this problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. just describe. the worst there's. legal battles not over for a massacre in iraq a decade ago as a court throws out convictions against guards for the notorious us military contract. coming up to this morning dozens of russian speaking children were found stranded in an orphanage in iraq after the parents allegedly died fighting for the terrorists we hear some of this story. says. there's anger over a british police role playing countering far right hate crime which depicts muslims

as targets. good morning i'm kevin oh it's just turned nine am here in moscow this tuesday welcome to this latest live news update from r t h q top story than the legal battle over a massacre in iraq decade ago is heading back to the u.s. courts judges friday overturned lengthy sentences for murder against three operatives from a private u.s. security contractor formerly known as blackwater for now faces a retrial for god so far with machine guns at the time and grenade launchers in baghdad. fourteen unarmed civilians were killed and seventeen others were injured the guards argued that they were under fire from insurgents but now witnesses support that claim college at the time drew widespread condemnation and raised serious questions about the military's accountability in iraq. no wonder the birth

where are. they were dead bodies everywhere and the arguments going about even with few people in society among the dead bodies lying on the street those who are. seven years old .

blackwater as it was then known as being on the u.s. government payroll earning it about three billion dollars it secured a contract but none of that ensured after the two thousand and three us invasion of iraq operating as part of the us occupation authorities blackwater gave notoriety over its conduct security flaws and disciplinary problems following the massacre the company then rebranded but is still operating it seems that scandal has done little than to dent the u.s. government's appetite for working with military contract is that a still thriving as i see it jacqueline vogel reports next. meet erik prince the founder of blackwater a private military company with a controversial reputation with its legacy you might expect prince's 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 yet you 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 for sally port global who were 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. got reaction just last hour from the founder of short monitors

a group monitoring private contractors violations of human rights. in the us own oversight and government reform from us a sense that during debian thought of by disasters they don't like what the lawsuit was one hundred ninety five incidents involving fate so you can imagine you know the great impact on human rights. provoked you know what from all this case it's. because i do it to take you to more of my duty we're not going through the steve grossman i was i was living through in the dream you do seem to write and i can get you. to take people in much less what i'm not this being missed is it called we did this a lot of public accountability public scrutiny. so all we need to do to use the international. international norms you nor there

to me. do you attribute this possibly to the security contractors. forty eight russian speaking children a stranded orphanage in iraq after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from islamic state now t.v. crews going to that shelter to meet them. in. order to get more and more coffins ways. as you saw some of children appear to be considering the been through i guess i'm sure the road names are in how old they are it's believed they were taken to iraq by their parents who joined islamic state and who are now presumed dead russia iraq and jordan are working to try to track down other family members some of the children have been describing the how arrowing ordeal slangy would and they are upsetting from this.

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east someone would put in a school just to find someone new. this place will run a number. that. is fresh tova voting irregularities in the united states in california alone several counties have been found to have substantially more registered voters than voting age citizens as column open records. voter fraud a subject that seemed 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 in pure glee a stunning allegation for which the white house is providing no evidence to the people registered in two states they're registered in new york and in new jersey

they vote you mean voter. fraud california allows i believe there was motive 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 urging that california to take reasonable steps to clean up its rules we will show you if state officials failed to act the greatest discrepancy was in los angeles county according to 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 voter fraud before the local politics not for national things 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 these 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. maybe you have 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 table mop and art see new york. next this morning he was placed in the u.k. have launched an interactive campaign aimed at raising awareness of right wing hate

crime the crossing that line up all six uses to make several choices. seems depending on how you respond the story can then play out with your character becoming involved in far right activities and then ends with the me that killing a person or witnessing others commit murder now this project was created with the help of the county police force in bedford show and it's been indorsed by other can standards across britain too it's part of why their campaign aimed at preventing terrorism but it's angered many because it depicts muslims as targets 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 ideas them violence looking for is for follow do you seriously are trying to compare fringe right wing extremism 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 mosques 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 overall in the radical islamic community is ludicrous we as faith communities should stand together against hateful language y. that it comes from within the muslim community and by that it comes from within the far right terrorism of violence is wrong full stop on the mission nobody should be making excuses for it i completely disagree with that but i you know i guess yeah that's why i want to be in a better i that's nice i like the end of that point and the conversation went home

coming up here right now after the break the syrian army has made a significant gain in homes province and tell you all about that and what locals been living through after the break up which is days going good. little. local blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw spreading tell you that will be gossip the public their. eyes tell you pull it out like. a hawk we. will walk. time for the break in the syrian army is clearing the eastern town of. terrorists it was captured by government troops at the weekend is being regarded by some as one of the most significant victories in recent months in fact it is a big move we spoke to the syrian army's information chief to get more details. military units of encircled in the suburbs mirror or advance in the last missile

stronghold that makes. us all terrorists as usual leaving behind land mines and unexploded shell making it difficult for the syrian army troops to minister in the city and tracking every move the ice and snipers in fights the syrian military is quite lost in the city as soon as your permission to the militants is going to. be declared the liberation of the city. you see filled exclusive video from inside . there is the last islamic state stronghold in homs province it was retaken of about fifty kilometers from the border with. that though is still mostly and i still control still trying to go. syrian war geography the south east is where the color coded key is least complicated government controlled red vs i still held the black divided by won't 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 close. 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 province taking control of this province will mean wiping out impromptu oil 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 rot. province i saw as forces will end up kettle and the geographical heart of syria certainly is definitely the beginning of

the absolute end of isis in syria where there are definitely two potentiality of superman is only fifty kilometers away from that is or retaking not 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 will potentially link up with what's left of the horses and at the same time push for their resort 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 there is or can breeze momentarily with relief but there's still a long way to go. you mention the resource but you know the siege for years now

locals told us the dire conditions they faced having to live under the shadow of i still am i live very late and even a bit as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us i hid her in a water tank so that the terrorist didn't take her as a slave 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 later use them as suicide bombers to villian don't have access to regular good the commodities to services planes are always able to reach there are only power through the equipment of the food which is needed it is already on the outskirts is one large front line you've got thousands of syrian forces fighting i think on a day to day basis they're in constant need of resupply. filled graffiti has been sprayed outside twitter's offices in the german city of hamburg but it's not

the work of right vandals it is part of a stunt to highlight the abundance of offensive posts on twitter and the company's sieving reluctance to tackle it the artists behind it used real tweets of racist anti-semitic and homophobic messages to make the point clear the artist's name is shapiro he's reported he says three hundred hateful tweets to twitter but he goes on to say too that the social media giant has failed to delete most of them and that prompted him to take this radical action now. the law forces companies like twitter and facebook to delete those kind of comments after twenty four hours or to at least process them twitter is a huge company. a bunch of wrist resources and i think considering how much how many resources they actually have i feel like they're not doing everything in their power to stop this problem which is the big problem isn't it interesting that i

have to spray those things on the whole street for people to actually notice them while those tweets of those tweets it's been on have been on twitter for years the only response i got when we were dare was you know after we sprayed everything day someone from the building i'm not sure if it's twitter or one of the other offices that are that are there they hired someone to clean up but he could end up only in the front so we only cleaned up the entrance of the building while all the other hate comments were. were still there and i thought it was a it was a nice symbol to how twitter approaches things. tuesday marks the ninth anniversary of the start of the war between the caucasus come to your country rather of a georgia in the so pretty republics of south set your names because the georgian forces were used but when a massive attack on the south are set in capital skin to try and get it back under its control russian peacekeepers who were also came under fire.

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president says russia is attacking his country secretary of state rice is calling on russia to end its assault on the republic of georgia. to some question really who started this war and mr saakashvili increase i call myself and you call it a call today so. my my. people would shield anywhere on their blogs and kill cells and people who feel to be on the one day and that's what a guest i would tell you that unfortunately a commercial break will take us there in four seconds what. auntie's been talking to the leader of one of george's opposition parties at the

time then who recalls the role the lead president saakashvili played in the conflict we got the full interview airing in just over three hours from now but here's a small clip of what's ahead. subhashree to begin the war and said it was a person who is most responsible in these tragic events i was to clear. just any meat of six hundred feet up by all the media and all the media representatives and even right now despite openness to gay shit in a film made by european union despite of cleverness the collaboration despite the scenes that everybody knows what's really happening to see if that is true to begin the war. thirty uncomfortable enjoy it nobody wants to. seem to say that's ok so the interview is sure jul two words several times today it'll be on again the next day in just three hours time your next news update from

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hawk watchers in the theater of twenty first century war invasions based on the lives of the high paid trigger happy mercenaries a lot of the times you you never get what you want new most definitely definitely never get what you need this is exactly the case for many in iraq today after a us federal people's court threw a barrier large wrench into the search for justice in the two thousand and seven the square massacre according to m.p.r. a federal appeals court has thrown out the murder conviction of an ex blackwater security guard and ordered three others to be released sentenced in connection with the two thousand and seven massacre of fourteen unarmed iraqi civilians in baghdad injured seventeen blackwater contractors paul slaw for dust unheard of in liberty and each been sentenced to thirty years in prison after being convicted in two thousand and fourteen of voluntary manslaughter and using a machine gun to carry out a violent crime while nicholas a slavin was convicted of first degree murder and given

a life sentence for according to the government by airing the first shot in the tragedy but the appeals court ruling now means that the trump justice department will have to decide if they want to reprosecute the slaton caves which is now spanned three different presidencies meanwhile slams three compatriots will more than likely have their prison terms drastically reduced in the recent unsing i guess when it when it comes to the tragedy that is the iraq war that even after multiple multiple multiple years and multiple multiple multiple convictions justice will once again have to weigh. eight until we start watching the hawks. legal looks like. it was. analyzing the bottom. of the play like i got. it.