which one of us a video of 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 you 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 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 without 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 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 policy or r.t. jerusalem. coming up in a few minutes here on r t printing the greenback to stay afloat u.s. continue on cash into its economy amid rising fears the global consequences would be devastating. but first the release of

a nearly four hundred thousand secret u.s. documents on the war in iraq is stirring up a storm there's outrage in baghdad as you iraqi prime minister nouri maliki says the league say undermining political stability in the country the war logs published by online whistleblower wiki leaks detail thousands of iraqi deaths over the past six years previously unaccounted for lucky's brushing aside allegations that death squads under his command were involved in some of the killings the premier is currently struggling to hold on to power after being unable to form a government following a parliamentary election in march well mideast expert james denzel from king's college in london says moment he's over reacting to the latest tweaky leak. 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 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 really 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 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 them selves. well martin the middle east correspondent for the guardian newspaper says the wiki leaks revelations only highlighted what people in iraq had already been aware. people had known bad things that happened then it doesn't appear to be a great surprise that american soldiers have been accused of looking the other way

or indeed sending. their detainees to iraqi brigades which were known for torture and other forms of infamous treatment so you know it has been received almost like a vindication of what people had no one had gone on here but there are no great surprises about exactly what had happened it's just doesn't seem that the things are tracking in the right direction people seem to be falling behind sectarian lines again there doesn't seem to be a will to trust the politicians when they say trust us we're going to embrace a secular across six iraq we haven't seen anything moving towards those pledges in the last seven or eight months and if we if we had to take the mood of the streets then things may in fact get a little bit worse. that was martin two of the middle east correspondent for the guardian there well we've got more on whistleblowing scandal including interviews and in-depth coverage on our website r.t. dot com to find out what the wiki leaks spokesman has to say about the exposé and

why he believes secrecy leads to corruption. and watch for your football fans out there check out our blog section for a detailed review of the latest games interesting facts and much more. who controls the world wide web while russia 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 has become a powerful tool that can pose a massive security threat which is why many now feel it should be managed globally as well as 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 involved ever be properly managed current leads the united states that's time with attempting to regulate the when it 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 announced that problem outage meant to the internet requires global cooling aeration russia's representative agrees. we have a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web the chub big in the sense it's a it's an international response and he wants countries a united commit 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 buying 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 increasingly alarming rate and that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off of likes of all ages and backgrounds to get together socially even 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 and bloggers paving the way youngsters like these now this may look like an internet cafe complete with state of the art math laptops 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 rules go with it and it's more interesting with computers even if you have to do boring research or crown firms

without it you're only told things but with a computer you're showing 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 its reach in our dependence on it continues to grow saturday nights in may never be the same again let's have it. well more on russia's

proposals for global governance of the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister in the about twenty minutes before that plenty more ahead for you including drowning in the garbage moscow doesn't way to solve the city's problem with rubbish or learn how to recycle it might soon find itself buried in its own traps. the u.s. dollar dropped again on monday just a week before the federal reserve's expected to announce a new plan to pump get 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 it 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 really really. especially to make other economies pretty 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 thing that american corporations in america investors take money borrow money and then they go all over the world to 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 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 something 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 in my readers that. think very much in terms of power and even now are. they want to keep it 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 or in the stir are t. new york it's sixty minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other stories dominating world news nato air strikes have reported killed fifteen militants in afghanistan's helmand province locals claim several civilians also died in the attack which they say hit a mosque nato denies hitting the place of worship and causing civilian casualties. thank you know afghanistan president karzai has confirmed his office receives around half a new neural rose from the wrong twice a year but insists it's above board his comments come in response to a u.s. media report accusing tehran of giving crafts to an afghan official official to promote iranian interests in the country cars i said several states give his

administration money in the form of aid including the u.s. . six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured by a bomb in eastern pakistan the blast went off at a soofi shrine where more than two hundred people had gathered two young men placed the explosive 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 super shrine in karachi killing nine worshippers. and france's finance minister says the country's nationwide strikes against pension reform up costing over half 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 ahead. and thousands of new zealanders have taken to the streets in protest against plans to move to protect

production of the hobbit films elsewhere demonstrators hope to convince hollywood to shoot prequels to the lord of the rings movies in the country the proposal to film elsewhere came last month following threats from actors unions to boycott the film in a row over wages. and moscow's rubbish dumps are full to overthrowing with no new facilities built in the city in the last twenty years 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 block right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was an old we still covered with soil but when he began seemed fresh piles of rubbish appearing and 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 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 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 penalty is only around two hundred dollars each to get 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 the law increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but that means we need two new rules 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 get is going to forty moscow. well that brings up to date from the news desk you will be here with the business after

a short break. great for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. to have a company time to get the latest from the world of business and we'll start with an exclusive to business r.t. russia's giant lend of michigan on bank warns it's not ready to take part in the government's fast privatization program top officials unveiled to the sell off of nine hundred state firms on wednesday on the presidential age i did

a lot of court has said baby could be one of the fast to become a joint stock company but debit chairman says it's to. china development bank is on the verge to be pretty tight but ins a capacity of wholly owned by the state resists. more than two decades to be free of times and i don't see that it is gender for. functioning only in this capacity all of us in the three years and also on the privatization program the executive director of international energy agency tells r.t. but the energy sector in russia will attract great investment once it has grace a private ownership of the privatization is a very often taken. very important policy to get more investment from around the

world and subtly rochelle's the huge. resources and privatizing ten getting money from. it's a perspective make good sense and that gives more let's say a tank shell or. development and technologies. andrew saul has rejected the nine billion dollar bit from interest only of lodging at the time in for its twenty five percent stake in a nickel to the world's largest company on friday claimed that the offer was derisory that their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale it any price abuse comes after a roast nickel shareholders voted against n s a barbarous roussel to oust the current board of directors through solid interests through both twenty five percent majority of states have been locked in battle over control of little for several months now. and china is to issue a six billion dollars credit line to russian coal producers for the development of

new deposits the loan is aimed at companies interested in shipping coal to china and will be used to invest in development of the fields and the surrounding infrastructure to areas already earmarked all located in the russian republic of as well as settling. all that cross over to europe where the markets are trading higher by the sea and the op over half a sentence london of the shah of mining companies leading the gains and germany's whole saga is top and the witness list up twenty percent. russia stock markets are trading in positive territory in my six something r.t.s. that rising more than one percent most of the troops saw in the black with a view to be trading other three percent high on the r.t.s. then rolls nickel losing over three percent of the might six bucking that trend is first hydro down a quarter of a percent. and finally u.s.

stocks are rising after world finance leaders have to better balance global trade how well the dollar has resumed its fall and its driving stock and commodity prices high and dollar has hit a fresh fifteen below against. russian internet company mail dot are you has. the prize range for its initial public offering in london at twenty three point seven to twenty seven point seven dollars per share value the company which owns instant messenger i see you earned a stake in facebook at around five billion dollars the mail dot are you previously announced it hoped to raise about one bit and by placing up to twenty percent of its shares by the end of the year. now russia's fourth largest filmmaker am m k has launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey of course on the but you know question of us spoke to the chairman and president of m n k v that russian about

their russian not being behind the company's latest strategic move. and that ability of his or her body 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 or 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 italy to nisha the arab countries in the persian gulf were huge construction projects are underway and where zinc plated polymers are needed in syria and iran are also very close so it metallica m m k 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 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 meet thirty percent of the overall demand in 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 over dinner on the part of those 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 we are 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 places business news german nextel for more and get more stories while web sites are to dot com slash business.

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first of the website. georgian r t how many so now with the headlines for some children into the firing line to israeli soldiers and wait sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield the child was forced to open bags home to contain bombs and cause more. condemnation vicious debate and calls for an investigation of all the in the aftermath of the biggest leak of military piles in u.s. history suggesting torture and still billion doubts in iraq prime minister nouri al maliki claims the timing of the exposé is aimed at sabotaging his former government and undermine its power. and managing the worldwide web the un demands international cooperation to solve internet threats such as cyber terrorism

entitled pornography is currently coordinated by an american organization but experts say the problems are too big for the u.s. to handle no well russia also believes the worldwide web should not be governed purely by the u.s. next up russia's communications minister gives us more details about the country's proposals. you gotta go expressiveness the rule now do you know mr shaw going to thank you for your time at the internet is a global resource that embraces government n.g.o.s businesses and the private sector how come that ministration of such a global structure re still in the hands of one private american company i can which cooperates closely with.