blackwater seeps back into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranding and a facelift all in the effort to erase its history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. e.u. police cause of oh stop russian trucks carrying humanitarian aid from reaching the struggling a local. stripping them of vital supplies in an apparent show of political force. normal life remains elusive in libya where parents are keeping their kids from school concerned at the values of the new curriculum so all amid growing frustration with the country's new broom. and inflation rate the price of oil what

twenty twelve has in store for russia by not in business in about twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is from moscow with me rule research but u.s. forces packing up and leaving iraq devastated by almost a decade of war is looking at an uncertain future that offers a profitable opportunity for the world's most infamous. blackwater now rebranded academy and with an unsightly new leadership to bury its bloody past in iraq while turning a quick buck. 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. a controversial name. 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 well 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 pie this time under the name of academy the new c.e.o. of the company ted right in an interview aired a magazine in december that said the following and 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 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 two hundred military personnel there's seven hundred contractors civilian contractors are expected to stay as well to help the iraqi military academy want to. it is expected but 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 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 up to date as more information becomes available in baghdad sean thomas arctic. meantime dr joseph it's an office from the u.s. based security and intelligence studies program explains what he things is driving blackwater's rush back to iraq what i can't i mean i guess as it's called now is trying to do is i guess blur its institutional lineage through a serious renaming says 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. with attention now on how iraq will fare and we look back at how the war began richard perle one of the chief architects of the u.s. invasion shared with us here it on see his views on the justifications and the failings behind the iraq war. 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 he noted nations by what was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation. you're watching live from moscow and then at five month long standoff in the majority populated northern cause a fire has taken a new twist a russian a humanitarian convoy was stopped by e.u. controlled police at one of the troubled border checkpoints moscow says it's a political move but for subs on the ground this delay means another day without vital supplies as artie's never points. a humanitarian mission turned international scandal more than two dozen russian trucks filled with food and household items destined for serbia and kosovo were stopped on the border of the disputed territory by albanian officials and members of ulick's

a police mission operated by the e.u. to stop it was an entirely political decision ulick's is blackmailing us according to the russian side looks official demanded an order for the aid to be let through the quarter we needed to be a score to end the serbian. forces. or it could end the course or through no being in a been it's a checkpoint. by being asked to comply with these conditions where being forced to recognize institutions the news or russia or serbia except in 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 the spy 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 is another spate 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 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. were three sisters our husbands go out every morning to do odd jobs there are 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 out there see. and it coming up a little bit later this hour here on r.t. lost and forgotten. they don't want to know that these people are here because they're ugly they're faceless their name was spotty if it's a homeless camp tucked away in the woods of new jersey to find out what the phrase no where else to go really mean it's. also bailing on the bailouts the e.u. his latest plan to save the eurozone and avert a collapse stalls upon the runway with cash strapped euro crowds now looking to britain to pitch in for the country's blogs civil. angry libyans are expected on the streets of benghazi for a third consecutive day of demonstrations against the country's brand 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 with the temporary government approaches a boiling point over the perceived slow pace of reforms and ongoing corruption in the city of benghazi is of special significance as it was the birthplace of the nato backed rebellion that ended the four decade rule of moammar gadhafi let's get more the latest protest on the possible escalation with sydney based political reason whatever. well thank you for coming on the program today if i may just start off first of the people of libya have long wanted reform and they're now on the streets of benghazi again making the same demand it's only been two months since the regime was brought down impatience possibly at this point. yes one would think it's the patients but i think what you're looking at the people that you have been expecting change will have very long wrong this is what he and the underlying

complaint yes we do have complaints of course option which is a very strong point but when you look up secrecy which is a lack of transparency that is the major accuser. was never what i get is the order easy and what's going to get done so when a new system comes in those underlying grievances need to be quickly so if people do not see a change then that is that kind of feeling that's probably. getting into a cycle of this repressive mechanism so i think people are not only losing patience . through irrationality or anything like that but the national transitional council has been very secretive and. reforms yes been rather slow and concession you say the national transitional council has has been rather secretive and the pace of reforms are being rather slow as we said earlier it's only been two

months at this point but when it comes to how should the n.c.c. react to a possible third day of protests are there any really two choices to tell the people to calm down or should there ultimately be a crackdown of some sort. well. i think a crackdown on the would be kind of productive in this case what they need to do is reassure the people about doing something about it grievances so when you look at it it's a question of priorities and. tripoli for example it is a question of. lawlessness i mean the. there is an issue of them being rehabilitated and being that he why did. they played in toppling the old regime he's also a very good question from this is really an illusion of them going home and this is this is the chip on the side of things but when you look at benghazi people have

different set of complaints you know priority is seen as misplaced but that is under part of the national transitional council so when you look at all of these collectively what they need to do is reassure people that they are doing something about diminishes that i'm quoting to the u.n. warding seven thousand people in makeshift detentions and there's the reports of even the human rights watch here what that what they need is yes and i want to see as you say there are reports of the u.n. that have militias are still running rampant there are reports of torture as well i'm not put idea the n.c.c. is also the u.n. to unfreeze billions of dollars of the country's assets because without them they struggle to pay government jobs i mean rebuild infrastructure why is the international community being so slow to give the n.t. seek the help that it needs. think that is the question now one would have thought that after freezing those assets after freezing that money the money belongs to

lead i mean even when they were still fighting the question of how that money was being released what the pages of weapons and things like that and a lot of people are a little when i least we're not really. you know. they saw that as improbable as and told what i wanted by the international community and yes you are right if that money is not released the m.d.c. have a bigger program i think they do have there any problems by way of how they have handled themselves as a government in place now i mean what we must mind is that this is that we're in and or form our people in the n.p.c. and we can we could see with their reaction i mean towards the announcement about and forgiveness to the former player doesn't that is that lake of grass that some people actually transiting from the order and if they do know it to show any signs of seriousness or any signs of c.s.

reforms people would still think that maybe i hadn't put it going to you know we. certainly there are so many some that have said in the past two months all of the ousting of moammar gadhafi that when it comes to the people who are now in power at the n.p.c. it's just been a reshuffling of the same old furniture mr reasonable for want of a sydney based political thought i'm afraid that's all the time we have for today thank you very much for coming on the program thank you so much. you're watching all the live from moscow now libya's record high ninety percent literacy rate it's one of the undeniable that cheapens of ousted colonel gadhafi is now being challenged by the controversial education policies of the new leaders on a point found some parents on 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 rich tricolor and 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 manage the dishes while his children were too young to understand the meaning of the bloody history of the new relish their answer they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that an ambiguous lay 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 don't often of 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 and trinkets 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 not just a year ago adorned the principal's office is now strategically placed in front of the door several hundred copies of his green book from the local library have been

thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how brinkley be asleep just two raids from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did a good things but what she didn't present it's months for business and here they are no you don't people don't talk about what you know what you done to turn over to but what you did in the past eight months is 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 taught here those who laugh and roundest traders have tools i think it's better to catch you know when i say something 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 a year 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 a boycott artsy chip only. correspondents have been drawing a vivid picture of post gadhafi libya ever since the regime was toppled from video reports to blog entries it can all be found at dot com anytime you want it at our gallery you can check out exclusive shots from marty's and he said she shows you the reality of today's new libya just head over to our website about. about six minutes of the business for now though the euro zone's latest if an imaginative rescue plan is not close to being in touch as conceived at last week. make or break e.u. summit it called for the creation of a two hundred billion a year zero cash part of the i.m.f. to be doled out to struggling nations but in just a week enthusiasm 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 eurozone has been hit by a crisis the block is having difficulty convincing its cash strapped members to pitch in the hope is now that increasingly euro skeptic britain will make up for the shortfall that however is something that nigel for raj m.e.p. in 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 everybody and i don't think there is any going back from. you're 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 the authorities can dismantle them but there are some encampments that have been around for much much longer than 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 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 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 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 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. something new to know to stop this or to slow it down or to make it better a bricklayer for two decades angelo calls himself a victim of the economy and this place home as if the sorrow of these people wasn't enough officials have been trying to evict the homeless out of the camp they try to force out the poor and i call it discrimination by design for the sake of keeping the 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 seems. from the

demonstrators i support them but i think our our situations are a lot different you know we're homeless we had what 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 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 as night settles help us far from here and archie lakewood new jersey. now our debate show cross talk today looks at the often questionable role of global rating agencies in the ongoing modern economic crisis that's coming your way directly off of the headlines following union with a business. hello

and a very warm welcome to the program the global economy is confronted by a series of risks as it to protest twenty twelve in some cases such as euro zone debt a critical failure could result in a severe recession russia has had erosive a successful twenty eleven producing a balanced budget conscious torquil low inflation looking ahead to next year do it . all 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 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 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 two 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 now have a look at the markets oil is low and it's speculation that the organization of petroleum exporting countries full such an output sealing their current production levels and to me it's going to vienna later today why it's which is not trading at ninety nine dollars per barrel while grant is horrid just under one hundred nine

dollars a barrel. european stocks lower trucking overnight losses on wall street and in asia that came after the disappointing outcome of yesterday's federal reserve meeting as no new stimulus measures were announced more disappointing news came out in europe where reports said german chancellor ungrown more cult rejected increasing the size of the five hundred billion euro european stability mechanism which will move more next year. to the markets have but from an early age a client saw in the morning though just say u.s. and european debt problems are still weighing on the markets here let's not have a check on some of the individual moves on the my six b. bank is flat to negative for oil company tax net is high its net profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the year and financial group this is demo is trading lower despite reports it's more than that close seventy five percent just three hundred nineteen million dollars. in all the news from says the sol stream

pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its terminal point in eataly of the state's energy giant all swear who central european location and gaza infrastructure was seen as an advantage but yet but rival pipeline forge a new book from to switch to loyal italy. and one of the most beloved food staples in russia buckwheat could once again become a scarse scarce item on the market shelves of crop prices. which provide top of all buckwheat grown in the country have risen forty percent in just two weeks and this a follow saki bring some of the harvest back to wait for a better price. that's it for now michael a korean american will bring you another business update in a bit less than fifteen minutes but you can find more stories on our website or to dot com slash business.

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