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with me. welcome to the program. u.s. troops leave iraq thousands of moving in to make a country devastated by war one of them is the world's most infamous mercenary company. was once banned from iraq about allegations of indiscriminate shooting but it's not trying to wash away the bloody. thing itself. academy. reports in 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. blackwater they are trying to come back under a different name known as academy of course is infamous for the two thousand and seven massacre at the source where 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 back. at the 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 this new account of the company is interested in the 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 help train the iraqi military academy once a little bit of that pie 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 in baghdad sean thomas our team. from the u.s. based security and intelligence studies program. has launched a full scale campaign to disassociate itself from its murky past solely to take

a share of the profitable market in iraq. what a cademy i guess as it's called 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 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 the. constant cases of smuggling of weapons it's 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. and with all eyes now on how iraq will fare on its own after u.s.

forces pull out that is by december thirty first we look at how the war actually began richard perle was one of the chief architects of the u.s. invasion he shared with us his views on the justifications and failings behind the mission of iraq either if you were coming your way let's see in full next at why you're not. 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.

right now six minutes past the hour here in moscow the streets of benghazi are once again the focal point for crowds of angry libyans only this time they're protesting against the country's new government for two days tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding more transparency and honesty in the national transitional council the demonstrators are infuriated by secrecy surrounding national decision making and finances the city of benghazi was where the nato backed rebellion began and ultimately ended four decades of colonel moammar gadhafi recent for over a political writer based in the city says the secrets make the new government no better than the regime that was toppled. it would like to 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 there's very strong point. but when you look of secrecy which is

a lack of transparency that is the major accusation that was never what i get is the order the sheehan was going to get duffy so when a new system comes in and does underlie grievance you need to address quickly. and 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 of education there's serious doubt the change will be for the best given a record high illiteracy rate reached on the khadafi to rule some parents and now oppose a total tearing up with the current curriculum 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 three cho students assembled before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing a new national anthem. like the

revolution the rich tricolor 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 good offices rule even students were expected to memorize long passages from these very little things that have a question that this looks like this edition may continue i did you do dishes while he's still here see john to understand the meaning of life this history of the new relish their answer they're already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech dead on ambiguously explains who are the heroes of the new libya the rubble the rebels do it as 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 tripoli 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 are preoccupied with me. king joins in trim 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 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 you know 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 just sinks but what she did in the past eight months for britain it is there are no you don't if you don't talk about what you know what she does and doesn't want to talk i want to but what she did in the past eight months of 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 out by their parents who disagree with the new values taught here those who laughed and ran because traders have the tools i think it's better to caffeine now when i something. about the good. while 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 are at

a loss i don't actually know that i was just that. it's in a boycott artsy chip. watching on what's been happening in post gadhafi libya ever since the regime was toppled of a show. their impressions are with all of you watching video reports blog entries it's all there if you don't tell me any time you want that ati's gallery you can check out of exclusive pictures from author and said now way shows you the reality of today's new video just over to our website to explore for yourself. a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to serbs in kosovo is still stuck at a checkpoint in the border area it was stopped by e.u. controlled police which moscow says was a political move but for serbs in the country this delay will mean a critical shortage of vital supplies. for ports. a humanitarian mission turned international scandal more than two dozen russian

trucks filled with food and household items destined for serbia and kosovo was stopped on the border of the disputed territory by albanian officials members of ulick's a police mission operated by the e.u. to stop which was an entirely political decision. blackmailing us according to the russian side looks official demanded an order for the aid to be led through the convoy needed to be a score to into serbia and kosovo albanian forces or it could end the cost so it didn't obey you know but it's the checkpoint zat i knew we were being asked to comply with these conditions we're 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 albanian since a bloody conflict in one thousand nine hundred nine the spier 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 idle inside the situation within serbia and kosovo continues to be grave this isn't a spouse it from red cross says that nearly half of all serbs in kosovo need aid to survive. she visits this house regularly just sixteen people living inside it all refugees driven out of their homes in one thousand nine hundred nine now and you know where three sisters our. husbands go out every morning to do odd jobs there

are no parent wants for refugees some days still bring back five years 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 eager. to see. a quarter past the hour here in moscow still ahead for you in the program the stakes are higher than just a eurozone breakup we hear from a member of the european parliament and u.k. party leader who warned that keeping indefinitely you countrymen trapped in a financial prison could lead to the rise of extremism and even fascism in. class as protesters can spring up all over the u.s. we visit a totally different tented city i wonder has been in place for half a decade the residents what makes them so different from the occupying demonstrators. in ten minutes is the business news but for now. one of the

greatest space pioneers in history has passed away at his home in moscow just two months short of his one hundredth birthday born in one nine hundred twelve he was a pioneer with the cutting edge of rocket science along with his mentor sort of he was behind almost every major soviet space launch in particular he masterminded the world's first cosmic outpost the mir space station. from the russian academy of cosmonaut ics says that boris charter talk had become a legend long before he passed away. he was born in the right place and. he took a full advantage to it he was the man to be dictated to what he was doing. and he was a blessed the rural career the. special forces. above all you'll be remembered. he was one of the major contributors to the design

of the famous so you'll see a launch rico and he will also be remembered for writing. a revolutionary book called rockets and people which could be called without a need is a generation the encyclopedia of the soviet and russian cosmonaut ix. now i get to represent our web site r.t. dot com you'll find the latest comment analysis or any of the stories that you've missed some of the items are waiting for you there right now us and bill in danger . existence the internet giant is threatening to blank pages in protest of censorship and manipulation in the digital world. and return of the king russia as a martial arts legend. goes to japan to challenge one of its top fighters and find out what the known as of the last emperor is up against.

watching r.t. now the greek economy already teetering on the brink has taken another turn for the worse that's the verdict coming from 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 won't 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 its lower house of parliament is about to vote for more austerity measures nigel farage leader of the u.k. independence party says the hands of eurozone struggle is a tide or they are trapped within the plot but 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 they'll be family. has to 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. 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 accepted the situation three years on 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 but 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 assays crossed our program is taking on the organizations whose decisions trigger a rollercoaster ride all over the markets people of elena's guests writing the rating agencies that's coming up in about two hours time here on. 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 that just plays into that plays into the lives of the radiator sees in a sense because we don't get stronger i merely say let's get to relate the radiators themselves because you have these voices saying let's get rid of them

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 a system that's so broken in terms of its incentives. in just a few minutes it's time for the r.t. business hourly update for now though it's a game of cat and mouse u.s. occupy protesters building up comes as quickly as authorities tell them down there are some incumbents far from major cities that have been around for much longer and it's ok to felt deserted for years and i see a chuckle 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 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 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 we have our with a love for confluence lost everything in the recession and has never found a full time job again it seems to be a growing trend unfortunately and you know the politicians better take note and try to stop their bickering and get to do something to you know to stop this sort of

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 don't but i think our our situations are a lot of 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. archie lakewood new jersey. for the latest from the world of business. our welcome to business the south. stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its terminal point and. only earlier the state's energy giant eyed austria at its central european location and gas infrastructure was seen as an advantage but vienna bax rival pipeline project the book zero to switch to the oil italy libya was uncalled nor capital says this also makes better commercial sense

the gum tree which is provided for the guest. enjoys certain. better developments maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges. obviously it's a mutual it's a win win situation it's a good commerce and i think the italy in the way you've found itself right now. may be offering guess brome a bit rates. let's look at the markets now european stock markets extended also on wednesday as they were drops below the q one dollar thirty level against the us dollar stocks were down months of the morning investors are disappointed over inaction by the time reserve on tuesday we also wait the german chancellor's address the lower house of parliament later today and the russian markets bounced back from earlier morning declines of all u.s. and european debt problems are still weighing on the markets let's have a look at some individual sham moves otherwise x.

really bank is trading on the half a percent higher oil company tad nafta is gaining its net profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the year and financial group a case is to much is trading lower despite reports third quarter net profit growth seventy five percent to three hundred nineteen million dollars. the global economy is confronted by a series of risks as it approaches twenty 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 those are banks here as well first of all it predicts next year 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 efforts 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 four to two thousand and twelve in terms of the outcome on the exchange rate we do expect some nominal appreciation of the ruble versus the dollar possibly to the range of twenty eight to twenty nine versus the dollar by the end of two thousand and twelve. that's it

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