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tonight a massive online expose a shake up washington a new series of leaked military logs suggest the u.s. ignored torture and civilian deaths in iraq we report the. anger rages in europe with french demonstrators protesting the raise retirement age and british unions plotting mass marches to counter deep government cuts. to reveals how sport helps uncover history in russia's resort city of sochi as archaeologists stumble on an ancient reconstruction for the twenty fourteen winter olympics. great well welcome to the program from moscow it's midnight here now you're watching b r t news channel i'm kevin zero in with our top story and the online

whistleblower wiki leaks has struck washington another massive blow the web sites let loose several hundred thousand secret u.s. military documents it is the largest leak ever. the details and i must warn you you may find some of the images coming up in our reports 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 foyles 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 allied 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 live cases 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 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 paul asli went recently civility joe 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 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 in fallujah are 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 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 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 about four or five times. 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 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 saluja 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. or founder and head of work illegal spoke to us at r.t. a little earlier after his press conference in london he says that understanding the sheer number of iraqi deaths is vital to making sure such atrocities don't

happen again. this is the most accurate description of a war that is being released into the historic record we see that. nearly no street corner in baghdad didn't have a body found that is being killed through violence of one form or another but is it every day squalor of war of course for the people in baghdad and cities in iraq was there 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. just like you know the jury gave us a much fuller longer interview if you like to see that like to say what he said today after these revelations today take a look at our web site r t dot com it's still in there for you anytime you want to

see it. brian becker the director of the antiwar coalition spoke to me he says the united states is directly responsible for the atrocities committed during the war in iraq. the police force is 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 in unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing as a result of these revelations the un 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 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. those are brought back here from the answer coalition this is r t coming up on the program escaping into a world of make believe struggle with the facts of the global downturn seems that fantasy fads in the u.s. are using simple words to rise above the recession or pull. the limpid construction of salt she's helped uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization that short of fill in some gaps in the city's history of correspondence course that story to tonight details just ahead. before that governments in france and britain have a fight on the following plan reforms issued in response to the railing of connally's trade unions in the united kingdom say they're preparing for the biggest ever government straight as the country faces the most severe spending cuts since

the second world war out across the channel french protests against pension review showed no sign of abating despite the fact the senate approved a proposed two year rise in the country's retirement age of his country reports tonight 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 sure in our dissatisfaction because personally i'm here demonstration shoulder to shoulder with people who are younger than twenty five or twenty six years old but still have the same attitude to the problem while these people fight against what they believe to be

a grave injustice they're 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 is 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. 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 ask everybody to just to just

protestants and threatens their wells but just prevent other people to do their work and just trying to to. the country to the economy. in france we don't want them to block. in one thousand nine hundred five the french people managed to derail through protest the previous attempt to change the country's pension system 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. paris. sort of of course home page as well if you've got

a view on it let us know have the discussion brought by all the stories you see. also on our home page tonight the big spender this is the simply curious we invite you to check. the cameras there for everything from rights to diamond encrusted sauce but. i'm not sure the. ten americans moving still to can last forever reemerged in russia will be presented as a surprise gift to the united states getting the backstory on your backgrounds go to our team go. this is r t from moscow a u.s. proposal to restrict how much countries should be allowed to borrow export has run into opposition at the g.

twenty meeting in south korea japan germany and russia have criticized the so-called planned economy thinking investment strategist peter schiff told us that 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 imbalance that is that the treasury secretary claims that 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 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 global imbalances but to do that america needs to save more american needs to produce more i 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 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 u.s. it seems to prefer him to escape reality rather than face up to it right now with the threat of more financial nightmares to come new yorkers attending to the world of comics to help on teens innocence in reports on that story. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you scape your fears by saying employed what if you get fired what are you going to do i'm screwed well 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 side fi lovers do you feel like this costume protects you from the wounds of the u.s. economy. parking ticket my money inside somebody's pocket r t tried on the gear to test its superpowers yeah i definitely do feel very protected from everything can't really see much but i would say 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 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 be everyone at the grave be and they are 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 battery and before robin came along it's sixty eight hundred dollars but it could teak 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 pretty new york. one news from moscow 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 anti terror 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 the united nations office in western afghanistan a man drove his car with explosives gates and three others stormed the compound no un staff have been harmed but three guards working at the compound were injured the taliban claimed responsibility quake hit haitians a back link to stem a cholera epidemic right now it's killed almost two hundred people more than two

thousand others have been diagnosed with the disease while experts fear the scope of the break will continue to grow doctors are warning that conditions are ripe for colorado to strike in areas with limited access to clean water medics also warning tonight that neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk of deadly outbreaks down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. as such she powers forward with its a limp a preparations the massive construction works also now revealed the russian cities and past archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an eighth century. temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games that has been asking picks up the story. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archaeologists try to solve the secrets left behind by architects of an eight century temple these rooms in the mid to all end of the caucasus are 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 no will be able to put the pieces back together and see how this heating system worked until last year the old ruins were covered layer of rubbish they were first discovered by the soviet archaeologists and a nine hundred fifty s. and later lost again for more than happy century when lehman 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 the temple was destroyed by locals as they use the ancient stones to decorate their homes nell displaces and

the protection. romancers it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site. we'd like to do in this side into an old museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism moral way it's important but it will be inside the lindbergh park which is one of the russians white all territories and it will be visited by people from all over the world. smaller findings from the olympic park like these bronze age artifacts from now on will be on display in sochi is historical museum its personnel preparing for the most significant arrival of new items and decades that we must have missed it 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 morning wins for ever and i can't often happens elsewhere with a little bit construction paul 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 on forty 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 bay to all the world does all of our sochi. want to find its clues of interview now an arctic covering russia's chances of joining the world trade organization nato is future and u.s. strategy in afghanistan the views of victim cremin york deputy director of the us and canada institute of the russian academy of sciences here in moscow coming right up.

basically i mean new york thanks for being with us today so what do you think has changed in a way russia and the united states see each other in the light of the so-called reset of bilateral relations. well i think that the main change is that both sides have decided that they should improve their relations there was not such an impression under the former presidents so what about the proposal itself to reset relations with russia and the united states does that mean that the u.s. policy towards us was initially wrong you know it means that the state of relations was wrong it was to blame it's hard for me to say who's policy was right or wrong. russia has condemned the tough sanctions which the united states has hiney laterally imposed on iran can russia count on support from major developing countries or couldn't find itself isolated. no why brazil is joins dialogue on iran's weapons the brazilian president has been to turkey they

understand that nuclear weapons can play a negative and destructive role if it gets into iran's hands everybody understands that the iranian regime is rather radical and infected with elements of extremism the appearance of nuclear missiles in iran's hands may certainly provoke a crisis and urge some countries for example israel to retaliate with a nuclear strike on iran or that nearly to a war which hardly anybody wants that's why the fact that iran may create nuclear weapons is a source of great attention for russia and the united states. is that while russia refused to deliver the s. three hundred systems to iran in compliance with nato sanctions to what degree are an eclectic our own interests and counting on reciprocal steps from the united states. involved. of course we can and we should but the main thing now is to build all possible bargaining on a.m.d. and possibly north korea into the reset concept some kind of an idea to this effect should emerge. in recent years native's expansion to the east tast been the biggest

problem in relations between russia and nato yes now the political course in ukraine has changed and at this moment this question is closed as nato exhausts its expansion potential that let's begin from the fact that nato is a past matter it has no future today we should think about european security in a different way we should switch over to other forms of interaction between russia and the western community we are trying to pave this way while nato is dividing europe and russia for various reasons it's unlikely to join nato it's too big and it's quite self-sufficient in military terms it doesn't need nato and its guarantees it will be very well to do without the but it means that for a certain period of time of europe is going to be split into nato members and non nato countries namely russia that's going to create unnecessary tensions therefore i think that the very decision to expand nato was poorly thought through that's not very reasonable in its time when they don't do you think rush hour will make it

into the w t o two and obama's term considering he said he would make it his priority to help russia in this issue there with. russia should certainly become a w t o member which has become an active player on the world market even though we get only one percent. this is a huge amount dozens of billions of dollars but as nonmembers of the w t o we have to bear are necessary expenses which of course is a hindrance in my opinion this is a more serious matter than just an economic issue we are quite capable of paying but we see it is discrimination this is an attempt of keeping russia in the waiting room for as long as possible. does that mean he believe obama's words are part of a game of standards. be show clinton bush and all other american presidents promised us removing that amendment but it hasn't been removed so far perhaps it's the us congress that is determined not to remove it i don't rule it out as the

majority of the us congress is extremely conservative including many neoconservatives this means we have to look for other solutions like forming our own trade zones and agreeing with particular countries on a different regime unilaterally but that's all right we'll survive send the go we have already signed a strategic arms reduction treaty is it possible the senate will fail to ratifying start three. this possibility has been discussed perhaps i'm being too rational but i don't think. this treaty meets the interests of the us as well it isn't about making unilateral amends for russia this treaty is well thought through and balanced it's a kind of tree where even a simpleton would see the balance it's presented in numbers it can be literally touched but it has no unilateralism this treaty obviously meets the interests of the us but unfortunately such issues aren't always up to reasonable people but to all reasonable as well. consequently if this would be considered obama's failure and a sign of the personal dislike republicans have against him. you're absolutely right

this certainly has nothing to do with attitude towards russia they're used to us by now if you ask for obama if a number of those willing to humiliate him exceeds a certain level then the ratification wouldn't happen here. obama is losing his score unfortunately his popularity is dropping evidently when he was running for presidency they had overrated expectations of him then they were expecting him to perform a miracle which never happened things of this. well he has to fill some election promise since he was to troops from iraq and transferred them to afghanistan can america succeed in afghanistan. of course it cannot what are you talking about in this sense america is no different from the soviet union or the british empire winning a military victory in afghanistan is impossible in my opinion what's worrying is that i haven't seen a clear political goal that the us is trying to achieve in afghanistan implementing the so-called democratic regime is impossible.