headline news to me was a report on. blackwater cvs back into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranding facelift in an effort to raise its bloody history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. police in northern costal stop russian drugs carrying humanitarian aid from reaching struggling local serbs while supplies in an apparent show of political force. previous struggles to return to normal life but many parents are still keeping their kids from school concerned values the new curriculum wants to preach. and also russian economy next year in the absence of external shorts we talked to an expert in business about twenty minutes.

ninety am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena josh welcome with the u.s. forces packing up and leaving iraq devastated by almost a decade of war is looking at an uncertain future and that offers a profitable opportunity for the world's most infamous mercenary company blackwater now rebranded academy and with an solid new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a buck artist sean thomas reports. as u.s. troops leave iraq and official operations and here in the country this opens the door for private contractors to come in to help rebuild the infrastructure companies construction companies all of those companies are going to need their own security as well and one of the companies that wants a piece of that is. they are trying to come back under

a different name known as academy of course is infamous for the two thousand and seven massacre at resorts square known as the nice or square massacre where seventeen civilians were killed after this incident the iraqi government suspended their business license to do business in the country of iraq after the tried to reinvent themselves. at services and now it looks like the company is trying to reinvent themselves again so that they can get a piece of this contract by this time under the name of academy the new c.e.o. of the company. in an interview magazine in december and said the following and i as we make changes and they take root and we convince everyone that they are real then the real proof in the pudding is convincing that the government of iraq and of the u.s. government to let us do business in iraq the new c.e.o. is also promising accountability and openness policy so that the government of iraq

and the people can know what the company is doing now let me give you one example as to the types of contacts that this new academy company is interested in the security cooperation is expected to have two hundred military personnel stay back to help train iraqi special forces and the iraqi military in addition to two hundred military personnel there's seven hundred contractors civilian contractors are expected to stay as well to have. the military. academy wants a little bit of that pie it is expected but beyond this it is expected that all of these companies coming into the country as the u.s. pulls out they're going to need their own security services as well and academy wants to make sure that they get in on the ground floor as the u.s. troops leave of course interesting development information company blackwater trying to come back to iraq after having been expelled in two thousand and seven after questionable practices we'll keep you up to date as more information becomes

available in baghdad sean thomas r t. dr joseph it to knock us from the u.s. basic studies program explains what he thinks is driving blackwater's rush back to you rock. what academy i guess as it's called now is trying to do is i guess blur its institutional lineage through a series of corporate renaming says pretty standard tactic for a corporation and the other thing that is trying to do of course is disassociate itself from its close connections to the cia at least in the corporate world so that other it's a known american clients may find it attractive iraq is a lucrative market for blackwater slash academy. it's going to be difficult particularly iraq because of the american past of the organisation in iraq it is very likely to be accepted by the iraqi people but keep in mind that all of this rebranding will continue and there's so many ways to find ways to to get back into

the country as another company. where the tension now in how iraq will fare on its own we'll look back at how the war began richard perle one of the chief architects of the u.s. war shared with r.t. he's used on the justifications and failings behind the iraq invasion. i think the decision was based on what we knew at the time and based on what we knew at the time it was the right decision i don't believe that it was carried out very effective and that's the tragedy instead of turning things over to the iraqis more or less immediately we got involved in an occupation and occupations are never popular and the fact that we were an occupying power recognized as such but you know nations but was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation.

the mayor five months long standoff in a majority sort of populated northern kossovo has taken and new twist a russian who had a tear in convoy was stopped by e.u. controlled police at one of the troubled border checkpoints moscow says it's a purely political move but for serbs on the ground this delay means and another day without vital supplies as are now reports. a humanitarian mission turned international scandal more than two dozen russian trucks filled with food and household items destined for serbian cost of i will stop on the border of the disputed territory but i will begin officials members of you like a police mission operated by the e.u. to stop which was an entirely political decision. as blackmailing is according to the russian side you know its official demand that in order for the aid to be let to do the convoy needed to be

a scalded into serbia and kosovo albanian forces or it could end the course or through unit been a subject for. a year being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize institutions in the news or russia or serbia except in which exceeded do you want a mandate for. that or this is a new chapter in a crisis that has rocked kosovo since the summer the territory has been controlled by ethnic albanians since a bloody conflict in one thousand nine hundred nine the spire declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo still hope to more than one hundred thousand serbs and albanians tried to impose their border controls under so been part of the territory in july the serb minorities put up barricades fearing their bond with serbia would be broken and a foreign authority would be imposed upon them since then there have been constant clashes broken up by temporary agreements for many serbs stopping the humanitarian mission as in others by of muscle flexing but albanian border officials while the

trucks remain trapped on the border and the driver said idle inside the situation within serbia and kosovo continues to be grave this isn't a spice it from red cross says that nearly cough all serbs in kosovo need aid to survive. she visits this house regularly just sixteen people living inside it all refugees driven out of their homes in one thousand nine hundred nine now and here. where three sisters our. husbands go out every morning to do odd jobs there are no parent wants for refugees some days still bring back five euros sometimes nothing today we may have food on the table tomorrow maybe not it's not done to moscow prishtina and belgrade to deal with the political fallout meanwhile down on the ground the standoff is taking a punishable toll on the minority leader of the sea. and still to come in the program here in are you bailing on bailout the latest plan

to save the euro zone in a vertical lab stalls on the wrong way with cash strapped europe ratz now looking to britain to pitch in for the currency block survival. levy is record high ninety percent literacy rate one of a undeniable achievements of colonel gadhafi is now being challenged by the controversial education policies of the new leaders revolution fever has subsided but not all libyan kids are coming back to school artie's it's not a boy who found some parents are happy with the values their children will be taught. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old preacher students assemble different classes to see a new flag be boosted and to seeing a new national. bank the revolution the rich tricolor the hume is a flash back to the preview now for iran with a few verses tweak to represent the notion of the country's recent liberation for

decades on the get out this is true even students were expected to memorize long passages from his green book the question that and it looks like this tradition may continue on this new leadership as well this children to young to understand the meaning of life the saree of the new route wish their answer they're already expected to know it by heart next comes the speech dead on the big used to. who are the heroes of the new libya on our own rebels to talk how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they don't just turn off our country this is the only new material students in this triple a school have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced minutes but in the english will definitely introduce foreign languages into the curriculum now kids will start studying english from the

first grade because they have to be prepared for university and again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings into kits to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they try their best to explain to students what has happened in libya over the past few months in this chemical that nobody tells us what to tell students were free to say whatever we want it we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all here as they say sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words the good afternoon blaze and carpet that just a year ago adorned the principal's office is now strategically placed in front of the door several hundred copies of his green book from the local library have been thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how bring libya's literacy rates from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she didn't pass it was for britain it is they are no you

don't but if you don't talk about what you know what she does doesn't move she turned out but what she did in the past eight months is carrying. out a four hundred fifty students that attended this school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled out by their parents who disagree with the new values taught here those who laugh and round illustrators to speak i think it's better. you know when they something. about the good. well the study of english was banned under gadhafi words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between gadhafi is jimmy here literally means power of the masses and we be a new democracy both students and teachers aren't i don't actually know the answer to that. it's on the boycott aren't see. barges correspondents have

a drawing of a picture of posted up in libya ever since the regime was toppled from video reports to blog entries and can all be found at our dot com anytime you want it at our gallery you can check out exclusive shots of martinis in our way as she shows you the reality of today's new lead to head straight to our web site for all that. syrian activists say army defectors have killed seven members of the government security forces in response to the killing of around thirty civilians and u.n. claims fifty five sorry the u.n. claims five thousand people have now died in nine months of clashes in syria figures damascus insists are based only on information from rebels at a mass or to universal peace federation a new york doctor marcello believes the west is only listening to the opposition. gratian of the situation is only one side of the so far which is the being

pressured by the west and the nato alliance actually towards the syrian sovereignty and their own independence now the regime is under huge pressure by international organizations under the umbrella of the united nations and the european union and the united states for short and then foreign policy so far has being download i mean they are downloading all their efforts in order to put down the regime as soon as possible where their own strategic interests will be implemented through another regime that they are planning to take over after bashar al assad which is the president of the current republic of syria will be all stood by the opposition is inside syria now the whole situation i believe that has not been so for it through peaceful dialogue as an as i am an ambassador for peace i urge all parties inside syria to have a certain dialogue but it seems that the west and specifically the european union

and the united states have been concentrating on the position that there is no dialogue with such a president. and coming up later this hour here in our two you lost and for god. they don't want to know that these people are here because they're ugly they're faceless their name was our t. visits a homeless camp tucked away in the woods of new jersey to find out what the phrase no where else to go really means. euro zone's latest if an imaginative rescue plan is now close to being in tatters conceived at last week's make or break a cold or the creation of a two hundred billion euro cash pot at the i.m.f. to be doled out to struggling nations but in just a week the ziad has all but if a parade of the us has flat out refused to participate saying they should use its own resources but showcasing how hard the eurozone has been hit by the debt crisis

the block is having difficulty convincing its cash strapped members to pitch in the hope is now that increasingly euro skeptic britain will make up for the shortfall they are wherever is something that nigel for raj m.e.p. the u.k. independent party simply doesn't see happening. the british came into the european project after the french and germans of the italians we got into it because we were told it was about free trade we were told the politics would not be threatened we find ourselves now thirty six years into a project that is costing us a daily membership fee of fifty million pounds a day that is now making seventy five percent of our laws that is drowning us with regulations that damage every business in britain we find our own unique city of london something we're very very good at now directly threatened by a whole raft of e.u. regulations and directives and frankly what the british people say is look let's be

friends with europe let's trade with europe let's cooperate with them but let's be a global player let's get our democracy back and let. our own country and i think it happened in the early hours of last friday morning where the united kingdom a country of sixty two million people one of the really big players in the european community for the last thirty four decades found itself how closely isolated be used by everybody. i don't think there is any going back from. a can of mouse game between occupy protesters and us bullies has become the norm with new tent camps popping up this quickly as the authorities can dismantle them but there are some encampments that have been around for much longer and the people there have felt abandoned for years or does this is here to again visit one of them . tent cities of outrage popping up all across the u.s. over the last months let's visible to the public eye and much quieter.

this tent city of hopelessness around for half a decade this is our third time at the village tucked away in the woods in about two years the number of homeless turning to the camp for hospitality keeps growing these days the population of tent city has tripled compared to when it was first set up the police is home to about seventy homeless people who have nowhere else to go the mood here has become increasingly politicized over the last year the politicians and the government has not protected the american people they've allowed outsourcing to run rampant you know and it's benefiting companies. corporations are making more money than they've ever made before the average american worker and citizen suffering at the expense of the agenda of the politicians. forty six year old angela of the one we have with a love for confluence lost everything in the recession and has never found

a full time job again it seems to be a growing trend unfortunately and you know the politicians better take note and try to stop their bickering and get. something new to know to stop this or to slow it down or to make it better a bricklayer for two decades angelo calls himself a victim of the economy and this place home as if the sorrow of these people wasn't enough officials have been trying to evict the homeless out of the camp they try to force out the poor and i call it discrimination by design for the sake of keeping the poor pushing the poor out and encouraging the wealthy or the people with money to you know to move into your town. wealth inequality has been at the root of the anger for occupy wall street protesters. but some of these homeless seem. far from the demonstrators i support them but i think our our situations are a lot different you know we're homeless we had one no we have nowhere to sleep so

they have places to go when they're done there the little rally many of the residents of tent city used to blame themselves for their misfortune but with three point five million americans experiencing formlessness every year or over seven hundred thousand people on any given night their message for politicians has changed open your eyes. open you know i mean all this help that we give out. all over the world we need help here as night settles help us far from here and if they see a church cannot likud new jersey u.s. spy drones have been used to find a war on terror worldwide but now reports have surfaced suggesting they're being used against american citizens to a family in north dakota was arrested with the help of a drone u.s. radio host alex jones as the government is becoming the anime of the people. they publicly are are setting up

a system where the entire military industrial complex is used against the people this is a multi-million dollar system they used to kill people worldwide and why is it happening when they passed the in da that ron paul is called martial law in america here in the u.s. a few weeks ago when they passed that it says the whole world not just the u.s. could have the predators over it dropping bombs on such a declaration of war and in the posse comitatus troops on the streets and says they can kill us citizens disappear us citizens it isn't a police state it's beyond a police state it's something more like north korea they are training i've been to the drill where they train to go door to door confiscating our firearms arresting political dissidents look hitler said he did everything he did big to keep people safe. fidel castro does that pol pot did that i mean in every case tyrants always claim it's to keep you safe. don't forget to visit our web site r c dot com to find the latest common else's or any stories you may have missed and here's what's

waiting for you there. are u.s. anti-piracy bill in dangerous existence the internet giant is threatening to blank out pages in protest at censorship and manipulation in the digital world. and return all the king russia's martial arts legend goes to japan in a crusade to challenge one of its top fighters find out what the last emperor is up against on our t.v. . france japan and china have lashed out of canada for pulling out of the nine hundred ninety seven kyoto climate change agreement the move which was legal and expected came as the country said the accord hampered its development purely a conservative m.p. in britain is sympathetic saying these commitments are enormously expensive investments uncertain future. there is. a feeling in canada which i share that these commitments are not really achieving very much as far

as the future climate is concerned but are beginning to cost a lot and person a lot. may be a forward indicator of what other countries will think and feel in future carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does have a modest warming effect the direct effect we know from physics would be to double if you doubled the amount of c o t in the atmosphere it would increase the temperature by about one degree centigrade which isn't very much i think we should wait and see how things turn out before we make hugely expensive commitments which are paid by this generation in the hope of achieving things which will benefit not the next generation or the generation after that but by people in the year two thousand two hundred and beyond. some other stories making headlines around the world an amateur video has been released showing immediate aftermath of tears a shooting spree in belgium you can see injure people on the ground i'm shocked i'm

on shattered glass a man armed with a gun and grenades opened fire in a hall in market square killing at least five people including himself and one thing around one hundred twenty three hundreds of shoppers stampeded down the streets trying to. the bullets and explosions. at least one hundred forty five people are now thought to have been killed in colombia by disasters caused by their own still rains that have plagued the country since september the latest an armless landslide buried three homes in the mountainous southwest the dead body of a child has been recovered and another fifteen people are still missing under the mud and debris the floods and landslides are the worst country in forty years. that brings us up today here in our business is next. thanks mary very welcome to the program the global economy is confronted by

a series of risks as it approaches twenty twelve in some cases such as euro zone debt a critical failing that could result in a severe recession russia has had a relatively successful twenty eleven producing a balanced budget and historically low inflation looking ahead to next year do which banks here are sloppy list of what it predicts the economy will gain momentum in the absence of external shocks. we project will prices of one hundred fifteen dollars per barrel and this is something that in our view will support growth significantly so for two thousand and twelve we project four point six percent g.d.p. growth at the same time we think that apart from the oil price factor there will be also the growth in fixed the best one that will be the main driver of economic growth this growth in fixed and government will be boosted by the development of infrastructure including through the implementation of large scale projects

investment projects in southern russia associated with the sochi olympics and in the far east the infrastructure effort the head of the apec summit. must have a look at how the market's not performing thus our oil prices in the red off to seeing strong gains on tuesday investors are awaiting the outcome of an opec museum to take place later in the day although most expected oil cartel terminals will stick to existing for the option targets quite sweet is now just a notch below one hundred dollars per barrel while the brant plant is trading at one hundred nine dollars per barrel. and asian markets are heading down after the us federal reserve badly topes it would signal another round of asset purchases resulting in a decline full stop some rules treat week with expect as u.s. retail sales also dampened sentiment while europe's debt troubles and the potential impact on global economic growth and ongoing concern for investors call make us are among the main were true in japan and financials are mixed in hong kong bank of

china is up point seven percent while h.s.b.c. is one and a half percent in the red. and it's less than one hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow the russian market spanish choose this trading session on the pulse to come out as you can see the r.t.s. added one point seven percent while the my six finished a two percent. what russian to choose day straight in the block as we've just been reporting if they shrugged off yet another correction up the start of the week and you get. the capital because investors will also be galvanized by the fed's decision to keep interest rates unchanged. given the federal reserve confirmed its commitment to remain accommodative in terms of monetary policy with think that the market can go higher bid how well i would say a typical christmas and you your role is questionable still because you are too mad a questions regarding b. of the ways out of the european debt crisis if you turn back to the russian market

i think that after a sell off early in the in the week i think that people will probably catch up with the equity markets so anyway despite yesterday's rally the market seems to be told we're sold and we think the blue chips will probably offer from the market and that wraps up the business program you can find more stories on our website at r.t. dot com slash business.

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