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 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 where if i tell you doubt most of them have since been closed 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 it's 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 policia r.t. jerusalem coming up in a few minutes for you here in our to printing the greenback to follow us continues the front care center with a condominium ever 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's outrage in baghdad as iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki says the leaks aimed at undermining political stability in the country well. the war logs

published by online whistleblower weekly leaks details thousands of iraqi deaths over the past six years previously unaccounted for while it is brushing aside allegations that death squads under his command were involved in some of the killings premiers currently struggling to hold on to power after being unable to form a government following a parliamentary election in march the mideast expert james down from king's college london says molecules overreacting to the latest we can only. think that would be very doubtful to imagine 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 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 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 really unlike any previous media story or it total 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 than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three. he 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 well martin truelove the middle east correspondent for the guardian newspaper says wiki leaks revelations only highlighted what people in iraq had already been aware of. people had known bad things had 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 are 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 have to take the mood of the streets then things may in fact get a little bit worse. that was martin the middle east correspondent for the guardian we've got more on the whistleblowing scandal including interviews and in-depth coverage ahead on to our web site. you find out what the wiki leaks spokesman has to say about the act because they might believe the secrecy the. last row you football fans out there check out our blog section of our detailed review of the latest game some interesting facts and much more.

who controls the world wide web well russia and other countries are calling for an international body to govern the internet the web is currently coordinated by an american organization with virtually anyone able to access the nat it's become a powerful tool that can pose a massive security threat which is why many now feel that sydney man it's globally 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 currently it's the united states that's tasked with attempting to regulate the web boss the united nations international telecommunications union or i.t.v. you think they could do a better job at this conference earlier this month in mexico its members announce

that proper management of the internet requires global corporation russia's representative agrees. we have a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web the two big necessitates an international response and he wants countries a united in their fates 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 by 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 acting career singing along rate and that's because they're feeding a growing demand him off the ice of all ages and backgrounds to get together so surely this is just surf the web or is this close to doing compete against each other playing very latest interactive computer games and that's largely thanks to

russia's burgeoning telecommunications industry bringing high speed wireless networks to the masses with russia's new wave of scarily technologically savvy tweezers 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 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 couldn't sort of 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 an online messaging have replaced the notice board overhead tannoy and school report counts but its 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 holds 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 sivits r.t. osc. well have more on russia's proposals for global governance of the internet when we hear from the country's communications minister in an hour's time here on r.t.e. well before that though we report on how the russian capital is garbage and of moscow doesn't find a way to solve the city's problem with problems or run out of a cycle that might soon find itself buried on.

the u.s. dollar dropped again on monday just a record for 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 and south korea but as lauren lister 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 retailer. especially to make other economies pay tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us dollars are the bullets

and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy federal reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and have shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy called quantitative easing is supposed to stimulate the economy lowering interest rates and enabling banks to lend more but it hasn't exactly helped the average american if 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 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 if 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. 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. 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. the german company says its cargo ship seized by pirates off the coast of

kenya has been set free three russians are said to be among the crew members the vessel was hijacked by somali gunmen on sunday while en route from the united arab emirates to south africa the crew reportedly managed to send as a west signal before taking refuge in an emergency room well it comes a day after a singapore gas tanker with seventeen crew members was hijacked in the same area pirates are now said to be holding nineteen vessels with more than four hundred hostages. it's sixteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some world news in brief for you youngest held at the u.s. prison in guantanamo bay pleaded guilty to all five counts of terror against him all more than a canadian citizen was captured by american troops in afghanistan when he was fifteen now twenty four his charges include throwing a grenade which killed a u.s. soldier that are made his plea in a bid to limit his sentence. in afghanistan president karzai has confirmed his

office receives around half a million euro zone twice a year but insists it's a board his comments come in response to the u.s. media report accusing tehran of giving cash to an afghan official to promote iranian interest in the country karzai says several states give his administration money in the form of aid including the united states. six people have been killed and more than a dozen injured by a bomb in eastern pakistan the blast went off that of sufi shrines where more than two hundred people had gathered two young men placed the explosive on a motorcycle at one of the main gates so if these are muslims who follow mr mystical practices in their worship earlier this month two suicide bombers attacked the suv in karate killing nine or shepherds. friends as finance minister says the country's nationwide strikes against pension reform are costing over half a billion dollars a day. authorities are struggling to restore petrol supplies following fuel

blockades across the country oh workers have regained control of one of the key refineries that 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 moscow's rubbish dumps are full to overflowing with no no facilities built in the city in the last twenty years and for many residents the problem is now staring them in the face as a group reports. when ileum bought a flat in a new apartment block right outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was an old wee stuart covered with soil but when he began seem 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 waste 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 three 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 kind of not much further away from the capitol 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 waste york or is it the area is disputed between the town and a local forestry and neither want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors see there helpless even fining the officials didn't help since the biggest penalty is only around two hundred dollars each environmental consciousness is very low people just don't care for me needs much easier to come and just down

there trash it here and bureaucracy is making it even worse there is simply no one to clean this up but specialists say there is still a way to fix things. 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 the 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 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. you're up to date now from the news desk where take a short break and then you're going to joins us with the latest business. hungry

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recommends making the installation of some high tech and energy saving equipment except for. the tax breaks for help russian business trucks additional company. if the pope. just implementing tax amendments to create favorable conditions for innovative activity the tax changes will send a strong signal to those who participate in the economy and will help companies and producers increase efficiency and competitiveness to produce high tech goods with russia's giant lender of michigan on bank warns it's not ready to take boston think government's fast privatization program top officials unveiled the selloff of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential aides to the record which has said the a b. could be one of the first to become the joint stock company but deputy chairman as tony ballance says is to early childhood development bank is on the

verge to be peer ties but in the capacity of wholly own advice the state has this band. of more than two decades to be period times so i don't see that it is gender for barack because functioning only in this capacity already there are three years and also on that privatization program the executive director of international energy agency tells r t that the energy sector and russia well i tracked great investment once it has greater private ownership they the privatization is a very often taken. very important policy to get more investment from around the world and certainly russia has a huge. resources and privatizing ten getting money from. a perspective make good sense and that gives more let's say

a tank shell or developing development and technologies. andrew sol has rejected a nine billion dollar bid from interest only of limited but for its twenty five percent stake in nickel the world's largest aluminum company on friday claimed that the offer was derived that their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price but news comes after rolls nickel shareholders voted against an effort by two sought to oust the current board of directors who sell and interests of both twenty five percent and georgia's stakes have been locked in battle over control of the rules to nickel for several months now. and china is to issue a six billion dollars credit line to russian co-produces for the development of new deposits the loan is aimed at companies interested in shipping code to china and would be used to invest in development of the fields and the surrounding infrastructure to areas already earmarked are located in the russian republic of to

move up as well as. the markets now and then roughly by six r.t.s. rose about one percent most of the blue chips finished at the day in the black with the trading other three percent higher on the r.t.s. than the rolls to make a living other three percent on the mice and spotting trumbull's reuss hydro down a quarter of a percent. russian internet company mail dot are you has set the price range for its initial public offering in london at twenty three point seven to 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 crew previously announced it hoped to raise about one billion by placing up to twenty percent of shares by the end of the year. buttressed fourth largest filmmaker album k has launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey our correspondent in the course of

a spoke to the chairman and president of m m k victor russian of about the company's latest strategic move. mirabile it in his or her body have been 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 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 is included polymers are needed in syria and iran are also very close so . i'm ok also owns an iron ore fields 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 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're 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 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 as. our join me next hour for more

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crosstalk is on the way here in our team but first let's check in on the headlights forcing children into the firing line two israeli soldiers await sentencing after being convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield child was forced to open bags thought to contain bombs during the gaza war. 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 doubts in the wrong prime minister nouri maliki claims the timing of the exposé is aimed at sabotaging his efforts to form a government and undermine his power. and managing the worldwide web the u.n. demands international cooperation to solve internet threats such as cyber terrorism

and child pornography the web is currently ordinated by an american organization but experts say the problems are too big for the u.s. handle alone. we have a know it will have more on all those stories in about thirty minutes up next peter the bell and his gas talk capitalism and cash as midterm elections heat up in the u.s. that's coming up in just a few minutes. and . a little to me welcome to you jim.