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 even 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 will 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 said to grow dramatically u.s. . 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're extremely concerned that what we are calling 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 wall in america's war it's 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. 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 just earlier this month the president comes eyes half brother and his senior aide was gunned down in separate attacks former afghan m.p. daalder sultanzoy says nato is possibly withdrawing troops prematurely the schedule of transfer of security as well 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 sponsible 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 and 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 water and by civilian reconstruction and that's what counts but unfortunately priorities there every time there's a war is 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. that was a former afghan m.p. doll sold tons of talking about the impact the war is happening on afghanistan's civilian population. now noways intelligence service says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he was part of a wider mission was loyal insists that whatever he is insane and didn't know what

he was doing but it's obvious that laura and it reports his anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes 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 condemned for a fix horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups all expressed 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 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 in nationalists the truth in its 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 cheap and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. first of all 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 the wave of. the e.t.l. denies 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. done to. cross talk later today on our two guests are. giving a platform for similar. people like people like the leader of the. i mean he was on national television green with many of the messages the fifteen hundred words he only disagreed with one thing which was self but he agreed with

everything else the rhetoric was there and then before he finished he categorically issued a threat saying in five. this is going to happen unless you wake up unless you wake up it is the this is the thing is i want you to see this personally when he was a little finish my point. for this person interrupted the norwegian police there's another two cells ok he's put in his own manifesto and he's mentioned to the norwegian police already but he's worked with english defense league there are seven you know. that's an important point stephen you can reply that there is going ahead 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 this man was a one off nobody will ever get to know what his motivations were but i will say this about that i'm pleased that his hearing is being held in secret because we've

been trying for years to get the place. in western democracy discussed and all we've been called a fascist xenophobia race is ok it's. all right across the uk it's here in less than twenty minutes time right here on the scene. but before that we were in kiev where they are keeping the faith the church leaders from former soviet states have gathered together to mark ancient russia's adoption of christianity. where money grows on trees some dodgy disaster cleanup and russia's forests for making the catch among. you with r t now britain officially now recognizes that libya's rebels as the legitimate government that has expelled colonel gadhafi diplomats it's also one freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels tripoli insists it will not end peace talks to end the four months long

civil war until nato stops its strikes u.n. talks with the rebels in benghazi also making little progress towards a cease fire professor mark almond from oxford you know. most of the things there won't be the dramatic collapse of kind of his regime which in nato expected and hoped for. traditionally britain has recognised governments not on the basis of those we like them or not but on whether they control the territory of the states colonel gadhafi may have lost control of parts of libya but clearly the rebels don't control it yet so this is a setting a new precedent and perhaps around the dangerous one the other problem is that the rebels on the ground seem to stalled even with the nato bombing raids and if we remember when this started more than four months ago we were told it would be a matter of weeks rather of months and so i suspect really what william hague the british foreign secretary says anybody having a symbolic act to try to show that somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation but i think the situation is increasingly unpredictable the real problem

for nato is that unless they have a lucky strike as they tried several times i think to decapitate that are injuring by bombing places where they thought he was the chances are that there won't be a dramatic collapse of his regime now it survived the first shocking act and so now the question is will the rebel help sufficient resources to push on through prettyman small fighting it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that the crisis in libya is in certain great deal of how toil and one of the problems has been that the rebels thought that very quickly they would get hold of the oil assets in the past to turn all exports into money haven't been able to operate the oil filled with will effectively they need money to maintain their forces because a they need money for the social services such as they are but also they need money really so by support two hundred one some terrain in aspect of this conflict is each 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 this is

a cash flow they don't fight and this is one of the reasons why colonel gadhafi forces who are better motivated maybe better paid have actually been able to resist rather more effectively than paris and london expected in practice the symbolic decision to recognize the rebels kick out cut off its diplomats from london masks i think a deep embarrassment and indeed a strategic crisis for the nato countries but by britain proms. all right so in our sixteen minutes past the hour here in moscow you with r.t. we'll check out some other world news for you now 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 is half brother and a senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks by the violence comes as nato troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan. the white house is threatening the president obama could veto the republican debt limit 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 blaine's 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. well a lot of religious leaders from post soviet nations are uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christianization of ancient russia ukraine's capital kiev used to be the center of the ancient state when it turned out to orthodoxy more than

a thousand years ago. following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church but there are few real has arrived 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 but sharky real 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 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 single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with moscow 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 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 they stand at the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating in the festivities in the three capitals. well if you had over to you can find all the news you need a round the clock just a click away waiting for you online right now investigates the rise in suicide posted on the thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of the result. of the russian a manhunt for husbands with women vastly outnumbered by millions we report on the

usual matrimony. rent jam that are to dog. swathes of green forest are seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging as growing. boy explains the exploitation begins when natural disaster. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good servant with flames terrorizing the country's forest 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 them a little 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 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 found 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. 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 their permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can usually just to rest on a par with the amazon rain forest the vast siberian greenery is often referred to as the lungs of the planet at close examination though it's guarded all over the place most of the illegal siberian timber goes to china and while the locals all

the really 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. powers 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 are they so prone to any sort of punitive action while the federal authorities make. they practice all they want the current economic and regulatory environment ultimately makes one daft thing chopping of trees one will look at it and easy to carry out

then doing it the legal way kind of like a artsy. or an out today across talk gets to grips with whether the slaughter in norway is a setting an extremism train in motion across europe but first though it's kareena with a business and just about. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome

to business here r.t. thanks for watching russia's leading gold produce support as gold has been taken over by its london base of cetera because our gold and you company have the name of paul it is called international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday and mother's love from the capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact the new group's share value. this is a reverse takeover in. gold which is a limited company has gone and bought out its parent which is fairly unusual and it looks like it 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 performance as well and having looked at the recent performance of. gold there has been the performing its rivals fairly considerably despite the price of gold increasing on the upside. russia is planning to put fifteen percent of its oil champion rosneft up for sale

next year it could become the biggest profit as ation deal in the nation's history on the current market conditions the 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 in diamond producer and bt bank raising around thirty six billion dollars. and taking a look at the markets now gold is trading at all time high as investors are looking for safe haven to you too on certainty over u.s. debt resolution and so more is also gaining it's up over one and a half percent this hour. meanwhile wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling keeps oil in the red light sweet is losing one dollar thirty three cents this hour stocks in the u.s. open lower as the political stalemate over the nation's debt limit continues that's up to the government reported orders for durable goods fell and june the nasdaq composite in its dollar down thirty five points or one point six percent this hour

. the market so lower with washington's debt problems affecting investors confidence to put seas shedding epicenter on the dax is down one and a half percent stocks in london are led by lloyds banking group barclays and world bank of scotland all down after goldman sachs downgraded the road and the banking sector here in russia markets retreated from earlier games with the miles it's losing just under a percent at the close as well fell investors are cautious avoiding risky moves ahead of economic reports and critical decision making in the west now let's take a look at some individual most of them isaac's oil majors ended in the red at midweek crude who called down over sons of precious metal miners were among the main gainers by stronger gold bullion metal finished three percent in the black and banking stocks were also high be to be gained one and a half percent sorry. point five percent. and they're supported by news it may sort

of quite another twenty percent bank of moscow so if they saw that a from deutsche bank sums up all the money. back and forth markets nothing is going on the market is rather boring but i thought it was for this first of all seasonal factor and the second factor is the universe just wait and see position and to wait for us that issue to be resolved but there are some going to those talks which move first of all i know i told the sun so to the division of gold and silver i'm a little higher and there was a few months growth even such talk as probably michael also gave the ball to three percent on the new york times to. deposit and also the stake in moral clarity and monetize reserves and probably views that as our news update for this hour back with more and about forty five minutes from nasa hope you jonathan.

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welcome back you're with us from moscow with me. now. notorious american security goes on trial for billing the government killing civilians in iraq despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on for. norwegian intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted to deadly terrorist that claim seventy six did. but europe is

growing and nationalistic. is officially recognizing it in libya's opposition as the country's legitimately stepping up to the diplomatic offensive against gadhafi. freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help to fund the right. people of. norway atrocities could set in motion. movements across europe. wealthy british style. markets. scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports. and. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the color of terrorism as norway comes to terms with its most horrific attack on its soil since the second world war a plethora of questions demand answers how could this assault be planned and executed under the radar of the authorities and has the west focused too much on islamic groups instead of homegrown extremists and terrorists. to cross talk the rise of far right nationalism i'm joined by.