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we can review here on the hidden civilian deaths and torture emerging the biggest leak in u.s. military history does not line expose i suggest washington turned a blind eye to violence in iraq we report. terrorist strikes in the north caucasus is militants stormed the chechen parliament prompting calls for tighter security measures and. turbulent times lie ahead for europe because the french promised a new protests by using the retirement age and british union small of massive demonstrations to counter cuts in social benefits and john. adams a fresh start for moscow's the capital gets a new boss we take a closer look at the matter and his promises to fight corruption and congestion.

this is r t from moscow it's ten pm here now sunday night welcome you've just joined us on kevin oh in with the top story from the week of the main one the online whistleblower wiki leaks gave its voice to fifteen thousand iraqi war dead previously unaccounted for the website published over a third of a million secret u.s. documents on iraq the files also reveal details of atrocities committed by iraqis against their own people while u.s. forces turned a blind dog it's alleged that washington's failed to investigate cases of civilian torture and killing baghdad has since vowed to bring the supposed raqi offenders to justice but the u.s. has slammed the release saying it could in danger of lives a national security wiki leaks chief julian assange has told us at r.t. that river. dealing the truth is vital though to prevent such crimes from happening again. this is the most accurate description

of a war that is ever being released into the historic record receive it is nearly no street corner in baghdad that didn't have a body found that is being killed through violence of one form or another for this every day squalor of war of course for the people in baghdad and other cities in iraq was their everyday life for years and years and we need to understand what the reality of war is if we're going to choose to engage in it and i mean it's clear that the reasons for getting into this war the weapons of mass destruction and so on this is a clear lie there's no debate about this anymore the second most stated reason that we would we be in the west. would clean up the government system of

a rock introduce rule of law and prevent torture has completely failed. during that period of time lawlessness absence or rule of law. killing were much higher than they were under saddam hussein and now we are left with an iraqi government that commits torture. to be the joy his son gave us if you'd like to see the whole adventure can online on our web site r.t. dot com streaming whenever you want to see more opinion on the latest wiki leaks as well i spoke to brian becker he's the director of the antiwar answer coalition he told me he believes that u.s. officials should be held to account for atrocities committed during the war in iraq . 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 in more of the main stories from the week from us terrorists

attacked the parliament of russia's republic of chechnya this weekend and three and injuring at least seventeen terrorists tried to storm the building in the capital grozny but special forces reacted quickly one attacker was killed in a shootout two of those boot themselves up one of the militants was a twenty two year old local police and i working to establish the identities of the others examine the reports. apollo one session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussion of church and deputies faced gunfire and suicide blasts naturalis and silver but said it all started here these gates colleague was driving through they followed his car and shot at the security guards very. soon after the militants stormed the church and palm and conflicting reports emerged about the building being mined hostages taken and the following chairman been injured there that will go a bulldozer they came to this corner a supply manager was coming from over there and they show he felt as. well walking

across the parliament area colleagues as long back and as more recount every detail of the day. the probe resource running into the building and opened fire on the grass crashed down on the person who was running last through are going to one of the militants blew himself up just beside as long backswing do all those who are trapped inside the parliament. our president ramzan can do was here from the very first moment giving commands he was afraid there would be victims on our side we're moving through the special operation was quick in less than an hour while federal officers killed the militants. noire could talk to. 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 for the contras and mr tuesday's attack left seventeen people in hospitals and three dead reportedly they

said there could have been orchestrated by the new leader of church and militants who seemed to prove to all qaeda what he's capable of acting in isolation from his former boss doc omar of himself on 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 and attack in a central market and logic of cars blast uncovered korea and many assessing nations of police offices throughout the caucasus this week many have once again questioned why this troublesome region has turned into a mine and terrorist organizations in afghanistan and pakistan. and other republics as the gateway into the bigger caucasus and fold expansion into europe so in this context the ongoing war in afghanistan could have disastrous consequences all over the world and what we see in grozny it's actually one of the consequences of instability in the whole region the works 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 rises in chechnya have been tightened turned international efforts to combat terror i don't buy the month but some literature art scene from grass. still ahead making a sacrifice in the interests of income. one of the most polluted towns on the planet are ignoring their health to provide for their families that's to come. see tonight. france is witnessing its worst civil brilliance in fifth. years union leaders are calling for more general strikes over the coming weeks in response to government reforms so far twelve days of protests of failed to stop a two year rise in the retirement age from going ahead demonstrators insists they will step up now that's already seen clashes with police arrests and looting meantime authorities are trying to restore petrol supplies following fuel blockades

across the country the government says the reform is needed to rescue the pension system from collapse though many of you very not prepared to work for longer others are to use the catalinas out of reports not everyone in france sympathizes with the protests. 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 so i'm using the. 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. usually in france there is 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 to this race because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd certainly give off a celebratory vibe singing dancing and shouting but while they're spending day after day protesting a reform that is aim to aid their country they're very actions are doing serious damage it's basically this is one of the reforms that. restore. the balance in the public pension system that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as the top of the number. is 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 a force of habit. we have to say to the french people that is the who chose the deputies and members of the senate to make the laws laws are not made in the streets laws are drafted and approved by revolutionaries. 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.e. paris. but across the channel u.k. is also bracing itself for a wave of unrest as the country faces its harshest economic cut since the one nine hundred twenty s. off a million public jobs will be to reduce the massive budget deficit the cuts come as the european union demands to be increase in spending which will cost britain an extra nine hundred million pounds next year olds from the right leaning bruised group says the timing couldn't 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 e.u. is this money that the british taxpayer the british government cannot afford to give it shouldn't be giving this money to the european union contributions or sets of wires the e.u. accounts haven't been signed off in over fifteen years is this so much for waste and mismanagement within the european union we just shouldn't be giving this money at all or the european union has gone too far in 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 are overburdened with regulation as well as handing too much money to brussels really british law in britain should be solved in 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. and they are for the progress they're promised the world but they often end up in brussels find out what these girls do in their pursuit of a better future of their stories coming up in just a few minutes tonight to. the seat of moscow merz been taken up by the first known muscovites in soviet times who comes from the oil rich region in

siberia has vowed to tackle the capital's massive traffic jams and huge corruption problems it was inaugurated on thursday because more of the band and his plans. surrogacy beyond and is the new man about town approved by the city's rulemaking is in a near unanimous vote mossies new mayor sabean and used his inauguration to set out his political roadmap there was also a thinly veiled swipe at this pre-disaster scuttled tackling corruption and red tape as well as increasing the responsibility of officials will be the priorities of my policies. sabean's appointment follies made various sucking of you're english conflicts months slicing a lack of confidence. and expected. was. his. first time mistakes in 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 to much as 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 but the problem for mrs about is the main findings of moscow city project more effective i think he can do. things. for people and gains popularity in the first year in office so who is this relative unknown the right man for the job after training as a lawyer he raged through the political ranks to become governor of the oil which

two men we gen before 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 with an annual budget of over five. billion dollars running the capitol will prove mississippian and the biggest challenge to date and most of all my answer remains skeptical very soon they'll be able to see how mississippian in case you thought it was the optics it could be one of the coldest winters on record here in the russian capital so time will tell it of the pomp and ceremony is that you by his promise of the things we do translate into action alice said but i'll see more. next tonight a town in russia urals regions become famous for all the wrong reasons its level of pollution residents say they're suffering from serious health problems after being exposed to toxic fumes for decades but the problem is the source of the pollution is their livelihood steps have been taken to try to clean up although sara first

reports it might be too little too late. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you're right in the small russian town of caravan a legacy of environmental destruction once and the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it seemed to a large couple and a century of toxic fumes and chemical waste left the landscape devastated but it's the residents who have really suffered from the core of the water one of cardiovascular diseases respiratory diseases just of system diseases are common 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 to progress 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 smart has found it takes put 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 a caravan when you're in the town the air quality is extremely poor. today the wind is blowing in 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 it fell into the poverty so it was a relief to the people here when it reopened even though residents near the more of the same pollution an unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to

provide for their families. this industry is really dangerous 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 neighboring equipment whatsoever but there have been some successes here the waste used to be dumped into the water has start and the companies say that they're winning the battle to cut emissions and with further investment plans can care about our hope for cleaner future. we aren't 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 that care about the mistakes of the past the

time being the main ever present. care about. so well there is a brief something out of this for people who've been killed by a car bomb in northern iraq the blast went off by a medical compound in the city of mosul police are investigating whether a suicide bomber was involved security forces say another attack is likely and they've removed civilian vehicles from the area. cholera outbreak it's reached the capital with at least five cases confirmed patients to travel to port au prince from an infected region doctors awarding the disease is likely to continue spreading rapidly so far more than two hundred people have died across the country with over two and a half thousand others infected the outbreak is the worst medical emergency to strike the caribbean nation since january a massive earthquake. hundreds of supporters of the leader of a nationalist party in cocoa start demonstrating in the capital bishkek it comes

the day after come tuesday he would play to have been booted in a politically motivated attack the protesters are demanding the resignation of a security chief now who blames for the attack the country saw a violent overthrow the government included ethnic violence in june. leading the police climb a scale about everest nineteen times is missing tonight after an avalanche in the himalayas forty three year old. was part of a british expedition trying to climb a smaller mountain peak another ship is missing too but the rest of the team are said to be safe helicopters being flown to the region to start a search for the mountaineers. coming up on r t striking back at burra. this is them against a man that although it's not a real cause a film director is out to show the world that proved his country and. while

exactly as we report just ahead tonight. promises of a better life and a lucrative job alluring thousands of indian women into prostitution sex traffickers take advantage of girls in port villages often picking underage victims but next tonight artie's karen seeing reports that campaigners are pushing to make families more aware of the danger. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age to lean over 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 because i didn't want to he forced 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 builds 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. neither their parents nor they have any idea why it is like the parents mean one little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them bombay would represent a life state rather than abroad true 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 ordered them from the train but still there but 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 brother 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 the. girls are misled by people offering them jobs in big cities we apprehend them and then hand them over to women's shelters they're 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 girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big. but once you're brothers they're condemned to a litle bondage now campaigners want to see villagers and given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping down on traffickers god and c r t. a story on our home page r.t. dot com we want to comment if it's touch you in any way it was going to give you the discussion but also there were tell you about the history books to a test launch of catastrophic proportions find out what went wrong at the baikonur cosmodrome exactly fifty years ago in our daily review interesting events from past

years and bang up to date as one of our correspondents brings us an inside look at an arctic expedition other travels on board a nuclear powered icebreaker with the polar explorer or check out the latest from there you can blogs updated right now tonight. dot com. kazakhstan was furious when sasha baron cohen's comedy bore out became a worldwide hit in two thousand and six but now a filmmaker is striking back at the movie that made his people the laughing stock around the world but he's a go grab move picks up the story. i'm not. sure i like this oh my god that this right down of kosik they said oh no.

not the. 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. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation demeter seem backward it's all a lie and i was shaking back the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakhstan after seeing the original movie there he meets borat brother only briefly mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law and a very a family. together there to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey. the payoff is that borat and below.

but actually jews from romania. of the movie made the whole world laugh at us. for down. there being several previous responses to burra not least this video by a rap collector to threaten to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for an international release. and after marrying a donkey becomes pregnant with this child. either of nerve. like i said joyce is coming up to. moscow time this sunday night thanks for being with us here and our team used channel on kevin on winning tonight ahead for you we have the thoughts of a leading academic on russian u.s. relations who predicts nato is collapsing shortly and i'll update our top stories in a few moments before.