ever saw. some doubt he was sworn in in front of thousands of cheering supporters who filled the national sports stadium to witness this historic event that replaces robert mugabe who ruled the country for thirty seven needs he's promised to advance the country and the lives of all zimbabweans after he was sworn in. called on the people to remember the good mugabe had done for zimbabwe where. they. review the wine of and the only surviving founding father. for nation common wrote that government. you left us you know was good for not going to abandon yes responsibilities of leadership. every from met and a very challenging time at the best of our nation that used to be now the answer of great times what ever it was. that. during that period. in the lives of our nation. and the knowledge these memes contribution was. well on the streets of zimbabwe there are mixed feelings about what a new president means for them we need a unity government so far this standing is the destroyed for the past seven years so we need unity government. to us and we will get jobs is the best to them that was i'm headed to prison. here's what was. the guys from me they didn't do each they didn't deeds willingly by the deeds of that one particular that we insist they're willing to see. so this is the same people was for just one. hundred for that one peoples. and a quick breaking story for you we're getting reports out of cairo that say at least twenty five people have been killed seventy five or eighty we understand have been injured after an explosive device went off a round or near a mosque in the sinai peninsula area that's a security source being quoted on the journalistic wire services that we use i will get you more on that just as soon as we can but the top line at least twenty five people have been killed. the man accused of planning the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks has been released from house arrest toughies saeed was free to offer a course in pakistan rejected the government's plea to extend his detention by three months in prison on friday coming from all. day. from the united states. by the court. by the government. however. by the. end adored. by attack. and. get on. and. on that side of the border. the un says images of refugees being forcibly removed from a decommissioned prison camp on minus island shocking and inexcusable puppy new guinea police cleared the three hundred seventy eight men from the site earlier this week those all your top stories the news continues after a child soldier reloaded all season. we will maintain the finest fighting force of the world has ever known the world has ever known the world has ever known we'll never know what's up with another person we have a new difficulty with most of it i just don't like the image that it conjures up in most people's mind. it's like any other thing in the global finance it's just the military trade. contractors don't like her time around. like i hate to go to. a missing young government expects of the iraqi troop and was considered i could deal. not be the ark royal on the ah it's more like thirty years quickly. we have a mismatch between the way we on magine war to be and the reality of the twenty first century can we do a little or can we find someone that we do it for boardroom don't you get what you pay for. b.b.c. world service and u.s. troops have left iraq. and it continues to maintain a high passes in the country with the largest u.s. embassy in the world the situation in afghanistan the center for crucial for the international troops to go under control over to the afghan forces fish if you're just attrition really critical in the country. since throughout america today we are stuck by my father and son in iraq. this is a man who says he was. so young i thought if i was this other fans or friends one. of them they are going to have on that. day not right now down there tonight here. how many of the persons that you're sending out . to your child soldiers and i can say i can i can tell you that i mean if you think i can't i can't. i can't tell you dealing with the many people i'm going to do. this and this this and this. new president yeah inspecting it you know. if you. do you report you yeah. yeah yeah. really what's. the real thing well. enough to look at here. for a while and i will too. this is our tradition if you don't know for it with a stick from the spear with. that's the tradition so if you're trying to simulate this for me disoriented them psychological i'm sure but that isn't the case so maybe critical of people who used to be fighting when they were very young that they all go to war you visit that's a problem not us not a problem for us mother from. the verdict not from the boxes yes it must have. and even if they had started when they would fulfill it another thirty that that's not a problem was not a problem just does the job as they are here his car yeah yeah. let me send guys whatever yes we fasted for him and they got his school fees got his friend. i mean i never got my summit on resorted to using a gun i because of the ideas being that people go isn't what you tell me this is what they do i need to understand english. gun to shoot those who want to fight me going right. good companies risk on common contract as we stop my manhunt for them. or example i didn't really get it for someone time. the private military industry is a part of how the country is in fights wars today. u.s. government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan we know it's a lot we don't really know exactly how many. i spent several years working within the industry i have a military background and one of the differences between being a soldier i found and being a private military contractor is that when you work for the u.s. military or any military you take a sacred oath that you're going to serve and fight for your country and necessary die to protect a way of life one that you believe in i am an american soldier i'm a warrior and a member of it seems. like. i will never accept defeat. me i will never win i will never leave a fallen comrade it's the complete opposite in a private military world you look at the budget first the loyalty of these companies and these businessmen and change depending on market forces. we operate in the world's challenging complex emerging markets the middle east is absolutely the core for other business today. the sooner we can are me and palin we perform and do the right you know. this industry is not just what you see is what you get. when you see a company you don't know exactly who's working for them they hire and they sometimes create what we call subs sub contractors. there's been commanders in afghanistan who just simply say we don't know who the subs of the subs subs are. so you have all these like layers of a contract. a level of forty control starts to fade quickly the deeper you go from the top to the bottom. united states army and the military in general is so reliant on the private sector i would call it a dependency but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas we just don't know. crazy or not surely it's really crazy in iraq. because since the fed i stepped my fits in iraq every did that was a bomb and they bombed a village that is iraq it's. every day we have rockets fired. every day how to gunshots every day a bomb in income in income in only good if someone's you know let's use damage for all of our guts for all of the civilian and guys well trained guys. as soon as i originally rock i called my mom i said mom i'm in iraq she said oh. i said i'm in iraq no no you're kidding i said no moment not kidding i'm in iraq i said mom just watch the number what's the number and she watched the number. she was she was just she was yelling oh daddy. i said no mom there is no problem here we are saved we are not using weapons we are you here is does our i convinced my mom i said we are doing just domestic walk in iraq she told all the neighbors around so my son he's in iraq you know he's doing a cooking job not snowing that we're born. just after the war and surveil you know i couldn't make it up because there was no job i didn't. and my friend calls me it's all me that's a. very civic and see they were recruiting guys so-called so it's also iraq if you just use weapons and we are well trained and it come from. comply on. the first time i arrived to to this training camp compline iraq together with that two white men fan from the security company. went driving out in this small truck and swats towards the camp through this forest a landscape not so far away from from the airports and when we enter the camp and get out of the car the first thing we see is this a gun an instructor who isn't shouts of the training out there making the recruits lined up in order to receive these guys from the past security company. came from iraq. with not came from iraq you said that he needed. he was a shallow fighter who supposed to go to iraq. you know who. uses only people that you can't fight. from as young government as the iraqi could and was considered a quite good deal in the sense that they could actually take you know good troublemakers something away to iraq for a couple of years. and then returning them after two years with money and from the overseas deployment this could surf to stabilize you. in the beginning of the training course the real weapons presence so they're using the wooden sticks. it was just after a couple of days and so the training that the weapons and their well being lined up at the wooden tables within in the middle of the big camp. where. there was this tension and excitement those attention mainly because now it's actually getting into something very real ok. for many after the crew and the first time holding a weapon since the ending of the civil war. many were starting to shake and some were even starting to cry when that when the su got the weapons and not being able to to handle and. provide a compliant backing for iraq. from the past as that are we supposed to know when i'm seeing this when i'm talking. for now. i said. i did. what. i survive and i live in weapons. this young on what has been what mainly by young converts and. looking for young men to perform military jobs the chance of a quite good that they have also been. i was a thirteen. but you never can mean i think like that actually. it took my fight i remember when putting on the love. to the day. you know me. give us they fight with us you know i don't know what's right what's he talking about. right. now no. need to. show you how he might put it on the fishing if not about every day remember. we turned out he my father i've seen my way out who next i get i would keep. this it's little i'm going to. have to go. i said no i don't want a tree so i start to i go to this that's a used unless. stuck in my boat. in my boat is that bond a knife. and drive through the city crying for more to get the comic she forgets about you or your motor so i start says. when i was young. at a lot of things that i've been seeing there. a lot of day which is no good for you monday. because. of the job you have you come on down. on how does this before you have to go to my daddy don't you to have been killed. when we think of war and the war you're right so we have this image and are mine now of a man and uniform. and uniform means they're fighting as part of a military serving the nation the cause that they fight for their force political patriotism and yet when you look at the wars of the twenty first century they don't match those assumptions anymore now we have outsourced a lot of our warfare to private military companies. the background of this changing nature of war and fights that dates back to the very start of the private military industry itself as. until the early ninety's the security industry is a documented industry. out right must mean to bring down governments for the cash can you explain what exactly sound fine internationally is mchugh doing. sunline. is a company that provides military consultancy services for governments or large corporations. at the time the idea was to get very posh english officers on top of these private military companies and tim spicer was an officer in the military british military he got out and was asked to come help with a company called sandline. two splices arrival gave an almost instant sense of respectability to what had previously been a mess in the world and i don't personally have any difficulty with what must be i just don't like the image that it comes out in most people's mind the first time i met tombs vice i was interviewing him for a newspaper the washington charming public school educated god's officer and that medievals it must be a feature they construe before and it changed the agenda of the global agenda almost a profit your company was. tim spicer was considered the respectable head of a mercenary organization but at first his business affairs it didn't go too well he was dogged by failure for example he got a phone call from a fellow indian with a thai passport who was under house arrest. for a financial scandal and he contacted tim spicer and wanted him to restore the president of sierra leone. once the president surely and was back in power this guy would then get his contracts for diamonds and be able to make money . but it didn't work out that way. the company started life run by tip spicer's for the army colonel hundred fifty patients by customs and excise but he's accused of smuggling weapons illegally. when a private firm gets involved in foreign politics for the benefit of a criminal you have to stop and ask ok this really happened or is this a fictitious you know james bond type story but it was a true story. these things tended to happen systems or government and that he'd always somehow managed to get signed the recently retired british cannot do that a band of ministers is safely back in this country so has this put him up his new career as a hired gun going to continue with this new new business of yours sandline international well i think we've got to a number of lessons to learn from this particular. episode i think that we will continue to try and develop our business as long as we can do it in a. sensible way. sandline eventually collapsed on the way to bad a mistake. was that of a you know in the short term you can say that was not a successful company in terms of delivering enormous amounts of money to the shelves and so forth to firstly. it launched him spice on a career where he was able to found what would then become one of the most significant for the movie companies in the world. he just. transport measures employed to tackle pollution in one of china's showcase cities they say that my twenty twenty on the tax exemption ten i don't want to be only on like. whoa whoa 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about the people's music at this time on al-jazeera. logan peter davi in doha with your top stories from al-jazeera an update now on breaking news out of egypt the state news agency says at least fifty four people have been killed and another seventy five were injured when a bomb went off in a mosque in north sinai local sources say attackers targeted the mosque first with a bomb and then they opened fire the attack took place during prayers in the mosque in. egypt's security forces are battling an insurgency in the remote sinai region more on that for you as soon as we can for the first time in more than three decades zimbabwe has a new president i. ever saw i. would sometimes go. and listen man and god what was sworn in in front of thousands of cheering supporters the place is robert mugabe ruled the country for thirty seven years after he was sworn in paid tribute to mr mugabe and promised to stamp out corruption to save the economy. yes we. are going to govern our economy we must. raise we have yes. we disagree with you have got it that i was asked. oh laura must draw the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has given the u.n. permission for aid workers to return to the country but the u.n. says it still blocking them from bringing in much required food medicine and equipment that coalition had promised to reopen humanitarian aid corridors into northern yemen on thursday. the man accused of planning the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks has been released from house arrest fees saeed was freed after a pakistani court rejected the government's plea to extend his attention by three months he led prayers early on friday saeed who's the founder of a banned group has been under house arrest in lahore since january he does have a big following in pakistan mostly because of his charitable work. the u.n. says images of refugees being forcibly removed from a decommissioned prison camp on menace island are shocking and inexcusable. poppy new guinea police cleared the three hundred seventy eight men from the former australian run sites activists say the police destroyed their belongings to make them leave those are your headlines i'm back with the news hour and thirty minutes between now and then it's child soldiers reloaded six of. when nine eleven occurred everything changed. the contractor content of the armed forces went up astronomically at this hour american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq. ideologically republicans my party wanted every single public function to be scrutinized analyzed evaluated and if possible privatized general shinseki the head of the us army at the time testified to congress and said if we're going to do iraq it's going to take several hundred thousand u.s. troops and very quickly the rest of the bush administration reacted negatively and he's absurd that's crazy it's not going to require those amount of troops and they actually simply drummed him out of the military it turned out he was right we did deploy several hundred thousand forces it was just through private military. so in the early days of iraq it was a gold rush you had companies coming out of nowhere including blackwater who was really like a cowboy a wild wild west where nobody had any control anybody doing anything with firearms in this country could say their private military company. was an a.t.m. for these companies the basic idea of a contractor versus recruiting. training in supporting military vets is that there is room hiring a prostitute or getting married. so instead of a soldier who has an x. cost of a year now being a contractor who's being paid eight times ten. well what has happened is that america has basically married a prostitute and has been active in them for a very long period of time it's almost as if he wants. you to keep it with you it's not invade a country and it would be a good thing. but none of the russians are searching around ok i'm working with you on this and we will get a real mummy's word series. of. contractors off for some grey area benefits to politicians everybody is concerned like do we have a thousand boots the ground nobody ever asks how many contractors there is don't like our goods on the ground. here so if the us military wanted to put one thousand boots on the ground and there's four thousand contractors it's a way of you know having a force of five thousand but without politically risk. that . should mean. they're shooting at you next to you yes yeah it was but you didn't bang bang so did did you get a skirt shoot for that shine for you in ricocheted his car but. that's exactly. right it's only right once. the security companies had the sensitivity of. the civilians would often if not always. get caught in the crossfire. what governments have always done is they would do two things at once. you fight and you win hearts and minds. private and she took it didn't do to. try this comes on the ground opening fire they were very very noticeable they would play rock music that in this was not there was no subtlety to this this is not a even the military with most discreet than the five security companies and so they were as they were very very public slap in the face for the average iraqi on a daily basis. to a real problem for the military so we sell the contractor presence in iraq in particular but afghanistan too was becoming contrary to what the mission was for the armed forces there for their presence was more danger than it was help. knowing. every turn around the traffic circle. they're probably trying to get away from. the problem was that we had all of these different private military companies running around we outsourced too quickly and they weren't cord needed both in contract terms but also in on the ground operational terms so what is your answer to a problem of outsourcing. outsource more we outsourced it to a private military company to coordinate. these uses contracts in iraq and was to oversee the communication coordination for all of the privacy of your companies on the ground. in effect it meant that they were the general in charge of all of the private contractors. now that point the u.s. military was the largest machine presence in iraq but if you added together all of the private military contractors spies was effectively in charge of the second largest on force in iraq. the prisons in iraq was relatively stable for years one. video which was posted on you tube from the contract so who is. following that gun while playing rock music. but no legal actions were taken. very rapidly each is such a machine huge company. and it made to spy certain extremely healthy man. the majority of americans now think it was a mistake to go to war in iraq public support for the war is falling war americans want the troops to come home. in a brief ceremony on a base on the edge of baghdad the united states took down the flag of its command here to mark the end of the military mission. the u.s. money was starting to be pulled out of the iraqi. field operations and the industry had to go through a very complicated reset. those companies had to realize that they weren't going to get that level of money again and so they had to offer different. deals. that meant they would have to hire cheap the soldiers. would move to move. one of the long haul to war. yeah. i'm. so mad. and. all the usual. and if you're hardly going. to put it out if. i'm going to miss this. i'm gonna need. to get. out. of my. long sleeve could see. them. before harm. or frosty or. drop it. sometimes there will give you just my church which is not shop we are by even if you can on a little whatsoever depressing can feel it more than the experts in here you know the. story the life. that i think when i was just. work undertaken by you just is carried out to the highest standards of fractional competence and integrity when we first started into theater we were briefed on peruvian and colombian guards and the natural question you ask is so what do you pay for these folks and you know at the time and i'm playing off memory cells but i'm pretty good at that that was about a thousand to twelve hundred dollars and them oh i don't know six months a year ago it became. god and guards at about eight hundred dollars a month and we douse the question of security companies because of those lowest price technically acceptable rushed to the bottom that's what some call. white whale gone it's now versus proving some columbia i'm sorry so we don't have chance to get the award unless we use of condoms because there are two to four hundred dollars less and now on this most recent trip the company that is winning all the awards that had this let's first start heard of well we've got a good strategy we're using sierra leonean so you asked the question so so what are we paying from a two hundred fifty dollars a month. you know i guess rhetorically i don't expect to be answered you know can we go lower could we find someone it's like we'll do it for boardroom you know that has such a terrible country that maybe they'll just go out of the country and be a free security guard i mean that's pretty inexpensive i say that it sounds facetious but it's real. no you get what you pay for. the original goal was not to bring soldiers or exogenous from the poorest countries on earth but the u.s. system requires that you pick the lowest bidder so that became the status quo in iraq to have multiple layers of foreigners as long as you're in the army and you meet certain criteria and sometimes you don't have to be in the army to meet this criteria. companies self interest is different than national self interest companies are profit maximizes what they do that's natural. right now. what do you do if you know you have somebody from the philippines working for an american private all try company in afghanistan who kill somebody what jurisdiction does that person fall under we don't know. in about fifteen countries i've been involved in programs to reintegrate children who have served in armed forces. it's a contradiction in terms on the one hand western countries have pumped large sums of money into the reintegration of former child soldiers but now we have governments like us supporting these so-called security companies that recruit people and continue their exposure to violence and their identities as perpetrators of violence and as soldiers that make it impossible to ever reintegrate into civilian life. at one time when the came into account kill a lot of. hours on top of the time. looking down we had to explain. i think about doing when people are dying on the street. explosions all over the city and i. had a gunshot had a bomb all wachovia explosion i think about my going to watch happens every four. when he brought you not. the first team for. iraqi. and intended to become. full force. the the. ship that's not a member. still deceased was and this is what's happened instead you seem. to. not. know. if you are running in to come you can't do. that fighting for what our lights or what have you fighting for you that. i feel is that you often don't use you know it's not good well to because someone. just miss you don't have to. it may seem like an act of free well it is not young people in sierra leone have no jobs they're desperate to feed themselves and their families and result is that it becomes harder and harder to ever find their way back into civilian life and they may plant seeds of violence wherever they go. it is well known that young people who have extensive histories of violence and being fed drugs and manipulated over time they develop problems of impulsivity high levels of aggression. you know we pride ourselves on being a moral people trying to do the right thing what we're doing is we're exploiting people using young people who have been child soldiers deliberately sending them into the jaws of combat and further violence nothing could be worse for these young people nothing could be worse for security. there's a close connection between this industry and policy makers. these private military firms really poach retired general officers and from the armed forces. because they have connections. i say that it sounds facetious it's real. you know you get what you pay. for the security industry will continue to act. you're going to see private companies. that. people care a lot when and if a dead soldier or dead marine shows up in this country and we start asking ourselves why did they die why what were they fighting for nobody bothers to ask about that contractors. every american who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes i'm awed by their sacrifice. when in good time and not allow anything i'm going to lie i'm going to i'm not i'm not you when you bag you in kind of men have them a coming in the family unit. who did he got in on me what they need a guide. there's no one going to go out and protest in the streets of a contractor's kill. country still exercises its foreign policy the use of force and violence in these four regions but is using proxies contractors third country nationals and in obscurity their role. you think it is that you're getting the full right i did some issues here we'll end up in afghanistan it's really your money and your tax money. doing it but make sure the politicians don't get in trouble. private military contractors makes a decision to go to war a lot easier. as part of ending a war responsibly is standing by those will fund it. through trying. to finish. so that you look at the weather across the americas now in south america you see plenty of showers across the amazon basin also have this weather front which is just pushing way towards the east of rio de janeiro otherwise fine across much of paraguayan through into argentina but through paraquat we're going to see another system developing which will give some fairly heavy rain into northern parts of argentina santiago in chile should be find one is area should be drawing bright so let's head up into the caribbean where we have seen some huge amounts of rain being reported in jamaica particular of last twenty four hours you see that general flow than a month of bias had a vast amount of rain that's about three months worth of rain in the space of twenty four hours while looking out the forecast you seem to sort of broken that link so it should turn somewhat draw us i think some begin to return to normal and it's going to be some cleanup involved you notice with a lot of showers across the bahamas western parts of cuba otherwise out through the isthmus some heavy rain for panama costa rica up towards in the character of further north it should be fine sunshine in the yucatan peninsula fine in mexico city as we head up into north america we've got some rain and the snow fall across eastern parts of canada find them in new york city and washington ice here of twelve. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. africa going through seismic changes fuel country stands out because it's considered so successful why is the. president of ghana nona don't talk to walsh is he. at this time. this is al jazeera.