first a litany of torture a killing of lies and cover the truth of the year old who were billed by whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which has published four hundred thousand secret american files and the largest ever release of classified u.s. documents in. the winter of discontent is a friendship and screeches protest over president sarkozy's pension plan raising the age of retirement to sixty two still one of the loveliest in europe while british trade unions get ready for mass marches to count as a big government spending cuts. and then it becomes structural words in such a help to reveal the russian city has entered paused with the ruins of an eighth century temple discovered at the ground.

and welcome to all see twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is tom main story now time during the litany of killings summary execution and torture there the contents of almost four hundred thousand secret military u.s. files which lay bad the truth all the iraq war whistleblowing website we can leaks has published the largest ever leak of classified american documents along with the death toll statistics collated by u.s. officials but it was the country that publicly denied it existed and that has moved from london in the report with pictures you might find 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 when the documents were killed by troops in

military action the us always said it's the weak which is what's interesting about this that it wasn't keeping a record of civilian deaths when 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 civilian people who have died at the locations 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 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 paul asli went recently to fill each of which was the subject of huge military action in two thousand and four and she filed this report about the plight of ordinary iraqis. his friends 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 collected the splinters of the rocket after exploded whoever showed them to said they were american and contaminated. 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 all contaminated sometimes i can hardly breathe. iraq is listed with buildings like this that used 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 of 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 and 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 the country who were those hopes. 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. 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. r.t.

iraq the u.s. has criticized early saying it would endangered the lives of security personnel on the ground but we can make founder julian assange said revealing the truth was vital to prevent such atrocities from happening again r.t. spoke to him in london. this is the most accurate description of a war that is being released into the historic record we see that is nearly no street corner in baghdad didn't have a body found that had been killed through violence in one form or another for this is every day squalor of war of course for the people in baghdad and other 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 and for the full interview with the found whistleblower wiki leaks log on to our website dot com meanwhile brian baca the director of the antiwar also coalition says the united states is directly responsible for their child that is committed in the iraq war. 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 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. this is our protocol on the program expounding begin about so they'd. be frightened of the state of the u.s. economy more and more u.s. citizens are trying to escape into the world's fair to. put their good house how americans are using superpowers to struggle with their parts of the global downturn . the script could have been brought by a treasure hunters a long time ago and actually over the years part of the stumble was destroyed by locals as they used the ancient students to decorate their homes well this place is

under protection find out how a limp reconstruction and soldier has helped uncover their worries over nations that the like they should have been lost forever. and governments in france and britain have fired on the hounds with mass opposition to their plans to deal with their ailing economies british trade unions a guarantee up for their biggest ever demonstration against bland spending cuts while french strikes against president sarkozy's pension bow raising the retirement age to sixty two showed no sign of abating his cancer 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 same. one who don't know we're out here sure in 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 they're very struggle has brought one of europe's most famous cities at times to a stance. 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. book 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 it victor isn't the only person feeling this way we ask everybody to just to just. just presence of the people to do their work and just trying to to. as a 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 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. in of course you can have your say on the story at our website on the home let's see what else is just the click away for you on our. for the big spenders and this inflict serious check out of moscow's millennium that we pick up hot items like him to carve the diamond encrusted saucepan and wonder how that could be used for cooking or if it could be scrubbed clean. and turned american silent movie sold to have been lost forever reemerged in russia and have been presented as a surprise gift to the u.s. but all the bad ground go to.

the u.s. for proposal to impose restrictions on exports and boring has running top position of the g. twenty meeting in south korea japanese german and russian representatives have criticized the proposal of a form of planned economy investment strategist peter schiff told all say that washington is actually to blame for creating the global economic conditions that they believe necessitates such constraints. 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 for if in 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 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 g. twenty does a brainstorming on solutions to the global recession and then americans prefer to put reality on hold as the threat of fire nationals who has continued some scape into the wild of comics since the situation has not. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you skate your fears by saying

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today well i have some three dollars detective number thirty seven is. robin kamal sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take both spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to pull the u.s. economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans and forty new york. one policeman has been killed and at least twelve people injured by so side boman russia's southern republic of dagestan the blast went off at a checkpoint as the toc attempted to drive his car into a police station the violence follows to and to terror operations by security forces in the north caucuses this week in which four militants were killed despite all sources efforts to crack down on terror the region remains of all the time. a group of militants wearing explosives very at times a year round in western afghanistan after firing

a rocket at the entrance to the facility or so sad bomber blew out the gates allowing three other gunmen to enter all u.n. stop have been accounted for but three afghan girls were injured and they're sold the taliban have claimed responsibility for. a cholera outbreak in haiti has killed nearly two hundred and infected around two thousand people in rural areas doctors warned that it could spread especially to areas with limited access to clean water they also say that neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk officials fear the outbreak could reach the one and a half million people living in the camps after january's massive earthquake destroyed their homes and killed around three hundred thousand. as such a power as forward with its an impact preparation as the massive construction work is also revealing that russian cities ancient past archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an eighth century temple which has been a cover during building work for the twenty four ten games. as it had the side of

the remarkable discovery. it could be a scene from an indiana jones movie archeologists try to solve the secrets left behind by architects of an eight century temple these roots in the middle of the caucasus are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area but you could . 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 works when we need it to lord was picked as a construction site for future olympic venues for the sochi winter games in two thousand and fourteen almost every corner was carefully surveyed and that's when this part of history was discovered this crypt could have been brought by a treasure hunter is a long time ago and actually over the years part of this temple was destroyed by locals as they use the ancient systems to decorate their homes nell displaces under

protection. romancers it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site one but would like to turn this site into an open air museum to make it accessible for cultural tourism it's important that it will be inside the olympic park which is one of russia's vital territories we hope it will be visited by people from all over the world smaller findings from the olympic park like these bronze age part of the facts from now on will be on display in sochi is historical museum that start it's the first psychological project of such a scale in saatchi and selim pickup aeration set made a survey possible and archaeologist on site would have lost this monuments forever with a limp construction called steam had the organizers say they're doing their best to save the region's reach historical heritage so in two thousand per team which will be celebrated on forty as the year of museums the city may see not only the grand

opening of stadiums and ice rinks but also newly discovered landmarks like the christian sanctuary in the bay to all and the party sochi and just a moment outskirts of interview covering russia's chances of joining the world trade organization nations heater and u.s. strategy in afghanistan the views of victor kerman new deputy director of the u.s. and canada institute at the russian academy of sciences here in moscow up next here .

less of a disagreement 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 laterally imposed on iran can russia count on support from major developing countries or couldn't find itself isolated. no. brazil is joined 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 as they asked 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 more 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 has 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 the 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 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 as not very reasonable in its time when the do you think rush hour will make it into the w t o touring obama's term considering he said he would make it his priority to help russia in this issue that with. russia should certainly become a w t o member has become an active player on the world markers even though we get only one percent. this is a huge amount dozens of billions of dollars but as nonmembers of the w.t. oh we have to bear all 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 a 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 neo conservatives 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 so 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 treaty where even a simpleton would see the balance it's presented in numbers that 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 promises he was from iraq and transferred them to afghanistan can america succeed in afghanistan. of course it cannot quite.