india logies available in the movie the joint be there to be a movie that's the great rage of the grand imperial. george was to school until you can a once in a child knows the show which civility to go and clear this is the kernel was originally as used to retrieve. headlines on our notorious american security firm blackwater goes on trial but for overbilling the government's not personal experience in iraq and this white claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. or region intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted to deadly terrorist attacks acted alone that europe's growing nationalistic mood is feeding the fears of more violence elsewhere. bryton recognizes libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders and steps up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi.

just after ten pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us now 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 but over claims it bill the washington too much for its services to former employer he's accused of claiming more than one hundred million dollars of bogus expenses for the company which is now known as c. provides more mercenaries for the u.s. in afghanistan that anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals its contractors were accused 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 afghanistan with the u.s. about to double its private army to replace departed troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over a person aries to protect human rights rights are to stay and check younger ports it's more convenient for us to hard to use hard cards since their actions slipped under the radar. this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago this brain felt like a ground between life on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers a shoplifting which everyone if you see no one of blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for their massacre to other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq and name synonymous now with her retake human 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 feelings are committed by security firms on a regular basis and said to undermine call the horses counterinsurgency efforts. in general kill innocent. people destroy property. we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by a contract says. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is set to grow dramatically us. so many

of. the functions. and security companies they are not related in that they are not control and this is war we are extremely concerned not what we are calling is for relation to the national international level so the. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their kid 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 for 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 prosecution or sing out of it. 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 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's a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions to onic. noble contractors end 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 and america's wars bound to increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. for more on how private armies operating you can talk to human rights lawyer paul of wolf represents victims of war crimes thought to be committed by private contractors thank you very much mr wolf for joining us now could you please just every flea tell us about the

cases you're involved in. well thanks for having me on i resent people who are. private companies the reason i do that is it's very difficult if not impossible to hold governments accountable for these kinds of crimes companies are different so you're calling me here in georgia the colombia i have a lawsuit against chiquita banana exporting company because he was financing the various armed factions in a civil war to hear both sides are considered terrorist groups and so chiquita is actually responsible for the war crimes that were committed by those groups in iraq i have another case here representing the family of the woman who was killed in a very tragic but unfortunately very common type of incident by private security contractors and unlike military forces these security contractors have no right at all. so engaging in these kind of businesses that companies are taking pretty

extreme risks and i see it as my kind of an anti-war activist. the expenses are going to you mr wolf why is it so hard though to a bring those severus possible to justice why is there never a conviction in the trials against private contractors. well i heard your other guest jeremy scahill mention that very few people have and i can't think of a single one who has been american in any way who has been put on trial in either iraq or afghanistan and they're just arresting people putting them on trial. in iraq we actually had treated me in the iraqi government called the status of forces agreement in which the u.s. agreed it would rather rapidly in the u.s. requests that u.s. forces are essentially immune from iraqi legal process and afghanistan we don't have any agreement at all to be there at all and so the fact that no one's being

arrested there said this in print sorry to interrupt the agreement you said it's u.s. forces we're talking about private contractors are you talk are you putting them in the same category. yes that's right country i'm sorry contractors are in the same category as regular u.s. military forces and the right security contractor or no private contractor of any kind you know rak is subject to the iraqi legal system that's surrounding it if you time out in a state and there's no formal agreement at all so the fact is that nobody has been prosecuted for any crime that i'm aware of and he tried to sue them in the u.s. people looked almost without water actually or cases against black or the u.s. but i really would say that blackwater is really an exception because why cory's an american company most of the private security companies operating in iraq and afghanistan are there incorporated in places like singapore or the united arab emirates they're set up specifically to be very difficult to sue so the u.s.

government is not just trying to outsource the dirty were upset that they can't be directly blamed or they're deliberately doing business with companies that are not subject to the courts in any country in the world so that we really insulating those companies from any kind of the want to believe on this or what just very briefly just acquired the countries that you say also have private contractors or it's not that just the u.s. you mentioned singapore and what i also hear much from. the other is united arab emirates united arab emirates is very convenient because it's arabic speaking country is close to the. restaurants a lot of wealthy people go there but they also don't have a functioning legal system so companies are set up there because it's a good place to want your money and the place to do any kind of criminal activity and normal out of the grounds nuclear program in the money has been going through the banks and made their appearance one of the most famous in the. movie theaters and he is apparently. out of dubai and so these the u.s.

i don't think should be doing business with a company that can be sued anywhere it's like switzerland switchy and used to being one hundred center because it was anyone to get any information. and you know i just don't think this is a company that. thank you very much there mr paul was a human rights lawyer representing claims several crimes allegedly committed by a private contractors thank you thank you. how the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban is a way of us of a series of killings targeting the country's top officials and earlier this month that president karzai is half brother and his senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks former afghan campaign says nato was possibly withdrawing troops prematurely. the scale of transfer of security 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 can see. reversals a time in in the future. certain provinces are. so critical that they may have to delays some of the transfer as we should not operate as we should operate on realities on the ground here and those in washington and in europe should be secondary to the civilian population population ignored by war and by civilian reconstruction and that's what counts

but unfortunately. every time there's a war is also where the priority is during wars or and success not on civilian people who are really. main thing that we should pay attention to how in a short while on our team or in kiev where they're keeping the faith church leaders from former soviet states gathered together in my ancient russia adoption of christianity. i want to have associate of convicted oil tycoon me his father called ski has been denied parole and will stay in custody hearing in northern russia wife and daughter made an emotional plea for his early release but the judge ruled that a letter is not eligible to be let out of prison. i was at the hearing. it was up to the small local court to decide the fate of one of russia's best known prisoners after two days of hearings and in town to face between prosecutors and

the defense team the judge ruled against granting him closer. to defy me how about of course. to separate cases in two thousand five hundred twenty time they were found guilty of tax evasion fountains money laundering or what some seventeen billion rubles that equivalent of over half a billion dollars the defense team managed to reduce that surround by one year and now the two will be released by twenty six feet under russian law though those convicted of economic crimes can qualify for parole after serving more than humble best sunsets but only to give has been behind bars for over eight years now and a must condition for him to be released is that you demonstrates good behavior and also. the latter has never been the case with blood. and his personal records the reference which was quite out of ministration of the prison where he's now serving his term ruled against granting him the role citing the laws of his own fault with

behavior the reference also sought to be did not find it reasonable to grant him early release and this was of course the crucial factor which enclose the judge's decision norway's intelligence service says there is no evidence of anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere where the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he is part of a wider mission his lawyer though insists it is insane and didn't know what he was doing but as our reports his 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 anders breivik 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 brain picks

her actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe and other groups express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves were also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say are responsible because they allowed integration happen and effectively pushed this card 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 arms joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league . of course you will have groups who are satisfied and the real 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 there's no way a tactical bring this topic into the sense of that again and they will force.

officials as well as public 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 true finns redrew the political landscape based 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 a pick 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 and point concerned that there are

a lot of individuals. writing in this manifesto will resonate with. i'm very concerned that the other people are preparing these types of attacks in the coming months or 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 bright. lit the fuse and those brave it claims to be involved with the english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of islamic the case said the e.t.l. denies the big 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 expand in all over europe. r.t. london. britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government and has expelled colonel gadhafi is diplomats and it's also one freezing 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 form of civil war until nato stops its airstrikes well you want talks with the rebels and big gazi also making little progress towards a cease fire professor mark elmer from oxford university things there won't be the dramatic collapse of good art is regime. it's nato expects. additionally britain has recognized governments not on the basis of all that we like them are with oracle they control the territory of the states. lost control of parts of the b a but clearly the rebels don't control it yet so this is a new precedent conductor or dangerous or the other problem is that the rebels on

the ground seem to stall even with the nato bombing raids and if you remember when this started more than four months ago we were told it would be much much and so i suspect really what really hate british warship which is doing is really having a symbolic act to try to show that somehow or other we're still in charge of the situation in situation is increasingly unpredictable in practice the symbolic decision to recognize rebels figure out what are his six months from armed march and it's a great leap and indeed a strategic crisis for the nato countries. russia has harshly criticized america's decision to impose travel restrictions on a group of russian officials willing to the case of a lawyer who died in jail sergei magnitsky died out after spending almost a year in a russian prison while awaiting trial for tax evasion he got the skin of his across the story for r.t. . washington says that this so-called blacklist is

a consequence of what it says was a violation of city minute ski's rights just to remind you my niece he was a lawyer who works with a large foreign investment fund here in russia he was accused of organizing a huge money laundering scheme was a russet but died before the court could make a decision on his case now he's a family blames the police and doctors for his death and we are several human rights groups put together a list of people who they say are connected to his death it's not clear whether the blacklist is exactly the same as that one but it is reported that around sixty people are on it including some senior russian police officials agents of the federal security service a lawyer some a doctor's hands of others washington says that he has the full right to deny access to the united states to people who are connected to the human rights violations while there's been a fierce reaction of trauma

a russian foreign ministry here in moscow they say first of all washington is informed of all of the steps and measures being taken to investigate the circumstances also human needs he's there there are actually several investigations being held at the moment they are monitored by president need to meet the d.d.s. also the foreign ministry says that none of the people on the other solicits have been found guilty by force of any human rights violations but most importantly moscow says that this is an unfriendly act which may negatively affect the trust between a russia and the united states and has also promised an adequate reaction from moscow will follow. i'll have to r.t. dot com for more on the news you need around the clock and on live right now i see investigates the rise in suicide posts about egypt happening as thousands find it too much. to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. the rush of bad

for husbands with the bad outcome for a bad by millions were reported that you feel that. it's at r t v dot com. iran is praising russia's efforts to diplomatically solve the dispute over its nuclear program by the country's foreign minister is in moscow for talks with his russian counterpart iran's under un as u.s. scrutiny over allegations it wants to produce nuclear weapons but iran insists its program is purely peaceful and has no intentions to use it in harmful purposes or r.t. caught up with the arabian foreign minister in moscow and he told our rabbit sister channel that washington's played a political game. but when you come home only international body that has the authority to judge our activities is the i.a.e.a. no state is allowed to accuse iran over its nuclear program or confirm that iran

has made its intentions regarding its nuclear program quite clear and prove that it is peaceful minister our intentions how can the u.s. accuse us of easily nuclear intentions and if america itself was the first state ever to use atomic weapons killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in japan see this is why we have no faith in america's intentions as history shows it can't be trusted with think that it's a political game iran who runs a nuclear program and allegations that it wants to produce nuclear weapons have become instruments of exerting pressure on ourselves we don't see any problem in reaching a solution that will suit and benefit all parties and allow iran to go ahead with its peace with your program under the supervision of the international agency. well you can watch the whole interview here on thursday right here on r.t.

. 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 exactly one thousand and twenty three years ago this part of the world adopted orthodox christianity russia's patriarchial is meeting his georgian adam craig and counterparts to take part in the festivities tens of thousands of people attended a liturgy at the monument to prince william there who christianized ancient russian at the center of cue the celebrations are expected to continue for the next couple of days not just of kids but across the whole soviet area. over a few minutes away from meeting the man who inspired the movement to save the planet from the movement well first kareena joins us with the business news. welcome to business here in r.t.

russia is planning to put fifteen percent of its champion roll snatched up for sale next year it could become the biggest part of his asian deal in the nation's history current market conditions the stake is valued at fourteen billion dollars the government says it's also doing plans to sell its entire stake at seventy five percent by two thousand and seventeen and also plans to divest holdings in tandem producer. b.g.p. that raising around thirty six billion dollars. russia's leading gold produce supporters gold has been taken over by the law it's london based subsidiary cousin called a new company under the name of porter's called international started trading in the london stock exchange for wednesday and large love go from e.t.f. capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact the new group share value. this is a reverse takeover. because i gold which is a limited company has gone 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 of. gold there has been the form use royals fairly considerably disappoint the price of gold increasing on the upside. now gold is trading lower this hour however price is still high as investors are looking for safe haven and you tell certainty over us that resolution silver is trading at around forty dollars per ounce. meanwhile wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling spoil in the red light sweet is losing one dollar sixty five cents this hour and brands are losing sixty cents now stocks in the u.s. are falling as lawmakers remain at all odds over how to avoid a debt default as a client in orders for manufactured goods is also pushing stocks lower energy stocks retreat with the broader equities markets but she has

a conoco phillips southern and takes a long stood their ground after ratings updates. markets in europe finished in the red the party fell one point two percent in the dax shed one point three percent banking stocks led the four c. lower lloyds banking group parties the world bank of scotland fell between four and three percent after goldman sachs downgraded the european banking sector and the russian stocks retreated for a fourth day as oil fell after a u.s. government report showed another unexpected increase in inventories my sixty eight point nine percent of its biggest losses july eighteenth and now let's take a look at some individual moves on the rise ex oil producers and even the reds group who call fell over one and i got word of a percentage of precious metal miners were among the main gainers held by stronger than gold. poly metal finished almost two percent of black banking stocks were also highly to gain around half a percent on news it may soon acquire another twenty percent of bank of moscow so

gets the better from those who bank sums up other markets. we see a record for the market nothing is going on the market is rather boring there are two reasons for this first of all seasonal factor and the second factor is the investors take with us the position and the wait for us to be sure to be a soft spot are something to those stocks. first of all i know i told the sun so through the division of silver i'm going to hire until we see the mountain growth or you pull him up also across the board to three percent when you sleep where you can still see an increase that was up and also mistaken moral clarity and monetize these results and they're probably views that. that's all the business out there for now i'll be back in about forty five minutes with more meanwhile save us the headline.

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