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'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 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 set to grow dramatically u.s. . source many of the military and security

functions to the security companies they are not regulated 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 at the international level so that the companies 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 states are actually criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of them but. 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 crime still begging for justice i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. 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 a former afghan m.p. dullards sultanzoy says nato is possibly withdrawing two 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 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 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 that's what counts but unfortunately priorities 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 former afghan m.p. dode sultanzoy talking about the impact the war is having on afghanistan civilian population. now norway's intelligence service says there's no evidence that under spray vick 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 it reports his anti immigration message is one of 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 condemn brave ics horrific 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. are responsible because they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the sky 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 movement like the anti islamic english defense league. of course you will have groups who are satisfied and you 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 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 nationalists the truth pins redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the

vote the 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 brave it too 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. writing 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 english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls the wave of the case said the a.d.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. are to be done today. and a short while on our team we're 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.

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

a government what has happened is this last week at the the contact group which is the group that brings together working with the other countries which are involved in the military and other actions in libya it was agreed to that all the states represented recognize the transitional council 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 didn't actually claim to be a government yet they are on the way to form a government they don't after all control the whole. country so it's not a case of recognizable as a 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 that's taking a side in this civil conflict in the country. yes i think it's true that there are there are two authorities and libya now that are in conflict with one another but

we've for a long time have taken the position that the that gadhafi is going to have to go in in order to make possible a political solution to the conflict in libya and that sort of position and i think it's quite logical reasonable look we should we should describe the the authority in benghazi as the sole legitimate 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 freeze some money which belongs to an oil company which operates in the eastern part of libya we weren't able to do that before that's ninety ninety one million pounds i think your headline date of the fifty billion dollars which is about right i think. that yes or no money large sums of money here indeed the rebels were not very good money. but that compared with the needs of the people there not very large and

a great deal more is going to have to be done in the way on the freezing assets sure but then again they're getting access to a funding how can the u.k. government as well as other governments who have pledged support nationally to the rebels be assured that the money is not going to be going to arms for example. what it may not be possible to be to be assured of that i don't know clearly the other side all spending money on bombs it's possible that the rebels are too. ok that's why the money is being released for that is being released because it's needed for all sorts of purposes most most particularly don't forget the libya is a country which is almost totally dependent on oil revenue they all revenue has been cut off now for four six months or something like that in. 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 paying the people definitely they need that humanitarian needs but then again what's to stop it from getting them buying arms with that as

a furthering the violence basically. well there is an international embargo on the sales to libya of course. ok so i also want to ask why is the west so adamant to exclude good offer many negotiations i mean he has repeatedly said he is ready and russia has offered more than once to actually act as a mediator in the talks and does the alliance actually want a peaceful resolution to this conflict this is this is libyan business we haven't excluded gadhafi from negotiation 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 doubts 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 is a former u.k. ambassador to libya thank you you thank. and more world news from our t.v. 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 effect 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 rest of us 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 across northern areas of ten college students died in their sleep as mud and debris do lose their resort 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. there are religious leaders from post soviet nations are uniting in the ukraine to celebrate the christianization 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. he is following the colorful festivities. the head of the russian orthodox church bought them out of 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 sharkey real arrived at the 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. 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 of 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. the celebration events will be happening within the next couple of days with concerts large concerts culminating 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 said 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. to our to dot com for more on the news you need around the clock and online right now r.t. investigates the rise in suicides in prose tsunami japan as thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. at the russian that hunt for husbands well with women outnumber men by millions report on an unusual matrimonial

object it's at r.t. dot com. now russia swaths of green force are seeing some people carve out a shady career illegal logging is growing and acts on a boycott explains the exploitation begins where natural disaster ends. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these it's increasingly being used as a good servant with flames terrorizing the country's forest 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 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 found the path of a major twister last year it uprooted thousands of hectares of mature forest many more were chopped afterwards by swimmers like these ones who managed to secure a permit for the hurricane cleanup. mr 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 they're permit is valid for three weeks i'm sure you can usually get 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 already 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 throwing 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 practiced all they want the current economic and regulatory environment ultimately makes plan daft think chopping of trees from a lucrative and easy to carry out then doing it the legal way kind of artsy.

over a few minutes away from meeting the man who inspired the movement to save the planet from the moon first kareena joins us with the business news. hello welcome to business here in our teeth thanks for joining me russia's leading gold produce a part is gold has been taken over by its london based subsidiary gold a new company under the name of porter's gold international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday miners lot of are from the capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact the new group share about you 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 and 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. well she's planning to put fifteen percent of it's all champion roll snatched up for sale next year it could become the biggest privatization deal in the nation's history under current market conditions the stake 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 and also plans to divest holdings and produce a. t.v. 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 uncertainty over u.s. debt 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 a sell u.s. stocks are trading lower as the political stalemate over the nation's debt limit continues after the government reported orders for durable goods fell in june the drop raised fears that manufacturing is running out of stream of steam after leaving good recovery over the past two years. and e.u. markets all over with washington's debt problems affecting investor confidence to the footsie is shedding over a percent on the dax is down one point four percent the sour stocks in london are led by lloyds banking group barclays and world bank of scotland goldman sachs downgraded the european banking sector. here in russia markets retreated from early gains with my eyes it 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 why sites or majors and in the red and mid

week of crude would look oil down over one and a quarter of a percent over precious metal miners were among the main gainers of the day helped by stronger gold poly metal finished almost. resigned in the butt 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 moscow so gay so that a from deutsche bank sums up the board i'm on. record for the market 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 take with us the position and the wait for us that issue to be resolved but there are some we do those stocks which move first of all i know i told the sun so to the division of silver i'm moving higher and there we see the month growth are you such stock as probably my bill also gave the ball to three percent on the news you can

still see. the positives and also the stake in moral clarity and monetize you saw results and probably reviews that's not our business out there for no headline news our next stay with that. the banks.

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feels. the. same. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering on our t.v. notorious american security firm blackwater goes on trial for overbilling the government did not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. their region intelligence says the far right suspect to admitted deadly terrorist attacks that claimed seventy six lives acted alone but europe's growing nationalistic mood is

feeding fears of more violence elsewhere. and britain is officially recognizing libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders it is stepping up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help the rebels. all next meet one of the first man to ever get up close and personal with the moon and it's a. celebrated photo of earth which inspired people to protect the planet as art he discovers now. i understand you very much for being with us today it's a great pleasure and an honor nice to be with you soldiers all right so

a polo commander frank berman and common command module pilot jim lovell have flown more hours than any other often not where they tap on you well i was the rookie. but it turns out that none of us had ridden on the saturn five so we were all right rookies for saturn five and we were all rookies for a trip away from the earth with a lot of screaming and shouting during the six and a half days no not the screaming and shouting you didn't have to in the spacecraft to reach out our jobs level was basically the navigator and i was the systems engineer and copilot much of the shot actually frank borman no i think it's been. definitely proven that i took the shot but i think find more room i'd have taken the first one but unfortunately he didn't use color film and didn't use a long lens so i gets the credit what is the earthrise mean to you.