black water seeps back into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranding facelift all in an effort to erase its history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. e.u. police. stop russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid from reaching struggling locals stripping them of vital supplies in an apparent show of political force a normal life that remains elusive in libya where parents are keeping their kids from school concerned at the values the new curriculum wants to preach all of a growing frustration with the country's new rulers.

worldwide news live from the heart of moscow this is artsy with me rule research shame with u.s. forces packing up and leaving iraq is now a devastated by almost a decade of war meantime looking at a future well that offers a profitable opportunity for the world's most infamous mercenary company that blackwater now rebranded academy and with an unsightly new leadership it's hoping to bury its bloody past in iraq while trying to turn a buck 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 well 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 right 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 this they tried to reinvent themselves and come back under 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 contract and by this time under the name of academy the new c.e.o. of the company ted right in an interview to wire the 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 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. 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 arctic. and dr joseph it's an artist from the u.s. based security and intelligence studies program explains what he thinks is driving blackwater's rushed back to iraq what i can't i mean i guess as it's called now is trying to do is i guess blur it's institutional lineage through a series of renaming since pretty standard tactic for a corporation another thing that is trying to do of course is disassociate itself from close connections to the cia at least in the corporate world so that other 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 organization 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. well with attention 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 should share with us here at 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. 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. and that interview was in about a twenty four minutes or an artsy twenty five month long standoff in the majority populated northern cause a fire has now taken a new twist a russian humanitarian convoy was stopped by e.u. controlled police and one of the troubled border checkpoints moscow says is a purely political move but for serbs on the ground there's still a means yet another day without vital supplies as artie's you go to 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 the aid to be let to do economy needed to be scored in the serbian crossover 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. this is a new chapter in a crisis that has rocked carcillo since the summer the territory has been controlled by ethnic albanian since a bloody conflict in one nine hundred ninety nine despite declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo still hoped 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. 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 decremented there in 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 sponsored from red cross says that nearly cost 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 when you know we were three sisters our. husbands go out every morning to do our jobs there are no parent wants 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 craftsy. he is coming to you live from moscow and still to come later this hour lost and forgotten. they don't want to know that these people are here because there are their faces their name was r.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 me. on bail outs that you use the latest plan to save the eurozone and avert a collapse stalls on the runway with cash strapped to your across now looking to britain to pitch in for the country currencies are blocks of survival. angry libyans 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 in recent days it comes as public patience for the temporary government approaches boiling point over the perceived slow pace of reforms and ongoing corruption in the city of benghazi is of special significance here as it was the birthplace of the nato back to the belly of that ended the four decade rule of colonel moammar gadhafi in response a spokesman for the n.c.c. has urged calm with assurances that its promises will be fulfilled. by libya's record high ninety percent literacy rate one of the undeniable achievements of ousted colonel gadhafi is now being challenged by the controversial education policies of the new leaders. found some parents unhappy with the values their children will be taught. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts a bit in the old reach students assembled before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing a new national anthem. the

revolutionary tricolor the human is a flashback to the pretty good. if you. versus tweak to represent the notion of the country's recent liberation for decades on the get out the school legal students were expected to memorize long passages from his very own book without ever questioning that and it looks like this tradition may continue or i did you notice wow this children are too young to understand the meaning of the bloody history of the new ratliff's they're after they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that an ambiguous play explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were the rebels to talk how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they told us to not 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 who are 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's literacy rates

from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did it just. thanks but what she does a person it's months for begin it you are no you don't people don't talk about what you want. to talk to but what you did in the past eight months killing and. murdering on a few hundred fifty students that attended this 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 taught here those who have rounded just traitors tools i think it's better to work out you know when. something good bad 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 which literally means power of the masses only be

a new democracy both students and teachers aren't lost i don't actually know that i was just that. it's on the boycott artsy. but r.t. correspondents have been drawing a vivid picture of post gadhafi libya ever since the regime was toppled from video reports to blog entries that can all be found on our team dot com any time you want it on our gallery you can check out exclusive shots from our views and he said she shows you the reality of today's new libya just head over to our web site for all of that. and a quarter past the hour now here are the euro zone's latest if. rescue plan is close to being in tatters conceived at last week's make or break e.u. summit and called for the creation of a two hundred billion euro cash part of the i.m.f. to be doled out to struggling nations but in just a week enthusiasm is all but evaporated the u.s.

is flat out refused to participate saying the e.u. should use its own resources but showcasing how the eurozone has been hit by its debt cry. since 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 that however is something that nigel for raj m.e.p. leader of the u.k. independence party simply does not 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 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 hopelessly isolated abused by here everybody and i don't think there is any going back from. watching r.t. live from moscow a cat and mouse game between occupy protesters and us police has become the norm with new tent camps popping up as quickly as your thought is can dismantle them but there are some encampments that have been around much longer and the people there have felt abandoned for years an associate went to visit one of the. 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 place 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 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 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 think 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 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 archie lakewood new jersey. and i don't forget to a visit our web site r t dot com you can find the latest comment on alice's so any of the stories you may have missed some of the items are waiting for you there right now for example a u.s. piracy bill in dangers of wikipedia's existence the internet giant is threatening

to blank out pages in protest at censorship and manipulation in the digital world. and return to the king russia as a mob if you go to any i think goes to japan in a crusade to challenge one of its top fighters and find out what the last emperor is up against a sea dog. in about five minutes time is the business news here on r.t. but for now france japan and china have lashed out at canada for pulling out of the one nine hundred ninety seven clear to climate change agreement the move which was legal and expected came as the country said the accord hampered its development peter lilley 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 hurt a 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. you without you live from moscow that's to the

world up there for you are some of the headlines from around the world this hour a belgium police are found the body of a woman in a shed belonging to a gunman who killed five and we did over one hundred twenty the holiday market in the city of. who died during a shooting spree reportedly killed the woman before carrying out his brutal assault you know seeing video of the aftermath of. showing the injured people on the ground lying shocked and shattered glass hundreds of shoppers are stampeded down the streets trying to flee ronnie's but it's an explosion scorched by grenades. egypt's holding the second round of its first post revolutionary parliamentary election over eighteen million citizens are eligible to cast their votes the muslim brotherhood party is expecting to repeat its first round success where it crushed its more liberal rivals hoping to dominate the first elected government following the end of hosni mubarak's thirty year rule in february. at least one hundred forty

five people are now thought 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 southwest the body of a child has been recovered and another fifteen people are still missing under the mud. the floods and landslides are the worst to hit the country in four decades. all right i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes that will be after the business update with you. thanks for either welcome to the program the global economy is confronted by a series of risks that is 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 successful twenty eleven producing a balanced budget and historically low inflation looking ahead to next year's. 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 roubles versus the dollar by the end of two thousand and twelve. have some a look at the markets as well as lower and it's speculation that the organization of petroleum exporting countries will such an output sealing the current production levels at a meeting in vienna later today light which is not trying to get under one hundred dollars a barrel while branches hovering at one hundred eight dollars without european stock markets a lower tracking overnight losses on wall street and in asia that came after the disappointing outcome of yesterday's feder is that music has no new stimulus measures were announced more disappointing news came out in europe where reports said german chancellor angela merkel rejected increasing the size of the five

hundred billion euro european stability mechanism which will be launched next year . and the russian markets have bounced back. from an early age of crime they saw in the morning though u.s. and european debt problems are still weighing with the markets here preventing further gains the r.t.s. is watching the markets it is up point three percent let's not have a check on some of the individual share moves in the my six but b. to b. is not too negative for oil company left is that its net profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the year and financial group of cases demo is also gaining both just marginally and start of course a net profit growth seventy five percent to three hundred nineteen million dollars you get a call to massive at alpha capital believes investors just still stick to small volumes in the coming months. seems like we're likely to see any sustainable train to the following couple of months saw a rush to should i think follow some told return strategy just to try to catch

small more like five to sampras and i maybe fix profits once we see that we're moving towards the great correction levels. and in other news as the south stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its turmoil point in easily and at the state energy giant i was sure to central european location and gals infrastructure was seen as an advantage but yet a rival pipeline project in the book who. just switched to little 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 an all time region which provides home grown in the country have reason forty percent to just two weeks analysts say farmers are keeping some of the harvest back to wait for the better products. ok that's it for now i'll be back in less than fifteen minutes with another business update for you here on.

the close up team has been on the black sea coast for future developments depends on the good way. no hard to go area for a place to many find champions the most ambitious hooks. to some has ruined

the lives of many innocent families across the region. where the oldest city in russia is found clocking in the more than five thousand years. to dug a stunning crush of close ups on our t.v. . news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are rooted a. wealthy british style. that's not on the telephone.