to the show so glad to be able to join if you are always fun and. his free time stanley cup winner sergei filin of is one of the most talented players the russian hockey has ever produced and he was one of the best known to us who has emerged as the most promising russian clear in the kid chill this year so i think. it will be part of his show i think a good season to play his role. to play those minutes very big minutes but some ads exceptionally well and. you're born special. i wish him best of luck he's prediction came true it was published enough to earn the title of the league's

best ruki the nineteen year old linger showed his worth in the playoffs scoring couple of goals as he held the steel makers reach the eastern conference finals before eventually being stuck in their tracks by the governing cup winners. nevertheless it's been a dream come true for the north to play with one of his heroes. mr gifford of my teammates a gay father of has been doing his will to shay's vast experience with me during both the training sessions and games he treated me as an old friend that straight. moving from the opens to the netminders as there can be no good team without an outstanding man in between the pipes and much of a. one success this season has been down to constantin burden who played a huge role in getting them to go in cup finals and along with proving to be the league's best goalie the twenty six year old managed to become the number one in the russian national team and the twenty alone world championships but his feet but

he should never be satisfied with yourself every netminder still has some aspects to improve on i'm not different i will keep working hard with my personal calls to become an even better goaltender because he. was the man from an average looking at lunch side all the way to the good decider although he didn't manage to clean the kitchen his biggest prize it was enough to claim the best coach award company. i'm glad i achieved success with the club where i started my career in russia i have had great support from everybody and i would like to share this award with every single player of my team and everybody who works parkland. the final award was the evening's most prestigious this isn't the most valuable player or the second straight year it went to slovakia less forward a look somebody rugelach who fears this isn't with a stunning ninety eight points. on r.t.

moscow yeah well done to them all now finally russian while clone fans will get to enjoy three more years of watching all of us i said that the tunnelling think gold medalist tracking on her retirement announcement saying anything until twenty four to thirty three year old was one of the few bright spots during russia's disastrous bank lympics last year the gold medal in the four by six go on the three and a silver in the twelve and a half kilometer mass start adding to her collection in canada size of us said she felt reenergized having taken time off from it. so i'm more into asda. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v. .