and his fighting family forced to watch one of us a few 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 injuring civilians deliberately is absolutely prohibited but the reality on the ground is still very different you who 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 were ever carried out most of them have since been closed i think that the ask a combat soldier and serve in the occupied territories or use palestinians as human shields like to ask you to drink coffee in the morning but israeli lawyers say convicting the two soldiers is to the i.d.f. 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 as 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 ranking soldiers and not the commanders they accuse of allowing human shields behind the laws back here. while i spoke to the former soldier turned truth company featured in the reporter who did show he believes the two servicemen in question are being used to scapegoat but army

superiors seeking to clean up the image of the military 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 power seeing 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 about how 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're on the ground enforcing the occupation you're in

a way to lose the ability to really distinguish right from wrong. this is r.t. from moscow coming up surely a trashy business. this is quite a typical picture of a. garage as well from some of them were built legally they had to be dismantled but instead in their polices these piles of rubbish have grown all around the area find their rubbish go faces if it doesn't get to grips with recycling plus the. u.s. is exposed to the pot more cash into its economy despite fears of triggering a global currency war we're going to report on the. first the largest leak of secret u.s. military documents in history is continuing to generate political shock waves worldwide there's outrage in baghdad as the iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki says it threatens the balance of power in the country and has called for a federal investigation the iraq war files 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 those killings the prime is 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 believes that he's overreacting though to the latest wiki leak. i 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 and let's bear in mind that there hasn't been an iraqi government for seven months so it's not as likely as if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in a 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. 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 unlike any previous media story or 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 said quite matter of factually we don't do 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 former cia officer ray mcgovern told me the damning truth from the file shows the iraqi probably had his own killing machine making it very difficult for him or other american backed alternatives to form a government. what maliki prime minister in iraq because are afraid of the disclosures that he has his own personal stop oh he's got his own personal. police force to take up and imprison 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 and 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 one of the things here is is the way the u.s. and the pentagon are playing things they are they are killing the messenger the defaming julian songe and they are calling for prosecution when they should be thanking him for exposing these lies for exposing these abuses we're talking about about fifty thousand civilians already confirmed killed now we have fifteen thousand more that's about five times the number killed on nine eleven will anyone be held accountable well that's the big question for a country what wiki leaks has done is made the information available and the question is whether united states citizens can handle that. don't forget you can also if you're saying all stories including that one that you see on our channel at r.t. dot com is

a discussion button by all the stories you see type away tell us what you think less of a quick look at what's just a click away through online tonight from our website well a clerical chorus ukraine may be represented at the twenty ten euro vision contest by an unusual song the share written by a russian orthodox priest want to hear what it sounds like to wait that long take a look at the home whenever you like. a new social network called mates as emerged from the misery of moscow's gridlock is drivers in the city use their own initiative to be bumper to bumper going to find out more about that r t. moscow's rubbish dumps of nearly overflowing with no new facilities built in the city in the last twenty years and for many residents the problem is now

a bit too close for comfort artie's a go to can offer explains more. 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 secured 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 it's like you we're all shocked officially the way c.r. it 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 wheat disposal are often trashed late here in the town of quite a lot of not much further away from the capital this is quite a typical picture of this area is used for garages but since some of them were

built illegally they had to be dismantled but instead in their places these piles of rubbish have grown all around the area deeper into the area the picture becomes even worse another closed waist york or is it the area is disputed between the town 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 environmental consciousness is very low people just don't care for meaning it's 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 all or increasing the return price for different packages me improve the situation at least partially but . little 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. three will do so headlines in briefing you afghan president hamid karzai has confirmed the government receives about a million euros annually from iran he added that the money for aid has never been secret and has been known about by the white house all along the comments come in response to a new york times report claiming to iran was using cash to push its interests in afghanistan karzai says iran is one of several states that give his administration aid money including the united states. demonstrators have begun leaving french fuel

depots after blockading i mean protest over the raising of the state's retirement age to sixty two workers and three of the twelve all refineries of also voted to end their strikes the french finance minister said the nationwide rest was costing the economy about five hundred sixty million dollars a day protest has also been blocking access to ports but president sarkozy's government's not budging over his pension changes. one time a bayes youngest detainee has pleaded guilty to all five counts of terror against him marketeer a canadian citizen was fifteen when he was captured by american troops in afghanistan nine years later the charges he faces include killing a u.s. soldier with a grenade the admission of guilt was part of a plea bargain for a less severe sentence. the u.s. dollar lost valley or monday as financial markets expect the federal reserve decision to inject more cash into the american economy it comes just as g twenty

finance ministers pledge not to devalue their currencies and it never did prevent global trade wars but as artist laura lister reports next some economists believe the u.s. has no intention of giving up using cash as an economic weapon. 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 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 but the united states sets interest rates very low and tries to open up large routes to lending 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 sold investors who are lots of money and

a soft commodities i mean global food prices your food prices go up like happened in two thousand and seven and two thousand eight. hours all so like oil but they all put their money into oil the price of energy for most of the world that consumes it goes up to. and when you see us are acting like an a.t.m. for the world pumping cash into the economy trillions of dollars this is the scenario you're helping to create. and pushing down the value of the u.s. dollar and the international reserve currency while pushing up the value of other currencies and we're hearing an outcry from the developing countries because those are the hottest markets for foreign investment now but countries affected by the flood of u.s. dollars are now taking steps to protect their own currencies and their exports from getting more expensive we believe it's very important yet u.s. policy makers are rattling their sabers at the i.m.f. and g twenty meetings they're calling for countries to let their currencies rise

but with no mention of the declining dollar there is no doubt readers of this. think very much in terms of power and. they want to keep 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 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 more in mr r.t. new york. crime such as cyber terrorism and child pornography have brought un experts to call for international cooperation to police the internet russia also believes the world wide web should not be governed purely by the us well next up

tonight for you russia's communications minister gives us his view on a watchdog for the web but what needs to be done.

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 level and was 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 nonetheless the corporation has still been 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 on the 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 doj r.f.

within the prison framework of cooperation 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 internet. this technology in the world wide web doesn't brace the entire world therefore governments and even more so corporations simply cannot resolve 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's development and hinder efficient response to new technologies are rising at least every six months if not every month moreover they reasoned 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 will be the best institution for the job. what. this international telecommunications that includes one hundred and ninety two countries tends to take over the internet. 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. than. we are in saying that the i to you should take up all areas of the internet as 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 organising. yes it does bring together practically all countries in the world and communications exist in all countries as well as 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 with its 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 the 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 telecommunication union under the itu

you charter all underlying principles should first be approved at plenty of potential conferences and leaders submit it 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 be subject 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 well get stuck in red tape because i want the terms of the protests up what are the potential difficulties of changing the model of running the internet putting some of the critics of course with the potential difficulty consists in the fact that the internet is a fast changing. acknowledging and constantly trying to gain 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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