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 military and security functions to these security companies they are not regulated in that they are not control and this is what we have extremely concerned that we have coleen is for relation to the national at the 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 states are actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. what 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 with 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 up in the program differences on missile defense moscow feel washington's ignoring signs and trying to place a bodyguard and it's bad to stay with us to find out what that means. after fifty eight here is a formally being a war we report on why north and south korea still haven't signed a peace deal and he was benefiting from the tension along the thirty eighth parallel. norway's police have released the first list of names of those killed by arab spring break and friday's mass killings sas his client is probably insane and i aware he killed as many as seventy six people the gunmen who has admitted his guilt claims he is not alone in

a mission to turn back the tide of immigration in europe as laura am of has been finding out manny warrant of a new wave of brevik style terror. and ethnic hatred that led to this excludes of innocent young people does brave it 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 storm 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 within are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say or are responsible because they allowed immigration to 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 increasingly for previously marginal immigration policies and joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense we. will have groups who are satisfied and we will have other groups who see that the governments are not doing. discussing the issues enough. in this going forward in the future i think attacks it 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 truth pins redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the

vote the danish people's party has also embraced anti immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and sweden 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 on 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. privates writing in his manifesto will resonate with. i'm very concerned that 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 their disenfranchised cities

becoming a breeding ground for far right. lit the fuse and those brave it claims to have been involved with the english defense week which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of. the a.d.l. denies the political analysts are saying if be attacked. norway prompts an honest appraisal of the issues surrounding it grace said that could frustrate the european public and create more space for potentially violent far right groups to expanded all over europe. r.t. done to. norwegian terrorism and its consequences are at the heart of the debate in the latest cross start and which peter lavelle's guess argue over the chances of a repeat of the atrocities elsewhere. i don't believe that this sort of thing is going to happen again but underlying that you know if we're not listen to you're going to see more terrorist acts i just think i believe it's a load of rubbish we're not going to see this kind of thing happen in england we're

not going to see it happening across europe and we all hope there are no more terrorism but it's very very naive to think that this was a one off and it's not likely to happen if you look at the right wing. rhetoric in europe it is far higher than the u.k. for sure we have countries in the u.k. countries in europe who are banning certain acts of islam so they've banned the minaret they've banned the wearing of all of these things i had on me just in the u.k. it's not that the moment they go he says it's good so you've now we knew impinge on people's human rights then what are you talking about a liberal democracy. the full heated debate is coming your way later in the program here on r t now the e.u. and the us have let international condemnation of course of his decision to send special forces to seize crossings on its shared border with serbia nato led

peacekeepers have been deployed to the area to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions one police officer has was killed after coming under fire from local serbs mounting a road block near one of the disputed crossings possible says it's trying to enforce a ban serbian imports. response to a similar boycott of cost of our goods around sixty thousand serbs in the north and don't recognize cost of us independence which is you know laterally declared in two thousand and eight politics expert market gossip says cost of all could not have acted without the go had from what he calls its puppet masters in washington. 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 off 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 is albanians as well as serbians is so huge that they're 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 corso is a failed state a fake state of the state can experiment and this kind of expansionism of failure. 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. for more news latest updates and fresh radios go to our website r.t. dot com and here's what we have for you online today. 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 blame they previously deny. and get out of jail free card for a plot on legacy of an associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky prison officials claim they would have does not deserve early release. and watch artie's exclusive interview with legendary queen guitars brian may he discusses his passion for music and science and gives his views on this real life universe and everything. north korea's top diplomat is in the united states as part of attempts 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 nuclear families 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 they agreed to renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions as soon as possible you know she broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south in what it claimed was in response to provoke military provocative military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached from the campaign to end the korean war told r.t. that the u.s. is interested in keeping up tension on the peninsula. the u.s. military needs justification to maintain its troops in the north east asia region so that it can pursue its real interest which is to contain china's expansion of power in the region and also to continue to sell its weapons systems and demonizing north korea as an axis of evil country conveniently provides that kind of

justification the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliances with south korea and japan with increasing military exercises in the region building missiles at defense systems and inextricable inextricably linked gains south korean japan and weapon systems with it. but the reality is north korea does not provide a threat to south korea or the u.s. and the reality also is that the u.s. and south korea are facing an economic crisis where their tax dollars can be better spent on rebuilding their domestic economies than on provocative war games that have already cost us lives on the korean peninsula last year there is one thing that distinguishes north korea from other nuclear weapon states in the world and that is that it is the only country that has said that it's willing to give them up in exchange for a guarantee that the u.s. will not attack it and north korea has been very consistent it has said that everything is on the table as long as the u.s. is in syria but it has to be a process of mutual disarmament you can't realistically expect north korea to

simply give up its only deterrence capability unless the u.s. is also willing to take steps and an end to its provocative war games that simulate the collapse of the north korean regime is a good start. all the way here in our team seeing that wood for the fees but only for airing illegal in russia who are using wildfires as a smoke screen for reaping a profit all the details and a few minutes. rushes and lawyer to nato says he is disappointed after talks with u.s. senators in washington dmitri raghad and thinks the republican lawmakers who met are committed to seeing moscow as a rival not a partner his visit as part of fresh efforts by russia to revive talks of a common missile defense system in europe but the american side insist on creating its own field which one uses to combat missile attacks from so-called rogue states russia feels the project could compromise its national security something the u.s.

has dismissed me and told r.t. that washington's actions are violating moscow's personal space. 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 rejected our suggestion to integrate our means of anti missile defense then there's another scheme they 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. you're watching us now take a look at some other stories from around the world the mayor of afghanistan from our city has killed by a suicide bomb attack in the town center it's the late. it's been a string of assassinations targeting top afghan officials two weeks ago president hamid karzai as have brother who ran the entire province was gunned down while karzai top aide was also killed by the taliban who are stepping up their assault as nato combat troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan. egyptian 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 a popular uprising which forced the bar from office in february. levy has warned

a u.n. envoy that no peace talks will be considered until nato stops airstrikes a government spokesman also insisted that obviously either ship is non negotiable earlier this week the un envoy held talks with the rebel council in benghazi were you also made a little progress towards a peace deal going civil war in libya started four months ago and has taken the lives of over two thousand people. well those who 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 are jesus on a boycott 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 with flames terrorizing the country's poorest 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 down more than authorized than the area is set ablaze to cover their crime nobody can determine how much logging was sanctioned and how much was actually cut the. fires hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers they using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods near st petersburg thousand the path of a major twister last year it uprooted thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were trapped afterwards 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

the rest. 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 this scale of the problem is much greater. than the herd we 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 hard to lower the police 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 poorest rangers will be increased if you get in the meantime the chiefs are still towing where they may according to x.p. if the state's inability 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 one daft thing chopping of trees farm a locomotive and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way a kind of artsy moscow. and while earth by environmentalist battle to keep russian trees safe talks to the american astronaut who inspired the movement to protect the

earth watch the full interview in a few minutes here's a short preview. we were there to prove not just to ourselves and the american people but prove to the whole world that america wasn't second rate when certainly the soviets now the russians with sputnik in garg era and the missile gap were making america look really bad well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe or it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in a more expansive way. religious leaders from russia and georgia are uniting to celebrate the christianization of ancient russia they are in ukraine and were at the end of the town century prince

a lot of their force thousands to convert georgia's patriarchial ya is on his first official visit to ukraine he is due to meet with his russian counterpart to discuss the strained relations between the two states who cut off diplomatic ties more than five years ago this year t. of has prepared massive celebrations to mark the pivotal moment russia became part of the world's christian community. that brings us up to date here in r.t. i'll be back soon with a recap our top stories but business news is next with marina. oh and welcome to business here are at sea now russia may have plenty of oil but that doesn't show at the petrol pumps motorists are having to contend with shortages and rising prices the problems have been put down to high tags duty and the greater profits ability of selling fuel abroad petrol refiners or russia have also been reluctant to convert to the higher class through standards the government

says even consider an extended production of low grade class to petrol until december twenty eighth twelve but the russian gasoline union says stimuli to upgrade production is being in employment a. pretty significant well there are a few stimuli being implemented at the moment currently excise duties are varied the higher the level of quality the lower the g.g. the difference is in the big move around three hundred to four hundred roubles according to the class now there is talk of increasing this difference to two thousand or three thousand roubles plus spiritual those who have already invested in upgrading their production which will give them further stimulus for further development. russia's leading gold producer pauline as gold has been taken over by its london based subsidiary gold as a result of a share swap because the gold worth two hundred ten million dollars merges with politics gold worth fifty times more than the company on the name of gold

international will start trading on the london stock exchange on a wednesday the combined company now wants to join forces with a global rival as early as this year to become one of the world's top three gold miners. and let's take a look at the markets no oil has slipped into the red this hour light sweet as news in the around twenty two cents and the grant is actually up this hour point zero two cents and prices remain under pressure as a result of washington wrangling over the u.s. that ceiling. and e.u. markets opened lower and with washington is that problems affecting investor confidence both the foot sea and the dax are losing actually the footsies now gaining almost half a percent and the dax is losing almost half the secular what's happening in russia markets are mixed this hour world where the r.t.s. up almost a quarter over for science and my sax down almost

a quarter of her son's investors are indecisive avoiding risky move ahead of economic reports and critical decision making in the u.s. let's take a look at some individual moves on the my sax energy majors are among the top losers this hour gasper machette a third of a percent a loophole is dropping twice as much bucking the trend this polling not only adding overrepresented on the higher gold price. russia may place your balls on the foreign markets in twenty twelve that was the finance minister sergei said chuck says russia plans to boost boring significantly over the next three years. you're worth it russia has an important competitive advantage it's so high that sustainability risa allows us to convert the budget deficit by borrowings and i would cross four rings will amount to seventy two billion dollars santoli in the next three years. and that's all the business is for now for more

stories you can always check out our website r t dot com slash business but in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with marina. the east side. the

limits susan. just see to. see. the folks bringing you the latest in science and technology from the influx we've dumped a few jerks covered. welcome

back here with here's a look at the top stories the guns for hire company accused of killing seventeen innocent iraqis goes on trial in the u.s. but only on accusations of overbilling blackwater now known as z. allegedly charged too much for protecting u.s. officials in war zones norway's releases the names of victims from friday's twin attacks as the suspects lawyer says he's quiet is not where seventy six people and some experts are warning the spread of anti islamic sentiment in europe could lead

to a war of riddick style terror. nato led peacekeepers are deployed along possibles northern border with serbia to call this the lady asking tensions over teams to enforce a trade embargo e.u. and the u.s. led international condemnation of the action that resulted in one police officer being killed. also the top stories here on t.v. . and nasa astronaut who was part of the first u.s. mission to the moon on that historic flight bil'in urse took a celebrated photograph that inspired the environmental movement around the globe he talks about the bigger picture behind that shot. bill anders think 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 command 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 out 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. definitely proven that i took the shot but i think played more remote 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.