tv [untitled] October 23, 2010 1:00am-1:30am EDT
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we can read strawbs another bombshell on the u.s. campaign in iraq as the whistleblower exposes alleged torture and hundreds of civilian deaths. that pension bills passed but the french revolution against certain rages song wall next door a seething resentment grows in britain against the sloshing of jobs and social benefits. to russian archaeologists at the olympic city of soft race into the lead to preserve an ancient site that's been revealed by builders. you're watching our t.v. all the way it is news for you twenty four seven welcome to the program and now to our top story u.s. commanders in iraq ignored evidence of torture and often failed to investigate the
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killing of civilians these are the major findings from the leak of four hundred thousand secret american military files in the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the data describes widespread a brutal torture of detainees by iraq and troops with some documents showing american authorities often turned a blind eye the pentagon has condemned what is the largest ever leak of classified documents say it will only serve to help america's enemies also revealed that sixty six thousand civilians were killed in iraq since the u.s. invaded even though washington had denied it kept any such record the figure doesn't include scores of deaths in. as to major offensives on the city of fallujah in two thousand and four its residents are still fighting the severest consequences of those attacks now you may fire some of the pictures in paul's liers report upsetting. his friends outside fighting for the ball on
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a football pitch he's here in the family tent fighting a cancer that is eating away at his head and stomach. i collected the splinters of the rocket after exploded whoever showed them to said they were american and contaminated poisoned. after the shrapnel struck sixteen year old medics had a tumor appeared while his father lost a leg in the attack and also the family source of income as a taxi driver. i wonder if there are any weapons they didn't use against us. all contaminated sometimes i can hardly breathe. iraq is littered with buildings like this that used to be the headquarters of saddam's secret police in two thousand and three several jodan rockets fitted the full effect of those weapons is still being felt today. u.s. marines first bombarded flew just six years ago it came after four employees of the american security company blackwater were killed and the bodies burned the report
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showed that after the eight month standoff higher rates of can certainly kenya and infant mortality were found here than in hiroshima and nagasaki after the atom bomb drop in world war two we found that the infant mortality rates compared with egypt . jordan about four or five times. and about ten times if you take a country who ate with us. in the last few years hundreds of deformed babies have been born in flu just general hospital doctors dubbed them the white phosphorous children. between the late ninety's and two thousand and three we had patients with nervous system malfunctions roughly three times a year at the moment we gave them three such patients a week. this child was born with one eye and with not a single day going past without a new case being registered more and more doctors here are pointing
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a finger at the united states that american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the us and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons . dr abdul al floozy is also a father or at least he was until a year ago when his twelve year old son died of cancer most parents leave their babies in the hospital they're scared by the way they look these babies are doomed to die. and die they do far from the eyes of the world because while flu just streets my today be quiet the city remains cut off from the rest of the country doctors here say they're under pressure to keep quiet. r.t. iraq r.t. contributor wayne madsen says the wake of leaks revelation show the us knew exactly what was going on in iraq. nothing was done without the approval of of the united states command in iraq so yes i think we're saying the us basically
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responsible for the same kinds of crimes that we. allowed iraq to execute saddam hussein and other members of his government for doing and i think it calls into question the whole idea of why we invaded iraq in the first place because the original reason was changed to well he was a bloodthirsty dictator from the fact that he had weapons of mass destruction which he did not have so we replace one brutal regime with a u.s. backed brutal regime i think if this was a fair system of international justice we would see indictments of misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. the british and french have tough years ahead and their anger is growing massive protests are on the way in the u.k. against the deepest caught since the nine hundred twenty s.
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and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform rages saw even though the retirement age rise was approved late on friday r.t.s. got that out of our reports from paris. as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to that their belief that they can force their government to reconsider its radical pension changes that's despite the fact that plans to increase or time age from sixty to sixty two have already been approved by the senate. you still want to wear out here showing our dissatisfaction because i personally am here demonstration shoulder to shoulder with people who are younger than twenty five or twenty six years old but still have the same attitude to the problem that while these people fight against what they believe to be a grave injustice of their very struggle has brought one of europe's most famous
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cities at times to a standstill a beautiful apartment in the heart of paris is anyone's dream but what if getting that dream became impossible through no fault of your own would have getting your apartment done on time depended not on you not on your workers not on your construction or anybody involved but on people standing outside in the streets. victor has his own successful construction business he provides himself and his fast skilled work but recently his projects have fallen behind schedule through no fault of his own. i'm sick and tired of all these strikes and protests with the people who really want to work they just work like protesters who are interested only in demonstrations i'm personally not interested in victor isn't the only person feeling this way we cause them to stop the strike today because it's too
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disturbing for people going to work to the public transport in the universities there are people preventing the students to go to the. course so we ask everybody to just to just protestant roots of their worlds but just prevent other people to do their work and just trying to to. as a country to block the economy it's. a strange situation in france we don't want them to block our country in one thousand nine hundred five the french people managed to derail through protest a previous attempt to change the country's pension system however it appears they've not got a choice. critics of the unions who led the charge against sarkozy's pension plans states now time to step back and consider the ongoing protests hurt small and medium businesses the engine of the country's economy while those who are in charge
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in business and politics in the run up to the financial crisis that brought about the pension reform continuing to thrive i guess readers are pairs. while some of five the jobs and welfare cuts others escape into another world as we report later meet the fantasy fans using their super powers to rise above recession . and the winter olympics. he had sought. russian history is reviewed by construction workers. now afghan heroin production is something that both russia and the u.s. agree needs to be stamped out but what they can't get together on is exactly how to do it again as sam is the world's biggest opium producer and russia suffers more than most artie's military contributors says moscow needs to pressurize the us to make a deal with the problem. apart from that old excuses offered by richard holbrooke
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that you can't touch that poor afghan drug farmers will ship because they would join the tell about me jill carroll offered his new excuse that is it is up to the afghan government to make a decision let me remind that this excuse would make sense only and when that nation will regain the total so over into for the time being the ever going to government he's neither willing or able to authorize whole war exit cute for the aerial eradication because it was due to the us occupation that corruption and drug proliferation have skyrocketed obviously neither today not tomorrow the united states is not going to deal effectively with the opium eradication until the russian federation real all for
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a powerful stimulus for the united states to reckon siddur its drug promotion policy in afghanistan the only way russians can influence u.s. policy regarding that ever going to drugs is to draw a lesson from the pakistan that is to condition the northern supply route from russia to afghanistan for the us and i said forces to make it conditional on their review of the you as drug promotion policy in afghanistan. our military contributors blogs are on line for you to watch at our t.v. dot com along with more of today's news and analysis and here's some of what's being lined up for you today the americans who say they've had enough of police brutality which they claim is reaching epidemic proportions and march in protests. and take a look at just who wants to be a millionaire as a fair super rich kicks off in moscow head to our team dot com for more exclusive
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cars as well as u.s.b. flash drive jewelry and diamond studded kitchen where. leaders of the world's twenty richest economies are in south korea working on the next chapter of dealing with the global financial crisis now on the g. twenty table is the u.s. treasury secretary's plan to restrict how much countries should be allowed to borro or export but investment strategist peter schiff told r.t. that america created the imbalance in the first place. policies that we're pursuing here in america are exacerbating the very imbalance that is that the treasury secretary claims he wants to rein in you know the biggest offender is the united states because we're the ones that are spending so much we're borrowing a tremendous amount of money we're importing all these products around the world running these horrific trade deficit and current account deficits and what are we doing with our economic stimulus the stimulus is designed to get americans to spend
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even more money to drive these global imbalances to an even wider lot we do need to reduce these global imbalances but to do that america needs to save more america needs to produce more and we're not going to do that with the current policies in place we need it totally reverse course we need to shrink the size of our government we need higher interest rates in america not low interest rates we need to encourage people to save their money not go deeper into debt and so we can address the imbalances but to continue these failed policies and try to blame the rest of the world for what is inherently an american problem makes no sense well we're all learning to cope with recessionary cutbacks in different ways but not everyone is prepared to stare them in the face our teens and us to see which can i found some prefer to dress up the problem. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you scape your fears by saying
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employed what if you get fired what are you going to do i'm screwed while some have been choosing humor to fight off the frightening reality are you afraid of a double dip recession. others ways a little less legal are you afraid of the economy. what do you do to escape reality . i sit in my room and i smoke a lot of weed but many are choosing something completely different as millions of americans are very frightened of the state of the u.s. economy more and more u.s. citizens are trying to escape into the world of fantasy welcome to comic con the world's biggest gathering of comic book fans and side fi lovers do you feel like this costume protects you from the woods of the u.s. economy. pockets to keep my money inside somebody's daughter r t tried on the gear to test its superpowers yeah i definitely do feel very protected from everything can't really see much but it would save several thousand people gathered on
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a weekday most of the people who i think it was the unemployment office with computer games some dancing. and imaginary battles it's easier to forget that an economic crisis is spread across the country where all of these people doing here i mean last i checked today is a work day. it's like. two pm and say how are we turning into a superhero for a day what is your main. weapon. i'm carragher live at big bear. and enjoying feeling like a child i be everyone i have a great be and i am their kind of crazy with the possibility of a double dip recession just around the corner it could seem trickier. to lure comic book shoppers in. but the world of fantasy is far from scared of losing its customers what are the most expensive and the cheapest comic books you're selling
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today well i have some three dollars dollar detective number thirty seven is. the last batman before robin came along sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to keep the u.s. economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans and party new york. all it's now time to look at some of the world's other main news this hour haiti's cholera outbreak has now claimed more than one hundred ninety lives the infection rate is rising too with over two thousand others now diagnosed medicines being urgently distributed and doctors warn of that conditions are ripe for the disease to strike in areas with a limited access to clean water part of that is down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some of three hundred thousand people. a
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tornado has swept through northern argentina killing at least five people and injuring over one hundred many became trapped under rubble as the twister tore up houses in trees leaving thousands without electricity more fatalities are expected . in india hundreds of protesters have gathered to demand an inquiry into the host of the commonwealth games police had to use water calving to prevent them from marching towards the pall of that protesters say that millions of dollars were siphoned by companies run by the relatives of state officials. as so she powers forward to get its twenty fourteen olympics on track the massive construction work is also revealing the russian city's ancient past as artie's denise velocity explains right now it's archaeologists not athletes who are racing ahead. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists try to solve the secrets left
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behind by architects of an eight century temple these ruins in the mid eighty's all until the caucasus are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area would you make them you give new media a new superman just take a look at how good these pipes are they almost didn't break when they fell there it appears that they were embedded in the wall so that the fireplace could be spread around so now we'll be able to put the pieces back together and see how this heating system worked. until last year the old ruins were covered by a layer of rubbish they were first discovered by a soviet dark eola just under nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than happy century when we need a little word was picked as a construction site for future olympic venues for the sochi winter games in two thousand and fourteen almost every corner was carefully surveyed and that's when this part of history was discovered this group could have been robbed by a treasure hunters
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a long time ago and actually over the years part of the temple was destroyed by locals as they use the ancient systems to decorate their homes nell displaces and the protection. of a month says it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site almost instantly an agreement was reached to move the engineering facilities that were supposed to be built here the funding for the preservation project is provided fully by olympe story the state corporation in charge of olympic construction number. that i need we'd like to turn this side into an open and museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism moral why it's important they will be inside the lindbergh blog which is one of the russians why it will territories and it will be visited by people from all over the world one on smaller findings from the olympic park like these. bronze age artifacts from now on to be on display in sochi is historical museum its personnel preparing for the most significant arrival of new
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items in decades what that pattern they see is the first archaeological project of such a scale in sochi and is the olympic preparations that made this survey possible undoubtedly without archaeologists on site but it could have lost these morning for ever and i can often happens elsewhere. with olympic construction pool steam ahead the organizers say they're doing their best to save the region's reach historical heritage. so in two thousand and thirteen which will be celebrated in sochi as the year of museums the city may see not only the grand opening of stadiums ice rinks but also newly discovered landmarks like the christian sanctuary in the bay to all of those boards are to sochi. and up next the weekend business news with danielle and that's after a short break. for the full story we've gone to.
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the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we understand. and bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us technology update on our g. welcome to business this week the government gave details of its five year privatization program would be the second law of publicly owned russian companies since the end of the soviet union that's clever reports. the biggest privatized program since the one nine hundred ninety s.
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it covers the whole range of the state's involvement in business the government plans to put stakes to nine hundred state firms up for sale globally but the main goal of the sort of change the investment of these assets is to attract private investors and if you change the structure of ownership of the companies to make them more transparently stable and reliable. the government also hopes to patch the hole in the budget with the sixty billion dollars it expects to raise among the most notable offerings is the sale of shares in v.t. bank to blow controlling the state will reduce its stake to controlling the country's biggest lenders burbank and in the national airline and afloat the finance minister believes investor to munge will exceed supply but analysts are more cautious on. logic companies the company perhaps already being traded on the market such as bancroft after.
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consuming other companies i'm not sure because it would very much depend on investors which in turn would depend on the way the russian and global economies are proceeding groceries not the first country to undertake widespread privatization indeed it's a common factor among nearly all developed economies since at one time or another they all had extensively publicly owned companies in countries such as the u.k. the process helped turn large numbers of the population into shareholders however analysts are skeptical this will happen in russia my personal take is it most likely as a goal of mine so. it can be also. or there are a well known names like oil companies all for these shares their way to invest was a scene that was in the six. brown boss prove it is ation better i'm not sure that
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the largest part of this placement torelli target as a route to investors if pushed through successfully the program will alter the financial landscape in russia although which will continue to be a major player in business the government will have less direct involvement it's hope this will usher in an era of greater transparency as companies become more accountable to their new owners that they hustle over business. russia stock markets this week of a mixed fortunes on news of the privatization program and corporate data supporting the russian markets troika dollars vice president gore profile of explains the main trends. markets were very volatile very water and the general trend globally as did the markets expecting the release of information on new what if you sitting in from the state then this week we saw very good results on the corporate on third quarter results from the united states most companies about
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eighty five percent reported two very good results well above expectations and probably the third factor which is very important for russia is that the announcement of a new approach is a problem good news for phone users now russia's anti monopoly service is to find the country's big three mobile providers for setting prices too high the watchdog says n.t.s.b. line and megaphone which have eighty five percent of the market have broken competition law the final total one percent from their annual turnover that's around three million dollars per company they've already agreed to qataris for regional and international roaming. one of the top precious metals producers only metal has posted a fifty five percent boost in gold production for the first nine months of twenty ten year on year over silver output during the same period only five percent the company also increased revenue to six hundred fifty five million dollars that's up
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eighty seven percent. russia will produce around five hundred million tons of oil in twenty ten up one percent on the previous year production rose at roughly the same speed as in two thousand and nine when russia overtook saudi arabia as the world's top oil exporter but russia is close to its peak and production is expected to decline twenty two percent within a decade that's the latest you can find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. world.
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