video. mission street. blackwater receives back into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranding facelift in an effort to raise its history and can't shit on the country's uncertain future. you believe in northern kossovo stop russians rocks carrying humanitarian aid from reaching struggling local serbs stripping them of vials of wise in an apparent show political force. normal live remains elusive in libya where parents are keeping their kids from school concerned other values the new curriculum wants to reach all amid growing frustration with the country's new rulers. conflation of the old rate and the oil

price what the twenty twelve has in store for russia find out in business in about twenty minutes. what you are they coming to you live from moscow one pm in the russian capital marina joshie 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 we branded academy and with an eye on solid new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a buck or to 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 are going to need their own security

as well and one of the companies that wants a piece of that. 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 the source where known as the resource 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 back. at 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 to have the company. in an interview to wired magazine in december and said the following and i told her as remake 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 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 contracts that this new account of the company 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 say 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. doesn't joseph it's not his from the u.s. base acuity an intelligence studies program explains what he thinks is driving blackwater's rush back to iraq. what i can be 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 sort of 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 which

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 to get back into the country as another company. where the tension now in 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 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. but they are five months long standoff in the majority sir populated northern kossovo has taken an new twist a russian humanitarian convoy was stopped by 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 another day without vital supplies as artie's 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 was stopped on the border of the disputed territory by albanian officials 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 them to be allowed to do the economy needed to be scalded in the serbian cross or by albanian forces or it could end the concert in obeying him and been the subject for. a year being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize an institution like the news or russia or serbia example and which exceed that he won the mandate for. that or this is a new chapter in a crisis that has rocked kossovo since the summer the territory has been controlled by ethnic albanian since a bloody conflict in one nine hundred ninety nine the spire declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo still hope to more than one hundred thousand serbs when albanians tried to impose their border controls under so i've been part of the territory in july the serb minority put up barricades. on the 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 to 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 cough all serbs in kosovo need aid to survive. she visits this house regularly there are sixteen people living inside it all refugees driven out of their homes in one thousand nine hundred nine now. where three sisters. our husbands go out every morning to do our jobs they're no parent and once for refugees some days they'll bring back five euros sometimes nothing today we may have full of 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 of the artsy caso. and coming up later this hour here in our team lost and for god. they don't want to know that these people are here because they're there faceless their name was. harvey 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. also bailing on bailouts these latest plan to save the euro zone and avert a collapse stalls on the runway with cash strapped bureaucrats now looking to britain to pitch in for the currency blog survival. angry libyans are expected on the streets of benghazi for a third consecutive day of demonstrations against the country's new government of thousands of protesters have been demanding more transparency and honesty from the national transitional council in recent days it comes as public patience with

a temporary government approach is boiling point over the perceived slow pace of reforms and ongoing corruption the city of benghazi is of special significance here as it was the birthplace of a nato backed rebellion that ended the four decade rule of colonel gadhafi in response a spokesman for the m.d.c. has urged calm with assurances that its promises were fulfilled. leaving is record high ninety percent literacy rate one of the undeniable achievements of colonel qadhafi is now being challenged by the controversial education policies of the new leaders 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 posted and to sing a new national and down. like the

revolution the rich tricolor and the hume is a flash back to the pretty good after an era with a few verses tweak to represent the notion 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 on this evening with us at this while this children are too young to understand the meaning of the bloody history of the new ratliff's their answer and they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that unambiguous the explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were over the rebels to talk hard to gain freedom they taught us to how the had high they taught us janov our country this is the only new material students in this trouble is who 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 with them 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 who are 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 wards of the gadhafi emblazoned carpet dug 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 future two years of his rule that how brinkley be asleep just to reach from twenty six to about ninety percent is

a distant memory he did it just sinks but what she does a person it's months for visits and who they are no you don't but people don't talk about what you know what she does does movie turns out we're 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 roundest traders go to school i think it's better to catch you know when i know 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 gaddafi is due me here 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 our teacher of some boycott artsy. artist correspondents have been drawing a vivid picture of post gadhafi in libya ever since the regime was toppled from video reports to blog and praise of can all be found at r.t. dot com a time you want to advertise gallery you can check out explosive shots for martinis and alia she shows you their reality of today's new revia so have straight to our website for all that. now 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 e.u. summit called for the creation of a twenty two hundred billion euro cash pot at the i.m.f. to be dealt out to struggling nations but in just a week and he has has all but evaporated the u.s. has flat out refused to participate saying that you should use its own resources and 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 in the hope is now that increasingly here a skeptic britain will make up for the shortfall that however is something that nigel ferrars and piano leader of the u.k. independence 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 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 damaged 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 closely isolated be used by everybody. i don't think there is any going back from. i can amass a game between occupy protesters and us police has become the norm with newtown 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 i just as a theater cannot visit 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 and that's benefiting companies. corporations are making more money than they've ever made before the average american worker and the citizen is suffering at the expense of the agenda of the politicians. forty six year old and you live with a love for confidence 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 bit 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 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 don't but i think our our situation's a lot different you know we're homeless we had one no we have nowhere 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. lakewood new jersey. now don't forget to visit our web site or to dot com to find the latest comet analysis or any stories you may have missed here's some of what's waiting for you there are u.s. and piracy bill in dangerous wikipedia's existence the internet giant is frightening to blank out pages in protest and censorship and manipulation in the digital world. and return all of that can russia's martial arts legend

goes to japan and of course eight to challenge one of its top fighters find out what the last emperor itself again is r t dot com. morris chair talk one of the greatest space pioneers in history has passed away at his home in moscow at the age of ninety nine born in one thousand nine hundred twelve he took part in almost every major launch in the area of the use sar in the era of the u.s. or rather and was the mastermind behind the world's first cosmic outpost the mir space station well let's not discuss his contribution and legacy was your kharaj from the russian academy cause you really think you are much for being here with us here in the program what an extraordinary man boris turned talk has been and so much tell us a bit more about his achievements and what he's done. well i believe i've asked this question of only himself but i think it's safe to say that he was born in the

right place and the right time and he took a full advantage to it he was meant to be dictated to what he was doing. and he was blissed the rural career the man who share the special force. corporal or above all. what he said that he was born in the right place in the right time so bad then obviously the industry saw a lot of interesting things happening and there was a lot to to do and to achieve what what's happening now what's the modern state of the state of cosmologists today and russia's space industry for that matter. all i would say is certainly a bigger audacious unfortunately there are. no reason to the word. all. it does do is.

talking to a ball possibly building in the other space station below or orbit. which doesn't make it in a sense either from a scientific nor from a i would say popular point of view. what about public interest in space now it seems like these days are other things to focus on entry think now and in your opinion can the final frontier still buy for our imagination in the digital age. absolutely but in order to appeal to people's imagination then hearts. broader and a half built or for two people something dramatically new even more you can no longer excite people that we did forty years ago during. this was one of the reasons why president. barack obama decided to cancel the moon program because he didn't really enjoy the necessary public support and as you know

america's currently working on the deep space missions like. the reuter on twenty twentieth's mission to mars around twenty thirty five and will they will succeed and of course missions reach are about as we all know going where no one has gone before. their finitely feel much more to people hearts and minds. while yuri finally before we let you go can you tell us a bit more about his legacy what will he be remembered for. he will be remembered for two things for to contribute for his contribution to the design of the controller guidance system for the more than rockets he was one of the major contributors to the design we must use a launch vehicle and not only soyuz and also. space craft

and he will also be remembered for a right being a real revolutionary book called rockets and people rich could be called without a need as a generation the encyclopedia of this story and the russian cosmonaut x. . from the russian capital cosmetics thanks very much indeed for being with us here in the program. want to bring us up to date and time now to see what's happening in the world of business where you. 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 failing it 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 don't

you bunch yourself a civil it predicts the economy will gain the mentum 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 a 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 versus the dollar by the end of two thousand and twelve. that's how i look at how the market saw performing this out well is slightly low as it has await the outcome of an opec meeting to take place later in the day although most expected all cartel to announce it will stick to existing production targets whites which is not trading at under one hundred dollars a barrel while branches at one hundred nine dollars per barrel. european stocks are low what tracking as an i.p.o. small street and in asia that came after this the pointing outcome of yesterday's federal reserve has no new stimulus measures were announced more disappointing news came out in europe where reports said german chancellor angela merkel with jacketed increasing the size of the five hundred billion euro the european stability

mechanism which will be launched next year. from the russian market. have vols back from an early age a claim they saw in the morning though u.s. and european debt problems of course weighing on the markets here preventing thought the gains there are chances high about hundred percent and the minus it is up point two percent but so have a look at some of the individual share moves in the minds of most of the blue chips bounce back from earlier losses where the v. to be bank is still in the red meanwhile energy may just on the rise with gas giant gazprom getting almost two percent and oil company is also higher except probably close to fifty percent in the past nine months and again probably going to alpha capital believes investors just still stick to a small of full units 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 so i'm told return strategy just to try to catch small more like five to sound person

or maybe fix profits once we see that we're moving towards the great correction levels. and gas from the south stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have a strong middle point an easily and at this stage energy giant i'd also trail whose central european location gaza infrastructure was seen as an advantage but bats rival pipeline project new book locals and gas from to switch to loyal italy. and also one of the most beloved food staples in russia buckwheat could once again become a scarce item on the market shelves the crop prices and all time region which provides home grown in the country have risen forty percent in just two weeks analysts say farmers are keeping some of the harvest back to wait for a better price. that wraps up the business program will be back in less than fifteen minutes time with another business update and let me remind you can find more analysis and more stories in our website that sarky dot com slash business.

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