massive on one exposé shakes up washington as a new series of leaks military logs suggest the us ignored torture and civilian deaths in iraq we report tonight. rages in europe with french demonstrators protesting the raise the time of day and british union planning mass marches to counter deep government cuts. out sport helps uncover history and russia's resort city of sochi is archaeologists stumble of an ancient temple construction work for me twenty fourteen winter olympics. this is r.t. live from moscow it's eight pm saturday evening here now welcome i'm kevin owen with a top story and online whistleblower wiki leaks has struck washington another massive

blow their websites let loose several hundred thousand secret u.s. military documents since the largest leak ever. reports tonight 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 files that's around sixty six thousand deaths were the deaths of civilians during this combat half of those were killed by the iraqi insurgency and hoff it seems from the documents were killed by troops that military action the u.s. always said they do which is what's interesting about this that it wasn't keeping the red coat 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 tests 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 truth by war begins long before war starts and continues. a war. in the power of these four hundred thousand documents about. if you're wrong. with all the 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 and the release of these documents is something called public interests lawyers they are dealing with allegations from iraq he's

a british and u.s. forces torturing them in iraq and they say that that will certainly be a legal case to answer as a result of this my colleague poorness leah went recently to fill a job 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 friends 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 collected the splinters of the rocket after exploded whoever 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 in

fallujah are all contaminated sometimes i can hardly breathe. iraq is listed with buildings like that's just to be the headquarters of saddam's secret police in two thousand and three several job done 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 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 four or five times. about ten times if you take a country who. in the last few years hundreds of deformed babies have been

born into losers 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 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 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. or r.t. iraq. straight of washington for reaction to this leg today artie said. nearly four hundred thousand a secret files now in the public domain and of course that's going to take a long time to digest it all but there has been strong reaction from washington so far already has and take us through it. there has been strong reaction kevin let's talk about two principal parties in this case first of all the state department state department saying what the united nations the united kingdom and nato have already said so far that the disclosures put lives at risk at this point but let's go ahead and go to the defense department u.s. defense department and their reaction their reaction is a lot more stronger they use the words we or wiki leaks is for indeed we deplore we could leak for inducing individuals to break the law and they pour the release of

all this information they of course also say that they are afraid that this will put people's lives in jeopardy and they also make a parallel with what happened back in july with the week the leaks of revelations made about the afghan war that this that the that these disclosures are much bigger and that the pay the number of pages that are that have been released are that much bigger four times bigger so the reasoning is if that has already gone ahead and put american lives in danger then how does something that's much bigger than a revelation that's much bigger now how many more lives are put in jeopardy as a result of this recently so despite the warnings from washington to wiki leaks about publishing even or all promised in the future all we likely to see any more attempts by washington to try and stem this flow of information well that's the question i mean what can washington really do especially if they don't know exactly who is behind besides wiki leaks who is really behind the leak of this information

they don't i mean at this point it seems as if washington is a bit. especially the defense department is a bit of a paper tiger trying to find who is responsible and this but at this point where did we go from here that's the big question what could the role of occasions anyone in the u.s. have allowed to face charges do you think of the alleged atrocities details of these leaked documents. and once again i mean answer that same question to the same way answer the previous question who is first of all they have to first of all find out who is responsible for this now and then make a little bit of contextual information provide a little contextual information back in july when the afghan war documents were released they arrested somebody by the name of private first class bradley manning and charged him for being responsible for that release but yet we still have yet to see what will become of him and so as far as this leak this most recently goes we have to find out who it is and then after that we still have yet to see what the

united states government will do that person or persons if they are found and that's a big if. in washington thanks for bringing all your side of the story there washington d.c. we're strongly across it as well here of moscow thank you governments in france and britain have a. reform was issued in response to the railing a column e. trade unions in the u.k. say they're preparing for the biggest ever demonstration is the country faces the most severe spending cuts since the second world war and across the channel french protests against a new pensioner view showed no sign of abating despite the senate approving a proposed two year rise in the country's retirement age of his country 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. where out here showing our dissatisfaction because personally i 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 but 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 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 everybody to just to just. just prevents all the people. and just trying to to. the country to the economy. we don't want them to block. in one thousand nine hundred five the french people managed to derail through protest a previous attempt to change the country's pension system however it appears they've not got a choice. critics of the unions who led the charge against sarkozy's pension plans say it's now time to step back and 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 winners are paris but we're ahead for you tonight here on r t including digging deep quite literally a limping construction site she's uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization but short of that in some gaps in the city's history as we're about to find out a few minutes ago. one policeman has been killed and at least ten injured by a suicide bomber in russia's southern republic of dagestan the blast went off at a checkpoint as the attacker attempted to drive his car into a police station the violence follows two operations by security forces in the north caucuses this week in which four militants were killed despite authorities efforts to crack down on terror the region remains volatile. suicide bombers have

attacked no we'll bring you that story in a second let's get some more reaction for you on our top story today of course the massive leak on wiki leaks of the u.s. confidential documents were empty fired can bars with his nose a politician from the national iraqi alliance group is joining us on the line i believe from baghdad let's talk to him a very good evening to you thanks taking the time and to be with us it is appreciated the u.s. as you'd expect the start of this online publication of the documents but of course i guess it begs the question is washington trying to hide or distort the truth in some way. well it's clearly the u.s. government is very upset about the releasing these documents the so-called secret documents but i also can tell you from my sources in washington that these documents most of them i have not to have the time obviously to review the four hundred thousand pages but the skimming or some of the reports that these documents have been issued by low level military officers and soldiers in iraq and some of

them may not have high intelligence value and some of them may have some information that is not that computed or substantiated however these are very important documents has to be viewed very carefully word by word to put the dots. on the line with the interior minister in iraq has already promised legal action against those accused of torturing detainees but hang on wiki leaks says that they've removed all the sensitive names to protect the identity of everyone they're talking about so how could there be any future repercussions over any potential wrongdoings. that was troubling to be honest with you i would like to see all people iraqis are americans who practice torture violated the law and the constitution of iraq to be put in front of legal process and punished however as i said some of these we have to be very careful and not jump to conclusions because

some of the reports may not be very accurate or of high. intelligence value for there's also sort of course there's no smoke without fire isn't there but i would say in part this league could have now on iraqi politics is there a risk that it could fuel tensions in the country lead to more sectarian violence and. i don't think so i think we have passed over the bad bad days of the two thousand and five and six and seven i think the sectarian violence is over iraqis have realized this is not going to work and they have. the you know all the al-qaeda has lost its bases they have problems of funding and recruitment i think however their support although they may not make a tsunami of politics changes in iraq but they also could be very useful to to.

take people to justice and punish them for violating the law i've heard some of that of course in these documents i want to get on the air and the elation between iraqi officials and on a lot of them are unsubstantiated and doesn't have very serious intelligent proof behind it ok nonetheless though this is a huge blow it's not being well received in washington and of course let's think about those troops tens of thousands of u.s. troops stationed in iraq as we speak tonight how is this league going to be received by them and could even lead to their early withdrawal indeed of the position seen as untenable and what's he going to do for them around. well i see yeah well different this is definitely not going to be good for morale but the bottom problem the major strategic mistake of the united states is a key patient there's no good at your patient a bad acute patient then i say should not have done this mistake and accepted as an initial fourteen eighty three and became an acute problem liberated to an occupier

and this is exactly the outcomes of occupation and i also would like to say there are thousands of group of troops who are going to stay like until two thousand and eleven i think a lot will have barely enough power to do a force protection i think that they will have very minimal. effect on the iraqi street or in the iraqi politics or any major operations military value in iraq and president obama was very clear that he said. military operations has ended in iraq ok and politician from the national iraqi alliance thanks so much for being on the line from baghdad tonight on. so cheapos forward with it so limpid preparations the massive construction works also revealing the russian city's ancient past as are about here. with discovery of an eighth century temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games that he's done is plus kids across the story. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists trying to solve the secrets left

behind by architects of an eight ball these rooms in the media to. a considered among the most prized discoveries in the area would you. give 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 wall so that hot air from the fireplace could be spread around so no will be able to put the pieces back together and see how this heating system worked. on to the last year the all the ruins were covered clear of rubbish. they were first discovered by soviet archaeologists in the nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than half a century when we made it illegal 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 one this part of history was discovered this script could have been robbed 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 stones to decorate their homes nell displaces under protection. oh man says it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site. that i would like to do on this side into an open air museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism 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 windings from the olympic park like these bronze age artifacts from now on the all be on display in sochi is historical museum its personnel preparing for the most significant arrival of new items and decades what that bad they see is the first archaeological project of such a scale in sochi and is the olympic preparations that made this survey possible

undoubtedly without ok ologists uncited we could have lost these one even square ever and i can't open it happens elsewhere. with a little bit 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 and thought she has 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 of those boards are so cheap. we bring into the world news now suicide bombers attacked the united nations offices within afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and three others stormed the compound no un staff have been harmed but there are no reports on whether afghan guards were injured the taliban claimed responsibility. quake patients the

battling to stem a cholera epidemic has killed almost two hundred more than two thousand others have been diagnosed with the disease now experts fear the scope of the break will continue to grow doctors warn that conditions are right for cholera to strike in areas with limited access to clean water medics also say the neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk to the deadly outbreak is down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake that killed some three hundred thousand people. protesters in southern italy have clashed with police during demonstrations sparked by conditions of the local rubbish dump residents want to stop further wasting liveries to what they say is an overflowing tip the government blamed the facility state on bad management prime minister berlusconi promised a fast solution to the crisis pledging millions of euros in compensation and denying that there's been any health risk to residents. show that weekend in a few minutes for you but it's we can business before the next.

hello 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 use 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 the 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 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 do it 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 little 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 the country's top our producer paul you said two and a half cents on face a rising dollar that's right. 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 markets by expecting the release of information on you what if you knew from the street 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

the denouncement of new produce 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 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 sheer reassurance that the yellow metal itself does we of course as the stock analysts we tend to focus a lot more on the companies that produce the gold for. 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 and clearly you think only about the gold price in times of financial uncertainty

investors look for somewhere safe something tangible physical gold gold and have it seems a perfect place to park your cash box not in russia eight infrasound beatty 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 then most of us no longer versions mostly buy gold coins as presents coolie because they look nice however some of them are investment coins and then not liable to be investment coins are the mats ones 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 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 still a certainty who the global economy people and investors look for a safe haven there in. expectations about higher inflation in the major currency the dollar which is the other big. global economies and central banks and investors. is interested. to bring it to lower levels which would be positive for commodity prices in general in. the long term gold bull george soros recently described the precious metal as the ultimate bubble since the metal is not very useful in the real world applications it has a place in jewelry and fun gilding things but.