because 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 no interest out one hundred fifty 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 serving 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. scripts there are always soldiers who step out of line that that's part and parcel unfortunately of bringing a military operation to say that as a general for moments idea of soldiers you use human shield 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. coming up in a few minutes here on r t printing the greenback to stay afloat us continue comcast center with a column e. amid rising fears the global consequences could be devastating. but first the release of nearly four hundred thousand secret u.s.

documents on the war in iraq is stirring up a storm there is outrage in baghdad as iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki says the leaks aimed at under my. political stability in the country the war logs published by online whistleblower wiki leaks detail thousands of iraqi deaths over the past six years maliki's brushing aside allegations that death squads under his command who are involved in some of the killings the premier struggling to hold on to power being unable to form a government after parliamentary election march mideast expert james danceable from king's college in london he's over reacting to the latest really. i think that would be very doubtful to imagine that the wiki leaks and the soldiers responsible for giving these documents to them have 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 has 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 or report 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 of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said. matter of fact really 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 the rating agencies show 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 them selves thoughts there from mideast expert james down from kings college in london we've got more on this whistleblowing scandal including interviews and in-depth coverage on our website r t v dot com you can find out what the wiki leaks both might have to say about the exposé and why he believes secrecy needs to come up as. well as for all of football fans out there check out our blog section for a detailed review of the latest games interesting facts and much more at our team dot com.

who controls the world wide web well russ and other countries are calling for an international body to govern the internet the web is currently coordinated by an american organization but with virtually anyone able to access the net it's become a powerful tool that can pose a massive security threat which is why many now feel it should be managed globally as alice had 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 time with attempting to regulate the when it blocks the united nations international telecommunications union or i t you'd think they could do

a better job as this conference earlier this month in mexico its members announced that took a management of the internet rick. 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 states of the 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 a springing up all over the city at the sing along rate and that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off the likes of all ages and backgrounds to get together socially 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 matlab tops but this is actually school russia style for thirteen year old alexander and his classmates keypad a mouse in our house much of a lot of learning is the textbook and pen. it's more interesting with computers even if you have to do boring research or a crown firms without it you're only taught 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 noticeboard overheads hanoi and school report

cards but it's headmaster insists that all this is used alongside more traditional means of educating he also believes his school is. so where is she 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 computer could have a substitute teacher let's go 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. but we have more on russia's proposals for global governance of the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister next hour here on our team. nobody more ahead for you this hour including drowning in garbage moscow doesn't find a way to solve the city's problem with rubbish or learn how to recycle it might

soon find itself buried in its own trash. the u.s. dollar dropped again on monday just a week before the federal reserve is expected to announce a new plan to pump more money into the economy it comes despite an agreement to avoid currency wars at a weekend meeting of the g twenty finance ministers in south korea but as lauren lyster now reports many believe the greenback remains america's ultimate war machine. 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. sensually 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 one being that american corporations in america investors take money borrow money and then they go 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 so 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 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 this. think very much in terms of power and. they want to keep it but 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. 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. german cargo ship has been seized by pirates off the coast of kenya three russians are said to be among the crew members taken captive somali pirates hijacked the ship on sunday which was on route from the united arab emirates to south africa the crew were boarded they managed to send it as a west signal before taking refuge in an emergency room it comes a day after a singapore gas tanker with seventeen crew mix crew members was hijacked in the same area pirates are now said to be holding nineteen vessels with more than four hundred hostages. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world in brief for you this hour maybe what this will say an air strike has killed fifteen militants in afghanistan's helmand province locals say several civilians were also killed in the attack which they say hit a mosque nato denies hitting the place of worship and causing civilian casualties. staying in afghanistan president karzai has confirmed his office receives around half a million euros from the wrong twice

a year but insist it's above board his comments come in response to a u.s. media report accusing tehran of given cash giving i should say cash to an afghan official to promote ukrainian interest in the country karzai says several states give his administration money in the form of aid including. six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured by a bomb in eastern pakistan the explosion went off at a soofi shrine where more than two hundred people had gathered two young men place the bomb on a motorcycle at one of the main gates no one has claimed responsibility earlier this month two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a sooky shrine in karachi killing nine version. and friends as finance minister says the country's nationwide strikes against pension reform are costing over a billion dollars a day authorities are struggling to restore petrol supplies following fuel blockades across the country oil workers have regained control of one of the key

refineries and are preventing tankers from getting in the protests have so far failed to stop a two year rise in the retirement age from going head. thousands of villagers have been urged to leave their homes amid fears of a volcano or. officials say activity at the volcano in central java increased markedly over the weekend hundred elderly people and children have already been moved the country is raising alert to at highest level and emergency shelters are pair a wave of evacuees. and. moscow's rubbish dumps are fault overflowing with no new facilities built in the city in the last twenty years after many residents the problem is now staring them in the face as you go off explains. a fortnight in a new appointment walk around outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was an old we covered. when he began seem fresh whiles of rubbish appearing in disposal

trucks coming and going 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 well ation 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 metres from a residential area but unfortunately this and many other rules on the disposal are often trashed late 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 deeper into the area the picture becomes even worse another closed waist york or is it the area is disputed between the town in a local forestry and they're going to take responsibility for the mess environmental

inspectors see there hopeless even fining the officials didn't help so it's the biggest barrier. he 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's simply no one to clean this up but specialists say there's still a way to fix things the other worthwhile so i do say mira 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 me improve the situation at least partially but that me 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 per year and less than fifteen percent is recycle

a picture hard to believe in many western countries where from a young age people are taught how to recycle if you work is going off already moscow. well join us later here on our team as we leave life on the ground to explore some tyranny in the world. there is not enough space for them on the ground. to. get things like systems under the sun. discover deeply hidden secrets. they are seeking. and even. talking to god. on the ground. more about

a life hidden underground in just under ten minutes time here on our tape but first let's check the business. hello time to delve into the world of business with stop with an exclusive to business r t russia's giant land of michigan and bank warns it's not ready to take part in the government's fast privatization program top officials unveiled the selloff of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential eight out of. the a b could be one of the facts to become a joint stock company but deputy chairman offaly follow says it's to. china development bank is always a village to be prepared ties but means a capacity of corleone advise a state visit. more than two decades to be paid at times.

seems that it is gender for. crunching only in this presidential residence three years and also on the privatization programme the executive director of international energy agency tells r t that the energy sector in russia well attract great investment once it has greater private ownership but the privatization is a very often taken a very important policy to get more investment from are on the wall then suddenly russia the huge. resources and privatizing ten getting money from. a perspective make good sense and that gives more let's say a potential of people being development and technology. and has rejected a nine billion dollar bit from interest so negligent but for its twenty five percent stake in the rules to make the world's largest aluminum company on friday

claimed that they all thought was derisory but their stake in the nickel producible is not for sale at any price the news comes after the rules because shareholders voted against an effort to sell to almost the current board of directors and interests who twenty five percent majority states have been locked in battle over control of neural sked nickel for several months now. and china is to be sure a six billion dollars credit line to russian coal producers for the development of new deposits for loan is aimed at companies interested in shipping colter china and would be used to invest in development of the fields and the surrounding infrastructure to areas already earmarked locators in the russian republic of two five as well as in suffolk. let's take a look at what's happening on the markets in europe both put sea on the deck saab overhaul the center of london the shares of mining companies are leading the gains

and german is the it's all going to stop and when this may stop twenty percent. russia stock markets outraising you positive territory the might sixes over a cent high in the afternoon there are chances of one point three percent most of the blue chips in the black with p.t.p. trading up three percent high on the r.t.s. and you're also looking leading over three percent on the my six bucking the trend is worse hydro down a quarter of a percent. russian internet company mail dog argue has set the price range for its initial public offering in london twenty three point seven to twenty seven point seven dollars. 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 hopes to raise about one. in by placing up to twenty percent of its shares by the end of the year. russia's fourth

largest still maker m.k. launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey all correspondent regina caution of us spoke to the chairman and president of m.k. viktor rationing of the rationale behind the company's latest strategic move. i mean that i would be 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 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 want 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 so at the

moment i'm ok also and i and 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 scan my 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 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 so. that's a business for now join me next often will. wealthy british science is not. the time to.

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question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about it's rare side effects serious life changing side effects. every month we give you the future. we help you understand how to get there and i want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for technology update on our jeep they faced it this is not a production would warrant. a full of shit and we should steppers are you sure to support your dream speech so they have no idea about the hardships to face. one it's the says it all tonight and for any army the life of a usaf is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice

and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. victory nineteen forty five dot dot com. here with r t live from moscow our top stories forcing children into the firing line two israeli soldiers await sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield the child was forced open back spot detained bombs during the gulf and more. condemnation vicious debate and calls for investigation all in the aftermath of the biggest leak of military files in u.s. history suggesting torture and civilian deaths in iraq prime minister nouri al maliki claims the timing of the exposé is aimed at causing his efforts to form

a government and undermine his power. and managing the worldwide web and un demands international cooperation to solve internet threats such as cyber terrorism and child pornography what is currently coordinated by an american organization but experts say the problems are too big for the u.s. to handle alone. now a report on life hidden underground here on r.t. . it's always dark and people who come think. you can make the german grenade go to disney with. rage here a long time ago now on the plane. and even the religious rights movement we knew is that there is nothing accidental in going steeds these men made cage which are significant to russian history talk to

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