tonight a massive online expose a shakes up washington as a new series of leaked military logs suggest the u.s. ignored torture and civilian deaths in iraq. rages in europe with french demonstrators protesting the raised retirement date and british unions are planning mass marches to counter deep government cuts. and we reveal that sport helps uncover history in russia's resort city of sochi as archaeologists stumble mentioned temple during construction of the twenty fourteen winter olympics.

hello this is the r t news channel from moscow it's eleven pm saturday night here now i'm kevin zero in with a top story in the online whistleblower wiki leaks has struck washington another massive blow the website's let loose several hundred thousand secret u.s. military documents it is the largest leak ever. has the details must warn you you may find some of the images coming up in a report tonight disturbing. 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 hoff of those were killed by the iraqi insurgency and half it seems from the documents were killed by troops in military action the u.s. 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 olf war 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 these documents is something called public interest lawyers they are dealing with allegations from iraq he's of 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 paula slip went recently to fill

a job which was the subject of a future military action in two thousand and four and she filed this report about the plight of ordinary iraqis. his is 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 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. all contaminated 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 job done 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. and 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 american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the u.s. and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons. dr abdul alpha luzhin is also a father or at least he was until a year ago when his twelve year old son died of cancer most parents leave their babies in the hospital they're scared by the way they look these babies are doomed to die. and die they do far from the eyes of the world because while flu just streets 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. the founder and head of wiki leaks julian assange spoke to us at our to

a little earlier after his press conference in london he says that understanding the sheer number of iraqi deaths is vital to making sure that such atrocities don't happen again. this is the most accurate description of a war that is being released into the historical record we see that is new he knows street corners in baghdad didn't have a body found that being killed through violence of one form or another for the everyday squalor of war of course for the people in the. cities in iraq was their everyday life for years and years and we need to understand what the reality of war is if we're going to choose to engage in it. must be more common more insight now into this latest wiki leak

leak quick joined from washington by the director of the antiwar i'm so coalition brian becker mr becker thanks very much the sun r.t. tonight so more revelations today about what's allegedly happened in the past is there any reason to think to believe that this situation is ongoing as we speak well i think we know it's ongoing i think we know that the u.s. invasion forces inflicted great and grievous damage to the people of iraq that's now presented in these wiki leaks documents in their full grotesque and lurid detail they went on for years and years the police forces an army that were trained by the americans who are allegedly the protectors and guarantors of iraqi freedom engaged in systematic torture abuse rape and it was unreported and unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing. as we've witnessed washington has so far failed to put

a lid on the league so far this last leak the last before this of course seventy thousand documents wasn't this one much more four hundred thousand more of promised what's the scale of what could come do you think or is washington likely to try to take a much firmer hand from now on and fight back and try and stifle these leaks well of course the washington government the pentagon brass the cia whose crimes have been exposed by wiki leaks known to the whole world including the american people would like this to stop they would like to repress them they would like to find a way to indict them in the meantime they're demonizing them and criminalizing them in the mass media in order to discredit them but we're in a battle of wills right now because as a result of these revelations the u.n. chief investigator for torture for instance has called on barack obama to investigate those in the u.s. military and civilian government for criminal acts against the iraqi people if the u.s. takes now actions to repress wiki leaks it may very well backlash backfire and instead

of repressing them and intimidating them and their supporters create a groundswell of worldwide support for them the people want justice they want the truth we've heard a lot tonight about the reaction from the top brass in washington but let's spare a thought for the iraqi people how are they going to be reacting tonight to this news that the americans allegedly have been turning a blind eye to thousands of killings do you think their attitude to the u.s. assistance force in the country could change from now on. well of course it completes the story because it's revealed documents it's from the pentagon it's from the u.s. military itself but i think in the main it will confirm what the iraqi people already know there is not a single iraqi family that hasn't been touched by these criminal acts not only of hundreds of thousands died so many civilians but five million iraqis have become refugees displaced in their own country or sent to syria or jordan just to live their family members have been detained in abused and and raped and tortured by the

americans and they're in their proxies so in some ways the iraqi people know all of this all too well but of course i think it will be a relief in some way for them to know that their story the untold story of the iraq war is becoming public knowledge for everyone just picking up points of you mentioned just now people may be eventually being brought to book for this that the iraqi interior minister has already promised does need to start a hunt for the perpetrators of the atrocities detailed in this latest weekly leak now if they are all found and brought to justice will it solve the problem be we would even start to do this because we can leaks is protected all the names they say. well of course you could start with the white house you could start with george w. bush and donald rumsfeld and dick cheney and those who have authorized this kind of behavior or have done it as a matter of policy these are not rogue acts or for the american trainers who are trained so-called trained iraqi forces of course the iraqi people have

a great thirst for justice as do people everywhere they're not hard to find the iraqi people know who perpetrated these acts against them they live in their neighborhoods in their towns they know that the american military was part of it i think the biggest obligation is for the american people to take hold of this information about what their government did in their name with their tax dollars and with the blood of their young people against a nation that was at peace with them in two thousand and three when they invaded i hope that there will be a massive global investigation for prosecution of george w. bush for war crimes ok will. live brian becker director of the answer coalition and the war coordinator as you off thanks to being on the program. governments in france and britain have a fight on my hands following planned reforms issued in response to the railing economies trade unions in the u.k. say they're preparing for the biggest ever demonstration as the country faces the most severe spending cuts since the second world war across the channel french protest meantime against you pension review showed no sign of abating despite the

senate approving a proposed two year rise in the country's retirement age of his country 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 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 wear out here showing our dissatisfaction 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. the 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 ask everybody to just to just put us in the truth of their

wells but just prevent the people to do their work and just trying to to. the country to 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 three protests 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 could siddur 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 gas renos are pairs. ahead digging deeper literally a limpet construction such as one color the roof mentioned civilization a shill to fill in some the gaps of the city's history our correspondents across

the storm to bring you the latest tonight. first though a u.s. proposal to restrict how much countries should be allowed to borrow or export has run into opposition at the g. twenty meeting in south korea japan germany and russia and criticize the so-called planned economy thinking investment strategist peter schiff told us about that washington is the one to blame for creating the global imbalances that threaten the world's financial ability and stability to the policies that we're pursuing here in america are exacerbating the very imbalance that 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 running these horrific trade deficits and turning out 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 when even why don't we do need to

reduce 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 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 american problem makes no sense. thoughts of investment strategist peter schiff talking to us at r.t. . and stories they keep you posted on here if you are involved with the discussion for the big spenders in the simply curious we've got this for you media. offering everything from the brides to a i don't know why you want one diamond encrusted source ice.

president of the backs an amendment to russia's criminal code that would see hundreds of thousands of. jailed illegal not to be interested in that story on our home page on t.v. dot com. watching r.t. from moscow more top stories from this no one policeman has been killed and at least twelve 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 terror operations by security forces in the north caucuses this week in which four militants were killed just by the thought his efforts to crack down on terror the region remain volatile. suicide bombers have attacked the united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car packed with explosives into the gates and three other stormed

the compound no u.n. staff had been harmed but three guards working at the site were injured the taliban have claimed responsibility. moral views in brief quake hit haitians are battling to stem a cholera epidemic now that's killed almost two hundred. and for more than two thousand others they have news that they've been diagnosed with the disease while experts fear the scope of the break is set to 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 now be on alert to the risk the deadly outbreak stand in the ongoing affects of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand. at least thirteen young people have been shot dead and fifteen wounded in an attack on a house party in mexico it's the second such massacre in less than a week the violent border city of ciudad qualities last sunday government stormed to killing seven at a party and two more in another house nearby. sochi powers

forward with it's a limping preparations the massive construction works also now revealed the russian cities ancient past archaeologists hailing the discovery of an eighth century temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games blonsky picks up 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 ruins in the mid to low end of the caucasus are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area but you hypocritical to make them 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 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

a soviet dark eola just under nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than happy century when we made it to lol it was picked as a construction site for future olympic venues for the sochi winter games in two thousand and fourteen almost every corner was carefully surveyed and that's when this part of history was discovered this script could have been robbed by treasure hunters a long time ago and actually over the years part of the temple was destroyed by locals as they use the ancient stones to decorate their homes nell displaces under protection. around one says it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site. we'd like to do on this side into an old 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 old 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 and decades that clean mushed 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 archaeologists and sites we could have lost these money wins for ever and i can't and 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 in sochi as the year of museums the seeding may see not only the ground opening of stadiums ice rinks but also newly discovered landmarks like this christian sanctuary in the great you all and there's all of our

team sochi a little bit later tonight we take a look at what's hoped to become one of russia's most innovative and high tech areas that's in a few minutes in fact but we've got we can business that paper fall out boy. hello welcome to the business program here on r t with me charlayne was folly top finance officials in the world's major economies have agreed to boost the power of developing countries in the international monetary fund as a g twenty meeting in korea but they failed to set targets to address the tensions surrounding currency deflation the i.m.f. deal with the europeans give up to see twenty four strong board to powerful developing countries and transfer six percent of voters to the g twenty finance ministers and central government say they will also move towards more market determined exchange rates system but a u.s. proposal to set you merican targets on external balances was rejected by countries

such as china and south korea. but an hour as 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 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 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 coordinate and the fact that people are meeting and talking about it and agreeing in principle to do it i mean 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 worth less it will boost growth in exports but then that's at the expense of the recovery of other countries now this week the government gave details of its five year privatization program will be defections large that a lot of publicly owned russian companies so the end of the soviet union and reports. the biggest privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. it covers the whole range of the state's involvement in business the government plans to put stakes a nine hundred state firms up for sale globally but the main goal of the selloff will be to change the investment appeal of these assets to attract private investors and if you change the structure of ownership of the companies to make

them more transparently stable and reliable. the government also hopes to patch the hole in the budget with the sixty billion dollars it expects to raise among the most notable offerings is the sale of shares in v.t. bank to blow controlling the state will reduce its stake to controlling in the country's biggest lenders burbank and in the national airline and afloat the finance minister believes investor dimanche will exceed supply but analysts are more cautious on. larger companies the companies that are well known perhaps already being traded on the market such as bank ross now after a forty. concerning other companies i'm not sure because it would very much depend on their to give investors which in turn would depend on the way the russian and global economies are proceeding bursaries not the first country to undertake

widespread privatization indeed it's a common factor among nearly all developed economies since at one time or another they all had extensively publicly owned companies in countries such as the u.k. the process helped turn large numbers of the population into shareholders however analysts are skeptical this will happen in russia my personal take is that most likely as a government might so some company as it can be also as well. or there are well known names like oil companies to offer these shares their way to investors how is it seems that. the sixty brown boss prove it is a sure bet the church i'm not sure that the largest part of this placement torelli target as a route to investors if pushed through successfully the program will alter the financial landscape in russia although which will continue to be a major player in business the government will have less direct involvement it's hope this will usher in

a mirror of greater transparency as companies become more accountable to their new owners. clover business. on top of that the stock market rush at the end of the week mixed after a choppy day the country's top goal produced the poll you have. been my own fear of rising dollar. stocks this week has been affected by news of the privatization program and corporate data supporting the russian markets troika dialogs vice president explains the main trends of the markets were very volatile very water and the general trend globally is that the markets are expecting the release of information on a new quarter if using it from the states. we saw very good results on the corporate. third quarter results from the united states most companies was eighty five percent reported.