blackwater seeds back into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranding facelift in an effort to raise its history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. e.u. police in northern kossovo stop russian drug scaring many tyranny from reaching struggling locals or stripping them of vital supplies an apparent show of political force. reveal struggles to return to normal life but many parents are still keeping their kids from school concerned at the values of the new curriculum wants to greet . the russian market so low in trade weighed down by the european uncertainty markets noses in business and ball twenty minutes.

eleven am in the russian capital you are with marina joshing now 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 and on sully a new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a buck artist on 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 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 black water of course is infamous for the two thousand and seven massacre at resource 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 x. 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 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 he is 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 you said two hundred military personnel there's seven hundred contractors civilian contractors are expected to stay as well to have the rocky military academy want to . little bit of that pie 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 our team. there was a joseph it's an artist from the u.s. basically already an intelligence studies program explains what he thinks is driving blackwater's rushed back to iraq what academy ideas as it's called now he's trying to do is i guess blur it's institutional lineage through a series of corporate renaming since 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 it's an unknown 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 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 get back into the country as another company. where the tangy now on how iraq will fare on its own we look back at how the war began richard perle one of the chief architects of the u.s. war shared with r.t. his views on the justifications and failings behind the iraq invasion. i think 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 effectively 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 nations by the way was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation.

then they are five months long standoff in a majority sort of populated northern cause of what has taken a new twist a russian humanitarian convoy was stopped by e.u. control 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 an other day without vital supplies as artie's that now reports. a humanitarian mission turned international 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 by al begun a fisherman's members of you lacks a police mission operated by the e.u. the stop which was an entirely political decision. is blackmailing us 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 score to the serbian prosser albanian forces or it could end the course or through no bay unit been the subject point. by being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize institutions that neither russia nor serbia accept and which exceeded 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 the spier declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo is still home 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 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 inside 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 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 permanent ones 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 police and belgrade to deal with the political fallout meanwhile down on the ground the standoff is taking a tangible toll on the minority eager girls see. coming up later this hour here in our team lost and forgotten. they don't want to know

that these people are here because there really are faceless and nameless arty visits a homeless camp tucked away in the woods of new jersey to find out why the phrase no where else to go really means. euro zone's latest an imaginative rescue plan is now close to being in tatters conceived at last week's make or break summit called 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 and has all but evaporated the u.s. has flat out refused to participate saying the e.u. should use its own resources but showcasing how hard the euro zone has been hit by its debt crisis the block is having difficulty convincing its cash strapped members to pitch him to help us now that increasingly euro skeptic britain will make up for the shortfall that however is something that nigel for osh m.e.p.

and leader of the u.k. independence party simply doesn't see happening. the british came into the european project after the french and germans and 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 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 how politically isolated be used by everybody and i don't think there is any going back from that angle really begins are expected on the streets of benghazi for a third consecutive day of demonstrations against the country's new government tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding more transparency and honesty from the national transitional council a recent those kinds of publications for the temporary government approaches boiling point over the perceived slow pace of reforms and going corruption the city have been geysers of special significance here as it was the birthplace of the nato backed rebellion that and the four decades colonel moammar gadhafi in response a spokesman for a b. and c. has urged calm with assurances that its promises will be fulfilled. maybe as

record high ninety percent literacy rate one of the undeniable achievements of als to colonel gadhafi is now being challenged by the controversial education policies of the new leaders are jesus our boy 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 oh students assembled before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing a new national anthem. like the revolution the retry color of the human is a flashback 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 get out the still even students were expected to memorize long passages from his brain book without ever questioning that and it looks like this tradition may continue i did you do dishes while his children were too young to understand the meaning of life is this sort of the new relish they're after they're

already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech dead on the biggest leaks planes who are the heroes of the new libya the were over the rebels to talk how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they don't just enough our country this is the only new material students in this school have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry or suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced minutes but it will include 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 with them again in the meantime the students are preoccupied with making drawings and trinkets to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they try their best to explain to students what has happened in libya. for the past few months in this chemical that nobody

tells us what to tell students we're 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 words 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 sleep just to reach from point to sixty about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she did a past eight months for but then it is they are no you don't have a bunch of about what can i will but she does doesn't move she took over too but what she did in the past eight months killing. murder out of four hundred fifty students that attended the school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled down by

their parents who disagree with the new values talk hear those who laugh and run because traders have tools i think it's better to catch you know when i something bad about the gadhafi 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 gaddafi is jimmy here and she literally man's power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers are close i don't actually know that i was just that teacher. it's an oblique artsy. artie's correspondence have been drawing a vivid picture of posted off in libya ever since the regime was toppled probably they were forced to blog and research can all be found at r.t. dot com any time you want to advertise gallery and check out exclusive shots from parties any so now

a. as she shows you the reality of today's new leave you head straight to our website for all that. cat and mouse game between occupy protesters and us police has become the norm with a new tampa camps 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 disasters have visited 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 is suffering at the expense of the agenda of the politicians. forty six year old angelo villain we have out 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 new 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 situation's 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 this 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 can have the predators over it dropping bombs on him so it's a declaration of war an end of 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. now don't forget to visit our web site r.t. dot com to find a way this common analysis or any stories you may have missed here's some of what's waiting for you there. with us anti-piracy bill in dangerous wikipedia's existence the internet giant is threatening to blank out pages and protests at censorship and manipulation and the digital world. and return all of the kang of russia's martial arts legend goes to japan in a crusade to challenge one of its top fighters find out what the west ampara is up

against on our t.v. because. france japan and china have lashed out at canada for pulling out of the nine hundred ninety seven kyoto climate change agreement the move which was legal and expected came as a country said the accord hampered its development peter living 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'm sure 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. 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 will 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 making headlines around the world amateur video has these showing the immediate aftermath of tuesday's shooting spree in belgium you can see injured people on the ground lying shock among shattered glass a man armed with a gun and grenades opened fire in a holiday market square killing five people including himself and wounding more than a hundred hundreds of shoppers stampeded down the streets trying to flee the bullets and explosions. at least one hundred forty five people are now thought to have been killed in colombia by disasters caused by the torrential rains that have plagued

the country since september the latest enormous landslide buried three homes in the mountainous south with the dead body of a child has been recovered and another fifteen people are still missing and there is a mod and the floods are a landslide in the floods and landslides are the worst to hit the country in forty years. cross dog today looks at the row of global radiation seas in the modern economic crisis before that though we'll get an update on what's happening in the world of business with yulia. hello 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 failure 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. 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 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 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 to 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 versus the dollar by the end of two thousand and twelve. let's have a look at how the markets are performing this our oil is slightly lower as investors await the outcome of an opec meeting due to take place place later in the day although most expect the oil cartel to announce it will stick to existing for the action targets whites which is not trading at one hundred dollars a barrel while branches that one hundred nine dollars barrel. and asian markets a low as the us federal reserve refrain from taking new measures to spur growth has retail sales rose of the slowest pace in five months constant gloom over the earnings outlook for asian exporters. in russia the markets opened low the r.t.s. is now shedding point four percent while the my sixes such a positive. have

a look at some of the individuals in the my six financials the main loses this hour was down almost one percent some energy majors are up with gas giant gazprom a third of percent in the black and oil company tap net which is also gaining its net profit rose fifty percent in the facts nine months of the beginning. the company believes investors should still stick to small of the looms in the coming months. some slides were unlikely to see any sustainable train to the following couple of months. to should i think follow some cold return strategy just to try to catch small more like farter sampras and i maybe fix profits once we see that we're moving towards the great correction levels. and finally one of the most beloved food just staples in russia buckwheat's good once again become a scarce science i'm on the market shelves the crop prices and i'll tell my region

which provides half of all but which grown in the country rose forty percent in just two weeks and they say farmers a keeping the harvest to wait for a better price forcing retail prices up eight percent last year but prices in russia more than doubled to meet strong food inflation followed by have it corrupts that's it for me you're up to date i'll be back in about fifteen minutes time with another business update and you can find more analysis and stories on our website or to dot com slash business.

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