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the week's top stories from our t. police to their efforts in russia's troubled north caucasus following a terror attack on the chechen parliament of which left three people dead. france elrod says people refused to accept longer working lives while tempers flare across the channel where britain's space the worst cards for almost one hundred years. accurate description of a war that is being. stored recalled iraq says it won't tolerate the torture of its citizens after 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 koppel's congested roads and officials corruption.

you're watching our t.v. it's one pm here in moscow welcome to the program now russian police are trying to identify the remaining two of the three militants who stormed parliament of 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 are. has the story. about women session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussions kitchen deputies face gunfire and suicide blasts naturalis 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. soon after the militants stormed

the church and palm and conflicting reports emerged about the building being mined postage is taken and a column in chairman been injured that will go. they came to this corner a supply manager was coming from over that and they shot him he felt. 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 lost through and one of the militants blew himself up just beside them from bricks component window others 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 where most of the special operation was quick in less than in only twelve federal officers 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 this attack could have been orchestrated by the new leader of chechen militants who are saying to prove to all qaeda what he's capable of acting in isolation from his former boss or whom are of can sell from the most wanted list 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 got across the blast income but you know bill korea and many says the nations of police will persist throughout because. this week many here once again questions why this troublesome region has turned into minefield severus to good news 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 you secured it's actually one of the consequences of stability in the whole region the ranks of the terror attack have been quickly removed from the pavement 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 measures in chechnya have been tightened and turned international efforts to combat terror i don't buy them on a family for trayvon martin from grass. the people of france are now acutely aware of the price to be paid to rescue their economy now the fight against pension reform roar the contrie this week but it failed to stop the retirement age rise from being approved on friday the protests turned violent with police using tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were angry that they now face working for an extra two years police broke or oil depot blockades which cost of fuel shortages

nationwide the government insists the cuts are vital however making people pay more and get less is too much for a large wave of the public to stomach but as artie's got it he knows a lot of our reports not all in france sympathize with the protests. 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 you see no the numbers don't always reflect reality t.j. sion in france there is a thought 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 to this race because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd surely give officer or tory 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 basically this is one of the reform that. 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. 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 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 a sign. that government needs to negotiate with treat unions 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 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 kashrut as r r t. well the british are in a more sorries state next door they face the harshest cuts since the one nine hundred twenty s. which will see half a million public jobs and benefits slashed while didn't help britain's frustrated 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 contributions a set of wires the e.u. accounts haven't been signed off in over fifteen years because so much for waste and mismanagement within the european union we just shouldn't be giving this money at all with the european union has gone too far european union laws take suprema see 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 our 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 can force legislation on the citizens of the e.u. . well in a few minutes report from one of the world's fastest developing countries but which is also among the worst for sex trafficking well 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 move the world. world. comedy that's biting back up bought up why the central asian nation is having the last laugh that's coming up soon. germany's leader says the country's 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 for 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 human rights activists acknowledge the problem but believe a change of policy within europe is needed to resolve it. we have specially east germany a lot of neo nazi groups this is these are hard core new nazis who killed a lot of people and we have also a big the rise of anti immigrant feelings in the population of west germany so now with this discussion we have in this moment things are rising and i fear that there will be more victims of rape violence immigration is the future you

cannot work and live in a globalized world in the middle of the world in europe without immigration and of moving population so you have to really make a good policy of immigration all over europe and we see this there the history of europe with this long history of nationalism and small countries is now. is now getting into a crisis saw meet will need a long time to to make it better you have to really change the policy of of immigration inside europe this is very important you have to make adapt the educational system and adapt all the. all the self understanding of the states they are not anymore only white or only swedish or only portuguese or only german they are multicultural places in the world. iraq is threatening legal

action against those accused of torturing detainees following the release of hundreds of thousands of confidential military documents through reeky leaks now the war logs reveal iraqi troops conducted savage abuse on detainees and that the u.s. often did nothing and despite the evidence it also shows washington failed to investigate a series of killings of suspects civilians by its forces the u.s. criticized the release saying it could endanger the lives of security personnel on the ground but we can reach founder julian assange told r.t. the 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 didn't have

a body found that is being killed through violence in one form or another but is it everyday 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 our full interview with the founder of whistleblower wiki leaks log onto our web site r t dot com and in the meantime i'm brian becker the director of the anti war as are coalition says the united states is directly responsible for atrocities committed in the iraq war. the police force is 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 the bark of its crippling the people division. add of moscow's deaf community is dancing to a new beat as and i quote for people with hearing problems opens up in the capital the details are at r.t.e. dot com. now moscow's new mayor was sworn in during an inauguration ceremony this week he said again bionic picked by the president from a shortlist drawn up by the ruling united russia party as alice hebert reports on it's 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 new make use in a near unanimous vote mossies new massa be on and use his inauguration to set out his political road map with president medvedev looking on sybian in promise to cut

the capital's notorious red tape create better conditions 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 follies made various sucking of you're english conflicts month slicing a lack of confidence the second officer of course an. expected that 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 liskov 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

a challenge with destroying many of the capital's historical landmarks and doing little to tackle traffic allegations of corruption and nepotism have a say dogged him and his wife the property in a billionaire this is a be on in the house is work out for him problems in moscow seeing smaller. cities because moscow is by far the richest city and it has a lot of money into big infrastructure projects into or. into new development and so on the problem for me as a civilian is the main findings of moscow think about it more effective i think he can do a lot. things. are for. the first year in office so who 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 through the political ranks to become governor of the oil rich two men

region before the then president vladimir putin named him his crimean 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 short list of full proposed by the majority united russia policy with an annual budget of over billion dollars running the capital will prove mississippian and biggest challenge to date alice habits. russia's president who will attend nato summit in lisbon next month how the announcement came as the met his french and german counterparts and the french resort of deauville in talks designed to help bring russia and the e.u. closer but there have said he hoped his presence at the summit could also help russia and nato find compromises to develop a 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 i'm sure can. later one of russia's ski researchers in relations with north america tells us why transatlantic teamwork is the way ahead for global security but there's 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 while nato is dividing europe and russia for various reasons it's unlikely to join nato it's too big and it's quite self-sufficient in military terms it doesn't need nato and its guarantees it will be very well to do without 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 in its time 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 criminal acts in sight in just over an hour here on r.t. but first 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 ineffective 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 brothel he said he wants to reach my why did you go with them.

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 was an event and joins its court 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 mumbai. neither their parents nor they had 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 stage rather than abroad. 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 they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but said nothing about

thinking 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. the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work live on nothing 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 gays in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big you know to move but once you're done shoulder brothers they're condemned to do michael grandage not going to be no one to see villagers admit god given the warnings of the dangers and

the police more active in clamping down on traffic it's gotten c r d. and i'll turning to some of the stories making news around the world today the or i'll break eighty has now reached the capital five cases have been detected in court across 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 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 maggie has already left thirty one people dead and dozens missing in taiwan the storm destroyed houses and uprooted trees while landslides lost several highways and 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 walk it's well 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 have agreed on reforms of the international monetary fund during their meeting in south korea it will shift power towards developing countries by redistributing six percent of i.m.f. votes as countries look towards cooperated on regulating the banking industry they also agreed not to use their current. as a weapon to give them a competitive edge. now a filmmaker from kazakhstan a striking back at the movie that made his people a laughing stock around the world it's his answer to sacha baron cohen stop

a comedy bot and he doesn't spare his horses or donkeys to be more accurate artie's igor all good i would never accept how the director is defending his country's honor i'm not a robot. i like this oh my god they have a guy like that this right down of kosek this circle in that town or at best. not be. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insulter nation demeter seem backward it's all lives now was shaking back for 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 kazakstan after seeing the original movie. we have such cars and such technologies here in austin nothing

like the american film. there he meets borat brother only briefly mention in such a baron cohen's film my brother the law have a very a funny. together that to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey. the payoff is that borat and below are not cows x. but actually jews from romania. i do magers of the movie made the whole world laugh at us will make the whole world laugh for down. there being several previous responses to burra not least this video by rap collective to threaten to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for an international release no no and after marrying a donkey well it becomes pregnant with this child.