decades a lot of those soldiers. and they will. be . delayed in the. international this morning seems the legal battles not over for a massacre in iraq a decade ago as a coach thrown out convictions against god for the notorious u.s. military contracts and. dozens of russian speaking people didn't. know from it you know right after their parents allegedly died fighting for terrorists coming up. we hear this story. on the british police aimed at countering hate crime splits public opinion over its

role playing. good morning my name is kevin i would just tell of the morning here in moscow this choose day welcome to this thirty minutes news update them from international and first the legal battle over a massacre in iraq a decade ago is heading back to the u.s. courts judges ordered friday the re sentencing of three operatives from the private u.s. security contractor formally known as blackwater a fourth faces a complete retrial the guards opened fire with machine guns and grenade launchers in baghdad square back then fourteen civilians were killed and seventeen others were injured the gods argued that they were under fire from insurgents but no witnesses support that claim the carnage drew widespread condemnation back then and serious questions about the military's accountability in iraq. i know when you're

preparing there are. there were dead bodies everywhere and that's the argument going to. be among the dead bodies lying on the street that some. seven years old.

blackwater was on the u.s. government payroll and get about three billion dollars bid secured a contract but mans that insured after the two thousand sued after the two thousand and three u.s. invasion of iraq operating than is part of the u.s. occupation authorities blackwater gave notoriety over its conduct security flaws disciplinary problems following the massacre the company then rebranded but still operating it seems that scandal has done little to dent the u.s. government's appetite for working with military contracts as either they still thriving as jacqueline 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

yet 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 for sally port global who were paid nearly seven hundred million dollars to secure an iraqi base they allegedly turned a blind eye to outhaul 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 from the photo shop monitor group the small of his private contract

his violations of human rights he believes the companies like accountability for the violations. in the us own state and government reform from us asserted that during debian to thoughts of by divorce instead of blood what was it was it one hundred ninety five incidents involving fate so you can imagine you know the great impact on human rights. from all this case it if you don't you were not going through the steve grosses i was living through in the dream you do seem to write and i can get you to take people in much less what it and not this being misused it called we did this a lot of public accountability public scrutiny. if you saw when you just used international. international norms in northern do you attribute this to stability to the security contractors. next

this tuesday morning story about forty eight russian speaking children stranded of an orphanage in iraq after they were rescued during the battle to liberate the city of mosul from islamic state and r t crew going to the shelter to visit them. in. order for. milk cartons way. not surprising considering the awful scenes these girls have been through some of those kids appear to be unsure of their own names or even how old they are is played they were taken to iraq by their parents joint islamic state and who are now presumed dead. iraq and jordan are working to try to track down other family members of the children some of them are describing or deals. and they are upsetting from the sea. and.

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east someone would put in a school just to find someone who knew. this place will. get . a fresh alert over voting irregularities in the united states in california alone same several counties there have been found to have substantially more registered voters than voting age citizen this is good funding of. voter fraud a subject that seems fierce debate in recent us 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 hell. well for any 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 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 voter fraud before the 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 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 no 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 able to mop and artsy new york. hate filled graffiti has been sprayed outside twitter's offices in the german city of hamburg but it's not the work of vandals and fun part of

a stunt to highlight the abundance of offensive posts on twitter and the company's simming reluctance to tackle it the artist behind it used real tweets of racist anti-semitic and homophobic messages to make the point clear the artist's name appear he says he's reported three hundred hateful tweets to two it's him but also goes on to say the social media joined us failed to delete most of them and that prompted him to take this radical action 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 there was you know after we sprayed everything. they 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 cleaned 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 how we choose that is going good so far thanks for being with us a lot more to come here for at least the next fifteen minutes with me kevin zero in the stories to come include the syrian army making significant gains in homes will tell you and we'll hear what locals have been living through ninety seconds away.

oh dear i've already got right back on it for that. with no make this manufactured to send to the public well. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final.

we can all middle of the room see. the real news. again so the syrian army is clearing the eastern ton of all of i still terrorist it was captured by government troops at the weekend and it's been regarded in fact as one of the most significant victories in recent months we spoke to the syrian army's information chief to get more details but was. a military units of encircled also not in the suburbs or advancing on the last i still stronghold that makes. us feel terrorists as usual leaving behind land mines and unexploded shell making your difficult for the syrian army to me throughout troops and monitoring the city and tracking every move the ice and snipers in fights the syrian military is. lost in the city as soon as your parishioner littleton's is going. to.

video agency ruptly has filmed exclusive video from inside the town as the last islamic state stronghold in the homes province given to where it is. that was retaken some fifty kilometers from the border with problems that is still mostly under i still control nothing this out a bit better the logistics of it for you if you could try and connect. syrian war geography the south east is where the color coded key is least complicated government controlled red versus eisel held the black divided by won't long desert front line and it's just shifted to the right of a town called i know. there's plenty to so great for these troops 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 for province taking control of this province will mean wiping out impromptu or production no more cash for the terrorists from. the government troops can also push to the north and if they can reunite with fellow soldiers and the rock a province isolates forces will end up cattle in the geographical heart of syria out of. the beginning of the absolute and of isis in syria with definite to potentiality of so many as a. fifty kilometers away from that is over retaking that particular city is of

vital importance to the reopening of the route and the road to that is or 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 and at the same time push for their resort in the quickest to form new life 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 breeze momentarily with relief but there's still a long way to go. here's a live mention there is always been under siege for years locals told us the dire conditions they faced having to live and in the shadow of i still am i learned very late in the navy 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 as ordered 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. storage from the u.k. next police they have launched an interactive campaign raising awareness for extremist hate crime the crossing the line up asks users to make several choices depending on how you respond seems the story can then play out with your character becoming involved in hate crimes it actually then ends up with them either killing a person or witnessing others commit murder the project was created with the help

of the county police force in bedfordshire and is now but endorsed by other can stab routes across britain went over to police the game on twitter and asked people if they could spot signs of right wing extremism or maybe know someone who might cross the line as the game is called but people were quick to point out the risk that the game might actually incite violence instead of forcing it 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 in 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 the 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 limbs 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 used i've used them violence looking for what you have 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 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. yes as opposed to what's going on overall in the radical islamic community is ludicrous weir's faith communities should stand together against hateful language why that it comes from within the muslim community and whether it comes from within the far right terrorism of violence is wrong full stop on which nobody should be making excuses for it i completely disagree with what i but i you know i guess you know it's why when we had a bear i that's nice i like that in the airport. tuesday marks the one from a verse or at the start of the war between the caucuses country of georgia and the self-proclaimed republics of south a set of cards here georgian forces but then waged

a massive attack on the south asserting capital to try to get it back under control russian peacekeepers who were there also came under fire. ah. so it was seizures just found her son is why didn't she. third good. job.

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 morning and mr saakashvili increase i call myself and to call it a. two days. my my feet people will shield anywhere on the wall and kill cells as people who feel together 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.

he's been talking to the leader of one of georgia's opposition parties of the time he recalls the role that then president saakashvili played in the conflict i tell you the full interview is here in just over two of his time but is some of what's ahead. subhashree to begin the war and southwest really was the person who is most responsible in these tragic events i was to clear. just any officer country by media and all the media representatives and even right now despite a tough investigation of the made by european union this pride of television is the collaboration this party told the things that everybody knows what really happened to a city that is sure to begin the war. very uncomfortable enjoy it nobody wants to. see intent to say that. you can see that in fall at times when you

scream that it was witnessed there thanks for being with us this morning obviously with a twofer next programs my name is cobra now in the next live news up the road to h.q. just thirty minutes. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around. preparations washington washington media the media. voters elected is not to run this country business you. bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done.

because you know going to want to. get. there so you know i lost his boss because. we saw. any of those in person but the pressure on us i don't mean has been. showing us that you know part of us you're not. you know just i mean most people have spent a lot of the i mean. there's been up and i must say i mean i really feel so i just don't get it getting worse but those were the old. one of the . just. my family fussy credible my just but that's already yes it will be and he thought of getting up there with you.

i am i gather this is the kaiser report even one of the themes explore on the show often as the crimes of wall street repeat themselves under different names now i'm going to talk to you about the clatter was debt obligations remember those c.d.o. those while they've been reinvented as the same scam but they've got a new name we're going to talk about that in a moment but first late breaking knows about some german woman stacey i want to show you this headline which is just remarkable how empires and they choose to just shoot themselves in the head they're like. they're threatening the rest of the world but actually they're holding a gun to the head if if you don't know by obey by ass we're going to kill ourselves germany threatens retaliation if u.s. sanction harm their firms merkel is threatening retaliation against the united

states for their russia sanctions so they the u.s. congress you know the both the senate and the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly for this bill to sanction russia but now it looks like the u.s. might be sanctioned by germany oh well that is exactly what i say for the past two years while america heats up this and russia rhetoric and increases the sanctions they're pushing germany a key ally nato into the arms of russia now america is fighting germany russia and china in a trade war in a world war in atomic war who knows where this is going but imagine you've got the u.s. and the bridge or the u.k. on one side versus germany russia and china on the other side i wonder how that's going to go all the explanations of a chorus verse is america's creditor china america's biggest exporters china and germany plus throw russia in there as the biggest you know atomic weaponry

that sounds like a formidable proposition but you know maybe maybe. the butterflies though the snowflakes the social justice warriors the transgender bathroom follows of peoples and whatever will be up for this fight anyway let's turn to some stories that are also in the headlines in the financial news and while we were gone of course the f.c.c. came out with a report about you know these i c o z's initial quote offerings in particular they mentioned the dow which is one of the or through the first smart contract the first i.c.a.o. essentially on the theory in block chain that all collapsed when a hacker stole some coins and that resulted in the split in theory i'm exactly a year ago so you know that was that as you see said that is a security and they're going to regulate it so the f.c.c. is crucial to the next story about regulating and these threats of regulation because the sea.