that we always get pushed back whenever we review abuse by some of what i say should we always get that organization or its friends pushing back to try and steer the message away from the allegations that have been raised and one of the main criticisms has been leveled out here is that you have published the villages the names and in some cases the g.p.s. coordinates of people afghans who cooperated with the u.s. military and you even come under some criticism from human rights organizations for that and a u.s. official has called it a potential hit list for the taliban what's your response to that it was a piece of the mostly be media beat up i mean where we're looking at these you seriously to see whether that is true we did hold back keep doing thousand reports for for the through the review because they had this sort of classification that suggested maybe they contain that sort of material we approached the white house to ask them for assistance in reviewing material before we published the white house

they don't accept that request. now. all of this is coming from the times of london and the times did not kill off about any of these reports whatsoever in fact today i see that there is a title of an article afghan men already did but actually if you read the article what you see at the very bottom is in fact that the man died two years ago. at this stage we're looking at this is mostly a media beat up of course we're very concerned to make sure innocents are protected so we're very happy to receive any evidence or which report is possibly revealing information about someone who is who is innocent. but once again at this stage we have not confirmed those allegations at all in fact we've actually looked at them and we see that those allegations are not correct there's also been a suggestion that the release of this information will make it harder for allied

forces to get afghans this is to cooperate with them while what we reveal and that's what we've been doing for the path for us is the truth about how when i was asians actually behave you know if afghans don't like how those organizations actually behave then of course it is their right to engage with them or not engage with them it's not so much that there is it i think is the potential danger that they might be and now that such a huge body of information in the public to may once again that is an allegation by the london times and that a publication who was in a oppositional relationship to the guardian paper that we collaborated with the printed fourteen pages on monday elation to this issue the times of london printed pages in relation to this issue on monday so they are now in an adversary relationship because they weren't interested to the party this is being a media sensation you release the information especially to selected media outlets

three newspapers and since then you've given. must about to up to one hundred media interviews including apparently the larry king show are you a publicist well that's just ridiculous i mean i thought far from that in fact we try to have no publisher we try to work under the same rules that that the economist runs on them where everyone has a. shared byline that we have founded it the public the moderns that someone speak for organization now and it because of the security threats to this sort of work we do. not many people are willing to step forward and speak. in the end someone has to do it i was already a public figure so i am the person. who does that these documents date from the period between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine why have you published them not really a when they could have made more of a difference what we are any receiving material you know recently we publish as

soon as possible what do process it's as you go through between receiving it and publishing it took me through that so when we received material like this it is very you know it is very difficult to read this is it's an internal military language internal jargon the format was some computer format in fact impossible for an older person to read so we had to understand the format real reform at this make it in a presentable way and then explore the material to pull it out of the stories and set up. a coalition of media groups to do just that so it took quite a quite a lot of work not just from us but also the other three organizations involved and there must be a huge amount of expertise involved in doing something like that as well where does your expertise in the expertise of your organization come from and we have an eight hundred people involved specialists in different areas different regional areas

computer specialists in india. and in different ways former intelligence officers and so on and we draw on that expertise to try and understand material like this now washington says that these documents are outdated says is there any truth to that claim depends on what you're talking about if you're talking about how the war has progressed of course there are no doubt that the war has been going since two thousand and one that's nine years this material covers the last six years was the exception the last seven months now that exception is in accordance to some degree it means that you need to know it is not all tactical. significance it's interesting to talk about troops who are about just about to do something which means it is over a century noted threats to. u.s. military forces but is deeply important for understanding the purpose of the war

now that the white house say that while the material only goes up to december a new say but we released obama's new policy on the war but obama's new policy on the war was in fact a continuation the previous policy except more troops so why should the war change so dramatically just because it's really good money policy changes being put in place if we look back through the material and we see. when the last big pull was the change was that was when mcchrystal came in and so we can see from the archives that mcchrystal big changes in policy didn't seem to result in big changes on the ground there's no reason to believe that obama's small change in policy. in december of last year resulted being any real change for the war except perhaps to increase the tempo to increase the number of interactions because it was an increase and so does the white house's rhetorical trick was to. say c.j.

. yes there was in fact no overlap between obama's policy and this material in fact obama's policy came in december first and this material carries through in fact to the end of the you've said that the under reporting of civilian casualties starts at the bottom with the sort of common soldiery and that really no policy change at the top is going to filter down into that what do you think could make a difference it's the extreme a hard situation i mean there are i can't see any easy way out of this afghan lives and the answer is not. for western forces will i suffer members to. go in tomorrow. because that would lead to a power vacuum and so on for it i mean you go through is probably a staged withdrawal. making agreements between the taliban and

the afghan government that stage withdrawal continues and perhaps a package. as well. there will be a continuation of continual super war in afghanistan i mean even if a peace allusion is made. i predict there will be a continuation of the civil war and we're going to be once forces of establish some kind of equilibrium that we will see an increase towards peace there's no easy options are on the table i'm sure stands to gain from the release of all this information will the afghan people i mean that is their country and this is the history of their country and if they are to effectively manage and control their own destiny they need this information to understand what is happening to their country but we can also say. you know it's people united states. and u.k. strayer and others in the coalition who are actually paying for all this morning

who are sending its soldiers to be killed in this war and those people also have the rights to understand what is actually happening but probably not but it is all those military companies. who are making extraordinary profits by providing service services to troops weapons or. clothing and so on but isn't the taliban the afghan insurgency likely to gain from this as well because you have inadvertently maybe exposed the weaknesses of the allied forces we have to be careful but remember this is a civil war. everyone says taliban but in fact the taliban are i've got it yes this is a civil war that is going on and the taliban pot all the will of the afghan people and they are also part of the will perhaps of the i.s.i.

. the pakistani secret intelligence service and of course perhaps that part of the will move so what do you rabia who is giving some money to this but in terms of the bodies on the ground people actually doing the work the taliban is part of the will of the afghan people and. the united states and other forces need to recognize same understand that that is part of the afghan people and if you shooting taliban and you were shooting the afghan people. that doesn't mean that they don't have blood on their hands as well we added up on the number of i.e.d. events represented the material exploded explosions of the brain provides explosive devices and over two thousand civilians were killed by i.d.'s. and explosive devices placed on the road to blow up a possible convoy bought an afghan family causes in their car to go off and blow them up so this material doesn't paint the behavior of any. any

military group. you know and i slide there's blood on that on all sides due to the sauce thank you very much. vote for bush for bush and bush. always by one vote for kerry. so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. he can flip the boat that. wealthy british style.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. caused by record breaking heat in russia expanding to new areas at least thirty lives in the last this week and the blazes have destroyed sounds of homes. water

supplies in russia's foreign minister under stress by barrels containing chemicals from china that were swept away by currently on the border. now was. published thousands of classified documents revealing cover ups in the war in afghanistan among the revelations was the lead on reporting the civilian deaths. were the story is a shape that we hear in our next sports update with. you're watching the sports news in artsy thanks for joining us this hour they have lines. are unstoppable in the russian primarily the same pittsburgh side increasing that overlaid with yet another victory of beaten gold has not been named one of saturday's highlights. rush hour in full control of the european us latics

championships in barcelona securing twice as many medals as the nearest rivals with one day of competition to go. and exist in behavior here new gun yawn gets through skateboarding girls while jimmy bass really shines on these make spike having sixteenth annual it's games in los angeles . now it's off way through the russian premier league season and the pick of saturday's action sold tabletop was in need defeat champions are banned and extend the overall aid in the process so the comfortably won the match up to a brace of pillows from strike that i did something that was up there just before halftime i was first on the hour. and gets a call from the sack and all the data silva to me a final score after sixty five minutes of my child made a cross that was in the head of the far post by the national squad striker it means a chance but it is now temperance i had over being beat people.

elsewhere terry great to live here with the same squad suniel and in the later games nama were held to a job. here in moscow. meanwhile spanish football giants are real madrid began training ahead of a couple of pre-season friendlies in north america the club's record signing kirsten aldo spoke to the press earlier this week and said he is excited about the upcoming season. do. finish. we have to focus now and in madrid i'm really focus i will account for this for this season. we come here to los angeles to carry on with the training months so we're ready we are ready for the decision not now more a few days for training so when you start to see the really ready. this new coach research morning a very very good experience and

a very very good training center is it is short but intensity training so who are really all right. and is good is always good to travel to see different cultures so we are very happy to be here. now russia continuing the european aquatics championships in barcelona a total of twenty medals now for the country twice as many as their nearest rivals frons russian ladies have claimed all three medals in the women's four hundred metres final but see on my feet of watching your style of and on time in the three of us up there getting a good start in securing gold silver and bronze respectively a bit of a holding on for a fast ever carry a gold medal adding to a collection which includes two olympic silvers from athens and a world championship growlings last yeah. well that's a hell of a given that in some bible is noticeably absent from the pole vaulter dance with law itself on a boat that was doing a great job in bringing russia and now the gold the arsenal player in full point

seventy five meters while germans silkiest been born and these a rise of that silver and gold is respected me with four meters sixty five centimeters. the more successful the russian it is was eight hundred meters might be a seven of a living up to his status as favorite by winning in time of one minute fifty eight point twenty two seconds the twenty four year old at the second gold of the yeah after winning in the same discipline at the world indoor championships in doha. is out of the continued no breaking success in the middle distances winning the women's three thousand meter steeplechase well champion martyrdom in this was unable to overpower the russian towards the end meaning spain's first medal of the competition is a silver won it was not a lovable want to side battle for the bruins to join compadre it is i don't give up on the podium. if i'm in the title and she will go over

that some drama for me in the women's four hundred meter hurdles one building record setting fashion the veteran model covering the distance of a time all fifty two point nine two two seconds bulgarian vanya some ball of a. picked up so well while breaking sperry shakes drayton setting personal best to grab a bronze medal. let's have stateside now where some of the world's bast daredevils have gathered once again to showcase their skills at the sixteenth annual igs games in los angeles here you're going to yawn stealing the show in the skateboard events where jamie bass rig producing some magic on a b. and makes bike englishtown past week showing great film of showing wooden six points for his wife for the high school the finals best becoming the first driver in history to win the b.m.x. pants more times elsewhere to family because of the shaun white was on hand to try for move more domestically bob the twenty three year old who specializes in

snowboarding as well as skateboarding was stopped by here in new got you on the degree that canadian so cool on the eighty first place and he also got his second gold overnight in the past three categories. now back in russia the country's streetball team reclaimed the trophy they lost to ukraine last him. in the final of the fourth annual moscow open meter also has the story. bad weather is a common problem for us to a bowl organizers in moscow cold hard win and poor and we intend to show up at the least appropriate moment that certainly wasn't the case at the end on the oscar wilde one which attracted the biggest number of british disciplines and spectators in his four year history. the temperature dropped to just thirty two celsius from thirty seven the previous day making nearly perfect playing conditions team russia had a lot to prove after losing their title from two thousand and seven and two thousand

and eight to korean last year and after hanging on to the feast of venus best of three series on friday the host made the quarterfinals teen daughters had an ace up their sleeve centered alex on the play was tending to throw our team tall and win one twenty kilograms but question is overall skill set along with a solid game plan and execution were too much for bill arose to handle and the semifinal against italy was even an easier ride as point guard mchale didn't or was on fire from long range whatever the player who emerged as the fan favorite didn't represent the home crowd he was team there are many experienced leader with a beautiful acting name and he'll come tanika steele he's korean and combined with an unparalleled passion and killer instinct on the floor made him the star of the tournament the spider man is heartbreaking loss to italy in the third place game nice knowing that really you know we fell into a rhythm but it brought to me that we didn't make it in three we were trying we were trying to go as we know it really is important part of the three ball but

they're going into the finally was time for what usually is the most exciting part of it all the slam dunk contest which soon turned into a two man showdown between a local high flyer looks on the show again and but i look of the serbian team and even though the serb have the most spectacular donk of all the hometown boy was more consistent and left home with the title at fourteen russia their final against dystonia was a predictably. tougher time tennis than the previous ones but once again smart play and taken advantage of the mismatches got the job done for the most eighteen thirteen why should the final score with you so you want to sound of the tournament m.v.p. the most keep the trophy for the third time you for years the media was before the t.v. moscow. and there's been more sports most of it is at the luzhniki on saturday as part of the international sports forum taking place here in the capital and i'm on course as reports. that russia is truly

a country of sports especially in the summertime when the weather is just perfect and everyone wants to be outside so without any further and to sit back relax and enjoy and let you know that russian style. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks thanks. thanks. thanks.

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a major disclosure whistleblower web site we can establish is thousands of classified documents revealing cover ups in the morning danced including on reports civilian deaths. plus water supplies and russia's far east under threat as china struggles to prevent thousands of toxic barrel swept away by flooded river from reaching the russian border. as one pm in moscow you're watching r t in the sunny afternoon we'll take a look at the stories that shape the week and thirty people are now confirmed to have died in the wildfires ravaging parts of russia and thousands of people have lost their homes as a record breaking heat wave shows little sign of letting up the number of blazes is actually thought to have increased our first is in the varanus region one of the

worst hit areas as you can. see behind me they the devastation. left behind really pretty extreme lots and lots of people here have lost their homes and we know that around one hundred thousand hectares a huge amounts of land throughout central russia still burning and emergency services still really trying to get to grips with this now we know that the russian army has said that it's trying to gain control of the situation but thousands and thousands of people are now facing the reality reality of homelessness the people that we can see in this area that have lost their homes the squad when the fire happened they said it happened very very quickly in described as a firestorm it was really a very fierce indeed and didn't give them much time to do anything other than flee themselves and get out that it's going to say that they're obviously now left dealing with a situation that's two senses in the city head that is taking them in and visit one yes they. are.