world's attention to the place that some gulag of our minds. has iraq's rampant violence breaks new tragic records r.t. documents the surge in civilian casualties with an in-depth database on the growing terror. there is nothing you don't. britain's spy chief can damn whistle blowing at a parliamentary committee hearing on mass surveillance that rights groups say avoided all the tough questions. and new revelations emerge in how america uses its embassies around the world to spy on host cities you speak to an investigative journalist studying this network. britain has declared a global hub of financial secrecy as tax havens responsible for hiding most of the world on account of cash are traced to the country's offshore zones and a pressure group report.

this article in to live from the russian capital marina joshie welcome to the program. as iraq suffers the worst surge of violence in years r.t. launches a special online. deaths often they don't even make it to the mainstream media headlines addresses right there on your screen and every passing day the number is rising with at least thirty more people killed on friday in suicide blasts across the country your piskun often our reports on how the spike in terror attacks is destroying any hopes iraqis might have had for peace. 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 because 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. anyone who walks in the streets at any moment may 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 of 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. well with sauza is killed this year september has been the deadliest month so far with more than twelve hundred lives lost according to the widely quoted are the iraq body count all adding to the total of over one hundred thousand violent civilian deaths that

iraq's witness into the start of the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and three many military experts say it's the armed intervention that's led to his rapid rise in the country with around four thousand suicide bombers blowing themselves up over the past decade well most of these figures come from iraq body count the world's largest public database of violent civilian deaths in iraq since the us invasion it's in cooperation with this website that our teams launched its online project iraq twenty thirteen a year of carnage or smith spoke to one of the iraq body count co-founders about what's driving their work and how they find accurate data. 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 dog to 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're 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 here 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 the 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 to 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 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. besides the spike in terror attack. sense of terror violence the u.s. led invasion of iraq has led to a sharp rise in bringing asli on heard of birth defects blamed on the use of depleted uranium by american forces a former u.s. marine and a veteran of the siege of fallujah roskam pussy told r.t. about the horrors he witnessed and you might find some of the images we're about to

show you disturbing while a couple of the big facts that need to be known is just to kind of you know quantify the human tragedy that that was the second seizure of. 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 and just to remind you to see the timeline of rampant violence iraq has suffered this year check r.t. special in line project the address is there on screen for you. margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence you write. we want you to know. the hounds of britain's spy agencies have been questioned in public for the first time but it wasn't the grilling many had hoped for following revelations of the u.k.'s involvement in u.s.

led global surveillance rights groups say the panel of lawmakers avoided awkward questions altogether while giving the intelligence bosses a chance to the fan their work and criticize the source of n.s.a. leaks edward snowden. artistry already tried to delete. it it is nothing you don't know but you have a new dish and they have my six also blamed journalist at the guardian newspaper for publishing the n.s.a. leaks calling it irresponsible that view was backed up by other g c h q chiefs early lawman who insisted his agency isn't monitoring most of the british population but is focused on combat in terrorism we asked former m i five agent anguish on whether she thinks snowden's files have actually given terrorists any information they didn't already have. terrorist groups in the last four decades have known that they could be under surveillance and they take very good and he's failing techniques in order to make sure they're not surveyed many ready to fit in

the one thousand nine hundred ninety ninety three so the idea that they're using that as an excuse to drag it 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 your country is actually targeting 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. and the u.s. government has been using its embassies around the world as key tools to intercept global communications according to the latest n.s.a. leaks investigative journalist duncan campbell has collected numerous photos appearing to show spices times installed on the roofs of the buildings as you can see on the screen here well he joins us now live from brighton to talk more about this thank you so much mr campbell for joining us here on r.t. so how can you be in fact sure that what you saw and what you took the pictures of

is indeed the spy equipment. i've known about these places for more than thirty years i've talked to many people who were playing side them all the different countries like australia canada the united states. i'm also trying to sort of specialist in communications i know what these things are for the structures of also completely described in documents provided by mr snowden. including the way in which they are covertly discharged to look right share its own case of a british show and it was quite classic and in fact in berlin where the americans for spying directly onto the chancellor were younger parliament. pictures taken by a german television station a.r.g.h. showed the shoot quantities of heat coming off all the tonics surveillance equipment on the roof of the american embassy well duncan you know if somebody like you could collect this information back take photographs of this and realize this

is spike within then why is it that you know all these countries authorities that hosted the zambians allowed this to happen for so long what reason do you have for that. well the relationships between mccombs theories are on many levels and on one level diplomats assume that a certain amount of this that goes on. counter intelligence camps have been on the way or that the british and the americans were up to something bought we were all too naive and too trusting and i think also as to what they would do that they might limit it for example to spying on people who came to germany who were in some way adverse the united states instead it's been discovered that they are targeting germany and not just you know me but it's charms i have done so for nine years now laughs now you know in some countries we see you know massive public outrage and

and do you think there will be some sort of a follow up to this that will lead to action. in germany yes it already has it appears the americans will be forced to turn off a system where. a reporter for the british newspaper the independent of the british or the even larger capacity a hundred metres away the british ambassador was someone doing for. talks five a foreign ministry. the chancellor's hewas many german officials are concerned so the momentum is there to bring these practices to an end or to bring them down to what is proper proportion which you know leigh in pursuit of all the democracy while you know your earlier mansion and edward snowden i'd like to go back to him now you see just recently. been revealed that he has cheated some of his colleagues and in fact you know calling them into giving him his their passwords in access to classified

data. what are your thoughts on this i mean is this justified even though it was done for the benefit of others as he later said. i haven't seen the story you're talking about so i shouldn't comment. i think reported earlier on the. mr snowden. changed access to documents through other people's accounts i can't believe that anyone saying gratz a serious accusation you're talking about revealing the fact that these agencies are stealing the entire world's address books out of the american companies files you know who might be sold but that by being the european union the brazilian president the mexican fighters of the german chancellor that they've committed illegal crimes in belgium against the european telecommunications company they have the nerve to complain that if mr snowden took somebody else's passwords just

ridiculous right duncan campbell thank you so much for sharing your views with us here on r.t. . well still ahead in the program defusing terror. dr and here is in fukushima are braced for the removal of fuel rods from the complex the most dangerous step yet and we examine the risks shortly after this break. so there's a leader so we leave the people. by the sea oceans to cure the plague your party there's a good. shoes that no one is at school with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. t.v. .

dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. the food since changing the world light snack. food picture. from around the globe. drop to. welcome back here with our team engineers a difficult human who clear plan in japan are about to start their most hazardous undertaking to date huge cranes will be a lowered into the reactor that survived a meltdown of twenty women to start pulling out thousands of fuel rods

a process that will take at least a year or just next year cesky visited the exclusion zone. extracting these rods from the balls is a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they can not 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 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 they are contaminating the water as has 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 shocked me the most that surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of travelling

to the explosions on inch of 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 relieved 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 or 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. which 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 that 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. now the plant operator says it's confident the procedure will be completed successfully and that mishaps are almost impossible but nuclear waste specialist count camps is less optimistic. it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of the 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 it's incompetence it's 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 could be ten times worse than sure noble 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 our correspondent elise here chefs he's keeping a close eye for you on the cleanup in fukushima and posing questions to the company in charge of the process get up to that minutes reports on the operation by checking his twitter account. also online a virtual currency that can be held but can be stolen we've got the story of a big claim bank heist that's left police in the dark over who is actually behind the robbery. plus the u.k.

and the russian secret services resume cooperation severed after the death of a former russian spy in london with security for the sochi winter olympics bringing the intelligence communities together. now britain has been declared the leading hub of global tax evasion a pressure group report says along with its overseas territories the u.k. controls much of the world's an account of cash there are reports on why the secrecy is hard to resist. 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 evidence according to a group we are able to see the tax justice that led 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 muted jersey and guns they have to be approved in london so campaigners say that the onus is on westminster to clean up their act but 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 the schemes employed by multinational corporations and their highly paid accountants and lawyers that they've they've sent across the world to root out 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 ridge 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 through 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 always spoke to the director of the tax justice network who told us that it's the banks which are encouraging offshore havens the important thing about secrecy

is it doesn't just encourage tax evasion which is illegal let's be clear about that it also encourages fraud embezzlement and a very wide range of corrupt practices and this is the reason why the world no nice to talk secrecy good tax evil economy is the cold so war which means most of these tax havens operate with some of the world's largest international but some of the world's largest international accounting firms and some of the world's largest law firms so we know it isn't the time to take this it's the banks that are leading this and there's lots that can be done to talk about it as united states government has shown in these own efforts to tighten switch but. some other world news now. rival militias have clashed in the libyan capital tripoli leaving one person dead and eleven injured the shooting is believed to have been sparked by the death of

a commander of one group during recent fighting two years on from the market afy the country is still plagued via lack of security in divisions between secular business forces. strongest typhoon so far this year with wind speeds of more than three hundred kilometers per hour his battered the philippines at least three people have died and tens of thousands have fled to back away from centers the storm caused power outages and flooding enforce the cancellation of hundreds of flights. francis' credit rating has been cut by one grade to double by standard and poor's is blaming high unemployment which has brought preventing the government from implementing reforms that could boost growth is the second time in two years doubt the country's credit rating has been dropped after playing easily being stripped of its top rated aaa status. and there's anger on crime the greek broadcaster an r t that was shut down in june

it's an open air show in front of the organizations have quaters five hundred people were a big event the company who was closed in june over budget cuts thursday police evicted dozens of former employees who had occupied the building for months and progress and the closure. of iran and six world powers are moving closer to striking a deal which will freeze to iran's atomic production in return for easing sanctions the emerging agreement cause outrage in israel with prime minister netanyahu describing it as a mistake of historic proportions but x.-plane to believe that a breakthrough is just around the corner it's clear that right now momentum is taking hold the negotiations have been held in a very warm atmosphere between the different sides 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 that something is done with 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 is next asking us republicans how their party can recover from their drubbing in this week's local elections. 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 would occur just on vacation got into

a taxi driven 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 from the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy a house employers and russia in america say that locals don't want to work or demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future woman compared to a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the margaret 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 that's just my opinion. if you us presidents elected to a second term in office and leave the white house successful or even popular 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 taken seriously is obama already a lame duck president. elected in two thousand and thirteen while chris christie wins big in jersey the rest of the g.o.p. falls. what are republicans need to do to fix the party before twenty sixteen will be conservative radio talk show host dana loesch de ruben of the report and former george w. bush spokesperson reed dickens helping us figure it all out coming up next on politicking with larry king. live politicking on larry king was to.