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weeks and weeks deals another bassam blow to america's foreign wars this time the whistleblower exposes scores of iraq documents detailing torture and hundreds of civilian deaths. french senators pass the pension bill but the people's rivaldo rumbles on while they bring britain verges on a boiling point as the government slashes jobs and social benefits. and a russian archaeologists get gold as olympic construction workers stumble upon an ancient temple in the host city of sochi. it was all the latest 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 killing of civilians now these are the major findings from the leak of four hundred thousand secret american military files from the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks now the data describes widespread a brutal torture of detainees by iraqi troops but some document showing american authorities often turned a blind eye the fact it was condemned what is. the largest ever leak of classified documents saying it will only serve to help america's enemies the files also reveal 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 during the u.s. to measure 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 find some of the pictures in policy years report upsetting. his friends outside

fighting for the ball on a football pitch he's here in the family tent fighting a cancer that's 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 malik's head 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 can terminated 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 hit 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

showed that after the eight month standoff higher rates of cancer leukemia 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. 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. american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the u.s. and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons. dr abdul alpha luzhin 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. 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 cuts 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

rages on even though the retirement age rise was approved late on friday r.t. it's got to do 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 their 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 personally i'm 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 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. the book 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 all the students to go to the. calls so we ask everybody to just to just put us in the truth 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 protest a previous attempt to change the country's pension system and 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 consider 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 continue to thrive cash readers are pairs. well for more on this side i'm joined from paris by alexandre lot chief economist of the financial consultancy firm selfie thank you very much for joining us now the rallies and strikes go on as trade unions continue to dig in and how is it impacting on french businesses. well french businesses have been really hindered by these strikes first of all because people just aren't going to work so of course that will disrupt activity both for manufacturing companies and for services and now the main issue that we've got also petrol shortages so that's hard for people to go to work for before people to go shopping basically spending money and you mustn't forget that consumer expenditure is sixty percent front to g.d.p. one third of all just transport road transport is severely severely hindered by

these shortages so what we're hoping for is things to died over the next few days because you must bear in mind that france is used to this sort of thing we've had strikes in two thousand and seven two thousand and five you were talking earlier about one thousand nine hundred ninety five also so companies are used to smoothing over problems the slight disruptions in supply chain but you can't afford to let this go on for too long because the french economy is still weak we're still reeling from the great recession of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine so we called forward too much disruption to the economy all right you did mention the domestic impact of all these protests but any prolonged protests as you rightly mentioned is going to resonate abroad and possibly costing foreign firms to hold back now could france see a drop in investment from abroad if it hasn't already at a time when it can least afford to do without help. if if this situation were to

continue yes i would agree with you that you could darken france's image even more make companies reluctant to invest in france but you've got to bear in mind also that as i said previously we used to france to strikes and demonstrations so complete already know what they're investing into they know that france is a country with hard skilled labor force with decent living conditions who is also. a social habits of taking to the streets when their own unpopular reforms given the depth of the recession that we've just experience well there are going to probably be even more unpopular reforms down the road so we'll probably go to have to face up to more movements like this in the next few months i don't think it's going to change the image of fronts insofar as it was already a label that was given to the french that they're offering the strike which is very

obviously the case ok now talking about the reform itself the government steamrolling ahead with what it says are vital changes but the french public show little sign of having their benefits around it so who do you think is going to blink first. well to be totally honest with you there are going to be holidays coming up holidays for school children so that means that those who were blocking their high schools while they go to be going go away on holiday said probably going to peter out or less university state students take over from where the high school pupils left off i don't think the government is go to cave into too much for two reasons the first reason is that this is it essential reform i mean you can debate over whether it was a presented. correctly but something had to be done and. also when he campaigned and he was elected president of the republic he did say i will change the pension system and first of all you've got to also recognize the fact that

there are going to be elections in two thousand and twelve general elections presidential elections if the process with fossil fuel government are seen to to blink to give in to demands from the street they're probably going to be losing some of their right wing backing and they don't want to be seen to be. when you've got elections which are eighteen months down the road so they're probably going to take a hard stance on this and hope it will just blows over because there is a big purchasing power problem but people just counsel for it to stay in strike for too long and people can't afford to go without petrol for their cars for too long and that's one thing it's the the petrol issue is deeply unpopular and you can get people who were you know on the fence they weren't sure they forward gates or for my sake they said i just want to finish with this because we know alternately that the pension system has to be reformed because it was completely unsustainable given

the demographics of fronts all right thank you very much for your comments that was alexander a lot chief economist at surfy talking to us from paris. now the one. lympics in salt she might be over three years away but russian scientists have already got an eight hundred sites been revealed by construction workers now they're moving part of the site to preserve the medieval prize. and while some fight against the effects of the global downturn the fantasy founds using their super powers to rise above recession. 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 now afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer and russia suffers more than most military contributions says moscow needs to pressurize the us to make

a deal with the problem. apart from that old excuses offered by richard holbrooke that you cannot touch that poor afghan drug farmers will ship because they would join the taliban we 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 afghan nation will regain the total so over and for the time being the afghan government he's neither willing or able to authorize hor 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 we'll offer a powerful stimulus for the united states to reckon siddur its drug promotion policy in afghanistan the only way russia's going to influence u.s. policy regarding that ever going to drugs is to draw a lesson from the pakistan that is to condition the nothern 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 wads are online for you to watch of 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 march in protest. and for those with too much cash to splash take

a look at moscow's millionaire fair which has everything for the wealthy wallet from bling filled sports cars to a diamond encrusted sauce that are. now a saucy powers 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 velocity explains right now it's archaeologists not athletes who are racing ahead. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists trying to solve the secrets left behind by architects often a century temple these rooms in the media to. assist are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area. of new guinea media and use we 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 if this heating

system worked. until last year the old ruins were covered by the clear of rubbish. they were first discovered by the soviet archaeologists and the nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than half a century when the media law world 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 this 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 a limp story the state corporation in charge of olympic construction. and we'd like to turn this site into an open air museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism moral why it's important they will be inside the olympic park which is one of the russians white old 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 items in decades what that clean washed badness team is the first archaeological project of such a scale in sochi and is the olympic preparations that made this survey possible undoubtedly without acknowledges and sites we could have lost these money wins forever and i can often happens elsewhere. with a limp 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 the christian sanctuary in the great to all world does board ski party so. we're all learning to cope with recessionary cutbacks in different ways but not everyone is prepared to stare them in the face r d's and us to see it sure can have found a some people who 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 escape 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 are you 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 because 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 file lovers do you feel like this costume protects you from the woods of the u.s. economy. parking ticket my money inside somebody's pocket 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 a weekday most these people 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 than i am carragher alive garbage can. and enjoying feeling like a child i be everyone i have. crave 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 today well i have some three dollars to take that number thirty seven.

sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take both spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to pull the u.s. economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans and. new york. oh up next is the latest business news with charlotte. hello and welcome to the business program hay on r.t. with michelle obama's folly top finance officials from the world's major economies of agreed to boost the power of developing countries in the international monetary fund at the g. twenty meeting in korea but they failed to set targets to address the tensions surrounding currency devaluation the i.m.f. deal with the europeans give up two seats on a twenty four strong board the powerful developing countries and transfer six percent of votes of m g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors say

they will also move towards more market determined exchange rate system but the u.s. proposal to set new recall targets on external balances was rejected by countries such as china and south korea. now for more on this i'm joined here in the studio by ben iris editor in chief of business near thank you very much for joining us today so if this was an attempt to bring an end to the currency war how they failed today since g. twenty did not agree to any concrete targets in terms of the foreign exchange markets i don't think so no entirely however we're now in a very difficult part of the recovery when the finance ministers around the world are facing into the abyss of global depression two years ago it was very easy for them to coordinate all their actions and to a large extent that's been successful in so much as we've avoided a great depression and despite all the talk about a double dip i think most people agree that it's unlikely to happen however we're now in a very difficult stage where. some economies are already emerging other economies

like in america the recovery is slowing down and there's a need. to protect the growth i mean the politicians are now starting to turn inwards into their own markets because of course there's a lot of unhappiness anger indeed over the economic problems and the whole currency debate is part of that there's a need to continue to coordinate and the fact that people are meeting and talking about it in agreement. instable to me is a good sign but nevertheless the temptation for some countries like the states to weaken their currencies which will solve the problem is a matter of grass roots growth and exports but then that's at the expense of the recovery of other countries before the meeting the us did propose to set numerical targets in terms of current account balances and these rejected out of hand by china why do you think china was there against this will china china's been playing a. game is very much geared towards its own growth and lot of the growth has been coming from the fact that they've artificially held the currency down which of

course boost exports what they're afraid of or are they where they can't go is allow their currency to appreciate strongly and quickly so about twenty percent because they believe in that would crush the economic growth they have and so they're not willing to do what they are but at the same time they realise that they need to bring their currency into line with the rest of the world you know to a market place exchange rate but they're going to do that is really is possible in the last week or two there's been a lot of noise in the states and obviously the politicians are getting angry and angry and threatening some sort of retaliation and china off them a bone by allowing the un to appreciate a bit but again it's always been done in some small stages in this they're in effect they're exporting their unemployment the social problems they have to the states which is paying the bill and moving back here to russia what is russia's role in this debate over currencies we have seen the ruble being falling faster than almost any other currency the same time the ruble is also. undervalued the rate the russians are getting crease in the concerned i mean of all the major

emerging markets rusher is the most dependent on the external environment partly because of the order exports and trying is going to create or it was just saying the other day that he's getting increasingly concerned and he wants the world to sort itself out they've been lobbying for a global financial regulation system of some sort and. to push the their own case forward and win for them it's very important to see the rest of us sort out its problems ok very briefly one of the key agreements from the meeting was a new deal for the i.m.f. and they were agreeing that the boost the power of developing countries in the i.m.f. mean how historic would you think do you think this is a landmark and i do but i think it's a continuation of a process that started when this crisis began when president bush called the g twenty summit to deal with the crisis rather than the g. eight and that was an acknowledgement that the emerging markets have emerged i mean we should call them fast to the markets of fast moving markets and the i.m.f.

giving more power to emerging markets is just in knowledge of how far they've come and that they are important in the global economy in the way they were and. business new york thank you very much for your analysis this hour. and look at the markets now russian stock markets ended the week mixed after h.r.p. day the country's top gold producer paul you've shared two and a half percent of them i think on a fear of a rising dollar will hurt metals prices. stocks this week have been affected by news of the privatization program and corporate data supporting the russian markets troika dialogues vice president igor prokhorov explains the main trends. in markets were volatile very water and the general trend globally is that the markets are expecting the release of information on a new quarter diffusing from listees then we.