rights violations 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 in the killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis and of course extent set to undermine call the show 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 contract is. 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 military and security

functions to the security companies they are not regulated in that they are not controlled and this is what we have extremely concerned that what we are calling it is for relation to the national the international level so that. 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 a contract as wall in america's wars 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. well earlier i spoke to derrick crow from the social justice group the brave new foundation and he says the u.s. prefers private contractors because they aren't as easy as regular troops to bring

to justice these folks are not the people that you see held up as as kind of paragons of american patriotism they're not uniform troops they are private for profit contractors and they are much much easier for a president to use politically because they're not who we typically think of as the troops or our brave men and women on the ground that would like to talk about it with reference to regular forces and so because of that and because they're a private company operating in kind of a jurisdictional black box you don't have the embarrassment usually i guess that you would if u.s. soldiers were on the ground in these conflicts far beyond the usual mandate and they are there since they're not as accountable as u.s. forces to the u.s. government and the american people they're able to get away with a lot more and so presidents tend to want to use them any time any foreign force goes in and kills locals either through mistake or through over aggression or

things like that it absolutely damages u.s. security and what the united states was trying to achieve in any of these countries but it's worse when those actions occur and in the local see that because there are these high paid mercenaries that there is no accountability that absolutely enrages people and it should it shouldn't rage both the people in the countries where it happens and it should enraged the people here in the united states which tax dollars are paying for it and in whose name those actions being taken. and in a short while on our team 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. norway's 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 is part of a wider mission well his lawyer insists is insane and didn't know what he was doing but as laura about 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. braving 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 storm of hardliners condemned brave ics horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe and other groups express 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 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 movements like the anti islamic english defense league. of course it 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 way a taxi 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. who will resonate with. i'm very concerned. other people copycatting 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 is 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. london. a jailed associate of convicted oil tycoon behave how they're called ski has been denied parole and will stay in custody well at a hearing in northern russia but on the wife and daughter made an emotional plea for his early release but the judge ruled that is not eligible to be let out of prison. 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 intense

debate between prosecutors and the defense team the judge ruled against granting him for not looking at is a funny how about of course he was found guilty in two separate cases in two thousand and five and twenty times they were found guilty of tax evasion and money laundering for what some seventeen billion rubles that equivalent of over half a billion dollars the defense team managed to reduce that term by one year and now the two will be released by twenty sixteen now under russian law though those convicted of economic crimes can qualify for parole after serving more than half a best sentence but only be depressed been behind bars for over eighty years now and they must condition for him to be released is that he demonstrates good behavior and also admits his guilt the latter has never been the case with blood only a bit different and as for his personal records the reference which was brought out by administration of the prison where he is now serving his term ruled against

granting him parole citing the last of prison culture to add misbehavior the reference also said that they did not find it reasonable to grant him early release and this was of course the crucial factor which enclosed the judge's decision. britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government and has expelled colonel gadhafi as diplomats and it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help the rebels tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks when b. four month long civil war until nato stops its air strikes you and talks with the rebels in benghazi is also making little progress towards a cease fire well we can get some insight on this from jeremy corbyn who is a british opposition labor party m.p. and peace campaigner thank you very much mr corbin for being with us on the program now the the u.k. previously said it recognised countries not governments but is this situation

really as unique as foreign secretary william hague is making it out to be. no it's not unique but what i think what he's done is change the rules by which britain normally recognizes as he correctly says countries not governments because what he's done here is given tacit recognition and support the transitional government for quite a long time and is now formally announced recognition of them and given them a hundred million pounds almost all of us belong to the. former government of libya but behind that is the attempt to unfreeze in a much larger tranche of assets running into many games and so reality usually on the other scene is a war for regime change and this is now going to be successful and i think that this is going to be subject to a lot of legal arguments additionally he claims to be just a mercy of the transitional government it has no democratic basis anymore than the

regime of colonel gadhafi has an elected basis and so he has made a value judgment based on his political instincts let's talk about those assets gadhafi we should all be froze it well his affair was that oil assets have been handed over to the rebels as you know is do you see a danger in allowing billions of dollars into the hands of a fairly disparate opposition group. well this is the concern because it's very unclear where the support for this opposition group comes from it is known that they've had political support from a number of gulf cooperation council countries and it's known that has been. on their behalf and it's known that france has been giving them was much i possibly can and also apparently there are special forces from a number of countries operating on their behalf within libya the coalition forces britain france and the nato forces said it was a no fly zone in reality it has been the bombing of infrastructure targets as well

as military targets throughout libya there's been considerable bombing going on in tripoli itself and what we've done is involved selves in a civil war between the government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time incredibly nasty and there are human rights abuses being reported on both sides including the treatment of african people by the transitional government as well as the treatment for position people by the government to market their food now tripoli also told the u.n. envoy that there will be no peace talks until nato stops its airstrikes but we see that the bombing say continue how much this nato really want a peaceful and they think well there is some opposition to the bombing campaign in western countries who are concerned about the amount of money that's being spent on it over six thousand bombing sorties over libya in the past few months and the damage there is absent some quite clear just to be any peace talks that has to be

a cease fire and it's in the hands of the west as much as anybody else to ensure that ceasefire takes place and clearly there have been talks with representatives of gadhafi and the position did change a few days ago when britain and other countries said that they could see a future in which could feel his family could remain in libya well it's about time . they said something like that because that's far more intelligent approach than deciding what each side position must be before the negotiations actually begin ok now with that let's look at the movie the u.k. at the u.k. is proud of its democracy and being open to all sides but isn't there a contradiction if it's expelling one of the libyan sides. well it's a very strange situation all round because britain formally recognized the government to gadhafi indeed we were providing arms and training for his forces until march of this year huge amount of trade with libya we did a vast amount of investment in britain then the war started in libya britain and

france joined in nato joined in the persuaded the un to pass one hundred seventy three which is allegedly a no fly zone and now they've decided they're going to switch horses and expel the diplomats from. tripoli and replace them with the people from benghazi will seems to me that we are now deeply involved in the civil war in effectively trying to play judge and jury on the future of libya surely the future of libya is for the libyan people to sort not west americans ok thank you very much for your insight there jeremy corbyn a british opposition labor party m.p. and peace campaigner thank you. now 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 so the game admits he died after spending almost a year in a russian prison while awaiting trial for tax evasion he is across the story for

our. washington says that this so-called blacklist is a consequence of what it says was a violation of city my community's rights just remind you magnitsky was a lawyer who worked with a large foreign investment fund here in russia he was accused of organizing a huge money laundering scheme was arrested 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 later several of 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 the lawyers and doctors and others washington says that it has the full right to deny access to the united states to people who are connected

to human rights violations while there's been a few years a reaction of trauma a russian foreign ministry here in moscow they say first of all washington is informed of all the steps and measures being taken to investigate the circumstances of city might need skis that there are actually several investigations being held at the moment they are monitored by president need to meet the just also the foreign ministry says that none of the people on this a list have been found guilty by a court of any human rights violations but most importantly moscow says that this is an unfriendly act which i'm a and negatively affect the trust between a russia and the united states and has also promised an adequate reaction from moscow will follow. well the russian foreign ministry's reaction on the u.s. travel ban has been echoed by lawmakers they say that before punishing others

washington should first look at its own human rights record. americans. have a lot of problems even inside their country and that's because done them up but a lot of people died in american prisons in your early and do we know a lot of abrasions of syria and. through such. illegal illegal activities or illegal behavior or american officials. are not in the position to be a judge. well 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 and called tsunami just as thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of the disaster. and the russian manhunt for husbands with women outnumber men by millions who report on a huge matrimonial agenda it's not r t v dot com.

and here's a look at more world news from our t.v. this hour the mayor of the a volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials and earlier this month president karzai is half brother and his senior aides were gunned down in separate attacks the violence comes as nato combat troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan . the white house is threatening that president obama could have vetoed the republican debt limit plan at all 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 default obama blames republicans for stalling and refusing to accept a balanced approach. human rights groups say syrian security forces have

killed eight people in aden. ask a suburb residents responded by throwing stones and closing roads with piles of burning tires several people were wounded in that 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 rain brought k. also across northern areas ten a college students died in their sleep as mud and debris due to the resort cabin where they were resting after doing some volunteer work and 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 ukraine to celebrate the christianization of russia while 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 counterpart and other orthodox leaders for the festivities tens of thousands of people attended a liturgy at the monument to prince edward de vere to christianize injured russia the center of keep their celebrations are expected to continue for the next couple of days not just in kiev but across the post soviet era. gets to grips with whether the slaughter in norway is setting an extremism train in motion in europe but first kareen is here with business news shortly. well welcome to our business report here in r.t. wash is planning to put fifteen percent of its oil champion roll snapped up for sale next year it could become the biggest privatization deal in the nation's

history under current market conditions this 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 it also plans to divest holdings and diamond producer and bt bag raising around thirty six billion dollars. russia's leading goal produce supporters gold has been taken over by its london based subsidiary cars a gold new company under the name of porter's gold international started trading on the london stock exchange on wednesday well there's a lot of oil from the tax capital says the unusual reverse takeover could impact the new groups share value. this is a river of. gold which is a limited company has gone and pulled 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 performance as well and having looked at the recent performance of. gold has been the performers royal's fairly considerably despite the price of gold increasing on the upside. gold is trading at a lower this hour however prices still high as investors are looking for safe haven future uncertainty over u.s. debt resolution so where is trading at around forty dollars per ounce now meanwhile wrangling over the u.s. debt ceiling keeps oil in the red light sweet is losing one dollar sixty five cents this hour bread is losing sixty cents u.s. stocks fall as lawmakers remain at all it's over how to avoid a default decline in orders for manufactured goods as also pushing stocks lower energy stocks who treats by chairs of coca-cola of southern exelon stood their ground banks updates and markets in europe finished in the red the fruits of one point two percent and the dax had one point three percent banking stocks led the

footsie lower lloyds banking group barclays and world bank of scotland fell for a three percent goldman sachs downgrade at the european banking sector. russia's talks were treated for a fourth day as well fail fall after u.s. government report showed that unexpected increase in inventories six point nine percent and that's its biggest loss since july eighteenth now let's take a look at some individual moves on the lies six or produces ended in the red zone or crude oil fell over one and a half of one a quarter of a percent of a precious metal miners were among the main game has helped by strong gold medal winners almost two percent higher ranking. stocks were also ought to be gained around half a percent on news it may soon acquire another twenty percent of bank of moscow said gates there from deutsche bank sums up the world markets. were serious work for the markets nothing is going on the market is rather boring not the reason for this

first of all seasonal factor and the second factor is the universe just wait and see position and the way for us that issue to be resolved what are some individual stocks for which was first of all i. told the sun so to the very issues. i'm going to hire and. growth are you. also gave them all to three percent on the new so you can still see. the positives and also the stake of moral clarity and monetize reserves and probably be used. as well for me in the business team here join us again tomorrow for more financial news here thanks.

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a great way to go to the grand imperial truly the tallest west coast coromandel you can know what's a little closer to sea don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her job as used to retreat. welcome back here's a quick look at the main stories we're covering today on our team the torrijos american a security forum blackwater goes on trial but for billing the government not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using. more contractors on the foreign missions. their region intelligence says that the far right suspect who admitted deadly terrorist attacks that claimed the seventy six lives acted alone but europe's growing nationalistic mood is

feeding fears of more violence elsewhere. britain is officially recognizing libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders it is stopping up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels. and next peter lavelle and his guests argue whether the norway atrocities could set in motion anti islamic movements across europe that discussion is coming up next. 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 cause a report on r.t. . if you. follow me in the 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 as 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 my guest in london ali he's chair.