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torture and civilian deaths in iraq new revelations wrong washington as the wiki leaks website releases more secret u.s. military files. and tensions flare in europe as france was hit with rallies after raising its retirement age and unions planned massive protests across the u.k. in response to government cuts. was an unexpected find in russia's resort city of sochi as archaeologist sought to cover an ancient temple during construction for the twenty fourteen winter olympics. or welcome to you this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital where it's four pm it's eight am in washington and first up this hour online whistleblower wiki leaks has struck washington another massive blow the websites

let loose several hundred thousand secret u.s. military documents the largest leak ever while the files detailed the last six years of the american combat mission in iraq according to the reports u.s. forces often turned a blind eye to what's described as war crimes numerous cases of iraqis torturing and killing their countrymen were allegedly ignored simply because the incidents didn't involve coalition troops but analysts say the revelations are likely to have a big impact on next week's congressional elections in the u.s. but that's of little concern to the rockies many of whom are still struggling with the ill effects of the american onslaught you may find some of the images and paul will see a report disturbing. his friends outside and fighting for the border on a football pitch he's here in the family taint fighting a cancer. 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 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 his head 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 the bodies burnt reports show that after the eight month standoff higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality were found here and in hiroshima and nagasaki after the atom bomb dropped

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 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. r.t. iraq well the pentagon has claimed wiki leaks releasing secret u.s. military documents and dangerous international security but former british ambassador to is back a stand craig murray says such accusations are a far cry from the truth. there's no girl relationship between the wars in iraq and afghanistan and international security these are are not wars which are genuinely keeping us safe in the west of these are wars which by their fixed upon the

civilian populations of because of the many atrocities committed by coalition forces are causing more hatred towards the west and therefore i actually decreasing international security so i think actions like those by wiki leaks in releasing so many documents and letting in the truth about what's happening helping long term international security. thoughts there from a former british ambassador to his back to stand craig murray now coming up in the program for you escaping into a war making all many struggle with the effects of the global downturn fantasy found on the new watts are using superpower us to rise above the recession. but first france and britain have erupted in a wave of outrage at reforms carried out in response to that economic downturn rather mass demonstrations are being called by trade unions in the u.k. which is facing the most severe spending cuts since world war two in france huge

nationwide strikes are set to rage on after the senate approved a controversial two year rise in the country's retirement age r t is covering those are the reports now 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 same. one who don't know we're 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 dependent not on you not on your workers not on your construction or anybody involved but on people standing outside in the streets. hello. 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 called 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 protestant roots of their wells but just prevent other people to do their work and just trying to to. 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 the 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 no time to step back and could sit in the ongoing protests hurt small and medium businesses the engine and 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. cast readers are pairs

well alexander law who's the chief economist of the financial consultancy there she says the strike should come to an end soon as they are causing problems in many key areas well french bit of the things have been really hindered by these strikes first of all because people. just go into work so of course that will disrupt activity both for money factory income please for services are now 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 that consumer expenditure is sixty percent so front's is 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

of people just called so for to stay on strike for too long and you can get people who are you know on the fence they weren't sure therefore we get sort of for the sake i just want to finish with this because we know alternately that the system has to be reformed because it was completely unsustainable given the demographics of fronts. there's more ahead for you this hour here in archie including taking days to really olympic construction in sochi has helped uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization and a sword to fill in some gaps in the city's history. the u.s. proposal to restrict how much country should be allowed to borrow or export has run into opposition at a g. twenty meeting in south korea japan germany and russia have criticized the so-called plan for a colony thinking investment strategist peter schiff told r.t. that washington is the one to blame for creating the global imbalances that threaten the world's financial stability. policies that we're pursuing here in

america are exacerbating the very imbalances 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 runnings horrific trade deficits in turn 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 and we're not going to do that with the current policies in place we need to totally reversed course we need to shrink the size of our government we need higher interest rates in america not low interest rates and 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. and

all the g twenty leaders are addressing ways to prevent a double dip recession many of us prefer to escape reality rather than face up to it with the threat of more financial nightmares to come new yorkers are turning to the world of comics for help are dishonest as a turk and has more. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you skate 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 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. pockets to keep my money inside somebody's dr archie tried on the gear to test its super powers yeah i definitely do feel very protected from everything can't we see it 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 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 can.

and enjoying feeling like a child i'd be everyone had a great b. and so 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 in. but the world of fantasy is far from scared of losing its customers what are the most expensive and cheapest comic books you're selling today well i have some three dollars to take that number thirty seven is. the last batman before robin came along 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. there's more

on this and other stories for you in our website that's our dot com that's a quick look at what we have lined up for you right here the big spenders on the simply curious you can check out once gals millionaire fare which offers everything from pimp cars to a diamond encrusted saucepan. and president's visit box an amendment to russians criminal cult that would see hundreds of thousands of offenders escape jail all the details at our team dot com. russian security forces have killed two militants in the country's southern republic of dagestan the men were cornered in a house during an end to terror operations held in response to recent attacks on our task i should say on police in the region two officers were wounded in friday's

violence despite authorities efforts to crack down on the terrorists freshers north caucasus remains volatile on tuesday militants stormed the chechen part of the mint killing three people all of the attackers were shot by security guards. there also says the u.s. hasn't taken measures to destroy afghan heroin labs despite moscow providing information on them back in july the statement came from victory of russia's top anti drug in force or on a visit to the u.s. the afghan heroin trade was a top issue discussed with us afghan and boy richard holbrooke and us drugs are gil kerlikowske our military contributor believes moscow should press harder on washington to make it tackle the problem. apart from that old excuses offered by richard holbrooke that you can't touch the poor ever going to farmers because they would join to tell about you jill carroll offered his new excuse that is it is up to the ever going to 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 is neither willing or able to authorize or exit cute the aerial eradication because it was due to the us occupation that corruption and the 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 offer a powerful stimulus for the united states to reckon suter its drug promotion polish that you know afghanistan the only way russia can influence u.s. policy regarding the drugs is to draw a lesson from the pakistan that is to condition the northern supply route from russia to afghanistan for the u.s. forces to make it conditional on their review of the you as drug promotion policy

in afghanistan. artie's military contributor there colonel. now staying in the region suicide bombers have attacked the united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and at least three others stormed into the compound no un staff have been harmed but there are no reports on whether any afghan guards were injured. a cholera epidemic in quake hit haiti has claimed almost two hundred lives in the country's biggest medical crisis since the january disaster more than two thousand others now diagnosed with the disease with experts saying more cases could be expected for it's can. and doctors warned that conditions are ripe for cholera to strike in areas with limited access to clean water part of that's down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. and protesters in

southern italy have clashed with police during demonstrations sparked by poor conditions i don't know what does the government claim the facilities date on bad management from a regional operator prime minister berlusconi probably found solution to the crisis pledging millions of euros in compensation and denying there has been any health risk to presidents. that has such a power forward with its olympic preparations a massive construction works also revealing the russian cities past archaeologists are helping the discovery of an eighth century temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games are seized and is bosky has the story. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists try just sold the secrets left behind by architects of an eight century temple these rooms in the media. are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area would you could you could you could make good new good new media a new superman 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 walls 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 the soviet archaeologists in the nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than happy century when lehman old 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 crypt could have been brought by a treasure hunter is 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 number. and

we'd like to turn this side into an open and museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism moral way it's important there will be inside the olympic park which is one of the russians white all territories and it will be visited by people from all over the world on 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 washed badness to sort 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 one even further and i can't alphen happens elsewhere. we do construction. we organize their seed they're doing their best to save the region's reach

historical heritage. so you goals and the team which will be celebrated unfortunately is the museum's seating may see not only the ground. but also newly discovered landmarks like christian sanctuary to all world. you're up to date now from there to news desk dome as moscow out to discover places in the capital to hang out and shelter from the cold that's coming up in about ten minutes time but first let's check the weekend business. and our welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me charlayne was fairly top finance officials in the world's major economies of agree to boost the power of developing countries in the international monetary fund and 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 powerful developing countries and transfer six percent of those to the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors say they will also move towards more market determined exchange rate system but the u.s. proposing to set new record targets on external balances was rejected by countries such as china and south korea. but are is editor in chief of business at new europe says the g twenty countries all struggling to coordinate their efforts against the competing demands of ensuring their own economic growth. we're 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 where. some economies are already emerging other economies

like in america the recovery is slowing 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 and agreeing in principle to me is a good sign but nevertheless. temptation for some countries like the states to weaken their currencies which will solve their problems and make that will boost growth in exports but then that's at the expense of the recovery of other countries . that are in russia they ended the week mix start their choppy day country top our producer paul you said to you in a half cent on faith arriving at better prices. now stocks this week has been affected by news of the privatization program and corporate data

supporting the russian markets dialogs vice president explains the main trends in markets were bought very water and the general trend globally is that the market's expecting the release of information on a new what if using it from the street then. we are very good results on the corporate on third quarter results from the united states most companies about eighty five percent reported who are good results well above expectations. and probably the thought struck too which is very important for russia is that the announcement of a new produce program to other news now is serious investors everywhere have been buying physical gold since the start of the financial crisis as a hedge against uncertainty russians however buy bullion more as an elegant present rather than a clever investment touch on a protocol for fines that 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 a share reassurance that the yellow metal itself we of course is stuck on in their sweet time 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 havea seems a perfect place to park your cash box not in russia a tip for associates 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 but the most of us are known to have versions mostly by gold coins as presents crudely because they look nice however some of them are investment 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 scratched 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 clients to hold up to ten percent of the 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 still a certainty with the global economy and people and investors look for a safe haven there in the patients.