officers and the media with rocks before a full blown riot started on the streets of chile scalpels santiago similar marches are held in the country every september eleventh. a constant companions in any war lost lives the spare and destruction but impact on nature often goes unnoticed a little later r.t. focuses on the environmental footprint of war when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the well feel takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs going napalm. coming from cities whether it's sonic boom safe or marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed. in the pacific for grammy purposes to list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states

that are shall be. in war to protect. against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. oh you watch our special report in less than ten minutes time here in r.t. and now let's take a look what's happening in the world of business. been . hello and a very well welcome to the business update and back to our top story now the british prime minister's official visit to moscow the first by a u.k. leader in six years and deal sort of around four hundred million dollars will be signed cheering the visit of the u.k.

prime minister david cameron and the delegation also includes blue chip companies like royal dutch shell b.p. and british airways british d.i.y. retailer their show will unveil a plan to open nine stalls in russia total investment could reach two hundred fifteen million dollars the u.k. is also expected to sign a deal with the russian state energy corporation which would help u.k. companies when contracts in russia's expanding nuclear industry. tony hayward is stepping down from russian oil for until less than a year after joining the board as a non-executive director the former chief executive of b.p. who was fiercely criticized for his handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill is leaving to pursue other interests in the energy sector and the departure comes at a sensitive time for all the b.p.'s failed attempt to join with wilson have to explore the arctic the alliance was broken by the russian partners. who are seeking compensation for the courts from the british parent company. let's have

a look at the markets now and let's start with the oil prices they are lower hasn't passed just fear europe's debt crisis will harm economic growth tempering demand for raw materials lights which as you can see is currently trading at eighty five dollars a barrel well branch is holding at one hundred ten dollars. european markets seeing heavy losses in early trade that puts is one point three percent lower shares in the u.k. lenders are under pressure after the independent commission told banks they will have to roam around their retail arms following the credit crisis says lloyds of down three point two percent growth bank of scotland is down three point six percent and barclays shared three and a half percent. european debt wars are weighing on the russian markets as well the indices like standing last week's losses in monday's trade the r.t.s. m m i six a deeply in the red three point eight and three percent respectively let's take

a look at some of the individual show moves in the might save energy majors are losing ground with gazprom shedding almost three percent and look oil dropping one of the crucial central banking stocks are also under the pressure of russia's largest lender shedding under three and a half percent. mysterious amounting the world is heading rapidly for a second day called the recession russian finance minister alex accoutrement says it's more probable now than before the summer russia's balanced budget means it is reasonably well placed to ride out the turmoil but troika strategist chris with us says that they offered only limited protection when the mood turns sour. in reality russia is in a much stronger position today than it was in two thousand and eight so you know russia is in a much better position to be able to withstand global downturn. you know to to to remain it's going to be solvent and stable that's the reality it doesn't matter the

perception is that russia is still a high risk environment and most international investors view russia as a derivative of global growth therefore if they become optimistic about global recovery russian asset prices tend to rise higher faster than others and equally when there's a sell off as we saw in august russian gas or prices will go down probably even faster than the rest. russia's preparing to small aircraft carriers from running both charter and local flights will be given to the country's major airlines who will also get state subsidies i must say this to reduce existing passenger traffic by up to forty percent with just a few companies operating in the market and move is aimed at improving brushes for aviation safety records after almost an entire professional ice hockey team was killed in a plane crash last week. ok you're up to date jordan in less than one us time for another business update or head for tell us what site for more analysis that farty dot com slash business.

well when one deals with war from the stimulus that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the belfield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs boy napalm boy coming from the slums whether it's martin sonic booms the factory

marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed her in the pacific for grammy purposes to list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that tear shall be taken in the war to protect from violence against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to cook for asians are on the

day. if you want to argue live from moscow these are the top stories the british prime minister is in moscow for talks with the russian leadership after years of strained relations it's the first official visit of a british to europe to russian capital since two thousand and five. fifty four billion euros charity package and there's a final debate in the lower house of parliament but open protests be unpopular cards have already started with some areas of the country going as far as seeking autonomy. and iran for peers to officially plug in its russian built

nuclear station the country's first atomic power plant will reach about half of capacity after being connected to the main national grid. those are the top stories here on our team and we are in stand by for the news conference between david cameron and the russian leadership here in moscow we will go back to that as soon as it starts before that we'll look at the silent casualty of war the environment which faces severe and long term damage both from the production of weapons and combat itself. displacement is another of war's consequences the forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six after the tents in the in government decided to close camps around in the wreckage of a column of refugees in this photo stretch for twenty seven miles toward the

rwandan border. these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide in darfur province they have not crossed the seventies border and are not considered refugees under international law to collect wood for cooking they must risk being attacked by their gender we need government backed arab militia men target the sudan's black population. with their heavy demand for wood the sudan six million internally displaced persons head further stress to a landscape already degraded by climate change into certification. internal displacement is a growing problem in iraq an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom i.d.p. camps have strung up in the outskirts of national baghdad and nineveh many lack

potable water medicine and proper waste disposal. the real risk of not addressing the environmental problems is that people simply have to leave their homes if they don't have wood to burn to cook with to heat their homes where they don't have water to drink they leave and you see massive displacement happening we call it environmental refugees if you will but people are leaving their homes this creates a demand on resources it creates a demand on infrastructure and ultimately displacement undermines the peace process in the vietnam war which the vietnamese cause the american war there is a clash and was a clash between. very highly technological society and a largely agrarian society. i think we have a lot of arrogance you can't go in and take control grow up what we needed to blow up and do basically what we wanted.

one of the main reasons that i refused to carry a weapon was that i could not see any justification for the destruction of the land at the level that i saw it and infantry platoon. was mainly moved from place to place by helicopter the helicopters were flying high so as not to draw ground fire now when you're at a high altitude you can look out on the land and see it for miles and miles and miles and in the kuchi area especially there were times and places where i would work out and see nothing but a ravenous landscape bomb craters one after the other so close together and you

see little islands of grey one that had not been bombed. i grew up in a small town in illinois. town surrounded by corn fields and in fields very beautiful town i wanted to win my river. and when i saw it from high in the sky the destruction of the land i couldn't help wondering what if that had happened to our cornfields are going fields how would we feel if that happened oh my god. was. that. i went to that war knowing nothing at all but when i saw that

level of destruction i could not think that this was going to lead to democracy that this was a wind in the sand was going to be. the cause of freedom i wast whatever little faith i had in the war and being noble in any sense. it's. far away in the pacific the tiny atoll of bikini in

a much alive doesn't spot on the on beefing up mankind as pettable thoughts eloquent over the graveyard of many ships goes the navy mandated by goats pigs and fight rats awaiting the atomic blast. i mean maybe a personnel kind of thought to carry out. the deal with the island as whole lived on a japanese mandate for twenty years now to jamie the. united states now wants to turn its great hit power in something by the end of it. and that is it your feet are the first step. i think it's generally the case that the greater and more durable impacts come from preparation for war rather than combat itself. but five defense mines form to

support a man who march and say on one plot the mobilization reduced still further into the life of the nation actors must bring in the forests and trees must. other sawmills right for law and builders right for lumber states feel the need to be militarily prepared in the modern world that has meant building a military industrial complex building a pollution intensive industry to generate military goods one of the best examples of how the business of preparing for war can have long lasting environmental impacts is the nuclear weapons programs around the world that have been in place since the early one nine hundred forty s. wherever this is happened there have been environmental problems with radioactive

waste. which no one anywhere has satisfactorily saw. i grew up near the hampshire d.c. restoration which is located in washington state when the nuclear bombs were developed their little thought was given to what to do about the waste that would result afterwards indeed now the u.s. department of energy calls hansard the world's largest environmental cleanup project pampered washington is the site where the united states says essentially accumulated its nuclear waste mostly from weapons work also from nuclear power and other radioactive industries hanford was constructed in one hundred forty two under the top secret manhattan project its location along the columbia river provided a ready source of water cooling nuclear reactors the hanford engineering works produced the plutonium used in the trinity test device and in the fat man bomb

released on august sucking production of plutonium intensified during the cold war one nine hundred sixty three the dual purpose n. reactor was constructed to generate nuclear power for civilian use the reactor building completed in nineteen sixty three. to break instruction. and i think it's very appropriate if we come. back after much has been done to balance the carry out of. the find a chance to strike a blow for peace and a final chance to strike a blow for the light. this is a weapon i can assure you it will be maintained and from the work we began today i regret my work. not medical or the pilot chris but. realize that in the united states we are moving in. providing security for our

people. and operate all their life in the boat you're right that the. since the production of encomium ceased in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven clean up has been the only mission i have for nuclear reservation there are fifty three million gallons of high level radioactive and chemical waste and stored in one hundred seventy seven underground tanks seventy of these tanks have leaked spilling proximately one million gallons of waste into the soil. after washington is a wasteland of leaking radioactive waste that will be with us for decades and decades probably centuries to come and it's currently costing us billions of dollars to just try to contain let alone clean up in truth it's never going to be cleaned up and some of the radioactive waste will remain potentially lethal for

twenty four thousand years which is any way you slice it a long time. the united states used to stockpile of chemical weapons unbeknown stood most of the world in germany and in okinawa with u.s. troops in japan and those two stockpiles which were never used of course were shipped back secretly to just an absolute in the pacific and one of the world's largest incinerators was built in the middle of a wildlife refuge and that process in burning those chemical weapons from okinawa in germany took place in one thousand and ten the year two thousand john snapple has been and still is being studied but that's actually a very interesting case of a unique coral reef really in the middle of the pacific ocean it's about seven

hundred fifty miles west of hawaii that was used as a launch site for atmospheric nuclear testing. the color for blue. and one of a kind of casual food. was a prescription if you will fail which caused the fire more competition. muscle and more. when at least one of the atmospheric tests with a hydrogen bomb blew up on the launch pad a good part of just natural was left with highly radioactive plutonium debris twenty years later all the agent orange that was all dumped on johnson stored as

they say on shots natural that really over time became a dumpsite of agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on john snap's all this national wildlife refuge under the fish and wildlife department has really been used and abused by the military over the ages. only a few hours the phone it was an awesome it was efficient depending panelling and it had maids before you got to do in such as shelters the people calmly waited all unaware that already descending upon them was the f m bomb. when it was all over own and offs ground miles of the last moment but on the last to do extinction and all shattering devastation in which was gone that time again. radiation affects what fantastically imprinted on bones and fun it tonight but

instead of allowed outlined on a building the design of her dress left on the body of a woman who would die in a few days in a house up from the office of. the. members of the so-called nuclear club states known to have detonated nuclear weapons either bested or foreign soil among them at least a thousand that's been conducted atmosphere underwater underground and in space. we're retaining tens of thousands of nuclear weapons when probably a few hundred would be enough for deterrence we have nuclear weapons far in excess of any conceivable need for them as the strongest conventional power by orders of magnitude in the world for this country to say that

we need nuclear weapons what does that signal to the rest of the world. that they must be very valuable and that they probably would want to get them selves and i think islamists any nation retain sneaky weapons other nations who want than a few years. as we go about was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program and then came the buildup in vietnam. and i watched this program broken and it was a rated as if it was some i don't political play thing about society gone mad on war and i knew that america would never any past the necessary unit is in rehabilitation of its. star long as the adventures like vietnam continued to draw men and skills for money like farm demonic just but destruction

to. the world's carefully spending somewhere around two trillion you a stylus on war and preparations for war and this enormous to fish for a fraction of that a man we could have played water sanitation education good health care for every thought he on the planet that's a terrible generation for still since. any war that takes place on a matter how large or how small has ignored this costs. we're talking in lebanon today billions of dollars of cleaning up just a fifteen day war let alone you know the years and years of warfare in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam or wherever else it took place so the costs of war really. if they're well understood and in most cases they're not but if they're well understood should preclude the war to begin with the war is not worth the cost in

terms of lives but also long term environmental and public health damage for decades to come. just so surely sophisticated in this trauma concerned that that climate change just run example i think illustrates that well if we imagine one if sixteen fire. t.j. time for just time to run at it he says approximately twice as much oil as he every chimeric can see this and he says in his ok if we hear. the f. sixteen it's just one machine in one branch of the military to take another example the army's abrams tank weighs sixty eight tons requires two gallons of fuel per mile all told the united states department of defense burned some three hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil per day making it the world's largest single consumer

the defense department uses i think somewhat over two thirds of the energy. that the u.s. government. uses and uses them for ships and tanks and planes and heating buildings and a whole host of other things. are probably the largest impact that the defense effort has as a diversion of intellectual under g. and our monetary resources away from trying to solve an address some of the long term problems. in sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of land i mean if the united states were losing that to some foreign power we'd have a military out there defending him. we often ask the question who are you on september eleventh well i remember that very

clearly because i was in new york and i was there specifically to give a luncheon address at the new york times on the new book eco economy building an economy for the year. well by midmorning that much was already history terrorism is a threat no question about but on my list of threats to our future. there are there are many more serious threats climate change being an obvious one population growth being another the economy does not exist in a vacuum it is entirely dependent on the earth's natural systems and resources and if we damage and destroy those systems and resources then the economy will eventually decline and one day craps the challenge is not to that's not a high tech military response to terrorism that will work the challenge is to build an environmentally sustainable equitable society that will do more to undermine

terrorism than any possible high tech military weapon systems we can devise. the other exciting thing is that almost everything we need to do has already been done by at least one country. you know out of a live news conference being a given by prime minister david cameron and president dmitri medvedev out that are signing ceremony. it's a scientists without any exaggeration this is important event and this is thought a contribution into the development of the probably european corporations would and process is on the proceeds from the.