court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and even killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine call the show forces counterinsurgency efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves 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 us. so many military and security functions to these security companies they are not regulated

in that they are not control and this is what we expect to be concerned that we are calling is for relation to the national and 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 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. what 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 war it's 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. earlier i spoke with derek crowe from the social justice kirby brave new foundation he thinks the u.s. prefers private contractors because they aren't as easy as regular troops to bring to court. 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 to 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'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 which tax dollars are paying for it and in whose name those actions being taken. norway's intelligence service says there is no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or anywhere else a thirty two year old who admits to killing seventy six people last friday claims he's part of a wider mission his lawyer and says. didn't know what he was doing. his anti immigrant status his making a chilling echo across europe. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of schools 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 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 it will have groups who are satisfied and we will have other groups who see that the governments are not doing enough discussing the issues enough. in this going forward in the future i think there is 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 in this redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the vote the danish people. party has also embrace donte immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and sweden 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. it's writing manifesto will resonate with. i'm very concerned 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 a far right. who 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 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 and they start to learn to. stay with us here on r.t. coming up problems chinese fighters head off a u.s. spy plane over its territory raising tension between beijing and washington. bad behavior. business partner behind bars find out what officials say he did wrong in a few minutes. but first britain now officially or. recognizes libya's rebels as the country's legitimate government and exparel colonel gadhafi has diplomats it's also unfreezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libyan oil cash to help fund the rebels tripoli and says it will not enter peace talks to end a four month long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes u.n. talks with the rebels in benghazi are also making little progress toward a cease fire british opposition m.p.

and peace campaigner jeremy corbyn things britain is in effectively trying to play the role of judge and jury in libya's future. he's involved selves 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 efi the reality on reality would have is a war for regime change and this is now been successful and i think this is going to be subject to a lot of legal it's a very strange situation all round because britain formally recognized the government of gadhafi indeed we were providing arms and training for his forces until march of this year huge amount of trade with libya and indeed a vast amount of libyan 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 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 out west and. turning to russia now or jailed associate of convicted oil tycoon. he has been denied parole and will stay in custody at a hearing in northern russia have wife and daughter made emotional pleas for his early release but the judge ruled that lebedev is not eligible to be let out of prison catherine mcgrath has more from 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. not let the navy define me how about a pool of skin were found guilty in two separate cases in two thousand and five and twenty town they were found guilty of tax evasion and money laundering oil what some seventeen billion rubles that equivalent up over. dollars the defense team managed to reduce that time by one yeah and now the two will be released by twenty sixteen now under russian law though those convicted of economic crimes can qualify for parole officer being more than half of best sentence has been behind bars for over eighty years now and they must condition for him to be released that he demonstrates good behavior and also it meets his guilt the latter has never been the case with blood. 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 the role of prison full party and misbehavior the reference

also said that they did not find it reasonable to grant him early release and force the crucial facts which the judge's decision. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives that were hidden in his turban it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials earlier this month president karzai his half brother and senior aide were both gunned down in separate attacks the violence comes as nato combat troops begin withdrawing from afghanistan . the white house is threatening that president obama could veto a republican debt limit plan speaker john boehner wants to public spending and raise the limit congress. has less than a week to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling ceiling if it hopes 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 eleven people in a suburb of damascus residents responded by throwing stones and closing roads with piles of burning tires several people were wounded in the raid that happened after electrical and phone services were cut off to the area more than fifteen hundred people have so far been killed across the country since the brutal anti-government crackdown started four months ago. u.s. admiral michael mullen has announced that the u.s. will continue to run reconnaissance missions near china this after two chinese fighter jets intercepted a us u. two spy plane over taiwan that china claims as its territory beijing has already warned the move could damage relations with washington paul holland in a foreign policy think tank says the think tank member says the u.s. and china are competing for secure energy routes. right now the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese

oil eighty percent of chinese energy supplies who moved by c. that you move through the streets of rome once which is controlled by the american system eat well imu food aleck's traits which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this they tell us they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy shovel or vein and shoulder they are very kind of tense and now they're concerned about keeping those sea lanes open and that's why they are so. pushy about the south china sea i think that mistake on the part of the chinese advantage is 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 with this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between the 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 maces that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. russia has criticized the u.s. decision to impose travel restrictions on a group of russian officials who are linked to the case of a lawyer who died in jail serving a magnitsky died after spending almost a year in a russian prison while awaiting trial on tax evasion parties ever appears going off as more. washington says that this so-called blacklist is a consequence of what it says was a violation of city magnitsky the rights just so you mind you it was a war of a 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. he blames the police and doctors for his death and leader of 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 all dead including some senior russian police officials agents of the federal security service 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 fierce reaction though from a the 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 state game on needs death there are actually several investigations being held at the moment they are monitored by president meet they need to be just also the foreign ministry says that none of the people on this the 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 negatively affect the trust between the russia and the united states and has also promised an adequate reaction from moscow will follow. but always find more on our website r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. marty investigates the rising suicides in post tsunami in japan as thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of disaster. and a russian of manhunt literally searching for husbands with women outnumbering men by millions we report on an unusual matrimonial rented jet all online at archie dot com. and up next me one of the first men ever to get up close and personal with the moon but its astronaut bill and his celebrated photo of the earth that inspired people to help protect the planet artie's interview coming up.

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 off where they top one 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 the 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 played more remote 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 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 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 view 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 than you that all three of you you're pretty religious you have religious convictions yet faith when you see for the first time how right does

that somehow change your perception of god based religion. if people really 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

sputnik and our guarantee the missile gap we're making america look really bad when you think of that garrett what a symbol to me. i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik and bargain 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 now us 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 did the cold war motivate you well i was

chasing when i say dirty commies i well i probably meant 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 of what 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 when you think about the average age of a team on the ground twenty four looking back at it do you feel safe to trust a bunch of twenty year olds now more than the old guys. well that was in a period where 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. and i'm not sure i could say the same about the soldier thank you very much for this interview nice to be with you so if you. if you're followed up on my death.

are sort of a throwback and i can't part of. it goes back to a time when people would light out on their horses in the wild west and pick up these future dates important into the sheriff for prosecution there's no looking like company may follow. him when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. would. but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others a two million dollar deal please the rest. were not superheroes they can be killed too you know if they shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted and i never go back to hunt anything else the last time to close it was in the cool region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence if this time our team goes to the world

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six thirty am in moscow these are your r t headlines billing not killing land security contractor blackwater and court prosecutors pursue a case of overcharging the government despite the military contractor being accused of atrocities against civilians in iraq and afghanistan. norway's intelligence service denies claims by the suspect of two deadly terror attacks in the country last friday he's part of a wider group but authorities in europe are on their guard after his anti immigration message is echoed by extremist groups across the continent. the u.k.

steps up pressure on libyan leader moammar gadhafi as london exparel says diplomats and invites the rebel council to replace them london also giving the rebels access to about one hundred fifty million dollars of previously frozen libyan oil. spotlight coming up next this time al gore and other speaks with the editor of integer in chief of global affairs magazine fyodor lukyanov and asks him in the light of the attacks on norway whether europe is facing threat from a terror terror threat rather from neo nazis stay with us the interview coming.

well again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. i'm not we're not and today we will talk about the tragic events in know. the man who massacred at least seventy six people said his go was doing warning bureau of the failure of its multicultural problems today many people including myself are very skeptical about how multiculturalism works so we have discussed it in spotlight with you several times but what makes a skeptic take a gun and dynamite is the norwegian terrorist just a madman or is europe facing a terror threat from neo nazi extremist something much superior than that i'm i doubt we will discuss it today with an editor in chief of the russia and global affairs magazine that will counter. it began with a huge.