for bombs. 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 his fighting 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 who shows 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 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 tell me doubt most of them have since been closed but i think that to ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories where you 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's 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 find to 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. iraq's prime minister says the latest wiki leaks revelations are move to darrelle those chances of forming a government by linking him to death squads the latest release files alleged abuse by iraqi security forces some of 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's yet to form a captive even though it's now seven months since the election middle east expert james denselow 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 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 documents certainly do point to 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 have now shown so maliki who is almost 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 really unlike any previous media story 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 or informers or people working with the u.s. 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. they are from mideast expert james stand now rather from king's college in london. the coming up shortly here in our to a war fought with dollars instead of bullets as fires stay afloat we look out why that's ricocheting in your cost of living. and why environmental apathy is pushing the russian capital to the brink ecological disaster.

but first internet access 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 protect us from cyber crime rather than the responsibility of being dominated by the us and let's have 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 we 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 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 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 matlab tops 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 that are sort of it's more interesting with computers even if you have to do boring research or crown 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 no just bored 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. 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 that no computer could have a substitute teacher. as the question of who should regulate how use of 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 osc. will have more on russia's plans on getting more global governance for the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister in just over an hour here in our city. fears that congress could use their currencies as weapons to drive themselves out of recession have been allayed finance ministers from the world's twenty biggest economies have agreed they won't devalue their drive they want to value to drive up their competitive ads they've 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 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 with south korea meeting is considered a temporary truce but has more or less to report some suspect us of winding up its economic artillery. 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 retailers. 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 by new 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 the united states so its interest rates very low and tries to open up large routes to. 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 bester is like to buy things like soft commodities wheat sugar soybeans

those affect your food prices i'll take these so if 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. or you'll put it they all put their money into oil the price of energy for most of the world that consumes it goes up too. 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. 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 instead of having this multipolar world led by the i.m.f. from 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. where you can head to our website to see

more of the world's biggest stories here some other news and analysis you can check out at our t.v. dot com right now normally boring most of the drone falls silent for a day as baikonur more and more than seventy victims of a missing child explosion half a century ago. and kazakhstan's come back for a comedy that maybe its people a worldwide laughing stock meet the cosmic director who's filmed his revenge against koran that are to me dot com. let's take a look now at some other news dominating headlines around the world a bomber has struck at morning prayers in eastern pakistan killing at least six and wounding over a dozen more explosive first planted on a motorcycle as worshipers were leaving a renowned shrine it's believed they had been they were targeted because there are more mystical approach to islam clashes with militants more hardline beliefs. haiti's cholera outbreak could be stabilising as fewer cases are being reported the

disease has already claimed more than two hundred fifty lives well over three thousand others are infected across the country health workers are fighting to keep call the rough 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 raise the retirement age riot police broke through the blockade of one of the key reform to resolve oh 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. 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 becomes the day after a singapore gas tanker with seventeen crew was hijacked in the same area european

union naval force says 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 whacko recycling infrastructure is forcing environmental protection up the priorities list specialist as for many residents the problem is now staring them in the face as he reports. when bought a flat in a new portland water right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was in and we covered with sewer when he began seeing brush piles of rubbish appearing and disposal trucks coming and going it made that he became suspicious and then few years possibly like you we're all shocked officially the worst yard is closed but i can assure you it is not 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 others we dispose of are often crushed 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 places 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 don't want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors say they're hopeless even finding the officials didn't help since the biggest penalty is only around two hundred dollars each 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 the money back for it. perhaps increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but that means the two new router building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles. produces at least five million tons of waste are you and less than fifteen percent is a picture of hard to believe in many western countries where from a young age people are taught how to recycle you got is going to mosco well campaigning in the us midterm elections is in full swing and the race to congress later peter develops cross-talk panel gets to grips with who should and shouldn't

be throwing task behind the candidates. are spending less money on politics and we do on pet food every year still so getting more money into politics we allow for a more competitive political environment and which more information and yes sometimes just information can get to the public so they can make a decision about ok if i think 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. domus cross-talk it's here in ten minutes on our tape but first let's check in at the business desk with kareena.

it's twenty past three pm here in moscow welcome to business and we start with an exclusive to business r.t. russia's giant lead of michigan on bank warns it's not ready to take part in the government's vast part of his asian programme top officials unveiled a sell off of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and a presidential aide a copy of that coverage has said we could be one of the first to become a joint stock company but deputy chairman ottilie bhalo says it's too early china development bank. owns the village to be clear ties but. the capacity of wholly owned by the state is this. more than two decades to be period times so i don't see things that it is a gender for. functioning only in this capacity or the

business three years. also on the privatization programme the executive director of international energy agency tells r.t. the energy sector in russia will attract greater investment once it has created private ownership but the privatization is a very often taken a very important policy to get more investment from around the world and subtly rochelle's the huge. resources in privatizing it in getting money from. a perspective make good sense and that gives more. people the development and technologies. russo has rejected a nine billion dollars bid from into ross owner of a part time in ford's twenty five percent stake in north. the world's largest element in company on friday claimed that the offer was derisive rate and that their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price the news comes

after north shareholders voted on thursday against an effort by to oust the current board of directors who saw an interoffice who both own twenty five percent majority stakes have been locked in battle over control of norilsk nickel for several months now. in higher shares of luxury goods firms hennessy levy tone and hermes international a ball rolling on the deal news to put you on the dax are up over half a percent in london shares of mining companies are leading the gains and germany's folks walk and is topping the witness list three percent this hour. here in russia stock markets are trading in positive territory as well the my six is over a percent higher in the afternoon the r.t.s. is up over one point three percent all the blue chips are in the black with trading over three percent higher on the r.t.s. and nora's quickly leading over three percent on them isaac's bucking that trend is

the group's hydro that is down a quarter of a percent. 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 ru 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 ushering it turned new era of eco friendly technology first test of bio fuel for planes have already proved to success and global manufacturers a. as boeing and airbus say green planes also make economic sense i think laura explains. 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 a strict also such inflation and so on so the fact that the aircraft. and relative friendly that means more fuel efficient because fuel means c o two and the mental dimensions some extend and. 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 thirty's and your lives concern 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 date it's obsolete fleet but little of that technology is being developed here famous for its tupelo and dilution planes in the past groceries lagging 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 that's all i have for you for this hour by. do join us at twenty past the hour for more business news here on our team.

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would be soon which brightened. soon from fans to the christians. who threw stones on t.v. don't. cross talk is coming up here in our team but first let's get you up. to date on today's top stories two israeli soldiers face up to three years behind bars for forcing a palestinian point to search for booby traps during the gaza war five years ago israel reinforced the ban on using civilians as human shields but palestinians say

it's constantly breached. iraq's prime minister is getting out wiki leaks saying it's trying to sabotage his struggling bid to form a new government on line whistle blower publish classified reports linking him to death squads who tortured and killed iraq u.s. . and russia says the worldwide web site of not being governed by the u.s. alone but by a global body instead the initiative is designed to help protect nearly two billion internet users from side with crime. now as the american midterms heat up and candidates vie for campaign tasks pitter the bells cross-talk guess trash out just who should be on the money. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. and.