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around the world this is from moscow with me rule research. as the u.s. troops to leave iraq thousands of contractors are moving in to make a buck in the country devastated by war one of them is the world's most mercenary company blackwater the firm was once banned from iraq over allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians but now it's trying to wash away the blood by rebranding itself it's now called. baghdad. well companies construction companies companies that will need to come in and help the country rebuild all of those companies are going to need their own security as well and one of the companies that wants a piece of that is. a controversial name blackwater they are trying to come back

under a different name known as academy right of course is infamous for the two thousand and seven massacre at 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 tried to reinvent themselves and come back. next 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 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 do this new account of the company interested in . security cooperation is expected to have two hundred military personnel stay back

to help train iraqi special forces and the iraqi military in addition to do 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 wants a little bit of that pie it 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 tom. our team. dr joseph it's an arc is from the u.s. base security and intelligence studies program believe that blackwater has launched a full scale campaign to disassociate itself from its murky past solely to take

a share of the profitable market now in iraq what a cademy i guess as it's called now is trying to do is i guess blur its institutional lineage through a series of corporate renaming 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 is 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 the square massacre a constant cases of smuggling of weapons 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 to get back into the country as another company. with all eyes now on how iraq will fare on its own after u.s.

forces pull out we look back at how the war began richard perle one of the chief architects of the u.s. war shared with us here at r.t. his views on the justifications and failings behind the invasion of iraq are that interview is coming your way in about twenty five minutes time. i think the decision was based on what we knew at the time 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 was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation.

now six minutes past the hour here in moscow but the streets of benghazi once again the focal point for crowds of angry libyans only this time they are protesting against the country's new government for two days tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding more transparency and honesty from the national transitional council the demonstrators are infuriated by secrecy surrounding national decision making finances the city of benghazi was where the nato backed rebellion began and ultimately ended forty years of colonel moammar gadhafi as a rule. for war over a political writer based in sydney says the secrets make the new government no better than the regime that chris talked about. people that you have been expecting change for a very long long time this is forty two years and the underlying complaint yes we do have complaints of core option which is a very strong point but when you look at secrecy. which is a lack of transparency that is the major. and i was never what i get is the order

to g.m. what's going to get done so when a new system comes in those underlying grievances need to be quickly. now or two months after the end of the civil war in libya changes are expected in almost all areas of life but in one of the most important parts of the country's future that of education a serious doubt that change will be for the best even a record high illiteracy rate reached on a kid after his rule some parents now oppose a total tearing up of the curriculum and the imposition of new values on their children on a boy reports. 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 and. thank the revolution the retry color the humor 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 under gadhafi is true even students were expected to memorize long passages from his green book to have a question in them and it looks like this should decision may continue i did you notice of this wow this children to young to understand the meaning of life this history of the new revolution their anthem they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech dead an ambiguous leaks planes who are the heroes of the new libya the were rebels to talk hard to gain freedom they taught us to how don had high they taught us to love our country this is the only new material students in this school have learned since september regular classes like math or chemistry are suspended until january when the new curriculum is expected to be introduced the nisbett 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 in the meantime the students and people keep. charged with making drawings and trinkets to commemorate the february seventeenth revolution teachers here say they tried 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 that 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 i did it to sink but what she did of passage was forbidden it is they are no you don't if you don't talk about what you know what she does it doesn't move you to go over to but what you did in the past eight months is killing and. murder out of four hundred fifty students that attended this school a year ago half are still absent some fled the country others were pulled out by their parents who disagree with the new values taught here those who laugh and roundest 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 which literally means power of the masses only be a new democracy both students and teachers are lost i don't actually know that i

was just that. it's in the boycott artsy. minutes past the hour here in moscow still ahead for you in the program the stakes are higher than just. there you are right we hear from a member of the european parliament and u.k. party leader who warns that keeping indebted e.u. countries trapped in a financial prison could lead to the rise of extremism and even fascism in your. class as protesters camps spring up all over the u.s. we visit a totally different city i won this week in place for half a decade we also lost the residents what makes them so different from the occupy demonstrators. this is arts he now a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to serbs in kosovo is still stuck at a checkpoint in the border area it was stopped by controlled police which moscow says was a purely political move but for serbs in the country this delay will mean

a critical shortage of vital supplies has. a humanitarian mission turned into a national scandal more than two dozen russian trucks filled with food and household items destined for serbian kosovo were stopped on the border of the disputed territory by albanian officials members of ulick's a police mission operated by the e.u. . which was an entirely political decision. blackmailing us according to the russian side looks official demanded an order for the aid to be let through the convoy needed to be scored in the serbian. forces. or it could end the course or through been it's the checkpoint. by being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize institutions the news or russia or serbia accept and which exceed the un mandate for kosovo. this is a new chapter in

a crisis that has rocked kosovo since the summer the territory has been controlled by ethnic albanians since a bloody conflict in one thousand nine hundred nine the spy declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo is still hope 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 misses this house regularly just sixteen people living inside it all

refugees driven out of their homes in one thousand nine hundred nine now and you know where three sisters our husbands go out every morning to do our jobs there are no param and 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 of iraq now see kosovo. now i don't forget to visit our website dot com there you'll find the latest comment analysis or any stories you have missed here are some of the items are waiting for you there right now twenty four seven a click away u.s. piracy bill in danger's wiki p.t.o.'s existence the internet giant is threatening to blank out pages in protest at censorship and manipulation in the digital world.

and return of the king russia as a martial arts legend of. code goes to japan to challenge one of its top fighters find out what the man known as the last emperor is up against that r.t. dot com. now ten minutes away from the business news here on r.t. the greek economy already teetering on the brink has taken yet another turn for the worse that's the verdict coming from i.m.f. officials austerity inspectors visited the country to check whether it's meeting the conditions set up by international creditors if the demands are not fulfilled greece will not get a second lifeline of one hundred thirty billion euros and another debt ridden eurozone economy that of italy is undergoing a further round of belt tightening as its lower house of parliament is about to

vote for more austerity measures nigel for raj m.e.p. and leader of the u.k. independence party says the hands of the eurozone strugglers are tied while they are trapped within the block. don't forget that politicians will always defend the status quo they will always tell you that if what we have now doesn't continue to exist the sky will fall in they'll be family. but it will all be a complete disaster we've seen this before many times over the years the reality is that the breakdown of the euro in the short would be tough. because many many european banks would go bust and probably have to be nationalized but as we've seen with iceland who back in two thousand and eight let some of their banks go bust except of the situation three years are they going back to growth i think the biggest threat we face now in europe is to keep countries like greece and portugal and ireland and possibly even spain and italy to trapped inside an economic prison

stripped of their democracy i mean literally the governments of greece and italy were removed by these bully boys in brussels the bigger threat is they stay inside this thing and they die a slow economic death and they finish up with unemployment figures that are so high that there is even a risk that europe returns to extremism and maybe even fascism so let's get the bad news out of the way let's have the breakdown and you know what a few months of the world see very it will seem very much rosier and artie's cross talk show is taking on the organizations whose decisions trigger a rollercoaster ride on the markets people about them as guests are writing the rating agencies that's coming later today on our say. one of the issues one of the problems with trying to make the ratings better through issuing having fines or having a system of penalties is that people like richard just say well we should just get rid of ratings altogether because they're obviously conflicted and stupid let's get

rid of them but you know what they're just plays in that place in not only really agencies in a sense because we don't get stronger i merely say let's get a really really the same cells because you have these voices saying let's get rid of richard go ahead well that's mischaracterizing my position a little because i didn't say let's get rid of ratings of course we need ratings i said let's get you know let's not tinker with this system that's so broken in terms of its incentives. cross-talk is a little over three hours away here and for now though it's a game of cat and mouse u.s. occupy protesters building up camps as quickly as authorities have them down but there are some encampments from major cities that have been around for much longer and it's occupies a felt deserted for years and i see a truck and i went to visit one of them. tent cities of outrage popping up all across the u.s. over the last months listen 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 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 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 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 them but i think our our situations are

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. up here as night settles help us far from here and you know fleetwood. and the before we get to the business with kareena let's do the world update here on our to some of the international headlines for you egypt holding the second round of its first post revolution parliamentary elections over eighteen million citizens are eligible to cost votes the muslim brotherhood is expecting to repeat its first around success where it crushed its more liberal rivals the party is hoping to dominate the first elected

government following the end of hosni mubarak's thirty year rule in february results won't be finalized until after a third round of elections. for joining the. belgian police have found the body of a female house cleaner in a shed belonging to the gunman who went on the rampage in the city of nobody around me who died during his shooting spree reportedly killed the woman before carrying out his brutal assault which ultimately killed five and wounded over one hundred twenty at a holiday market are you now seeing footage of the aftermath of. showing injured people on the ground lying shocked among shattered glass hundreds of shoppers were forced to flee bullets and explosions caused by grenades. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has said that his country is analyzing the systems of the u.s. drone that it downed earlier this month shrugged off the request of u.s. president barack obama to return the aircraft to iran said any attempt to retrieve

the drone by the u.s. would be considered quote an act of war the unmanned spy in the sky was captured after it was spotted flying in iranian airspace. france japan and china have lashed out at canada for pulling out of the one nine hundred ninety seven kioto 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 but 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. 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. ati's interview with one of the original architects of the us invasion of iraq coming your way with the sports soon to be after the business news with current. hello welcome to our business up at the south thanks for joining me from says the south stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its terminal point and italy area the state's energy giant austria at central european location and

gas infrastructure is seen as an advantage but yet it backs rival pipeline project the book-o. causing gazprom to switch to loyal italy but the region called north capital says this also makes better commercial sense the country which is providing the route for the guess probably. can enjoy a certain. better development maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges. obviously it's a mutual it's a win win situation it's a pure commerce and i think italy in the way you found itself right now. may be offering guess brome a better rate. the global economy is confronted by a series of risks as it approaches two thousand and twelve in some cases such as eurozone debt a critical failure could result in a severe recession russia has had a relatively successful two thousand and eleven producing a balanced budget at historically low inflation looking ahead to next year banks

yourself less of all that predicts that 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 will 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 ahead of the apec summit other macroeconomic variables are likely to be relatively benign so before 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. let's take a look at the markets now oil is lower amid speculation that the organization of petroleum exporting countries will set an output ceiling current production levels at a meeting vienna later in the day like so it is trading at on the one hundred dollars per barrel bread is that under one hundred dollars. and stocks in europe are lower attacking overnight losses on wall street and asia more disappointing news come out in europe where reports a. german chancellor i go america rejected increasing the size of five hundred billion euro european stability mechanism which will be launched next year. and

russian markets bounced back earlier morning declines the u.s. and european debt problems are still weighing on the markets. let's have a look at some individual shareholders otherwise they need to be bankers trading plugs a negative oil company tech net is gaining it's their profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the year. financial group case stanley is trading lower despite reports its third quarter net profit rose seventy five percent to three hundred nineteen million dollars. one of the most beloved food staples in buckwheat could once again become a scarce item on the market shelves other crop prices and altai region provides half of all growing in the country have risen forty percent in just two weeks out a list say farmers are keeping some of the harvest back to wait for the better parts. so i have even i'll be back in fifteen minutes with.

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