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the week's top stories from our team 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 as senators approved twice to make people's working lives longer while the temperature rises in the u.k. as britain's face up to the deepest scott since world war two. this is the most accurate description of a war that is if ever being released into the stored record iraq seeks retribution for torture and massive civilian deaths after all one whistleblower will wreaking leaks exposes almost half a million secret false detailing of widespread abuse. and that need moscow's new man in charge r.t. profiles the capital's new chief as he takes song one of the toughest jobs in

washington politics. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program for us. and police are trying to identify the remaining two of the three militants who 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. has that story. about women session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussions kitchen deputies faced gunfire and suicide blasts were jealous and so it all started here at these gates our colleague was driving through they followed his car and shot at the security guards. soon after the militants stormed

the church involvement conflicting reports emerged about the building being mined hostages taken and a column in chairman been injured that will go a bulldozer they came to this corner a supply manager was coming from over there and they shot him he felt. walking across the ball in an area called is iceland back in the 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 he was running lost through and one of the militants blew himself up just beside them from bricks component window all these were trapped inside the parliament. our president runs on can do was here from the very first moment giving commands he was afraid there would be victims on our side when most of the special operation was quick unless they know where twelve federal offices killed the militants quote annoyer could go to where 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 visited 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 of can sell from the most wanted least in both russia and the u.s. may be 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 in what he can cause blast income but you know bill korea and many says the nations of police will persist throughout because. says the swede many here once again questions why this troublesome region has turned into a minefield 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 could have disastrous consequences all over the world and what we have sent in grozny it's actually one of the consequences instability in the whole region the works of the terror attack have been quickly removed from the pay rent and walls of the church of parliament 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 in chechnya have been tightened joined international efforts the can but i don't buy them are absolutely true martine progress. the people of france are now acutely aware of the price to be paid to rescue their economy the fight against pension reform roared the country this week but it failed to stop the retirement age rise from being approved on friday the protests turned violent with police using it tear gas to disperse demonstrators

angry that they now face working for an extra two years police broke or oil depot blockades which cost a fuel shortage just made why the government insists the cuts are vital however making people pay more and get less is too much for a large swathe of the public to stomach but as artie's got to do you know a lot of our reports are not all there for us sympathize with the protests. young smart and ambitious you see 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 destruction 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 situation in france there isn't like

a committee it's just to avoid school it's like six years ago i made the same when i was in high school. i went through the strays because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd really give us arbitrary vibes singing dancing and shouting but while they're spending day after day protesting a reform that is aiming to aid their country their very actions are doing serious damage basically this is one of the reform to. restore. the balance in the public pension system removed disincentive for working out 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 there's but with less widespread opposition and people so are these protests a true sign of a democracy or simply a force of habit by the french people used to pouring out in the streets to get their way what is this signed the. government needs to negotiate with treat us more so we have to say to the french people that is they who chose the deputies and members of the senate who make the 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 french senate 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 cash reserve r.t. . the british are in a more sorries state next door they face the harshest cuts since the five hundred twenty s. which will see half a million public jobs acts and benefits slashed what didn't help britain's frustration was the e.u.

simultaneously voting to award itself more cash and asking the u.k. to stump up an extra nine hundred million pounds next year robert oulds from the right leaning bruges group says the timing could not have been worse. as we are making these cuts in britain to pay off the enormous debt that we've been left having to give more money to the u.s. is money that the british taxpayer the british government cannot afford to give it shouldn't be giving this money to the european union contribution to sets of wires the e.u. accounts haven't been signed off in over fifteen years to so much forward waste and mismanagement within the european union we just shouldn't be giving this money at all for the european union has gone too far european union laws take supremacies over british law over the laws of every member state within the european union and we've worked out that it causes a lot of damage economically we overburdened with regulation as well as handing too much money to brussels really british law in britain should be solving our own laws

their own politicians but westminster should have precedence over those in brussels that's what we want to see we want to see a europe of nation states that can work and cooperate together but not be governed by the institutions of the european union based in brussels which no one has ever elected force legislation on the citizens of the u. . and a few minutes report from one of the world's fastest developing countries but which is also among the worst for sex trafficking in india where hundreds of thousands of desperately poor girls are given hopes of a better life but end up as sex slaves and. the makers of the movie meet the world. may go to the world with the cows next on comedy that's biting back got bought out by the central asian nations having billed last laugh that's coming up soon. germany's leader says the country is

utterly failed to build a multicultural society chancellor angela merkel said migrants needed to make more of an effort to integrate including learning german her comments follow a number of recent anti immigration statements from mainstream politicians in the country and there's a growing backlash against immigrants with a recent survey suggesting that a third of germans believe foreigners are taking over but many experts believe it's an economic rather than a cultural gap that's dividing people. integration has to come from both sides there has to be a degree of reception from the point of view of the host community to show a welcoming welcoming attitude towards people that new immigrants to our country need to learn the language i mean most of the people i meet in britain but desperately keen to learn english because they know that's the only way they can really carry on in this country and i'm sure the same is true in germany so there's

usually a willingness by most migrants but you know a lot of things that divide communities are not actually along ethnic races store linguistic lines are the usual traditional lines like poverty and access to the labor market things like that i mean we have in the u.k. a pakistani population that has not integrated nearly as well for example the indian population to a lot of that is because these people tend to be at the lower end of the social spectrum they're very often without work they're in poor housing so the relief of poverty is a major contribution trying to achieve social cohesion anybody who wants to see social cohesion and i hope that the majority of world minded people will resist any rise of nationalism heavens above if we haven't learned the lessons of extreme nationalism from the last century then we really are doomed to relive the lessons

of history again. 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. after did nothing despite the evidence 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 weaken 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 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 is being killed three violence in one form or another but is it

every day squalor of war of course for the people in baghdad and other 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 and for a full interview with the founder of wiki whistleblower b.q. leaks log onto our web site r t v 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 no 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 weekly leaks revelations that all 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 a blockade of cuba fifty years of a block of a script that people thought the regime. at moscow's deaf community is dancing to a new beat as a night club for people with hearing problems opens up in the capital the details are at our dot com. now moscow's new mayor was sworn in during an inauguration ceremony this week he said gay said be on it picked by the president from a short list drawn up by the ruling united russia party as artie's alice hebert reports so beyond his described as a skillful leader and one who takes tough decisions. surrogacy beyond and is the new man about town approved by the city's lawmakers in a near unanimous vote mossies new massa be on and use his inauguration to set out his political roadmap 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 health there was also a thinly veiled swipe at his preacher sesa what about. 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 conflicts month slicing a lack of confidence the second of myself. and i suspect it. was pride due to his. his personal mistakes and his behavior is a personal relationship between him and mr medvedev. the flamboyance and controversial mr liskov ruled the city for eighteen years regarded by many as a steady hand that guy did the capital through to much as periods bringing in investment he was also challenge with destroying many of the capital's historical

without mogs and doing little to tackle traffic allegations of corruption and nepotism have a loosely dogged him and his wife the property in a billionaire mississippi on in has his work cut out for him problems in moscow seeing smaller. cities because moscow is by far the it's a city and it has a lot of money to be poured it infrastructure projects into. gratian up perfectly into new development and so on the problem for mrs about is the main spending city of moscow city project more effective i think he can do a lot. things to improve for people and the gains popularity shouts in the first year in office so who is this relative unknown the right man for the job to be done was born and raised in western siberia after training as a lawyer he raged through the political ranks to become governor of the oil rich

two men region before the then president vladimir putin named him is kremlin chief of staff in two thousand and five he gained a reputation as an honest competent manager with a scandal free with schools and last week he was nominated for the job by made good of selected from a short leash to full proposed by the majority united russia policy with an annual budget of over few she billion dollars running the capital will prove mississippian and the biggest challenge to date muscovites remain skeptical that says he continues to choke on the never ending stream of traffic and as they await evidence or maybe of what it calls itself the dict could be one of the coldest winters on record there were ways to get to see it on the paper and so it really is this is the be all those promises it seems to translate into action now as if it's also in moscow. russia's president will attend nato summit in lisbon next month now the

announcement came as dimitri medvedev the met his french and german counterparts in a french resort of the view in talks designed to help bring russia and the e.u. closer but vet of said he hoped his presence at the summit could also help or whatever and nato find compromises to develop dialogue and he didn't rule out moscow becoming part of the alliances global anti missile defense system it's also been confirmed that europe is considering russia's proposals for a new regional security system from a good lunch or committed to do now a little later one of russia's key research years in relations with north america tells us why transatlantic teamwork is the way ahead. global security but there is no part for nato. 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 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 to military terms it doesn't need nato and its guarantees it will be very well to do without them 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 that's not very reasonable limits time or the work of a totally different system should be created there we have our views which our president has set forth however the west has so far been cautious. more of victoria cremin yokes inside in just over an hour here on r.t. . the levels of sex trafficking in india rank among the world's worst as thousands of poverty stricken girls are lured into cities with promises of a better life leaders call it the country's number one social problem but as karen

singh reports in effective policing leaves little hope for india's most vulnerable young girls. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age to leave her village for the bright lights of mumbai only to find she was heading for life in a bottle she said he wants to reach mari why did you go with them because i didn't want to you force me to india is the epicenter of this extra freaking industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is no enforcement of laws against traffic pins and joins it support more than a quarter of a million been trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and come from the rural areas of neighboring heading for. either their parents nor they have any idea what their real world is like the parents may know a little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them

bombay would represent a life state rather than a broad. it's easy to cross the border between india and if there are well established routes for trafficking in the northern state of bihar rescue groups keep an eye on the trains passing through they have identified who they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but there but thank you when we ask youngsters where they are going they say they're going to study it for girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related to the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work wise i'm not saying we have no work in our village i have two young children and when i was promised a job in mumbai i decided to take up the offer but for girls are misled by people offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to

women's shelters there are also girls who are convinced they can be part of a dance group and are conned into coming to india. it's easy to convince young goes in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big you know to move but once you're unsure two brothers they're condemned to a litle bondage all company knows want to see villagers admit god given more warnings of the dangerous and the police more active in camping down on traffic has gotten same r.t. well but. over the past few years millions of americans went from feeling safe and secure to having next to nothing and while the economic crisis is an excuse that's freely waved around later we hear why some see it as white collar theft millions of americans have lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about this it's about me to.

see. media. but now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light story. danny schechter gets to the heart of why americans are going without in around ten minutes time here on our t.v. . now turning to some of the stories making news around the world today the cholera outbreak in haiti has now reached the capital five cases have been detected in port au prince and there are fears the disease 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 or january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. typhoon meggie continues to sweep across china with strong winds and heavy rains about three hundred thousand people had been evacuated to safety but officials have closed schools and transport facilities across the region has already left thirty one people dead and dozens missing in taiwan the storm destroyed houses and uprooted trees while landslides largest several highways the typhoon is thought to be the worst in the region for fifty years. 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 sasha baron cohen stop cross in comedy bored out and he doesn't spare his horses or donkeys to be more accurate artie's eager or grodner of looks at how the directors defending his country's

honor. i'm not a lover. i like so this is how my dad say i haven't heard that this right though not because. they said oh no or at best. not be. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation demeter seem backward it's our lives and i was shaking back for years after the top grossing years film about the hapless kazik t.v. reporter because it sounds premier comedy director has come up with their past the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakstan after seeing the original movie. you have with us we have such cars and such technologies here in austin and nothing like the american film there he meets borat brother only briefly mention in such a baron cohen's film.