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we can review here on r t hidden civilian deaths and torture emerge in the biggest leak in u.s. military history as an online expose they suggest of washington turned a blind eye to violence in iraq. terror strikes the north caucasus is militants stormed the chechen parliament prompting calls for tighter security measures. in times lie ahead for europe as the french promised new protests over a rise in the retirement age and british unions warn of massive demonstrations to counter cuts in social benefits and jobs. and it's a fresh start for moscow as 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 just after eleven pm here now this sunday night if you're just joining us most welcome i'm kevin are in with the top story from the week and the online whistleblower wiki leaks gave its voice to fifteen thousand iraqi war dead previously i counted 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 eye it's alleged that washington's failed to investigate numerous cases of civilian torture and killing but got a sense vowed to bring the supposed iraqi offenders to justice but the u.s. has slammed the release saying it could endanger lives in national security wiki leaks chief julian assange told us that our see that revealing the truth is vital though to prevent such crimes from happening again. 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 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 with 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 being 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 just to show that then for the full interview the journalist sounds gave us if you'd like to see the whole thing you can on our website r.t. dot com and streaming whenever you want to click on it. more opinion on the latest we spoke to brian becker he's the director of the antiwar elation he told me believes 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 the more top news story in the week terrorists attack the parliament of russians republic of chechnya killing three and injuring at least

seventeen gunman tried to storm the building in the capital grozny but special forces reacted quickly one attacker was killed in the shootout two others blew themselves up one of the militants was a twenty two year old local and the police are now working to try to establish the identity of the two others are these exotic small. the following session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussions chechen deputies faced gunfire and suicide blasts naturalists and some of them would say that 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 column 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 as a supply manager was coming from over there and they shot him he found. walking across the parliament area codes as long as maher recalled every detail of the day

. the probe resource running into the building and opened fire the gas crashed down on the person who was running last through i'm going one of the militants blew himself up just this side as long backswing all those 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 or moving through the special operation was quick in less than an hour while federal officers killed the militants. quote noir could go to where the two militants who are in this building blew themselves up here one inside 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 chechen militants hussein to prove to

all qaeda what he's capable off acting in isolation from his former boss doc omar of himself on 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 and logic of course blasts uncovered in about 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 they see churchyard 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 is actually one of the consequences of 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 little broke into the government building in the heart of grozny well this all is over forgotten and the security lies in chechnya have been tightened turned international efforts to cranbrook tara i don't buy them are not some literature on our team from drugs. coming over the program their promise the world but often we end up in brothels find out why some indian they do in their pursuit of a better future we've got their stories coming up in a few minutes here on r t tonight. first france and britain are in the throes of public unrest following the amounts from severe reforms to resuscitate the reigning . trade unions in the u.k. say they're preparing for the biggest of a demonstration as the country faces the harshest spending cuts since the second world war across the channel france is in the midst of its worst civil disobedience in fifteen years and union leaders are calling for more general strikes over the coming weeks so far twelve days of protests have failed to stop a two year rise in the retirement age from going ahead the government says the reform is needed to rescue the projection system from collapse many argue they're

not prepared to work for longer and as artie's country over reports now 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 and in france there is a committee is just to avoid school. 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 strictly 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 basically this is one of the reform to. restore. public pension system that will raise the potential of the economy as well. as. the numbers really speak for the. selves 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 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 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 are r.t.e. paris. which promotes the role of youth in european societies of students and

joining. to fear for their future. the political context is very is 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 nicolas sarkozy see an attitude in general i don't think the young people that are in high school are worrying about their pensions really they are worried about their future and because you know that in france we have a very high rate of unemployment for young people it's twenty three percent the age of twenty five so it's very important and we have a general problem of sharing the jobs are freeing opportunities big story from russia in the wake of moscow where it's been taken up by the first nor muscovites in soviet times so good to be on

a new comes from an oil rich region in siberia has vowed to tackle the capital's massive traffic jams and huge corruption problems he was inaugurated on thursday and his allies had it as more of a man and his plans. surrogacy dionne and is the new man about town approved by the city's rulemaking is in a near unanimous vote mossies new man city on and used his inauguration to set out his political roadmap there was also a thinly veiled swipe at his preterist says that. 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 religious conflicts month slicing a lack of confidence. of course it. was part of. his. first time in space with his behavior is a personal relationship between him and mr medvedev. the flamboyant and

controversial mr luzhkov ruled the city for eighteen years regarded by many as a steady hand that guy did the capital through to much as periods bringing in investment he was also charged with destroying many of the capital's historical landmarks and doing little to tackle traffic and allegations of corruption and nepotism have obviously 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 it is the main findings of moscow city project more effective i think he can do. things. for people and the gains popularity in the first year in office so 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 wheaton before 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 with an annual budget of over. billion dollars roaming the capital will prove mississippian and the biggest challenge to date and most of all it's remain skeptical very think they'll be able to see how mississippian in case you got off of optics it could be one of the. poor here in the russian capital so time will tell it all for the pomp and ceremony is that you've got his promise of the things we need to translate into alice said but our team will stay on top will do stories in brief tonight at least four people have been killed and ten injured by a car bomb in the back 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 they've removed civilian vehicles from the area. more from

a cholera outbreak in haiti's reach the capital and at least five cases of patients have trouble the port au prince from an infected bridge and doctors warn the disease is likely to continue spreading rapidly into so far more than two hundred people have died across the country with over two and a half thousand others infected the outbreaks the worst medical emergency to strike the caribbean nation since january's massive earthquake. some paid at a football match in kenya's capitals left at least seven dead when soccer fans were trying to get into a game between two countries top team shortly after kick off people crushed the crowd surged forward to games temporarily halted but the spike the deadly incident later continued it's the second time in five years a fatal stampede taking place at that venue which has been banned from hosting international matches by the world governing body for. a leading up of these climbers who scaled mount everest nineteen times is missing tonight after an avalanche in the himalayas forty three year old who was part of

a british expedition trying to climb a small amount and pick another show up or is missing but the rest of the team are said to be safe helicopters being flown to the region to start to search for the mountain is. coming up striking back at burra. this is. not actually a real cause of film director vo is out to show the world the true face of his country am take a few pop shops at the imposter while he's at it we report ahead. russia will take part in nato summit in lisbon the announcement was made during talks between russian french and german leaders in the french resort of dogville and to bring in moscow in the e.u. close together present value said that he hopes his presence at next month's summit will help russia and nato find compromises in problem areas he didn't rule out moscow becoming part of the alliances global anti missile defense system german chancellor angela merkel in turn confirmed that europe is considering russia's

proposals for a new security structure for british euro m.p. john stevens says the european defense is impossible without moscow's participation . things of common descent or with the cold war and i do think more europe here. later becomes the more stronger european pillow in nato is the more open it is going to be towards russia i think that particularly in germany and also in france but also i think 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 the immense and russia has to be part of that and that's even before we started there in the middle east really the crucial thing i think is that there is merging an idea of a new western nato was defined as. and russia in the seat as the

east i think there is now in a sense because of the rise of asia there is a new twist 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 the 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. john stevens there meanwhile research on russia u.s. relations with told r.t. that a new security system is needed to get night to moscow with the european states whereas nato only separates them. 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 a totally different system should be created there we have our views which our president has set forth however the west is still far been cautious. the full interview with to come in your next hour here on r.t. if you'd like to catch it then back to the present. star was furious when sasha baron cohen is comedy borat became a worldwide hit in two thousand and six but now a filmmaker is striking back at the movie that made his people a laughing stock around the world but his ego god never takes up the story. i'm not . this is a my god see i haven't heard that that this right down of kosik they said oh no it

. did not the. four years after the top grossing film about the hapless cats like t.v. reporter because it sounds premie a comedy director has come up with their post. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation demeter seem backward it's all a lie now we're 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 funny. together that to engage in various high jinks. in our film below gets a married to a donkey. the payoff is that borat and below.

but actually jews from romania. i do makers 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 collective to threaten to make him eat lead this time the producers are hoping for an international release a new look and after marrying a donkey really becomes pregnant with this child. either on or. now online tonight in our t. dot com we wind the history books back a test launch of catastrophic proportions find out what went wrong by your constant growth fifty years ago and the review of interesting events from past. years and by update as well our correspondent brings us an inside look at an arctic expedition

and it travels aboard a nuclear powered icebreaker with the polar explorer check out the latest blog updated one of the more about that. dot com this sunday night. next tonight promises of a better life and a lucrative job alluring thousands of indian women into prostitution sex traffickers take advantage of girls and poor villages often picking underage victims but authorities care and seeing reports now 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 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 mari 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 pins and joins it's court more than a quarter of a million women are 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 have any idea of 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 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 who they believe are being trafficked and order them from the train but they're not 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. 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 girls in a village hundreds of kilometers away that they can make it big here in mumbai but once you're sort of brothers they're condemned to a lytle bondage now campaigners want to see villagers in a pod given more warnings of the dangers and the police more active in clamping

down on traffickers out and saying r.t. mumbai. take a quick look ahead to it later on through the program such profiling your health to provide for your family locals in a town in russia's few region suffered from numerous diseases because of that after breeding in toxic fumes for decades to get a majority of the population depends on the source of the pollution the income and that's the crux of the problem find out why this town named the one most polluted in the world what's being done to counter the environmental disaster that's happening there we've got more on that in about an hour's time here on our t. tonight right now though it's just after twenty three twenty six moscow time this sunday night thanks for being with r.t. i'm kevin and update our top stories in just a few moments as our programs continue.

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