over the war in afghanistan the classified documents include reports on the deaths of hundreds of civilians increase taliban attacks as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran are backing the insurgency our correspondents are working on both sides of the atlantic on the story laura emmott's in london christine resolves in washington. well this certainly is some suggestion that this is nothing new we knew this before we knew that there was corruption running right through the war in afghanistan and we knew that this was going on but certainly to see it black and white particularly represented by as you say more than ninety thousand documents is something quite extraordinary what happened was that julian assange the founder of wiki leaks released this information ahead of time to three newspapers one here in london the guardian one in germany and also to the new york times they then looked at that information and assess what they wanted to write about and whether the information was genuine and he then held a media conference here in london and talked about it and one of the things that he

said was he was pressed by journalists on war crimes whether he thought there was evidence of war crimes hare and eventually he said that he felt that it was for a cool it's of course to decide what constitutes a war crime and whether this did but he's looking at the documents that he has seen felt that there was evidence of war crimes having been committed during this war some of these documents are about civilian deaths going on reported. to pick out one that he. was difficult to do that he said it's the middle of a. war that we don't necessarily know about when you read about him in these places that only going deaths of children the deaths of civilians the deaths of servicemen which add up he said to the every day squaller war another thing that he says is shown by the documents is that pakistan which is being given a billion dollars a year by the u.s. government to help them in their fight against afghan insurgency is in fact not

helping hindering members of the spy service or meeting with taliban leaders. and organizing the militant groups that are in fact u.s. soldiers practice on a pull from out investment need tonight. that one of the most interesting things about this is that this is no. the end of this story that already as we've said ninety thousand documents but. there are fifteen thousand more that he has yet to assess but he is going to put out there when he judges the time is right we will release nearly all of them. but some of them may need production some of them may need to. you know for release eventually the full material will be released as the security situation in afghanistan proves important to understand that this material is being held back not to assist one side of the

conflict or the other but to make sure that the civilian population you know going to stand sort of. published today will to christine result christine the white house is saying this leak compromises u.s. national security how hard did they come down on these revelations today. well given they're coming down very hard on many levels as you said the national security level they say that this makes the fight against extremist much harder to have this information out here they're also coming down quite hard on wiki leaks press briefing wrapped up with president obama's press secretary robert gibbs he says wiki leaks is not an unbiased media source something interesting to note here . at no point even though a lot of the questions i would even say the majority of the questions to mr gibbs were about this week. not once did he necessarily dispute the content of it he did sort of try to say again that wiki leaks was not totally credible and he really disputed how this came about the vis is a breach of federal law so certainly the white house coming down but in addition to

this criticism they are also really really downplaying what has been released on wiki leaks they're saying that you know this is from a period of time the majority of which president obama wasn't even in office it was a time that he wasn't overseeing the war and that since december two thousand and nine which is sort of when this picture that's painted in the documents and the relationship between the united states and pakistan has gotten much better he says also sort of trying to turn this wiki leaks story around he says you know some of these atrocities that you see in these leaks well these are the reasons that president obama saw to throw more money he said it shows that the war was underfunded that the strategy was sort of on the wrong path and these are reasons if nothing else that the president got in there and threw more money have the troop surge happened so really trying to shift the message here from the white house in terms of what's happening. with washington. is the director of the american

coalition he says he feels the u.s. government screwed through trying to twist the truth. well the obama administration's pronouncement is like an alice in wonderland turning reality upside down they are the ones who are putting american soldiers and afghans lives at risk and in fact taking those lives every day in a war that they know can't be won and yet when wiki leaks and people who are whistleblowers tell the truth then this sort of explanation from the white house is that these people who are telling the truth exposing the lies are the ones putting the people's lives and in danger i mean that is so ludicrous such nonsense but because of the tepid character of the the propaganda nature of the us corporate media that line will be promulgated time and time again today and tomorrow and in the coming days but i don't think the american people will believe that they were. robert fisk who's got an interesting take on this story too he's the mideast correspondent for the british daily the dependent he says in stories like this the

internet is stepping on the toes no of newspaper and t.v. journalism we've got all these expensive newspapers with huge investigative staffs watching and it's new york times in london in france and yet we didn't get this story it was the internet that got it this is the most important proof so far that in many ways newspaper journalism is retreating and going along with authority please can i be embedded i mean i'm not a bigot but please can i be embedded can i get with the tenth mountain division can be with the british army and these reporters are not getting the story and these people this week leaks organization which i have some serious concerns they have managed to do it on a mass bulk scale that we've never seen recently in modern newspaper journalism or television journalism this i think is one of the lessons for journalists so it's too political analyst christoph horsetail he says the u.s. is using the league 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 we could leagues 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 leaks information to accuse pakistan of a double game and the dreadful so on and on for ten pages with new york times with accusations of double game against pakistan and what i accuse you new york times and what i q's american institutions 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 a week elite 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 see is and 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. while indeed following on from those thoughts may be interesting to know the people of wells latest edition of crosstalk here and debates whether pakistan is becoming a failed state at if indeed it could be the target of the next american led

invasion in the region that is coming up here on this channel next hour. so you look at some of the day's news abandoned babies are often found it strange indeed sad places sometimes even discarded like rubbish in the czech republic though it is now five years since a special facility was set up for women who give away their newborn children the so-called baby boxes sparked protests though from clergyman and even doctors who claim it encourages mothers to abandon their babies. all around the czech republic at first sight just long descript metal doors on the side hospitals government buildings but they've already helped to save dozens of lives 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 now it doesn'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 in five years for now so maybe box sets in as the baby's 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 like i felt special i think it is an amazing invention yeah. 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 story special places to leave unwanted children with existed even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby blogs and

didn't provide funding i mean if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children i know the perception has changed. but it is love and christina have dated for two years and run a hostel in prague although they can have children of the road don't also like to adopt the baby box charles. i come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews and everything 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. artsy prog. some world news in brief in pakistan a suicide bombing close to the afghan border has killed seven people and injured twenty five the blast happened at the home of an anti taliban politician me and hussein who was thought to have been the target of bomber approached his house and detonated explosives as police try to search of the same frequently attends scenes

of attacks and last week his only son was gunned down by suspected islamic militants. in the netherlands a maintenance trains crashed into a public square after it fell to stop at the end of the line travelling one hundred meters on from the tracks it ran through sailing equipment store then went on to hit recycling facilities no one was seriously injured there investigating the incident. in german chancellor's demanded an investigation into the deadly stampede at the love parade music festival in germany twenty 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 event the organizers of the parade of already announced it will never be held again. 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 more research could be carried out at the i assess r.t. shaun thomas went to witness some of the wonders of space engineering up there. 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 customs christiane's 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 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 ride cymbal timmy's 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 war and watch but it wasn't until ten years ago when the capsule was attached that the space station became livable know what she's going to. say was a validation of sorts for the rest of the station if the module had failed then all the systems were 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 bitter with two weeks work critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems of those machines had never seen each other in earth and that was the first time they would work together sponsibility was huge and that was why they were pretty had been composed of experienced cosmonauts with him. ten years on the i.s.o.'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 which i think a part 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. we have greetings to for you from the current crew of the i.s.a.'s fyodor yurchikhin the russian flight engineer tells us earthlings about the advantages of life up there in space. square glad to be working here in our space office is the best window view because no traffic jams on the way to work though there are not many people around space aliens having visited us yet whenever a ball is crushed and luckily we are far away from the beach. israel has yet to respond to an official request to cooperate with the un human rights council's investigation into the deadly attack on a guard's about aid for dinner in may next tonight we take a closer look at that story with british journalist alan hart who spent decades covering me out of israeli conflict.

today i'm talking to alan hart veteran middle east correspondent we're going to

start by talking about israel's blockade on gaza and the aid ships that are trying to get into the region allan hart thanks very much for talking to r.t. let's talk first about israel's blockade on gaza and the eight chips that are trying to get in and israel insists that that blockade is legal what do you thing well let's first of all say that the purpose of the blockade is a collective punishment of the whole people of gaza to try to wean them away from hamas now collective punishment by definition is a war crime it is absolutely illegal. the only benefit of the attempts to break the blockade is not really assisting the people of gaza but it is helping to make israel. be perceived in the world of people as more and more state and who is set to gain the most from that p.r. exercise as a very simple truth that most people don't know when israel was created and closed

the palestine file after its picture on the battlefield in forty eight. the whole establishment world wanted that file to remain closed in other words zionism. and the western powers were not only of one mind the arab regimes behind closed doors were one mind they wanted the file to remain closed the palestinians were supposed to accept their lot. as the sacrificial lamb on the altar of political expediency and then along came this arguable man yasser arafat who opened the file and it stayed open so the file is opened but it's deeply embarrassing for the arab regimes because they are divided they are impotent they are corrupt they are repressive so back to the flotilla a point that you made it's a little gesture that says you know we really with the with the palestinians that's

what president carter well it's called b.s. bullshit but not israel says that it's now easing the blockade and allowing certain supplies to reach garza seemingly in response to its national international press or do you think that the timing of that is evidence that israel accepts that this blockade is unjustifiable to the international community well i have a yes or no answer yes answer is zionism i hope to the point we can talk about different judaism and zionism zionism is becoming terribly worried about its image in the world it realizes of course it is being perceived by people as if not governments as something of a prostate so you can say yes to a certain extent they're playing their own p.r. to bend to that to say look we're not all that are reasonable but i would quote one of the better independent writers on it jonathan cook who writes out of israel palestine will have a story the other day so what it means is the salvation of the strangulation of the

people of gaza more slowly and maybe now is a good time to talk about the differences between zionism and judaism as you perceive them the key to understanding is knowledge of the difference between judaism is are some simply stated judaism is the religion of jews not the jews because by no means all jews are religious and like christianity and like islam it has as its core a set of moral values and ethical principles right now that is judaism. zionism. is the nationalism of some juice it's a sectarian colonial enterprise which created a state in the arab heartland for some jews by terrorism and ethnic cleansing and in doing so it made a complete mockery of the moral values and ethical principles of judaism the truth in summary is that judaism and zionism are total opposites so what we are

witnessing is the rise of anti israeli ism now that is not anti semitism it is anti israelis in other words it is designed this colonial enterprise that is promoting anti semitism and what about israel's position in the rest of the world do you think that it's reaching a turning point where the us may be forced to say at some point in the near future enough is enough only an american president has the leverage required to cause or try to cause israel to be serious about peace on terms but they all palestinians and most other arabs and muslims could accept the problem is that an american president has his hands tied by the zionist lobby the zionist lobby really does control in congress. american policy for israel policy are not saying the whole

middle east i'm saying israel palestine another of israel's issues at the moment is iran do you think that iran is justified in being worried about a nuclear threat from iran i don't think they have any interest in developing nuclear weapons but may be some of their number now saying look we ought to at least have the capability but let's just supposing iran had one two three dozen nuclear bombs do you think you would be stupid enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course it would because the whole of iran would be devastated and they talk about the future of the region with the palestinian authority now decidedly divided into a with hamas in charge of one point that's important corrupt irrelevant is there any chance of a two state solution though the two state solution is long ago dead the two state solution never would've given a fair complete solution to the problem it's now much too late to happen i mean

israel's colonization of the west bank is is about forty two percent of the land area and it's stretching either there will eventually be a one state solution and which as i've said jews and arabs have equal rights but in my view zionism will never allow that to happen because it amounts to the santa zation palestine i think israel's leaders will invent a pretext to drive the palestinians off the west bank and into jordan syria or wherever. and the blood will flow the west bank will be sowed with blood and it will be mostly palestinian blood and if there be honest reporters around they will call it a zionist holocaust now i fear that's where we're going because that wouldn't be the end of the story. it would so inflame. a muslim nessus that you would be opening the pandora's box of

a much wider conflict well as i think i've suggested earlier the only person with the real power to try to influence israel to behave in its own best interest as well as those the world is the president of america now yes it's true that europe russia there are lots of other countries with the same power the same leverage economic sanctions whatever but no other government on earth is going down this road until an american president gives the lead.

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