blowing website wiki leaks handed over ninety thousand classified documents to british american and german newspapers they also include information on increased taliban attacks as well as nato feels that pakistan fueling the insurgency the white house says the pentagon files on the field report surprised but 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 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 bush is treated 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 all of those

deaths come from controversial as afghan governments already complained about but some of them come from just troops shooting and killing random posters by most serious cyclists just to protect themselves. from the fear of potential suicide bombers and altogether in need of. help from one hundred ninety five civilians having been killed in one hundred seventy four and there's reason to believe that that's a huge underestimate for this period there's also a few 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 say practice on pay is alleged to be doing exactly the opposite of what the u.s. is also doing is paying it to. this specific dossier it's not clear where this came

from and julian assange discuss where these nineteen thousand documents came from but we can assume that that comes from some sort of inside source mainly because in april there was a similar video which do not sons of wiki leaks on his website which shows apache helicopters essentially gunning down to reuters cameramen on the streets of baghdad now someone has been arrested and charged with that and he was. 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 to me has any connection with bin is going to six weeks because we're not the only ones who want to know where these things come from the pentagon is of course very concerned to know what has happened here and in fact requested to meet with enough staff outside who knew absolutely who can talk to know about it he so far hasn't wanted to meet with them. and it right there to some in afghanistan the revelations themselves don't come as much of

a surprise but as afghan m.p. delta saw tons or told us what is interesting is that these key reports were kept a secret. are not new to me the ones that what i've read in the paper the situation on the ground the civilian casualties the way the operation is going and the critiques that have been made. i would be more interested in those things that are not published and i would like to know what is it that is jeopardizing this operation according to some politicians. my colleague kerry johnston god more insight into the exposing from military analyst you can khrushchev cross-talk host people of. oh it says is that. 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 you know why the context says or some of these leaked documents suggest that there's pakistani support for the. you know the case we. just watched crosstalk. we know about any. one of the main challenges during the antislavery jihad out what the pakistani involvement pakistani has been sop contracted their intelligence services by side by the cia and that's the whole point of the whole trouble in afghanistan regarding the insurgency and i saw that the insurgency anti-american whatever anybody insurgency in afghanistan has been perpetrated directed and funded by the united states central intelligence agency their their partners. they're just in cahoots thirty years ago and the same thing

you know it's time for the neighborhood to mend itself it was 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 how did afghanistan. right there welcome if you shortly right here on the program on r.t. an option for mothers who abandon their babies that's dividing child care professionals. this is a baby box if a mother wanted to leave her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside the fact that aims to save infants lives but some say women to give up their children plus. as russia faces a record heat wave the capital moscow is quite literally smelting plant for more join the race nationally in just a couple of minutes. but u.s.

and south korea are holding joint navy drills despite threats of a nuclear response from north korea exercise involves twenty ships two hundred aircraft and some eight thousand troops if you will to last until wednesday tensions have been running high on the korean peninsula after the north was accused of sinking a south korean ship in march young denies any involvement now to discuss this live i'm joined by val let's check off the rector of the international center for korean studies here in moscow and hello to you sir so i'll just start off by saying is north korea really capable of deploying a nuclear strike. what we know for sure is that north korea has nuclear devices because they tested twice and some say they have a dozen or so which devices and they also have short range missiles like scud missiles more than six hundred but we do not know whether they match but anyway. conventional weapons could make

a great. great trip to this let's if i may let's talk about these naval exercises going on between south korea and america in the face of pyongyang are these just exercises or they you know do they have some other purpose do you think i guess they have some other purpose because there are thirteen scheduled for august this year but they sure are. not only for the north korea but the neighboring i mean china and of course russia as well if you think it's out of the question that america and south korea could try and attack north korea to overthrow the communist regime i hope that is out of question because the nearest was the nine hundred ninety four when i would come on was planning military action against the north and at that time after these it save the situation unfortunately last year clinton didn't make my changes but anyway i hope that even though south korea is considered to be by statistic one of the countries i think that action this action would be

a suicide when you bring me to my next point there are analysts that say military analysts say that north korea invest loads of money into its military and that its military is very big and powerful and yet there are others as they at the same time there are millions of north koreans who are starving how stable do you think that is the regime in north korea. a large distance between the militants and the ordinary people i think that vision was rather stable it's much more stable than fifteen years ago when. his father now washington d.c. recently suggested are living more sanctions against north korea and if you look over the past with iran and with north korea the sanctions don't really appear to work do they you think just take a freeze of columns which i think the only thing which americans could do some new york can't but the last time they were twenty five million dollars it's a small money actually even for north korea now finally so i'm running out of time here with these military exercises off the peninsula they're going on for a couple more days now you originally said they were going to use our nuclear

deterrent if these exercises are carried out now pyongyang has been rather quiet as of late do you think they'll come out borking once again or what do you think well i think that's a. common policy of. course and so. on so there are some warming and and. cooling and then again warming there again cool already rector of the international center for korean studies thank you. well another standoff with nuclear pretext is that between israel and iran and i was time veteran british journalist alan hart explains why teheran 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 he 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 you ron did possess nuclear weapons it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region. well the unprecedented heat wave hitting russia continues to rage with july already the hottest month on record moscow is also suffering from small ground the smell of burning peat bogs is reaching some outlying and central areas of the capital emergency teams are tackling the fires which have been triggered by the severe drought. reports the russian capital is now a college with a bale of brothers six miles as you can see behind me visibility is rather more and yes the resist strong smell of burning in the air something i can 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 know because of smoke of course and although it has been closed by peat bog fires in the moscow region then i'll see. the c t first the southern and eastern district so far most go have been hit but now. 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 five heat and forest blazes broke out they small and in the areas around in most cases covering almost sixty half tears which is the area equivalent to. that. hill so you can see that the area is quite huge old the ministries now reporting that all of the fires have been assisting bush doesn't speedballs us to smoke and the consequence

is all this record paid twice a russia is now facing bad and draw the serious people have been literally tortured by over thirty degrees says says temperatures since me 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 has increased in number of drawing dust in the russia in the last month a thousand people have died but these heat hasbro's and tosh brought with it the warsaw eighteenth century the brought which has destroyed and damaged tens of millions of crops in the country so rush is now risking not getting any hobbies that city. for national reporting there now we are always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering you can log on to r.t.

dot com and have your say today we're asking how you keep cool in scorching temperatures now the stats read as follows just over half of voters fifty one percent appear to be walking around and barely any clothing at all twenty nine percent are less provocative providing to turn on the air conditioner of fourteen percent are stocking up on ice cubes and the rest playing they like to stick their heads heads in the fridge hopefully not for too long put your opinion cast your vote cast your heat wave vote at our two top in our top story section. well ten years ago 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 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 and space aliens

haven't visited us yet we're never bored as. the events or a sea change in terms of the research which could be carried out on the i r s s r t's sean thomas was lucky enough to witness to some of the wonders of space engineering. it 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. we've done a lot with in the mir shuttle program which was the ancestor of the international space station we work hard to ride similar nice 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 and 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 world watch but it wasn't until ten years ago when the capsule was attached that the space station became livable what she is

going to. see 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 in both the station it would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed that without the special part of the infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion. 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 there's sponsibility was huge and that was why they were pretty had been composed of experienced cosmonauts with you. ten years on the i s s 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 which i think a part of but in a lot of my assessment has 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 r.t. moscow all right well done you will be here in a few minutes with the latest business news but for the meantime let's check out some other stories dominating the world headlines right now former prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity in cambodia the verdict was reached via un backed war crimes tribunal the defendant better known as comrade was sentenced to thirty five years in prison although the court later reduced it to nineteen years taking into account time he'd already spent 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 cambodia in the one nine hundred seventy s. . the german chancellor has it demanded an investigation into the deadly stampede at the love parade darts music festival in germany nineteen people were killed and three hundred forty two injured as vast numbers of party goers packed into a tunnel which was the only way in or out of the festival the organizers of the parade have already announced that the event will never be held in. 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. never reports from prague where the so-called baby box is dividing medics and child care experts. they're all around the czech republic at first sight they're just known descript metal doors on the sides of hospitals 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 within 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 now so maybe books as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the outside and in the lobby settles i remember running to the box for the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined by 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 now a cloud 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 them away 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 in 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 who refused to read me so i like to know they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone that want the child will become a welcome addition to their family either unnerve artsy prog. it is now twenty two minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t.

let's get down to business now with daniel bushell and i know the stock markets are reacting to those recent bank stress tests right we now know which of your banks are strong enough to withstand another economic downturn we'll have those details a little later but first b.p.'s chief executive tony hayward is expected to step down later on monday he's likely to be replaced by robert dudley 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 its borders should look to meet on monday and head of announcing second quarter results among other things b.p. set to discuss the timing of hayward's exit the battle chief executives been widely criticized over the gulf of mexico spill which has lost the company forty percent of its market capitalization as for the man to take over robert dudley has more than thirty years experience in the oil industry including five years as c.e.o. of b.p. joint venture to b.p. he left in two thousand and eight after a shareholder conflict. the stress test of europe's largest banks has given

a boost to the euro despite claims that the tests were not tough enough the banks which failed the tests already being bailed out by their respective governments really loses maybe those banks which only just scraped through. time to check out the stock markets now the all tears and my sticks in the afternoon become trees talk will produce the rules next it's around one point seven percent higher forces of the russian government repeated plans to sell part of its stake also a favorite to buy the peace russian joint venture which is rumored to be on the humble. mochas have turned negative in europe with like the smith kline fully reported interested in buying protect genzyme the pharmaceutical giant is the main loser on the footsie down almost two percent. european bank of reconstruction and development is in talks to buy a ten percent stake in the russian stock market is buying the state from kit

finance which was an early victim of the economic crisis the plans to make the purchase with an undisclosed russian state bank the state estimated to be worth eighty million dollars even though this is it aims to improve standards on russia's stock market the finance ministry is planning russia's biggest asset sale 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 rose next power generator hydro and top lenders bt b. and burbank the government could keep fifty percent plus one share of these partially listed companies it may later sell stakes in unlisted companies like russia israel monopoly. lower import tariffs for steel products higher taxes for first metal producers and a more transparent pricing policy russia's big steel consumers want the government to take action against the way the steel industry does business at a grand gathering of producers and consumers in the city of chile go over the

weekend it seems from mr putin was happy to oblige you know it amid reports. let me put in regrets that his comments about metals pricing policy two years ago led to a twenty percent drop in its share price but he clearly wasn't sorry about any other thank you may have had this time prime minister held up mitchell as an example for others to follow he said the company treats russian consumers well and was not under suspicion for price fixing the same could not be said about six other metals competitors. investigation for selling their product at a higher price to russian consumers than for export it's alleged their irregularities in transfer pricing where the producers sell product to a friendly offshore company at a much reduced tariff to avoid tax in the ocean a company that sells the steel to foreign consumers normal world market rates. most of the call and metal producers present here by selling their product to russian

customers fifteen to twenty percent higher than world prices we're talking about export price we see the evidence of companies using transfer pricing export contracts are two to three times lower than the world price for the offshore companies it's discriminatory pricing towards russian customers. dimity when put two and a half hours and was broadcast in full life one russian t.v. still producers as well as their end consumers in the old two in oil and gas industries all explained their views on the stumbling points in the chain from coal to still sheet closing the meeting said the government would take strong measures if the companies continued to misbehave but it was to the government wants to provide support to the sector but if we see that the measures formulated in the nor are not enough to ensure the sector acts within the law then we will have to tighten those measures and why why i should say that we will do it if we do not see the right feedback and feed big there was an before the meeting let me put in media

tour of the city in new did that with all of them are doing is ation of the numerous. plants in the city little attention will speed to the people even the local beach lack basic facilities next morning some be theirs were pleased to find changing rooms to oil it in sun loungers it's clear that when you were put in expect a similar prompt response from the steel producers in any debate of a business r.t. . so for this hour you can always find more stories on our website that's already dot com slash business.

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