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brutality of torture is killing lives and cause the drugs the truth of the iraq and the were killed by a whistle blowing web site wiki leaks which has published six hundred thousand secret american files in the largest ever release of classified u.s. documents. a winter of discontent looms as french demonstrators for a town stoke president sarkozy's pension plan raising the age of retirement to sixty two still one of the lowest in europe while british trade unions get ready for mass marches to counter the big government spending cuts. and in big construction works in such a help to reveal the russian state is ancient pots with the ruins of an eighth century temple discovered in the ground.

international news live from moscow this is all see was need of all of us thanks for joining it's a staggering litany of killing summary execution and torture there the contents of almost four hundred thousand secret military u.s. files which lay bare the truth all the iraq war whistle blowing web sites we can makes has published the largest ever leak of classified american documents along with death toll statistics collated by u.s. officials but wish the country had publicly denied existed also is lower and that has more 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 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

a light 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 those 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 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 paulus leo went recently to fill lucho 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 outside fighting for the board on a football pitch he's here in the family tent fighting a cancer that eating away at his head and stomach. i collect the splinters of the rocket after exploded whoever showed them to said they were american and contaminated poise. and. 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 littered with buildings like this that used to be the headquarters of saddam's secret police in

two thousand and three several jodan rockets has had 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 and. jordan we're about four or five times. and about ten times if you take a country who rode with us 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. american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the us and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons . dr abdul al floozy is also a father or at least he was until a year ago when his twelve year old son died of cancer most parents leave their babies in the hospital they're scared by the way they look these babies are doomed to die. and die they do far from the eyes of the world because while flu just streets might today be quiet the city remains cut off from the rest of the country doctors here say they're under pressure to keep quiet. r.t.

iraq the u.s. has criticized their release saying it could endanger the lives of security personnel on the ground but we can 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 ever being released into the historic record we see that is nearly no street corner in baghdad that didn't have a body found that had been killed through violence of one form or another for this 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 had a full interview with a found a whistleblower wiki leaks log onto our web site. meanwhile brian baca the direct saudi and who owns the coalition says the united states is directly responsible for their trust it 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 all see and still to come on the program expanding the universe of make believe. that 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. will look at how some americans are using superpowers just trying go would be facts of the global downturn. the script good a good broadway treasure hunters a long time ago and actually over the years part of this temple was destroyed. as

they use the ancient students to decorate their homes this boy says of the production. find out how olympic construction and so she has helped uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization thought to have been lost forever. and governments in france and britain have a fight on their hands with mass opposition to their plans to deal with their ailing economies british trade unions are gearing up for their biggest have a demonstration against planned spending cuts while french strikes against president sarkozy's pension bill raising the retirement age to sixty to show no sign of abating he's country now has a lot of reports from power. that as the saying goes two things in life are certain death and taxes some french people however would like to add another certainty to that belief that they can force their government to reconsider its radical pension changes that's despite the fact that plans to increase their time

age from sixty to sixty two have already been approved by the senate. where out here showing our dissatisfaction i know because i personally am here demonstration shoulder to shoulder with people who are younger than twenty five or twenty six years old but still have the same attitude to the problem that 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 if getting that dream became impossible through no fault of your own what if getting your apartment done on time dependent not on you not on your workers not on your construction or anybody involved but on people standing outside in the streets. victor has his own successful construction business he prides himself on his fast

skilled work but recently his projects have fallen behind schedule through no fault of his own. i'm sick and tired of all these strikes and protests the people who really want to work they just work unlike protesters who are interested only in demonstrations i'm personally not interested in victor isn't the only person feeling this way we ask everybody to just to just put systems with roots in their wells but just prevent 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 do rail through 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. yes readers are pairs. of course you can have you also on the story website home and also let's see what's healthy is just a click away for you on the home page. of the big spenders and the simply curious check out millionaire fat where you can pick up hot items like him to cars and done it in cross to some spun this one to how that could be used for cooking or if it could be scrubbed clean. in ten american silent movies still to have been lost forever every measure have been presented as a surprise gift to the u.s. pulled into the background go to all.

if. a u.s. reprisal to impose restrictions on exports and barring has run into opposition at the g. twenty meeting in south korea geoff unease german and russian representatives have criticized the proposal as a form of planned economy investment strategist peter schiff told are saying that washington is actually to blame for creating the global economic conditions that they believe in assessing tate such constraints. 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 in any count episodes 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 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 an american problem makes no sense and while she trying to date is a brainstorming on solutions to the global recession many americans prefer to put reality on hold as the threat of financial nightmares continues some new yorkers are escaping into the wild of comics and if the situation as well. for two years now the world economy in the u.s. has turned into an ocean of horror from many how do you escape your fears by saying

employed what if you get fired what are you going to do i'm screwed while some have been choosing humor to fight off the frightening reality or you're afraid of a double dip recession. others weighs 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 because millions of americans are very frightened of the state of the u.s. economy more and more u.s. citizens are trying to escape into the world of fantasy welcome to comic con the world's biggest gathering of comic book fans and site file overs do you feel like this costume protects you from the words of the u.s. economy. pocketbook my money side somebody talk to 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 it would save several thousand people gathered on a weekday most is people having to close 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 i don't say how are we turning into a superhero for a day what is your main. weapon. i'm our girl i've got a big can. and enjoying feeling like a child i'd be everyone i have had a bad grade b. and so i am kind of crazy with the possibility of a double dip recession just around the corner it could seem trickier. to lure comic book shoppers it. but the world of fantasy is far from scared of losing its

customers what are the most expensive of the cheapest comic books you're selling today well i have some three dollars dollars detective number thirty seven is. the last battery and before robin came along sixty eight hundred dollars but it could take both spider-man and superman with some more help from his girl to p.b. us economy out of its recession so that affording something like that would not just seem like magic to most americans because there's a truck in our party. one policeman has been killed and at least twelve people injured by a suicide bomber in russia southern republic of dagestan the blast went off at a checkpoint as the target time to drive his car into a police station the violence follows two and a towel peroration by security forces in the north caucuses this week in which four militants were killed despite the source is efforts to crack down on terrorists the region remains volatile for. you get

a group of militants wearing explosives west to have attacks a u.n. compound in western afghanistan after firing a rocket at the entrance to the facility or so side baller blew out the gates allowing three other gunmen to enter all you want to stop have been counted for but three afghan guards were injured and sold the taliban have claimed responsibility for. a cholera outbreak in haiti that has killed over two hundred people and infected around two thousand more has reached the capital city port au prince doctors warned that it could spread further especially to areas with limited access to clean wheelchair and they also say the neighboring dominican republic should be alert to the risk officials fear the outbreak could reach the one and a home a million people living in camps after january's massive earthquake destroyed their homes and killed around three hundred thousand. as social power is what about it's an impact preparations the massive construction works is also revealing the russian cities ancient past archaeologists are hailing the discovery of an eight century

temple which has been uncovered during building work for the twenty fourteen games . that had the site 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 media to all until the caucasus are considered among the most prized discoveries in the area would you. just take a look at how good these pipes are they almost didn't break when they fell down it appears that they were embedded in the wall so that hot air from the fireplace could be spread around so now we'll be able to put the pieces back together and see how this heating system works when limited 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 well displace is under protection. romancers it wasn't a problem to convince construction companies to save the unique site lawn 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 the russians 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 artifacts from now on will be on display in sochi is historical museum that gets the first psychological project of such a scale and such and it's selling pickup aeration is that made a survey possible undoubtedly archaeologist on site would have lost this monuments forever with a limp construction paul steamer 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 and thought she has the year of museums the seating may see not only the grand opening of stadiums. but also newly discovered landmarks like the christian sanctuary in the great to all of those boards are sochi in just a moment our exclusive interview covering russia's chances of joining the world trade organization has he and u.s. strategy in afghanistan these are victor criminy a deputy director of the u.s. and canada institute at the russian academy of sciences here in moscow next on r.t. .

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 recession via lateral 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 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 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 hinted 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 everyone. 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 all that may lead 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 to seriously is that

when russia refused to deliver they asked three hundred systems to iran in compliance with nato sanctions to what degree are we neglecting our own interests and counting on reciprocal steps from the united states more involvement 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 natives expansion to the east task being 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 exhausted 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're 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 it's 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 as not very reasonable in its time when they began do you think rush hour will make it into the w t o two in obama's term considering he said he would make it his priority to help russia in this issue that with a lot of the russia should certainly become a w t o member russia 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 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 as 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 temple 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 alright we'll survive if you want to 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 were 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. 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 happen.