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 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 him with us put him in the front of the patrol you just walk your patrol in the village with your kid and then no one for a start one hundred sixty complaints were filed about the way soldiers behaved in the gaza war two years ago but only forty seven criminal investigations were ever carried out 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 power. as

a 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 that's part and parcel unfortunately of running a military operation to say that as a general phenomenon i.d.f. soldiers you 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 here r.t. jerusalem just but earlier tonight i spoke to the former soldier turn the truth campaign you're featured in the report you sure he believes the two soldiers in question are being used as scapegoats by those much higher up the army ladder. this is in a way a political trial and this is a trial to try to clean the system these two late low ranking soldiers are going to

pay for the mistakes of all the a separation of all the military for the big problems of the strategy and weapons that were used in operation cast lead for the rules of engagement and they're going to pay for it and in a way the army is trying to sacrifice them to clean itself and this is i think a problem there is a history of this of more and more cases of soldiers complaining of policy and complaining and still it seems like the ground level in the military cannot accept in a way this change because when you are in the field you always think that the judge in jerusalem they have their own idea that i had to do things and you know how to do things and this is the way you were trained on and that's why this is the way you do and in a way when you are in the system and when you are on the ground enforcing the occupation you in a way to lose the ability to really distinguish right from wrong. i was former israeli soldier and founder of the breaking the silence organization who to shore sharing his thoughts of me a bit earlier on coming up in the program we report on how the russian capital is

drowning in garbage out of moscow doesn't find a way to solve its rubbish recycled bather it might soon find example buried under it so trash as we report. the largest leak of secret u.s. military documents in history stirring up a storm of reactions outrage in baghdad as iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki says it threatens the balance of power in the country the iraq war falls published by online whistleblower wiki leaks detail fifteen thousand violent deaths over the past six years previously unaccounted for maliki's brushing aside allegations the death squads under his command were involved in some of the killings the premier's currently struggling to hold on to power after being unable to form a government following a parliamentary election in march mideast expert james dann slow from king's college london spoke to a c believes he's overreacting 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 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 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 like unlike any previous media story or anecdotal 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 are informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years and nowhere is that more true than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said quite matter of factually 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 ngo'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. james henslow from king's college london there we've got more on the whistle blowing scandal including interviews and in-depth coverage on our home page r.t.e. dot com find out what the wiki leaks spokesman had to say to us about the exposé and why he believes secrecy leads to corruption plus also online on our web site

check out the interview with the site's founder julian assange see what he's got to say about the whole leak all the answers for you on our home page dot com. plus so solidified life for the elderly could be about to get a bit brighter here in russia find out what authorities have in store to lift their standard of living and our team to call. someone in moscow for next story the city's rubbish dumps nearly overflowing with no new facilities built in the city for the last twenty years for many residents the problem is now too close for comfort as as well. when leon 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 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 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 coarser than five hundred metres from a residential area but unfortunately this and many other rules on disposal are often trashed like here in the town of can i do or 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 the deeper into the area the picture becomes even worse another closed waist york or is it the area is disputed between

the town and a local forestry and they 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 so 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 their money back for it. perhaps the law increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but . building the needed infrastructure to either recycle or resell used bottles.

produces at least five million tons of waste per year and less than fifteen percent is we circle a picture of hard to believe in many western countries where from a young age people are taught how to recycle you go to school forty more school. in a couple of top world news stories know the youngest detainee held at the u.s. prison in guantanamo bay has pleaded guilty to all five counts of terror against him. 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 made his plea in a bid to limit its sentence. afghan president hamid karzai is confirmed his office receives around half a million euros from around twice a year but insists the donations are transparent his comments come in response to a u.s. media report accusing taran of handing over cash to promote

a rein in interests in afghanistan because i says several states give his administration money in the form of a including the u.s. . but one of our top stories tonight the storm raises after the release by wiki leaks of nearly four hundred thousand secret u.s. documents some of war in iraq let's get some more insight on this we're joined by ray mcgovern he's a former cia analyst joining us from washington indeed seriousness get the right city showing good to have you with us this morning so u.s. officials say the latest wiki leak endangers lives the national security indeed the iraqi prime minister is saying it's aimed at undermining his power a lot of reaction to this wiki leaks themselves say they're simply trying to make the truth heard who's right. well i'm afraid i would have to say that wiki leaks is right what maliki the prime minister in iraq has are afraid of the disclosures that he has his own personal stop oh he's got his own personal.

police force to take up an prison his opponents that's going to get out now or it is already out on the baghdad streets and whereas his opponents pretty much knew this was going on now they have to deal with it publicly and i suggest that this will make it far more difficult for maleki or anybody else that the u.s. has anointed to form a government in iraq what about the news of these fifteen thousand iraqi war dead that's been uncovered because of wiki leaks now who do you think is going to be held responsible for those deaths do you think anyone in that whatever face charges for it. well these are fifteen thousand additional we're talking about about fifty thousand civilians already confirmed killed now we have fifteen thousand more if my arithmetic is correct that's about five times the fifteen thousand additional oh five times the number killed on nine eleven will anyone be

held accountable well that's the big question for a country when he leaks has done is made the information available and the question is whether united states citizens can handle it where they will be able to get enough of the information and be interested enough to turn the country around to the country used to be a decade ago what will washington hasn't been able to put a lid on wiki leaks as gets difficult to know how they could do it we've already been promised indeed even more secret documents from wiki leaks how far can we go washington stop them in the end do you think. well they're pulling all all the stops out as we say. to get julian the sanjian to get him to stop. it's quite a surprise to me that with all the technological capability that the national security agency for example has and all this cyber warfare business that the u.s.

government has not been able to shut down wiki leaks that speaks to wiki leaks imaginative this in its prudence as well daniel ellsberg as you probably know was with julian assange which this past week and i think part of that was protection because you know if they're going to take out julian assan and. daniel ellsberg wanted to be there too that's good that's and that's a feeling of camaraderie with people who are truth tellers you know one of the one of the things here is the way the u.s. and the pentagon are playing things they are they are killing the messenger ok the defaming julian song wish and they are calling for prosecution when they should be thanking him for exposing these lies for exposing these abuses one of the one of the main commentators on one of our main channels diane sawyer was was

interviewing martha raddatz one of the correspondents from the from the pentagon and martha said you know this is terrible that all kinds of torture going on the u.s. doesn't do anything about it there were fifteen thousand more civilian casualties the u.s. government said that they never counted them but they have been and there are people shooting civilians from helicopters because you can't surrender to a helicopter and diane sawyer says well i know there's a great deal of outrage and i'm thinking outrage that's terrific though i still have it you do what about the future of iraq let's broaden it out a bit what could happen there off to u.s. troops leave do you think will be a real. oh hello i don't i don't think you can hear me can you know hello ray mcgovern with the best will in the world i don't think you can hear me now one more check ray mcgovern can you hear me. now i believe we we've lost the line to him so

anyway we got the gist of that conversation there ended rather dramatically thanks ray mcgovern there former cia analyst joining us on the line from the u.s. capitol here on r.t. tonight already well the u.s. dollar weaken monday a week before the federal reserve's expected decision to pump more cash into the american economy the drop wasn't prevented by the g twenty finance ministers pledge not to devalue their currency to avoid trade wars but artie's laura mr reports now that 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 leading financial world war two prey in foreign reserves. 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 but the 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 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 stock commodities wheat sugar soybeans those affect your food prices i'll take these sold investors for lots of money in 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 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 do us are acting like an a.t.m. for the world pumping cash into the economy trillions of dollars and 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 leaders in 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 and sort 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 coming to 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. just a desire to explore the world wide web the those who control it we try to reveal some answers for you next to you tonight.

mr schoen going to thank you for your time the internet is a global resource that embraces government n.g.o.s businesses and the private sector how come that administration of such a global structure still in the hands of one private american company i can which cooperates closely with the u.s. government is among us we might use. it mainly cooperates with the department of commerce but the fact is that a certain monopoly is present in the world this technology was invented to meet the interests of the u.s. but then it expanded around the world it's been developing very rapidly truly embrace in all levels of our life people make money on the internet and for the internet even government systems now use these technologies none the less the corporations are still being deciding everything it is aware of changes taking place worldwide and it makes certain concessions to the international community it

has good relations with russia and syria which is proven by the fact that our country was the first to get the right to create a national domain of the top level r.f. within the present framework of cooperation and we can hardly complain about the americans we're very good dialogue we hear each other but some threats are rising for the internet and internet technologies and these threats can only be responded to internationally this technology in the world wide web doesn't brace the entire world therefore governments and even more so corporations simply cannot result. internet related problems therefore russia among a number of other countries is proposing the development of international mechanisms that would help fight the problems that even the americans are concerned about what our american colleagues have been telling us that we should be working together against common threats opening our borders taking part in the international forums and so on so how does the u.s. explain its own refusal to expand international participation in the internet's

administration. some of. their key argument is that this is a very dynamic resource therefore any attempt to bureaucratize this technology within an international structure would slow down the internet development and hinder efficient response to new technologies are rising at least every six months if not every month moreover they reason that so far this resource has been developing successfully without international involvement they're willing to cooperate bilaterally at the non-governmental level to tackle specific issues that arise but they contradict their own position one of the main concerns that the u.s. government has until communications and c.t. is a threat to what they call cyber security how can one fight such threats unless they find a mechanism to enforce was aleutians in a corporation as long as things keep developing according to commercial law we won't be able to fight technological risks or extremism terrorism and other things that the international community believes are acceptable on the internet a commercial corporation in spite of all the u.s.

power it will not be able to cope with these problems even at a bilateral level therefore russia believes that we need an international institution that would respond to such issues and we believe that the international telecommunications union would be the best institution for the job. what. you've got this international telecommunication to give me and that includes one hundred and ninety two countries intends to take over the internet's administration and by doing so to end the american monopoly here what are the benefits of. devolving power from one state to a group of states. that's. when you go. and we aren't saying that the i to you should take up all areas of the internet is development we believe that some aspects should be regulated internationally this organization was formed in eight hundred sixty five when the un was nonexistent it was founded by twenty countries including russia consequently it became one of the

un special purpose organization which it does bring together practically all countries in the world and communications exist in all countries as well for some technological communications related issues arising between one state and another or between a state and a group of states are perfectly regulated by this organization i'll go so far as to say that this is one of the most efficient special purpose organizations if not the most efficient which has an excellent reputation and great experts as well as established mechanisms and that knows how to respond to all problems it's response is probably not as efficient as modern technology requires nonetheless communications work in all countries operators maintain their relations in spite of different levels of development and types of technology one way or another they manage to find compromises and technical and technological solutions that enable communications to function properly. as for russia what concrete proposals has it made we can say that it's necessary to define a set of issues falling under to regulation to set up mechanisms of regulation and

try to apply them in practical life for that we also support a reform of documents of the international telecommunications union under the eye to charter all underlying principles should first be approved at plenty of potential conferences and leaders submitted for ratification to national governments naturally this bureaucratic process can go around in circles forever this is how things stand now we suggest revising the charter so that it reflects only cornerstone issues we want this document to be untouchable like national constitutions and. to occasional change only while the current issues could be solved without interference from national parliaments and without creating an excessively difficult procedure that would be a response to the concerns of our american partners that the mechanisms were suggesting get stuck in red tape. but one of the potential difficulties of changing the model of running the internet. with the potential difficulty consists in the

fact that the internet is a fast changing technology and constantly trying to gain in something is not the best solution even if an international regulatory body is set up but there's little we can do about that because this is a condition dictated by the high speed of development of modern technologies i see the main problem in the ability to react promptly to new technologies new notions new terms and new legal relationships that is why we're talking about the need to reform the governing procedures in the international telecommunications union and to make it more flexible and dynamic thank you very much for this interview thank you very much.

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