forces counterinsurgency efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves they'll injure or kill innocent afghans and they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contractors. 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 u.s. . so many. functions to the security companies they are not regulated in that they are not control and he says we're we're extremely concerned that what we're calling is for relation to the national and international level so that. companies

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 we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which there's actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of the boat but 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 took on accountable contractors and of quote that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as a president now he thinks differently where the contractors role in america's wars bound to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. 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 up 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 the gunman who has admitted his guilt claims he is not alone in a mission to turn back the tide of immigration in europe as lore and it has been finding out many warned of a new wave of british style terror. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to anders breivik 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 all expressed 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 scar to the edge 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 and joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league. will have groups who are satisfied and we will 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 this nor their attacks 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 again the move towards nationalism is pan-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 islam platform nationalists the true friends

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 grassroots support for brave it too 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 i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. who will resonate with. i'm very concerned you will see other people copycatting these types of attacks in the coming months or coming 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 the disenfranchised cities becoming a breeding ground for far right. who lit the fuse and those brave it claims to have been involved with the english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls the wave of the case said the e.t.l. denies the political analysts are saying if the attacks in norway don't prompt 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. are to be done today. the e.u. and the u.s. have led international condemnation of cause it was decision to send special forces to seize crossing on its shared border with syria peacekeepers have been deployed to the area to help control the situation which is ethnic tensions one police

officer was killed after coming under a fire from the local serbs mounting a road block near 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 kosovo's independence which it unilaterally declared in two thousand and eight politics expert market gossips say it's possible to not have acted without the bill had from what it calls its pop it masters in washington. 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 you can bomb still smack bang in the holocaust of all and so everything that. gets up to is also rise by washington in the first place having said that the poverty of all over for all peoples albanians as well as. is so huge that their suffering

already under this combined washington regime which has brought them nothing but poverty and pain and really has done nothing for the region but bring organ harvesting and pain and quality to everybody in this region so that course always a failed states a fake state of the state can experiment and this kind of expansionism a failure of. ethnic albanian leadership have produced 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 us administration stopped its extremist puppets and from even further inspire and begin to. recognize territorial area. well for more news latest updates and fresh video you can go to our web site r t v dot com and here's what we have for you online today. in 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 for an associate of convicted oil tycoon me how to prosecute prison officials claim he does not deserve early release. and watch our g.'s exclusive interview with legendary queen guitars prime a word he discusses his passion for music and science and gives his views on the mystery of life 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 is due to meet with american officials on thursday and has said he remains optimistic that ties with the u.s. will improve the visit comes just days after a mere envoys from the 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 renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions as soon as possible you know she asians broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south and what it claimed 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 to professor than a petrol expert on reinstated from the university of sydney thank you very much for being here with us mr trump well it's been five years since u.s. envoys last visit so tell us how significant is the timing of this visit now and why has the u.s. invited a north korean boy now. for all the. north korean nuclear crises begin or were there other engineers going other sites in

thousand and three and it was going to six party talks were initiated to resolve the issue but you know there was not much progress periodical it was some breakthrough but on the march until two thousand and eight when it became clear that north korea is not going to be from freezing its nuclear program and the other party so you think you start to move. for a number of years there have been no developments of paul nor that seem to be even not even talks about talks or what happened in bali last week was very significant for all parties realize that it's about time. we start discussing the issue again. and most. of the bilaterally of the united states. clinton met with north korean delegation and invited them to visit new york

so and washington so we see that it's time to go there's no certainty that there will be much progress but at least discussions and you can change in france impatience is a large step forward well 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. while the world you're right to be is the fifty eight in verse three of the armistice agreement was signed in one thousand fifty three since then the peace regime has never been stored in the korean peninsula it is interesting that south korea was not a signatory of the armistice agreement with north korea china and the united states itself we are compliance and signed the armistice agreement so seeing monday the

president could probably go through was so adamant the march north and unify the country that he simply refused his signature so if we talk about the peace treaty and the north koreans have been requesting and suggesting that these three to be signed would be united some of the united states first of all seems nine hundred seventy five. probably over do you want to climb on that all parties hope to sit down and sort out their differences probably south korea should participate in the republic of korea is more than anyone interested in signing the peace treaty. as you can assure investors and the new warriors. we're going to break out. i believe that the peace has to the korean war has to be ended at all and in order to achieve this we called woman college in caldwell structures in the region in general have to be dismantled. while south korea and the u.s.

are planning joint military drills and disputed seas next month and reports suggest the north is as well so both sides find them provocative why do you think they keep them going. while you are right the military. chaplain annually on the korean peninsula usually a joint military will solve three american going through drills that will have always been a major issue the major concern for most of the really you've seen the state of constant. war seems to be eighty years ago. and the recently particularly last year these deals with will be disputed area of waste and seed and we know there were a couple of very considered the. ship was destroyed and the. other was a character and shelf. for human life regional tensions also

expanded china really concerned so russia demonstrated a very strong position on such actions and called upon all parties to demonstrate restraint we know that he is on the brink of war already for almost six decades now and something has to be done about that and i think that. from one side or another more south koreans is not going to help resolve this situation. the participation of all the parties like he wears which we choose the main security of the republic of korea and china which is a secure. you know one or more of you can go if you people are probably. all from makes these even worse so what we have to choose. from. probably by a little bit. installed we're. all

right professor the petrov from the university of sydney thanks very much for sharing your views here with us. russia's envoy to nato says he's disappointed after talks with u.s. senators in washington thanks to republican lawmakers have and are committed to seeing moscow as a rival not a partner his visit as part of fresh efforts by russia to revive talks in a common missile defense system in europe by the american side insist on grading his own shield which it claims is to combat missile attacks from so-called rogue states russia feels the project could compromise its national security something the u.s. has dismissed major gazan told r.t. that washington's actions are violating moscow's personal space. but if you there are questions that remain unanswered if missile threats against europe come from the south why is the us placing 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 we're told 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 this project and they should provide security for all partners russia is very flexible if for some fabricated political reasons they've rejected our suggestion to integrate our means of anti missile defense then there's another scheme that could be cooperation between two independent systems 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 the plan russia's nuclear potential is the real target then russia will come up with its own military response which nobody is going to like. as i

take a look at some other stories from around the world and spanish activists have passed out very to show their anger over the economic crisis are setting off a long march to brussels protesters started to gather two months ago all across they 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 stops airstrikes a government spokesman also insisted that leadership is no negotiable earlier this week the u.n. envoy held talks with the rebel council in benghazi where he also made little progress towards. peace deal then going civil war in libya started four months ago and has taken the lives of over two thousand people. in egypt's official news agency says former president hosni mubarak is we're going to refusing solid food

hospital officials say is suffering depression and weight loss caused by not eating enough to sustain his health but barca 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. they also say that money 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 artichokes out of boyko reports. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good servant 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 thriving they cut through oist in the areas set ablaze to cover their crime nobody can determine how much logging was sanctioned and how much was actually cut. fires hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers a using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods near st petersburg fallon the path of a major twister last year it uprooted thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were chopped off towards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup. mr they've got a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job that could be done in a few days but they're permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can usually get a wrist. they say money doesn't grow on trees but russia which possesses about one fifth of the world's forest resources defies the old wisdom while the government

contends that the illegal logging cons with just a few percent of all timber production environmental activists say the scale of the problem is much greater if you heard it 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 the lungs of the planet at close examination though it's guarded all over the place most of the illegal siberian timber goes to china and while the locals already 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. i know it's illegal but there are no other jobs here. the government officials are to turn to for calm and say the state is doing everything it can to combat illegal

logging new legislation has just come into force the number of forest rangers will be increased it in the meantime the chiefs are still towing where they may according to x. powers if the states and the billeted 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 farm a locomotive and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way a kind of artsy call that brings us up here on r.t. and time now for the business and date with marina us around. hello and welcome to business here on our team now we start this hour with oil

russia may be rich in the but that doesn't show i have 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 it's got to the stage the government is considering allowing 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. if you do pretty well there are a few stimuli being implemented at the moment currently very high the level of. the difference isn't big around three hundred to four hundred rubles according to the clocks now there is talk of increasing this difference to two thousand to three thousand roubles plus. those who have already invested in upgrading their production which will give them through the stimulus for further development. and let's take a look at the markets now oil has slipped into the red after earlier gains 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 country's debt calling weigh in on the export focus companies ever hear of brush on the markets will start trading and two hours time they close the next on tuesday with the r.t.s. pointing slightly outboards and m i six in the red among the most active stocks were to. jump to its highest in more than a week and france after which had the highest close in more than three months and that was after reports its first quarter that more than double. russian equities have sort of the weak struggle. find direction i look across about the to be capital says the market looks to be answering a summer lol period. it still looks like we're going to who hold eight hundred

thousand reach for here two years which is roughly where we touched briefly at the beginning of the week going into the next few weeks i think with that sort of pace is going to continue mark is just going to hold its breath until some positive signals are received from europe more of us moving further on beyond summer we do expect the russian market to go higher and reaching our eyes for a year of this lee with the continued strength in the oil prices metals and other commodities finally being translated into the price of russians dogs and that's all the business is for now for more stores you can always check out our website artsy dot com slash business that lines up next with marina buy for now.

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back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories the guns for hire company accused of killing seventeen innocent iraq is goes on trial in the u.s. but only on of his ations are overbilling blackwater now known as c. allegedly charged too much for protecting u.s. officials in wars. norway releases the names of victims from friday's twin attack as the suspects lawyer says he's client is not aware and killed seventy six people some experts are warning the spread of anti islamic sentiment in europe could lead

to war british style terror. nato led peacekeepers are deployed along cos of those northern border with serbia to call them escalating ethnic tensions over attempts to enforce a trade embargo on the e.u. and the u.s. led international condemnation of the action that resulted in one police officer being killed. so they had lies down artie's so sure now is a need to nasa astronaut who was part of the first u.s. mission to the moon on that historic flight they landers touquet celebrate a photograph that inspired the environmental movement around the globe he talks about the bigger picture behind that shot. understand you very much for being with us today it's a great pleasure and an honor nice to be with you soldiers all right so apollo

eight commander frank berman and common command module pilot jim lovell had flown more hours than any other. when they tap on you well i was the rookie. but it turns out that none of us had ridden on the saturn five so we were all right rookies for saturn five and we were all rookies for a trip away from the earth with a lot of screaming and shouting during the six and a half days no not screaming and shouting you didn't have to in a spacecraft to reach at our jobs level was basically the navigator and i was the systems engineer and copilot looked at the shot actually frank borman no i think it's been. definitely proven that i took the shot but i think find more might have taken the first one but unfortunately he didn't use color film and didn't use a long lens so i gets the credit when it's the.