g.'s available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the elevator that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly the george weston bush coromandel you can go with the till closely to see don't need to go and proclaim robeson the colonel was hotel as you're a treat. notorious american a security firm blackwater goes on trial for overbilling the government not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the us was also using more contractors on foreign missions from. the norwegian intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted to deadly terrorist attacks and did act alone but europe's a growing and nationalistic mood is feeding fears of more violence elsewhere. britain recognises that libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders steps up the different about offensive against colonel gadhafi.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm wrong reception the infamous private security firm once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq and afghanistan rather claims that build washington too much for its services to former employees accuse it of claiming more than one hundred million dollars in bogus expenses the company which is now known as z. provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan and then anyone else has been implicated in a number of scandals its contractors who work use of gunning down seventeen unarmed civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished the company is due an even bigger role in a. gonna start with the u.s.

about to double its private army to replace departing troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over most areas to protect human rights so it seems that guy nature can report it's more convenient for the us to use hired guns since their actions slipped right under the radar. this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago as a brain fell something around between life on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers who were trying to kill everyone if you'd seen no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for the massacre two 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 rethinking on rights violations including torture 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 buildings are committed by security firms on a regular basis point expense to undermine called asian forces counterinsurgency efforts will start firing at anything that moves in general kill innocent afghans destroying property. we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contract and. 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. functions to the. companies they are not related in that they are not control

and this is were extremely concerned that what we are calling is for relation to the national and at the international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their care it is saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable and so far the u.s. justice system has largely feel could do so we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which there's actually a criminal investigation or a 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 uniformed 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 to onic. inable contractors and if that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as the president now he thinks differently with the contract and its role in america's war it's bound to increase and with the victims of their crimes still begging for justice and vanish check out reporting from washington our team. for more on how private armies operate in war zones so we can talk to stirling jensen who worked in iraq from two thousand and six through two thousand and eight as a contract interpreter and civilian officer for the u.s. marines. thank you for joining us today so you've worked in iraq and as we all will

know for years now there's been some wild and grim accusations about these mercenaries so what's your experience of working with the private contractors that . when i was that my first experience was in two thousand and six when i was an interpreter i work with the army and sometimes when you go to main cities or you need people to pick you up or you know you didn't have your personal security detail which is usually the military with you if if people like blackwater were working as contractors for the u.s. embassy or for some of the u.s. troops then they would pick you up and take you to places you needed to go if you didn't if you're flying by helicopter or something like that but that was in two thousand and six two thousand and seven when there was much more use of you know the private private security contractors for transportation. if you can if we can just just just interested away from the idea of driving your around i mean there are all these wild accusations that these all trigger happy contractors it is

not a fair description. i wouldn't say trigger happy in the sense that like they're just out to kill people that's all they want to do i just believe that you know there's more that tougher bunch maybe people that were you know used to be in this in special forces or they used to be you know and the more rigorous. you know the soldiers i mean they're very bitter they're very disciplined but i wouldn't say they're exactly just trigger happy that i think there is professionals possible but if they are in a situation if they feel that they can you know they have the right to you know do what they feel needs to happen they'll shoot what do you think but you think is there a way of sort of talking about it is there a difference though between how the local population interacts with foreign troops versus contractors. definitely i mean people don't like the foreign troops they don't like to see it for and you know

a uniform but they know that the foreign uniform has certain regulations that are a lot more stricter i mean they represent a country rather than representing a you know a company and so you know i think on a whole year you definitely have a u.s. soldier that's a lot more you know careful about you know when he uses his rules of engagement and security contractor at least that's what it was you know two thousand and six two thousand up until now that they're working under a security agreement rather than normalized relations which would be different with the with the u.s. embassies personal security contractors after two thousand and eleven so as you suggest the uniforms uniformed soldiers a tight so at least as opposed to the contractors but as we were just reporting on the gradual u.s. the military put out is seeing a swap with private contractors why does the u.s. want to keep private armies on the ground in iraq and afghanistan. well i mean it's a good it's a good question for iraq i mean the troops are going from fifty thousand or you

know just under fifty thousand right now to nothing basically you know by the end of the year and so this you know the embassy doesn't rely on the military for their security after two thousand and eleven for the military to do that they need to sign a new security agreement because this the u.s. forces have rules of engagement in iraq right now where they can defend themselves without getting prosecuted by the iraqi courts because of the security agreement that the iraqi government right now is trying to sign that either a new agreement which i doubt they'll do but they'll come up with some type of memorandum of agreement to have trainers in iraq in two thousand and twelve and beyond but those trainers and going to be authorized to protect you know security you know the embassy personnel the embassy has to make its own agreements with the g. eight it with the government of iraq and so part of those agreements have been ok well we want six thousand or so if that's that's about how many it is personal security contractors that are signed with the different ministries to give us protection these are just basically say you know security company if i if i may just jump in

just just for a moment here i think the thing is about to be said for who stands to profit when it when they were when there was a military presence in iraq and afghanistan do you think i mean is there a recognition of that the defense industry is almost in bed with former soldiers as you were saying from from the special elite squads you know who stands to profit from having these elite special forces under the radar in these conflict zones. you definitely have some security contractor oops that are going to take advantage of the need for you know security in countries that i mean it's just it's a market but the thing is i don't think that you can describe it as the security companies in bed with with with with the ministry of defense because the ministry defense is reducing its bill its presence from you know right now thirty thousand troops and i'm sure that the u.s. government if the iraqi government asked the u.s. government to have more forces in iraq they would do it and they would benefit more than the security companies would i mean i don't think you can say that just

because you're using security contractors in iraq. that means that they're in bed with the ministry you know with the defense department i mean you're going to definitely have contracting companies like you know the former blackwater and others trying to get these contracts but it it's not it's not that they are in bed with it with them and it's with the defense department or defense something jensen very insightful you worked as a contract interpreter for a couple of years recently in iraq thank you very much. well in a short while here in our we were in kiev where they're keeping the faith church leaders from a former soviet states have gathered together ancient russia as a doctrine of christianity. where money grows on trees the disaster cleanup in russia is forced to making cash among. you all with the now and always intelligence services says there's no evidence that

it is connected to far right extremists in norway or anywhere else thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he is part of a wider mission his lawyer insists that but i think he's insane and didn't know what he was doing but it's always a lore and it reports the 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 and is pretty big the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned great pics her respect actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe and other groups are expressing condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they. are responsible

because they allowed immigration happen in an effort to push this card 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 joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league. will have groups who are satisfied and we will have 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 sense of that again and they will force. officials as well as public to focus on these issues again to move towards nationalism is pound 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 and see islam platform nationalists the truth pins 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 grass roots support for breathing to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto one you choose and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. rabbits writing this 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 are easier locks 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 the brave of islamic 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 their frustrate the european public and create more space for potentially violent far right groups to expand in all over europe. r.t. runs it. it's on a quarter past the hour here in moscow you with artsy britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government and as expelled colonel

gadhafi has diplomats it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels tripoli insists it will not have peace talks to end the four months long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes u.n. talks with the rebels in benghazi are also making little progress towards a cease fire professor mark almond from oxford university things there won't be the dramatic collapsed. could have his regime which nato expected and hoped for. additionally britain has recognised governments not on the basis of what we'd like them or what they control the territory of the states counted after lost control of parts of libya but clearly the rebels don't control it yet so this is a new precedent for all the dangers on the other problem is that the rebels are on the ground seem to stall even with the nato bombing raids and we remember when this started more than four months ago we were told it would be mushroom weeks rather of months and so i suspect really what really paid british forces 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 here is that unless they have a lucky strike they tried several times over into the capital car but are probably in places where those were voluntary the chances are good that won't be a dramatic collapse of his regime now it survived the first shop in fact and so now the question is will the rebels have sufficient resources to push on to present once more fighting it difficult to avoid the conclusion of the crisis and lose in certain great deal of the toilet and one of the problems has been that the rebels thought that very quickly they would just hold all assets in term all exports into money have been able to operate with the tour effectively if they need money to maintain their forces because they they need money for the social services such as well but also anybody really survives support one hundred one subterranean aspect of this conflict is seeds pays for us makes and has

a lot about. his brother over look how far the rebels fight in return for cash and this hash there aren't and this is one reason right one hundred of these also who are better motivated maybe better paid about it should be able to resist rather horrifically comparison and don't expect it in practice the symbolic decision to recognise rebels he kept it off is that much from london marcus i think repeated doris and indeed a crisis organizer but about recurrence. all right so let's such you got some other world news for you here on r t for this hour the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden inside his turban it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials earlier this month president karzai and his senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks at the violence comes now as nato combat troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan. the

white house is threatening that president obama could veto the republican debt limit plan and speaker john boehner wants to cut public spending and raise the limit congress now has less than one 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 refusing to accept a balanced approach. human rights groups say syrian security forces have killed eight people in a damascus suburb residents responded by throwing stones and closing roads with piles of burning tires several people were wounded in the raid that happened after electricity and phone services were cut off in the area over fifteen hundred people have been killed across the country since the brutal anti government crackdown started four months ago. but 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 who authored oxy more than a thousand years ago parties alexa is following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church blocking out 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 the truckie real arrived at a solemn liturgy in front of the. monument in kiev the central morning 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 the real well clearly this shows that the the attitude towards the russian in

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 most school and st petersburg 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 were understand 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. and i.c.r.c. reporting right that what i do had to come for more on any of the news you need around the clock just a click away online 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 result.

and the russian the manhunt for husbands with women and vastly outnumber men by literally millions have caught on an unusual much from own you'll read. a drowned of our teeth. rushes swaths of green forest seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging is growing. explains the exploitation begins when natural disaster and. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good servant that flames terrorizing the country's poorest every summer some unscrupulous entrepreneurs have come to use it as a smokescreen for illegal logging it 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 them

a little through oist in the areas sense of place to cover their crime nobody can determine how much logging was sanctioned and how much is actually cut the. fires hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these moods new scene produce were fallin the path of a major last year it proved thousands of hackers of mature forest many more were chopped after wards by swindlers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup for them and it. got a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job that could be done in a few days their permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can easily get stretched 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 its seats are the lower the

place most of the illegal segueing timber in goes to china and while the locals all the really see the impact of the quarry station on their own lives they see their only other option would be far worse. you know it's illegal what you're doing oh i know it's illegal but there are no other jobs here. that the government officials who are to turn to for can see this thing is doing everything it can to combat illegal logging new legislation has just come into force the number of forest rangers will be increased in the meantime the chiefs are still pulling where they may according to our experience if they'd seen 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 it is so prone to any sort of punitive action while the federal authorities make an. practiced all they want to current economic and regulatory

environment ultimately makes plan baffling chopping of truth from a lucrative and easy to carry out then doing you believe go away from the artsy. fartsy of the business with a career interest a few moments but i must warn you that we are a few minutes away from a fantastic interview with the man who inspired the movement to save the planet from the moon about half an hour just about koreans for the business. of a come to business here in r.t. thanks for watching us. let's start with our top story russia's leading co-produce supporters gold has been taken over by its london based subsidiary cuz that gold the new company under the name of the point is gold international started trading all of the london stock exchange on wednesday and mother's love of capital says the and usual reverse takeover could impact the new groups around. this is

a reverse. gold which is a limited company has gold 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 this kind of reverse takeover can dampen shareholder value in the in the near term and shareholder form as well and having looked at the recent performance over the years and guys like gold has been the performers royal's fairly considerably despite the price of gold increasing on the upside. take a look at the markets now gold is trading at all time high levels as the best as are looking for safe haven due to all certainty over us deborah solution and silver is also gaining it's up over one percent the stock meanwhile wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling keeps long in the red light sweet is losing over a dollar a sour u.s. stocks opened lower as the political stalemate over the nation's debt limit continues that's up to the government reported that orders for durable goods felt

in june the nasdaq composite index down thirty points or one point two percent. in europe markets are lower with washington's debt problems affecting invest in companies as well stocks in london are down the buy lloyds banking group barclays and world bank of scotland that's up to goldman sachs downgraded being a pin back in sector shares of insurers are also down i believe a drop two percent so with admiral group of illegal general group that drop one percent respectively here and russia markets retreated from earlier games with my six losing over half the sides as well fell the rest as our course is avoiding the risky moves ahead of economic reports and critical decision making the last let's take a look at some individual most of the my sex talk now four majors are under pressure amid weak accrued with lukoil losing almost eight percent however precious metal miners are among the main gain is helped by stronger gold polymath was up three

percent this hour. b.c.b.s. getting all point seven percent supported by music may soon acquire another twenty percent of thank you. that's all the business up there for this hour but i'll be back in about forty five minutes stay with us the headlines for firing up next. for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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