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donald trump joe biden will now speak to king solomon directly rather than the crown prince mike hanna has more now from washington the biden administration on the want to hand has suspended all aid to saudi arabia in terms of its ongoing conflict in yemen but at the same time it's sending very strong singles signals to the duties that it will not accept any aggression on their part it's a very fine balancing act and it just goes to show how important the relationship with saudi arabia is despite this recalibration myanmar's military says its power takeover was not a coup and has again pledged to hold elections and its 1st press conference since seizing power the military has filed a 2nd criminal charge against opposed leader aung sun suu kyi. an overnight curfew in the netherlands to stop the spread of coverage 1000 remains in place despite
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a court striking it down earlier on tuesday a judge ruled that the restrictions have breached people's right to privacy and free movement but another court has now decided the curfew should remain in force until a government appeal is heard on friday. almost 2000000 more people in the u.k. are being told to shield themselves from that 19 a new danger tour has identified those who are at high risk of severe disease or death it's based on age and health factors but also where people live in levels of deprivation the french president has ruled out an immediate reduction of french troops fighting armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw in africa as a whole region emanuel told the summer's regional leaders that a sudden drawdown would be a mistake but he warned that cuts are likely to follow. well those are the headlines i'll have more news for you here on al-jazeera after one o one east stay with us. what should americans be thinking right now it should be
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a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money the fight is not going to be left out of the calling for the bloated defense budget to be the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies america act on the world. there was a struggle he is a late soldier is. the special this is regiment. carried out operations in afghanistan. take a look back and say that we were the guys in there mattering in inviting not they to do something that is honorable now a soldier who was on these missions speaks out about wanting so to die and he stands up and then goes oh my stark target practice so that's all you can shoot on
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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. right in chapman was on his 1st deployment. to signals intelligence officer fresh out of training with the essay is he was struck by a country. i thought was a really beautiful country yes snowcat cakes where the river is where it was
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really draining into valleys and i used to site a paper it would be a great place for full driving and outdoor adventure if you didn't have all the. great and. 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 lower rank and you're actually going to get to do a lot of hands on stuff you definitely feel confident with they've got us i never once felt like i was going out i was on protected i never felt like i was we
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weren't going to get through it. he was great in chapman's job to find television targets in deceptive 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 prepping my quit and he just kind of started some general and then he said to me i hope you're ready and prepared for this deployment because you need to make
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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 tennessee is when i just think when you heard it 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 a. 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 rig limbs of the reality on the ground and how these elite special forces view
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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 ending on how much time they had and that would usually burn down the hassle blow out a wall. so not exactly the why of winning hearts and minds in your opinion. or your view of the earth. and often they greyed out the numbers of how many cars they blind up or dogs that shot was another one are pretty quick to shoot dogs. and back to you for dogs.
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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 the 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
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basic descriptions of people unless they had a fight over which they didn't always and more times than not they didn't so it could be anyone is popular no idea who it is but most this time it was a really simple descriptor. you know the average afghani man. for these trillions military the war in afghanistan was centered on one province. for 13 years these trains full to stabilize these poor women mountainous region losing 41 soldiers along the way. the special forces would do the vast bulk of the fighting and killing conducting fails and of operations. the fos majority of our special operations soldier is highly professional and quite
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frankly remarkable. partly trying to. men of high integrity who have done a very very demanding job for us in very arduous circumstances. was a military lawyer who advised 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 well wounded so would you say that these special forces knew about the rules of war intimately so there's no excuse 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 an understanding absolutely.
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just weeks into brayden chapman's deployment in early 2012 his patrol is going hunting. to him for a place called death row one they 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 that would go on to spark lethal retribution by one is a us soldier. i landed with one patrol all 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 looked like little ants running everywhere trying to get
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away. this is they're accompanied by afghan special forces known as the work. these stratagems call them why because. that patrol that came under fire they had 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. leaving the charges in a say as operator who will colt soldier a naval as are the soldiers came in to assist and that had grenades with them he was like give me their night 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 that and he wanted to finish it. like.
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that. i'm not sure what his mindset is but 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. 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 he got his them overnight and it completely collapse them on and from there it just. chips frying.
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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 tasty meal or the battle over the ac is made it dusty can finally get to the afghan soldier who's been shown to the front of the bunker. all with the dust of battle still in the air members of the ac is patrolling the ridge above pools to reflect on the battle. where the couple all this option and almost. half. the weight of the top. is called the wall for all. it's. the conversation then switches to soldier i who led the assault on the bunker is it is .
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soldier a is apparently furious one of these f. game cone raids is did. it's what happens next on a patrol to catch a television target that may constitute a war crime if. so after we lost that where. there's a few days lyda we went on another mission and 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 didn't motion for the 2 to shoot him.
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the soldier khana looked at him confused asking you know wondering what he's telling him today 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 quit best striding to 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 destroyed s.a.'s operative side. to this he said i had to give him a way in. what did he 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
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i k 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 saw ross. he critically drugs he's fine from his pocket and he threw it. and at that stage he stopped he put his hands up just like.
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and then just stood there. as we got closer to he in the soldier then just fired and hit him 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 tricky. i was only 5 to 10 minutes behind even at the time and at the time i was just like ok the visual image to me was 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 essay is videos kept as members of 3 squadron discussing soldier a and other incidents involving the patrol. it's
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just all. all all all kids all. of. the kids. all. you can get in. all. rooms and allegations of war crimes committed by a stranger in special forces 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 law 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 the war crimes
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murder provisions of the commonwealth criminal code. it's may 2012 when the soldiers of 3 squadron a say you say heading north from there by spawn to blackhawk helicopter is. a distillation is a village school day jonesy 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. dog handler heads out into the lead with the patrol scout who will call soldiers see. player being guided by the 2 blackhawks ahead whose crew have spotted a man in
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a field where. the dog named quake is their little felicia. the dog handlers gun is trained on a figure in the distance who drops down into the field. at the field the dog handler and soldiers see come across a young man amongst the wheat he's trying to fight off quake. in the man's head and 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.
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quite. top. 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. so this is a video in 2012 when you're going to get a stand and i was for show you what happens in this field and to 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
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before. and do you know who those soldiers up. and he was well held and he's turned to his superior officer over here he said do you want me to drop this he says that's right on. in your mind what do you make of that whole situation . and just a straight up execution really yeah he's someone of the superior rank what he should do that comes into the soldier pulling the trigger and it's a straight up execution. from a abdul khaliq was in a nearby field when the dean. first. we heard gunshots he was around 300 meters away from us. that mohammad was a good man his time was up he was 12. i was told that his face was swollen and covered in blood and it wasn't recognizable. we also found the dead man's
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father who was away the day his son died he returned immediately to bury him. he was in a shroud because of my grief i was sitting there. i asked where is he in the city is there. i went to see his face said. i covered his face and told them to take him to the graveyard. 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
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i.d.f. investigators were told by s.a.'s soldiers and what the video shows 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. they can look back and say that we were. we were the guys in there murdering and. not there to do something that is honorable. in your opinion were war crimes committed in afghanistan by stress special forces yes they were you can't shoot unarmed people and not call that matter. but i never heard of that. if a crisis might and if prosecutions are successful war crimes murder carries imprisonment
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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 gloss suspect. they they'll be some adverse treatment but i'd like to cite that he and others like him would be would be celt would be congratulated for that for their integrity and for
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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 are i'm reporting on highly trained soldiers. noted people in afghanistan and didn't care about it and for a 2nd i do think about that kind of thing richard boucher yes people come after me . and was there anything that happened over there that you seen where you crossed a lot of the your shame novel is it more of a case that you wish you could have done more about what you saw i didn't break any rules of engagement by looking back now. i'm not sure how i comply would've went at the time if i voice my concern. i feel now that even if it had a role in my career back then i probably should've made that compliant. using would
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