it is always going to. be legal battles not over for a massacre in a racket decades ago as a court throws up convictions against gods for the notorious u.s. military contract. dozens of russian speaking children are from stranded at an orphanage in iraq and the parents allegedly. some of their stories coming. on are not on.

the police. to far right angles communities overusing muslims. i mean it's ludicrous for i don't know why they're spending time. with the ideology of the far right and yes if we've got to take the terrorist ideology. within the muslim community. very good morning you know it is just an aid to the morning here in moscow this chews day welcome an hour of live news from r.t. international h.q. . the legal battle over a massacre in iraq a decade ago is heading back to the u.s. courts judges friday overturned a lengthy sentences for murder against three operatives from the. private u.s.

security contracts are formerly known as blackwater force now faces a retrial for guards opened fire at the time with machine guns and grenade launchers in baghdad square fourteen unarmed civilians were killed and seventeen others were injured the guards argued that they were under fire from insurgents but no witnesses support that claim the carnage at the time drew widespread condemnation and raise serious questions about the military's accountability in iraq. i know when you're going to perth where are. they were dead bodies everywhere and it's the. only t.v. from inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's. seven years old.

blackwater as it was then has been on the u.s. government payroll earning about three billion dollars over the years it secured a contract bonanza that ensued after the two thousand and three us invasion of iraq operating as part of the us occupation authorities like watergate notoriety over its security flaws and disciplinary problems following the massacre of the company then rebranded but it is still operating it seems that scandals done little to dent the u.s. government's appetite for working with military contract is either still thriving is actually vulgar explains. meet erik prince the founder of blackwater

a private military company with a controversial reputation with its legacy you might expect princes career to be over but this cannot be farther from the truth there's no backlash for him no shame the man's gun for hire business is booming what i care about is a taxpayer is that large you wasting food say five billion dollars a year in afghanistan i don't think it's appropriate to pull out completely with all the wars the us is waging abroad times are lucrative for private security firms you'd struggle to find one with an untainted slate dyna corp for example for over a decade the u.s. state department was giving almost seventy percent of its funding for afghanistan to this particular firm this company's record features a sex slavery scandal in bosnia a male prostitution scandal in afghanistan and also there a botched seventy million dollar worth construction project were also means big business first sally port global who are paid nearly seven hundred million dollars to secure an iraqi base they allegedly turned

a blind eye to alcohol smuggling theft security violations and allegations of sex trafficking and then fired investigators who uncovered wrongdoing that's all according to an associated press investigation the list of controversy goes on yet private security firms are doing just fine and filling their coffers with the spoils of war. r.t. washington d.c. the situation let's go back to this case just remind you the u.s. appeals court friday throwing out the first degree murder conviction of former blackwater will board security go of sentence of life in prison for the killing of fourteen iraqi civilians joining us on the line of the founder of shock one of the troops a group monitoring private contractors violations of human rights to get up early to be with us in the program appreciate it what do you think of the decision to overturn the previous sentence. reconsider in these cases. good morning woman told about it while it seemed that do. you suppose.

the cases of bush didn't exist but as. late and i saw in that this is not a not i would like to just have to go you know do to show you the proportion or or the impact or what for example in the new iraq during the. two thousand and seven the u.s. . government report from u.s. assistance that during the period two thousand by two thousand and seven what was the war the one hundred ninety five incidents. you know what the reported during the speech of that sixteen iraqi. and one hundred sixty two incidents with property damage so you can imagine you know the impact on human rights. provoked you know what for all from all this case it's

a big big majority the huge more were not you know. process going through a process from our own estimation from our reports we can tell you that. we have about two hundred incidents right now only fifty percent of these incidents and they can't do the process and only ten percent of that of these cases. resulted in effective group operation and conversation for the big but at the time these guys were sentenced to a long time in prison for thirty years or so that's now been overturned why do you say that's about some positive move fourteen unarmed iraqi civilians died seventeen were wounded in this particular case at that traffic roundabout that time why would that be p.-p. positive sentences were overturned now. well i mean i think recently initially.

he will open the gates again and to to your knowledge that this is of course. what i want to be doing doing your duty in iraq and i can get you. the people that like work there and know that being missy's. and of course you should just go but do expect these people then to get tougher sentences if it goes to retrial all in all really come up with more lenient sentences which way is it going to go do you think well we hope that it will be elect sentences for them of course because he is the most notorious case of b. of being missy's. in iraq i think it was the most important but there is still need to be a need to be a more a storm that again say that the support of the rest i mean initially supported it but there's not enough and if you that there should be like the talks. centers for them of course philip we've got to leave it there i'm afraid so the time comes

a quick it seems phillip does a founder a shock monitor group monitoring private contractors violations of human rights maybe will touch a bit more behind the scenes as well to ask if any lessons have been learned from this but thanks for now appreciate it if you. other news this morning forty eight russian speaking children a stranded at norfolk in iraq after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from islamic state and r.t. crews bring to the shelter there. it worked out. in the school system for the pilot. you're doing it for. new companies always. pleasure sawyer so much order to be unsure of their own names and souls and leave how old they are it's believed they were taken to iraq by their parents or joined islamic state and who are now presumed dead russian iraq and jordan are working to try to track down other family

members so much children i've been describing though the how or when the deals they remember that they've gone through in june would and they are upsetting to listen to. eat. so. that the. families. just lived one is still a don't boito me. it's a. bit skin would done us. a good deal solution and was sure a stretch to me. what does just looked up which. like i mean you have a list. she's too early to get. any. so . it should. not on i know more. than me only this coming in it only of. your mom what to.

tell you one week. was. east someone else was the one but in a school just to find someone you knew as a. yes please we'll. leave that night. other headlines this morning there's an alert over voting irregularities in the united states in california alone several come counties there of being found substantially more registered voters than voting age citizens is kalam open with more. voter fraud a subject that seen fierce debate in recent u.s. politics but the current president and his opponents trading barbs over claims and counterclaims flying back and forth every time voter fraud occurs it cancels out

the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy can't let that happen the fiction that millions of illegal votes were cast in the two thousand and sixteen election it is imperiously stunning allegation for which the white house is providing no evidence to people registered in two states they registered in new york and in new jersey they vote you mean voter fraud california allows i believe there was voted for and a new report suggests that it's an issue that does need to be looked into the activist group judicial watch sent a letter to california for eighty's pointing out a discrepancy between the number of people registered to vote in the state and the total population of eligible voters it is urgent that california to take reasonable steps to clean up its rolls will she with state officials fail to act the greatest discrepancy was in the los angeles county coroner the report there forty four percent more people registered to vote than eligible citizens living in the county

and that amounts to roughly one million people now california isn't the only state facing these kinds of problems according to the report that was released back in april over eleven different states have counties with similar discrepancies we decided to talk to folks here in liberal new york about what the figures show there's not that much voter fraud but there's been a couple of states in the south but they've brought before a local politics not for national politics i just think it's a system where even if maybe one vote is off in a state then the state goes to the other way and mostly it's just i think it in needs to be more on the people than it is do you have faith in the american electoral system yes absolutely you don't think it's rigged or faulty you know i think our elections here in the usa are rigged. faith in the american electoral system yes tell me tell me why. because there's checks and balances in the system if california doesn't get a grip on things it could soon be facing a lawsuit as it stands the elections of the united states and their integrity are

now in question but not because of some allusive russian hackers the problem appears to be much closer to home. art see new york it's now exactly forty minutes past late morning moscow time thanks me with this coming up this chews day the syrian army has made a significant gain in homes we'll tell you about and hear what locals are living through well after this quick break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington.

voters elected to run this country business. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to press. the press this is what the three of them can't be good. interested always in the water how. should. i get things going with us this morning so the syrian army is clearing the eastern town of of isolate terrorists it was captured by government troops at the weekend

and is being with god it is one of the most significant victories in recent months we spoke to the syrian army's information chief. units of encircled in the suburbs mirror what advanced in the last school stronghold the. us will terrorists as usual leaving behind land mines and unexploded shell making it difficult for the syrian army to move through out troops and monitoring the city and tracking every movement the ice and snipers in fight the syrian military is lost by some terrorists from the city as soon as your permission to wipe out the militants is going to. be declared the liberation of the city is more for your video news agencies filmed exclusive video from inside. the last islamic state stronghold in homs province the retaken towns about fifty kilometers from the border that is all province which is still mostly on the rifle control trying to explain more. syrian war geography the south east is where the color coded key is least complicated

government controlled red vs eisel held the black divided by won't a long desert front line and it's just shifted to the right of a town called no. there's plenty to so great for these. their commanders saving. edges them closer to their ultimate goal in this part of syria dare as zoar where one to two hundred thousand people are completely surrounded by islamic state and a few more months the siege will have been ongoing for three years in strategic terms is the last stop on the way to dare as providence taking control of this province will mean wiping out i sold impromptu or production no more cash for the terrorists from. the government troops can also push to the north and if they

can we night with fellow soldiers and the rock a province i salute. forces will end up kettle and the geographical heart of syria out of circle is definitely the beginning of the absolute end of isis in syria where there are definitely two potentiality of a subcommittee is only fifty kilometers away from that is or retaking that particular city is of vital importance to the reopening of the route on the road to their resort now the other option is to actually link up with the forces coming in from the northwest now that would create a huge pocket of remaining isis forces i think the army would potentially link up with what's left of the horses at the same time they would push for their daughter in the quickest to form a new way possible we've seen the syrian army gaining ground and then relinquishing some tough lessons in war geography have been learned those trapped in the arizona

or can breathe momentarily with relief but there's still a long way to go yeah zillion mentioned has been under siege for years no locals told us the diet conditions they faced having to live in there in the shadow of. as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us here in a water tank so that the terrorists didn't take her as a slave it was obvious that. the situation in there is or is catastrophic terrorist from iraq execute civilians in the streets and leave bodies lying there for up to five days i secretly drove my sons out of the city otherwise isis militants would recruit them by force inject psychotropic substances and gives them suicide bombers . civilians don't have access to regular to commodities to services always able to

reach. the equipment or the food which is needed for the many civilians in this city. who are fighting on the front lines. in the u.k. launched an interactive campaign aimed at raising awareness of right wing hate crime the crossing the line up ask users to make several choices depending on your responder story can play out with the character becoming involved in. these it that ends with the me the killing person or witnessing others commit murder the project was created with the help of the county police force in bedford sure and now has been endorsed by the constabularies across britain is part of a wider campaign aimed at preventing terrorism but it's angered many because the game can result in the virtual player being arrested for beating up a muslim is some of the reaction we've been hearing. i think this this this notion

of this game trivializes how one can become radicalized and i think it's focusing frankly on the wrong problem it's a problem but it's not the major problem technically there is violence from both sides technically we have to be able to focus on what the reality is which is most if not the overwhelming majority of all the terrorism we've seen in england and certainly here the united states has come from radical islam not from islam itself but for radical islam that's really if you want to get the head of the snake that's really we should be focused on not some of them some game like this i think well i look i mean i think just comment there from a friend in new york just sums up what the problem is. we've had mosque you know terrorist attack here in the u.k. carried out by the far right we have a mosque bombed only a few days ago in minnesota and this is what the right will always do they always say oh forget everything else is happening from the far right let's just focus on the muslims i accept the majority of terrorist atrocities we see around the world

carried out by so-called muslims the majority of victims of those terrorist attacks of muslims so you know i've been pretty consistent of fighting terrorism being on the front line and confronting it but what we require now is the same leadership the same commitment from people on the other side rather than looking for excuses for far right extremism are you serious are you seriously saying that far why by the way to be values i've used them violence looking for what you want is for follow do you seriously are trying to compare fringe right we have truism which is exactly that it's fringe as opposed to the real credible problem we have with radical islam and by the way you're exactly right the majority of all victims of radical islam are not wait guys in europe they're in mosque in pakistan and iraq i agree with you so these these law must. electorate should be the ones who are most concerned with radical islam but to compare a few fringe and that's what it is fringy right we could stream as a tack. as opposed to what's going on over all in the radical islamic community is

ludicrous weir's faith communities should stand together against hateful language y. that it comes from within the muslim community and whether it comes from within the far right terrorism and violence is wrong full stop on which nobody should be making excuses for it i can point out as really what i but i you know i guess you know it's why we are there i that's nice i like the end of the airport. virtual going to real life to choose day marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the war between the caucuses country of georgia and the self-proclaimed republics of south to set your new cars here georgian forces waged a massive attack on service on the south asserting capital skin valley to try to get it back under its control russian peacekeepers who were also came under fire at the time.

ah. so it was seizures just phones or some reason why didn't. third think. it. was. georgia is under attack from its neighbor russia we are all george georgia's president says russia is attacking his country secretary of state rice is calling on russia to end its assault on the republic of georgia. mr subhashree who started this war and mr saakashvili increase i call myself and to

call it a day to day basis. my my people of a city and people will shield anywhere on their blogs and kill cells and people and she'll go one day and that's what a guest i would never tell you that unfortunately a commercial break will take us there in four seconds what. just tip you off as well i can tell a very short of this one are going to be talking to the leader of one of georgia's opposition parties at the time he recalls the role. presence like has been played in the conflict is little or was the come. out war. really was the person who is most responsible in these tragic events i was the clear. just.

treat up by old media and old media representatives and even right now despite openness to gay shit in a film made by european union despite of cleverness the collaboration this party told the things that everybody knows what's really happening to see if they really begin the war the. very uncomfortable enjoy it nobody wants to. stress seem to say this is an interview not to be missed if you've not called work until about four you coming up next after the break you're the international it's now a twenty six in the morning moscow tabi next world news up just about twenty five minutes away from me.

here's what people have been saying about rejected a knighthood to us exactly just pull on. the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than boobs that i see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank so. i'm going to write many serious like he sent us an email. war against freedom of speech continues and you guessed it our t. again is being targeted also has russia given up on trying and anything stop the leaks in washington. social environment. with. chemical discoveries over the last century made

every day life easier but at what cost this is syria is exceptionally sick. says since the years old industrial giants reap the benefit ignoring the caused by chemical production. you know as if these people are. just experimental animals. the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of backs and levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. today is the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the south the city in war how

would you say the events that war and the conflict are viewed today. first to full i would like to paternity to speak with you. to express my understanding george and . i would like to mention. even into cells and. i saw deep and serious results could bring forth joy. place in. war but unfortunately even that time people didn't understand the. member celebration of that week to and i would like to say that right now some people enjoy don't understand reality. as they are living under illusion but i see. these six years war situation concerning territorial integrity.