weekly leaks drops another bombshell on the u.s. campaign in iraq as the whistleblower exposes alleged torture and hundreds of civilian deaths. the pension bills possible the french revolution against certain rages saw a call next door see the result in a gross in britain against the slashing on jobs and social benefits. and a russian archaeologists at the olympic city of saud she recently believe to preserve an ancient side that's been revealed to bodybuilders. you're watching our t.v. all the way it is news for you twenty four seven welcome to the program and now to war top story u.s.

commanders in iraq ignored evidence of torture and often failed to investigate the killing of civilians these are the major findings from the leak of four hundred thousand secret american military files from the whistle blowing website wiki leaks the data describes widespread and brutal torture of detainees by a rocky troops with some documents showing american authorities often turned a blind eye the pentagon's condemned what is the largest ever leak of classified documents saying it will only serve to help america's enemies the false 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 records the figure doesn't include scores of deaths during the u.s. to a major offensive on the city of fallujah in two thousand and four its residents are still fighting the severe consequences of those attacks you may find some of the pictures in paulus leaders report upsetting. his friends on. side fighting for

the board on a football pitch he's here in the family tent fighting a cancer that is eating away at his head and stomach. i collect the splinters of the rocket after exploded whoever i 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 we all contaminated sometimes i can hardly believe. iraq is listed 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 for the fact 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 their bodies burned the report

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 like kuwait where there's hope but you know. 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

a finger at the united states that the american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the u.s. 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 might 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 wiki leaks revelations show that 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

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 ministers 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 all the way in the u.k.

against the deepest scots since the one nine hundred twenty s. and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the french fight against pension reform ray just saw even though the retirement age rise was approved weight on friday artie's got there you know a lot 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 belief that they can force their government to reconsider its radical pension changes that's despite the fact the plans to increase their time age from sixty to sixty two have already been approved by the senate. want to wear out here showing our dissatisfaction because i personally am huge 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 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 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 prides himself on 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 the people who really want to work they just work unlike 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 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 all country in one thousand nine hundred five the french people managed to derail through protests 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 say it's now time to step back and could sit the ongoing protests hurt small and medium businesses the engine of the country's economy while those who are in charge

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 fight the jobs and welfare cuts others escape into another world as we report later. than to see using their super powers to rise above recession. in the winter olympic city of sochi. russian history is revealed by construction workers. afghan heroin production is something 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 assad is the world's biggest opium producer and russia suffers more than most of these military contributors says moscow needs to pressurize the us to make a deal with the problem. apart from the old excuses offered by richard holbrooke

that you cannot touch the poor ever going to farmers of battleship because they would join that tell about you 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 afghan 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

a powerful stimulus for the united states to reckon siddur its drug promotion policy in afghanistan the only way russia 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 say it forces to make it conditional on their review of the you as drug promotion policy in afghanistan. our military contributors blogs are online for you to watch at our t. 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 botched in protest . and take a look at just who wants to be a millionaire as affair as super rich kicks off in moscow head toward dot com for

more exclusive cars as well as u.s.b. flash drive jewelry and diamond studded kitchen where. leaders of the world's twenty riches 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 borrow or export but investment strategist peter schiff told r.t. that america created the imbalance in the first place. the 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 deficits and current account deficits and what are we doing with our economic stimulus the stimulus is designed to get americans to spend even more money to drive these global imbalances to an even wider level we do need

to reduce these global imbalances but to do that america needs to save more america needs to produce more i 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 artie's an associate sure can i found some who prefer to dress up the problem. for two years now the world economy in the us has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you scape your fears by saying 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 or you're afraid of a double dip recession. others weighs 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 site file overs do you feel like this costume protects you from the woods of the u.s. economy. parker to keep my money inside somebody's culture archie tried on the gear to test its superpowers yeah i definitely do feel very protective from everything can't really see much but i would say several thousand people gathered on a weekday most is 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 i don't say how are we turning into a superhero for a day what is your main. weapon. i'm paragraph i've got big hair. and enjoyed. feeling like a child i believe everyone absolutely hated me a great big and now we're 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 customer what are the most expensive and the cheapest comic books you're selling

today well i have some three dollars dollars to take that number thirty seven is. the last batman before robin came along you'd sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take both spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to p.b. us economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans and party new york. well let's have a look at some of the world saw their main stories this hour haiti's cholera al has now claimed more than one hundred ninety lives infection rate is rising too with over two thousand dollars now diagnosed medicine is being urgently distributed and doctors one of the conditions are ripe for the deceased to strike in areas with limited access to clean water part of that is down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some with three hundred thousand people. that's right nato has swept through northern argentina killing at least five people

and injuring over one hundred many became trapped under rubble as the twister tore houses and trees we've had thousands without a literal city more fatalities are expected. and in india hundreds of protesters have gathered to demand an inquiry into the hosting of the commonwealth games police had to use water cabins to prevent them from march towards the parliament protesters say that millions of dollars were siphoned by companies one by the relatives of state officials. now a soft power as. for it 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 explains right now it's archaeologists not athletes who are racing ahead. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists just sold the secrets left behind by architects

a century temple these ruins in the mid eighty's. a considered among the most prized discoveries in the area. of new media and you can just take a look at how good these pipes are they almost didn't break when they fell down 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 thick layer of rubbish they were first discovered by a soviet darkie ologists and a nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than happy century when limited to law 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 script could have been robbed by treasure hunters 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 under protection. or 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 stake or gratian in charge of olympic construction numbers. we'd like to do on this side into an open and museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism moral why it's important there will be inside the lindbergh blog which is one of the russians white all territories and it will be visited by people from all over the world. smaller findings from the olympic park like these bronze age artifacts from now on don't be on display in sochi is historical museum its personnel preparing for the most significant arrival of new items in decades

what that clean mushed bad 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 and sites we could have lost these money wins forever and i can't affan it happens elsewhere. with the limbic 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 seeding may see not only the grand opening of stadiums on ice rinks but also newly discovered landmarks like this christian sanctuary in the great you all want the ball ski party sochi with along a russian winter on its way artie's moscow out team a little ways for muscovites to entertain themselves indoors.

right behind her back brought out by him go because i think that is the ideal place for a good win to kill on the thought of going away while the to take a look out on the pick up the out program go to play. join marta nagios in ten minutes time but first it's all the latest business news with charlotte. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me farley top finance officials in the world's major economies will pledge to commit themselves to refrain from competitive devaluation of their currencies on saturday the statement is expected to be made to the completion of the g twenty

finance ministers and central bank governors meeting one of the main focuses of the current talks held in south korea is avoiding international currency tensions. this week the government gave details of its five year privatization program will be the second largest selloff of publicly owned russian companies since the end of the soviet union the tire clover reports. the biggest privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. it covers the whole range of the state's involvement in business the government plans to put stakes in one hundred state firms up for sale globally but the main goal of the sell off will be to change the investment appeal of these assets 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 in the country's biggest lenders burbank and in the national airline and afloat the finance minister believes investor dimanche will exceed supply but analysts are more cautious. talking about larger companies the company perhaps already being traded on the market such as bank ross then after forty years. concerning other companies i'm not sure because it would very much depend on that of investors which in turn would depend on the way the russian and global economies are proceeding pressure is 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 that most likely as a government might so some company as it can be also. or there are a well known names like oil companies to offer these shares are we to invest how is it seems that. this six to brown boss prove it is a sure bet that. 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. this will usher in a mirror of greater transparency as companies become more accountable to their new owners the telecom clover business. serious investors everywhere been buying physical gold since the start of the financial crisis

a hedge against uncertainty russians however buy bullion more as an elegant present role than a clever investment such a political over why is that why. gold futures gold exchange traded funds gold mining shares there are plenty of ways to play gold box none of them offer is the same sheer reassurance that the yellow metal itself does we of course. stock analysts we tend to focus a lot more on the companies that produce the gold for. a retail investor when it comes to the shares there are a lot more factors to keep in mind when investing if you talk only about the goal clearly you think only about the gold price in times of financial uncertainty investors look for somewhere safe something tangible physical gold gold and have it

seems a perfect place to park your cash box not in russia eight infrasound bates' here makes this bar cost war that it would elsewhere in the world so these are not in demand with russian investors and mostly bought by jewelry makers but the rest of us on russians mostly buy these goods coins as presents when you prove me because they look nice however some of them i know vestment coins and then not liable to be investment coins are the matter once polished versions are better as souvenirs the bank will not buy them back to you they are scritched another option is to buy the physical mantle and leave it in the bank this avoids the v.a. chief financial advisors catering for the very rich command their climbs to hold up to ten percent of their assets in precious metals like gold and this continues to be the case despite the recent sell off on the gold market we do think that

probably will see higher prices of gold in the coming months mostly because there is too uncertainty with the global economy and people and investors look for or so . if however their own expectations about higher inflation in the major currency the dollar which is the other big. global economies and central banks and investors look to the us is interesting. here bring it to the lower levels which will be positive for commodity prices in general in. the long term gold bull george soros recently described the precious metal as the ultimate bubble since the metal is not very useful in the real world applications it has a place in jewelry and fun gilding things but mostly it's value is in fact that it's valuable and that is a perception that's good always change that's an ability.