india season may have been in the movie the joint be the children's the movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial. george was. until you can listen to joe joe's with it you know its ability to go and. run this in the kernel was that you know as you can retrieve. headlines on our tortoise american security firm blackwater goes on trial for over billing the government for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using the wrong contractors on foreign missions. the region intelligence says of the far right suspect would made it to the deadly terrorist attacks acted alone europe's growing nationalistic mood is feeding fierce of more violence elsewhere. bryton recognizes libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders and steps out the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi.

just after eight pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. thanks very much for joining us now via 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 but over claims it build washington too much for its services well to former employer use accuse it of claiming more than one hundred million dollars in bogus expenses the company which is now known as see provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals its contractors were accused of gunning down seventeen on armed civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished. well the company is doing even bigger role in afghanistan with the u.s.

about to double its private army to replace the party troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over her scenarios to protect human rights as r.t.s. game reports it's more convenient for the u.s. to use hired guns since their actions slip under the radar. this iraqi men son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain fell to the ground between my feet on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy us professional killers they shot life human trying to kill everyone if you see 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 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 killings are 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 will destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by a contract. 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. . so many of.

the functions of these security companies they are not related in the end not control and this is what we have externally concern not what we are calling is for relation to be national in at the international level so there is going to need accountable but washington is reluctant to let an international body regulate their kill it is 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 those are actually criminal investigation or prosecution 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 uniformed forces to do the official fighting and then falcons and thousands of contractors to do the unofficial fighting that's under the radar screen that isn't covered by the media now here's a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions to 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 balun to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban well it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials and earlier this month

president karzai as half brother and his senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks while former afghan and. nato is possibly withdrawing to troops prematurely the schedule of transfer of security as well as well just 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 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 are great on stage of they 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 by war and by civilian reconstruction that's what counts but unfortunately priorities every time there's a war is where a priority is during wars or and success not on civilian people who are really the main thing that we should pay attention to. that was former afghan m.p. dold sultanzoy talking about the impact the war is having on afghanistan civilian population. now norway's intelligence service says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere well the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he is

part of a wider mission his lawyer insists brave is insane and didn't know what he was doing but as our reports his anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes across europe. and ethnic hatred led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people and as previously 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 brave exploring actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups all express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say or 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 you 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 attacks it will bring this topic into the center of the tension again and they will force. officials as well as public to focus on these issues again to move towards nationalism is pan-european as well as the b.n.p. making gains in the u.k. holland's controversial good builders now leads the country's third largest political party running on an anti islam platform nationalists the truth pins redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the

vote 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. disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto one you cheap and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. privates writing 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. who lit the fuse and those brave it claims to have been involved with the engaged defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of islamification the e.t.l. denies the 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 your artsy london. and a short while on our team were in kiev where they're keeping the faith church leaders from former soviet states have gathered together to mark ancient russia's adoption of christianity. and where money grows on trees the dodgy disaster cleanup firms in russia's forests who are making cash among the.

britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government and has expelled colonel gaddafi is diplomats it's also unfreezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks to be a four month long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes of un talks with the rebels in benghazi also making little progress towards a cease fire but we can get some insight on this from all over of miles who's a former u.k. ambassador to libya mr ross thanks very much for being on the program with us now in the u.k. previously. recognized countries not governments now why the about face. i don't but hasn't been about face we said we recognize state you're quite right we don't we recognize states but of course the question arises whether we can deal with governments we have not recognized the transitional national council as

a government and it i don't think they claim to be a government what has happened is this last week the the contact group which was the group that brings together britain with the other countries which are involved in the military and other in libya it was agreed that all states represented to recognize the transitional coach as having a legitimate right to speak for the people of libya we got a little bit further than that today recognizing them as the sole legitimate. authority a political authority in libya but they don't actually claim to be a government yet they are on the way to formally offer what they don't after all control the whole. country so it's not a case of reckon like every other government although it's not being recognized as a government you're saying that it's being recognized as a valid voice of the libyan people i mean is that accurate at this point is that i mean that's taking a side in the civil conflict in the country. yes i think so it's true that there

are there are two or three hours and libya now that are in conflict with one another but we need for a long time to have taken the position that the gadhafi is going to have to go in they wanted to make possible a political solution to the conflict in libya and that's the law physicians and i think it's quite logical reasonable that we should we should describe the b. or c. in benghazi as the sole image of little authority i don't think it's terribly important to be honest it makes it makes some small practical differences for example it means that we have been able to on for years some money which belongs to an old company which operates in the eastern part of libya we weren't able to do that before that's nine hundred ninety one million pounds i think your headline is fifty billion dollars which is about right i think. that yes mr not all day long about large sums of money here indeed the rebels well they're not very long on the money that's already organized and what that compared with the needs of the people

they're not getting large from a great deal more as i have to be done in the way of them freezing assets sure but then again their big getting access to a funding how can the u.k. government as well as other governments who have pledged support at least the national it's the rebels to be assured that the money is not going to be going to arms for example but it may don't because it will to be it could be a shoulder that i don't know clearly the other side all spending money on arms it's possible that the rebels are to. ok that's why the money is being released for that is being released because it's needed for all sorts of purposes and most particularly don't forget the libya is a country which is almost totally dependent on oil revenue the oil revenue has been cut off now for four six months or something like that is. most of the people employed in libya are employed in the public sector and they've not getting any salaries so money is desperately needed sure that's the one side of it getting salaries paid to people definitely biggie that humanitarian needs but then again

what's to stop it from getting them buying arms without a furthering the violence basically. well there is an international embargo on sales to libya of course. ok so i also want to ask why is the west so adamant to exclude gadhafi from any negotiations i mean he has repeatedly said he is ready and russia is offered more than once as an act as a mediator in the talks and does the allies actually want a peaceful resolution to this conflict this is this is libyan business we haven't actually needed gadhafi from the negotiations there's no doubt that the. only likely outcome which would bring peace to libya is the departure of gadhafi i don't think anyone really that except a few people around him in tripoli but that's libyan business that's not our business or russia's business or any other international state's business all right thank you very much for your thoughts there over miles's a former u.k. ambassador to libya thank you you thank. and more world news from r.t. this hour 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 has less than a week to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating effects monograms republicans for stalling and refusing to accept a balanced approach. human rights groups say syrian security forces have killed eight people in need of ask a 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 now over fifteen hundred people have been killed across the country since the brutal anti government crackdown started four months ago. landslides in south korea have claimed at least thirty two lives as heavy rains brought chaos also older areas of ten college students died in their sleep as mud and debris do lose their resort cat

resort cabin where they were resting after doing some volunteer work on hundreds of homes have been flooded dozens of roads are closed and communication is severely disrupted. religious leaders from post soviet nations are uniting in the ukraine to celebrate the question is a show of ancient russia ukraine's capital kiev used to be the center of the ancient state when it turned to orthodoxy more than a thousand years ago artie's an exhibitor show of skiers following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church parking lot here 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. at the liturgy in front of the. 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 of the russian and ukraine is still very warm and he is being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with moscow 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 from 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 mosco wender 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. russia has harshly criticized america's

decision to impose travel restrictions on a group of russian officials linked to the case of a lawyer who died in jail while the foreign ministry says that the case is still under investigation and there will be a response to washington's move a lawyer game admits he died after spending almost a year in a russian prison while awaiting trial for tax evasion his family and colleagues blame police and doctors for his death of human rights activists have a draw up a list of officials who they think are connected to the incident prosecutors are still looking into the case. i had to r.t. dot com for more on the news you need around the clock and online right now r.t. investigates the rise in suicides in pro tsunami japan as thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. of the russian that hunt for husbands or with women outnumber men by millions report on

a usual matrimonial attempt it's at r.t. dot com. russia swathes of green forests are seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging is growing and as exxon avoided explains the exploitation begins where natural disaster ends. 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 poorest every summer some unscrupulous entrepreneurs 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 drawing the cut through oist in the areas sense of place to cover their crime nobody can determine how much logging the

sanctions and how much is actually cut. buyers hurricanes flooding come what may illegal loggers are using all sorts of natural disasters to cover their tracks. these moods new st petersburg found the path of a major twister last year there through thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were chopped afterwards plus when lawyers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup of them. got a permit that allows them to take away three truckloads of debris a job that could be done in a few days but there permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can easily get stretched on a par with the amazon rain forest the bass siberian greenery is often referred to as the lungs of the planet at close examination though it sees chordal 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 now i know it's illegal but there are no other jobs here. because the government officials who are ordered to turn to for can't 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 it in the meantime the kids are still flowing where they may according to experts if 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 it is so prone to any sort of punitive action while the federal authorities make him. down they practiced all they want the current economic and regulatory environment ultimately made plan bethink chopping of trees one will look right here and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way it's not going to are

the not. over a few minutes away from meeting the man who inspired the movement to save the planet from the moon first greener joins us with the business news. i don't walk into business here in r.t. thanks for joining me russia's leading gold producer part is called has been taken over by its london based subsidiary called company under the name of his gold international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday most loved from the t.x. capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact a new group 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. and shareholder value in the in the near term and shareholder formats as well and having looked at the

recent performance of. gold has been underperforming its royals fairly considerably despite the price of gold increase of the upside. well she's planning to put fifteen percent of it's all champion roll snapped up for sale next year it could become the biggest privatization deal in the nation's history on the current market conditions the state is valued at fourteen billion dollars the government says it's also weighing plans to sell its entire stake of seventy five percent by two thousand and seventeen he also plans to divest holdings and diamond producer and the t.d. bank raising around thirty six billion dollars. let's take a look at the markets now gold is trading lower the south price is still high as investors are looking for safe haven due to an surges over us that resolution silver is trading at over forty dollars per ounce now meanwhile wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling keeps oil in the red light sweet is losing one dollar thirty three cents

this hour u.s. stocks are trading lower as the political stalemate over the nation's debt limit continues as after the government reported borders are jordan closed well in june the drop raises fears that manufacturing is running out of st augustine after leading you could recovery over the past two years. and even markets all over with washington's debt problems affecting the vestry competence to the footsie is shedding over a percent and the dax is down one point four percent the sour stocks of a lot of them are led by lloyds banking group barclays and world bank of scotland i think goldman sachs downgraded the european banking sector. here in russia markets retreated from earlier gains with them isaacs was in just under a percent of the closed as well fell investors are cautious avoiding risky moves ahead of economic reports and critical decision making in the u.s. let's take a look at some individual moves on the y. sets or majors and in the red and mid week of crude would look well down over one

and a quarter of a percent however precious metal miners were among the main gainers of the day helped by stronger gold holy metal finished almost. resigned in the but and banking stocks were also highly to gain around half a percent supported by news it may soon acquire another twenty percent of bank of last. gates or better from georgia back some stock and board i'm off. to serious work for four to market nothing is going on the market is rather boring but i thought it was from this first of all seasonal factor and the second factor is the inverse trust with the supervision and the wait for us to be resolved what are some individual stocks which move first of all i know i told the sun so through the division of silver i'm going to hire him girlishly mountain growth are you such focus probably michael also gave about

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