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. . source many of the military and security functions to meet and security companies they are not regulated in that they are not control and this is what we have extremely concerned that we have gotten is for regulation at 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 case 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 end 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 right now a five minutes past the hour here in moscow and coming up for you differences on missile defense moscow feels washington is ignoring its concerns and trying to place bodyguard. stay with us to find out. that all fifty eight years of formally being at war we reported one north and south korea still haven't signed a peace deal and who is benefiting from tension along the thirty eighth parallel. noways police have released the first list of names of those killed by anders behring breivik in friday's mass killings

a lawyer says his client is probably saying unaware he 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. and it has been trotting out many warn of a new wave style tara. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to prevent 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 condemn brave ics horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe and 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 sky 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 movement like the anti islamic english defense league. of course you will have groups who are satisfied and you 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 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. 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. privates writing in this manifesto 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 their 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 a wave of. the e.t.l. denies the lake but 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. r.t. london. well norwegian terrorism and its consequences are at the heart of the debate in the latest cross talk in which people of elves guests 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 i underline threat 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 acts but it's very very naive to think that this was a one off and it's not like it's a happened if you look at the right wing there and see if slimy and muslim 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 where a lot of all of these things are happening is that in the u.k. it's not that bad at the moment they go he says it's good seed now we knew impinge on people's human rights then what are you talking about a liberal democracy. that full heated debate is coming your way in about an hour and twenty minutes right

here on arts. well the e.u. the u.s. has led international condemnation of kosovo's decision to send its special forces to seize crossings on a shared border with serbia nato led peacekeepers have been deployed to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions hundreds of people blocked main roads in response to cause of police seizing two disputed border crossings one police officer was killed in overnight clashes kosovo says it's trying to enforce a ban on serbian imports in response to a similar boycott of course of our goods around sixty thousand serbs that live in the north and don't recognize cause of independence which it unilaterally declared in two thousand and balkans expert marco gets it thinks the cause of acted with the go ahead from 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 u.s. has got a massive investment in kosovo it's got the biggest military base in the world in

cambone still smack bang in the heart of possible and so everything that the priest in a couple gets up to is also rise by washington in the first place having said that the poverty in kosovo over for all peoples albanians as well as serbians is so huge that they're suffering already under this combined washington regime which is 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 caso is a failed state a fake state of mistaken experiments and this kind of expansionism of a 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 expanding into serbia as you can recognize territorial area. with a lot from moscow it's good to have your company today and for more news updates

fresh videos just go to our website www dot com i hear of a few of the items we have online for you today. but the events leading up to the polish president's plane crash continue to unravel as investigators in poland now also admit that pilot error was probably to blame the claim they've previously denied. there's no get out of jail free card for an associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky prison officials claim liver death does not deserve an early release. exclusive interview with the legendary queen guitarist brian may when he discusses his passion for music and science and gives his views on the mysteries of life the universe and just about everything else in between.

north korea's top diplomat is in the united states as part of a terms to restart negotiations on the country's disputed nuclear program he is due to meet with american officials on thursday said he remains optimistic that ties with the u.s. will improve the visit comes just days after nuclear and boys from north to south korea sat together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia agreed to renew six party talks of a pyongyang is a topic as soon as possible because actions are brought down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south and what it claimed was in response to a 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 of the korean war told us that the u.s. is interested in keeping up tensions on the peninsula. so 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 in increasing military exercises in the region building missiles that defense systems and extra good inexplicably linking 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 and 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 weapons 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. tackett and north korea has been very consistent it has said that everything is on the table as long as the us distance here 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 us 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 right sixteen minutes past the hour here in moscow on the way here and seeing the wood for the fees but only for illegal loggers in russia who are using wildfires as a smoke screen for profit all the details in just a few minutes. let's check out some other international news for you making headlines this hour the taliban has claimed responsibility for the for killing rather the mayor of afghanistan's kandahar city in

a suicide bomb attack it's the latest in a string of assassinations targeting top afghan officials two weeks ago president hamid karzai is half brother who ran the entire kandahar province was gunned down one of cars eyes top aides was also killed by the taliban who are stepping up their assault as nato combat troops began to withdraw from afghanistan. britain has officially recognized libya's rebels as the country's legitimate government and expelled all colonel gadhafi as diplomats it comes as libya warned a u.n. envoy there will be no peace talks until nato stops airstrikes and insisted that moammar gadhafi leadership is non-negotiable the u.n. representative also held talks with the rebels in benghazi that there was little progress towards a cease fire and estimated two thousand people have died in the four month civil war. egypt's 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 mubarak is supposed to stand trial in a week accused of ordering the killing of protesters and corruption over eight hundred and forty people died during the popular uprising which forced mubarak from office in february. while those who say that money doesn't grow on trees of obviously never been to russia illegal logging is thriving all across the country as people learn how to profit from natural disasters on a boy he reports. fire has long had a reputation of bad. master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good servant with flames terrorizing the country's forests every summer some unscrupulous and trapper naras 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 are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods new st petersburg foul and the path of a major twister last year it uprooted thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were chopped after wards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup. if. 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 there permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can easily get to rest on a par with the amazon rain forest the vast siberian greenery is often referred to as the lungs of the planet a close examination though seed scored 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 who are to turn to for comment 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 following where they may according to x. press 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 plan bethink chopping of trees farm will look pretty and easy to carry out

than doing it the legal way a kind of artsy moscow. and while mentalists battle to keep russian trees safe we talked to the american astronaut who inspired the movement to protect the earth and you can watch the interview next in full but for now a short pier. well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i mean the bigger a start. it really and has influence well beyond my imagination a lot of people not only is the earth fragile in and beautiful but it's very small and so though we have still i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking you know

more expansive way. without a lot from moscow in a moment marina say with the business but religious leaders from a post soviet nations uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christianization of ancient russia georgians patriotic is on his first official visit to kiev he meets with his russian counterpart to discuss the strained relations between the two states cut off diplomatic ties more than five years ago. the head of the russian orthodox church bought out of the real has a right to the ukrainian capital kiev to take part in the celebrations along with his counterpart from georgia and the head of the russian orthodox church in ukraine . it's been exactly one thousand and twenty three years since this part of the world adopted orthodox christianity now when sharkey real arrived at the solemn liturgy in front of the. monument in kiev the central monument dedicated to the

baptism to the adoption of christianity in this part of the world he was greeted by tens of thousands of people who were chanting that. is the real well clearly this shows that the the attitude towards russia and ukraine is still very warm and he is being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with most school and st petersburg it is interesting because of course capital of a sovereign state of ukraine and this means that the russian orthodox church goes beyond the borders to unite the religion to unite the clergy among all the space it is a large scale celebration which is being held in the capitals of ukraine belarus and russia kiev minsk and moscow wonder stand that the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating

the festivities in the three capitals. of the business as i promised arenas. hello and welcome to business here on r.t. now russia may have plenty of oil but that doesn't show at the petrol pumps motorists are haven't seen the shortages and the rise in prices the problems have been put down so high tags today and the greater profits ability of selling fuel a broad new roles on the quality of petrol are also having an impact the government is even considering extending production of low grade class to petrol and so the sound board twenty twelve bought the russian gas in the union says incentives for fighters to operate production are being implemented. quickly to finish really well so there are

a few stimuli being implemented at the moment currently excise duties varied the higher the level of quality the lower the g.g. the difference isn't big 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 it's fair to watch those who have already invested in upgrading their production which will give then through the stimulus for further development. russia the supply then support fifty percent of it's all champion roll stuff up for sale next year it could become the biggest properties ation deal in the nation's history on the current market conditions the stake is valued at fourteen billion dollars and the government says it is also weighing plans to sell its entire stake of seventy five percent by twenty seventeen it also plans to divest holdings of diamond producer alviro so and the t.v. bag grazing around thirty six billion dollars. russia's lead in gold producer policy is gold has been taken over by its london based subsidiary gold as

a result over the share swap cross of gold worth two hundred ten million dollars merges with probably a scold worth fifty times more and the new company under the name of dollars go international will start trading on the london exchange only one state 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 now or oil is in the red this hour light sweet is losing about half a dollar and brant who's down a valid point thirty six cents prices remain under pressure as a result of washington wrangling over the u.s. that ceiling. and let's take a look at the european markets they are lower this hour with washington is that problems affecting investor confidence there as well the footsies down one almost

two percent and the dax is amusing points one to six percent there let's take a look at what's happening in the russian markets they are in the positive territory this hour they are three x. is more than half a percent and my sax is up just slightly more than point one percent investors though are still and decisive avoiding risky moves ahead of economic reports and critical decision making in the u.s. . the united states has less than the weeks to come up with a deal to raise its fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling a failure all the politicians to agree could risk and the precedence of downgrade of the world's biggest economy. at the moment america is running a huge deficit which is financing by rolling over its debt and if there's a downgrade from aaa to whatever it is double a then the cost of financing that

goes up and therefore the debt starts crying and the end of that process is defaults however as far as russia is concerned. you could say to some extent the emerging markets. decouples from the american economy russia doesn't export anything that. the impact would be through the effect it would have on all prices and all prices are likely to come down however that would probably be quite healthy as long as they don't go down below. seventy eight dollars and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always check out our website r.t. dot com slash business in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines for the hoary.

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welcome back to without the law from moscow a good recap now if i had lines the guns for hire a company accused of killing seventeen innocent iraqis goes on trial in the us but only on accusations of bailing water. allegedly charging too much for protecting u.s. officials in was. no way releases the names of victims from friday's attack experts warn the spread of islamic sentiment in europe could lead to more atrocities.

nato led peacekeepers are deployed along kosovo's northern border with serbia to calm escalating ethnic tension over attempts to enforce a trade in the e.u. and the u.s. led international condemnation the action that resulted in one police officer being . the headlines but now our very own sophie shevardnadze meets a nasa astronaut who was part of the first u.s. mission to the moon on that historic flight bill took a celebrated photograph that inspired the environmental movement across the globe he talks about the bigger picture behind that shot next. i 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. where 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 the screaming and shouting you didn't have through in the 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. 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 what is the earthrise mean to you. well i'm proud to have.