handed over ninety thousand classified documents to british american and german newspapers they also include information on increased taliban attacks as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran of fueling the insurgency the white house says the leaked pentagon files and field reports were no surprise but that they do threaten national security. and it has more from london. it doesn't really come as a huge surprise but it is more additional information that we the public now have about exactly what's going on in afghanistan these ninety thousand documents relate to the ideas that you have beginning of two thousand and four and the end of two thousand and nine detailing. bits of the afghan conflict that we previously had no idea about of course during the entire war more than three hundred twenty bushes streets have been killed and more than a thousand american troops there's a lot in these documents about the toll that the war has taken on afghan civilians there one hundred forty four separate incidents details in these files of those

deaths come from controversial as strikes that the afghan government is already complains about but some of them come from just troops shooting and killing random pastas by. cyclists just to protect themselves. from the fear of potential suicide bombers and altogether. one hundred ninety five civilians having been killed in one hundred seventy four and there's reason to believe that the future underestimate for this period is all thinking information about pakistan which of course the u.s. government gives a billion dollars a year to to help fight the insurgency in afghanistan and the report suggests that the pakistanis in fact hold secret meetings with the taliban to the militant groups that are fighting these u.s. soldiers to practice on his is alleged to be doing exactly the opposite of what the u.s. has asked it to do and is paying it to do well this specific dossier it's not clear

where this came from and judy and discuss where these ninety thousand documents came from but we can assume that that comes from some sort of inside source merely because in april there was a similar leak a video which wiki leaks put on his websites which showed apache helicopters essentially gone down to the. a man on the streets of baghdad now someone has been arrested and charged with that and he was not only twenty two years old a military analyst he was working in iraq he's been charged with that but he hasn't it's not been suggested god has any connection with bin is going to say thanks but of course we're not the only ones who want to know where the things come from the pentagon is of course very concerned to know what has happened here and in fact requested to meet with enough knowledge outside when you actually can talk about it he so far hasn't wanted to meet with them. and it right there well to some in afghanistan the revelations themselves don't come as much of

a surprise but as afghan m.p. delta sultanzoy told us what is interesting is that these key reports were kept secret. are not new to me the ones that are that i have read in the paper the situation on the ground the civilian casualties the way the operation is growing critiques that have been made. by would be more interested in those things that are not published and i would like to know what is the that is jeopardizing this operation according to some politicians well earlier my colleague kerry johnston got more insight into the exposé from the military analyst if you're going to. talk coast people live though. all it says is that. listen culpable mainstream media has been covering these wars is what i say most of this information you could have found out yourself if you'd just tried a little bit talk to witnesses the internet exist oh my goodness these stories are

out there it's the government confirming to us that we've been lied about this war and we should listen to people on the ground so i'm not surprised by this but it shows the mainstream media has been reckless in covering these wars and i know why the context says or some of these leaked documents suggest that there's pakistani support for the time of the super. bowl and i just watched crosstalk. we know about the need to do you think it was one of the main challenges during the anti-slavery just out what the pakistani involvement pakistani has been stopped contracted their intelligence services side by the cia and that's the whole point of the whole trouble in afghanistan regarding the insurgency anti so that insurgency anti-american whatever anybody insurgency in afghanistan has been perpetrated directed and funded by the united states central intelligence agency their of their partners. thirty years ago and the same thing

you know it's time for the neighborhood to mend itself this is an abject failure the u.s. should get out now no more review in december this is the review the review is it's a disaster. artie's people are going to write their own welcome if you shortly right here on r t an option for mothers who abandon their babies that is dividing child care professionals. this is a baby box ever mother wanted to leave her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside it's a project that aims to save infants lives but some say it's encouraging women to give up their children. as russia faces a record heat wave the capital moscow is quite literally smokin hot for more join the race for national in just a couple of minutes. now despite threats of

a nuclear response from north korea joint navy drill between the u.s. and south korea is underway off the region's peninsula their exercise involving about eight thousand troops will last until wednesday now tensions have been running high after an international commission blamed the north for the sinking of a south korean ship back in march john yang denies any involvement whatsoever america currently has twenty eight thousand troops based in south korea and fifty thousand more in japan leonid. are on korean studies at sydney university believes washington's actions are provoking pyongyang north korea never threatens first north korea as a small distant you would for impoverished struggling pariah state so i believe that north korea simply reacts or sometime over reacts to the threats which comes from outside if united states decides to go ahead and execute an invasion or regime change i would be surprised if your at some stage decided to use their nuclear

capability nuclear deterrence against whatever enemy is closest to solve korea's going to be the first victim of the. well another standoff with nuclear pretext. for other between israel and iran in about twenty minutes veteran british journalist alan hart explains why to iran would never strike first. just supposing iran had one two three dozen nuclear bombs do you think he would be stupid enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course it would because the whole of iran would be devastated the real reason why israel is paying up the iranian threat is to deflect political and other attention away from what it is doing in the occupied territories but the only real problem. is if iran did possess nuclear weapons

it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region. the unprecedented heat wave hitting russia continues to rage with july already the hottest month on record moscow is also suffering from smog and the smell of burning people as is reaching some outlying areas of the capital emergency teams are tackling the fires which have been triggered by the severe drought more details now marty is in the baking hot central moscow hi maria so i woke up this morning looked out the window donnish by the blanket of smoke covering central moscow it's almost unavoidable to not breathe this foul smelling stuff tell me where you are can you smell it and how bad the aerial conditions were you. did worry the russian capsule is now covered with a bale of rather thick smoke and as you can see behind me visibility is rather more

and yes the resist strong smell of burning in the air something i can't right now feel this it is skyscrapers and high towers and buildings one you can probably see over there or you could not see. because all of them are barely feasible and all that cause of smoke of course and all those has been the coast but as you just side by boca fires in the moscow region then i was struck in the city first the southern and eastern districts all of mosco have been hit but now of the smoke has already reached kremlin which is in the very center of the city and if it is continuing to move to the north british ministry of emergencies is now reporting that over seventy peat and forest blazes broke out they smaller than in the areas around in most cases covering almost sixty half tears which is the area equivalent to. that. field so you can see that the area is quite huge old though ministry is now

reporting that all of the fires have been assisting which doesn't speedballs us to smoking but this smoke has not totally warse and visibility it's also increased absolution in the city it is now one point five times above the normal level but it's also made the air here in moscow very hard to breathe for twelve medians residents and for me i feel it right now is really very hard to break but it's not it's not quite hot but it's not normal i can tell you most goes cheap talk to a size that if they smoke persist very soon most cause will even need gas masks to brace at the same time most because authorities are reporting that despite low visibility the activity of the city's apples hasn't been a factor it's worried most certainly the combination of the heat of the stifling heat and the smoke it is making it a tough day for muscovites but told me now about the past few weeks it's been a month of unforgiving heat in moscow some though are making the most of it but

what the consequences of having on people's health and the environment. why worry the consequences to all this record tape wave russia is now facing. ah bowed out and draw the cirrus i even can tell you that these some of the hottest summer in one hundred thirty years of brains know absolutely nothing good old though it comes off to a very cold a very harsh winter so it's been a long awaited summer but people have been literally tortured by over thirty degrees so says temperatures since meet june seventh temperature records have already been registered in russia within the last two months and people are suffering most of them were forced to move closer to me about. the fevers and pulls a hand that hasn't crazy number drawing dice in most go alone since the beginning of june almost two hundred people have drowned while in russia as thousand people

in july but these heat has rolled at posh drop with it their warsaw eighteenth century brought which has destroyed and damaged tens of millions of crops in the country so russia is now risking not getting any hobbies that say imagine the station has been imposed on many regions of the country twenty five thousand farmers have been registered since the beginning of june last we rolled and on both truly tropical rains and it's also brought with it every leaf has some kind of hope for people but mr roll just say that. it will not be able to wash away dried photo whether the vets and the worst news i hear is that they sit way will only intensify during the next week and mr rose to say that it could even ration up to four to degrade others as

a result we hear also in that yes indeed we are hearing that the temperature is there so it's not over yet and i've even heard some muscovites who love the hot summer weather saying when there's also when is winter going to get here on tuesday roof motion reporting from the hart office thank you. well we are always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering you can log onto r.t. dot com and have your say today we're asking how do you keep cool beans scorching temperatures just over half a vote was fifty one percent appear to be walking around in barely any clothing at all twenty nine percent are less provocative providing to turn on the air conditioner while fourteen percent are stocking up on ice and the rest claim they like to stick their heads in the fridge to be aware of the frostbite but what's your opinion after your heat wave out at r.t. for a moment our top story. while ten years ago marked major turning point for the international space station russian life support systems were installed which meant

crew members could spend more time in orbit and russian cosmonauts on board the i s s also celebrated the anniversary with a message from space. we're glad to be working here in our space office is the best window of you know traffic jams in a way to work and although there are not many people around in space aliens haven't visited us yet we're never bored. or the event saw a sea change in terms of the research which could be carried out on the sas sean thomas was lucky enough to witness some of the wonders of space engineering. circles the globe about three hundred fifty kilometers from the earth's surface it is the largest construction in space it is a marvel of modern engineering which is approaching a crucial milestone moment of the i assume this is a major contemporary space project it has a huge mass of around three hundred eighty tons it involves a big number of program participants including the united states canada european

countries belonging to the european space agency and japan and the station is being used as a big scientific laboratory. though it is a prime example of international cooperation now the roots of the station stem from the apollo soyuz program thirty five years ago when two rival space programs of the u.s. and soviet union integrated technology for the first time twenty years later russia and the u.s. expanded on that shared experience with the goal of creating a permanent space presence for missions we've done a lot with in the mir shuttle program which was the ancestor of the international space station we worked hard to provide similar news operation of both the mir orbital station and preparation for the launch i remember those years the most interesting period of strenuous work which finally did to this great result during the link up there were no hiccups everything went smoothly. this is the mark up of the capsule which is where astronauts and cosmonauts come to train at star city who

are traveling to the international space station and it is in here that you get a sense of the significance of this capsule in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the zarya and the unity capsules worldwatch but it wasn't until ten years ago when the various the capsule was attached that the space station became livable what you. might say was a foundation of sorts for the rest of the station if the module had failed then other systems work would be pointless since the module consisted largely of life support systems the module made it possible for their crew to stay and build the station it would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed at without the special part. movie infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion. the first two weeks were critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems those machines had never seen each other in

earth and that was the first time they would work together their sponsibility was huge and that was why the crew had been composed of experienced cosmonauts. ten years on the iowa sense is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space in honor currently held by russia's mir project and while it was originally only supposed to be in service until two thousand and fifteen it looks like a bright future for the international space station program but in a literal usage members decided to prolong the station's use until twenty twenty and possibly even longer if the technical state of the station is good for. ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas archie moscow. it is nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and in a few moments charlotte will be here with the latest from the world of business for the meantime though let's check out some other stories making headlines all around the world this hour and

a former camaro rouge prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity in cambodia the verdict was reached by a un backed war crimes tribunal the defendant better known as comrade boy was sentenced to thirty five years in prison although the court later reduced it to nineteen years taking into account he had already spent some time in detention he admitted to overseeing the deaths of up to fifteen thousand prisoners as many as two million people died under the brutal regime of the communist party which ruled in the one nine hundred seventy s. . the german chancellor has demanded an investigation into the deadly stampede at the love parade dance music festival in germany nineteen were killed and three hundred forty two injured as vast numbers of party go was packed into a tunnel which was only the only way in or out of the festival the organizers of the parade have already announced that the event will never be held again. well it's hard to imagine what goes through the mind of a mother who feels she has to abandon her baby in eastern europe one solution is

a secure container for unwanted infants to be left anonymously for doctors to then find. reports from prague where baby boxes. hiding medics and child care experts. they're all around the czech republic at first sight they're just nondescript metal doors on the sides of hospitals and government buildings but they've already helped to save dozens of lives this is a baby box ever mother wanted to leave her child or should have to do would be to pull on this handle and put the child inside now it doesn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually they're rescued and several minutes by those on the other side the first one was placed in this private hospital it's still the most popular with nearly fifteen children left here in five years. as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the outside and in the llamas set off i remember running to the box for

the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined it felt special i think it is an amazing invention. the baby box inventor is not a doctor but a writer and horse breeder but his idea was not immediately well received with protests from some clergyman and even doctors. though the baby box is high tech with three hundred twenty parts special places to leave unwanted children existed even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby books and didn't provide funding as if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children now the perception has changed. but it is life and christina have dated for two years and run a hostel and prague although they can have children of their own don't also like to adopt a baby box child. come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews and everything

so i like to know they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone don't want the child will become a welcome addition to their family either unnerve artsy prog ok time now for the business news with charlotte. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. b.p.'s chief executive tony hayward is expected to step down later on monday he's likely to be replaced by robert dudley who's the company's man in charge of tackling the gulf of mexico oil disaster response but b.p. says it's made no firm decision yet is the order scheduled to meet on monday ahead of an l. cing its second quarter results among other things the piece expected to discuss the timing of heywood's exit being battle chief executives been widely criticized

over the gulf of mexico spill which is lost the company forty percent of its markets capitalization as for the man to take over robert dudley has more than thirty years experience in the oil industry including five years a c.e.o. of b.p. has russian joint venture to b.p. he left in two thousand and eight after a shareholders conflict. now the stress test of europe's largest banks has given a boost to the euro despite claims the tests were not tough enough the banks which further tests are already being bailed out by their respective governments the real losers maybe those banks which we've just scraped every. now for more on this i'm now joined live by our correspondent for the who's outside the my six stock exchange in moscow heights units hala so how does this stress test succeeded in reassuring the financial markets today. yes we are at the mar six stock exchange monitoring the situation on the russian markets the reaction of the

russian markets on the european banking stress test what markets opened a few hours ago and so far we can see that they perform quite positive now let me remind you that last friday ninety one european banks underwent stress tests designed to show how europe's financial institutions would behave in case of another downturn the best. have been asked to see how much to estimate how much additional capital they would need and scenarios such as for instance continuing recession seven banks out of ninety one failed including german bank a bank of greece and five spanish banks now that so less than than expected but anyway critics say the test wasn't tough enough as it didn't look at what would happen if one of the members of the euro zone default analysts point out that the members of the european union didn't even consider even the possibility of

a sovereign debt crisis at the same time it's believed that stress tests can help restore confidence in the european banking system but its european markets want to say that such tests can only work if the market believes the test is credible now going back to russia just as i said both. in the black and russian market watchers say that they can hardly expect any direct impact the impact of stress tests on the russian markets charlotte. thank you no time that was our correspondent. my sex stock exchange in moscow. time now have a look at the markets in the arts yes the most exposed all around half of the senate so far minus all the main gain is with that one point five percent that all major is in the news with suggestions the russian government may sell car to state trade is that with or looking through two world six second quarter results in europe markets have turned negative in early trading glaxo smith kline's pulling

all reports is interested in buying biotechnology for genzyme the pharmaceutical giant is the top loser on the footsie down almost two percent. now in other news the european bank of reconstruction development is in talks about a ten percent stake in the russian r.t.s. stock market is buying a stake from kit finance the bank which was an early victim of the financial crisis e.b. r.d. plans to make the purchase with an undisclosed russian state bank the stakes estimated to be worth eighty million dollars if the ologies says it aims to improve standards in russia's stock market the finance ministry is planning russia's and biggest asset sales since the early ninety's the government aims to raise up to thirty billion dollars over three years to cut the budget deficit minority stakes in ten companies are up for grabs including russia's largest oil producer ross enough to power generators hydro and top lenders spare bank the government could

keep fifty percent plus one share of these partially listed companies in malay to sell stakes and a list of companies by russia's rail operate it. but your update for now my colleague daniel bushell we head next hour to go through the business news the rest of the day in the meantime you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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it is two thirty pm on a monday here in the russian capital this is on three you have an embarrassing exposure the biggest leak in u.s. military history reveals major cover ups over the war in afghanistan includes unreported civilian deaths on pakistani support for the taliban. there's no end in sight as exceptional heat wave which you see in the hottest month on record moscow is also suffering from small going to the small of people being felt in some outlying and central areas of the. international space station ten years since it first became habitable world called larger structure and space became possible through a russian with life support systems talked with us. but israel has yet to respond to an official request to cooperate with the un human rights council's investigation into the deadly.