blackwater receives 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. the new police in the world and possible job russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid from reaching struggling local serbs stripping them of vital supplies in an apparent show political force. previous struggles to return to normal life but many parents are still keeping their kids from school and certain other values of the new curriculum one two three.

ten am the russian capital here with r t with 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 on solid new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a buck or two 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. a controversial name blackwater they are trying to come back under a different name known as academy right of course is infamous for the two thousand

and seven massacre at nice or 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 and come back under the guise of services and now it looks like the company is trying to reinvent themselves again so that they can get a piece of this contracting by this time under the name of academy the new c.e.o. of the company ted right in an interview to wired magazine in december and said the following and i as re make changes and they take root and we convince everyone that they are real the real proof in the pudding is convincing that the government of iraq and of the us 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 contracts that this new account of the company interested in. 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 do two hundred military personnel there's seven hundred contractors civilian contractors are expected to stay as well to have the rocky military. academy wants a little bit of that pie it is expected but beyond that 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 our to. joseph it to now he's from the u.s. basic european intelligence studies program explains what he thinks is driving blackwater's rush back to iraq. what a cademy 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 another 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 is said and known american clients may find it attractive iraq is a lucrative market for blackwater slash academy. it's going to be difficult particularly in iraq because of the american past of the organisation in iraq it is very unlikely they'll 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 get back into the country as another company. now with attention on how iraq will fare on

its own when you look back at how the war began richard perle one of the chief architects of a us war shared with views 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 it was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation.

near a five month long standoff with the majority's sir populated northern kossovo has taken an new twist a russian humanitarian convoy was stopped by e.u. control police at one of the troubled border checkpoint moscow says it's a purely political move but for serbs on the ground there's no way means another day without vital supplies as are now reports a humanitarian mission turned into a national scandal more than two dozen russian trucks filled with food and household items destined for serbia and kosovo was stopped on the border of the disputed territory but i'll begin officials members of ulick's a police mission operated by the e.u. to stop it was an entirely political decision. is blackmailing us according to the russian side looks officials demand that in order for the aid to be let through the convoy needed to be a score to the serbian. forces. or it could end the course or through no baby in

a business the checkpoint. by being asked to comply with these conditions where being forced to recognize institutions the news or russia or serbia accept and which exceed the un mandate for kosovo. 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 despite declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo is still home to more than one hundred thousand serbs when albanians tried to impose their border controls under so been part of the territory in july the serb minority put up barricades during 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. the situation within

serbia and kosovo continues to be grave this isn't a spice it from red cross says that nearly half of all serbs in kosovo need aid to survive. she was is this house regularly just sixteen people living inside it all refugees driven out of their homes in one thousand nine hundred nine now and you know where three sisters our husbands go out every morning to do our jobs there no parent it was for refugees some days still bring back five euros sometimes nothing today we may have food on the table tomorrow maybe not it's now down to moscow prishtina and belgrade to deal with the political fallout meanwhile down on the ground the standoff is taking a tangible toll on the minority leader and there are see. and coming up later this hour a lost and forgotten. they don't want to know that these people are here because

they're ugly they're faceless their name or. party visit a homeless camp tucked away in the woods of new jersey find out what the phrase no where else to go really means. so bailing on bailouts the latest plan to save the euro zone and avert a collapse tolls on the runway with cash strapped you are crabs now looking to britain to pitch in for the currency block survival. levy as record high ninety percent literacy rate one of the undeniable achievements of colonel gadhafi is now being challenged by the kind of virtual education policies of the new years revolution fever has subsided but not all the kids are coming back to school are jesus on a boy who found some parents unhappy with the values their children will be taught . it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old preacher oh students assembled before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing a new national anthem. like the

revolution the rich tricolor the hume is a flash back to the pretty good afi era with a few verses tweaked to represent in the action of the country's recent liberation the decades on the good offices will reveal students were expected to memorize long passages from his brain book without ever questioning them and it looks like this tradition may continue i did manage to get a shot this while his children too young to understand the meaning of the bloody history of the new relish their anthem their old lady expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that unambiguously explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were the rebels to shout how to gain freedom they taught us to how the had high they taught us to love 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 minister 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 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 wards to get our families and carpet dug just a year ago adorn 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 i did it to sink but what she did of passage was for but then it is they are no you don't think people don't talk about what you know what she does doesn't move to talk to but what she did in the past eight months of killing. murdering out of four hundred fifty students that attended the 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 talk here those who laugh and run because traders have to speak i think it's better to catch you know when i something bad about the good. while the study of english was banned under good afi words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between gadhafi is jimmy here which literally means power of the masses only best new

democracy both students and teachers are at last i don't actually love as just that . it's in a boycott artsy. our your response have been drawing a vivid picture of post gadhafi maybe ever since the regime was toppled from the records of log and research can all be found at r.t. dot com any time you want to better tease gallery you can check out exclusive shots from our t.v. so now we asked she shows you the reality of today's new media so head straight to our website. for all that. the 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 for 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 of views he hasn't has all evaporated it's the us has flat out refused to participate saying the e.u.

should use its own resources but showcasing how hard the eurozone has been hit by its debt crisis the blog 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 that however is something that nigel for raj. and leader of the u.k. independence party simply doesn't see happening. the british came into the european project after the french i'm a german to the italians we got into it because we were told it was about free trade we were told our sovereignty our 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 and let's get our democracy back and let's govern 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 nearly four decades found herself hopelessly isolated and abused by everybody and i don't think there is any going back from. a catamount game between occupy protesters and us police has become the norm with new tanned cams popping up as 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 our guest here took in a visit to one of them. tent cities of outrage popping up all across the u.s.

over the last months list 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 and 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 to do something to you 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 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 don't but i think our our situations are

a lot different you know we're homeless we had one no we have no where to go to sleep i'm sure they have places to go when they're done 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 homelessness 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 the help that we give out. all over the world we need help here but as night settles help us far from here and archie lakewood new jersey. u.s. spy drones have been used to fight the 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 says the government is becoming the enemy 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 that 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 us a few weeks ago when they passed that it says the whole world not just the us could have the predators over it dropping bombs on them 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 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 and don't forget to visit our website r t dot com to find the

latest common analysis or any stories you may have missed and hear some of what's waiting for you there. in a u.s. anti-piracy bill in dangerous wikipedia's existence the internet giant is threatening to blank out pages in protest at censorship and manipulation in the digital world. and return of the king russia's martial arts legend. goes to japan in a crusade to challenge one of its top fighters and find out what the last tambora is up against on r.t. dot com. 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 a conservative m.p. in britain is sympathetic saying these commitments are enormously expensive investments in a very 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 lot and canada 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 now some more stories from around the world for you

amateur video showing the immediate aftermath of tuesday's shooting spree in belgium you can see injured people on the ground lying shocked among shattered glass a man armed with a gun and grenades opened fire in a holiday market square killing five people including myself and wounding more than one hundred hundreds of shoppers stampeded down the streets trying to flee the bullets and explosions. these one hundred forty five people are now thought to have been killed in colombia by disasters caused by the parental rains that outweigh the country since september the latest enormous landslide buried three homes in the mountainous southwest the dead body of a child has recovered and another fifteen people are still missing under that model and debris the floods and landslides are the worst to hit the country in forty years. well it raises up to that here in our feel with you know what's happening in business joins us next.

thanks mary and a very warm 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 relative a successful twenty eleven producing a balanced budget and historical low inflation while looking ahead to next year dortch banks here a slump list of all that 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 investment that will be the main driver of economic growth this growth in fixed investment 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 other macroeconomic variables are likely to be relatively benign so for inflation we expect seven point one percent. as as the level for the two thousand and twelve in terms of the outcome on the exchange rate we do expect some nominal appreciation of the ruble versus the dollar possibly to the range of twenty eight to twenty nine rubles versus the dollar by the end of two thousand and twelve. let's see how the markets are performing this hour while prices are in the red after seeing strong gains on tuesday investors are awaiting the outcome of an opec meeting to take place later in the day although most expect the oil cartel to announce it will stick to existing production targets whites which is now just

a notch below one hundred dollars a barrel as you can see on brand is trading at one hundred nine dollars a barrel. asian markets are heading down after the u.s. federal reserve that that it hopes of would signal another round of s. purchases resulting of a crime for stocks and bulls trace weaker than expected to u.s. retail sales also dampened sentiment while europe's debt troubles and the potential impact on the global economic growth are and ongoing concern for. investors com a cousin among the made with traitors in japan. on the russian markets opened lower the r.t.s. is shedding more than one percent while the my six is losing point seven percent you get a quote you mustn't that alpha capital believes investors just stick to small of all humans in the coming months. seems like we're likely to see any sustainable train to the following couple of months so to should i think follow some told return strategy just to try to catch small more like five to sound per santa maybe

fix profits once we see that we're moving towards the great correction levels six and help billion dollars was allocated to improve the traffic situation in moscow this year on the face of it the money has not been well spent this year the average speed for the company has traffic to climb from four to fifteen percent depending on the area that was an improvement only in the areas between the garden ring and the ring road where traffic now flows seven health percent faster but only on the weekend loses more than one point two billion dollars due to traffic jams. and that wraps up the business program i'll be back in less than fifteen minutes with another business update and you can find more stories online just log on to our website archie dot com slash business.

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