was. spiking civilian casualties. tragic new records r.t. assesses the worrying numbers with an in-depth database of the innocent cost of terror also. the card it is much bigger than. britain spy chief support to terror threats to justify illegal tapping in the public exposure to what they were doing opens up possibilities for attack meanwhile secure surfing gets a boost in the states. it's a small internet company that could coming up i'll introduce you to salt lake city c.e.o. standing up to the u.s. government in the name of privacy. britain is king of the world's tax havens. dependencies overseas territories have long been considered among the worst

offenders of world tax a victory the u.k.'s offshore banking industry has found to be the largest and most secret in the world despite number ten tax evasion increase a. hello there it's good to have you company you're watching our tape with me andrew farmer . there's been another stark reminder that iraq is far from reaching any kind of stability any time soon a further sixteen deaths at the hands of suicide bombers as an army base north of baghdad. now and the deadly mix of sectarian bloodshed and terrorist attacks are wiping chances for peace and setting new records for civilian casualties.

a journalist from baghdad abdul razzaq has grown used to being in the center of events but never before did he become the story himself until one day he was driving to work when suddenly. i turned towards the two storey bridge and the car exploded and i became conscious only twelve days later finding my leg was amputated. he survived but was shocked again after finding out who was behind the attack my neighbor admitted being an al qaeda member since two thousand and seven he said killing it was a direct order he received that. this issue we should in iraq has long gone beyond six months. it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists targeting all spheres of life. last week mr maliki met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save

people's lives on the ground. in anyone who walks in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle bomb or an explosive belt and any moment anyone may be killed. it's ten or eleven years now that they're talking about the new security plan but nothing changes in the situation is only getting worse. and neither new checkpoints arrests and more constant operations seem to be enough to gain control it's nearly impossible to establish exactly how many civilians were killed in iraq since the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three many became casualties during military operations including shootouts and a shelling some died due to a lack of healthcare and ruined infrastructure but what we're looking at now are deaths specifically from terror attacks this year alone and the figures well the figures speak for themselves you've got this kind of r t moscow. among the thousands killed this year september is the deadliest month so far with more than

twelve hundred lives lost according to the widely quoted audit iraq body count all adding to the total of over one hundred thousand violent civilian deaths in the ranks witnessed since the start of the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three while many military experts blame the armed intervention for al-qaeda is rapid rise around four thousand suicide bombers blew themselves up over the past decade however a lot of deaths resulting from that war are often overlooked as r.t. has been hearing from a former u.s. marine who's also a three year iraq veteran while a couple of the big facts need to be known is just to kind quantify the human tragedy that that was the second seizure of food or anywhere between three thousand and six thousand civilians were killed the operation created about two hundred thousand refugees we do straw. two thirds of the city i mean really just

like level it to the ground and this was a city with three hundred thousand inhabitants it wasn't a small city it was just massive massive destruction and incredible human suffering in there is really a strong possibility that the weapons that we use during the siege all the scientific research that has been done on this topic so far is suggesting that those weapons have created a public health crisis and foolish a really serious public health crisis that is causing incredible rates of birth defects in children being born in cancer throughout the city incredibly high rates higher than higher than hiroshima after the atomic bombs even. well iraq body count dot org is often seen as among the most reliable data bases in recording civilian deaths one of its co-founders has been explained to r.t. how they gather and process information to get the most accurate statistics possible a prominent u.s.

general said of the war in afghanistan we don't do body counts it's too hard they said to get accurate information out of such chaos so others stepped in believing the human cost of war must be counted the iraq body count was born and according to the website's figures this year has been the deadliest in iraq since two thousand and eight have a co-found how many why this upsurge in violence more than seven thousand people have been killed this year well there's a variety of factors but one of the factors that we tend to focus on because we are looking at the rise and the statistical rise and this is the cycle of violence one of the things that we've observed is that as the violence rises you get more reason for the lines to rise red yet again due to reprisals retaliation attacks on the same day as the. five lives lost in iraq and three hundred people injured but we didn't hear anything about that because it's just accepted as normal for iraq is

this is that's what iraq is due to this new form of freedom the government had and in iraq seem very reluctant to publish any kind of civilian death toll it's embarrassing and it's obvious it doesn't paint a very good picture of iraq or their. handling of management of the violence in the country and government say it's just too difficult to get the fix but you seem to manage how do you do it will most of the information we get is from these sort of small news wire type reports in iraq or media reports and so on the really make the news that the norden news consumer would see in other words it takes a research effort to pull together all these small reports that come from different parts of the country and list what you would think of a small events you know someone being assassinated blown up in their car and so on a year of carnage than iraq and if you want accurate information about what's going on just go to our website parties during a special project with iraq body count go and take

a look from friday. the american author of blood on our hands says his research showed the operation had simply devastated the nation. the invasion where was not just some sort of mistake the invasion and occupation were a serious crime that was that was a crime of aggression and the un charter iraq is still suffering from the destruction of its regime and its government and its society by the united states. the united states employed a classic divide and rule strategy pitting people of different sects against each other and in inciting violence that is completely unprecedented in that country and and now has. has instilled a sect a sectarian based government and this is this is just

a reign of terror and in that sense some of the worst aspects of the u.s. occupation are still continuing today. well r.t. now has a special online project with a timeline of the violence in iraq and you can see the web address at the bottom of your screen right now. still to come this hour piece in pakistan appears to be the latest victim of u.s. drone strikes after washington kills a taliban leader he was ready for talks only to be replaced by radical bloody revenge. plus japan embarks on behalf of the most dangerous operation yet at the fukushima nuclear complex r.t. is there we assess what could go wrong and why. edward snowden's leaks have given al qaeda an upper hand that's the view of british

intelligence bosses they've undergone a public grilling for the first time after revelations emerged that london was working alongside washington in global wiretapping but their own says fail to make the picture any clearer as our u.k. correspondent sara firth reports. we'll take you to the juicy bits if you like because obviously this questioning coming at a very sensitive time on the back of the edward snowden revelations of mass surveillance now we heard a questions put to the chief of t.c.h. in love and the quieter of the three i think it's fair to say throughout the entire session now he was asked why it was necessary for the majority to have intelligence gathered in the attempts to catch the minority of doing wrong and he answered that with an analogy of a haystack so trying to find a needle in a haystack essentially the d.c.

boss said that much of their success lies in terrorists being unaware of what they do and he went on to say that as a direct consequence of the snowden revelations their task have been made more difficult now let's take a listen to that. effect of the media coverage. of all media coverage will make the job that we have far far harder for years to come the leaks from snowden have been very damaging they've put our operations at risk is clear that our groceries are rubbing their hands with glee our card is nothing you don't have any. information you can share with those as to how to hard evidence the terrorists or potential terrorists have been looking at these reports not in this public forum if it is quieter in the u.k. as historic but right at the start of that session we heard it being said that witnesses wouldn't be asked to reveal anything secret but also

a lot of the answers that we saw from the teeth especially from the d.c. h.q. had with financially thing look take it on trust we're not snoopers i think certain you're going to see this debate continuing. we asked former m i five agent any mashona bag whether she thinks snowden's leaks have opened terrorist ties to any think they didn't know before. all the terrorist groups for the last four decades have known that they could be under surveillance and they take very good. techniques in order to make sure they're not surveyed many british will are ready if in the one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety three so the idea that they're using that as an excuse to drag all our personal surveillance and turn this into a police state is just not feasible as a form of fire i would say that the best way to protect your country is actually targeting investigations but then we have this dragnet signal would probably use more information through that endemic surveillance and we probably put ourselves at greater risk by doing so and also by doing that as well we turn the country into

a surveillance state meanwhile u.s. media is reporting that edward snowden huge the log ins and passwords of his former n.s.a. coworkers to access the agency's classified information which he later released the whistleblower apparently said that they were necessary for him to carry out his job as a computer systems ministre to those who were wittingly gave out their credentials have been removed from their assignments snowden himself is currently in moscow where he was granted temporary asylum and currently works for a russian website or since our internet privacy can no longer be taken for granted r.t. met a man who says he's created created an online away says free from the prying eyes of america's big brother. we decided to open a data center and here we're taking an exclusive tour through one of the few data companies standing up to the u.s. government in the name of privacy i think we do residential are very well pete

ashdown is the owner of x. mission and independent internet service provider based in salt lake city utah this tower here handles most of our e-mail unlike most power players in silicon valley x. mission refuses to give the n.s.a. backdoor access to its networks since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight x. mission has rejected a judge in the u.s. government for more information stored on private servers like these we don't share our information about our customers if you don't have a warrant the majority of law enforcement requests ashdown says he's received and refused have been subpoenaed is lacking accountability and necessary approval by a judge this is actually an amiga since launching his company in one thousand nine hundred three ashdown says he's filled no more than two customer data requests from the federal government was more like where we bring in customers with a small team of forty employees x.

mission caters to thirty thousand customers who pay for foundation services like internet connectivity server colocation and web or email hosting take care of your . money. while using only your means and. has. been serving in. the current climate of america's unrestrained surveillance matrix has been facilitated in part by verizon and facebook and other giant corporations who have spent years secretly working with the n.s.a. regulation government contracts and. monetary. compensation are in my opinion the three reason. and while they're cooperating ironically utah is probably the most unlikely home for a privacy champion roughly twenty seven miles away from x. mission. is the n.s.a.'s newly constructed one point five billion dollar data

center i think it's a strain on the tech industry of utah all the activities are a stain on american internet businesses because people don't trust to put their information stateside anymore ashdown has vowed to face jail time if that's what's needed to protect his customers from being monitored what surprises this fourth amendment advocate is that big data companies like google won't promise to do the same marina porton i r r t you tell me while there's been an embarrassing cyber sting in singapore the anonymous activist group soon to be prime minister websites a day after he promised to hunt down anyone trying to infiltrate the state's information we've got the details online for you and head of its space walk on saturday get up to speed with the limping talk is incredible relate so far and find out where it is heading next in the follow the flame section at r.t.

dot com. great britain has won the norm too flattering title of king of the world's tax havens a new report says the u.k.'s overseas territories make up much of the world's secret offshore banking industry and aside from making promises london hasn't done much about it breaks down the report for us. the u.k. government has been bashing tax avoidance for months in fact prime minister david cameron made increasing tax transparency a key issue at the g eight summit that he hosted earlier this year but despite all the efforts according to a group called the save the tax justice network britain is the world's worst offender for financial secrecy twelve of its island dependencies where the queen is the head of state by the way ranked among the top fifty most secretive tax jurisdictions in the world the laws relating to these island dependencies such as

the cayman islands been huge jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act what to talk about the issue i'm joined by salmond shaheen who's the editor of the international tax review magazine simon thank you for joining us well the people that deposit their money in these tax havens do it through entirely legal schemes so what's the fuss about anyway but i think it's a misconception to describe tax avoidance says illegal it's just not illegal and the reason for that governments have been unable to anticipate the feed schemes employed by multinational corporations and their highly paid accountants and lawyers that they've they've sent across the world to reach out to the best tax feels their claims that britain has made a lot of steps to improve transparency especially over recent months they've certainly spoken a lot about it are you surprised by these negative rankings i'm not surprised but

no i mean the crown dependencies in overseas territories of have long been considered among the worst offenders of all of the world tax haven read what is surprising is that the british government not doing very much about it really needs to get its network of tax havens offshore in the in order some machine thank you very much for joining us well reports that large corporations and super rich individuals have been dodging billion. pounds in taxes three entirely legal loopholes have caused public outrage here so the news that britain has been labeled the world's ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by cheers of approval here. r.t. . that could finally be light at the end of the tunnel in the global diplomatic wrangling over iran's nuclear projects as america's secretary of state sweeps into geneva to push the talks towards a long awaited agreement we'll have more on this story shortly.

and ginny's at the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant are preparing for the most dangerous operation yet the removal of fuel rods from the reactor complex more than a thousand highly has a selzer at the facility and damaged cooling pools to keep them from emitting radiation our correspondent alexy our share of skee was in the exclusion zone. extracting these rods from the pools is a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they cannot even hit each other that's what caused a nuclear chain reaction not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so every rod has to be extracted from the pool manually the typical company running the fukushima nuclear up process and the japanese government are now in a vicious cycle situation because on the one hand they need to remove these fuel rods they are contaminating the water as has been reported in the waters of the

question when you and on the other hand of course this is a very risky venture because they have to literally extract every rod and there's more than a thousand of them and each one has to be extracted manually we also managed to take a peek inside the no go zone in other areas and you know what what shocked me the most that surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of traveling to the exclusion zone ensure the normal that in the fukushima area the towns which are just close to the station ten fifteen kilometers away from the station they have been reopened for residents were literally saw people rebuilding their houses in this area in case anything happens these people would have to be reviewed evacuated again and or putting themselves under very serious risk while in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who are do not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements of the radiation levels the one which me the most and we talked with them yesterday the movement called the mothers of fukushima these are ordinary women who are afraid for the safety and

health of their children the radiation meter which is the cheapest of them costs around a thousand u.s. dollars and they are just patrolling the area staking their own measurements and sending them to the government but the government as they say is doing nothing it is not considering the radiation measurements as if they're trying to play down the scale of the things happening even in tokyo in front of the industrial ministry there is a peek at there is a protest happening for already eight hundred days with the people there protesting against nuclear energy and the actions of the government and the tepco so you can see how serious the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement is now in japan even though they say that their voices being often silenced by those that. nuclear waste expert kevin camp says that if tepco fails to handle the process of removing fuel rods correctly the consequences could be disastrous it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of this globally significant extraction of the fuel from the pool if something goes wrong this could be

a global catastrophe that dwarfs what has happened at fukushima daiichi thus far tokyo electric has shown its true colors time and time again its incompetence its dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has warned that this process should not be rushed they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels there is no radiological containment around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire it could be ten times worse than chernobyl tokyo the metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire so that that zone could become a dead zone for all time it already is and the evacuation zone should be much larger than twelve point four miles in radius even now and to help you understand what we're talking about we've got detailed illustrations and an explanation of the fuel rod removal process is built come together with the possible radioactive pitfalls

if it fails. pakistan and the taliban were tantalizingly close to pace talks but not i was up to electing a new leader the taliban rejected negotiations with the government after last week's talks were cut short by a cia drone strike which killed his predecessor one is on a bad base journalist told us that the us ignored repeated requests to stop its drone attacks. the taliban are angry. last week the previous leader of the taliban was killed in a u.s. drone attack mauler for the new newly appointed chief spokesperson for the taliban and leader of the taliban now was always against peace talks even before the killing of hacking was food last week and he was responsible for the shooting of malala yousafzai the insurgency from two thousand and seven to two thousand and

nine in the swat valley that for thousands of pakistanis killed so he has always been against peace talks with the pakistan government who have accused the us of sabotaging stalled the us were aware that peace talks were imminent and they had been asked by the pakistan government to hold strong strikes while sees peace negotiations were occurring everybody in pakistan knew about peace talks occurring so it's very difficult to imagine they weren't aware of them and where do peace negotiations go from here at the moment they've come to a grinding halt you know boxed on government are angry at the u.s. and the taliban are angry at the pakistan government and it just seems that nobody seems to be going anywhere with peace talks while islam about railed at washington for what it called murdering the hope for progress and peace and he was journalist and analyst jason displease the obama administration fully understood the possible

impact of the attack. officials that get stuck in a single issue like yelling at you mum can see. the you are trying to talk for years and years now that you started to slow course of the bigger picture but certainly happy booklet made it clear that drone strikes were a big issue and sort of the last couple of laughter he starts back. must where one of the very. quickly some of the news this hour public workers calling for better pay have clashed with riot police in the capital of chile the violence broke out is that as if unions marched through santiago demanding a salary rise of nearly ten percent is part of a forty eight hour strike this brought government services to a standstill. a typhoon that could be the world's strongest ever has smashed into the islands in the philippines forcing millions of people to flee their homes winds

of more than three hundred kilometers an hour whipped up waves reaching five meters high is thought the super storm will pass close to the second largest city in the philippines. thousands of turkish kurds have protested against plans to build a wall along to the south eastern border with syria the day long demonstration was forcibly broken up by police using tear gas and water cannon kurdish leaders say the barrier is being built to split them from syrian kurds. barack obama's approval rating is that north time low according to a recent wall street journal poll he's still got three years left of his second presidential term today's cross-talk asks whether he can accomplish anything in that time. if you look all around the third world at the position the united states has been staking out under obama in central and south america and how the people feel in those places where he could have done tremendous outreach and they were

giving him the benefit of the doubt the problem is that he wasted it because he pursued the interest that put him into power it's their first and foremost duty the person foremost a duty of the american president is to serve the american people and he did that with the delivery of health care reform he did that so it is it is for me this is just unfathomable you could say that he has no major accomplishment and he does one that actually comes into effect you could say that much except for the twenty five to thirty million people that are still not covered. let's cross talk a little later now u.s. secretary of state john kerry has jetted into geneva to add his diplomatic weight to the second round of negotiations on iran's nuclear program is the sign that talks are moving forward and remains of a deal to freeze iran's atomic production and return to easing sanctions is close

to being sealed a director of the planning fund which campaigns against nuclear weapons says john kerry's involvement well for a bright three. he will be going there to engage directly in the substance of the talks and to ensure that the momentum continues to take hold and that they do get to a negotiated settlement the international community through the international atomic energy agency is going to have to get on the ground going to have to see that the enrichment facilities that iran has are not operating as they have been going to ensure the stockpile of twenty percent enriched uranium something is done with that and that's what they're negotiating about there's a lot of details to this it's highly technical but those are the kinds of issues that they are discussing for the first time in years with a purpose of seriousness and on this negotiation that does appear to be bearing some momentum larry king's next tackling republicans

a bad uphill struggle after that drubbing in this week's local us elections. few us presidents elected to a second term in office leave the white house successful or even popular rock obama is the case in point his poll numbers are low his legislative agenda is in deep trouble and washington's friends and foes around the world do not take him seriously is obama already a lame duck president. simply for some.