for what they said. i turned towards the true story bridge and the car exploded my neighbor admitted killing me was a direct order whew see me as a number of downs from terror attacks in iraq stares towards new tragic records r.t. documents the surge in civilian casualties with an in-depth database on the growing terror. what we're looking at now our desk specifically from terror attacks this year overall and the figures while the figures speak for themselves. it's not been you don't. worry the spine achieves can down whistle blowing at a parliamentary committee hearing on mass surveillance that rights groups say avoided all the tough questions. and britain has declared a global hub of financial secrecy as banks responsible for hiding

a huge chair of the world's untaxed cash are traced to the country's offshore zones and an independent report. this is actually coming to life in moscow i'm reading josh welcome to the program. and we rock suffers the worst surge of violence in years with the number of those killed rising almost every day with civilian casualties often not even making it to the mainstream media lines our day is described as decided to launch a special online project to keep track of them. at least thirty seven more people were killed on friday in suicide bombings across the country europe is going off now 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. and as 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 be 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 as the two leaders agreed iraq was in urgent need of help would be signs general statements nothing concrete came out 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 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 as thousands killed this year september has been the deadliest month.

so far was 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 that iraq's witness since 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 this rapid rise in the country where the round four thousand suicide bombers blowing themselves up over the past decade well figure showing that it's becoming deadlier by the months come from iraq body count the world's largest public database of violent civilian deaths in iraq since the us invasion its in cooperation with this website that artie's launched its online project iraq two thousand and thirteen a year of carnage or a 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 how many co-found how many why this upsurge in violence more than seven thousand people have been killed this year where there's a variety of factors but one of the fights 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 both 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 iraq is due to 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 and 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 now some experts familiar with the situation in iraq claim the blame for the surge in violence lies where the iraqi government and the international community for not putting enough pressure on it. why the government

is failing because the politics that is being played by the prime minister mr maliki at the moment it's feeding into the various sectarian fighting it's feeding into the terrorists. the idea that somehow everybody keeps on blaming al qaeda i think it's really this is really wrong to do so because it's diverting the actual attention never think the attention from the actual problem the failure of the government is the one which is the police authorities to the sectarian based rather than national one they don't exchange information but i think the problem at the present moment is that most of the governments in the world treating the current regime in iraq as if it's a normal regime it's only concentrate on the regimes they don't like whether it's mali or syria or sudan or whatever but everybody seems to be quite happy to deal with the with the iraqi regime and just to remind you to see the timeline of

rampant violence in iraq is suffered this year you can check our special online project dresses there on screen for you. i. r g dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. now the hands of britain's spy agencies have been questioned in public for the first time but it wasn't a grilling many had hoped for following revelations of the u.k.'s involvement in u.s. led global surveillance intelligence bosses use the chance to fan their work and criticize the source of the n.s.a.

leaks or snowden. artistry. is nothing you don't do what. they have and i six also blame journalist of the guardian newspaper for publishing the n.s.a. leaks calling it risk responsible and that view was backed up by the g c h q chief sir on lobban who insisted that he is agency isn't monitoring most of the british population but is focused on combat terrorism and we asked for my five agent and him a shot of whether she thinks no one is 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. techniques in order to make sure they're not forbade any debris from the one thousand nine hundred ninety nine teeth so the idea that they're using that as an excuse to drag our 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 targeting investigations but then we have this dragnet signifier we 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 edward snowden allegedly here's the passwords and log ins obvious colleagues at a spy base in hawaii to get his hands on the classified data that he is bound to the media reports suggest he used his position as a system administrator to persuade his coworkers to hand over their credentials and so was who agreed to were later identified and fired by the n.s.a. investigative journalist duncan campbell believes even though snowden cheated his coworkers it was done for the right cause. i can't believe that anyone is saying graphs 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 of yahoo and microsoft but then bugging the european union the brazilian president

the mexican president the german chancellor that they've committed a legal crime in belgium against the european telecommunications company they have the nerve to complain that if mr snowden took somebody else's passwords just ridiculous. and after the break we had an israeli perspective on a deal now being hammered out between world powers and iran. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially the public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports. is that some people's regime has become very adept at is controlling immediately example right here c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think they have an agenda i think through jim is is bought and paid for.

the. economic down in the final. day the longer the deal sank night and the rest because i it's going to be a little bit if we. welcome back here what an hour to live from moscow now iran and six world powers are moving closer to striking a deal which will freeze some of to ra's atomic production in return for easing sanctions the emerging agreement caused our rage in israel was prime minister

netanyahu describing it as a mistake of a story proportions the international community got a bad deal this is a very bad do. the u.s. however seems much more enthusiastic about the agreement secretary of state john kerry stop this tour of the middle east and flew to geneva to take part in the goetia several of his european counterparts will also join him to clarify israel's position on the issue we're now joined by a former spokesman for israeli prime minister benjamin not a now thanks so much mr salesman for joining us here to talk about israeli position well it seems like israel stands alone in this while the whole world sees the negotiations between israel and the e.u. and the u.s. is a break for why is that. well we really . hope the international community understands that they run is just you know

trying to again played and just. you know earn some time in order to proceed with the program and it's not peaceful program we know that exactly you know iran today is an extremist regime that finances. all over the world but you know what i'd like. because you know yourself ski iran now has a different leadership ok and it looks like i mean it we see all signs at least on the surface that it's trying to negotiate with others and in fact catherine ashton the foreign affairs chief of the you yesterday and today mr kerry said that they see the talks they describe the talks as serious and substantial so they are seeing a step forward why israel is not changing its rhetoric towards iran. but i'm asking you what do you mean by serious talks what do we get back from iran do we get

a stopping of the enrichment of uranium do we get the stop of the program do we get out of declaration against israel what do we get back we give time and get nothing back ok then talks i mean he has you know and that is arranged as yes or now the situation is different now we have to admit that things are changing i mean the progress is made although you know step by step and slowly but what i think israel believe in diplomacy here why is the rather so aggressive still. i don't see any change what change do you see the only change was sees the rhetorical change we see more smiles but we don't see anything that is translated into action you know we don't believe words we believe actions i will remind you that many words were spoken in thirty's in europe and many actions were done afterwards so let's see actions and not words and where they don't see any change

any serious change in actions we see a lot of words and a lot of good smiles with this is not what will bring peace and security to i don't know other words up sat that you know emphasizing on the word action here there is really sort of you know devoid of an opportunity to take a military action against iran while the talks are ongoing between the e.u. and the u.s. and iran again we don't see any change we see that you know iran sad that this year are you going with something or under the regime change why is it that i mean that your view is hopeful america is hopeful but israel you know is not changing its position why is it that you are the only country that doesn't see this change or maybe you know are refusing to see it you know the jewish people. no we're not refusing to see we're refusing to see it we excuse me we want to see we know history no jews what

we have we have our memory and we know history and we see history and we don't believe you know to optimism we believed actions so many times in our history we saw how the world was very optimistic and not realistic and we have history of three thousand years of being a very very realistic peoples so this time unfortunately we think that we are one of the most realistic in this situation and i really really believe that the west understands that but they you know very optimistic and they believe to this not smiles of a new ok shimon they're around and they want to give it a chance but unfortunately we think that this chance is again now a game played by iranian regime change that retains to see mr self care but you know let me ask you this one question here i mean are you perhaps upset that you're losing an ally in all of this i mean by al i mean the

united states the talks seem to be progressing and you know maybe that's why israel is so upset well israel is upset because israel does lose understanding here. among the best allies yes and we really hope that you know the superpowers and the united states and europe will not see the mistake when it will be too late we hope that there will be smart enough to see it now. you know we have already many unfortunate experience in the twentieth century and we jews exactly remember the history and we don't want again mistakes as we remember were very very very bad for us and the whole world. well mr sale. the world community is optimistic unlike israel so it remains to be seen what happens next in the negotiations between iran and the

rest of the world on its nuclear issue for now though i'd like to thank you for giving us your perspective and that was isis ask a former spokesman for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. 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 out account of cash and here are some of their findings the super rich could be hiding up to thirty two trillion dollars eighty two countries considered to be tax havens a quarter of those have strong links with the u.k. and their british overseas territories like the cayman islands or the british virgin islands grounded pansies and some commonwealth states campaigners say when it suits britain it intervenes in this territories policies in fact in two thousand and nine that you came pose direct rules over the turks and chaos islands some of the cash estimated to be about three hundred thirty billion dollars can be traced

all the way back to london are displayed local 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 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 been huge a 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 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 armies of accountants and lawyers that they've they've sent across the world to reach out to the best tax feels their lines 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 tex avery 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 through entirely legal loopholes have caused public outrage so the news that britain has been labeled the world's ruler of tax havens is unlikely to be met by cheers of approval ahead. artsy london and online for you a virtual currency that can be held but can be stolen we've got the story of a big point bank heist after it's left to police in the dark over who is actually behind a robbery had to r.t. dot com for the details. plus the u.k. and russian secret services resumed cooperation severed after the death of a former russian spy in london with security for the sortie winter olympics bringing the intelligence communities together. clashes in libya have left at least two people dead in the rounds thirty others wounded that's after all

armed militia stormed the capital tripoli to avenge the death of their leader just days before well for more we're now joined live by a political activist a senior here on r t i think it's a much mr obviously for joining us here on r.t. as we know it's not the first such incident of this week in the capital so tell us if security is failed in the country what's happening security wise. the weapons go to the wrong hands i would expect. and i expected that about three years ago and you watch of what's happening in libya it's a conflict between militias. who are formed from gangs a bunch of criminals. and they are fighting over her own power in tripoli to control the city. where these incidents happen we always there is casualties especially in civilians who are really fed up with the presence in the

capital well as we know he moved to the united kingdom and because of modern khadafi but looking at what's happening in your country now has the situation improved in your opinion. no the situation has not been approved think the intervention of the west especially nato was not designed to improve the situation in libya could have done this in iraq or somalia or afghanistan. they only wanted to make things worse because now what we see in libya is more crimes committed than they have leave his regime if you look at these pictures nowadays probably you. don't see these pictures of libyan civilians who are kidnapped from their houses taken to prison. exposed to heroin this torture and nobody really mentioned this

on the new was maybe and i was forgotten for example i personally called for the international community to intervene. for good or for find find fact. by well it was just a kid you know these scribes let me let me just ask you a question quickly here you were saying earlier that the country is now torn apart between different. groupings fighting with each other but i mean there could are free some say that gadhafi was a restraining for assad to what extent would you agree was that. well during. the good that he took power by within libya by him so the support of the libyans are first however there are mistakes committed by this regime but changing moving towards

a better life could not be by doing other mistakes too mistakes don't make right i mean all the previous regime was a lot better compared to what's going on now in libya we have security we have independence we have. you know compared to other countries about the living standards. lots of libyans now even those who. contributed in the so-called revolution and. regret that they really contributed because the the results were. against the wishes now i recently i'll go see i'll have to leave it there as we are running out of time but thanks for sharing your concerns with us here on r.t. thank you very much. now tensions are running high between russia and the netherlands which have been sparring over the recent arrest of thirty greenpeace activists who attempted to board

a russian article oil rig russia has criticized netherlands for the incident which involved a ship flying the dutch flat i just about was he joins me now live with more details on this or tell me the case of the greenpeace activists has definitely gone beyond purely environmental issues so do bring us the latest on it. well the russian ministry spokesman has said that the netherlands is to blame for how the situation has unfolded at the moment russia did say that released a statement saying that they actually had the netherlands to hold of the ship the arctic sea which was approaching a russian arctic out what's. as the dutch did not do anything the russians decided to take matters in their own hands are arresting those twenty eight activists as one of those two journalists who were aboard that arctic sea vessel they are waiting trial of course and have been charged now with hooliganism which carries

a maximum sentence of fifteen years tensions have been running high between the two countries russia and the netherlands birtha diplomats in their respective countries have been tagged day going back and forth in terms of the tensions running high in terms of what is going on right now with the greenpeace activists we know that the dutch king is in a moscow to have to also with the russian president president putin so we'll have to see how it all plays out in the next couple of days if indeed they will be released or if they will stand trial absolutely will terry thank you so much for bringing us the very latest on this case and our special report is next here in our team to go away. illegal immigration is a hot topic 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 drew 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 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 migrant 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 but 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. right see.