india oh she's available in the movie joint below to the home of the that's the gateway to the grand imperial. george weston to school until you can away so tell those little civility to go and. read this and the colonel was such as this guy retreat. the guns for hire company accused of killing seventeen innocent iraqis and goes on trial in the u.s. but only on accusations of overcharging. norway releases the names of victims from friday's twin attack as experts warn the spread of anti islamic sentiment in europe could lead to more atrocities. nato led peacekeepers are deployed along a cause of those northern border with serbia escalating ethnic tensions over attempts to enforce a trade above. and this is creating a gold giants rafa's the leading gold producer merges with its new city area and

will have more in the end business in twenty minutes. warmer welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm wrong research the private security firm formerly known as blackwater is on trial in the u.s. now have allegations that it killed innocent civilians in iraq four years ago but because two x. employees claim the company overcharged washington for protecting state department staff in war zones the firm which is now called aziz provides more mercenaries for the u.s. and afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals in two thousand and seven its hired guns were accused of shooting dead seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad well 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 sorties garniture counterforce there's concern that washington could 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 his brain fell to the ground between life on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy us professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone if you see and no one of blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work 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 own 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 pulling sort committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine call the horses counterinsurgency efforts will start firing at anything that moves in general kill innocent afghans they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them and everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contract is. 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 of the. functions to these private security companies pay are not related in the end not control and this is what we are extremely concerned that

we are calling is for relation at the national and at the international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their achilles 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 and 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 took on 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 pound to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice and vanish check our reporting from washington our team. right now if five minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and coming out for your nazi differences on missile defense also feels washington ignoring its concerns and trying to quote place a bodyguard in its bedroom and you stay with us to find out what that means. and of the fifty eight years of formally being at war we report on white north and south

korea still have decided to stay home and who isn't benefiting from tension along the thirty eighth parallel. and always police have released the first list of names of those killed and i and as a behring breivik in friday's mass killings graphics a lawyer says his client is probably insane and unaware he killed as many as seventy six people and gunman who has admitted his guilt claims he's not alone in a mission to turn back the tide of immigration in europe but it's not easy lauren it has been finding out when he wanted a new wave of pretty big starter. 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 condemn brain picks horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups

express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from a general so quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say or how are responsible because they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the sky to be a huge 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 you will have groups who are satisfied in the real hope of other groups who see 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. as well as public focus on these issues of the move

towards nationalism is pound european as well as the b.n.p. making gains in the u.k. hollands controversial good builders now leads the country's third largest political party running on an anti islamic platform and nationalists the true finns redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the vote but they know people's party has also embraced anti immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and. those grass roots support for prefix to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his manifesto when 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 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 distorted disenfranchised cities becoming a breeding ground for. lit the fuse and those brave it claims to be involved with the english defense league which is to protect england from what it calls a wave of the case said the a.d.l. denies the political analysts are saying if the attacks in norway don't prompt honest appraisal of the issues surrounding immigration that could further frustrate the european public and create more space violent far right groups to expanded all over europe no rabbit artsy guns or. try to minutes past the hour here in moscow

where we can and its consequences are part of the debate in the latest and which people are just argue over the chances of a repeat of your trust. i don't believe that this sort of thing is going to happen again but i underline threat that if we're not listen to you're going to see more terrorist attacks i just think that i believe it's a load of rubbish we're not going to see this kind of thing happening even 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 slimy. rhetoric in europe it is far higher in the u.k. for sure we have countries in the u.k. countries in europe who are banning certain acts of islam so they banned the minaret they've banned the wearing of all of these things out on easter in the u.k. it's not that bad at the moment he says is good so you now we knew impinge on

people's human rights then why are you talking about a liberal democracy. and you watch other heated debate and cross talk or in a twenty minutes time right here on alt. no rushers joined the e.u. and the u.s. and the condemning cause a host decision to send a special forces to seize crossings along the shared border with also says it threatens to destabilize the region nato led peacekeepers happy and it deployed to the area to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions hundreds of people blocked main roads in response to a cause of our police seizing two disputed border crossings one police officer was killed in overnight clashes because of us as it's trying to enforce a ban on serbian imports and response to a similar boycott of cause of our goods around sixty thousand serbs live in the north and recognize those of us in a pending switching laterally declared in two thousand and balkans expert level job

now it says that the e.u. and nato made a mistake rather than recognize it was over. the decision to introduce the korean war you and to send a special forces this is direct slap in the face the syrian government has been nothing we cooperate you've been even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. it is a matter of fact indicates that this action is either completely bypassed the europeans and nato or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty and that we should use morse i d e u has made things in and imagine we were still recognize in your vision and it is true that has actually no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread and cleansing its original you're not only in populations it has been rewarded for a white spirit orem of syrians in march two thousand and four and he has

basically showed what we can behave in a civilized fashion going into it we need to ration independence and know this so i guess the new mission is there to facilitate penance contrary to international law and use the rules so obviously there's a message here someone making it is a mess that the europeans and nato. decently needed and need to fix. you're with are to north korea's north diplomat is in the united states as part of attempts to restart negotiations on the country's disputed nuclear program and due to meet with american officials on thursday and said he remains optimistic that ties with the u.s. will improve because it comes just days after nuclear and boys from north and south korea sat down together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia agreed to renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic admissions as soon as possible because tensions that 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 for us says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal has been reached here not leave from the campaign it's to end the korean war told us that the u.s. is interested in keeping up tensions on the peanuts and. the u.s. military needs justifications of maintaining its troops in the northeast asia region so they can press to its real interest which is to contain china's expansion of power in the region and also to continue to sell its weapons and demonizing north korea as an axis of evil country and we need provides that kind of just. the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliances for star in japan is increasing military exercises in the region building missiles that. in exchange inexplicably linking the south korean ship parents like an systems words are. but the reality is north korea does not provide direction to south korea or the u.s.

and the reality are so 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 economy than provocative war games and they've already cost us lives and and it's our 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 unwilling to give them much 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 theory but it has to be across there's mutual disarmament you can't realistically expect north korea to simply give up it's only to try to get ability unless the u.s. is also willing to take steps and to its market working that simulate the collapse of the north korean regime is a good start. now in a string of some other international news for you this hour the taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of the mayor of afghanistan's kind of our city in

a suicide bomb attack it's the latest in a string of assassinations targeting talk of afghan officials two weeks ago president hamid karzai is a half brother who ran the entire kandahar province he was also gunned down and one of causes top aides was also killed by the taliban who are stepping up their assaults as nato convoy troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan. 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 and barack is supposed to stand trial in a we used to ordering the killing of protesters and corruption over eight hundred forty people died during the popular uprising which forced about rivera from office back in february. but britain has officially recognized that libya's rebels as the legitimate government and expelled all colonel gadhafi is diplomats it's also unfreezing one hundred fifty million dollars worth of libyan oil assets to help

fund the rebels are going to cross live now to the u.k. to speak to mark almond a professor of modern history at oxford university. but good to see you sir so good housecleaning going on at the embassy in london or kicking out some of the libyan different from us there but let's talk about the broader picture here the opposition is a basically winning the war without winning any battles how do they represent a country they don't even control. well this is a problem conditionally britain has recognized governments not on the basis of who will be like them are or will they control the territory and lost control of libya but clearly the rebels don't control it yet so this is a new precedent for the english one the other problem is that the overalls on the ground soon to stall even with the nato bombing range around you remember when this started from months ago we would. told it would be a matter of weeks rather months and source really what british warship which is

doing is we have use him always have tried to show somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation situation is increasingly unpredictable but now you talk about that tripoli the u.n. envoy recently there'll be no peace talks and still nato stops the airstrikes and yet the bombings continue how much is nato really want peace for libya what is the agenda. no i think although the official reason originally was of course to prevent colonel gadhafi. look moments in practice very quickly be us a little british and french club was announced that they wanted regime change they wanted colonel gadhafi to go and i think they rather cavalierly thought that he would collapse very quickly it started and his regime is more resilient instead of the new york you know to power is very inadequate for an awful council of currency it's quite a promise so that we really went into this war was almost a of national in south dakota we flew to venezuela was william hague really anymore

as well you know you can you know i'm sorry to interrupt you talk about when when the western forces and allied forces went into this war it was supposed to be humanitarian mission now if i may just for a moment according to media reports gadhafi now controls are more territory than before no doubt started bombing does the alliance think that the libyan leader is going to surrender looks like he's taking fairly well at this point. well i think certainly doing much better than the uncertain any of the outside forces on to separate it and the real problem were made here is that unless they have a lucky strike as they tried several times. or what are. the chances are the political will be a dramatic collapse of his regime survival first shock impact and so now the question is ruler of all hopes. to push on through the two months for writing or will their own divisions their own inadequacies. real training will disappear were injuries shifted support back to congress are. starting to get to you but you

mention the issue of will the rebels how have resources the frozen oil assets of gadhafi are being handed over to the rebels now i must ask you where is the money going is it just lining the pockets of the new transitional council so they can buy luxury yachts and big fancy cars or is it perhaps the weight of bait them so that western the west the west will have more of a presence in libya to have more of a control on its natural response who of course it's it's difficult to avoid the conclusion the crisis and abuse in certain great deal about how to all and one of the problems has been the rebels thought that very quickly they would get hold of you all assets of cash to to turn all exports into money as you know to operate the oil that was there to report if they need money and maintain their forces because a they need money for social services such as also they need money little by support i'm afraid one subterranean aspect of this conflict because each side pays for most mission had a lot about colonel gadhafi paid his supporters who were older who look how are the

rebels. in return for cash and of course who is hash though. and this is one of the reasons why colonel of our forces who are so much better mostly maybe better paid have actually been able to resist rather more effectively than paris and london expected now this latest it refines our foreign minister said that it actually could actually stayed in libya if he stepped down it's a bit of a change of heart it doesn't nato have any idea what it's doing or how this will end it just seems like it's in one enormous mess it is a big mess because after all britain and france along with united states pressed for congo to be indicted going to international criminal court or the hague buffer or they shouldn't really be in a position to decide what his fate is even here in this international tribunals. now and you are saying it's not a kid who rules libya i think if we look back. their statements in the last few months would have a very strong impression they had a good idea who should be interviewed and also what the fate of

a doctor should be so in practice this symbolic decision to recognize robles kick out all his diplomats from london masks are indeed arsenal indeed a strategic crisis for going to the bridegroom promise not armand from out of the university many things and. all religious leaders from post so good nations are uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christianization of ancient russia georgia as a patriarch ilia is on his first official visit to kiev and stupidly with his russian counterpart to discuss the strained relations between the two states who cut off ties of more than five years ago that these alexy are sexy as. the head of the russian orthodox church doctrine to the real has a right to the gradient capital t. have 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 our sharky 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 our part you are is your real well clearly this shows that the the attitude towards the russian pressure and ukraine is still very warm and he is being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the scene of the capitals of the russian orthodox church along with mosco and st petersburg it is interesting because kiev is of course capital of a sovereign state of ukraine and this means that the russian orthodox church goes beyond borders to unite the clergy in the post soviet space it is a large scale celebration which is being held in the capitals of ukraine belarus

and russia kiev minsk and moscow wonder standouts the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating the festivities in the three capitals. reporting business news time with mary. hello and welcome to business here are our t. now we start this hour with russia's legal to do sir paul is gold which has been taken over by its london base of said the area because gold when you company are under the name of policy called international has started trading on the london stock exchange on the brains day and joining me now to discuss the issue is my knowledge law while seeing a trader at capital mr la guardia thank you very much for joining us now can you tell us this is seem like an unusual way to get a london listen for paul is gold. these kind of deals seem to be few and far

between and you use fairly unconventional typically when when a company wants to list in any market still goes investment bank and they'll underwrite the stock and it will float in that manner but this is a reverse takeover. because i gold which is a limited company has gone and pulls out his parents which is fairly unusual and it looks like he wants to continue doing that as a process to expand going forward so more conventional but it does happen once in a while but it's not us what could be some of the drawbacks of this kind of reverse takeover are there any. well the tip and one of the main drawbacks is share shareholder value it's likely that this kind of reverse takeover can dampen shareholder value in the in the near term and shareholder performance as well and having looked at the recent performance of. gold has been underperforming its rivals fairly considerably despite the price of gold increase in the upside and you

tend to find that smaller companies are certainly private companies buying out public companies the c.e.o.'s of private companies tend not to be experience dealing with poppy companies but in this case you've got the c.e.o. of all the former c.e.o. told you can take you know the entire merger so it's not really a factor here he's fairly well experienced in the in the gold industry so there are there are some pros and cons involved here they mentioned the recent performance of paul is called how do you rate the prospects for the company now. well i think they're going to be fairly fairly subdued given that gold is looking at bigger and better mergers is looking to become a major player within the industry and that could be another reverse takeover and therefore the share price is likely to be subdued for a considerable period of time while this news goes ahead fortunately with the sort

of transactions that it tends to be a lot of cash and gold from the buying company and that that could significantly impact on the balance sheet and ultimately affect the share price and one of the biggest shareholders in porn is gold has been talking about a merger with a global rival who do you think that could be. well without trying to start any sort of a take over room is there are a number of companies that they could be. appealing for for us gold to take over now it's interesting that the former c.e.o. of key will scold has joined the company and was told it would be a potential target if gold are to become enter into the top three of the industry then you've also got other smaller players within the industry such as yemen a gold and a chance of gold i don't think they'll be looking for any of the bigger players such as newmont mining or barrick gold but i wouldn't rule anything else at the moment and one final question if you can just tell us briefly is buying gold stocks right now a good way to cash in on the rally in physical gold prices. it's certainly

a way to cash in on the rally in gold but the price of gold stocks don't really move in the main some with old move in tandem with a rising gold price and probably the best why is that why are the gold bullion or the gold gold companies can underperform over perform. at the price of gold so it's not it's not perfect correlation here. on our floodwall senior trader at eighty x. capital thank you very much for your insight. and that's all the business news we have time for the sour cream and we'll have the next update for you in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime states and for the headlines of henri.

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