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another massive blow to america's foreign wars this time the whistleblower exposes scores of iraq documents detailing torture and hundreds of civilian deaths. from senators passed the pension bill but the people's revolt rumbles on the while neighboring britain verges on boiling point as the government's last jobs and social benefits. and russian archaeologists get gold that's the limpid construction workers stumbled upon an ancient temple the old city outside and. more welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is our team with me and he said no way it's two pm here in the russian capital six am in washington

and 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 web site wiki leaks the data describes why spread brutal torture of detainees by iraqi troops some documents showing american authorities often turned a blind eye the pentagon's condemned what is the large. 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 records at the figure doesn't include scores of deaths during the u.s. two major offenses among the city of fallujah in two thousand and four its residents are still fighting the severest fighting the severest consequences of those tracks and i find some of the pictures and holes there over the years were more upsetting. his friends outside fighting for the board 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 medics haid acumen 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 just dumb 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 that the american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the u.s. and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons. dr abdul 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 police leader r.t. iraq. party contributor wayne madsen sours the wiki leaks revelations so the us know 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 misters bush and cheney and tony blair and some of the u.s. military commanders in iraq. some other news this saturday 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 davis cup 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 covering those are of a report now from power. 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 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 that while

these people fight against what they believe to be a grave injustice 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 if getting that dream became impossible through no fault of your own what of getting your apartment done on time dependent 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. calls so we ask everybody to just to just protestant roots of their wells 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. in one thousand nine hundred five the french people managed to derail through protest the 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 i guess readers are r t pairs. alexander law who's the chief economist at the financial consultancy there he says the strike should thirteen die down as people can't afford scarce work for too long . 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 are for services i know the main issue that we've got also of petrol shortages so that's hard for people to go to work for before people to go shopping come basically spending money and you mustn't forget the consumer expenditure is sixty percent of france's 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 too. over the next few days of people just called for to stay on strike for too long and you can get people who are you know on the fence they weren't sure there for a good sort of form say 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. here with r t live from moscow now the winter olympics in sochi might be over three years away but russian scientists have already got gold and they find by construction work right now they're moving part of the site to serve the people. and often fight against the facts of the global downturn to meet their fantasy fans using their super powers to rise above.

the first afghan heroin production is something both russia and the u.s. agree needs to be stamped out but they can't get together ron is exactly how to do it afghanistan is the world's biggest opium producer and russia suffers more than most well as its military contributor 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 farmers because they would join to 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 real regain the total so over into for the time being the ever going to government is neither willing or able to authorize war exit cute 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 all for a powerful stimulus for the united states to reckon suter its drug promotion policy in afghanistan the only way russia can influence u.s. policy regarding that ever done 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 ice their forces to make it conditional on their review of the you as drug promotion policy in afghanistan. currently you can crew so if there are military contributor has blogs or online for you to watch r.t. dot com that's along with more of today's news and analysis here's some of what's

being lined up for you the americans say they've had enough of the police brutality which they claim is reaching epidemic more sense and markets in protest. over those with too much cash to splash to take a look at month's accounts millionaire fair with everything for the wealthy while. from bling filled sports cars to a diamond encrusted thought that. now is such a powerful word to get its twenty fourteen olympics on track a massive construction works also revealing a russian city's past starts these days but lots going explains right now it's archaeologists not athletes who are bracing that. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists trying to solve the secrets left behind by architects of an eight century temple these ruins in the mid to wall until the caucasus are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area

would you. 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 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 little wood 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 brought by a 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. but a man 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. would like to turn this side into an open air museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism and moral way 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. smaller findings from the olympic park like these bronze age artifacts from now on will be on display in sochi is historical museum it's personnel speak caring for the most significant arrival of new items and decades what that clean washed dad 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 morning wins for ever and i can't open it happens elsewhere. with olympic construction full 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 stadium center ice rinks but also newly discovered landmarks like this christian sanctuary in the bay to all and there's a lot party sochi. let's take a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour first to afghanistan were suicide car bomber blasted his way into a united nations building allowing gunmen to attack inside and it happened in the west of the country near herat city it's not known how many employees were inside

and there are no details of injuries as yet the building was immediately surrounded by nato troops and afghan forces. next of course to hate me. where a color. where there is a night over a hundred and ninety people have died due to a cholera outbreak and left more than two thousand people infected. in a powerful typhoon meggie has now left twelve dead and twenty three others missing as it rips through time i want hundreds of rescue workers are searching for survivors and providing food to those trapped in the mountains the storms destroyed thousands of uprooted trees while landslides have several roads making has now

reached the southeast coast and emergency measures are being put in place. in india hundreds of protesters have gathered to demand an inquiry into the hosting of the commonwealth games police had to use water cannon to prevent them from marching towards parliament protesters say that millions of dollars were siphoned off by companies run by the relatives of state officials. now we're all learning to cope with recessionary cutbacks in different ways but not everyone is prepared to stare them in the face or tease an associate found some who prefer to dress up a 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 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 us economy more and more us 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 wounds of the u.s. economy. pockets to keep 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 it much but it would save several thousand people gathered on a weekday most of the people who i think if 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 our girl i've got a big can. and enjoying feeling like a child i believe everyone has a great be and i am kind of crazy with the possibility of a double dip recession just around the corner it could seem trickier to lure comic book shoppers it. 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 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. cannot party. well let's get down to business now here in our t. shirt so that's good and we're hearing that russians see gold as a good present rather than an investment that's quite a romantic way of looking at it that's right while gold has been a popular hedge against economic uncertainty by lots of people in the world but not here in russia the prefer to see it as a gift brawl than an attractive investment we have more later in the program. and i welcome to the business program well first is our top financial officials from the world's major economies have agreed to boost the power of developing

countries and they are not international monetary fund the g twenty meeting in korea they fail to set targets to address the tension surrounding currency devaluation the i.m.f. deal with the europeans to give up their to seize on its twenty four strong board to powerful developing countries and transfer six percent of g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors say they will also move towards. more market timing and change right systems but as a you were supposed to set a new record targets on external balances was directed by countries such as china and south korea. now ben our is editor in chief of business new europe says the g twenty countries all struggling to coordinate their efforts against the competing demands of ensuring their own economic rights we are now in a very difficult part of the recovery and 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 has 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 with. some economies already emerging other economies like in america the recovery is slowing down and there's a need. to protect the growth i mean that 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 automate and in fact the meeting talking about it and agreeing in principle to do it 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 unlikely that it will boost growth in exports but then that's at the expense of the recovery of other countries . on the markets ended the week make choppy day the country's top goal

produced the fall you said here at home and on the rising dollar metal prices. stocks this week have also been affected by news of the privatization program and corporate data supporting the russian market troika dialog vice president hugo proprietor explains the main trends. this week the markets were very volatile variable to. the general trend globally is that the market's expecting the release of information on new quarters using it from the states. this week we saw very good results on the corporate on third quarter results from the united states most companies about 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 program. to other news now in serious investors everywhere have been buying

physical gold since the start of the financial crisis as a hedge against uncertainty russians however by bullion more as an elegant present role than a clever investment touch on a protocol that finds out why. gold futures gold exchange traded funds gold mining shares there are plenty of ways to play gold box none of them offers the same sheer reassurance that the yellow metal itself goes we of course stock analysts we tend to focus a lot more on the companies that produce the gold for our. 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 and certainty 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 he 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 the most of the russians mostly by these gold coins as presents truly because they look nice however some of them i know best and points 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 scratched another option is to buy the physical mantle and leave it in the bank this avoids v.h.d. financial advisers catering for the very rich recommand their clients to hold up to ten percent of their assets in precious metals like gold and this continues to be the case despite of 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 a safe haven there in. it's the patients about higher inflation in the major currency the dollar which is the other big liquid asset that people. global economies and central banks and investors look to the u.s. is interesting. here bring it to the lower levels which would be positive for commodity prices in general and. 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 its value is in fact that it's valuable and that is a perception that could always change.