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rebranded. notorious u.s. security contractor blackwater from iraq over allegations of killing civilians now plans to cash in on the country's uncertain future with a comeback this time though under a different name. the birthplace of libya's a rebellion hits boiling point again as thousands of people. protest against the new government and the secrecy surrounding its policies. russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to kosovo has been stuck at the border for over twenty four hours after being stopped by the police and what moscow says is
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a purely political. power just after six pm on wednesday here in moscow you're watching on t.v. as u.s. troops prepare to leave iraq thousands of contractors move again to make a buck in the country devastated by war one of them is the world's most infamous mercenary company that of blackwater the firm was once banned from iraq over allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians and i was trying to wash away the blood by rebranding itself it's now called 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 that is well known name
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a controversial name blackwater although under a different name now known as academy now blackwater expelled from the country in two thousand and seven has of its dubious practices and questionable tactics especially after the massacre at square 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 he 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 now let me give you one example as to the types of contracts that this new academy 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 you see two
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hundred military personnel those seven hundred contractors civilian contractors expected to stay as well to help train the iraqi 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 in baghdad sean thomas our team. from the u.s. security and intelligence studies program believes that blackwater has launched a full scale campaign to disassociate itself from its smoky past so lead to take a share of the profitable market in iraq. what a cademy i guess as it's called now is trying to do is i guess blur its
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institutional lineage through a series of corporate renaming says pretty standard tactic for a corporation another thing that is trying to do of course is disassociate itself from its close connections to the cia at least in the corporate world so that other american clients may find it attractive iraq is a lucrative market for blackwater slash academy. it's going to be difficult particularly in iraq because of the american past of the organisation in iraq 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 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 we look back at how the war began richard perle was one of the chief architects of the u.s. invasion he shared with us here at r.t.
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his views on the justifications and the failings behind the war in iraq and if you are coming your way a little bit later this hour. 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 in five minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching are the streets of benghazi once again the focal point for crowds of angry libyans money this time they are protesting against the country's brand new government for two days tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding more transparency and honesty from the national transitional council but demonstrators are furious and by secrecy
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surrounding the country's decision making and finances the city of benghazi was where the nato backed rebellion began and ultimately ended forty years of. let's not discuss this further with dr mark almond visiting professor of international relations at builtin university in turkey thanks for coming on the program today so as we were saying as he was the cradle of the revolution that toppled are we seeing the same thing again will a new movement now try to emerge to topple the n t c or other other people perhaps just being impatient. were those not the invasions but also it was much bigger fragmentation in the us before the great extent of the of it was faced by. that was also who emerged with help from nato qatar some from outside pushing because it was right now the countries that were huge the hinted to mention the role of two libyans on the side trying to they're just that the past should start flowing again
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and one of the big issues people because in eastern libya as they felt we needed to look at the of his regime distributed to much of the way for who don't be found in the region and they fear perhaps none of that the new self proclaimed of you know the question isn't so taking control of the revenues distribution as it sees fit raul who says the people who started the rosy who would be the place they would put in the west the people with guns who overthrew bit of tripoli to control tripoli could still see the revenues redistributed back to the east they feel that their entire to cash because they will to the three thousand is what they did to see where you like to focus there on the revenues of libya certainly a lot of theories about you know who is who has that controlling hands on that now you much moments ago about these protests at this time being rather segmented although the slogans being charted a quite similar so what could happen with being accused when it comes to corruption and secrecy and why what really has changed in libya if anything over the past
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couple of months to one of the ironies revolutions is that the people who made the revolution shaped by the regime they don't like people who grew up with no governments operate for forty years after all seventy of the charges they make stuff in the west don't actually mask the problem that most people in libya to just how to run things and to some extent because there was a suitable plants the willing just simply saying under gadhafi you loose is good to know we should look to the problem is that there. many different centers of population that have many centuries of tribal regions so we begin to see something that million dollars we fully believe will start to split before the time it is the revolution that other people say we should have and then of course we should forget the have been demonstrations in tripoli a few days ago but people who say that don't you phil and the speech are all streets there are
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a whole bunch of st louis people there who were with gadhafi it was you who were like iraq before the fools indeed i was there were many that did say that there was law and order that saddam hussein in iraq was able to keep peace between the shia the shia muslim populations there and the sunni's but if i may just from a domestic issue now to more an external issue the national transitional council in tripoli has been asking the u.n. to to make available frozen assets that were blocked during the campaign that it would seem that perhaps maybe to some of the west is dragging its feet when it comes to bringing out this much needed it casts in the west by any chance having second thoughts on the. will course of the west and central banks to try to instill money leaves the terrorists the movement the european states in particular all very sheltered money sustain billions of dollars euros build flow which is one issue the only question is who's it going to lose this complete lack of transparency the formation of the national transitional council who its members were why they changed the new government all these things become very secretly and so there is
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the question of responsibility of the promise of the central banks along to paris and rome to even the people who are giving the money to this it would be going to actually do this if you're going to go to set up a forum where perhaps it would be the ghost of the professor mark almond of milk and university in turkey thank you thank you. well 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 is serious doubt that change will be for the best given a record high illiteracy rate reached under could after his rule some parents now oppose a total tearing up of the curriculum and the imposition of new values on their children talks on a boycott reports. it's a new day in the new libya but it starts with an old three churchill students assembled before classes to see a new flag be hoisted and to sing
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a new national anthem. like the revolution the retry color the human is a flashback to the printed 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 ever questioning them and it looks like this edition may continue i did you notice wow this children 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 li explains who are the heroes of the new libya the where the rebels do it as how to gain freedom they taught us to how do our heads high they taught us to love our country this is the only new material students in
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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 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 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 that nobody tells us what to tell students were free to say whatever we want we don't say bad things about gadhafi in fact we don't talk about him at all yet as they say sometimes that picture is worth a thousand words to get our families and carpet dug just a year ago our door in 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
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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 a good things but what she did in the past eight months for britain it is there are no you don't don't talk about what you know what your dad doesn't want to talk to but what you did in the past eight months of killing and. murdering out of four hundred fifty students that attended this school a year ago have 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. think it's. ok now when. something. about the good. well the study of english was banned under going after words like freedom and revolution a familiar to every first grader here but when asked what's the difference between
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gaddafi is due me here which literally means power of the masses only be as new democracy both students and teachers are at last i don't actually know that i was just that. x. in a boycott artsy. well our correspondents have been watching what's been happening in post gadhafi libya ever since the regime was toppled they share their impressions with all of you from video reports to blog entries it's all there at r.t. dot com anytime you want it on our gallery you can check out exclusive pictures from all of these and he said no way she shows you the reality of today's new libya i just head over to our website and explore. 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 purely political move but for serbs in the country the delay will mean
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a critical shortage of vital supplies as artie's for ports. 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 ulick's 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 in order for the aid to be let to do economy needed to be a score to the serbian crossover albanian forces or it could end the concert in obeying him and been a subject for. being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize institutions get the news or russia or serbia accept it and which exceed the do you want to mandate. that or this is a new chapter in
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a crisis that has rocked kossovo since the summer the territory has been controlled by ethnic albanian since a bloody conflict in nineteen ninety nine despite declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo still hope to more than a hundred thousand serbs and albanians tried to impose their border controls under so i've been part of the territory in july the serb minority put up barricades. on the serbia would be broken and a foreign authority would be imposed upon them since then there have been constant clashes broken up by temporary agreements for many serbs stopping to humanitarian mission as in others by of muscle flexing but albanian border officials while the trucks remain trapped on the border and the driver said. the situation within serbia and kosovo continues to be grave this isn't a spice it from red cross says that nearly coughed 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 here.
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where three sister. our husbands go out every morning to do our jobs their 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 of iraq though you see kosovo. continues to monitor the situation on the troubled border you can follow his twitter updates to stay on top of the story having a beer in one of the. boys on its way from romania to everyone wondering if this one indeed will be allowed to pass.
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now and twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital. one of the greatest. has passed away at his home here in moscow just two months short of his one hundred one in one hundred twelve he was an innovator at the cutting edge of rocket science along with his mentor. he was behind almost every major space launch in particular he masterminded the world's first outpost the mir space station. from the russian academy of. long before he passed away.
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he was. here. all you'll be remembered. and he will also be remembered for the right being. a revolutionary called people who. could be called. the russian cosmonaut. and you can find out much more about the life of the soviet space on our website artsy com also there right now a u.s.
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anti piracy dangers a wiki pedia six internet giant are threatening to blank pages in protest at censorship and manipulation in. return all of the king rushes of martial arts a legend. goes to japan to challenge one of its top fighters. the man known as the lost. fancied wrong. watching r.t. the greek economy already teetering on the brink has taken another turn for the worse and that is the verdict coming from officials of the i m f. thirty inspectors visited the country to check whether it's meeting the conditions set up by
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international creditors if the demands are not fulfilled in greece will not get a second lifeline a one hundred thirty billion euros and another debt ridden eurozone economy italy is undergoing a further round of belt tightening as lower house of parliament is about to vote for more austerity measures nigel ferrars m.e.p. and the leader of the u.k. independence party it says the hands of euro zone strugglers are tied to their traps within the long little 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 floods pestilence it'll 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
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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 artie's crosstalk program today is taking on the organizations whose decisions trigger a roller coaster rides on the markets peter lavelle and its guests are writing the rating agencies that's coming up next hour or an artsy. one of the issues one of
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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 in that place you know the only way we radiate in a sense because we don't get stronger in many. 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. before we get to korea with a business let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you this hour holding a second round of its first post post revolution parliamentary election of eighteen
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million citizens eligible to cost the muslim brotherhood is expected to repeat its first round success where it crushed its more liberal rivals the partners hoping to dominate the first elected government following the end of hosni mubarak's three decade old february results will be finalized until after a third round. to being paid to the victims of tuesday's deadly attack in the belgian where many people the flowers the site of a makeshift memorial continue today meanwhile police have found the body of a female house cleaner in a shed belonging to the gunman killed five and we did over one hundred twenty at a busy market. he died during his shooting spree reportedly killed the woman before carrying out his brutal assault and i have video of the aftermath of tuesday's attack shows injured people lying on the ground among the shattered glass hundreds of shoppers were forced to flee bullets and explosions caused.
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a syrian a senior iranian military commander says the country may move its nuclear facilities to safe locations officials say the current positions of vulnerability to a possible strike is already minimal but it still could be moved for even greater protection but the u.s. and israel have not ruled out military action against iran's nuclear program which the west suspect is aimed at developing atomic weapons it's an accusation iran continues to strongly deny. by the aussies a special interview with one of the original architects behind the u.s. invasion of iraq is coming your way shortly as all the sports first corrina with the business. thank you rory hello and welcome to business this angle russian ventured saying b.p. says it's going to invest ten billion dollars in article production this will include infrastructure only oil fields and links to the export pipelines mainly aimed at
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china the move follows the failed arctic alliance between b.p. and roll sniffed which was blocked by the russian part. and gazprom says the south stream pipeline to three russian gas to europe will have its terminal point in italy earlier the state energy giant i am central european location and gas infrastructure was seen as an advantage but vienna bax rival pipeline project book-o. causing gas pump to switch to only but it wasn't north north capitol says this also makes better commercial sense. they come through just for the guest room bribes enjoy a certain. bit of development maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges so it's obviously it's a mutual it's a win win situation. and i think the you to leave in the way you found it so right now. may be offering guess brome a bit rates. let's have
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a look at the markets now oil is lower amid speculation that the organization of petroleum exporting countries will set an output ceiling here current production levels at a meeting in vienna later in the day light so it is trading at under one hundred dollars per barrel while brant is that under one hundred dollars per barrel european stock markets extend losses as the euro drops below the key one dollar thirty level against the west own stocks were down much of the morning investors are disappointed over inaction by the federal reserve on tuesday and the russian markets have reversed from earlier gains and of trading in the red at the close the artist losing a point seven percent of his down point eight percent now let's have a look at some individual travels on the mind sets the sound of the bank is trading . slightly higher oil company is gaining its net profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the yen financial group of customer has
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reversed from earlier lows the company reports as third quarter net profit rose seven percent to three hundred nineteen million dollars. now one of the most beloved food staples in russia buckwheat could once again become a scarce item on the market shelves with price in. a region which provides half of all we've grown in the country have risen forty percent in just two weeks analysts say farmers are keeping some of the harvest back to wait for better products. that's all i have for you know but remember you can always find more stories just like on tall website r.t. dot com.
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