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 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 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 you is. so many military and security functions to these security companies they are not regulated

and they are not control and this is what we have extremely concerned that what we have called in is for relation to the national at the international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which case actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. 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 derek 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 embarrassments 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 into 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 then the locals see that because

they're these high paid mercenaries that there's no accountability that absolutely enrages people and it should it should in rage both the people in the countries where it happens and it should enraged the people here in the united states is tax dollars are paying for it and in whose name those actions being taken. and norway's intelligence service says that there is 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 his. lawyer though insists that brevik is insane and didn't know what he was doing but as artie's or emma reports his anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes across europe. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to prevent the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and

multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned brave fix her riffing 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. 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 you will have groups who are satisfied and you will 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 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 to truth in its redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the . vote the danish people's party has also embraced donte immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and sweden there is grassroots support for braving to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto on 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. brokerage 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 english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls a wave of islamic the case said the a.d.l. denies 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. or to london. and in a short while on our t.v. we're in q four they're keeping the faith church members from the former soviet states have gathered together to mark a short russia's adoption of christianity plus. bad behavior keeps males have their course these business partner firmly behind bars of find out what he did wrong in a few minutes. britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as the legitimate government and has expelled colonel gadhafi as diplomats it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels while tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks to end a four month long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes you want to talk to the rebels in benghazi is also making little progress towards a cease fire british opposition m.p.

and peace campaigner jeremy corbett says britain is in affectively trying to play the role of judge and jury in the future of libya. what we've done is involved ourselves in a civil war between the sensational government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time and incredibly nasty and bloody 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 of market to reality on reality is a war for regime change and this is now been successful and i think that this is going to be subject to a lot of legal argument it's a very strange situation all round because britain formally recognized the government of gadhafi indeed providing arms and training for his forces until march of this year huge amount of trade with libya and indeed

a vast amount of investment in britain then the war started in libya britain and france joined in nato jointly and they persuaded the u.n. to. 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 and effectively trying to play judge and jury on the future of libya surely the future of libya is for the libyan people the source are not western arms. a child associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail how they're called ski has been denied parole and will stay in custody a lot of hearing in northern russia left on lead but ev's wife and daughter made an emotional plea for his for early release but the judge ruled that lead would have this not eligible to be let out of prison artie's it at that he 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 the block only define me how about of course he was found guilty in two separate cases in two thousand and five and twenty eight time they were found guilty of tax evasion and money laundering or what some seventeen billion rubles that equivalent of over half a billion dollars the defense team managed to reduce that 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 hope of best sentence but the navy defies 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 it means he is killed the lottery has never been the case with blood be 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 property and misbehavior the reference also sought but they did not find it reasonable to grant him early release and peace was of course the crucial factor which enclosed the judge's decision. u.s. admiral michael mullen has announced that america will continue to run reconnaissance missions near china this comes after two chinese fighter jets intercepted a u. two spy plane over taiwan which china claims as its territory has already warned the move could damage relations with washington well to discuss this we're joined live by from a foreign policy think thank you very much mr hallinan for joining us now as trying to claims taiwan as its own and has long been against a reconnaissance missions of the u.s. along this coastline is their anger justified or is this a storm in a teacup. well you know i think that their anger is justified i'm not saying that this incident is going to get a whole lot worse but there's

a long history here and they really goes back to one nine hundred ninety six when the clinton administration sent two aircraft carrier battle groups into the taiwan straits at that time there was a lot of tension between taiwan and mainland china and the chinese had to back up they were deeply humiliated by the incident and that started a major shipbuilding program on the part of china so they are they are very sensitive to the idea that the united states can come into what they consider to be their church or water and actually have an effect on their domestic and their foreign policy so while i don't think this incident is going to go much further than this the fact that the tensions are there are very real they also come only heels of. secretary clinton's recent trip to india and to southeast asia where she encouraged a lot of the countries that are currently in conflict with china over the south

china sea and of course the tensions between india and try it on their border encourage them to kind of united against china so the chinese are reacting to that as well there there's a lot of tension here i don't think we're going to move ourselves into a situation where somebody could actually start fighting somebody else but the danger here is people make mistakes and when mistakes get made between nuclear powers that's something that we all need to worry about and that's where helen has the say that you mentioned the a visit of secretary of state hillary clinton to asia she was also in hong kong to reassure asian investors in the face of looming u.s. default so that's on the economic front yet on the military front we see the u.s. military taking a far more heavy handed approach towards china and why is that the timing is not very good for the u.s. certainly well. you have to realize this is part of a worldwide competition right now the united states is the number one user of

energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese or oil eighty percent of chinese energy supplies move by sea they either move through the straits of home once which is controlled by the american fifth fleet or the move to the extremists which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this they they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it some on their energy juggler vein and so they're they're very kind of tense and they're concerned about keeping those sea lanes open that's why they are so. pushy about the south china sea i think that mistake on the part of the chinese have been is that they've been a little overly pushy with some of the smaller countries in the region and that has allowed the united states to get a foot in the door but this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between a number one and the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact

that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with bases that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place ok now it's in your ear saying earlier that there's a lot of history here that if that indeed is true well china getting a bit very sensitive being getting very defensive is the fear of the u.s. the growing military might of china especially because it is very sensitive to what the u.s. is doing in the region is the u.s. fear justified. i don't think so when you take a look at the chinese military budget it's a balance if you really if you look at a real american but not the one that gets published but the one that includes everything that's military related things like nuclear weapons and everything they should port the united states spends about one point one billion dollars a year on its military in contrast to that the chinese spend about eighty one

billion dollars so they're not really a threat to the united states has a lower than huge enormous carriers the chinese have one second class former russian former soviet. aircraft carrier this is not about china fighting the united states it's about the fact that the chinese are afraid that the united states could attack china and that's basically what their military is said to do it's not really a military threat to the united states ok thank you very much for your analysis there that was called hello there from foreign policy in focus thank you. all religious leaders from post soviet nations are uniting in ukraine to celebrate the christianisation 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 counterpart and other orthodox leaders for the festivities tens of thousands of people attended a liturgy at the monument of prince the d.v.r. who christianize ancient russia and the center of key of celebrations are expected to continue for the next couple of days not just in care but across the whole soviet area. and next meet one of the first man to ever get up close and personal with the moon but it's astronaut bill and her celebrated photo of earth which inspired people to protect the planet as art he discovers now.

bill 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 apollo eight commander frank berman and comment command module pilot jim lovell had flown more hours than any other. when 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 screaming and shouting you didn't have to in

a spacecraft to reach at our jobs level was basically the navigator and i was the systems engineer and copilot looked at the shot actually frank borman no. i think it's. definitely proven that i took the shot but i think find more might have taken the first but unfortunately he didn't use color film and didn't use a long lens so i gets the credit when it's the earthrise mean to you. well i'm proud to have been lucky enough to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the. environmental movement i mean that the bigger a start. it really and has influence well beyond my imagination a lot of people not only is the earth fragile and and beautiful but it's very small and i think that last message is just beginning to creep in to people that we're not the center of the universe as people would like to think and i think that

picture along with the hubble telescope deep space do you know where the even looking through a tiny little hole in the universe there's millions of go axes and so though we have still i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe or it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in a more expansive way but you guys all three of you you're pretty religious you had religious convictions yet faith when you see for the first time how. does that somehow change your perception of god based religion. people everybody's free to believe what they want and of course if you go back you know sooner or later you have to wonder in the creation of the universe who was it or what was it that divided by zero and we get all this but i must say it did affect my religious views they became much more much broader than my narrow catholic upbringing and

john graham said that compliment was for all humanity did you feel that at that time we felt the well particularly. i felt it as a air force fighter pilot fighting the cold war. that we were there to prove not just to ourselves and the american people but to prove to the whole world that america wasn't second rate when certainly the soviets now the russians with the sputnik in. the missile gap were making america look really bad when. think of that gary. to me. i don't think the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik. i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know course like me he just had to be at the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get

away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and the russia and soviet union something they could really be proud of that gives that if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have had public support for the taxes that were required to beat the commies as an air force pilot how to defeat the cold war motivate you well i was chasing him and i say dirty commies i well i'd probably bet it but. i was chasing russian bombers soviet bombers around iceland and carrying nuclear rockets to shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement about we're going to go to the moon had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even to the farmers in iowa who pay taxes by

sputnik and think about the average age of a team on the ground twenty four and looking back at it do you do you feel safe to trust a bunch of twenty year olds now more than the old guys. well that was in a period when we had some very good elderly leadership. but that leadership was smart enough to leave a lot of the technological and quick decisions up to the young people it was very they had a lot of screening and they were tested time and time again. but there was a. they the management listened to the younger people. not sure i could say the same about the soviet thank you very much for this interview nice to be with you so if you.

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but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind oh there's a two million dollar bill for his arrest. but not super hero they can be killed to you know they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted revenue and i'll never go back to and anything else wealthy british style song comes. on. the. market. is going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. in india oh jeez available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the violence the

gateway hotel room the grand imperial truly told us to push for a loan deal you can to let her tell her to sit don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hoto retreat. welcome back now here's a quick look at the main stories here on our t.v. the tories american security firm blackwater goes on trial but for overbilling the government not for killing civilians in iraq and despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using a more contractors on foreign missions. region intelligence says the far right suspect who admitted deadly terrorist attacks that claimed seventy six lives acted alone but europe's growing nationalistic mood is speeding fears of more violence

elsewhere. britain is officially recognizing libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders and is stepping up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi well it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil assets to help the rebels. and next peter lavelle and his guests argue whether the doorway atrocities could set in motion anti islamic movements across europe stay with us for that. if you. want

to. follow 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. continue. to cross talk the rise of far right nationalism i'm joined by my guest in london ali he's chair of the muslim safety form and stephen gash he is spokesperson for stop islamization of europe all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see how the oslo attacks may influence political discourse in europe. as the tragedy struck norway on friday has become yet another grim.