a ban on involving civilians five years ago porous lire ports palestinians believe troops continue to risk innocent lives in woman. majeed robber was just nine years old when soldiers grabbed him and made him check for bombs all i was just sitting here is really soldiers took me over there there were two bags and they told me to open them but i didn't know how to do it. he was terrified of the abandoned briefcases which the soldiers thought could be booby trapped and he's frightened family forced to watch one of us a video one of them put his hand on my son shoulder and made him go into the toilet cubicle i heard a few shots fired soon afterwards i felt like i was dying my little daughter he was with me kept saying they killed him. and yet it was five years ago that israel supreme court made the law crystal clear human shielding is an absolute absolute no no endangered civilians deliberately is absolutely prohibited but the reality on

the ground is still very different you had to show his army years in the palestinian territories he knew the supreme court's ruling but watched his sergeant ignore it so did he and the soldiers serving under him so what we did is we just bumped into a house nearby house we grabbed one of the kids we took in with us put them in the front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then no one for a start one hundred sixty complaints were filed about the way soldiers behaved in the gaza war two years ago but only forty seven criminal investigations were ever carried out most of them have since been closed but i think that the ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories or use palestinians as human shield is like to ask you to drink coffee in the morning but israeli lawyers say convicting the two soldiers is to the i.d.f. scribus there are always soldiers who step out of line that that's part and parcel unfortunately of running a military operation to say that as

a general phenomenon as i.d.f. soldiers you use human shields that's absurd for much of the family they take comfort they finally get. just just even if it's only against ranking soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind the laws back here r t. iraq's prime minister says the latest wiki leaks revelations are a move to di rail his chances of forming a government by linking him to death squads the latest wiki leaks files alleged abuse by iraqi security forces some of which happened after he became prime minister in two thousand and six the premier's office denies he had death squads under his command i suspect the timing of the military is designed to weaken his fragile control he's yet to form a cabinet even though it's now seven months since the election when middle east expert james denzil from king's college in london says the unlucky previous claims are groundless. but i think that would be very doubtful to imagine that the wiki

leaks and the soldiers responsible for giving these documents to them had the undermining of the iraqi government in mind when they chose this date and let's bear in mind that there hasn't been an iraqi government for seven months so exactly as if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in this sense but i think that the document certainly do point to a particular problem with the prime ministerial office in iraq it's an office that's been significantly empowered as part of the u.s. exit strategy with its individual sort of special forces units that have supposedly run internal prisons that these documents are now shown so maliki who is always that close to the finishing line it seems at the moment with relations with iran and syria sort of confirming his role as the next prime minister now seems that he has another hurdle to jump across this is u.s. military documents so really like unlike any previous media story or anecdotal reports from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult

for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical. nature of the nature of the leaks and whether us soldiers are informers or people working with us will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years and nowhere is that more true than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said quite matter of factually we don't do body counts but americans have been doing body counts and those body counts now combined with the iraqi body count of n.g.o.s and aid agencies say that some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not been accounted for so the history of iraq is being written by these documents which are as i say from the americans miles themselves released expert james dancer there were from kings college in london there on the iraqi premise claims over the wiki leaks revelations. look at shortly

a war for two dollars instead of bullets for the u.s. bank notes to stay afloat we'll look at why that. cost of living. and we here why environmental apathy is pushing the russian capital to the brink of ecological disaster. internet access is no longer a luxury it's rapidly become a vital tool for its nearly two billion users russia is calling for a global body to govern the web and protect us from cyber crime rather than responsibility being dominated by the united states and its head at the polls. the world wide web all knowing all conquering it crosses borders and breaks down barriers but can something that we've allowed to become so vast ever be properly managed currently it's the united states that's tasked with attempting to regulate the web boss the united nations international telecommunications union or do you

think they could do a better job at this conference earlier this month in mexico its members announce that proper management of the internet requires global corporation russia's representative agrees. we have a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web a too big a necessity to an international response and he wants countries a united to be tackled terrorist extremist and child pornography networks but the complex debate playing out on the other side of the atlantico probably won't be playing on the mind of your average web user these game is enjoying a saturday night in the russian capital internet cafes or clubs as this one calls itself the splitting up all over the city at an interesting alarming rate and that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off the likes of all ages and backgrounds to get together so

surely this is just surf the web or is this close to doing compete against each other playing very latest interactive computer games and that's largely thanks to russia's burgeoning telecommunications industry bringing high speed wireless networks to the masses with russia's new wave of scarily technologically savvy tweezers and bloggers paving the way youngsters like these now this may look like an internet cafe complete with state of the art math laptops but this is actually school russia style for thirteen year old alexander and his classmates keep had a mouse in our house much of a lot of learning is the textbook and pen. rules sort of it's more interesting with computers even if you have to do boring research or crown facts without it you're only told things but with a computer you're shown things for these students and teaches i see features in almost every subject lesson and every aspect of the school's functioning skype and online messaging have replaced the notice board overhead tannoy and schoolwork all

counts but it's headmaster insists that all this is used alongside more traditional means of educating he also believes his school is not a rarity in russia. but i think it's part of a growing trend but what's important is to use this technology properly to hold the learning process i think computers in schools will become more widespread but it's crucial to understand new computer could have a substitute teacher. as the question of who should regulate how you see the internet rumbles on its reach in our dependence on it continues to grow saturday nights in moscow may never be the same again alice a bit arty ask and i will have more on russia's plans on getting more global governance where you are for the internet i want to hear from the countries communications minister in just over an hour's time here noting. that now fares that the countries could use their currencies as

a weapon to drag themselves out of recession have been allayed finance ministers from the world's twenty biggest economies agreed they were devalued to drive up their competitive edge they spent the past few days in south korea tackling global financial imbalances other agreements include giving the international monetary fund a bigger role in supervising exchange rate growing economic tensions between china and the u.s. also came up aging it holding its currency down on the u.s. was criticized for having a noose monetary policy on balance the south korea meeting is considered a temporary truce but as lauren mr reports some suspect u.s. . lining up its economic opportunity. the united states has waged well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle with the united states leading. world war two of the

foreign reserves. especially to make other economies pay tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us dollars are the bullets and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy federal reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and have shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy called quantitative easing is supposed to stimulate the economy lowering interest rates and enabling banks to lend more but it hasn't exactly helped the average american but the united states sets interest rates very low and tries to open up large routes to lending that american corporations in america investors take money borrow money and then they go all over the world and buy

things the money leaves the u.s. because low interest rates mean investors aren't getting much return on assets at home so why does this matter for you why should you care well let's talk about the thing speculators are investors like to buy things like soft commodities wheat sugar soybeans those affect your food prices i'll take these souls investors who are lots of money and a soft commodities i mean global food prices your food prices go up like happened in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight. but they all put their money into oil the price of energy for most of the world. instils it goes up too. and when you do us are acting like an a.t.m. for the world pumping cash into the economy trillions of dollars and this is the scenario you're helping to create. and pushing down the value of the u.s. dollar at the international reserve currency while pushing up the value of other

currencies and we're hearing an outcry from the developing countries because those are the hottest markets for foreign investment now but countries affected by the flood of u.s. dollars are now taking steps to protect their own currencies and their exports from getting more expensive we believe it's very important yet u.s. policy makers are rattling their sabers at the i.m.f. and g twenty meetings they're calling for countries to let their currencies rise but with no mention of the declining dollar there is no doubt readers of this. think very much in terms of power and. they want to keep but as the u.s. appears poised to fire off a new round of quantitative easing the rest of the world is fighting back and sort of having this multipolar world led by the i.m.f. and the world trade organization with a very heavy influence for the u.s. government and the united states treasury we're seeing lots of governments going around the world cutting two party deals cutting deals to trade not in the reserve

currency but in local currencies fighting back against the u.s. is financial world war that in the end may prove a losing battle lauren mr r.t. new york. you can head for a website to see more of the world's the top stories that has some other news you can check out at our team dot com normally a roaring cosmodrome sign for things like the north koreans over seventy victims of this sort of explosion for centuries ago. because it stuns comeback for a comedy that made its people the worldwide laughing stock because it directs the film's his. vengeance etc. take a look now at some other news making headlines around the world a bomber has struck morning prayers in eastern pakistan killing at least six and wounding over a dozen more explosive was planted on a motorcycle as worshippers were leaving or announce the shrine it's believed

they'd been targeted because the more mystical approach too is down clashes with militants and hardliners. haiti's cholera outbreak could be stabilising as fewer cases of being reported the disease has already claimed more than two hundred fifty dives three thousand others on to the course the country health workers are fighting to keep cholera from reaching the camps where over a million people have been living since january powerful earthquake. france's fuel shortages could get worse as the one workers continue to protest against the government's decision to raise the retirement age of the country brought police broke through the blockade of one of the key refineries a few supplies that make it out france's finance minister says the nationwide strikes are costing over the whole for billion dollars a day the final pension reform approval is expected later this week. and somali pirates have seized

a german ship off the coast of kenya it's not yet clear how many people are on board the beluga fortune but at least two are known to be german citizens and they offer singapore gas tanker seventy who goes right back to the same area the european union naval force pirates are now holding nineteen vessels with four hundred twenty eight hostages. now moscow knows it lags behind many other capitals when it comes to taking out the trash but a lack of recycling infrastructure is forcing environmental protection up the priority list especially since for many residents the problem is now staring them in the face as your piece going off expects. when ileum bought a flat in a new apartment block right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was an old we secured covered with soil but when he began seem fresh piles of rubbish appearing and disposal trucks coming in doing it meant that he became suspicious and then few years like you were all shocked officially the worst yard is closed

but i can assure you it isn't our apartment buildings are just around twenty meters away it's a direct violation of the law if i get to go through i could get rid of my trash right out of the window under the law dumps can not be closer than five hundred meters from a residential area but unfortunately this and many other rules on the disposal are often trashed like here in the town of canal you off not much further away from the capital this is quite a typical picture of this area is used for garages but since some of them were built illegally they had to be dismantled but instead in their place as these piles of rubbish have grown all around the area the deeper into the area the picture becomes even worse another closed waist york or is it the area is disputed between the town and a local forestry and i don't want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors see there helpless even fining the officials didn't help since the

biggest penalty is only around two hundred dollars each environmental consciousness is very low people just don't care for me needs much easier to come and just down there trash it here and bureaucracy is making it even worse there is simply no one to clean this up but specialists say there is still a way to fix things so why do we have to get people interested and the best way to do it is by giving them money each bottle has to have a good return price who is ever going to throw out an empty bottle if they could get at least one third of their money back for it. perhaps war increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but that means. building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles. produces at least five million tonnes of waste per year and less than fifteen percent is recycled a picture of hard to believe in many western countries where from

a young age people are taught how to recycle is going to moscow. but later we go even further on the ground as we explore a much more subterranean world. there is not enough space for them on the ground. existence under the sun. discover deeply hidden secrets. and even. talking to go. underground. yes more about the hidden life on the ground in ten minutes time here at r.t.

our first is the business news with korea. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us we start with an exclusive to business russia's child line of michigan on back why it's not ready to take part in the government's vast privatization program top officials on bail the sell off of nine hundred stay firms on wednesday at presidential. has said phoebe could be one of the first to become a joint stock company deputy chairman and twenty below says it's too early. china development bank is on the verge to be privatize but in the capacity of wholly owned by the state. more than two decades to be privatize i don't see that it is gender for. functioning only in this capacity all over the three

years. and roussel has rejected the nine billion dollar bid from into ross owner of . twenty five percent stake in north. the world's largest company on friday claimed that the offer was free and that their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price now the news comes out to noise makers shareholders voted against an effort to oust the current board of directors who solid into ross who both owed twenty five percent majority stakes have been locked in battle over control of dollars. let's look at the markets asian stocks that makes this our chapin's nicky's down point three percent despite japanese exports increasing more than expected and hanks tank is just on the half a percent. climbs eighty two dollars a barrel as u.s. dollars drop after g twenty leaders pledged to avoid currency war. now let's go so

over to europe where markets open an eye on monday with shares of luxury goods for obstruct and its tone and hermes international poll rallied on the deal news u.k.'s footsie is up a point seven percent lifted mostly buy shares of mining companies and you have the stacks up half a percent which as appalled by the percent in the wake of an early release of part of its results on friday. now here in russia stocks market started the trading week in the black demise ixus trading over a percent higher in the afternoon the r.t.s. is up over one and a half percent. are trading higher than other stocks fall with three percent on the r.t.s. . and russian internet company mail dog has set the price range for its initial public offering in london at twenty three point seven two twenty seven point seven dollars per share this would be value the company which owns instant messenger i c q and a stake in facebook at around five billion dollars the mail dot are you group previously

announced it hope to raise about one. billion by placing up to twenty percent of the chairs by the end of the year. aviation is a string into a new era of eco friendly technology first test of bio fuel for planes have already proved a success global manufacturers such as boeing and airbus say green planes also make economic sense but that has more. cleaner sky higher profits global every nation giants are investing in eco friendly planes they say the best technology will not only help save the planet but also money we're just moving inventing implementing integrity new technologies on board off the top. and the price of the aircraft remains quite stable if you take into account by strict also such inflation and so on so the fact that the aircraft. and robert differently that means more fuel efficient because fuel means c o two and

about mental damage to some extent and. improve profitability for the airlines with more people flying every day the market in russia and c.i.s. is growing and demand for new aircraft is high u.s. manufacturer boeing is expecting to do booming business with plans to supply around a thousand new planes over the next twenty years worth ninety billion dollars that's certainly our intent so new airplanes to service airplanes that are already here. to meet the russian market requirements work closely with stories of your lives concerned so we have good prospects for market growth here we expect the markets will continue to grow a new generation of jets will help russia update its obsolete fleet but little of that technology is being developed here famous for its to pull over and dilution planes in the past groceries legging well behind the global leaders in aircraft

construction analysts say it will take a long time and large investments to catch up and believe at least for now russia will have to put up with the role of consumer rather than producer. but the liquor business r.t. and russia's fourth largest steelmaker m.k. has launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey our correspondent in a quarter of a spoke to the chairman and president of m.l.k. picture rustic of about the rationale behind the company's latest strategic move. mirabile it in his or her body i think our company has been operating here for the past ten years there's a great demand for hot rolled metal that we used to supply not less than a million tons of it while a deficit between the supply and demand in two thousand and six two thousand and seven amounted to four or five million i've reached an agreement with the port that will allow us to export our product to europe and the middle east if we are unable to sell our old metals here basically we wanted to exported to turkey but the

crisis has changed our plans we may exported to the balkans italy tunisia the arab countries in the persian gulf were huge construction projects are underway and what is included polymers are needed in syria and iran are also very close. and the market also owns an iron ore felt and during the financial downturn the development of the self was postponed so what are your plans now. i think we have an investment program this year we both in the system of scale mind we are now enriching or there so we have an opportunity to increase iron ore production to fifty percent plus we've bought the bike all mine and are extracting some more from there today we meet thirty percent of the overall demand and raw materials and in the next three or four years we are planning to meet the internal demand for iron ore by fifty percent so. when do you think you can return soon pre-crisis annual production levels. are going up but i thought we are planning to produce ten million tons of

rolled metal this year we're going to increase the output by some twenty percent by twenty eleven and by another twenty percent the year after our aim is to restore the pre-crisis output in two thousand and seven we work to full capacity and produce twelve million tonnes a year this task can be solved. that's all the op say for this hour i'll be back with more and about fifteen minutes from now but meanwhile i can always log onto our web site more stories.

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so you're watching r t it's time for the qatar main headlines now two israeli soldiers face up to three years behind bars for forcing a palestinian boy to search for booby traps during the gaza war five years ago israel reinforced a ban on using civilians as human shields the palestinians say it's constantly breached. iraq's prime minister is hitting out at wiki leaks saying it's trying to sabotage the struggling it to form a new government. published classified reports linking them to death squads or to kill their own kids. and russia says the world wide web should not be governed by the u.s. some good or bad global body instead if you did it's designed to help protect the two billion internet since from side to court. next we take you on an underground tour of places designed for people to survive and thrive.

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