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the week in review here i don't see a horrifying chronicle of over one hundred thousand dads and evidence that you asked ignored widespread torture in iraq is that we can fix what's not lows are good hundred thousand secret planted in piles in the largest seven leaks of classified american documents. to policeman on a civilian down and a terrorist attack on the moment of the russian republic of chechnya the three militants also blowing themselves up in the for the sole. rising and gave europe the government cost cutting plans of french unions datapoint trotted over to president sarkozy's bill raising the pension age to sixty two while their british counterparts water massive demonstrations against tabish their spending cuts. of the year of the monster with the young man who promises to call shortcomings of the previous sitting old regime such as disastrous traffic congestion corruption and
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buildings boarding this is architecture. and welcome to the program this is all she's a weekly review i mean you national story so this week the truth behind operation iraqi freedom was blown open with online whistleblower we can leaks revealing a horrifying catalogue of over one hundred thousand deaths and widespread torture seemingly ignored by the u.s. the explosive revelations come from four hundred thousand files in the largest seven leak of classified american documents they include sixty thousand civilian deaths including people whose fate was previously said to be i know but i wish the pentagon was secret make amazing and knew about all along the files. also reveal details of atrocities committed by the country's government against their own
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people while u.s. forces turned a blind eye on its alleged washington has failed to investigate numerous cases of civilian torture and killing the release has stirred up the already tense political situation in iraq as part of a struggle to form a new government iraq's prime minister has claimed the massive leak is politically motivated the u.s. has also slams the exposé saying it could be in danger lies in national security however we can exchange of genocide which told us here that revealing the truth about the war is vital to prevent such crimes 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 had been killed through violence in one form or another but is it every day squalor of war of course for the people in baghdad and other cities in
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iraq was there everyday life for use in years and we need to understand what the reality of war is if we're going to choose to engage in it in 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 a 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 a rule of law. treat you in a much higher than they were under saddam hussein and now we are left with an iraqi
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government that commits torture. and you can watch the full interview with jordan assault on our website as our. the massive we can be grabbed the headlines around the world access have started analyzing the huge archive he spoke to brian becker the director of the antiwar coalition who believes that as in the us who drove the including former president george w. bush should be held second for atrocities committed in iraq 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
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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 three people have died and at least seventeen have been injured in a fails terrorist attack on the parliament of russia's republic of chechnya this week in which three minutes and also blew themselves up to gunmen try to storm the building in the company of cross naval special forces reacted quickly to policemen on the scene and died before three minutes instead tonight at the explosives one of that was a twenty two year old local and the police are now working to establish the identities
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of the two others aussies are going to hatch all the hassle. apollo one session was about to start in twenty minutes but instead of budget discussions church and deputies faced gunfire and suicide blasts to listen for it all started here these gates colleague was driving through they followed his car and shot at the security guards. 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. they came to this corner a supply manager was coming from over there and they shot him he felt. walking across the parliament area colleagues as long back and as more recount every detail of the day. he probably source running into the building and opened fire on the grass crashed down on the person who was running last through are going one of the militants blew himself up just beside as long backswing do all those who are
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trapped inside the parliament. our president runs on can do was here from the very first moment giving commands he was afraid there would be victims on our side when the special operation was quick in less than an hour while federal officers killed the militants. 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. 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 who seemed 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 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
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a central market and logic of course blasts ungovernable korea and many assessing nations of police officers to the caucasus this week many have once again questioned why this troublesome region has turned into a minefield 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 was seen 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 pay rent and walls of the church of parliament but the fact that militants is only broke into the government building in the heart of grozny well this all is over forgotten and the security interests now have been tightened joined international efforts the can by terror i'm either my family for trayvon martin from grass. this is our city and so i heard it's either toxic
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pollution. or one of the most little towns in the world the price of their health by her someplace down. also bring you the stories of when did god say end up in prostitution. trying to see capacity that's coming up and if you bombings. france's witnessing its worst civil disobedience in fifteen years a union leaders are calling for more general strikes over the coming weeks in response to government reforms so far twelve days of protests have failed to stop a two year rise in the retirement age from going ahead demonstrators assist they'll step up a campaign that's already seen clashes with police arrests and reducing meanwhile 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 so many only then not to walk for longer as a criterion
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a sign of the reports not everyone in front sympathizes with the protests. the 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.v. 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 the strays because i can avoid. the rowdy crowd surely give off
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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 their very actions are doing serious damage to basically this is one of the reform to. restore. system. of the economy as well. 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
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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 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 kashrut as are r.t.e. paris. across the channel the u.k. is also bracing itself for
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a wave of unrest as the country faces its harshest economic council as the one nine hundred twenty s. half a million public jobs will be axed in a bid to reduce the massive budget deficit the counts come as the european union announced an increase in spending which will cost britain an extra nine hundred million pounds next year and robert oulds from the right leaning bruce group says the timing could 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 of sets of wires the e.u. accounts haven't been signed off in over fifteen years this so much for waste and mismanagement within the european union we just shouldn't be giving this money at all while 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
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we've worked out that it causes a lot of damage economically we overburden 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. . and just to remind you got plenty moon stories at our website home so let's have a want to catch your eye on a lot. of. the traffic the pollutions find out what went wrong advice in your calls what exactly people years ago in our daily refinery interesting learn from. the past our correspondent brings us their account from a russian all tickets to the show and how travels on board and never come out on
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this break i would have been exploring check out our blog for more. critics of the german chancellor the recent negative verdict on multiculturalism have coders achieved at times to score support from the right angela merkel told a use group of her christian democratic party that the multicultural model of society has actually failed she said immigrants needed to make more than efforts to integrate to society the comments come just after a severely survey showed that about thirty percent of germans think that countries overrun by foreigners but some are exposed believe that the rise in nationalism is just a red herring for a growing economic gap. integration has to come from both sides there has to be
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a degree of reception from the point of view of the host community to show a welcoming welcoming attitude towards people but new immigrants to a country need to learn the language i mean most of the people i meet in britain are desperately keen to learn english because they know that see only way they can really carry on in this country and i'm sure the same is true in germany so there's usually a willingness by most migrants but you know a lot of things that divide communities are not actually along ethnic races store linguistic lines they are the usual traditional lines like poverty and access to the labor market and things like that i mean we have in the u.k. a pakistani population that it has not integrated nearly as well for example the indian population do a lot of that is because these people tend to be at the lower end of the social spectrum they're very often without work there in poor housing so the relief of poverty is
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a major contribution trying to achieve social cohesion anybody who wants to see social cohesion and i hope that's the majority of world minded people will resist any rise of nationalism heavens above if we haven't learnt the lessons of extreme nationalism from the last century then we really are doomed to relive the lessons of history again. the hot seat of moscow city hall has been filled by the first not muscovites mass and safiya times sergey sabbat in her countess from an oil rich region in siberia has already outlined his top targets to be tackled including disastrous traffic jams and a high level of corruption artie's and us habit has marred the man and his. surrogacy beyond and is the new man about town approved by the city's rulemaking is in a near unanimous vote mossies new mayor city on and used his inauguration to set out his political roadmap there was also a thinly veiled swipe at his preacher sesa. tackling corruption and red tape as
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well as increasing the responsibility of officials will be among the priorities of my policies. sabean's appointment follies made very sucking of you're english confluence month slicing a lack of confidence. was due to his. his first the mistakes of his behavior is a personal relationship between him and some of. 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 moche as periods bringing in investment he was also charged with destroying many of the capital's historical landmarks and doing little to tackle traffic allegations of corruption and nepotism have also a dogged him and his wife the property in a billionaire mississippi on in the house is worked out for him but the problem for
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most of the main findings from moscow city park more effective i think he can do a lot of things. for people to gain 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 region 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 missed this is beyond the biggest challenge to date and most the ones that remain skeptical very soon they'll be able to see helmet disappear on paper that the object to be one of with all this with the record here in the
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russian capital so time will tell if all the pomp and ceremony is that we were his promise of the things we do translate into action alice said but today. at least two people have been killed and nineteen by a car bomb in iraq the blast went off in the parking lot of a medical facility in the city of mosul police are investigating to see if a suicide bomber was to blame security officials say another type is likely and have removed civilian vehicles from the area. as a cholera outbreak continues to spread throughout haiti but over two hundred fifty already dead five cases have been reported in the capital however the haitian health minister believes that the infections will continue death rates should begin to slow down over three thousand people have been struck by the illness across the caribbean caribbean nation officials are scrambling to keep the outbreak from reaching the million and a half people living in camps after january's massive earthquake in which three hundred thousand died. in. a stampede at
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a football match in kenya's capital has left at least eight said they were crushed after a massive massive crowd of turns of thousands of fans tried to enter the stadium shortly after kick off with only four entrance gates for an expected crowd of thirty five thousand the game was temporarily halted resumed despite the fatalities as the second deadly stampede of five years at the same venue which favre has banned from hosting international matches. the year old has always been russia's major industrial region but a city that has become famous for all the reasons i care about is home to copper so melting plant which has been belching out toxic fumes for decades in the region shocking pollution has caused serious health problems for residents getting the city of the notorious level of big labor of being one of the most polluted on earth but the toxic factories provided jobs for locals for years have depending on the
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deadly plant or their livelihoods are further investigate. it's a bleak sight that greets you when you arrive in the small russian town of care about a legacy of environmental destruction once earned the title of one of the most polluted towns in the world it's playing to a large copper smelter 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 just of system uses are common in the world on call article diseases who is rather high under new ownership since two thousand and three the plant has begun cleaning up its act the progress is slowly. we immediately began renovation but you can see for yourself the problems that a company of the as it were doing a lot to preserve and develop but of course lots more still remains to be done. the
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smart has found it to exploit the region's rich copper deposits and has contributed to the economic progress in russia over 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 to 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 near the more of the same pollution and unhealthy working conditions they were at least able to
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provide for their families. if 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 navy the 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 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
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time being remain ever present so airfare r.t. care about. coming up next hour biting back at the board. this is over i guess they are but now that the. sarcasm film director sets out to show the world be true face of his country itself fired by the infamous make believe to be reporter and takes a few shots hostile while he's at it. promises of a better life and a steady income i live thousands of indian women into prostitution sex traffickers target poor villagers often going after girls who are under-age but as artist karen saying reports campaigners are pushing to make families more aware of the day. rush me may be young but she's gone through more than most girls her age cause to leave her village for the bright lights of mumbai only to find she was heading for life
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in a brothel she said you saw me off once you reach my god why did you go with them then . i didn't want to you forced me to india is the epicenter of this extravagant industry right now in the world and the reason is that there is law enforcement of laws against traffic. and joins it's court more than a quarter of a million been trafficked in india each year some are as young as nine and gone from the rural areas of neighboring heading for more. neither the parents nor they have any idea of what the real world is like the parents may know a little bit if television is in the village about what bombay is and to them it would represent a life state rather than a broad 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
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keep an eye on the trains passing through the of identify who they believe are being trafficked an order them from the train but. when we ask youngsters where they are going they say they're going to study if a girl is travelling with the boy she says he's her father but when we demand their identity cards we see the aren't related to the two girls are questioned by the local police but claim they are travelling to mumbai to work why. 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.

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