so the ways that some. of our minds. surging civilian casualties steer iraq towards tragic new records r t assesses the warring numbers with an in-depth database of innocent cost of terror also. that it is the thing you don't. britain's spy chief sporting to terror threats to justify illegal tapping and that the public exposure of what they were doing opens up possibilities for tap meanwhile secure surveying gets a boost in the states it's a small internet company that would coming up introduce you to salt lake city c.e.o. standing up to the u.s. government in the name of privacy. but britain is carrying out the world's tax havens. dependancies the overseas territories is being considered a moment of worst offenders oh well tex avery the u.k.'s offshore banking industry

is found to be the largest and most secret in the world despite a number of towns tax evasion course eight. pm in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program and there's been another stark reminder that iraq is far from reaching any kind of stability any time soon a further nineteen deaths at the hands of suicide bombers at an army base north of baghdad were going off now reports on how the deadly mix of sectarian bloodshed and terrorist attacks are destroying 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 hours as it has become clear iraq has become subjected to a war of genocide by terrorists are targeting all spheres of life. last week mr morley met with president obama and the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of hope would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out like how to save people's lives on the ground. anyone who works in the streets at any moment they face a car bomb a motorcycle 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 mainly became casualties during military operations including shootouts and a showing 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 if you go to is going to moscow well among the thousands killed this year september is the deadliest month so far with more than twelve hundred lines last according to a widely quoted audit iraq body count all adding to the total of over one hundred thousand violent civilian deaths that iraq's witness since the start of the u.s.

led invasion in two thousand and three matter the military experts blame the armed intervention for al qaida is rapid rise around four thousand suicide bombers blew themselves up over the past decade and today r.t. is launched its own online project to keep track of the civilian deaths in iraq the address is on your screen while we're compiling it in cooperation with iraq body count dot org which is often seen as among the most reliable databases in this area laura smith spoke to one of its co-founders about how to make it as accurate as 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. 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 thoughts is 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 on the same day as the boston bombing there were fifty 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 iraqis do indeed this new form of freedom the government head 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 and management of the violence in the country and government say it's just too difficult to get the figures 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 and media reports and so on the really make the news that nor the 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 that is what you would think of a small events a year of carnage then in iraq and if you want accurate information about what's going on just go to our website artie's during a special project with iraq body count going take a look from friday while a lot of deaths resulting from the u.s. led invasion are often overlooked as are too has been hearing from a former u.s. marine who is also a story year or rock veteran and you might find some of the images we're about to show you disturbing. well a couple of the big facts that need to be known is just the kind you know quantified the human tragedy that was the second seizure of flu. anywhere between

three thousand and six thousand civilians were killed the operation created about two hundred thousand refugees we destroyed two thirds of the city i mean really just like level that 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 used during the siege all the scientific research that have been done on this topic so far is suggesting that those weapons have created a public health crisis in fukushima really serious public health crisis that is causing incredible rates of birth defects and children being born in cancer throughout the city incredibly high rates higher than higher than hiroshima after the atomic bombs even the american author of blot in our hands told us that he's research shows the operation is simply devastated the nation. the invasion 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 inciting violence that is completely unprecedented in that country and and now has. as it was 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. and let me remind you

that our team now has a special online project for the timeline of the violence in iraq the web address is on screen right now. still on the iran r t there 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 swoops in to geneva to push talks towards a long awaited agreement i will have more on dad for you soon. afterwards snowden's leaks have given al qaida an upper hand and that's the view of british intelligence bosses they want to gone public questioning for the first time after revelations emerge that london was working alongside washington and global wiretapping. leaks from snowden has been very damaging they put our operations at risk is clear that our histories are rubbing their hands with. carter is not bring it up but do you have any additional that's what i have

in my six had to say he also explained that only ten percent of british intelligence resources are spent on countering aspirin are by foreign states the rest is directed at terrorism while his colleague from. the u.k. is looking for a needle in a haystack referring to the massive data gathering his agency does according to outward snowden's leaks british intelligence is able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day we asked former and i five agent an english on whether she thinks snowden's files have open terrorist ties or anything they didn't know before. all terrorist groups in the last four decades have known that they could be under surveillance and they take very good and. techniques in order to make sure they're not surveyed many ready to face in the one thousand nine hundred ninety nine teeth so the idea that they're using that as an excuse to drag personal surveillance and turn this into a police state is just not feasible as a former spy i would say that the best way to protect our country is actually

targeted investigations but then we have this dragnet signified 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 are reporting that edward snowden of using the log ins and passwords of his former n.s.a. coworkers to access the agency's classified information and whistleblower who revealed the scope of america's illegal spying had insisted they were necessary for him to carry out his job as a computer systems administrator of those who unwittingly gave out their credentials have been removed from dear assignments snowden himself is currently in moscow where he was granted temporary asylum and currently works for a russian website. since our intern as privacy can no longer be taken for granted a man who says he's created an online away says that is free from the 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 access 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 us government for some 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 is 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 make sure you're among their. sons. while using only your brain 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. 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 n.s.a. activities are a stain on american internet businesses because people don't trust to put their information stateside any more as john 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 port r.t. . to hans embarking on perhaps the most dangerous operation yet at the fukushima nuclear complex engineers are preparing to remove fuel rods from the site a risky process to which there is little alternative artie's there shortly we

assess what could go wrong and why. do we speak your language or not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn into bangalore's stories. here. in the spanish to find out more visit. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports. certain people's regime has become very adept at is controlling the media for example. c.n.n.

is you know completely telling it like it is you know i think they have an agenda i think their age and is is bought and paid for. welcome back you're watching r t a grade britain has won the none too flattering title of king of the world 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 fully boyko 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 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 the muda jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act well 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 as legal it's just not illegal and the reason for that governments have been unable to anticipate the the schemes employed

by multinational corporations and their highly paid armies of 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. of pounds in taxes three entirely legal loopholes have caused public outrage here so these that britain has been labelled the world ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by cheers of approval ahead.

r.t. london well to discuss the report and its likely impact we're now joined by the director of the tax justice network john christensen christensen thank you so much for joining us here on r t well your report has come down hard in britain but how much control does the british government really have over what's happening in its overseas territories. well thank you yes britain is by far the largest. of the major tax haven economies the largest in the world and it controls some of the most secretive savings in the world as well places like bermuda which are particularly secretive the channel islands to us all of them under british control don't constitutionally all of these territories. bermuda. the queen as the head of state and

the queen's governments in other words produced accountable and responsible in international law for their good governance and has every possibility and every power to intervene in their affairs to make sure. what we see on the other hand i mean is no what's wrong with tax havens isn't it. is a certain amount of financial secrecy of viable for citizens to keep their money safe. over toward first of all the idea that financial secrecy in types havens keeps people money safe for those people didn't have or in europe or in russia it's quite wrong but the important thing about secrecy is it doesn't just encourage tax evasion which is illegal and let's be clear about that it also encourages fraud embezzle mint and a very wide range of other corrupt practices and this is the reason why the world no one needs to tackle secrecy because the tax haven economy has become so large

and to give you some idea of how large the world's held by private individuals it was a lot of you didn't find the path of least resistance you know you close one tax haven but there isn't you know somewhere else another one springs up for example look switzerland which was regarded the best known of banking secrecy has now signed international convention that might lift its banking secrecy but. you know what is your view on this well the new zeland spring out well first of all let's be clear most of these tax havens operate with some of the world's largest international banks some of the world's largest international accounting firms and some of the world's largest law firms so we we know it isn't the tax havens it's the banks that are leading this and there's lots that can be done to tackle banks as the united states government has shown in his own efforts to tackle swiss spokes and they've

been very successful there but as far switzerland is concerned was there very very fine words coming out from the swiss government when you look at the detail before they're actually doing and have done in the last three years. has changed switzerland remains one of the most secretive and one of the least co-operative jurisdictions in the world. well you know there is currently around three hundred thirty billion pounds in british banks that's been repatriated from u.k. overseas tax havens so a lot of money does and up back in the economy are what is your view on you know the flows of a finance i mean it wouldn't be economic suicide to let this money go elsewhere. not at all and if you take the example of london you know which attracts huge sums hundreds of billions of. dollars every year from from across the world does

this money you know chile contribute in a positive way to the british economy very very difficult to say yes but there's plenty of evidence that money is simply in treating property prices in london and of directly harming the british economy. with that money be better used elsewhere if for example the money was retained in let's say russia or africa and invested in productive activity there the answer is almost certainly yes it would be better if that money stayed in the country of origin and was invested in the country of origin. unfortunately we are running out of time but thank you so much for your insight that was john prisons and director of the tax justice network. now engineers at the stricken for she manually or power plant are preparing for the most risky operation yet the removal of fuel rods from the reactor complex more than a thousand highly hazardous cells are at the side and damaged cooling poles to stop

them from leaking radiation our correspondent was an exclusion zone. tracking 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 this would cause a nuclear chain reaction not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so everyone has to be extracted from the pool manually the tepco company running the fukushima clear 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 the arkansas mandated the water as it's been reported in the waters of the fukushima nuclear power plant 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 rod 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 shocks me the most and surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of travelling

to the explosion zone in chernobyl 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 happened these people would have to be relieved evacuated again and or putting themselves under very serious risk well in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who are did not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements of the radiation levels the one which struck 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 both radiation meters which the cheapest of them cost 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 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's a peek at there's

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 power. well u.s. secretary of state john kerry has chatted to geneva to add his diplomatic weight to a second round of negotiations on iran's nuclear program and to sign the talks are moving forward and the rumors of a deal to freeze iran's atomic production in return for easing sanctions is close to being sealed director of the plow shares fund which campaigns against nuclear weapons as john kerry's involvement bodes well for breaks or 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 honestly that does appear to be bearing some momentum you have to date and breaking the set is up next. illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i want to kurdistan vacation got into a taxi firm by a former migrant worker who used to make

a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes for the cellar that russians can't even survive on he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work are demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the market workers are a lot more motivated let me put it to you this way if you knew that you had to work five hard years of some awful labor under awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany what would be able to pay off the house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals in country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work in complete futility for table scraps but the shust my opinion. to us presidents elected to a second term in office and leave the white house successful or even popular bronc 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. of the going everyone i'm not a martin and this is breaking the set you feel referring to the cia n.s.a. or f.b.i. as the intelligence community is a bit of a misnomer well this next story is case in. point to be a.c.l.u. filed a request against the f.b.i. which has actively and admittedly monitor websites media organizations and assent groups in the years following nine eleven they found was very interesting is that the agency had violated an antiwar website its fourth an enemy right by conducting surveillance by accident so how does something like this happen all the foyer requests for revealed that the f.b.i. mistaking.