documents were handed to three newspapers by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks they include reports on the deaths of hundreds of civilians increased taliban attacks as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran are backing the insurgency that is lorimer from london as more. this is essentially a detailed account of the last six years of the war in afghanistan that begin at the beginning of two thousand and four and right at the end of two thousand and nine these ninety thousand documents many of them refer to the toll that the afghan war has taken on civilians that are hundred forty four detailed incidents of the deaths of civilians during this conflict some of them have been from controversial as strikes that we've already seen a lot of in the news in that the afghan government has complained about that some of them also with fists from something as simple as troops shooting at all no i'm civilians on the streets either the drivers of cars or the drivers of motorcycles

because they wrongly thought that they could be suicide bombers there's details in these reports of one hundred ninety five civilians killed and one hundred seventy four wounded but that's considered to be a massive underestimate that there are we assuming all that have not been revealed by these documents also is something very worrying about pakistan or pakistan receives the billion dollars from that the u.s. government actually supports the fights against afghan insurgency but what we're seeing from these documents is in fact that the pakistani spy service appears to be holding secret meetings with the taliban in order to organize the militant groups that are fighting u.s. soldiers that it's just some of the things that we can see in the story but the real story of this material is that it's it's one thing after another. it's. insurgents. our forces he

said that he was expecting that people whose abuse he had exposed would come out and criticize him essentially shooting the messenger and he also denied the fact that these leaks would cause any kinds of operational insecurity or danger for the troops that are on the ground he said all the documents that he's really still seven months old and so have no real bearing on what's going on operationally in afghanistan at the moment he said that he had to haul minimization process those were his words he also defended the reliability of these documents is that there are instructions on the wiki web sites about how to read these documents obviously we should exercise caution while reading them but he's confident that they are all accurate account. to a correspondent in london with the leaks being criticized by the white house which says the release of that information u.s. national security let's get more on this cross to washington correspondent

christine romans live for us christi the only likely to hear any further comment than from the white terms of this incident hey there kevin i am having a little bit of trouble hearing you but i'm pretty sure you are asking me about the latest from the white house as laura sort of pointed out the white house today both criticizing and downplaying the release of these documents the national security adviser jim jones saying that anything that is published that would put the lives of americans and our partners in danger the white house condemns this but he's also downplaying the significance of it he says that these reports come from a period of time between january of two thousand and four and december of two thousand and nine and during this time as you know of course the former president george w. bush was in office he says december two thousand and nine also significant because that is the time that current president obama essentially change strategy in afghanistan and this doesn't document that another thing about this date is since that time according to the white house relations between the united states and

pakistan particularly. because danny intelligence has been improved i want to point out also some things that are being said here with the mainstream media a lot of experts coming on to talk about this this morning also sort of taking the angle of downplaying this this is of course been expected by the united states and officials here that wiki leaks would release this of course after just a few months ago we saw the release of that helicopter cockpit video that showed the shooting and in many cases the remorseful actions by some pilots from the united states army. you know officials here have known that this was going to be released and they said these documents ninety thousand of them have not really told us anything that we didn't know we knew that there were some situations in which case pakistan was working with the taliban but essentially they're sort of trying to downplay it as well i want to point out one other thing too kevin is that

senator john kerry this is a long time senator from massachusetts here in the u.s. senate one time presidential candidate he is not taking the same view as the white house he's saying however illegally these documents were obtained or put up this should essentially be a wake up call he says this should teach us that we need to sort of up our ante up the effort to get the policy right and also make it more urgent. one other thing here a lot of people here in the united states both media and officials unnamed and named are comparing the release of these documents to the pentagon papers now this is of course the study done by the department of defense on the vietnam war and relations between the united states and vietnam back in the sixty's and seventy's it was top secret it was not meant to be published but once it was published there on the front page of the new york times back in one nine hundred seventy one while it painted a grim reality of both of what was going on on the ground in the war brought to

light of lot of things that were not known and brought to light a lot of things about the united states and the vietnam relationship and raise some questions one of the most important is this war winnable that was back then and certainly some people are saying this morning that these documents are revealing and forcing people to ask similar questions about the war with afghanistan haven't christi reside in washington. thank you more on this developing story as well today political crystal horse as he says the u.s. is using the leaked documents to accuse pakistan of playing a double game. ninety one thousand documents coming out of we could see it's very clear that without some kind of test to take our tested ok from us institutions leaks would not have been able to publish anything and what we see here and what we have to make of this is what the new york times writes pakistan aid insurgency in afghanistan reports

a surge that is what on page a one the new york times carries this morning and they use the whole week you leagues information to accuse pakistan of a double game and a dreadful so on and on for ten pages with new york times with accusations of double game against pakistan and what i accuse the new york times and what i accuse the american institutions of of lying all the time in their teeth they draw pakistan into that and i don't know how they manage to read the ninety one thousand documents and find out this truth in them but explicitly do they talk about leaks and that is something which i find very astonishing and it reminds me in fact of the practice of nine eleven where the american knew within seconds that this was bad. or some of bin laden killing american citizens and what we have here

somehow is making use of these leaked documents to make a case that pakistan is not playing straight in this war in this so-called war against terror and that's of course wrong what i say is i have proof for that and i've written three books on it america itself is playing a double game and it's forcing pakistan to play this double game alongside america that's what's going on right now and all the rest of this is a dirty lie and we should not believe anything of it. the afghan president's launched a probe into fifty two civilian casualties in a nato missile strike last week the deaths of local people in a live raids are causing indignation in the country. says the documents released by wiki leaks have revealed anything new about the problem it's not a surprise because. the material in these documents could be off to nature one could be some are some are probably facts and some are just i don't process raw

material that or reports are far one person or one side so everybody is making it as bigger than it is i think as some of these facts are known to us pakistan's involvement in afghanistan aidan's involvement in afghanistan corruption the way the taliban are trained all these things are or how the years pakistani intelligence elements and their involvement and we were talking about this several years before the u.s. and nato and others accepted the fact that the taliban are not mushrooms they don't have parachutes to come from mars they are naturally being supported unaided. this is r t coming up on the program this hour. this is a baby box if a mother wanted to leave her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on that handle i'll put the child inside but it was designed to save infants lives but

critics say it's encouraging women to give up their children we've got that story ahead this and. moscow says all forecasters say it's the hottest day since records began one hundred thirty years ago our correspondent is braving the sweltering streets of the capital to bring us the latest crossing to him a bit later. it's ten years since the international space station became suitable for crews to both live and work in new russian and american life support systems also meant that more research could be carried out at the i assess marty sean thomas went to witness 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 assess 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 for. 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 provide similes 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 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 in both the station it would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed at without this special part. lou the 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 there's sponsibility was huge and that was why the crew had been composed of experienced cosmonauts ten years on the i s s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space and on are 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. i assess 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 r.t. moscow on a date we've got a great things for you from the current crew. cheek in the russian flight engineer tells earthlings about the advantages of working in space. so we're glad to be

working here in our space office is the best window of you know traffic jams on the way to work and although there are not many people around and space aliens haven't visited us yet we're never bored and luckily we are far away from the heat. abandoned babies are often found in strange and sad places sometimes we discarded lie rubbish in the czech republic though it's five years now since a special facility was set up for women to give away their newborn children the so-called baby box has sparked protests from clergymen and even doctors who claim it encourages mothers to abandon their babies. 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 meet her child all she'd have to do would be to

pull on the handle and put the child inside now it wasn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually there 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. as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the outside and in the llama set all 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 books and learned 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 books 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 is if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children 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 presidents who refuse to live with me so i like children 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. see prague. well here's a brief this monday evening a suicide bomber driving a minibus is blown himself up by an arabic television station in baghdad killing at least six and wounding sixteen others officials say they have evidence al qaeda had

been planning to attack arabic channels in the country and stored iraqi militants see the new station is to pro western since its regular interviews u.s. state figures. israel's defense ministers warn his country will attack lebanon if there is further provocation from hezbollah. accuse beirut of allowing the militant group to rearm lebanese media say israeli military jets have repeatedly violated the country's this base in the last few days the planes are reported to be flown over hezbollah facilities and un peacekeepers in. a new zealand teenagers miraculously survive falling from the sixteen story. in clinton the boy plunged fifty meters and went through a steel car roof before landing on concrete the fifty year olds now in hospital in the said to be in a stable condition despite a broken rib fractured wrist leg and internal injuries. here today is officially the hottest day since records began in moscow and is one of the

smoking to foul smelling small caused by fires envelop the entire car but all are very brave jacob grieves our correspondents for their jacob no paper all over the world let's face it love to moan about the weather is too hot is too cold just how bad is it me. well i mean i might be the first a minor me i much rather be in your nicely air conditioned studio than out here braving the he actually said but it's cool down slightly at the moment but yeah today was you said it was a record breaking day the hottest day in moscow ever really a record breaking month in july with temperatures soaring into the high thirty's and this could reach the high forty's just have problems as well as kicked off the swimming season but already across russia in july there's been a thousand people were drowned as the season starts has also been a lot of people just suffering in the intense heat and earlier on we got to speak

to some of those people who have been suffering. when i woke up in the morning and felt the smell of smoke and it was very difficult to breathe. but it seems to me that moscow's move to africa it's the third week since we have no it a brief the only relief can be found at the lake and it's very uncomfortable to live in the small breach different smells it's like living near garbage i'm gasping for breath because i live in the countryside and try to go to the city only for three last three day came and now i feel bad i have to take special medicine to be able to breathe in the city. well as you heard there now the said earlier kevin it's not just the heat it's also been a big barrel small guy around moscow today now that came from peace and fires that were burning on the outskirts of the city and they as they moved in which they really hit the hardest the south and southeast of moscow but as the day progressed

it also moved to the center to the kremlin and on with. the north of the city as well now the emergency ministry said there's been sixty such fires today in the last twenty four hours and that's covered a area of over seventy hectares or thirty football pitches and they mobilised aircraft and helicopters try and deal with these blazes some of which can carry up to twelve tons of water to help to put out these blazes though no quite quite a sight and quite a foul smelling stench in the air if you are out in the city in moscow today you know the a million dollar question what are the weathermen saying about it jake harrowing what could have been a respite in store long as they say he went going to go on. wall afraid it doesn't seem like too much rest buy in the store there as a said there are predictions that temperatures could reach into the forty degree celsius towards the end of the week so there may not be any rest but still and it's also being just to add to the woes of of people living in moscow they could

potentially be tornadoes on the outskirts and moscow region with winds a full cost of up to fifteen to twenty five meters per meters per second so there also you could be danger from there was a treat i was coming down electricity and really a danger just to be out and about so tropical conditions really over you know and even docks has been warning that because of the lack of oxygen in the air the reason nessie caution that if you're at home to coat it gets a wet towels and put them over windows to increase the oxygen levels in the house. it really is that hot at the moment. ok great thanks for that you cheered me up no end you watching r t in ten minutes we told the british you listen hard you spent a decade covering the arab israeli conflict that's coming up shortly it's an interesting challenge you not call it so far today as catch up with the latest from the world of business before the dinner bushnell's here.

welcome to business people tony hayward is expected to step down before its quarterly results on tuesday over sky news has reported that he could be given a directorship of the company's russian operation t.n. k b p the new head of the global operation is likely to be robert dudley the decision is expected to come to be meeting on monday and head of its second quarter results hey we've been wordly criticised over the gulf of mexico spill which has cost the company forty percent of its market capitalization but his replacement is no stranger to conflict robert dudley left russia two years ago after a dispute with the russian shareholders of t.k. b.p. . there have been reports b.p. could sell lucrative russian venture to b.p. to state owned gazprom all rules nerved but oil and gas analyst alexander desire for metropol says the deal would make sense. no i don't think so and the primary

reason is there probably is not there is no bias there at the market but the reason is the e.p. doesn't need to sell take a v.p. right now because he now an excellent assets for b.p. because b.p. needs now a lot of cash in order to sell down all consequences of the spiel in the mexican gulf think if he's an excellent cash cow and it generates several billions of dollars every year as a dividends for b.p. that actually that what b.p. needs now is actually. last several months was rumored not as an acquisition target but seeking an acquisition target primarily in downstream and retail the finance ministry is planning russia's 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 rose nerved power generates

a roof hydro top. and bank the government could keep fifty percent plus one share of these partially listed firms it may later sell stakes in unlisted organizations like russia's real monopoly. the stress test of europe's largest banks has given a boost to the euro despite claims that were not tough enough the banks which further tests already being held by their respective governments while german banks were criticized for withholding information or their exposure to sovereign that have a russian market. russian markets have demonstrated quite a humble reaction on the european banking stress but that comes as no surprise that analysts say they haven't been expecting any serious implications for the russian market i have to remind you that last friday ninety one european banks under one stress tests designed to show how europe's financial institutions would behave in

case of another financial downturn the banks have been asked to estimate how much additional capital they would need in adverse in areas such as continuing recession and additional sovereign shock now seven out of ninety one banks failed the exam but that's less than expected the banks that failed include german mortgage bank real estate bank of greece and five spanish savings banks now 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 defaulted they also point out that the members of the european union didn't even consider the possibility of a sovereign debt crisis at the same time the task is believed to to help restore confidence in the european banking system but a market players say that the test such task can only work if the market believes it's credible. produce the finished three percent.

of the reporting go up thirty seven percent in the first half of the year. as the process of light sweet holds new servants you know into. dollars a barrel. and the 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 financial crisis the plans to make the purchase with an undisclosed russian state lender the state system ated to be worth eighty million dollars says it aims to improve standards on russia's stock market that's it for me you can find more stories on our website www dot com slash business.

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eight thirty pm monday night here in moscow you're watching r t with me kevin in these are our top stories embarrassing exposure as the biggest leak in u.s. military history reveals major cover ups over the war in afghanistan but is it old news rather than revelations. space to call home it's ten years since the international space station first became habitable when a russian module with life support systems docked with the orbiter. and abandoned to be adopted r t looks at the concept of baby boxes where mothers can anonymously leave their new borns with hope for a better life. more r.t. dot com israel is yet to respond to an official request to cooperate with the un human rights council's investigation into the deadly attack on gaza bound aid flotilla next we'll take a closer look with veteran british journalist alan hass who spent decades covering the arab israeli conflict.