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machine on the dot com. the week's top stories from our t.v. police to their efforts in russia's troubled north caucasus following a terror attack on the chechen parliament which left three people dead. france iraq says people refused to accept a longer working lives while tempers flare across the channel for britain's face the worst cuts for almost one hundred years. this is the most accurate description of a war it is being released the to be restored record iraq says it won't tolerate the torture of its citizens for online whistleblower wiki leaks publishes a mass of classified files detailing murder and abuse. and a new man at the helm in moscow we profile the politician who has the tougher job

of tackling the capital's congested roads and officials corruption. you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program and now russian police are trying to identify the remaining two of the three. 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 artie's x. on a leadership has the story. about women session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of by two discussions kitchen deputies faced gunfire and so we said let's watch a listen so that would say that it all started here at 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 close to just a cave and a column in chairman been injured that will go. they came to this corner as a supply manager was coming from over there and they shot him he felt. while walking across the fallen to area colleagues 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 who was running last through are going one of the militants blew himself up just beside them from bricks can and when do all those who are trapped inside the parliament. our president runs on can do was hear from the very first moment giving commands he was afraid there would be victims on our side or most of the special operation was quick unless they know what twelve federal officers killed the militants quote annoyer could go to. the

two militants who were 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 of can sell from the most wanted least in both russia and the us 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 income but you know bill korea and many says the nations of police offices throughout because. says 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 stability of the whole region the works of the terror attack have been quickly removed from the pavement and walls of the church of palm and 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 lies in chechnya have been tightened and joined international efforts to combat terror i don't buy that at some literature martine 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 are prepared to pay for others' mistakes but as artie's got that he has a lot of our reports not everyone in france sympathizes with the protesters. the 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 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 lucy

know the numbers don't always reflect reality t.v. you should in france there is 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 to the strays because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd surely give off a celebratory vibe singing dancing and shouting but while they're spending day after day protesting a reform that is aimed to aid their country they're very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reform that. restore. the balance in the upper big branch and system removed disincentive for working at older 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. top of the problems 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 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. this is a sign that government needs to negotiate with treat unions 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 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. 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 in 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 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. twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs offering opportunities. internet talk show host laurie her finish 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 both in 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 said in the. what would you do about that would you just take it. you know there are extremes there like i mean there are limits to the i mean there probably situations where you can. justify. going to 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 the cause 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 some of the protesting if they're doing it in a way that hurts other exactly it just makes a man 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 to have different means getting on the 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 side that didn't tolerate people being able to. voice their opinions would be well intolerable.

and still ahead in today's program clearing out the muck from the mountains it's one of the world's most polluted places but again to care about the russian urals clean itself up and. the makers of the movie made the world laugh at us we may go out of the world for that because exxon comedy that's biting back got bought out why the central asian nation is having the last laugh that's coming up soon. now iraq is threatening legal action against those accused of torturing detainees following the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential military documents through regularly now the war logs reveal iraqi troops conducted savage abuse on detainees and that the u.s. often did nothing despite the evidence it also shows a 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 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 through violence of one form or another that is everyday 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 if we're going to choose to

engage in it. and for our full interview with the founder of whistleblower bitter leaks log onto our website r.t.e. dot com and in the meantime brian becker the director of the anti war 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.e. dot com and here is 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 a fifty years of embargo is crippling the people not the regime. of moscow's deaf community is dancing to a new beat as a nightclub for people with hearing problems opens up in the capital the details are at r.t. dot com. russia's president will attend

a nato summit in lisbon next month the announcement came as dmitry medvedev met his french and german counterparts in the french resort of vo in talks designed to help bring a russia and the e.u. closer medvedev said he hoped his presence at the summit could also help russia 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 former british m.p. john stevens says european defense is meaningless without russian participation. things of common descent always since the cold war and i do think that the more your appear. later becomes the more stronger european pillow in nato is the more open it is going to be toward 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 with the 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 nato was defined. the list and russia of the warsaw pact was seen as the east i think there is now in a sense because of the rise of asia there is a new way to 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. all moscow's new mayor was sworn in during inauguration ceremony this week he said go sabean it picked by the president from a short list drawn up by the ruling united russia party as well as here it reports of the audience described as a skillful leader and one who takes tough decisions. siggy sybian and is the new man about town approved by the city's rulemaking is in a near unanimous vote mossies new massa be on and use 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 this preacher says that scuttled to tackling corruption and red tape as well as increasing the responsibility of officials will be among the priorities of my policies. sabean's appointment full of sucking of you're english conflicts month slicing a lack of confidence the second of missile of course an expected was primarily due to his softballs and his personal mistakes in 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 a challenge with destroying many of the capital's historical without mogs and doing little to tackle traffic allegations of corruption and nepotism have a say don't him and his wife the property in a billionaire this is

a be on in has his work cut out for him problems in moscow seeing smaller as a problem in the cities because moscow is by far the richest city and it has a lot of money to be infrastructure projects in two or. three into new or developments on the problem from as a civilian is the main spending city of moscow city budget more effective i think he can do a lot. things. for people and. the first year in office so is this relative unknown the right man for the job and was born and raised in western siberia after training as a lawyer he raged through the political ranks to become governor of the oil which 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 by made good of selected from a shortlist of full proposed by the majority united russia policy with an annual budget of over four billion dollars running the capital will prove mississippian and the biggest challenge to date i must give i remain skeptical as this is it continues to choke on i never i didn't seem to think and as they await evidence y.b. of what the causes are predicted could be one of the coldest winters on record there ways you get to see it on the paper and so it really is that this is the be all those promises that say we need to translate into action but it's also lost that. well there is plenty to draw people to russia's urals the clear mountain air and breathtaking views but not of the contaminated tell we take you to next arching surfer reports from a city suffering with its industrial legacy. it's

a bleak sight that greets he when you're right 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 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 the. cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases and i just have sister newsies are coming and the level of oncological diseases here is rather i. under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has the gun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that a company of an inherited were doing a lot to preserve and develop care about but of course lots more still remains to be done the smelters founded to exploit the region's rich copper deposits and has

contributed to the economic progress in russia over the last twenty years the price to pay for the economic boom has been enormous with the social and environmental scars. tall hills of black industrial waste surround the residence of care about and when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. to do the wind is blowing and different usually you can see your own outstretched arm because of gas concentration people are being literally poisoned but the plant is the town's lifeblood 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 knew of the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to provide for their families. well 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 wafl inadequate at times we found it really hard to brave many of the staff appeared to be working with neighboring 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 a 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 their affair r.t.

care about. and now turning to some of the stories making news around the world today the cholera outbreak in eighty years now reached the capitol five cases have been detected in port au prince and there are fears that the 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 three hundred thousand people. typhoon 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 has already left thirty one people dead and dozens missing in taiwan the storm destroyed houses and uprooted trees while landslides block to several highways the typhoon is thought to be the worst in the region in 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. now a filmmaker from kazakhstan is striking back at the movie that made his people a laughing stock around the world it's is answer to sasha baron cohen stop grass in comedy of borat 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 author. i'm not a robot. i like so this is a my god say i haven't heard that that this right though not because. they said that the owner at best. did not be. hiding

behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation their meter seem backward it's all lives and i wish i came back four years after the top grossing years film about the hapless cats like 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 kazakhstan after seeing the original movie last year with the us we have such cars and such technologies here in austin nothing like the american film there he meets borat brother only briefly mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law and a very a funny. together to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey.