with her with acumen rights violations including torture rape and murder the u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and it would killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine coalition 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 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 us. source many

of the military and security functions to meet and security companies they are not related in that they are not control and this is what we have extremely concerned that we have gotten is for relation to the national and international level so that . companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so 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 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 crimes still begging for justice i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. meanwhile the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban it's the latest in

a series of killings targeting the country's top officials just earlier this month president karzai is half brother and a senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks former afghan m.p. dollar says nato is possibly withdrawing troops prematurely. the scale of transfer of security is one as well as to the afghan forces and these these incidents are making one thing very vividly visible and that is how does this transition take hold and whether the afghan security forces and the afghan and responsible units would be ready to take over i think there's no guarantee that this trend of nato transfer will continue smoothly i i can see. reversals a time in in the future. certain provinces are so

volatile and so critical that they may have to delays some of the transfers we should not operate on schedule as we should operate on realities on the ground here and those in washington and in europe should be secondary to the civilian population and population is ignored both by war and by civilian reconstruction and that's what counts but unfortunately priorities every time there's a war is also where the priority is during wars are and success not on civilian people who are really the. main thing that we should pay attention to and about it was a former afghan m.p. . talking about the impact the war is having on afghanistan's civilian population. now and always intelligence services there's no evidence that there's a part of it is connected to far right extremists in norway or anywhere else the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six last friday claims he is part of

a wider mission his lawyer insists the probe is insane and didn't know what he was doing but it's on cesar laurean that reports his anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes all across europe. 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 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. of course we 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 there's no way 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 villagers now leads the country's third largest political party running on an anti islam platform nationalists the truth in this 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 two 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. it's 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 disenfranchised cities becoming

a breeding ground for far right. who lit the fuse and those brave it claims to be involved with the english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of the case said 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. london. and without a lot from moscow thank you for joining us today we report on faith fueling friendship in a short while we are in kiev where church leaders from the former soviet states gathered together russia's adoption of christianity. and where money grows on trees in the disaster cleanup of russia's forests who are making cash.

now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government. colonel gadhafi is diplomats it's also unfreezing one hundred fifty million dollars worth of libyan oil assets to help fund that the rebels tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks to end the four months long civil war until nato stops its strides u.s. talks with the rebels in benghazi are making little progress towards a cease fire professor mark armin from oxford university things there won't be the dramatic collapse of could have his regime which nato is hoping for. traditionally britain has recognised governments not on the basis of whether we like them or not but on what will they control the territory of the state. lost control of parts of libya clearly the rebels don't control it yet so this is a start in a new precedent to capture all the dangerous one the other problem is that the rebels on the ground soon to stall even with the nato bombing raids and if we

remember when this started more than four months ago we were told it would be mushroom weeks rather months and so i suspect really what would have paid british warship which is doing is really having a symbolic act to try to show that somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation in the situation is increasingly unpredictable the real problem for major areas that are less they have a lucky strike as they tried several times i think to decapitate her without injuring by bombing places where those thought she was the chances are that the won't be a dramatic collapse of his regime now it survived the first shocking act and so now the question is will the rebels have sufficient resources to push on through the two months more fighting it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the crisis in the regime certain great deal of the toiled and one of the problems has been that the rebels thought that very quickly they would get hold of the oil assets to turn all exports into money you know to operate the oil fields the tour for if they need

money to maintain their forces because a they need money for the social services such as well but also in a funny little by support from i'm afraid one subterranean aspect of this conflict is feed side. pays for last night's we had a lot about colonel gadhafi paying his supporters we rather overlook how hard the rebels fight in return for cash and of course if there is no cash flow they don't fight and this is one of the reasons why colonel gadhafi forces who are better motivated may be better paid have actually been able to resist rather more effectively have comparison london expected in practice the symbolic decision to recognize the rebels kick out could also be six months from london masks i think a deep embarrassment and indeed a strategic crisis for the nato countries but by britain proms. all right and a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital international concern is growing a cause of his actions on his border with which threaten to stoke ethnic tension in the region the e.u. the u.s. and russia have condemned the breakaway republic republics decision to send troops

to its populated northern territories the move was to reinforce a cross border trade embargo which was imposed a week ago one policeman has died in clashes with local mounting a road block near one of the disputed crossings because of a split from serbia by unilaterally proclaiming its independence in two thousand and eight around six hundred thousand ethnic stops still live in the area but refuse to recognize its authority is trying to pressure serbia to accept because of host sovereignty as part of its path to join the bloc balkans expert and the boy shot mallets believes although because of his actions are inflammatory it's the e.u. that created the tension in the first place the decision to introduce e. trade embargo and to send a special forces this is erect slap in the face of the syrian government which has been nothing but cooperate you can even get picture leading in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. is a matter of fact to indicate that this action is completely either completely bypassed

both the europeans and nato or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honestly i'm not really sure which is worse d'you has made and imagine we were spared recognizing your regime that is. it has absolutely no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread and cleansing of serbs in the year no no then in populations it has been rewarded for a. white spirit forum of syrians in march two thousand and four and he has basically shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion going into including to the region of independence and know this show honestly and your mission is there to facilitate their independence contrary to international law do you see the rules so obviously it is a message here so making it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically mediate need to fix. it's good to have you with us today are you watching r.t.

live from moscow as such i got some other world news for you the white house is threatening that president obama could veto the republican debt limit plan speaker john boehner wants to cut public spending and raise the limit congress now has less than a week to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating default obama blames republicans for stalling and for fusing to accept a balanced approach. landslides in south korea have claimed at least thirty two lives heavy rain brought chaos across northern areas ten college students died in their sleep as mud and debris deluged the resort cabin where they were resting after doing some volunteer work hundreds of homes have been flooded dozens of roads are closed and communication is severely disrupted. well religious leaders from post soviet nations are uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christianized nation of ancient russia ukraine's capital kiev used to be the center of the ancient state

when it turns you off the doxy more than a thousand years ago alexey is following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church but there are few 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 much are curial arrived at a 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 is too real well clearly this shows that the the attitude towards russia and ukraine

is still very warm and he's being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with mosco 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 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 when their stand that the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating in the festivities in the three capitals. ask you reporting right there what i do bear in mind you can always had over to our artsy dot com for more on the news you need around the clock twenty four seven waiting for you want line right now we investigate the rise in suicides in post tsunami japan as thousands find it

too much to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. and the russian manhunt for husbands with women outnumbering men by millions will report on and on usual matrimonial rent a gent at r.t. dot com. russia's it's worth so if the green forest are seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging is growing and those are things outside of boyko explains the exploitation begins when natural disaster ends. flyer 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 forest every summer some unscrupulous intrapreneur is 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 fire is illegal logging is thriving they cut down more than through oist than the area is 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 are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these woods new st petersburg fell in the path of a major twister last year it uprooted thousands of how actors of mature forest many more were chopped after wards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup of them missed they got a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job that could be done in a few days but their permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can easily guess to 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 put just a few percent of all timber production environment activists say the scale of the problem is much greater if you heard 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 a close examination though seeds card all over the place most of the illegal siberian timber goes to china and while the locals all the reduce 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.p. if the they've been ability to see the wood for the trees that is one of the main reasons why illegal logging in russia is so widespread and why they 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 think chopping of trees from a lucrative and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way. are. all right in about five minutes time here in our baltic states struggle to shake off its past i do stay with us for the first though the business news is next with korea.

and i welcome to our business here on r t thanks for joining me russia's leading gold would you support is gold has been taken over by its london base of sidor a cousin gold then you company under the name of points gold international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday well as lover from the c.x. capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact the new group's share value this is a reverse takeover. gold which is a limited company has gone and bought out his parents which is fairly unusual and it looks like he wants to continue doing that as a process to expand going forward this kind of reverse takeover can dampen shareholder value in the in the near term and shareholder formants as well and having looked at the recent performance of. gold there has been the performances royal's fairly considerably despite the price of gold increasing on the upside. russia is planning to put fifty percent of its oil champion roll sniffed up for

sale next year it could become the biggest proposition deal in the nation's history on the current market conditions for stake is valued at fourteen billion dollars the government says it's also weighing plans to sell its entire stake up seventy five percent by two thousand and seventeen it also plans to divest holdings and diamond producer and bank raising around thirty six billion dollars. let's take a look at the markets now all is in the red light sweet is losing around eighty cents this hour and brant is down over half a dollar prices remain under pressure as a result of washington wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling let's have a look at the markets a e.u. markets are lower with washington state problems correcting investor confidence stocks in london are down that by lloyds banking group these banks scotland that's up to goldman sachs downgraded the european banking sector shares of ensure are also down that would be the top two percent admiral group one percent as well as

illegal german group and here in russia markets are in positive territory would be odd to be asking almost half a percent of the sour investors are cautious supporting risky moves ahead of the public reports and critical decision making in the united states. and looking at some individual moves on the precious metal miners among the main gain is as investors are looking for safe haven pauline metal is up over two percent this hour while lens old three and a half percent in the black banking stocks are also high b two b. is gaining over percent supported by news it may soon acquire another twenty percent bank of moscow now tell the stories russia may place you are gong on the foreign markets in two thousand and twelve deputy finance minister sergei start chalk says russia plans to boost borrowing significantly over the next three years . it was. worth it russia has an important competitive advantage it's so high debt sustainability this allows us to convert the budget deficit by borrowings and i

will cross borrowings will amount to seventy two billion dollars centrally in the next three years. the united states has less than a week to come up with a deal to raise its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling a failure of the pledge of a politicians to agree could risk an unprecedented 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. then the cost of financing that goes up and therefore the test starts crying and the end of that process is default however as far as russia is concerned. you could say to some extent the emerging markets have decouples from the american economy russia doesn't export anything that. the impact would be through the effect it would have on all process and all prices are likely

to come down however that would probably be quite healthy as long as they don't go down below you know seventy eight dollars. that's all the update for now but remember you can always find those stories on our website the address is r.t. dot com slash this. the.

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it's now just after five thirty pm here in moscow you would see a quick summary of the headlines now notorious american security firm blackwater goes on trial but overbilling the government killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. norwegian intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted deadly terrorist attacks that claimed seventy six lives did act alone with europe's growing and nationalistic moods feeding fears

of more violence elsewhere. britain is officially recognizing in libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leader. diplomatic offensive. it's also one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels. all right now takes you to a corner of the baltics that spent the past two decades tackling its soviet legacy you without say thank you. vilnius is the capital of live you am the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century after world war one the poles were in charge then during the second world war nazi germany took control when the soviet army drove the fascists out of the baltics the city became if you a nice competent once again in the country join the soviet union. they like saying

in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany to that i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards do we. when perestroika go to underway in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was far as we are concerned phone use is the capital notes moscow that's the way it's has been out and will it be in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening senta of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were. that the town came to hold to in my legless call between the caterpillar tracks i realized then that there was no escape other than the death. if you a new one at independence in one thousand nine hundred one small.