the week's top stories from our teeth and security forces are on high alert in russia's volatile north caucasus after three people were killed when militants stormed the chechen parliament. france boils over a senator's approved ones to make people's working lives longer while the temperature rises in the u.k. as britain's face up to the deepest scots since world war two. this is the most accurate description of a war that is being released into the historic record iraq seeks retribution for torture and massive civilian deaths after all one whistleblower weekend weeks exposes almost half a million secret files detailing widespread abuse. and to meet a moscow's a new man in charge r.t. profiles the capital's new chief as he takes on one of the toughest jobs in russian

politics. you're watching r t ten in the morning here in moscow welcome to the program now russian police are trying to identify the remaining two of the three militants stormed parliament in russia's republic of chechnya on tuesday three people died and seventeen were injured as gunmen forced their way into the building in the capital grozny the militants were killed by security officers artie's. has the story. bollman session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussions kitchen deputies face gunfire and suicide last chillis and some of them but said it all started here these gates our colleague was driving through they followed his car and shot at the security guards very. soon after the militants

stormed the church in palm and conflicting reports emerged about the building being mined hostages taken and a column in chairman been injured there that will go a bulldozer they came to this corner a supply manager was coming from over there and they shot him he felt as. well walking across the fallen to area colleagues as one big and small recount every detail of the day. there he probably source running into the building and opened fire the gas crashed down on the person who was running last through and one of the militants blew himself up just beside them some big scab and window others were trapped inside the parliament. our president runs and could do was here from the very first moment giving commands he was afraid there would be victims on our side where most of the special operation was quick and less than only twelve federal officers killed the militants quote noir could go to. the two militants who are in

this building blew themselves up here one in science and one right here this place has become their final destination the senate and mr tuesday's attack left seventeen people in hospitals and three dead reportedly this attack could have been orchestrated by the new leader of chechen militants who are saying i have to prove to all kind of what he's capable of acting in isolation from his former boss to whom are can sell from the most wanted least in both russia and the u.s. because of maybe launching his own war in the caucasus militants have been extremely active in russia this year twin blasts in moscow's metro an attack in a central market and what he got across the blast uncovered you noble caria and many says the nations of police offices throughout the caucasus. this week many here once again questions why this troublesome region has turned into minefields so as to get his ations in afghanistan and pakistan. and other republics as the gateway into the bigger caucasus and fold expansion into europe so in

this context of the ongoing war in afghanistan and americans are likely to lose this war soon now could have disastrous consequences all over the world and what we have sent in grows news it's actually one of the consequences the stability of the whole region the works of the terror attack have been quickly removed from the pavement and walls of the church of bali meant but the fact that militants is a liberal into the government's building in the heart of grozny well this all is over forgotten and the security rises and sets now have been tightened and joined international efforts to combat terror i don't buy them are absolutely true mark t. from grass. the people of britain and france are now acutely aware of the price to be paid to rescue their economies and they're making their anger felt in the u.k. they face the deepest cuts in decades and the axing of half a million jobs while across the channel the fight in france against the pension reform refuses to die down even though senators approved the retirement age rise on

friday the protests turned violent with police using tear gas to disperse demonstrators the government calls them vital measures to reduce the huge deficit except the public aren't prepared to pay for others' mistakes but it's artie's got that he has a lot of our reports not everyone in france sympathizes with the protesters. young smart and ambitious lucy is slipping her time between a master's degree and working for a large international company for her the recent protests in paris are first and foremost a personal distraction i'm not driving because in paris you don't really need your car so i'm using the subway. headquarter of my company yeah it's it's longer according to trade union officials in france over three million people took to the streets across the country but people like you see no the numbers don't always reflect reality to action in france there isn't like

a committee is just to avoid school it's like six years ago i made the same when i was in high school. i went through the strike because i can avoid. the reality that really give us a vibe singing dancing and shouting but while they're spending day after day protesting a reform that is aim to aid their country their very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reform to. restore. the balance in the public pension system remove disincentive for working at order ages as well give a signal of the commitment of the government to. take structural reforms that will raise the potential of the economy as well let's. restore public forums the numbers

really speak for themselves france has a huge foreign debt the fourth largest in the world and unlike in the united states there is no board advertising the numbers also unlike the united states where there is no annual paid leave the french enjoy the longest paid holidays thirty days a year their retirement age which is what the people are protesting about this time is one of the lowest in the world countries also affected by the global financial crisis like italy and spain have already increased their say but with less widespread opposition from the people so are these protests a true sign of a democracy or simply force of habit by the french people used to pouring out in the streets to get their way or is this is a sign that. needs to negotiate with treat us more so we have to say to the french people that is the who chose the deputies and members of the senate who make the laws laws are not made in the streets laws are drafted and approved not by revolutionaries fortunately we live in a democratic state and people who we select to be in power adopt laws besides it's

necessary to respect the laws and in a year and a half we'll have the opportunity to say that we made a mistake and change our leaders but until then these are the people who run the country the my way or the highway philosophy certainly attention grabbing but who will back down first is still anyone's guess throughout the entire week this street outside the function it was filled with hundreds of angry citizens protesting against the controversial pension reform over the weekend the city of paris is eerily quiet and the reason for that a very prosaic one the french people still oppose being made to work two extra years but they're not about to protest it on their legitimate day off kashrut as r r t. many of the millions who vented their anger throughout france are still decades away from retirement themselves but one organization which promotes the role of youth and european society says that's because young people are afraid of

their futures the political context is very very specific in france today and basically most of the protestations are not against the reform system it is on the one hand on the other hand it's against. the police. in general i don't think the young people that are in i school are worrying about their pensions really they are worried about their future. because you know that in france we have a very high rate of unemployment for young people and it's twenty three percent age of twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs offering opportunities. internet talk show host laurie harshness has been asking people in new york whether they think the french have picked the right course to fight for their rights.

in france many people have taken to the streets to protest the new retirement system are these protests democracy in action or just riot this week let's talk about that well i think you probably bring the country to a storm still go through which you have a right certainly if it does if it just stops air traffic and those kinds of things should the government get involved and stop them absolutely you know you want to believe what if the government was telling you that you could no longer live in brooklyn but you had some of what would you do about that would you just take it will there are you know there are extremes there like i mean there are limits to the i mean they're probably situations where you can. go. over here and i think in this country depends on what you protest if it's popular yes if it's not popular people would object to it but i have faith in our government of faith in the system so ultimately i think it would work out but if i

felt my voice wasn't being heard i probably wouldn't break the law but depends how much i believe in because do you think that the people of france should have a little bit more faith in their government then. i would hope it's a lot easier to brush off someone that's protesting if they're doing it in a way that hurts either exactly it just makes a me out to be the sort of the bad news story i guess sort of takes the show off what's actually happening in a positive why is protesting does so what's the right way to do it great is a combination of protesting in people just making their voices heard struve for always have different means getting on the radio radio shows t.v. shows and just making order feelings that are not happy with the government policies or to come to the time whatever you think about what's going on in france and the bottom line is that the fighting that didn't tolerate people being able to . voice their opinions would be well intolerable.

and still ahead in today's program by clearing out the mosque from the mountains it's one of the world's most beautiful places but can care about the russian rurals green itself and. the makers of the movie made over the world and we may go out of the world for that because it's on comedy that's biting back i brought out why the central asian nations having the last laugh that's coming up soon. iraq is threatening legal action against those accused of torturing detainees following the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential military documents through wiki leaks now the war logs reveal iraqi troops conducted savage abuse on detainees and that the u.s. often did nothing despite the evidence that i saw it also shows washington failed to investigate a series of killings of suspects and civilians by its forces the u.s.

criticized the release saying it could endanger the lives of security personnel on the ground but wiki leaks founder julian assange told r.t. that revealing the truth was vital to prevent such atrocities from happening again . 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 being killed three violence of 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 you or if we're going to choose to

engage in it. and for our full interview with the founder of whistleblower wiki leaks log on to our website r.t.e. dot com and in the meantime brian becker the director of the antiwar answer coalition says the united states is directly responsible for atrocities 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. well we're following the fallout from the wiki leaks revelations on our website at r.t. dot com and here's some more of what we're reporting for you online the americans calling for their country to back off from the blockade of cuba saying fifty years of embargo is crippling the people not the regime. and moscow's deaf community is dancing toward new beat as a viper for people with hearing problems opens up in the capital the details are at heart dot com. russia's president will attend

a nato summit in lisbon next month now the announcement came as dmitri medvedev met his french and german counterparts in the french resort of the view in talks designed to help bring russia and the e.u. closer medvedev said he hoped his presence at the summit could also help russia they don't find a compromise is to develop dialogue so it's gathered you didn't rule out moscow becoming part of the alliances global anti missile defense systems it's also been confirmed that europe is considering russia's proposals for a new regional security system benchwarmer british m.p. john stephens says the european defense is without russian british nation so things have come of does it always since the cold war and i do think that the more you're appear. later becomes the more stronger european pillow in nato is that more open it is going to be towards russia i think that particularly in germany and also in france but also i think in britain there is

a recognition that defense of europe with russian participation is meaningless will be the challenges that you face from the far east in particular from the rise of asia economically strategically is immense and russia has to be part of that even before we start considering the middle east and the crucial thing i think is that there is a merger an idea of a new way to be nature was defined as well. just russia and the warsaw pact as he does the east i think there is now in a sense because of the rise of asia there is a new list which includes russia. and because the challenges that we face and the shared interests that we have russia europe and the united states when faced with the prospect of the enormous shift of power to wards the far east towards asia towards china towards india. that has really changed the world and it is it is reacting to that but i think it has led to

a much more positive attitude toward particularly the europeans and russia but also i think the americans are not to be excluded from that moscow's a new mayor was sworn in during an inauguration ceremony this week he said gay said beyond it picked by the president from a short list drawn up by the ruling united russia party and as alice hibbert reports beyond is described as a skillful leader and what it takes tough decisions. surrogacy beyond is the new man about town approved by the city's rulemaking is in a near unanimous vote mossies new man city on and used his inauguration to set out his political great map with president medvedev looking on sybian in promise to cut the capital's notorious red tape create the best you can dishes for investors improve the city's congested roads and blue stage occasion and help there was also

a thinly veiled swipe at his predecessor. scuttled tackling corruption and red tape as well as increasing the responsibility of officials will be among the priorities of my policies. sabean's appointment fully vetted sucking of you're english confluence months slicing a lack of confidence this i think of myself. and i suspect it. was primarily due to his. his personal mistakes and his behavior is a personal relationship between him and mr medvedev. the flamboyant and controversial mr luzhkov ruled the city for eighteen years regarded by many as a steady hand that guy did the capital through tomorrow just periods bringing in investment he was also charged with destroying many of the capital's historical without mogs and doing little to tackle traffic allegations of corruption i'm nepotism have a say don't him and his wife the property in a billionaire this is

a be on in house is work out for him problems in moscow or. smaller. cities because. it has a lot of money to be infrastructure projects into or. into new development that's all the problem for me as a surprise is the main spending city of moscow think about it more effective i think he can. the first. so is this relative unknown the right man for the job to be on him was born and raised in western siberia after training as a lawyer he rode through the political ranks to become governor of the oil rich two men region before the then president vladimir putin named him his kremlin chief of staff in two thousand and five he gained

a reputation as an honest competent manager with a scandal free record and last week he was nominated for the job i made good of selected from a shortlist of four proposed by the majority united russia policy with an annual budget of over four billion dollars running my capital will prove mississippian and the biggest challenge to date alice habits. there's plenty to draw people to russia's urals the clear mountain air and breathtaking views but not in the contaminated tell we take you to next r.t. sara furthur reports from a city suffering from its industrial legacy. it's a bleak site that greets when you arrived in the small russian town of carroll bash a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's saying to a large copper and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's

the residents who have really suffered from. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases or just of sr newsies are coming in the level of oncological diseases here is rather high. under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that our company of inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop her but of course lots more still remains to be done . this not who's found it to explain the region's rich copper deposits and has contributed to the economic progress in russia if the last twenty years the price of pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence to care about and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is

blowing a different way usually you can see through an outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's life when it was closed in one thousand nine hundred seven after being branded an environmental disaster zone the town fell into poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. if this industry is really doing druce it's a rule everything the units often feel and all impurities come to tyrone on the other hand things did used to be much worse so there have been some improvements despite millions in investment to modernize the plant when we visited the working conditions still seemed way fully inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with no breathing equipment

whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has stopped and the company say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about our hope for cleaner future. we are done with the plant yet we're going to turn the plant into a modern european type factory so everything you see around the plant will soon become history. for the residents of care that the mistakes of the past the time being remain ever present. artie care about. now turning to some other stories making news around the world today the cholera outbreak in haiti has now reached the capital five cases have been detected in port of class and there are fears that is. seas could spread rapidly more than two hundred people have already been confirmed dead across the country part of that is

down to the ongoing effects of january's massive earthquake which killed some of three hundred thousand people. died when a meggie continues to sweep across china with strong winds and heavy rains about three hundred thousand people have been evacuated to safety and officials have closed schools and transport facilities across the region maggie has already left thirty one people dead and dozens missing in taiwan the storm destroyed houses and uprooted trees while landslides blocking several highways the typhoon is thought to be the worst in the region for fifty years. a suicide car bomber and armed gunmen wearing vests filled with explosives have attacked a u.n. compound in western afghanistan the militants drove up to the entrance and fired rockets while a suicide bomber blew up the gates to allow others to storm the building three afghan guards were injured the taliban says it carried out the attack. the

g twenty finance ministers had agreed on reforms of the international monetary fund during their meeting in south korea it will shift power towards developing countries by read redistributing six percent of i.m.f. votes as countries look towards cooperate on regulating the banking industry they also agreed not to use their currencies as a weapon to give them a competitive edge. now a filmmaker from kazakhstan is striking back at the movie that made his people a laughing stock around the world it's his answer to sacha baron cohen stop ross and comedy brought out and he doesn't spare his horses or donkeys to be more accurate artie's ego or god never looks at how the director is defending his country's honor. i'm not a robot. i like so this is why god say i have a girl that's that this right though not because. they said oh no or at best.

not be. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy and westerners insult her nation demeter seem backward it's all a lie now was shaking back four years after the top grossing years film about the hapless catholic t.v. reporter because it sounds premier comedy director has come up with their post the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakhstan after seeing the original movie. we have such cars and such technologies here and. nothing like the american film. there he meets borat brother only briefly mention in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law and a very a family. together to engage in various high jinks. in our film below get so married to a donkey.