the league doesn't. do anything to change mission to change. this is why you should. only. dog of a private american security contractor blackwater notorious for more than a dozen iraqi. people and a u.s. court. legal wrangling. in present day iraq hundreds of thousands of cities in the north of the country as al qaida militants take control of the area. here says more than two hundred people have died in the ongoing assault on clean families. who sent the soldiers from prison to try to the civilian population. of the u.k. government teaching branches values in school after several of them away reportedly

found to promote an extreme as long as we look into. all of that this. year with me to say it's good to have your company with us this evening for god's from the former private security company black water going on trial for crimes ranging from manslaughter to weapons a violation seventy years ago they were assigned a mission to transport u.s. diplomats through baghdad a skirmish were got on route even fourteen iraqis stayed there has more now on what makes a trial so important. there have been many years of cover ups and inappropriate grants of immunity to these former border guards but back in two thousand and eleven a three judge panel of the u.s. court of appeals ruled that the prosecution against these defendants could proceed

and now we see that jury selection for the trial is beginning and the public of course is being reminded of the horrible stains some of the horrible stains americans left behind in iraq let's remind our viewers that it wasn't sometimes or two thousand and seven that blackwater security team was assigned to the way for a convoy of diplomats traveling through western baghdad now blackwater blackwater company the guards at the time claim that the convoy was ambushed and that they fired at the attackers in defense but the iraqi government and the police investigator concluded that the killings were unprovoked now the defense lawyer has said and continues to say that it's not fair to do hindsight analysis in a room seven years following the news source square massacre that left fourteen iraqis dead and more than eighteen injures injured but the families of those victims as well as human rights leaders and citizens around the world want to see justice for the killings or at the very least the perpetrators to be put on trial

and held accountable for their actions the episode was a devastating blow to america's reputation in the middle east and it ignited a wave of criticism out about the u.s. practice of contracting private companies mercenaries for wars and occupations of foreign countries let's remember that private companies like blackwater don't have to play by the same legal rules that u.s. soldiers follow now if convicted before blackwater guards could face anywhere between thirty years to life in prison. blackwater operated during the height of the u.s. military operations in iraq what three years since that wrapped up the security situation is still far from stable with the jihadists insurgency on the rise at least twenty one people were killed and dozens heard by a suicide bomber in baghdad in the last a wave of violence in the now in the north the fighters have seize yet another city that of tikrit and that's after taking control of the entire northern province of an innovator and its capital the muscle

iraq's second largest city jihad is have also gained ground in other parts of the country including the oil rich kirk problems and the city of fallujah quarter of a moves over two million population have already fled to the turkish translation has reportedly also been attacked and about forty eight diplomats and civilians were kidnapped soldiers in the city have abandoned their posts in fear of the radicals believed to be the al qaeda splinter group known as islam make state of iraq and. the developments are contradict what u.s. president barack obama said three years ago when the mission in iraq wrapped up everything american troops are done in iraq the fighting all the dying the bleeding the building of the training the perjuring all of that has led to this moment

of success but we're leaving behind a sovereign stable and self-reliant iraq activist blogger and author david swanson believes both u.s. forces and terrorists are responsible for the ongoing chaos in equal measures. do you see the violence that one could have predicted it was when bush declared mission accomplished and really got my job right you have these two i don't know that they're all kind of but certainly terrorists are declaring liberation will you have a u.s. and nato terrorist occupation declaring liberation serve rates years ago neither one is liberation neither one is going to do anything but create masses of refugees lack of stability and ongoing violence since experience division and resentment for years to come. in neighboring syria though a rare glimpse of hope has emerged on the horizon as a force to flee the city that he used to be of the major rebel stronghold

a us lonely returning home coming up our team is residents of the city of homs was struggling to rebuild their lives in a city almost wiped off the map. more than two hundred people have been killed since the start of the ukraine's military operation in the east that's according to the country's health minister and while the newly elected president petro poroshenko has given orders for humanitarian corridors to be set up russia's foreign minister says moscow has been denied the chance of providing humanitarian aid residents are in eastern ukraine are claiming their cities have been devastated by a tillery fire for the third night in a row he told. the mcclure media. decolletage which was sitting around. me anymore you probably hear from the current think you've been here but i'm going to. the city has been besieged by

pro-government forces for weeks and locals are suffering from water and power outages and while the military operation goes on flight is from the queen's national guard had been reading outside the parliament building into here they're demanding pay for the jobs a growing number of soldiers have been laying down their arms unwilling to turn them on civilians placea reports. six weeks on and with more than forty soldiers did military operation continues the army is in a pitched battle with anti-government activists but it's also struggling to keep itself together. that's a tough one but they're sending me to war calling on me to kill people in just like me more and more soldiers are refusing to obey orders and despite cuba's full military mobilization in march and has all but dried up whereas once they used to

before drafting officers in lugansk today only one and it's quiet they won't let us inside with the cameras i spoke with a clock and he said there hasn't been any kind of recruitment here for weeks i asked to speak with a person in charge but was told that he's taken early retirement. last month then acting president turchynov signed a decree calling on all men aged eighteen to twenty five to enroll those who did not list in jail but this young man is prepared to risk even more he's not only ignored his call up he's now fighting against the very army in which he is meant to serve a lot of the war before i go to draft lesser on the third of march that said i should go to the army i refused i didn't even go to the drafting center i'm not going to fight against my own people we have spirit ideals patriotism they don't have that the money orders and money but others did on serve a call to serve

a decision they. now the great maria's son is twenty years old he was drafted a year ago and is serving in western ukraine she's worried that because he comes from the east he himself will be seen as the enemy of the here person who hoard i want him home as soon as possible we are missing him we are really missing him. the army your city lack food and ammunition and a sense of purpose and as the casualty count climbs it will become harder and harder to convince young men they should put their lives on the line for a cause many don't believe in. fear r t eastern ukraine. our poll has been reporting on the latest developments in eastern ukraine online a stay up to date i followed the twitter feed. russia has shifted the deadline for ukraine to cover its mountain billion dollar

gas dad that's as moscow you hear from a deadlocked over the price of real reports shortly on the idea of is refusing to pay up even though it's been offered a substantial discount and whether either consumers will be affected by the dispute . the u.k. government is facing growing criticism for its tough response to reports of an alleged islamist a plot to take over schools in the city of birmingham claims first appeared in march saying there was a jihad is plod to infiltrate schools with large muslim populations and run them according to strict islamic principles inspections followed and some facilities were found to be promoting intimidation and what was called faith based ideology and although the schools themselves deny the accusations the government sees a different way it now once a mandatory teaching of british values in all schools across the u.k. earlier my colleague mia harvey talked to promoter of the interfaith dialogue

mohamed shafique he believes that the government is trying to undermine the entire muslim community. it's a concerted effort by michael gove the education secretary which is near conservative ideology to demonize and attack was slim's this report into the schools in burma has not produced any evidence whatsoever that there was an extremist plot or there was extremist was. taking over schools. this is being a witch hunt which is damage the standing of muslims in the can but more importantly it's damaged the confidence children have in the education system do you think this new system of british values will actually help muslims to assimilate better into british society no government minister has been able to tell is the values that they've set out to talk about democracy you talk about tolerance and respect and the rule of law gender equality while these are values that we sign up to these are values that people across the world would look to they're not just

british values they're human values we as muslims are integrated in this country and the idea that somehow that we're not is deeply patronized it just once again divines communities in a time when we should be looking to bring people together are we back with more stories after the sub break to stay with us here on r.t. international. speak your language will not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to bangalore kids stories. to . find out more visit. secret lover tour. was able to build most sophisticated robots which will

unfortunately doesn't sound anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same potions to cure the other party. questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only of our team. it's the same with us ukraine is consciously taking negotiations over its massive gas debt down dead ends that's the view of president putin after you have once again refused to moscow's offer to sell natural gas to ukraine despite

a discount of almost twenty percent. the proposed discounts don't seem to be enough for our ukrainian partners they seem to be asking for more cuts although i don't quite understand on what grounds well if that's the case then they're consciously leading these talks down dead end proposals that aimed at partner relations and supporting ukraine's economy at a difficult time but if our proposals are rejected that would lead our relationship to a new level from which. but a mere britain has also stress or the discount is of the same offered to the previous administration and is significantly higher than those enjoyed by other neighboring states however kiev still demands moscow slashed prices by another twenty percent and despite two weeks of negotiations the parties are in a deadlock is one took up to the host with the details russia offered a one hundred dollars discount per one thousand cubic meters during the recent

negotiations which would be lower than what many european countries pay but ukraine has refused and wants an even lower raise and the deadline to at least make a start on the pavement which keeps on being moved as we say has been postponed to june the sixth day if it is not paid which as it stands according to gazprom amounts to four point five billion dollars that a prepayment system will be introduced but in other words that would mean the gas being turned off now these ongoing negotiations involve europe because europe also has an invested interest. reliant on russia for a third of its gas and fifteen percent of it comes via ukraine so if kid doesn't pay then supplies to europe could be disrupted why we remember back in two thousand and six and two thousand and nine my kid who seemed to be five coming off gas that

was on its way to europe due to price disputes which is what we're experiencing now this led to a cold winter for a point for europe so to avoid this scenario we've got this right head the south stream project which was put into place which would secure surprise by pulsing ukraine as you can see this construction is currently frozen so it's in everyone's interest to come to a compromise on these gas price disputes soon as possible journalism broadcast and neil clark says and ukraine's a turning its back on every favorable term very generous this whole what is a very anti russian government i mean it seems that ukrainian government seems to believe that they can provoke washboard just a tad bit killing civilians in the east as you know yet they still expect very generous discounts russia i don't think any amount of discount really will satisfy ukraine they're supporting forthrightly they want to prolong this for as long as possible i mean if i behave this way to russia to my gas supply my gosh we've been

cut off a lot of talk i've paid my bill for several months now that i was having huge amounts of british gas whether it would become a high gas. but i think that if russia was to do this was to do the work was actually cut off the gas to ukraine then of course it would be a trade in the west as. russia using gas of critical weapons. new york city is searching called sob six hundred thousand dollars in settlements to fourteen occupy wall street protesters find out the details of the legal dispute that resulted in the largest occupy related payment to date on our website. and the possible scenes like these could soon be seen in britain's capital for the london mayor has boarding the ads for its water cannons we've got the details that are to be done. long anticipated peace talks between the syrian government and the opposition may be held as early as this week it comes after the rebels were forced out of their last stronghold of homs which has been the

so-called capital of the revolution for the last three years arches murray for national managed to get into the devastated city as well to form a militant who decided to change sides. these a new sounds the tango over the city of homes the place in the shallow a bomb have to dialogue with the government the rebels left what they considered their capital and clashes stopped holmes's old town the militants last stronghold it's from here that they withdrew following their grim and with their sources and this is what's left after months of fierce clashes after months of their resistance and most a shop someone's home everything is destroyed everything in ruins but those who were forced to flee and no slowly returning for the first time in laos is relatively safe here and people want to be in the place they still class as her

find her i just came back from the market where good thing god does become possible after high ranking military and civil figures accepted the advances from the very people have been targeting them. as the best word to describe the situation in which the rebels initiated talks of the syrian police major was among the negotiators of the war but just a year ago he was hit by a bullet fired from the rebel side it left him disabled and doctors say he may never fully recover but he still calls for forgiveness. most of them are young people who get influenced by fanatic shakes and islamic clerics who have the extremist ideology that is alien to syrian society they motivated them by money that came from the gulf countries mostly and all this was supported by western and israeli intelligence we need to help our guys who became victims of all this we speak with a major in what's become a kind of rehab center for its militants around twelve hundred of them were brought

to the school after they surrendered university teachers and religious leaders whose families suffered in war now talk to former military is helping them reintegrate. most of them saying they were forced to take up arms all of them deny ever killing anyone that their words are impossible to verify. they used to give us lessons to explain to us that the regime is in for jobs that the regime is attacking muslims and we have to fight them. we visit homes just days after syria's first presidential elections in decades this man tells us he voted for son the person who he was fighting against just weeks ago. syrian reconciliation is assets initiative he wants to rebuild peace and have the city of homs or who may have once targeted people in syrian army uniform could soon be wearing it himself as part of the rehab program the twenty two year old could be sent to serve in the country's

army and there is no way that i will kill any of my brothers my religion and i were killed my former brothers in arms of the i do not want to kill or hurt anybody it's certain that those behind this reconsideration initiative say the important thing is to encourage other militants still resisting and there are many of them to lay down their arms and what remains the only district in the city of holmes is still held by the rebels there fishel say they are not less than three thousand and the army is here nearby and also surrounding the area and they are ready for an operation any moment but the rest of violence there too. in three villages around homes and in some other syrian provinces the situation is similar but it was a long way to go before peace is returned here the total high today that syria is a please tell you down the right track. from homs in syria.

japan is taking its first steps towards making its military technology go global tokyo and australia are looking to forge a close alliance with the multi-billion dollar submarine deal now the first major chance for military designs just earlier is seen as a step towards countering china's growing clout in the region it comes as prime minister shinzo bear pushes of greater involvement in settling international disputes since coming to power in two thousand and twelve the japanese prime minister has made moves to change his country's police war pacifist stance step by step it early two thousand and thirteen for the first time in over a decade japan raise its defense budget during an island dispute with china neighbor of that year to year then relax its self-imposed ban on arms exports a it means to expand its domestic defense industry then the following month prime minister said article nine of the constitution which outlaws war to settle disputes should be real vised and in later two thousand and thirteen

a five year defense plan was adopted including the purchase of drones and various assault vehicles vantages you can take a closer look at the regional shifts in military power. after japan together with the nazi germany lost in the second world war it adopted a constitution which says the japanese people for every now swore as a sovereign right of the nation in the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph lend see an air force this as well as other war potential will never be maintained throughout these years though japan has maintained armed forces but strictly for the purpose of self defense well japan's current prime minister shinzo abe wants to rewrite that constitution and expend japan's military power in the region laying out a vision of tokyo as a counterweight to china but without naming any country prime minister abi offered

japan's help to regional allies quote to ensure security of the seas and skies the japanese government has already relaxed arms export rules in april china is in the center of a number of territorial disputes in south china sea with the philippines vietnam and. the east china sea with japan over same cockle and islands the us is very much in broiled in all of this claiming that the disputes demand a larger u.s. military presence in asia pacific sixty percent of the u.s. is fleet is there for us as a large military presence in australia japan and the philippines and guam and the u.s. doesn't mind its ally japan becoming more militarized the united states welcomes japan's efforts to play a more proactive role into triggering global and regional peace and stability

including reexamining for tertian which constitution chuck hagel has lashed out at china for what he called destabilizing unilateral actions asserting its claims in the south china sea china hit back. i personally think the speech by mr hague was full of her germany full of threats and intimidation china is accusing bigger west of using the disputes and exacerbating them to gain a strategic advantage in the region if you're in indonesia if you're looking at this and what you're seeing is is that japan is piling on along with the united states japan may say that its plan is to secure peace but critics argue any military expansion would lead to more tension in washington i'm going to check out an arctic. or prime minister moves to militarize szczepan are apparently not going down well with the country's people japan's international broadcaster has been

gauging public opinion according to the polls more than thirty percent of those interviewed back the idea of japan's militarization whereas a forty one percent i danes take his plaza. for constitutional revision allowing the use of war in international disputes we talked to one of his experts who says the us has a direct interest in wanting a stronger japanese military. very formidable military power and it's also the threshold. nuclear technology and has rocket technology very highly technology so if decisions are taken in. washington. then very quickly become a major nuclear. nuclear weapons state the moment the american.

tries to. very strong. element. of china and to a lesser extent to russia. they bust takes on the world's financial hall players in just a couple of minutes say with us. ray of hope or merely a lol in what is rapidly turning into the ukrainian civil war jim claims it has an understanding with moscow designed to deescalate tensions and to violence there are a few details known about this understanding can better shango deliver. a series of global basis try to play out the same people are going to.

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boss. aid has the day are there two interesting stories on our radar today the first phoenix housing the second goober let's start with phoenix now phoenix is a key distressed housing market to follow a canary in the coal mine for former bubble markets and data from the month of may clearly show the housing market there topping out again. three major elements point to weakness going forward number one overall sales in may were down twenty one percent year over year that's the lowest since two thousand and eight two past sales were down forty percent so investor looks like it's meanwhile sales were down

to about nine percent year over year and three active inventory is increasing rapidly up forty seven percent year over year. for may since two thousand and eleven so what's the take away expect price increases in phoenix to flatten out in two thousand and fourteen while housing prices may have increased in two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen those large increases were likely due to low inventory investor buy and a bounce back from the steep price declines from two thousand and seven to two thousand and ten ok time for a pretty big turn. and next american express card members can now earn reward points by taking. members in rolled in rewards programs can earn two points if they use their amex card.