notorious u.s. security contractor blackwater. allegations of killing civilians now plans to cash in on the country's uncertain future but the comeback this time go under a different name. the birthplace of libya's rebel boiling point again tens of thousands in protest against the new government secrecy surrounding its policy. a russian convoy carrying a humanitarian aid to kosovo has been stuck at the border for over twenty four hours after being stopped by the police. as a sign of the e.u.

exceeding its already in the region. and in business the british press invention is to invest ten billion dollars in arctic oil production the move comes after the failed arctic alliance between b.p. and will stand by the russian one that and how this is. a very warm welcome to you this is a. shame as u.s. troops prepare to leave iraq thousands of contractors are moving in to make a buck in their country devastated by war one of them is the world's most infamous mercenary company that of blackwater was once was once banned from iraq of allegations of indiscriminate shooting of civilians but it's now trying to wash away the bloody taint by rebranding itself it's now called academy. reports back.

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 a controversial name blackwater although under a different name now known as academy now a broader 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 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 academy company is interested in. security cooperation is expected to have two hundred military personnel stay back to help train iraqi special forces and the iraqi military in addition to do you said two hundred military personnel there's seven hundred contractors civilian contractors are 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 and i mean time. from the u.s. based security and intelligence studies program believes that blackwater has

launched a full scale campaign to disassociate itself from my mucky past so need to take a share of the profitable market now in 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 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 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 murky 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 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. invasion shared with us his views on the justifications and failing behind the war in iraq that interview are coming your way next hour here on our team. 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 a five minutes past the hour here in moscow where the streets of benghazi and once again the focal point for crowds of angry libyans 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 the demonstrators are infuriated by secrecy surrounding the country's decision making and financials the city of benghazi was where the nato backed rebellion began ultimately ended forty years of colonel gadhafi as a rule mark almond visiting professor of international relations and bill kent university and who says it shows the first cracks in an opposition that's no longer united against the figure of caffie. but it was a much bigger fragmentation of the words before to the extent it was phrased. it was a simple image with help from nato. pushing for is it was one of the big issues people because in eastern libya as they so we need until the day of his regime distributed to much of the way for who don't we found in the region they feel that the

new sofa you know which is taking control of the revenues distribution as it were all of them says the people who started the uprising who would be the case they would be in the west would go into the trigger feet in tripoli to control tripoli. to refuse redistributed to the east asia that they were interested. in to defeat in this what they did. now a few months after the end of the civil war in libya changes are expected in almost all areas of life that but in one of the most important parts of the country's future that of education there is serious doubt the change will be for the best given a record high of literacy reached under kid after his rule some parents now oppose a total tearing up of the curriculum and the imposition of new values on their children as artie's oksana boyko 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. was 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 good of the school even students were expected to hammer rise long passages from his brain will ever question that and it looks like this tradition may continue i did you notice while his children were too young to understand the meaning of life history of the new revolutionary out of their already expected to know it by heart next comes a speech that an ambiguous play explains who are the heroes of the new libya the were rebels do it out how to gain freedom they told us to how the had high they

taught us to love 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 it will include 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 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 than 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 here as they say sometimes that picture is worth a. thousand wards to get our families and carper died 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 been thrown away the forty two years of his rule that how bring libya's literacy rates from twenty six to about ninety percent is a distant memory he did it to sings but what she did of the past eight months for visits to the army you don't think people don't talk about what you know what she does does to turn over to but what she did in the past eight months killing and. murdering on a four hundred fifty students that attended this school a year ago have 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 round it is traitors have to escape i think it's better to catch you know when i know 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 at last i don't actually know that i was just a teacher of some boycott artsy. minutes past the hour from the arab spring to occupy wall street protest has been making history throw. american magazine time has boiled out of the streets all over the world resulting in regime change in some places we have been closely watching the unexpected recipient of the on the person of the year three north africa and the middle east then the us europe and russia just click on to your way it will all become clear. also on our website at r.t. dot com return of the king pressures

a martial arts legend if you're going to go to japan and challenge one of the top fighters there find out what the man known as the last emperor is up against it are . you watching r.t. moscow says e.u. is abusing its mandate and cause of our by holding a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to serbs and cause a fire it is still stuck at a checkpoint in the border area after being stopped by e.u. controlled police. reports for serbs in the country that this delay will mean a critical shortage of vital supplies a humanitarian mission turned international scandal more than two dozen russian

trucks filled with food and household items the simple serbian kosovo was stopped on the border of the disputed territory but albanian officials members of ulick's a police mission operated by the e.u. . which was an entirely political decision. was 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 albanian forces. or it could end the course or through an old baby in a bin it's the checkpoint that i knew. by being asked to comply with these conditions were being forced to recognize institutions the news or russia or serbia except in which exceed the un mandate for kosovo that 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 despite declaring independence in two thousand and eight kosovo is still home 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 is another's day 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. 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 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 no artsy cacio. and you go to continue to monitor the situation on the troubled border and you can follow his twitter updates to stay on top of the latest in one of the latest tweets here on our air force in a second a russian aid convoy is on its way from romania to cause a vote of one wondering if this one will indeed be allowed to pass follow him a. quarter

past the hour here in the russian capital you're watching artsy the greek economy already teetering on the brink has taken a turn for the worse that's the verdict coming from the officials of the. scuse me austerity inspectors have visited the country to check whether it's meeting the conditions set up by international creditors if the demands are not fulfilled and 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 and the lower house of parliament is about to vote for more measures nigel farage leader of the u.k. independence party says the hands of eurozone strugglers are tied while they are

trapped within the bloc. so 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 has to lose a little or 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 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 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 on the world see very it will seem very much rosier. and artie's cross-talk program is taking on the organizations whose decisions triggered a roller coaster rides on the markets people of l. and as guests rating the rating agencies that's coming up in about fifteen minutes . one of the issues 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 you know leaving the radiators in a sense because we don't get stronger i mean let's get a really really sells 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. now and then twenty minutes past the hour here. to talk one of the greatest space pioneers in history has passed away at his moscow home just two months short of his one hundredth birthday born in one nine hundred twelve he was an innovator at the cutting edge of rocket science along with his mentor sort of take all you see what 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 cosmetics says boris to talk had already become a legend long before he passed away. he was born in the right place and that.

he took a full advantage to it he was the man to do what he was doing. and he was a bliss the real career man. he was special forces. above all you'll be remembered for two things he was one of the major contributors. and he will also be remembered for the right being. a revolutionary move. people which could be called a need as a generation. then the russian cosmonaut it's. all right so just a moment here have a look at the world update for you want to see some other headlines from around the world this hour egypt's holding the second round of its first post revolution parliamentary election of eighteen million citizens are eligible to cast their votes with the muslim brotherhood expecting to repeat its first round success where

crush gets more liberal rivals the party is hoping to dominate the first elected government after hosni mubarak's thirty year rule ended in february results will not be finalized until after a third round it shows you all for january. tributes are being paid to the victims of tuesday's deadly garden and grenade attack in belgium where many people laying flowers at the site of the makeshift memorial continue meanwhile the police have found the body of a female house cleaner in a shed belonging to nobody around me who killed five and wounded over one hundred twenty at a market the gunman who died during his rampage reportedly killed the woman before carrying out his brutal assault. it's a game of cat and mouse u.s. occupy protesters building up camps as quickly as authorities tear them down but there are some encampments far from major cities that have been around for much much longer and its occupies a felt deserted for years and i went to visit one of them. tent cities of

outrage popping up all across the u.s. over the last months let's visible to the public eye and much quieter. this tent city of hopelessness around for half a decade this is our third time at the village tucked away in the woods in about two years the number of homeless turning to the camp for hospitality keeps growing these days the population of tent city has tripled compared to when it was first set up the 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 a citizen is suffering at the expense of the agenda of the politicians.

forty six year old and you live with a love for confidence 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 or 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 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 no we have nowhere to sleep i'm sure they have places to go when they're done their little rally many of the residents of tent city used to blame themselves for their misfortune but with three point five million americans experiencing homelessness every year or over seven hundred thousand people on any given night their message for politicians has changed open your eyes. open you know i mean. all this help that we give out. all over the world we need help here but as night settles help us far from here and. lakewood new jersey. ok time for your hourly business update here on out here with kareen. i want to welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me and we'll

russian venture tank a b.p. says it's going to invest ten billion dollars in arctic oil production this will include infrastructure on the oil fields and links to the export pipelines mainly into china the move follows a failed arctic alliance between b.p. and ross net which was blocked by the russian partners in taking. and gazprom says the south stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its terminal point in italy earlier the state energy giant austria at its central european location and gas infrastructure was seen as an advantage but vienna backs rival pipeline project in a book or causing gas probably to switch to a lot of the members and costs get more capital says this also makes better commercial sense. the country which is providing the route for the guess probably. enjoy a certain. a better development maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges . obviously it's a mutual it's a win win situation it's

a beautiful commerce and i think. in the way you've found itself right now. maybe offering us brome a better rates. 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 at current production levels at a meeting later in the day light sweet is trading at under one hundred dollars per barrel while brant is under one hundred nine dollars per barrel stocks in the u.s. bring in early trading on renewed worries about europe the dow jones industrial average fell thirty six points or point three percent in the early minutes of the opening bell the nasdaq bell have a percent first solar plunge sixteen percent on top of the largest u.s. solar company hundreds of burnings estimate for the year. european stocks. and the you will drop below one dollar thirty cents markets are lower on worries over

europe sovereign debt crisis combined with lingering disappointment over policy inaction by the us federal reserve germany's dax is up one point three percent with the metro among the main losers falling three and a half percent and here in russia markets and lower one point two percent the mines exposed half a percent in the red let's have a look at some individual some of them isaac's bank lost over half a percent at the closing session oil company ted never ended in the red as well companies net profit rose fifty percent in the first nine months of the year and financial group of casey's team also slid into the red reversed from early against the company reports its third quarter net profit growth seventy five percent to three hundred nine million dollars. that's our business update for this hour but i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with more here on business.

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