the guns for hire a company accused of killing seventeen innocent iraq is goes on trial in the u.s. but only on accusations of overcharging. norway releases the names of victims from friday's twin attacks as experts warn the spread of and islamic sentiment in europe could lead to more atrocities. nato led peacekeepers are deployed along cause it was northern border with serbia to call an escalating ethnic tensions over attempts to enforce a trade embargo. on

the russian capital you watching r.t. was marina joshie welcome to the program the private security firm formerly known as blackwater is on trial in the us not over allegations that it killed innocent civilians and iraq four years ago because two x. employees claimed the company overcharged washington for protecting state department staff and war zones the firm which is now called z. provides more versed in areas for the u.s. in a standard anyone else has been implicated in a number of scandals in two thousand and seven as hired guns were accused of gunning down seventeen armed civilians in baghdad despite a lengthy legal process no one was punished over the alleged massacre the company is now set to take an even bigger role in afghanistan as the u.s. withdraws its combat troops and as our team has guided to count records there is concern washington can keep covering for its hired killers. this iraqi man son

nine year old aliki nani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago as a crane fell to the ground between life on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone you can see no one of blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns were has been punished for the massacre to other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq a name synonymous now with her rethink human rights violations including porcher rape and murder the us supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and even killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis point expand set to undermine call the horses counterinsurgency

efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves in general kill innocent afghans destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them and everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contract. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is set to grow dramatically. so many. functions to these security companies they are not related in that they are not control and he says we're extremely concerned that what we are calling is for the national and international level so that. companies are accountable but

washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so for seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which case actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. experts say further privatization of war is convenient for the american government because among other reasons it doesn't have to justify the deaths of troops at home the president whoever the president may be can get us involved in conflicts only using uniform forces to do the official fighting and then thousands and thousands of contractors to do the unofficial fighting that's under the radar screen that isn't

covered by the media now here is a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions to an accountable contractors and of course that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as a president now he thinks differently with the contractors war in america's wars down to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice and then a second reporting from washington r.t. . coming out differences on missile defense moscow feels washington is ignoring its concerns and trying to place a bodyguard in its bedroom stay with us to find out what that means. visit of north korea's nuclear and void visit to the united states for an exploratory meeting to see if the sides are ready to get back to the negotiating table. norway's police have released the first list of names of

those killed by anders behring breivik and friday's mass killings critics lawyer says his client is probably insane and unaware killed as many as seventy six people a gunman who has admitted his guilt claims he is not alone in a mission to turn back the tide of immigration in europe as a war and it has been finding out many warned of a new wave of british style terror. and nick hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people and his braving the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned great pics horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say are responsible because

they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the skylark to be here it's a cry that many feel is not being heard by european governments as people show their discontent voting increasingly for previously marginal anti immigration parties arms joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league . of course it will have groups who are satisfied in the real have other groups who say that the governments are not doing enough they are not discussing the issues enough. in this going forward in the future i think there's no way a texan will bring this topic into the center of the attention again and they will force. officials as well as public to focus on these issues are going to move towards nationalism is pound european as well as the b.n.p. making gains in the u.k. holland's controversial good builders now leads the country's third largest

political party running on an anti islamic platform nationalists the truth pins redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the vote but danish people's party has also embraced anti immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and. there's grass roots support for prefix to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto one you cheap and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google by one point concerned that there are a lot of individuals. privates writing this manifesto will resonate with. i'm very concerned that you will see other people copycatting these types of attacks through the years politicians including germany's angela merkel and

britain's david cameron have already said multiculturalism has failed now the leaders of western europe have to stop their disenfranchised cities becoming a breeding ground for bright. lit the fuse and those brave it claims to have been involved with the english defense league which is to protect england from what it calls a wave of islamic the case said the e.t.l. denies but political analysts are saying if the attacks in norway don't produce an honest appraisal of the issues surrounding immigration that could further frustrate the european public and create more space for potentially violent far right groups to expanded all over europe. r.t. london. the e.u. and the us of lead international condemnation of cause there was decision to send special forces to seize crossing on its shared border with peacekeepers out in the

area to help control the situation which is ethnic tensions one police officer was killed after coming under fire from local serbs mounting a road block in one of the disputed crossings possible says it's trying to enforce a ban on serbian imports in response to a similar boycott of possible goods around sixty thousand serbs live in the north and don't recognize cost of the independence which it unilaterally declared in two thousand and eight politics expert mark mcgrath it's possible to not have acted without that bill had. its popular masters in washington. and you should bear in mind that the. union leaders could have done nothing without the ok from the us administration and we know that the us has got a massive investment in kosovo it's got the biggest military base in the world income bonesteel smack bang in the holocaust a lot and so everything that. gets up to is also rise by washington in the first place having said that the poverty in quotes of all over for all peoples albanians

as well as this is so huge that they're suffering already under this combined washington inclusion regime which is nothing but poverty and really has done nothing for the region but bring organ harvesting and plain apology to everybody in this region so that also is a failed states a fake state of the state in experiments and this kind of expansionism failure. xpress new leadership produce for the world should not be encouraged by the world we should all oppose this we know who can stop it and it is time that the u.s. administration stopped its extremist puppets from even further inspiring begins to . recognize territorial area. over more news latest updates and fresh videos to go to our website artsy dot com and here's what we have for you online today. and the events leading up to the polish president's plane crash continue to unravel as investigators in poland now also admit pilot error was probably to blame

a claim they previously denied. there's no get out of jail free card or and so should have conveyed that oil tycoon mikhail how to prosecute prison officials claim he does not deserve the early release. and watch r d's exclusive interview with legendary queen guitars brian may work he discusses his passion for music and science and yes he's views on the mystery of why the universe and everything. north korea's top diplomat is in the united states in the town to restart negotiations on the country's disputed nuclear program he's due to meet with american officials on thursday and has said he remains optimistic that ties with the u.s. will improve their visit comes just days after we're envoys from north and south

korea sat together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia there is a agreed to or a new six party talks over pyongyang's atomic conditions as soon as possible to go she asians broke down after north korea's deadly shelling out an island belonging to the south and what it claims was in response to provocative military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached well to discuss this in more detail get across live a professor of any expert on korean studies from the university of sydney thank you very much for being here with us mr crocker well it's been five years since u.s. envoys last visit so tell us how significant is the timing of this visit now invite has the u.s. invited north korea and boy now. all the second and all three nuclear crises begin and all the other engineers going all the sides of the big

three and. it was going to six party talks where you she could. resolve the issue and although it was not much progress through and you can do with some breakthroughs with the march and school of thought was in the when it became clear that north korea he's not going to be. freezing in some nuclear program and the other part you say you think you still thrust the north korean for a number of years there have been no developments and paul nor the so it's going to be even more even for forbes. bali last week was very significant for all parties realize that it's about time. starts discussing be again south koreans and north. by literally of the united states and the way. we can all three in going to get

invited. or so in washington so we see that it's time. for us there's no certainty that there will be much progress but these discussions you can facials and considerations is a large step forward. given that north and south korea haven't had a peace treaty for fifty eight years so after so many years are the sides finally ready to make peace a thing of. the world that can arrive the day is the eighth anniversary of the. agreement was signed one hundred fifty three cents there and the decision has never been extraordinary in an interim it is interesting that south korea was not a signatory of the armistice agreement with north korea china and the united states . simply refused and signed the armistice agreement so seeing monody the

president or republican was so adamant the marginal and unify the country. and the signature so we thought about the peace treaty and the north koreans have been requesting suggesting that these people who signed could be united some with the united states first of all since one thousand seventy five. probably reply will be all parties have to sit down and sort of three different sides probably saw that as a republican we're he's more than anyone interested in signing the peace treaty. the second coming assure investors. and you will. and again. i believe. he's the korean war has to be and is and will. be called woman counting caldwell structures me region in general have to be

dismantled. while south korea and the u.s. are planning joint military drills in this season next month and reports of the. north is as well so both sides buy them provocative why do you think they keep them going. well you're right the military reels. on the korean peninsula. joint military drills are three american three variables. that have always been major and a major concern. for people from some of the parisian for another war seems to be a few years ago. and recently i think we lost. and we know there were a couple of very poor you consider the. force. of the company there was

a character in the shell. and also for human life pensions regional pensions also expanded china or really concerned that overall should demonstrate so very strong position on such connections and called on all parties would demonstrate restraint we know that the brink of war already for almost six decades and something has to be done and. from one side or another. i mean it is not going to help resolve the situation. patient of all the parties like you where is. the main security ally of the republic of korea and china which is a security or a lawyer or it was taking care of the people's republic of korea so often make things even worse so what we have. is. from the molten lead and probably by little relation of political negotiation will be more free and sell

through we are the only and russian agent and sort of. all right professor david draw from the university of sydney thanks very much for sharing your views here with us. russians at one time nato says he is disappointed after talks. as u.s. senators in washington thanks the republican lawmakers have made to see moscow as a rival not a partner his visit as part of fresh efforts by russia to revive talks and a common missile defense system in europe but the american side insists on creating its own shield which it claims is to combat missile attacks from so-called rogue states russia feels the project can compromise its national security something the u.s. has dismissed me regards and told r.t. that washington's actions are violating moscow's personal space. thank you there are questions that remain unanswered is missile threats against europe come from the south why is the us policing part of its military infrastructure in the north close to russia's borders this is the question that we can't get an answer to when

we ask for legal guarantees that the system is not aimed at russia which there's a big conflict between republicans and democrats in congress and they start to explain that conflict but we're not interested in that what's important for us is that the u.s. is behind these projects and they should provide security for all partners russia is very flexible if for some fabricated political reasons they have rejected our suggestion to integrate our means of anti missile defense and there's another scheme they could be cooperation between two independent system if nato wants to defend itself that's no problem but if russia wants to provide its own security so be it otherwise it's like when you come home and discover somebody else's bodyguard sitting in your bedroom he's been sent to provide your security who's going to like that so if suggestions are rejected and it's understood that iran is just a reason to have. russia's nuclear potential is the real target then russia will

come up with its own military response which nobody is going to like but it. is a static look at some other stories from around the world and spanish activists have passed out with the shoulder and are over the economic crisis are setting off a long march to brussels protesters started to gather two months ago all across spain holding meetings and collecting complaints in every city now they are prepared for march over fifteen hundred kilometers to express their distress in the heart of europe belgium spain currently has the highest unemployment rate of the e.u. over twenty percent. levy has warned a u.n. envoy that no peace talks will be considered until nato starts airstrikes a government spokesman also insisted that one or get off its leadership is known to go through earlier this week the when envoy held talks with the rebel council in benghazi were also made little progress toward. a peace deal now going civil war in libya started four months ago and has taken the lives of over two thousand people. in egypt official news agency says former president hosni mubarak is weak and

refusing solid food hospital officials say he's suffering depression and weight loss caused by not eating enough to sustain his health is supposed to stand trial in a week accused of ordering the killing of protesters and corruption over eight hundred forty people died during the popular uprising which forced mubarak from office in february. those who say that might doesn't grow on trees have obviously never been to russia illegal logging is thriving all across the country as people learn how to profit from natural disasters are just sort of boy girl reports. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good server and the flames terrorizing the country's forest every summer some unscrupulous entrepreneurs have come to use it as a smokescreen for illegal logging the problem reached such proportions that even the government has realized the chips are down. in some regions considered at risk

of heavy forest fires illegal logging is throwing they cut down more than authorized and the area is set ablaze to cover their crime and we can determine how much logging with sanctions and how much is actually cut. fires hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods new st petersburg fallon the path of the major with her last year there through thousands of have tours of major forest many more were chopped afterwards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup for them mr very lucky to get a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job could be done in a few days but their permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure we can easily get stretched. they see money doesn't grow on trees but russia which possesses about one fifth of the world's forest resources because the old wisdom well the

government can turn that the illegal logging cons with just a few percent of all teams or production environment tracking to say this he'll have a problem is much greater if you would believe that twenty to twenty five percent of all logging in russia is carried out illegally the figure is higher than a decade ago and it's still rising on a par with the amazon rain forest the vast siberian greenery is often referred to as belongs of the planet a close examination though it seats are the lever to place most of the illegals they beare in cambridge goes to china and while the locals all the really see the impact of deforestation on their own lives they see their only other option would be far worse. you know it's illegal what you're doing oh i know it's illegal but there are no other jobs here. that the government officials. or to turn

to for con and see the state is doing everything it can to combat illegal logging new legislation has just come into force the number of rangers will be increased to get in the meantime the chiefs are still flowing when they me according to our experts if the speeds in the billets need to see the wood for the trees that is one of the main reasons why illegal logging in russia is so widespread and why it is so prone to any sort of punitive action while the federal authorities may condemn the practice all they want the current economic and regulatory environment ultimately makes plan bethink chopping of trees form a look rooted and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way find a way for artsy. coverings or something here on r.t. and time after the visit some date with marina. hello and welcome to business here on our team now we start this hour with oil

russia may be a version of but that doesn't show up the petrol pumps motorists are having to contend with rising prices and in some cases shortages the problems have been put down to higher duty and intervention in the market and in scotts of the stage the government is considering allowing a low grade class to petrol back on the market petrol refiners in russia have been reluctant to convert to the higher class through standards but the russian gasoline says they're always to make it happen. because if you do that well there are a few stimuli being implemented at the moment currently very high the level of quality diluted juji the difference isn't big around three hundred to four hundred roubles according to the us now there is talk of increasing this difference to two thousand to three times roubles plus. those who have already invested in upgrading their production which will give them through the stimulus bill for the development . let's take

a look at the markets now or oil has slipped into the red after earlier against prices remain under pressure as a result of washington wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling. in asian markets are trading in the red investors are cautious with washington's that long of a raise in the countries that have weigh in on export growth as companies ever here in russia the markets will start trading and so ours time because the next on tuesday with the r.t.s. pointing slightly upwards and m i six in the red among the most active stocks word seeing here john to its highest to more than a week and france after which had the highest close in more than three knots and that was after reports its first quarter that bank on more than double. russian equities have started the week struggle. find direction i look at the to be capital says the market looks to be answering as some are low period. they still

looks like we're going to who hold the eight hundred thousand range for here which is the roughly where we touched briefly at the beginning of the week going into the next few weeks i think with the sort of pace is going to continue and mark is just going to hold its breath until some positive signals are seen from europe or of us moving further on beyond summer we do expect the russian market there to go higher and reach new highs from here obviously with the continued strength in the oil prices the metals and doing that over commodities finally being translated into the price of russians probes and that's all of this is for now for more stories you can always check out our websites all right see the calm slash business that lines up next with marina i for now.

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