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torture and civilian deaths in iraq new revelations rock washington and those fresh secret u.s. military files are really on the mind. tension and slayer in europe as france a state with rallies after the raising its retirement age in unions by massive protests you pay in response to government. was an unexpected find in russia resort city of sochi as archaeologists cover an ancient temple wroxham for the twenty fourth winter a. warm welcome to you live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our team with me and he said now away it's six pm here in the russian capital ten am in

washington and first up this hour on line whistle blower wiki leaks has struck washington another massive blow the web sites let loose several hundred thousand secret u.s. military documents the largest leak ever met now reports from london. the files contain evidence of nearly one hundred ten thousand violent deaths that took place in iraq in the years between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine two thirds of them it seems from these foyles that's around sixty six thousand deaths were the deaths of civilians during this combat huff of those were killed by the iraqi insurgency and hoff it seems from the documents were killed by troops in military action the us always said today for the week which is what's interesting about this that it wasn't keeping a record of civilian deaths but in fact it turns out from these files that the u.s. military was keeping a very detailed record of what was going on in some of these files contain the

names of all of those civilian people who have died at the location the exact timings of the deaths and of course they haven't been released into the public domain before but now there's been a press conference here in london this morning releasing these details and at that press conference with wiki leaks founder julian our soldiers and he talked about that famous quotation that truth is the first casualty of war that's what he had to say. on the first bar you'll be long before warsaw and you continue. a war. in the power of these four hundred thousand documents about. iraq war and. all that war from the u.s. perspective. we hope to correct. some of that attack on the truth as far as what the results of today's leak will be it seems that that

will be some legal action that will result from this one of the organizations that wiki leaks has cooperated with in the release of this document says something cool public interests lawyers they are dealing with allegations from iraq he's a british and u.s. forces torturing them and iraq and they say that that will certainly be a legal case to answer as a result of this flight cody poorness leah went recently to fill each of which was the subject to a future military action in two thousand and four and she filed this report about the plight of ordinary iraqis. his brains are outside fighting for the ball 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 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 just to be the headquarters of saddam's secret police in two thousand and three several just dumb rockets hit it 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 their bodies burnt and reports show that after the eight month standoff higher rates of cancer leukemia and infant mortality were found here then in hiroshima and nagasaki after the atom bomb dropped in world war two we found that the infant mortality rates compared with egypt. jordan for five times more.

than about ten times the country who were those hopes. in the last few years hundreds of deformed babies have been born in fallujah was general hospital doctors dubbed the white phosphorus 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 us and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons . dr abdul al floozy is also a father or at least he was until a year ago when his twelve year old son died of cancer most parents leave their babies in the hospital they're scared by the way they look these babies are doomed

to die. and die they do far from the eyes of the world because while flu just streets 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. france and britain have erupted in a wave of outrage at reforms carried out in response to the economic downturn 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 here is nationwide strikes are set to rage on after the senate approved a controversial two year rise in the country's retirement age are discovering as are of 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 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 i know because i personally am here demonstration shoulder to shoulder with people who are younger than twenty five or twenty six years old but still have the same attitude to the problem. 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 what if 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 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 the students to go to the. calls so we ask everybody to just to just put systems through to their worlds 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 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 alexander law is the chief economist at the financial consultant see their face says the strike should come to announce soon as they are causing problems in many key areas. well french business is 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 companies are for services i know 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 come basically spending money and you mustn't forget that consumer expenditure is sixty percent france 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 my sake 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 authority of why from moscow coming up for you in the

program escaping into a world of make believe like you struggle with the effects of the global downturn fantasy fans of the q was are using super powers to rise above recession. but first a u.s. proposal to restrict how much country should be allowed to borrow or export has run into opposition out of g. twenty meeting in south korea japan germany and russia have criticized the so-called planned economy 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. the policies that we're pursuing here in america are exacerbating the very imbalance 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 or running's for epic 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 and we're not going to do that with the current policies in place we need to totally reverse 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 while the g twenty leaders are addressing ways to prevent a double dip recession many in the us prefer to escape reality rather than say something to it with the threat of more financial nightmares to come new yorkers are turning to the world of comics for help art is just as a necessity

a turkey has. 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 are you afraid of a double dip recession sounds good 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. parking ticket my money inside somebody dr archie tried on the gear to

test its super powers yeah i definitely do feel very protected from everything can't really see much but i would say several thousand people gathered on a weekday most is 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. i'm power girl i've got big hair. and enjoying feeling like a child i'd be everyone had a great and 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 cheapest comic books you're selling today well i have some three dollars to take that number thirty seven is. the last we had before robbing people sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take full to 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 it's their party new york. there's more ahead for you this hour here on our to including digging deep literally olympic struction and cold feet under uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization that is sure to fill in some gaps in the city's history. russian security forces have killed four militants in two separate shootouts in the country's north caucuses

region in the republic of dagestan two gunmen were cornered in a house during an anti terror operation held in response to a recent attack on police in neighboring english s.e.'s two men with hits were killed after they opened fire when their car was stopped at a security checkpoint despite authorities efforts to crack down on terror russia's north caucasus remains volatile on tuesday militants stormed the chechen part of the mint killing three people all the attackers were shot by security guards. and sixteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news in brief for you suicide bombers have attacked united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and three other stormed the compound no un staff have been harmed but there are no reports on whether afghan guards were injured the taliban house claims responsibility.

a cholera epidemic in haiti has claimed almost two hundred lives more than two thousand others have been diagnosed with the disease while experts warn that numbers will rise before the spreads contained doctors warned that conditions are right for call the right to strike in areas with limited access to clean water of course part of that is down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. protesters in southern italy have clashed with police during demonstrations sparked by conditions at local rubbish dumps residents want to stop further ways deliveries to what they say is an over while we tell the government claims that the state are bad management prime minister berlusconi promised a fast solution to the crisis pledging millions of euros in compensation and denying there has been any help with two presidents. strong winds and torrential rain have battered coastal areas as a powerful typhoon making made landfall in china using three hundred thousand

people have been evacuated from low lying areas while the country's entire fishing fleet has been ordered into ports the storm has already killed twenty six people in the philippines and at least twelve in taiwan hundreds of rescue workers are searching for survivors and providing food to those caught off in the mountains meggie is believed to be among the worst in fifty years to hit china. now it's such a power forward with its olympic preparations the massive construction works also revealing the russian city's ancient past archaeologists are helping the discovery of an eighth century temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games our teams dennis has the story. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archeologists showing just sold the secrets behind. these roots and.

a considered among the most prized discoveries in the area. and 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 hot air from 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 soviet archaeologists in the 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 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. for a month says it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site number. we'd like to do in this side into an open and museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism and moral way it's important there'll 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 adn 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 monuments forever and i can't tell from happens elsewhere. with the limbic construction pool

steam ahead we already know is there see they're doing their best to save the region's reach historical heritage. so in two thousand for the team which will be celebrated in sochi as the year of museums the seeding may see not only the ground zero but eagle stadiums on its rings but also newly discovered learn marks like to see christian same jury in the very tool world didn't the board ski or sochi. who control the preparations for the sochi olympics on our website are to dot com there's many more stories for you let's have a look at what we have online for you right now for the big predators am just simply curious check out moscow's millionaire fair which offers everything from cars to a diamond encrusted saucepan. and president medvedev backs an amendment to russia's criminal code that would see hundreds of thousands of offenders escape jail all the details at r.t.

dot com. don't miss moscow out to discover places in the capital to hang out and shelter from the cold that's coming up in about ten minutes but first let's check in with the week in business star that's here next. hello and welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me charlayne was folly to find us 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 votes 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. proposal to call targets on external balances was rejected by countries such as china and south korea. but in 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 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 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 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 work less it will boost growth in exports but then that's at the expense of the recovery of other countries. and in russia they ended the week mix start their choppy day the country's top coal producer paul you said two and a half offended by that on face a rising dollar. right. now stocks this way could be affected by news of the privatization program and corporate data supporting the russian markets troika

dialog vice president igor proprietor 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 a state then. 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. probably this sort of factor which is very important for russia is that the announcement of a new approach is a program to other news now and 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 presents rather than a clever investment touch on a poor call for funds 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 sheer

reassurance that the yellow metal itself we of course is 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 you can talk only about the goal clearly you think only about. price in terms of financial and certain say 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 of the most of

a small number of 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 recommand 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 too uncertainty with the global economy and people and investors look for a safe haven it's the patients about higher inflation in the major currencies the dollar which is the other.