after the pull out of a triple bombing in baghdad and dozens dead bring doubts over whether rocky forces can manage in the wake of the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops. instant karma the internet is rising in russia allowing more people to highlight problems like crime and corruption in the past might have gone punished. many of the people living here have been here for months if not years and the question that many of them ask themselves over and over again is why are we still here. party visits a homeless camp in the woods of new jersey to find out what options are left for those who've lost everything in the crisis.

eleven am in the russian capital good to have you with us here on r t our top story a triple car bombing in baghdad has provoked fresh doubts over whether iraqi security forces are able to cope following the official end of u.s. combat operations there at least thirty six people were killed by three blasts in separate parts of the city although fifty thousand u.s. troops remain to assist local forces local people are afraid the insurgency and instability may only get worse. doc and dangerous and body armor does little to protect against the fact that they're not welcome here they're doing a dismount of patrol through one of the iraqi neighborhoods trying to prevent counteracts fire this is a bombs team he stayed behind the mission to finding training support and backup to the iraqi police when they get to our level we go over our operations order and planning for the actual missions we're going to do then we do it for you brief that

we actually go and execute these type missions that we're on the. but the u.s. invasion to have a fully functioning iraqi security force did not protect safire ismail's husband four years ago he disappeared without a trace. he called me and said he was coming to pick me up i said the situation is really bad on camp but he said now i have to come. so far as certain husbands did as are the families of tens of thousands of iraqis who've also disappeared since two thousand and three human rights organizations put some of the blame with the local security forces whose trainees are not always the mite candidates for the job a lot of them they have come from illiterate you know by ground zero or some of them they are just the from the tribes and clans some of them just because they are part of the political parties militias and so on and the problem is compounded by the limited training they given you can apply for the hands of these. people be the

effect that this needs to be here. but they need that but they say so if the car bombs missing way and so then i did. and it's a far cry from what is needed. they are not untrained but the training they receive is not enough the americans only thought to create an iraqi army in two thousand and four by then it was too late because the terrorists had already infiltrated that. but with the increase of violence in iraq in recent weeks the need for a competent domestic security force has never been greater but whether or not the u.s. and iraq can rise to the challenge is still yet to be seen police are t. baghdad. with blogging on the rise anyone these days can try their head as an investigative journalist publishing stories that might be ignored by the mainstream media their reports on the internet can quickly find an audience and possibly go global artie's caterina's are reports on how russian waters are helping stop crime

corruption. and even bullying. parents and students said this man had children on more than one occasion because he was the head of the local administration people were afraid to speak out what desktops laptops phones and p.t.a.'s internet in russia is becoming much more available and much more than just meant for many it has become a virtual speaker's corner where their voice will not only be heard but is guaranteed to echo across the country within hours this particular video which brought about his dismissal is a clear example of how the internet has transformed russia. russia biddies in there's an orphan a master chess player a math genius and guaranteed state benefits he's missing the start of the academic here due to the demands of a construction company that helps fund the school. i want to be

a ninety specialist but the school said that if i want to study here and live in that halls of residence i have to study to be a builder. bush's case was taken up charity organization music and its founder get him and see what made a difference to their case was a message he posted online to the president. with dry posted my letter to someone from the presidents administration cool and asked for details of this case i know they go in touch with fascist college because almost immediately afterwards the coolidge called and told pasha to withdraw his application and basically get the hell out they were scared the authorities got involved then the media picked up the story and the college was forced to stop its unlawful actions they now allow pasha to attend lectures misty refused to give in the room. when a bunch of kids vandalized a car in broad daylight in a remote part of central russia police couldn't find the corporates for days but the information they provided allowed bloggers to find them in a matter of

a. hours names addresses and license plates included so why is russia's online community becoming suddenly so influential which is just the. first of all it's evidence of a technological progress the internet is becoming more and more available and because it's available more and more people are using it for things other than where it's a community and a much faster one than any other and that the by digits this spike in online use means it's not just journalists who can uncover information so what does this say about russia's fourth the state of the. minister this doesn't mean that journalists of bad and bloggers a better that the only notion of free speech exists online it's simply a matter of choice we no longer want to watch someone else's run down we want to and can make the internet allows us to choose what we want to know about at a speed print t.v. media simply cannot compete. maybe this isn't the beginning of the end of

newspapers and television but it's definitely competition of a global kind kasserine as are the r.t.e. nasca. stay with us here on our t.v. side are lots more headed your way including proud to be sovereign. celebrations in the republic of south us out here which is marking twenty years since it declared independence from georgia. and as five u.s. soldiers are accused of killing afghan civilians as part of a sick game our military analyst says it's a propaganda coup for the taliban. first though as the mortgage crisis cripples america some estimates say more than three three hundred thousand people got warnings about foreclosures in august alone with the high unemployment rate continuing across the country an increasing number of people are at risk of losing their properties artie's anastasio churkin are reports on how a camp outside new york has become a place that some people now call home. america the prosperous america the

traditional and america the broke the picture perfect homes and these homes are a twenty minute drive away from one another how did i end up here probably through my own mistakes in life r.t.e. revisits tent city a homeless camp talked to wait in the woods of new jersey there are at least forty people whose tragic destinies have led them to call this place home. since we were here last time in the winter things have changed more tense have appeared some people have come and gone but many of the people living here have been here for months if not years and the question that many of them ask themselves over and over again is why are we still here are there really no other options left for us no remarks has been a newspaper handler for most of her life while i worked in new york times and i won the power in a brain aneurysm in two stroke so i was almost dead. i was in a coma for two months it. was an awful three months since then no rain has given up

hope of finding a job for those still trying to find work the task is close to impossible would be unemployment rate in the u.s. holding steady at more than nine and a half percent for more than a year now over seventeen years experience chef today looking job not on a chef chop a new kind job i look i have to many a position you know but no no i don't find them all. you know they're very very difficult not applying job and those who are able to find work make less than the minimum wage and i would have told you this because. my. reverend steve brigham set up a camp for the homeless four years ago this is their our church bell on sunday about twelve o'clock we ring this to let the whole camp know there were. ready to have our service.

the reverend runs the place keeping it in order. setting up a shower. and helping with whatever donations he can get local authorities have been disturbed by this camp's existence and have tried to shut the place down people think of the homeless as people that are sometimes questionable in their character but we've had there's more problems outside of the homeless camp than inside of the camp the only option offered by local officials has been beds at a local psychiatric institution among the mentally unstable and the community didn't go for it it's more than they can handle already living a tough enough life it's it's just not a place to live everyone here tells us a better place for them is just around the corner so soon just going to be a lot of very soon. very soon but so far no luck with not much

help from the outside world all they can do is hope a better life is awaiting them somewhere. and r.t. new jersey. our you tube channel you can check out on a stasia churkin his previous report on that homeless camp and of course all the other stories that we're covering here on our team. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations around. twenty three government troops have been killed in a shootout with fugitives in the mountains of t.g. christan the country's defense ministry called it an act of terror local journalist

nargis brings us the details but the. government troops have come under attack in the mountains the servicemen had been searching for prisoners who've recently escaped from a high security prison they were sentenced for their part in the time to cool the slimmest opposition movement that fought against the central government in the civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. the country's defense ministry officially confirmed the death of twenty three soldiers though a source in the law enforcement agency earlier told us that forty servicemen had been killed the terror attack is believed to have been carried out by gunmen linked with international terror groups from pakistan afghanistan and russia's republic of chechnya so far no other ministry has made any comment the republic of south a set is celebrating twenty years since it declared independence since one thousand nine hundred has faced several military conflicts amid continuous attempts by georgia to bring it back under control artie's oxana lead such of it has more from

the festive capital so involved. my grandson is very fussy and he loves all homemade food for this family in south the satyr independence day always starts with hustle and bustle but it's not just a national holiday they celebrate they also have their own independence child. to respond to just us this hospital so little ruslan coming into this world a new republic was born on the twentieth of september nineteen lying to the local palm and declare itself as it independent from georgia at the time the soviet union was falling apart and independence declarations in the region followed one after the other by georgia didn't want to allow it it cut the electricity difference the breakaway region and sent in troops liberal goes against his friends day has been hearing blasts and gunshots his friends were mom and lost the georgian army surrounded skin vaal at one point people in the city couldn't even burry their dead

troops had blocked the road to the cemetery so they had to use the yard of a local school for about a month when i was little i used to come here i lived close by and saw this place and even ate at my window i remember here often people cried here with the word body in the dead. to escape don't go in violence response family had to flee to russia as did tens of thousands of us a chance. the conflict remain frozen until in august two thousand and eight when georgia once again resorted to violence to take control over the republic. when georgia tech taken volage was a response grandmothers there he was worried about the most serious but by the time they were sitting in the basement the phones were really badly when they managed to get through this said the city was attacked people were killed this stormed and burned the houses. grandmother survived the five day war moscow sent forces to repel the georgian attack as many of those under fire were russian citizens so

of aliens and peacekeepers later russia recognized the independence of south the city as it several other countries. i just want to see that people here are hobby and that's it. r t from to involve. u.s. forces in afghanistan are at the center of a new scandal in which five soldiers were accused of killing civilians as part of a game as comes as coalition forces fighting the taliban are trying to win the support of the local populace artie's military analysts who have many crews job says these kinds of stories involving u.s. troops will provide another recruitment boost for insurgents one of the basic assumptions behind the u.s. strategy all of us forces plus up in afghanistan these to replicate the surge in iraq under the previous administration banned in effect the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates is the only hand over from the previous

administration to replicate the same type of search which was exit cupid on to general petraeus in iraq and to make a remake of this strategy in afghanistan while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just for scores as a result it has delivered and irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban

recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan. and we've got more perspective from afghanistan coming your way later here on r t outspoken war critic matthew hoh says hunting down the taliban is a waste of u.s. military and financial resources you can watch the full interview with him in the next hour here's a quick preview. one of the larger problems i think with u.s. foreign policy particular national security policies are not consistent if they're if we are in afghanistan because of al qaeda and if there are only fifty to one hundred members of al qaeda in afghanistan then why are we pulling out of iraq where there are one thousand to two thousand members why do we see and we need to keep. one hundred thousand troops in afghanistan when those operations come out of somalia and yemen so that consistency is not there in our in our foreign policy particularly in our now security policy and that's very worrisome to me because you don't have consistency if you don't have good critical thought if you don't have

a degree of intellectual honesty in your policymaking you are going to have bad policy and you're going to have things like iraq we're going to find yourself nine years into afghanistan entangled in a civil war spending one hundred billion dollars a year for a purpose that does not make the united states safer. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe dozens of people have been killed and maybe injured in a train crash in india it happened when a goods train rammed into a stationary passenger carriage in bad weather about three hundred kilometers from the central city of bhopal because of the cause of the accident is not yet known police and rescue workers are at the site. are again igor has a lot bermuda threatening to cause severe coastal flooding islanders are trying to take shelter boarding up windows and stocking up on food and water the storm has seen wind speeds of up to one hundred twenty kilometers an hour and left nearly half the island without power. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad

has challenged the u.s. to accept the role of his country and says the future belongs to iran his comments were made in new york where he was due to attend a meeting of the u.n. general assembly and of the session he discussed the current state of the middle east with the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon during the trip crowds gather. to criticize the human rights situation in iraq. u.s. officials have formally declared an end to the worst oil spill in the country's history approach pressure tests confirm that b.p. has permanently put cement plug on the leaking well it has been sealed by a temporary captions mid july this brings to an end nearly five months of chaos after april's rig explosion that killed eleven workers. and a raging fire appears to have consumation coliseum in rome but there is no need to worry the flames are real installations part of a dramatic art spectacle dowdle run over the next few nights in italy's capital the

artists say the flames symbolize destruction and creation and the fragile state of europe's cultural heritage sites. yulia bokova joins us next with all the latest from the world of business stay with us. that's right time to have a look at the world of business a very warm welcome to the program such as winter olympics committee has signed contracts worth one billion dollars at the international investment four main source which finished at the weekend the sitter's of ministration secured even more investment the channel political visit the future olympic host to see where the money is going. billions of dollars continue to flow into sancerre as the city is hiring to get ready for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics our total commitment to the development of the island begins with projects not toys.

reconsider the possibility to invest. for additional be vulnerable. according to our business plan the total investment is about forty billion rubles. there is a lot of money being pumped into such as always with such huge sums of cash some of it as last a free of all it say and add little prominence value but the renovation of this beautiful old port and the plant more than extensions promised a lasting legacy if this is how such a seaport will look like by the beginning of three games. and four star hotel shops and office buildings the pool developer says it's one of those projects that will benefit the city long after the olympic games the board will do ok. this is not quite in the olympic site that's a that's just there so the stadium does not a sports facility this is a project for the future that's for sure but for that reason business for the

marina business that's very very nice to talk about the part where the american values and so that's a totally different story i mean we have been a recession at some stadium switch our general being probably used in such a lot some things have. to be thought of it keep it even if it is meticulously russia's deputy prime minister dmitry kausar called such as the world's largest construction site with sixty thousand builders expected to be busy next year three hundred companies are already working on the project but developers say if it wasn't for the olympics good roads hotels and functional poort would have taken decades to build and it does raise the question how many other russian cities may lie under developed just because they never made it into the international spotlight they generally call the business r.t.

so our chair. the italian industrial curved finmeccanica is to open a joint helicopter plant and russian company is representative has exclusively told r.t. about the planned venture. the plant itself will be around thirty million so the thirty million euros to be realized that but then it has to grow its course you know already a double eagle plant if the market for the helicopters so we have been bringing all the technology surge with the assembly line of the helicopter so and it will be a gradual technology transfer at the very beginning will be just an assembly nobody got dressed and then they may be more and more parts of the helicopter itself would be built in russia. our local target markets off area first that's our asian stock markets a slightly lower after week q four wall street privilege and fell more than half a cent and grew to the world's third biggest mining company lost one point one percent hang seng is sliced to negative found the nikkei is closed for holiday on

monday. and russia the r.t.s. them to my success in early try to all the major brew chips like giving out a floor to mt i suppose losing one percent. of all markets could be pulled two ways this week as some of the vest investors take profits from recent gains while others take further bets on emerging markets i've seen metropole seen an analyst told us how he thinks it will result. dominant trends in the market are going to be there rising investors a bit tired for risk on one hand and investors taking out profits from the market on the other hand because the market did put in quite a strong performance since the last week of august and i think the net result of that is going to markets moving higher this week but i think it's going to be a small move up this week is quite poor for market coming data on the other hand

this week we have a federal reserve meeting there prevalent expectation in the market that the rating is not going to be changed but on the other hand we are going to hear a statement from the fed following the meeting and that could you know if fact there is sentiment one way or the other that's all we have time for knol but you can always get more store a small web site r.t. dot com slash business.

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