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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 in danger and civilians deliberately is absolutely prohibited but the reality on the ground is still very different you had to show 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 in with us put them in the front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then the interest out one hundred sixty complaints were filed about the way soldiers behaved in the gaza war two years ago but only forty seven criminal investigations which if i tell you dealt 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
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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. scripts 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 the idea of 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. surely this monday night the green back to this used as a weapon this is expected on cash in the economy despite fears of triggering a global currency war got a report coming up. at the largest leak of secret u.s. military documents in history is stirring up a storm of reaction there's outrage in baghdad as iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki's. is it threatens the balance of power in the country the iraq war files
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published online whistleblower leaks detail fifteen thousand violent deaths over the past six years previously unaccounted for maliki's brushing aside allegations the death squads on the 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 mideast expert james den slow from king's college london believes that al maliki's overreacting to the latest wiki 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 document certainly do point to particular problem with the prime ministerial office in iraq it's an office that's been significantly empowered as part of the u.s.
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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 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 it's 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 us will be put in danger by them talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself creates a very different picture of 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 a. led the invasion two thousand and three said quite natural actually we don't do
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body counts but the 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 sourced from martin choose lawful middle east correspondent for the guardian newspaper he says the wiki leaks revelations only highlighted more people in iraq it already been aware of 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
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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 sects 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. talking to our team that was martin chewed off the middle east correspondent for the guardian newspaper we've got some more on the whistle blowing scandal including interviews and in-depth coverage over on our home page our t. dot com find out in the field with. this to say about the exposé he spoke to us and why he believes that secrecy to corruption that's online tonight. like for the elderly could be about to get brighter here in russia find out what authorities have got in store to lift their standard of living again the story interests you tonight take a look at r.t.
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dot com. talking about websites and such like internet access is no longer a luxury of course it's rapidly become a vital resource for billions of uses the web's 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 to which is why many countries now feel it should be managed globally as a teaser let's have it 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 time off with regulating the day to day running of the web through
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a partnership with california based company i can bump the united nations international telecommunications union i t u wants to start playing a bigger role as well as this conference earlier this month in mexico it's me it's one hundred members decided that effective management of the internet requires a global intergovernmental cooperation. governments want to have an equal role in the policies. that are not in the regulator to not in regulating the day to day running of internet not in my unique identifiers of the internet which is the role of icon but in the public policies just as you have in every domain in how in education you have an organization where governments crammed together. international public policies is the same thing which applies to the internet. russia's represents a great. number one we have
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a very good dialogue with america but we believe the threats now facing the web are too big and assisted in international response only once countries are united can effectively tackle terrorist extremist and child pornography networks human. he understands america's reluctance to lose control of what it perceives to be a large we'll deal with. it it's essential that we're capable of reaction swiftly to any new technologies or legal issues and that's why the idea was discussing how best to reform and become more flexible and dynamic that the i.t. use says it's pretty dynamic has it in this. things more fast moving and more dynamic than the internet if you scroll obliquely forwards those who believe that i. lied to bureaucratic you an organization we existed in modern for more than eighty years outside the u.n. system where technical body and we developed
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a technique of cutting edge standouts. but the complex debate playing out on the other side of the atlantic probably won't be playing on the minds of your average web user. according to the idea that the number of people with internet access at home we're all supposed to billion by the end of the year so with its ever increasing the u.n. things that now is the time to get that program online before the web spins out of all control alice habits. and it will have more on russia's proposal for global governance of the internet when we hear from countries communications minister in about twenty minutes here on r t tonight before we report on how the russian capital is drowning in garbage out of moscow doesn't find a way to solve the city's problem with rubbish recycle it might soon find itself buried in its own trash alarming report coming up in just a few minutes from. the u.s.
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dollar weaken monday a week before the federal reserve's expected decision to pump more cash into the american economy the drop was prevented by the g twenty finance ministers pledge not to devaluate their currencies to avoid trade wars results his loyalists are imports next many believe the u.s. isn't ready to give up using the greenback as a 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 including financial world war two foreign returned he. especially to make other economies pay tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war u.s. and others. 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
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economy. hundred fifty billion dollars and that shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from banks in the last two years to try to prop up the u.s. economy this policy called quantitative easing is supposed to stimulate the economy lowering interest rates and enabling banks to lend more but it hasn't exactly helped the average american the united states so it's interest rates very low and tries to open up. that american corporations in america investors take money borrow money and then they go all over the world and barker's 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 are lots
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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. also like oil but they all put their money into the price of energy for most of the world that consumes it goes up to. and when you 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.
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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. 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 that instead of having this multipolar world lead by. 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 currency fighting back against the u.s. is financial world war that in the end may prove a losing battle or in mr r t new york twenty fifteen moscow time on the budget let me bring up to date world news in brief now on the youngest detainee held at the u.s. prison in guantanamo bay has pleaded guilty to war. against him. a canadian
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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 made his plea in a bid to limit his sentence and staying in afghanistan president karzai has confirmed his office receives around half a million euros from iran twice a year but insists the donations are transparent his comments come in response to a u.s. media report accusing tehran of handing over cash to promote and raising interests in afghanistan because i says several states give us the ministration money in the form of aid including the united states. six people have been killed more than a dozen injured by foreign minister of pakistan the blast went off. and we're more than two hundred people gathered two young men placed the explosive on a motorcycle at one of the main gates see for the muslims who follow mystical practices in their worship this month to suicide bombers of time to see if you try
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to achieve killing nine worshipers. well we'll do from says finance minister says the country's nationwide protest against pension reform. costing over half a billion dollars a day authorities are struggling to restore petrol supplies following fuel blockades across the country oil workers have regain control though of one of the key refineries and preventing tankers from getting in the strikes are said to rage on but have so far failed to stop a two year rise in the retirement age from going ahead. thousands of villages have been urged to leave their homes amid fears a volcano eruption in indonesia officials said activity at a volcano in central java increased markedly over the weekend hundreds of elderly people and children have already been moved the country is raise the alert to its highest level now emergency shelters are in preparing for a way to vacuum. here in moscow the rubbish dumps nearly overflowing with no new facilities built in the city for the last twenty years and for many residents
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the problem is now too close for comfort a drought sees it going off explains. when eon bought a flat in a new important walk around outside moscow he knew the hill next to the house was in and we covered with soil when he began seem fresh piles of rubbish appearing and disposing 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 parking 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 i'm pushing this and many others we the schools don't crack like here in the town 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
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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 waste your or is it the area is disputed between the town in a local forestry and neither want to take responsibility for the mess environmental inspectors say they're hopeless even finding the officials didn't help since the biggest benefit the is only around two hundred dollars each to the environmental consciousness is very low people just don't care for me needs much easier to come and just down there trash it here and bureaucracy is making it even worse there's simply no one to clean this up but specialists say there's 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 like one who is ever going to throw out an empty bottle get at
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least one third of the money back for it. perhaps all or increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but that means you need to neuter building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles moscow produces at least five and a half million tons of waste very 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 you've got is going to forty moscow. as promised who should control the world wide web big question big answers just ahead tonight here on out say but it's a monday night business before that next. kolo and a very well welcome to the business news long term investors in russian stocks may soon be exempted from paying tax on profits it's part of a new package of incentives put forward by prime minister vladimir putin he also
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recommends making the installation of some high tech and energy saving equipment except from two thousand bush and says the tax breaks for help russian business attract additional capital at the pump we suggest 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. russia's giant land national bank warns it's not ready to take boston the government's fast privatization program top officials unveiled the selloff of nine hundred state firms on wednesday and presidential aide to the record which has said could be one of the festival come with joint stock company but deputy chairman as tony ballance says is to. china development bank is on is
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a village to be proved but in the capacity of wholly owned by the state this is. more than two decades to be free of times. i don't see that it is gender for. functioning only in this capacity all that was there was three years and also on that privatization program the executive director of international energy agency tells r t that the energy sector in russia well i tracked great investment once it has grace a 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 and privatizing it and getting money from.
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a perspective make good sense and that gives more. development and technologies. andrew sol has rejected a nine billion dollars 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 story about their stake in the nickel producer was not for sale at any price but news comes after nickel shareholders voted against an effort by two salt to oust the current board of directors who sell and interests of both twenty five percent in georgia 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
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move up as well as. the markets now and then russia by six r.t.s. rose about one percent most of the blue chips finished up the day in the black with the trading of the three percent high and on the r.t.s. and the rolls to make a living under three percent on the mice and spotting tramples roost 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 two twenty seven point seven dollars per share this would value the company which owns instant messenger i see q. and a stake in facebook at around five billion dollars the male dogs are you group previously announced it hopes to raise about one billion by placing up to twenty percent of shares by the end of the year. but has fourth largest still make an album k has launched a new metal processing joint venture in turkey our correspondent mention the
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question of us spoke to the chairman and president of m m k v the russian gov about the company's latest strategic move. the rebel 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 tunisia 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. am ok also owns an iron ore felts and during the financial downturn the
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development of this felt 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 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. are going up but i thought 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. join me next stall for more
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this is awesome from moscow these are all top stories tonight forcing children into the firing line two israeli soldiers await sentencing of the three convicted of using a palestinian boy as a. child was forced to welcome back still to contain von stroom because of war. come to the nation a vicious debate and calls for investigation all in the aftermath of the biggest leak of military files in u.s. history suggesting tolls and civilian deaths in iraq prime minister nouri maliki claims the timing of the exposé is a good sabotaging his efforts to form one government and undermine his power. and reigning in the web site of a terrorism and child pornography have u.n. experts calling for international cooperation to eliminate internet bret's the web
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currently coordinated by an american organization expert said the problems are too big for the u.s. to handle alone. russia also believes the worldwide web should not be governed purely by the u.s. up next than tonight russia's communications minister gives us more details about the country's proposals. you gotta go expressiveness though do now do you know mr shaw going to thank you for your time but the internet is a global resource that embraces government n.g.o.s businesses and the private sector how come that a ministration of such a global structure re still in the hands of one private american company i can which cooperates closely with the us government long was among your.

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