early soldiers await sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian child as a human shield during the gaza war israel reinforced the bairn on involving citizens five years ago but as polls where reports palestinians believe troops continue to risk innocent lives in war maneuvers measured rubber was just nine years old when soldiers grabbed him and made him check for bombs. i was just sitting here is really soldiers took me over there there were two bags and he 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 his fighting family forced to watch one of the ship one of them put his hands 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's 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 a show spent 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 him with us put him in the front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then the interest out 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 i think that the ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories where use palestinians as human shields 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's that's part and parcel unfortunately of running a military operation to say that is a general phenomenon as i.d.f. soldiers you know use human shields that's absurd for much of the family they take comfort they finally be getting justice even if it's only against low ranking soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind the laws back here r.t. jerusalem. in other news iraq's prime minister says the latest wiki leaks revelations are moved to his chances of forming a government by linking him to death squads the latest wiki leaks files alleged abuse by iraqi security forces something which happened after nouri al maliki became prime minister in two thousand and six the premier's office denies he had death squads under his command and suspect the timing of the military leak is designed to weaken his fragile control he had to form a cabinet even though it's now seven months since the election mideast expert james

den's low from king's college in london says the iraqi premiers claims are groundless. 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 it's not likely as if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in this sense but i think that the documents certainly do point to a particular problem with the prime ministerial office in iraq it is 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 almost that close to the finishing line it seems at the moment with the 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 ultimately unlike any previous media story or all 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 u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with us will be put in danger by them they're 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 natural actually 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. middle east expert james then slow from king's college

in london they're talking about the rocky premier its claims over the weekend leaks revelations are coming up shortly for you here in our war fought with dollars instead of bullets as the u.s. bank notes to stay afloat we'll look at why that's ricocheting norm still living. and we hear why environmental app of the is pushing the russian capital to the brink of ecological disaster. but first internet access of course is no longer a luxury it's rapidly becoming a vital tool for its nearly two billion users russia is calling for a global body to govern the web and protect us from cybercrime rather than the responsibility being dominated by the us alice cooper reports. 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 current

leads 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 agreements. we have a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web the two big necessitates an international response and he wants countries a united states of li tackle terrorist extremist and child pornography networks but the complex debate playing out on the other side of the atlantic probably won't be playing on the mind of your average web user like these game is enjoying a saturday night in the russian capital internet cafes or clubs as this one calls itself with putting up all over the city at an increasingly alarming rate and

that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off the likes of all ages and backgrounds to get together socially either to 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 a blog is paving the way youngsters like these now this may look like an internet cafe complete with state of the art mac 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 teachers 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 school report 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. 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 that no computer could have a substitute teacher. as the question of who should regulate how use of the internet rumbles on it's reaching our dependence on it continues to grow saturday nights in moscow may never be the same again alice a bit arty ask. well have more on russia's plan on getting more global coverage for

the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister in about twenty minutes time. now here's that countries could use their currencies as a weapon to drive themselves out of recession has been the late finance ministers from the world's twenty biggest economies have agreed they won't devalue to drive up their competitive edge there's about 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 rates growing economic tensions between china and the u.s. also came up with beijing accused of holding its currency down while the us was criticized for having a loose monetary policy on balance south korea's meeting is considered to be a temporary truce but as lauren was to report some suspect the u.s. of winding up in economic are hillary. 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 financial world war two train 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 that 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 that the united states sets interest rates very low and

tries to open up large routes to wondering 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 things 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 in two thousand and eight. but they all put their money into oil the price of energy for most of the world that consumes it goes up to. and when you see us are acting like an a.t.m. for the world pumping cash into the economy trillions of dollars this is the

scenario you're helping to create. and pushing down the value of the u.s. dollar of 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 the. i think very much in terms of power and. they want to keep that 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 lister r t new york. watching r.t. live from moscow we broadcast of course twenty four seventh's you could head on to our website to see more of the world's biggest stories and some other news and analysis you can check out at our t.v. dot com right now the normally boring calm drone falls silent for a day as baikonur mourns more than seventy victims of a missile explode explosion happened some three ago. and kazakhstan's come back for a common event made its people a worldwide laughing stock meat because like the director who spilled his revenge against moore at the party dot com. let's take

a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour a bomber has struck at morning prayers in eastern stand killing at least six and wounding over a thousand more explosive was planted on a motorcycle as worshippers were leaving a renowned shrine soofi rather shining i should say it's believed they've been targeted because there are more mystical approach to islam clashes with militants more hardline believe. haiti's cholera outbreak could be stabilising as fewer cases are being reported zs has already claimed more than two hundred fifty lives over three thousand others are infected across the country health workers are fighting to keep color from reaching the camps where over a million. people have been living since january powerful earthquake. france's fuel shortages could get worse as oil workers continue to protest against the government's decision to brace the retirement age riot police broke through the blockade of one of the camera find a result both few supplies have made it out the country's finance minister says the

nationwide strikes are costing over half a billion dollars a day the final pension reform approval is expected later this week. while the 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 it comes a day after a singapore gas tanker with seventeen crew was hijacked in the same area european union naval force says parts are now holding nineteen vessels with four hundred twenty eight hostages. the 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 a group explains. when ileum bought a flat in a new apartment walked right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was in and we covered with soil when he began seem fresh piles of rubbish appearing and

disposal trucks coming and going it made 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 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 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 don't want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors see there helpless even fining the officials didn't help since the biggest benefit the is only around two hundred dollars each to the 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 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 a law increasing the return price for different packages may improve the situation at least partially but that mean lead to new rule building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles moscow alone produces at

least five and a half million tons of waste very year and less than fifteen percent is recycled a picture hard to believe in many western countries where from a young age people are taught how to recycle you've got is going to forty moscow. campaigning in the u.s. midterm elections is in full swing and the race to congress later peter lavelle's cross-talk panel gets to grips with who should and shouldn't be throwing cash behind the candidates to push them into power. i mean less what we do on pet food every year still so getting more money into politics we allow for a more competitive political environment in which more information and yes sometimes tissue from ation can get to the public so they can make a decision about ok fifteen minute if i can if i can jump in here is this transparent oh ok more is more better here common cause believes we do have to change the way we pay for political campaigns in this country from the presidency

on down to local races in terms of you know using a small donor model like obama did paired with some kind of public funding or some kind of public money. crosstalk is here on our just over an hour next over to kareena the business desk. and i welcome to our business program this hour good to have you with us we start with an exclusive to business a team brushes giant lead the nation on bank warns it's not ready to take part in the government's vast privatization program top officials unveiled a sell off of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential aide that coleridge has said the b. could be one of the first to become a joint stock company by deputy chairman it's only belo says it's too early term of

development. to be approved by. the. holy on the disease. more than two decades to be through the times. that it is. functioning only. as a deal that was three years. and russo has rejected a nine billion dollar bid from. for his twenty five percent stake in nordisk maciel the world's largest of the medium company on friday claimed that the offer was. their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price the news comes after north nico shareholders voted on thursday against an effort by the current board of directors who saw it interrupts who both own twenty five percent majority stakes have been locked in battle over control of known for several months now.

looking at the markets now asian stocks are mixed this hour japan's nikkei down point three percent despite japanese exports increasing more than expected and the hang seng finished top of percent in the but now all climbed above eighty two dollars a barrel as u.s. dollar drops the g twenty leaders pledge to avoid currency war. now crossing over to europe where markets are trading higher with shares of luxury goods from the hennessy movietone and hermes international both rally on deal news case footsie is a point half a percent now buy shares of mining companies and germany's dax is up over half a percent with shares of folks was gaining three percent in the wake of an early release of part of its results on friday. no russian stock markets are trading in positive territory them issac's is up over a percent higher in the afternoon the r.t.s. is up over one point three percent in order to make your trading higher than other

stocks up over three percent on the r.t.s. . and russian internet company mail dot ru 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 value the company which owns instant messenger i.c. q. and a stake in facebook at around five billion dollars the mail dot or you group previously announced it hoped to raise about one billion by placing up to twenty percent of its shares by the end of the year. aviation is assuring into a new era of eco friendly technology the first tests of bio fuel for planes have already proved a success now global manufacturers such as boeing and airbus say greek planes also make economic good sense a political has a 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 europe. and the price of the aircraft remains quite stable if you take into account by specter also such inflation and so on so the fact is that the aircraft more in reality friendly that means more fuel efficient because fuel means c o two and about mental damage to some extent and the new trees improve profitability for the airlines with more people flying every day the market in russian 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

were closely with already in 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. at 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 going to coach and i spoke to the chairman and president of an m k back to russia and cough about the rationale behind the company's latest a teacher of. mirabile it in his report at the car 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 five million i've reached an agreement with a 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 it's elite and the arab countries in the persian gulf were huge construction projects are under way and where zinc plated polymers are needed syria and iran are also very close so it. and them can also own and iron ore felt and during the financial downturn the development of this film was postponed so what are your plans now. i think we have an investment program this year we've opened the system of scale maya but 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 need 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 to pre-crisis annual production levels for them whether we do it on that but i thought we are planning to produce ten million tonnes 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 we are aim is to restore the pre-crisis output in two thousand and seven we work to full capacity and produce twelve million tons a year this task can be solved. that's you opted for the sour headlines when you saw our packs out i'm going. to.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day. for. the. this is art to you live from moscow our top stories of two israeli soldiers face up to three years behind bars for forcing a palestinian boy to search for booby traps during the constant war five years ago

israel reinforced the ban on using civilians as human shields but palestinians say it constantly breached. iraq's prime minister is hitting out at wiki leaks saying it's trying to sabotage the struggling bid to form a new government whistleblower publish classified reports linking him to death squads tortured and killed in washington. and russia says the world wide web should not be governed by the u.s. alone but by a global body instead initiative is designed to help protect nearly two billion internet users from cyber crime the next rush communications minister gives us more details about those online plants.