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a car. live and direct from moscow city this is our international. pleasure to have you with us this hour our top story the founder of block water a notorious private security firm has suggested the u.s. should private its war effort in afghanistan erik prince say it would save lives on taxpayers' money they would be contracting people professionals former special operations veterans that have experience in that theater to go do that work but be profiting from the war. well we're not there now but any vendor again solves that solution that's capitalism that's that's what it's about. over

a ten year period blackwater earned around two billion dollars from the u.s. government most of the came after it secured a contract following the two thousand and three invasion of iraq operating as part of the us occupation off dorothy's the firm gained notoriety over the conduct of its mercenaries the company was rebranded and sold after four of its employees carved out a must occur in baghdad in two thousand two thousand and seven now here's a reminder of what happened back in. march and i wondered about the paradox there are. there were dead bodies everywhere in the city. among the dead bodies. of seven years old of.

the blackwater funders controversial proposal to privatized the war in afghanistan the legal battle over those killings in baghdad continues in the u.s. courts reporting from iraq hawkins. the two thousand and seven news source square massacre in baghdad became one of the dog chapters of the iraq war seventeen iraqis lost their lives with nearly twenty more wounded in an incident where

private security guards from blackwater now rebranded academy opened indiscriminate fire into crowds of civilians after a bush official investigations both the rocky and american found that most of the civilian deaths were unjustified it took nearly eight years of legal wrangling for justice to be served all the guards to open fire that they for were found guilty and sentenced to lengthy prison terms but now an american federal appeals court has overturned the first degree murder conviction of one of the guards and recommended three others for resentencing citing the punishments as cruel and unusual we tracked down some of the people who were in baghdad on the day of the killings whose lives were changed forever. i was working for the post office magadan on the sixteenth of september two thousand and seven i was delivering close to the police department in central baghdad and i saw blackwater contractors open fire

randomly on civilians i was wounded as a result of the shooting and my hand. this wound is a result of the actions of blackwater contractors it still hurts and i still haven't fully recovered. on the sixteenth of september two thousand and seven we came under fire next in the source square now we've heard that those responsible are going to be released i'm calling on every country in the world it's unfair i was wounded in both legs and several people were murdered we know the justice and law are respected in the u.s. we are calling on all countries to interfere in this situation the scars are not only physical hussein lost his brother in the gunfire he is in disbelief that real justice may once again if a to victims of the massacre. when i reach the square there was horrible around

cars were burning blood and bullets were everywhere i was looking for my brother among the wounded but he was already in hospital by the time i reached him he was already dead two days ago i heard they want to release those criminals from blackwater i hope that the u.s. court will not release them because they are criminals they murdered fourteen people my brother was only twenty four he was working hard to support our elderly parents our family still suffers greatly with the humanity we are all human rights how can the u.s. court acquit those criminals and release them on what grounds in a case that sparked outrage across the arab world many of the victims now feel that closure for them may be a search for a way as ever after that fateful day in the source square hawking's for r.t. iraq. here to a big story of the day where tensions mind thing between america and north korea the u.s. defense secretary has said north korea must stop pursuing nuclear weapons after

president emphasize the strength of his. this country's nuclear arsenal the president said his actions have modernized u.s. weapons america will never be overtaken as the world's greatest superpower before the out trump and given a stark warning to north korea young young men threaten to strike the u.s. pacific territory of guam. make it work ranch to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen before trying to make the rather explosive statement while the washington post actually published an article claiming that their reporters have read this latest u.s. defense report which says that north korea has managed to build these small nuclear warheads a small enough to fit inside missiles so rather alarming information but this

washington post article well they did not present any sort of evidence to prove how they managed to get their hands on this on this document and despite that the story's been picked up by the american mainstream media has been widely reported and here's a sample of what those reports are like now confirming a u.s. intelligence assessment on north korea that was first reported by the washington post earlier today in the assessment is that north korea now has a weapon a nuclear weapon that is small enough to fit on a missile u.s. intelligence analysts believe the north could now produce a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missile and north korea become a full fledged nuclear power it may have crossed a key threshold something the world has been fearing for years the north has successfully developed many nuclear warhead now on top of this washington post article things got to a boiling point on choose day when the u.s. flew to b. one b. bombers over guam with its allies in japan and south korea and after that drill while the president made that statement saying that he's respond to threats from north korea with fire and theory and that prompted pyongyang to release

a statement saying that they are considering striking the u.s. base in guam now bear in mind that is true i mean throughout the years and also this year alone north korea has conducted numerous missile tests which angered the international community but at the same time the u.s. is also increasing its military presence significantly in the region we're talking about sending an air carrier is conducting regular military drills setting and troops and also fighter jets to the region and in terms of rhetoric while president obama has long been quite aggressive towards north korea and some would even go as far as saying that he's been provoked here's a sample of the u.s. officials have commented on north korea in the past the year of strategic patience . with the north korean regime has failed many years that it's failed united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies one of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces this is

a little peugeot the nation if you compare it to our capabilities they don't come near to being even close to it compared to all the chance that we could and. having a major major conflict with north korea. absolutely tensions are higher than ever as gone way beyond just a war of words china and russia have been calling on all sides to remain calm and to seek a political solution to all of this and meanwhile australia and new zealand who are countries that are countries in the asia pacific region also u.s. allies and they could suffer greatly if a conflict is to break out on the korean peninsula they have also come out to weigh in on what they thought about trump's latest statement but i think the comments are not helpful and informative satiric teams everyone wants to avoid military confrontation the global community led by the security council including trauner and russia. all united in seeking to bring the maximum economic pressure on north korea to bring them to their senses without conflict have to wait and see

whether trump will take their advice but certainly the escalating tensions on the korean peninsula has got a lot of people worried well donald trump's words have also been widely condemned by u.s. lawmakers congressman eliot engel called the latest remarks reckless he say's that trump is undermining america's security putting its allies in danger we've got reaction from a number of analysts they too believe that the u.s. leader is taking huge risks by ratcheting up the tension. i definitely think that the north korean leadership including supreme leader kim jong un has look to the examples of libya and iraq to see what happens in leaders when they gave up their nuclear weapons and particularly since july since last month when north korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles their leadership has taken a stronger stance against negotiations they've made it very clear that north

korea's nuclear program is not on the negotiating table unless the u.s. changes its stance against north korea i think president trumps rhetoric calling for war and calling for destruction calling for unprecedented fire and fear is the wrong message to say by the u.s. president of his time and this is definitely the wrong thing to do you cannot have the president of the united states warmongering against d p r k where as the us secretary of state is calling d p r k not and then mail the united states. to another headline stories this hour french authorities have arrested a man suspected of plowing a car into a group of soldiers in the north of paris earlier today six were injured three seriously the suspect who was driving a black b.m.w. was detained on a motorway after being chased by police charlotte dubin ski brings us more. a

suspect who was driving the car involved in the attack has been arrested on a highway between paris and. it's been confirmed that the man arrested on a northern highway in france between bolo and cali is the suspect that police have been searching for he was arrested by elite forces and we understand that he was shot five times during that arrest and a police officer was also injured as they tried to apprehend a man he was the person who they believe was behind the attacks which took place just a few hundred meters behind me at the opening of a soldier's barracks at around quarter past eight local time in paris this morning the local mayor has described this as a deliberate act and said this is what he saw take place. he said there were a dozen officers at the entrance at seven fifty seven in the morning when a car which was parked at the end of the road rammed into the mid speed while they were approaching their vehicle they did not choose the location by chance there are

many police officers and cameras are everywhere on the video we can see the attacker and how the attack took place the place is symbolic just as the eiffel tower or paris airport or not they came to this town where anti-terrorist forces are doing their remarkable job but the local mayor also talked about the place of this attack as being symbolic and that's because the main intelligence agency and it's also a staging point for soldiers who are based to this is what residents have been telling us. i heard a loud bang and ten minutes of shouting i went outside with my wife we saw two bodies on the ground there was a lot of noise we saw a deployment of cars firemen ambulances security and then we saw the injury being taken away one person was on the stretcher and like the most severely injured two others with less serious looking wounds were in a wheelchair as paris prosecution office has opened an investigation into this case

and they are pursuing charges of attempted murder of security forces in connection with a terrorist and to price now one of the reasons why it's been suggested that this place may have been strategically chosen is because it's where the main intelligence agency and it's also a staging point for soldiers who were assigned to protect from that site in paris. now paris is no stranger to attacks it's been under a state of emergency for the whole of france has been under a state of emergency since november two thousand and fifteen when there were those coordinated attacks here in the city and since then it's a seen

a number of large scale terror attacks a person of my color has said that one of his aims in his first year the presidency is to move that state of emergency by november of this year whether that's plausible or not remains to be seen. or friendship curity forces have been the target of a number of terror attacks this year. well it was up. to. chris hunter is a former u.k. army intelligence officer and sais that terrorists are targeting flaws in security

. one of the other features about this in this particular attack is that it took place during a shift change over. around eight o'clock paris time and you know that's one of the other things that terrorists look look for when they're carrying out hostile reconnaissance they're looking for patterns they're looking for vulnerabilities they're looking for cameras security forces the the weapons that equipment carried by the security forces their own vulnerabilities if you like but certainly something like a shift change over where people aren't potentially as alert as they might be or where briefings are taking place you know that something is being carried out by criminals and terrorists across the world in the past there are certain things that can be done certainly looking it's not setting patterns by the security forces that's one looking at putting in protective security measures counter the valence you know during those sort of vulnerable periods or vulnerable locations that's another and certainly education and training of the general public i think is

something this woefully inadequate across europe. wiki leaks is offering a job to a google engineer who is sucked over an internal corporate memo the web giants move has sparked a debate over free speech in corporations by wiki leaks editor julian assange accused google of censorship and tweeted that it's not fair to fire employees for freely expressing their thoughts well engineer james dahmer was fired after sending a memo criticizing google's diversity policies his bosses say that breached their code of conduct if you let my pen looks at what was in memel. in corporate boardrooms across america the buzz word is meritocracy ideology isn't supposed to matter employees are supposed to be hired judged and promoted based on their skills and ability however the high tech firm known as google seems to be straying from

this free market ideal and now employees can be fired if they step away from the liberal social justice party line they recently fired an employee and sent out this memo portions of the memo violate our code of conduct and crossed the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace so what is it that he said what stereotypes was he promoting well here are the fatal words i'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in poet's you to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership now those are fighting words as far as some people are concerned and the guy is not going to win any popularity contests to be fair by having a top employee make comments like this google opens itself up to the danger of lawsuits and allegations of discrimination in hiring but is there an ideological criteria for working at google let's take

a look at where some of this thought crime logic leads. google won't fix john with unconscious bias training when they keep employing people who are proud of their conscious bias honestly if no one is fired over this google should just admit the commitment to women is window dressing the article is publicly supported by many people internally that's the question how many privately supports agree or subscribe there are many people google who share this guy's views they do pit performance reviews and interview people they discriminate yes the usa heralds itself as the land of the free and the home of the brave but on certain college campuses in silicon valley and in other parts of the country there's an atmosphere brewing where if you have the wrong political opinions or cultural views there can be very harsh consequences. r.t. new york. locals in the northern italian city of phantom media have been rallying against the opening of

a new refugee shelter for on the company miners there after a thousand signatures were collected in a petition to be presented to them or two hundred people gathered outside the city hall to voice concerns about their safety they say that since the partial closure of the nearby border with france they fear that a complex jungle could spring up we took the time to speak to them. but we can't take it anymore the city has been invaded we have lost our freedom here it is not our city anymore it's not even a city now it's just a huge refugee shelter it's been done with our taxes to the government loses and we paid our constitution talks about the people's sovereignty so where is the sovereignty of where is it the state has to listen to us starting with the mayor but no one does. that i'm

a shop owner and. there is an inventor miller is not looking good basically is no tourism anymore and everyone is working less and less and i know that today's demonstration could backfire because it will give the town even more bad publicity but we really want all of this to be over and we can't leave here anymore our women can't go out at night alone anymore it's impossible they are always in groups of four or five the situation is degrading we can't take it anymore. or we discuss that issue with keith best pizza former vice chair of the european council on refugees and exiles he believes that the european union is failing in dealing with the growing refugee crisis. first of all it's a tragedy for the refugees because nobody wants them in their backyard anymore but also i have enormous sympathy for the people of vented media nobody in a quiet peaceful touristic town wants to see suddenly thousands of foreigners

descending upon them and in their view making their streets their safe or whatever what some of the locals were saying to us kate they were saying that they have seen an uptick in crime they're saying because there are a lot of teenage boys there be there's not enough being done to look after them be find themselves with more time on their hands on things happen maybe they don't have enough food for instance or they steal it are the migrants committing crimes because they lack of anything to do is stop partly the fault of the local authorities and a lack of a proper plan put in place there have sympathy with the italians but you know really the per the organization that i'm afraid is most of the fault here is the european union itself it has failed a lie except only as strong as its member states and if a member states don't want to tango than the european union can dance at all but it

. has been a whole series of broken commitments of undertakings to try to spread this load of refugees coming into europe through certain countries in particular because that's where their external borders of europe are closest to and there has been really no serious commitment or continuing commitment to spread this burden. the russian lawyer at the center of a coalition collusion excuse me scandal with donald trump's team has given more details about the pressure she faces from the president's opponents in the us media last month the tell you a vessel meets guy was dragged into the row over claims that russia interfered in the u.s. election over a meeting with the president still we all know her name now and tell us about sky italia vessel and its natalya vessel needs sky natalia the sound that sky at the

natalia vessel at sky i. have to wake up one morning and find you know the focus all from all the fire and kin up stream media. i don't know what if it turns out it was nothing well in an exclusive interview airing today here in our tina tell the vessel and sky has been speaking in depth about how she's been treated by the mainstream media. my story has nothing to do with politics i did not really care who would be in power the republicans or democrats i do not care about how the situation is unfolding today mine was a human story it had nothing to do with politics i was really amazed at how the us media machine operates on july eighth the new york times sent me a request for comment they asked me to reply to

a list of questions i was surprised by many questions relating to the trump jr meeting i was not even able to recall the exact date because it seemed like a passing meeting it did not lead anywhere there was no outcome so i sent a detailed reply to the new york times and surprisingly in their post on july eighth they only publish small extracts from my statement only what they needed now that same piece looks completely different on their website it has been thoroughly revised there is a huge difference from the original article that was published on july eighth to me it looks like an orchestrated story the whole scandal over my meeting with donald trump jr has been carefully orchestrated and blown out of proportion we have come so close to the truth of how russian budget funds were stolen and that a fair i just happened to be on the front line so to speak and i challenge mr brown to publicly he invented all of this he and nobody else he and his team set it all

up it is extremely difficult to find a small to medium manipulator than bill browder american financier bill browder emerged as a central player in the scandal between the tell your vessel meets guy on donald trump jr russia doesn't testified before a u.s. senate committee leap to seek department e-mails reveal that broader had long been gathering information on personal details up by a vessel in the sky she believes he then ramped up is public vendetta after losing a lengthy court battle three years ago three months ago excuse me against the russian owned real estate firm insight briss which. she was representing he accused of money laundering but the case was settled on the firm was cleared to me frankly but i think that brough to himself as a pawn in someone's hands because this story has proven to be gold for so many it was gold five years ago when it made the very first russia sanctions act happen and it's gold now especially now is gold for the present day tabloids for politics and

the mass media with its anti trump frenzy. here something getting people talking a b.b.c. children's cartoon about roman britain as caused controversy invited top academics that's because it shows a high ranking black roman soldier just what i man needs after working hard for the roman empire petain. good question well we're part of it here you cannot rewrite history based on today's values you go to rewrite history the way it works history should be more like other electoral pursuits. outside look at outside the moral domain or outside whatever value system which would describe things the way they were statistically these are historical realities the problem we have is there are certain political interests which are looking to divide communities which are looking to push back the idea and the ideals of

multiculturalism that we have different contributing populations different contributing demographics within broader society. or to scholars in particular have been trading barbs cambridge historian mary beard insists the cartoons portrayal is accurate citing firm evidence she sees the character is loosely based on a governor of roman britain who's believed to have been of african descent but nelson nicholas taleb whom you saw earlier isn't convinced. even if you have a character from far away it is not representative and you shouldn't brainwash children ok plus the other thing is he doesn't seem to understand that people around the mediterranean at the time look very similar things should be. good fences make good neighbors we should be globalist but let's not be universalist to the point of ignoring people's national identity or things.