further north in chicago they're more used to this kind of weather at this time of the year but even here they're bracing for more than 30 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the new york city region has already seen its highest snowfall totals in years but the storm that's sweeping through the rest of the country is now barreling north and about to hit here leaving tens of millions of other americans in the northeast of the country bracing for the next one that also could include sleet and hail gabriels andro. we hawk in new jersey. i know that us is out of there and these are the headlines myanmar's military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country for a 2nd night there's an increasing crackdown on protesters who are angry about the

military coup on february fast scott hyla has more from the thai capital and. it seems as though you know this might actually end up being a nightly event where the we cut the internet in obviously raises great concern because that means you know when they have these professionals when they have the round ups for the detentions for the arrests usually take place overnight so that raises the concern because now essentially there is really no communication with private communications citizen communication with the people on the ground in myanmar during that period during that 8 hour period so that is of great concern has been a series of rocket attacks on the northern iraqi city of bell some struck the airport area where u.s. forces a station and the international coalition fighting eisel says one civilian a foreign contractor was killed several others were injured including a u.s. service member an iranian backed shia group has claimed responsibility at least 60

people have died and $240.00 others are still missing in democratic republic of congo after a boat there capsized it happened late on sunday near the congo river so our own the congo river near lake. the boat was traveling from the capital kinshasa province the world health organization has approved the oxford astra zeneca coated $1000.00 vaccine for imagine say use that decision will allow low and middle income nations to immunize their populations against the virus turkey's president has accused the us of supporting kurdish fighters who he says are behind the killing of that teen turkish hostages their bodies were found in a cave in northern iraq russia tripod on has summoned the american ambassador in ankara to explain washington's response to those killings well those are the headlines rob we'll have more news for you here after what i want me. on counting the cost has iraq's oil wealth gone from fans from the civil servants to corrupt

politicians take a closer look and the m.r.i. on a technology behind coded 19 vaccines how long before it's used to find the cure for cancer counting the calls for that was just weird. there was strongly is a late soldier is. the special air service is regiment. carried out operations in afghanistan. has taken a look back and say that we were the guys in the mediterranean inviting not they had to do something that is honorable now a soldier who was on these missions speaks out about walking so that i had his hands up and then it was almost like target practice so that soldier you can shoot

on a table and not call that night off on this episode of one o one east mark willacy investigates the culture of impunity among some of the strategy as special forces in afghanistan. afghanistan 2012 the brutal conflict was in its a live in fear. great in chapman was on his 1st deployment. a signals intelligence officer fresh out of training with the a say is he was struck by a country mined in war. i thought it was a really beautiful country yes snow capped

a weeks where the rivers where it was really draining into valleys and i used to cite a paper it would be a great place for driving an outdoor adventure if you didn't have all the wool. right in. a man would get to see much of the beauty of afghanistan from a black hawk helicopter. he would also see much of the walls brutality during his deployment with the elite 3 squadron i say is. definitely a buzz of late isn't as it is the best thing you can do if you create a kind of that unit. especially when your. a low rank and you're actually going to get to do a lot of hands on stuff you definitely feel confident with us i never once felt like i was going out i was on protected i never felt like i was we weren't going to

get through it. he was great in chapman's job define television targets by intercepting and tracking their communications. if we were going out on a mission where we were chasing a mobile phone target then i would be with other myself or the other signals intelligence operator. would be with the teams and we'd be going in close and tracking that fine. within days of deploying with the s.a.'s in afghanistan right in chapman go to sense of what was to come during a conversation with one of the squadron senior soldiers was that the same benches him probably my quitman and he just kind of started some general chit chat and then he said to me i hope you're ready and prepared for this deployment because you need

to make sure that your i carry with me putting a gun to someone's head and pulling the trigger because i don't want to read about it in 10 also is when i just think when you heard i knew it was a bit of a loose cannon anyway but at the time i was just kind of like. ok that's going to be. this is a highlights real of 3 squadrons 2012 rotation in afghanistan edited together and said to music by it's a a soldier's themselves and. it's among more than 10 hours of a say is footage captured by the soldiers on their own cameras. gives a regular him since the reality on the ground and how these elite special forces view themselves. which is

a brotherhood forged by fire fights in the adrenaline of daily rage operations outside the wire. when we go in if we found a small case in an area and it was just in somebody's side we're attached to a house that often just a lot of on file or blow it and in on how much time they had and that would usually burn down the hassle blowing out a wall. so not exactly the why of winning hearts and minds in your opinion. or your view of the earth. after nitrate out the numbers of how many cars they blind up or dog side shot was another one they are pretty quick to shoot dogs. back to you for dogs.

over time brought in chapman became disillusioned with the war and what the special forces were doing. we try and say that we're there to help and the taliban a bad but if we go in and we start destroying infrastructure or destroying their private vehicles and burning down their homes it doesn't really send the right message. as soon as i lave they're not going to help us any more they discount or run straight back to the taliban who usually are not doing that. right in chapman says the information the s.a.'s relied on to capture or kill their targets was often vague. we would get intelligence brace they would be saying stuff like you know the slang feed wearing afghani clothes just really

basic descriptions of people unless they had a photo which they didn't always in a more times than not they didn't so it could be anyone is popular no idea who it is but most of the time it was a really simple descriptor. you know the average afghani man. for these trade in military the war in afghanistan was centered on one province. for 13 years these trains full to stabilize these poor and mountainous region losing 41 soldiers along the way. the special forces would do the vast bulk of the fighting and killing conducting thousands of operations. the fos majority of our special operations soldiers hall the professional and quite

frankly remarkable men. partly trying to professional men of high integrity who have done a very very demanding job for us in very arduous circumstances. was a military lawyer who advise special forces on the legality of their afghanistan operations i was involved in planning dian not for diatom operations and not some operations and there was always an element in the field. he told them who they could lawfully target and who they were forbidden to kill including people who had surrendered or wounded so would you say that the special forces knew about the rules of war intimately so there's no excuses for committing any sort of break the rules of engagement or any crime for that matter no excuse in terms of the training is provided in the understanding absolutely.

just weeks into brayden chapman's deployment in early 2012 his patrol is going hunting. they're heading for a place called death row was their target the taliban bomb maker. the entire operation is captured on a helmet camera worn by one of the essay is soldiers on this raid. what this video reveals is a deadly firefight had to tell a band bunker the would go on to spark lethal retribution by one is a us soldier. i landed with one patrol and as we came up a hero had gunfire and then from there we could say that the patrol that was walking across the front of them on how it was getting shot at. when i came over the hill at the side just look by the way it's running everywhere trying to get

away. this is they're accompanied by afghan special forces known as the world community these stratagems call them why because. that patrol that came under fire they had a with them he was killed pretty much instantly and right in front of the entrance of the. one a straight in soldier wants to throw in a thermal grenade and destroy the entire structure. leading the charges they say is operator who will colt soldier a naval as other the soldiers came in to assist and that had grenades with them he was like give me the grenade and i was handing him over to him and he was finishing that off and he was telling everyone else to get back what was he so fired up a started it and he wanted to finish it. like.

i'm not sure what his mindset is it seems almost like a blood loss once you get to that stage. one soldier wants to get an attack helicopter to send a hellfire missile into the bunker to get into for. soldier a you then begins firing through a hole into the bunker. any . soldier a orders one of the essays corporals to throw in a thermal grenade. if. once you've got to use them overnight and it completely collapse the mount and from there it just. chips frying.

whole day one now on the foreign once that it's time i go night went off those things turn your insides to jelly or casey bill or the battle over the a c. is made it dusty can finally get to the afghan soldier who's been shot at the front of the bunker. with the dust of battle still in the air members of the essay is patrolling the ridge above pools to reflect on the battle. where the couple all the salt and almost. all. the top. is equal they have all the wealth all. the conversation then switches to soldier i who led the assault on the bunker is it is .

soldier a is apparently furious one of his f. game comrades is did. it's what happens next on a patrol to catch a television target that may constitute a war if. so after we lost that where. there's a few days lyda we went on another mission i was with that soldier it was his target we went in are confirmed that is afghani national was the target i was going through the rest of his equipment just to see what else he had and then that soldier with they were true nish they marched. that afghani national who was hard to invent he was the target they marched him. about 50 meters away also then the soldier ordered the. prison a scenario back on the ground he then motion for the trainer soldier to shoot him.

the soldier khana looked at him confused asking you know wondering what he's telling him to do and then he did it again and then he understood what was happening and then the soldier ordered the worker initiated executed and so he just quick burst stride into straight into his chest area. and killed him a few of the men and the man was handcuffed plastic cuffs he was still plastic after that stage and you witness this you could physically say this i could yeah. and what does. this train s.a.'s operatives. for this he said i had to give him a way in. what do you mean by that because i just lost one of their members give them a win let them have something what are you thinking. at the time i was just like

ok with executing people now. several weeks later braden chapman is again in a black hole caving out in a raid with soldier a who led the mud bunker assault and who ordered the killing of the afghan detainees. i was with his patrol again we're moving through a village we were coming off on the target building. i didn't see him walk out of that target building he was about 10 meters away from the walking from that direction across our position. when we got to within maybe 20 to 30 meters away and he sor us. weekly drug use find from his pocket and he threw it. and at that stage he stopped he put his hands up just like.

and then just stood there. as we got closer to he in the soldier then just fired and hitting twice in the chest and then shot him through the head as he will. and then from there he just moved on so he shot a man in cold blood who had his hands up. i was only 5 to 10 minutes behind him at the time and at the time i was just like ok the visual image to me was that the guy had his hands up and then it was almost like target practice so that's. what is that in your books in my books it's not a. just days later one of the s.a.'s videos kept as members of 3 squadron discussing soldier a and other incidents involving the patrol. all

all all kids all. the kids. just. you can get involved. you can do. it. all. rumors and allegations of war crimes committed by strange and special forces who were the subject of a wide ranging inquiry conducted by the inspector general of the strategy of defense force. we have obligations that use national domestic war and indeed moral obligations to not ignore these sorts of allegations there is potential for a prosecution under all certainly for charges to be lied under oath of the war

crimes murder provisions of the commonwealth criminal code. it's may 2012 and the soldiers of 3 squadron a say is say heading north from there by spawn 2 blackhawk helicopters. a distant nation is a village called day jails he has some see the target is an insurgent bomb make up . the helmet camera footage you will seeing is from the ace a is patrol dog handler and what you will say next could result in charges of war crimes. the dog handler heads out into the lead with the patrol scout who will cold soldiers see. her parents are there they are being guided by the 2 black hawks a hated whose crew have spotted a man in

a field where. the dog name quake has been laid off the leash. the dog handlers gum is trained on a figure in the distance who drops down into the field. and the field the dog handler and soldiers see come across a young man amongst the wheat he's trying to fight off quite a lot. worse. in the man's hand appears to be a set of red prayer beads no weapon all radio can be seen the afghan is compliant and quiet on the ground there. because the dog is called off soldiers see trained his weapon on the afghan from very close range. he then turns to the dog handler.

quite. thought. 3 shots from close range the afghan is did and soldiers see walks off well. the whole thing from landing to killing takes less than 3 minutes. here. so this video in 2012 when you were in afghanistan and i just want to show you what happens in this field and see what you know about it. so he shot the afghan did you know about this or i didn't you haven't seen this

before. and do you know who those soldiers are i do. and he was well held and he's turned to his superior officer over here he said you want me to drop this he says that's really tones. in your mind what do you make of that whole situation. it's just a straight up execution really yeah he's someone i would support what he should do that comes under the soldier pulling the trigger and it's a straight up execution. khaliq was in a nearby field when the swift team. first. we heard gunshots he was around 300 meters away from us. that muhammad was a good man is time was up and it's well. that that get out the way i was told that his face was swollen and covered in blood and that he wasn't recognizable. we also

found the dead man's father who was away the day his son died he returned immediately to bury him. a compound. they thought. he was in a shroud because of my grief i was sitting over there while we learned that house where is he in the cities there. i went to see his face had womb and covered his face and told them to take him to the graveyard. to parties burial i came back to see the place i saw the wheat field where he was killed was flattened all around. the death of the man named dead muhammad was later investigated by the defense force after afghan tribal elders complained. what the

i.d.f. investigators were told by s.a.'s soldiers and what the video shows are 2 very different things. soldiers see claim that the afghan had been shot because he'd been seen with a radio. he said he engaged the afghan from 15 to 20 meters away in self-defense. the investigators found that the afghan was lawfully killed because he posed to direct threat to the astray and. taken a look back and say that we were. we were the guys in there murdering and invading . not there to do something that is honorable. in your opinion were war crimes committed in afghanistan by stress special forces yes there were you can't shoot unarmed people and not call that matter. that i never heard of that. if a crisis might and if prosecutions are successful war crimes murder carries

imprisonment for life as a potential maximum penalty. i just want the trees to come out and people of who did commit crimes to be held accountable to some people who served with deserve to go to joe yes. for brayden chapman speaking out is his chance to atone for staying silent about what he witnessed in afghanistan even if it could come at a cost. it's a very courageous thing to the and in fact it demonstrates the integrity of this like into a man like him who has the courage to speak out should he be celebrated for his courage who do you think should be hung out to dry. a slight loss suspect. they they will be some adverse treatment but i'd like to cite that he and others like him would be would be so it would be congratulated for their for their integrity

and for their courage given you know talking to us does that worry you what the blowback could be for you sometimes i think about physical danger. i'm reporting on highly trained soldiers. murdered people in afghanistan and didn't care about it and for a 2nd i do so think about that kind of thing richard if people come after me. and was there anything that happened over the. way you crossed a lot of that your shame novel is a more of a case that you wish you could've done more about what you saw i didn't break any rules of engagement by looking back now. i'm not sure how compliant would have went at the time if i voiced my concern. i feel now that even if it had to ruin my career back then i probably should've made that comply. using would have gone

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